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Turning Points in History Lecture Series
You are cordially invited to the Fall 2007 Turning Points in History Lecutre Series, sponsored by the Department of History, at Utah Valley University. All lectures begin at 7:00 pm in the Liberal Arts Building, room 101, and are free and open to the public.
September 24, 2007
Dr. Athan Theoharis - Marquette University, Emeritus
"FBI Counterintelligence and the Politics of McCarthyism"
Athan Theoharis is emeritus professor of history at Marquette University, specializing in federal surveillance policy and, more specifically, the history of the FBI in the post-1932 years. He has written extensively on issues of civil liberties, Federal surveillance policy and authority, and on how secrecy in government affects historical research and national politics and institutions.
His most recent books include The Quest for Absolute Security (2007), the FBI and American Democracy: A Brief Critical History (2004), and Chasing Spies (2002), which explores how FBI counterintelligence failures led its officials to promote and sustain McCathyite politics.
October 29, 2007
Dr. W. Fitzhugh Brundage, - University of North Carolina
"Lynching in the American South and American Memory"
After studying lynching and recial violence in the South, W. Fitzhugh Brundage’s interests shifted to the study of historical memory and regional identity.
In the Southern Past (2005), he traces the contests over a memory that divided Southerners, white and black, during the past century and a half.
His particular concern is how contests over the past pose obstacles to the emergence and recognition of pluralism in the modern South. He currently is at work on two projects: a collection on African Americans and the creation of American mass culture, 1890-1930; and a book on 1919 in the United States.
November12, 2007
Dr. Elizabeth Clement - University of Utah
"Straights, Gays, and Everybody Else: Does Sexuality Have a History?"
Elizabeth Clement is an Associate Professor of American history at the University of Utah, concentrating on issues of gender and sexuality. Her book love for Sale: Courting Couples, Charity Girls, and Sex Workers and the Making of Modern Heterosexuality in New York City, 1900-1945 (2006) focuses upon American understandings of the relationship between sexual activity and morality over time. Clement has authored several articles on prostitution, sexuality, gender, and morality.
Contact Information
Dr. Lyn Ellen Bennett
Department of History
(801) 863-8136
LBennett@uvu.edu