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University of Memphis/Office of Multicultural Affairs is partnering with the producers of “Till” to host the premier of this movie. It will be held Tuesday, September 27, 2020 at Paradiso Theatre at 6:00 p.m. It will be a brief discussion following the movie and will include a representative from the Withers Museum, who provided some of the footage. Below is the link where you and your students can reserve a seat. It'll also be posted in the comments. Please encourage your students to attend!

https://TILL-UofM.eventbrite.com

Our annual Ice Cream Social was a success, after the ice cream finally arrived!

Dr. Cookie Woolner will be one of the panelists on this discussion about the Power of the Youth Vote! Join them next week at McWherter Library!

Next week! Hear from three University of Memphis professors about the history and the "Power of the Youth Vote" in the Ned R. McWherter Library on Tuesday, 9/20 from 12:30-1:30 p.m.

The Shelby County, TN Election Commission will be hand to register eligible applicants to vote!

Free pizza will be available for attendees until it runs out! 🍕

Lunch and learn with us!

Join us this Friday to eat some frozen treats and connect with history students and faculty! We’d love to see our majors and any new students interested in the history program!

Mark your calendars! Dr. Cécile Fromont will be speaking here in two weeks!

Obituaries in Memphis, TN | The Commercial Appeal

From Daniel Unowsky:
I am writing to let you all know the sad news we just learned. Professor Maurice Crouse passed away on September 2.

Maurice, a specialist in early American history, joined our faculty in 1962, retired in 2011, and taught for an additional four years in post-retirement. He was a popular teacher, caring advisor, and our department’s web/technology master. When I arrived in Memphis in 1999, Maurice was extremely welcoming, and I will always cherish memories of his kindness.

The Commercial Appeal published a moving obituary: https://www.commercialappeal.com/obituaries/mca063438

His family asked that I pass on the following:

A memorial service for Maurice will be held Friday, September 9 at 11:00 am at Woodland Presbyterian Church at 5217 Park Ave., Memphis, TN 38119-3503. Reception immediately following. In lieu of flowers, you may make a memorial donation to his beloved Outreach Choir at Woodland Presbyterian Church.

Please share your thoughts and memories about Maurice in the comments.

Obituaries in Memphis, TN | The Commercial Appeal Dr. Maurice Alfred Crouse (Mac), son of Thomas Maurice and Essie Crouse, was born on February 15, 1934 in Lincolnton, NC and died on September 2,...

Dr. Cookie Woolner’s promotion to Associate Professor was celebrated today at the general faculty meeting! Congrats, Dr. Woolner!

Interim Dean Gary Emmert is pleased to announce Dr. Chrystal Goudsouzian as the Interim Director of Women's and Gender Studies as of July 1.

Goudsouzian is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of History. She directs the department’s advising program and the History Educational Resource Center (HERC), a history tutoring and writing center.

Her research focuses on gendered experiences and reproductive life in ancient Egypt, and she teaches courses on the ancient world, including those on women, gender, and the family.

Dr. Goudsouzian has been a faculty member in the Department of History since 2012. She is a former American Association of University of Women (AAUW) dissertation fellow and the recent recipient of the university’s Faculty Advisor Award.

Congratulations Dr. Goudsouzian!

Dr. Peter J Brand (@PeterBrandEgypt) / Twitter

Dr. Brand is starting a 100 day countdown commemorating the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Beginning July 28th he will post daily on the spectacular objects from the boy king's golden treasures with beautiful photos and interesting facts about these artifacts. The countdown continues until the anniversary date of the discovery on November 4th.

You can count down with him on Twitter!

https://twitter.com/PeterBrandEgypt

Dr. Peter J Brand (@PeterBrandEgypt) / Twitter Egyptologist-ancient historian, University of Memphis. Director, Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project https://t.co/sAsTKNR4b4

“Never No Wells of Lonelinesses in Harlem:” Black Lady Lovers in Prohibition Era New York — The Gotham Center for New York City History

Professor Cookie Woolner’s piece about her upcoming book just went live on CUNY's Gotham Center NYC History Blog. Congratulations to Professor Woolner!


https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/never-no-wells-of-lonelinesses-in-harlem-black-lady-lovers-in-prohibition-era-new-york

“Never No Wells of Lonelinesses in Harlem:” Black Lady Lovers in Prohibition Era New York — The Gotham Center for New York City History “Never No Wells of Lonelinesses in Harlem:” Black Lady Lovers in Prohibition Era New York By Cookie Woolner In 1928, the British novel The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall was published in the United States, which brought conversations on the topic of lesbianism into the mainstream like nev

Another PAT banquet in the books!

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The most recent edition of our department newsletter, History Happenings, is out!

https://www.memphis.edu/history/newsletter/pdfs/newsletter_spring_2022.pdf

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The 2022 MLK Humanitarian Leadership Summit and Humab Rights Award program is under way! Thank you to Multicultural Affairs and especially the Black Student Association and the African and African-American Studies program, and all their partners, for making this event a success and celebrating humanitarians on our campus. This year we honored Prof. Otis L Sanford, Hardin Chair of Excellence in Economic and Managerial Journalism.

WATCH: Reading Poetry, Engaging America | Mellon Foundation

"If my work does nothing else, when I get to the end of my life, I want Native peoples to be seen as human beings." Joy Harjo, US Poet Laureate

It's National Poetry Month. Do you use poetry in your classes (or, if you're a former student, did your professors ever bring poetry into the classroom?) Is there a poem that made the past alive come alive for you, or that speaks to a historical moment that matters to you? If so, let us know!

