• Dr. Saheed Adejumobi specializes in African and African American History, and African Diaspora intellectual and cultural traditions.  He also works on China-Africa international and cultural relations.  
• Dr. Tom Taylor is a world historian specializing on travelers.  He recently completed an article:  The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Person: Jan Kozlowski and the Russian Revolution.  
• Dr. Aldis Purs is the author of three books on modern Baltic history. He has taught at seven universities in Latvia, U.S. and Canada and was a Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington D.C.    
• Dr. Nova Robinson is an Assistant Professor of History and International Studies. Her research focuses on Syrian and Lebanese women’s activism in the early twentieth century.   

Any questions? Contact Dr. Tom Taylor at Twtaylor@seattleu.edu 

In the wake of the George Floyd murder, the COVID virus and electoral politics, protests have become an ever-present experience across the US and the world. This panel explored historical examples of protests and assessed their effectiveness as agents of change.

Presenters

• Dr. Michael Dean: Comparing Antifascisms: Successes and Failures
• Dr. Hazel Hahn: From Tiananmen Square to the Capitol: Urban Planning, Architecture and Protests
• Dr. Dan Dombrowski: What is Civil Disobedience? Some Lessons from Gandi and MLK

Biographies

• Michael Dean, Ph.D, researches and teaches with emphases on globalization, colonization, and social movements.  
• Hazel Hahn, Ph.D, is the author of Scenes of Parisian Modernity and editor of Cross-Cultural Exchange and the Colonial Imaginary: Global Encounters via Southeast Asia. 
• Dan Dombrowski, Ph.D, is the author of twenty books, including Whitehead's Religious Thought: From Mechanism to Organism, From Force to Persuasion and Process Philosophy and Political Liberalism: Rawls, Whitehead, Hartshorne. 
• Henry Kamerling, Ph.D, is the author of Capital and Convict: Race, Region, and Punishment in Post–Civil War America.