History Events
The History Department hosts several annual lecture series and events, including the Holocaust, Visual History, and Civil War Lectures; an Alumni & Friends event; and events sponsored by the History Club and Phi Alpha Theta.
Upcoming Events
Information about upcoming events will be posted here when available.
Past Events
Historians React to Current Events
Wednesday, September 21, 12:00-1:00 pm EST
Brock 202
Free lunch!!
Asia Lecture Series Fall 2022
Public Lecture “Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874-1945”
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
5:00pm Eastern Standard Time
UTC University Center Raccoon Mountain Room
Phi Alpha Theta Semesterly Meeting
A Conversation about Black Cuisine
With Adrian Miller, Kenyatta Ashford, and Nicole Brown
Thursday, March 31, 2022
5:30 pm
University Center Chattanooga Room C (updated location)
Africana Studies Webinar
‘The Past, Present and Future of Africana Studies’
Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 5:00-7:00 pm EST
Asia Lecture Series Spring 2022
Playfully Recomposed:
Thinking about Modern China through the Soybean
A public lecture by Dr. Jia-chen Wendy Fu of Emory University
Thursday, February 24, 2022, 5:00-6:00 pm EST
Weapon Technology, Hunting Success, and the Search for Modern Behavior in Our Species
Dr. Devin Pettigrew, the University of Colorado at Boulder
Friday, October 15, 2021 at 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time
Signal Mountain Room at the UTC University Center
Paleo Skills Workshop
October 16, 2021, 1:00-4:00 pm
Chamberlain Field (UTC Campus)
Latin American Dialogues Speaker Series Fall 2021
A Science without a Nation:
Friendship and Agency during the 1886-1888 Cholera outbreak in the Chilean-Peruvian Pacific
Dr. Joshua Savala
Thursday, October 7, 2021, 5:30 pm
Zoom ID: 95571104174 | Password: 371008
Afro-Latinos: An Untaught Story
Screening and Virtual Q&A with Director/Producer Renzo Devia
Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 5:00 pm
Zoom
Asia Lecture Series: The Chinese Must Go: A History of Anti-Asian Violence
Dr. Beth Lew-Williams
Monday, September 27, 2021 at 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time
101 Derthick Hall
Zoom: https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/93009768678 / Password: 120211
UTC’s Latin American Dialogues Speaker Series Presents
Anticolonial Theory for the 21st Century
Dr. Julio Covarrubias Cabeza
Thursday, April 22, 2021, 5:00 pm
Zoom ID: 98309321745
From Slave Cabin to Monument to the Slave Past
Wednesday, April 14 @ 3:30pm EST
Dr. Renée Ater, Provost Visiting Professor, Africana Studies, Brown University
UTC/RISE Community Speaker Series
Feb. 23, Mar. 16, Apr. 13
Join RISE Chattanooga and the UTC Department of History on Zoom as we connect communities for a series of talks on “The Struggle for Racial Justice and Equity.”
These conversations will bring theory to life as students engage local leaders on their struggles and victories.
Watch the video of the first event here
Watch the video of the second event here
Watch the video of the third event here
Afro-Diasporic Kinships: Audre Lorde and Black German Women
Dr. Tiffany Florvil, Associate Professor of History, University of Mexico
Monday, April 5, 2021, 7:30 PM EST
The Future of Confederate Monuments
March 29th from 6-7pm, Zoom
With Virginia Tech professor and artist Meredith Drum
UTC’s Latin American Dialogues Speaker Series Presents
Latin American Music as Latin American History:
Understanding the Making of a World Region
Dr. Pablo Palomino
Thursday, March 25, 2021, 5:00 pm, Zoom
Building a Movement: Black Women Organizing in the (Global) South
Dr. Keisha Blain, Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
Monday, March 15, 2021, 4:00 PM EST
Annual Asia Lecture Series
“Global Compassions of Care: Women, Medicine, and Nursing in Colonial Korea”
Professor Sonja M. Kim
Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 5:00-6:00 PM EST, Zoom
UTC’s Latin American Dialogues Speaker Series Presents
You Are What You Wear:
Personal Adornment and Iconography in the Greater Antilles
Dr. A. Brooke Persons
Thursday, February 25, 2021, 5:00 pm
Zoom
“Slimming Down Soul Food: A Study of African American Cookbooks”
Dr. Mark Johnson, UTC Department of History and Africana Studies
Monday, February 8, 12:00, Zoom
US and Mexican Modernists in the 1920s-1930s
November 11, 2020, 4:30 pm / More info
RISE MLK + People's History Walking Tours
Multiple Dates / Starting October 3, 2020
RSVP ASAP to [email protected]
BLM and Protest Movements: A Panel Discussion
Wednesday, October 14, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Joe Hill Road Show
Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Post-Dictatorial Argentina
*POSTPONED* Southeastern Tennessee Regional Student History Conference
Bad Blood, Treatment and Lies: The Impact of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, 1932-1972
Black Heroines for Justice: 1980s Terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan in Chattanooga and the Women Who Stood Against Them
Confronting the Past in Memphis: Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Antebellum Slave Trade, and the Reinvention of Civil War Memory
Dr. Timothy S. Huebner
Thursday, February 20, 2020, 7:00 pm
University Center Signal Mountain Room
The Eric Morse Story: Race, Poverty, and the Criminalization of Black Youth
Dr. Susan Eckelmann Berghel
Thursday, February 13, 2020, 5:00 pm
University Center Heritage Room
Global Flashpoints: Conflict with Iran, Protests in India, Repression in China
A Faculty Roundtable with Dr. Annie Tracy Samuel, Dr. Jaclyn Michael, and Dr. Fang Yu Hu
With support from the UTC Department of History
Wednesday, January 22, 5:00 PM
Elder Scholars December Meeting
With Dr. Richard Rice, Prof. Emeritus, Department of History
Tuesday, December 10, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Lost Histories: Japan’s Colonial Peoples and World War II
Public Lecture on the Battle of Okinawa by Dr. Kirsten Ziomek
Sponsored by the UTC Department of History and College of Arts & Sciences
Wednesday, January 15, 5:00 PM
Lunch, Learn & Link #4: Mentorship and Advisement
Learn about mentorship and advisement, including important changes that are coming in the spring 2020 semester
Monday, November 11, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Civil War and Veteran’s Day Lecture
Chickamauga Battlefield and the Civil War Reconciliation Movement
Monday, November 11, 7:00 PM, IMAX Theater, downtown Chattanooga
Day Trip to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice & the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama
Sponsored by the UTC Africana Studies Program and Department of History
Saturday, October 26, 8:30 AM - 8:30 PM
Agents of Change: Documentary Screening and Discussion
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Black Studies in the United States
Sponsored by the UTC Africana Studies Program
Thursday, September 26, 5:00-7:00 PM
Becoming Taiwanese: Religious Festivals and Ethnogenesis in Colonial Jilong
A lecture by Dr. Evan Dawley, Assistant Professor of History at Goucher College
Friday, April 5, 11:00 AM
Joe Hill Road Show: A Musical History of Joe Hill and the Early Labor Movement
Women Also Know History: Women and Historical Agency
A lecture by Karin Wulf, Professor of History and Director of the Omohundro Institute at William & Mary
Tuesday, March 26, 5:00 PM
Women + Expertise
A lecture and event series
Events daily, March 25-28, 2019
Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Tuesday, March 26, 12:15 PM, UTC Library 321
The Relevance of Historical Fiction: How a French Scholar Ended Up as a Novelist
A lecture by PSU Professor Emerita & Writer Claudine Fisher
March 6, 2019, 5:00 PM
Sponsored by the UTC Departments of Modern & Classical Language and Literature, History, and English
Civil Rights Movement in Chattanooga
Exhibition Opening and Panel Discussion
Event for UTC Special Collections exhibit authored by students in Professor Eckelmann Berghel’s Modern Civil Rights Struggle class
Thursday, February 21, 2019, 3:05 PM to 4:20 PM
WWI Centennial Events
Concerts, lectures, exhibits and more are taking place on campus this fall, joining with events across the country.
More information and the schedule of events
Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era
A lecture by Award-Winning Historian Dr. Chad Williams, Brandeis University
Thursday, November 8, 2018, 5:00 PM
Contact Dr. Susan Eckelmann Berghel ([email protected]) with questions
The Second American Revolution, 1865-1870: Putting Civil Rights into the U.S. Constitution
A lecture by Dr. Paul Finkelman
National Park Partners 2018 Moccasin Bend Lecture Series
Monday, November 5, 2018 7:00 PM (doors open at 5:00 PM)
Jared Thorne Artist Talk
Part of the Cress Gallery exhibition “The Clamor of Ordinary Things”
Monday, October 29, 2018, 5:30 - 6:30pm
Exhibition dates: October 29th – December 12, 2018
Remembering Ed Johnson
A guided history at the Walnut Street Bridge
Sponsored by the Ed Johnson Project and The UTC Departments of English, History, and Africana Studies
Monday, September 24, 2018, 12:00 PM
Contact Tracye Pool ([email protected]) with questions
The Lynching of Ed Johnson in Chattanooga
A Critical Discussion of the History of Racial Violence in the U.S.
