Events

Upcoming Events

Fall Quarter 2021

  • Sept 18-26       Fall Welcome
  • Sept 22            Classess Begin

Past Events

 A Conversation with Rebecca Sacks

Tuesday, June 1 at 11:30

Zoom Link: https://seattleu.zoom.us/j/98026694773 / Meeting ID: 980 2669 4773

 

Jewish-American author Rebecca Sacks will be discussing her critically acclaimed first book City of a Thousand Gates (HarperCollins, 2021) in Dr. Nova Robinson's UCOR 1400: Arab-Israeli Conflict course. The book explores life in the occupied West Bank and reveals the power of literature to encourage empathy and understanding. Students and faculty are welcome to join the conversation. RSVP to receive access to the chapter that will be discussed with Sacks, which is about masculinity in Israel. 

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AL MANN LECTURE

Placental Politics: Indigenous Feminist Historiography, CHamoru Women’s Activism, and U.S. Military Colonialism in Guam.

Monday, May 24, 2021 5-7 pm PST

Zoom Link https://seattleu.zoom.us/j/93074578453?from=addon 

Presenter

Dr. Christine DeLisle, author of Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam (forthcoming). Dr. DeLisle is Associate Professor of American Indian Studies at University of Minnesota. Forthcoming, UNC Press.

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HOW CHANGE HAPPENS: REVOLUTIONS 

Wednesday, April 14, 2021  5:50-7 PST

Zoom Link: https://seattleu.zoom.us/j/97197688535?from=addon 

This is the final part of a three-part panel series organized by the Seattle University History Department.

Presenters

  • Dr. Saheed Adejumobi: Race, Empire and the Legacies of Aborted Revolutions 
  • Dr. Tom Taylor: “The Fate of any Revolution Hangs Upon the Disposition of the Army”-  The Revolutionary Lessons of Leon Trotsky 
  • Dr. Aldis Purs: Teaching Coups amidst Coups 
  • Moderated by Nova Robinson 

All are welcome to this free event.  

Biographies 

  • 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 

HOW CHANGE HAPPENS: PROTEST

Tuesday, February 2, 2021  5:50-7 PST

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. 

 

HOW CHANGE HAPPENS: ELECTIONS

Wednesday, October 21, 3:45-5 p.m.

This event was the first of a three-part series over the 2020-21 academic year. This event examined some key historical elections and their lessons and implications for the 2020 Presidential Election. Short presentations were followed by questions, commentaries and conversation.

Presenters 

  • Dr. Nova Robinson: Votes for Women: A (Brief) History of Voter Suppression in the USA
  • Dr. Heath Spencer: State and National Elections in Weimar Germany: A Cautionary Tale
  • Dr. Henry Kamerling: Our Traditions Will Not Save Us: Trump’s Norm-Shattering Presidency

 

 

 

 

 

Questions?

  • Tom Taylor, PhD

    Chair
    Email
    206-296-5445

  • Melissa Poquiz

    Administrative Assistant
    Email
    206-296-5450