Featuring Award-Winning Historian Dr. Amy Wood (Illinois State University)
What Tomorrow Brings - Film Screening
Go inside the first girls' school in a small Afghan village
Sponsored by the UTC History Club
Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 6:00 PM
More on the film here
The Reconstruction Era - A Panel Discussion
Monday, November 1, 7:00pm
A Stranger in my Homeland - Screening with Filmmaker
A film by Chloe Traicos
Wednesday, October 25, 2017, 12:00 PM
4th Annual Civil War Era Lecture
Dying to Be Free: The Health Conditions of Formerly Enslaved People During the Civil War and Reconstruction
With Jim Downs of Connecticut College
Thursday, April 20, 2017, 5:30 PM
Hunting Ground
MLK Historical Walking Tour
Thursday, April 6, 2017, 4:30 PM
Starts at Union Depot Historical Marker across from the Read
Meeting location address: 158 W. MLK Boulevard
Blood in the Water - The 1971 Attica Prison Uprising
The 4th Annual Africana Studies Lecture
With 2016 National Book Award finalist Heather Ann Thompson
Thursday, March 23, 5:30 PM
Peace Unveiled
A documentary screening in celebration of Women's History Month
Presented by the History Club and the Multicultural Center
Thursday, March 9, 6:00 PM
The Land Between - A Film by David Fedele
UTC Visual History Film Screening with the Filmmaker
Tuesday, February 14, 5:00 PM
Free and open to all
Mississippi: Is This America?
UTC History Club Black History Month Documentary Film Screening
In collaboration with the UTC Multicultural Center and the UTC Film Club
Thursday, February 9, 6:00 PM
Righteous Transgressions: Women's Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right
A Lecture by Prof. Lihi Ben Shitrit
Friday, November 18, 2016 at 1:00 PM
Free and open to all
Ten Little Known Facts about the Civil War in Chattanooga
A Lecture by Mr. Sam Elliott
Monday, November 14, 2016
Doors open at 6:30 PM; lecture begins at 7:00 PM
More Info: Facebook
Screaming Queens
A documentary screening sponsored by the UTC History Club and Spectrum
November 10, 2016, 5:30 PM
Screening followed by a discussion with UTC history professor Dr. William Kuby
The Youngest Children in Buchenwald
2016 Holocaust Lecture
Julius Maslovat, child survivor of the Buchenwald and Bergen Belsen camps
Kenneth Waltzer, Professor of History Emeritus at Michigan State University and former Director of Jewish Studies
October 24, 2016, 5:30 PM
Free and open to all
Historical Tour of the Tennessee Riverfront with Maury Nicely
Sponsored by the UTC History Club and Southern Adventist University
A beautiful and historic journey into the past of Chattanooga
October 13, 2016, 5:00-6:15 PM
Check out pictures of the event here
The U.S. and the World: Foreign Policy and the 2016 Presidential Election
Third Annual African American History Event
May 10, 2016 -- 6:00-7:30 pm -- Bessie Smith Cultural Center
The Syrian Refugee Crisis and American Immigration Policies
Dr. Annie Tracy Samuel
Sponsored by the UTC History Club and Euphrates Chapter
January 25, 2016
Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation, and the U.S. Colored Troops
2015-2016 Civil War Era Lecture
Dr. John David Smith
November 5, 2015
Return: Or How Does One Photograph an Absence?
2015-2016 UTC Visual History Lecture
Sylvia De Swaan
October 12, 2015
Race and Rescue: The United States and the Refugee Crisis, 1933-1945
2015 Holocaust Lecture
Dr. Barry Trachtenberg
September 10, 2015
The Cats of Mirikatani - A Film by Linda Hattendorf
2015 UTC Visual History Film Series
March 30, 2015
Stories of Sherman's March
2015 UTC Civil War Era Lecture
Dr. Anne Sarah Rubin
January 21, 2015
Preserving Jewish Memory in Eastern Europe: Holocaust Education in the Twenty-First Century
2014 UTC Holocaust Lecture
Edward Serotta
October 14, 2014
Hollywood's Great War
A public lecture in observance of the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War
Dr. Pearl James
October 6, 2015
Between Race and Nation: Shirley Chisholm and National Politics
2014 UTC Black History Month Lecture
Dr. Anastasia Curwood
March 25, 2014
The Fate of the Hungarian Jewish Community during the Holocaust and after Liberation
UTC Holocaust Lecture
Tamas Stark
February 24, 2014
Eastern Europe in Transition
2014 UTC Visual History Film Series
January 23, February 3, & March 27, 2014
If There is a Worse Place than Hell, I Am in It - Abraham Lincoln as a War Leader
A Lecture by Dr. Stephen Berry
November 6, 2013
The Second World War and the Holocaust - New Perspectives
2013 UTC Visual History Film Series
January 28, February 26, & March 26, 2013