You can learn more about Joy Harjo's life and experience here: https://mellon.org/news-blog/articles/join-us-reading-poetry-engaging-america/

WATCH: Reading Poetry, Engaging America | Mellon Foundation Pathbreaking poets Joy Harjo and Elizabeth Alexander come together for a celebration of the written word and the doorways it can open to understanding our shared humanity.

It's Disability Advocacy Week! There are many events happening on campus but we wanted to highlight the Pizza and Movie night, and the student panel about "Understanding Ableism." Thank you to our Disability Resources for Students office for all you do, and for coordinating this week to make disability more visible on campus.

A hint of things to come next week when we light up the campus blue in celebration of Disability Advocacy Week!

Join us today for this lecture! You can find the zoom info in the poster or linked here:
Join Zoom Meeting:

https://memphis.zoom.us/j/84508363827?pwd=bndqWENlVXIzZFVyK1RUdHRQc0k0UT09

Meeting ID: 845 0836 3827

Passcode: 134167

On 23-March at 4pm the University of Memphis holds their annual Women's History Month lecture. Dr. LaKisha Simmons from the University of Michigan is our speaker this year, and her talk is titled "Labor, Love, and Loss: Black Women's Care-Work during the Civil War." The zoom info is on the poster.

On 23-March at 4pm the University of Memphis holds their annual Women's History Month lecture. Dr. LaKisha Simmons from the University of Michigan is our speaker this year, and her talk is titled "Labor, Love, and Loss: Black Women's Care-Work during the Civil War." The zoom info is on the poster.

First-ever Africana history course at TAMUCC connects students with the past

Dr. Le’Trice Donaldson (PhD, 2015) is breaking ground everywhere she goes!

First-ever Africana history course at TAMUCC connects students with the past The course is rooted in social sciences, humanities and the arts.

ARCE-TN's first 2022 online lecture is taking place Friday evening. “Power Tool: How Gold Enhanced Pharaoh’s Authority, Influence, and Prestige” with Professor Peter Brand will take place on March 18 at 6:00 pm CST (via zoom). In this talk, we will explore the politics and ideology of pharaonic gold, all richly illustrated with numerous images, including exquisite artifacts from Tutankhamun’s treasures.

Register via this link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvfuGvqjkuGN28QnLUztTdQzF0umK8BmCZ

Ukraine on Fire

If you missed the panel, Ukraine on Fire: Contested History and Current Crisis, please check out the recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvJxtmneaTo

The organizers of this event wanted to offer our campus community at the University of Memphis some context for understanding the terrible situation in Ukraine.

Daniel Unowsky, Department of History
Andrei Znamenski, Department of History
Dursun Peksen, Department of Political Science
Catherine Phipps, International and Global Studies

Ukraine on Fire

Join us Thursday at 4pm! The organizers of this roundtable hope to offer our campus community some context for the terrible war unfolding now in Ukraine.

Congratulations to past SHS President Sophia Rouse (double major History/German) for her best paper award at the Phi Alpha Theta regional conference at Samford University. Her paper title was "Germanic Emigrants' Impact on the Expansion of Education in Memphis, 1865-1880" and it is a chapter of her honors thesis, directed by Dr. Susan O'Donovan.

Deirdre Cooper Owens delivers the keynote address for the Graduate Conference in African American History on Thursday at 6:00 pm CST. Join us in Memphis at the University Center Shelby Room (UC 342), or tune in on Zoom (info on the poster).

The Department of History is a co-sponsor for tonight’s presentation by the winner of the annual book award given by the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change. Marcia Chatelain, professor of history at Georgetown University, discusses her book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. Dr. Chatelain’s book also won the Pulitzer Prize in History.

The virtual lecture begins at 6:00 pm CST. It will be livestreamed on the page of the Hooks Institute: facebook.com/benhooksinstitute

Updates from Egypt! Graduate student Daniel Warne is currently working with Dr. Suzanne Onstine and sent us an update from the site!

"I am currently assisting Dr. Onstine with the iconographic and epigraphic reconstruction of damaged portions of scenes within the tomb of Panehsy, located within the Dra Abu el-Naga necropolis along the edge of the agricultural zone of the West Bank of the Nile (not far from modern-day Luxor). This work has been immensely gratifying and requires utilizing knowledge from both my undergraduate and postgraduate training. I am incredibly grateful to Dr. Onstine, my professors in the program and department for this experience.

I brought our beloved Memphis tiger mascot with me to Egypt and have attached a few photos of the team with our colors/logo. In addition to myself, pictured is our Egyptian Rais, Omar and Jesus Herrerin. It's very common to stop work for tea and an "Egyptian breakfast (pictured)" every morning around 11 AM, which is essentially an early American lunch. The workmen have nicknamed me "Baraka", which means 'blessed' in Arabic, and is part of a long-standing tradition for graduate students as they are accepted as part of the team by the very skilled Egyptians."

Reading the Gardens at Vallée aux Loups

Congratulations to Dr. Kyra Sanchez Clapper on her article just published in Age of Revolutions! You can check it out below!


https://ageofrevolutions.com/2021/11/29/reading-the-gardens-at-vallee-aux-loups%ef%bf%bc/

Reading the Gardens at Vallée aux Loups Age of Revolutions is happy to present its “Art of Revolution” series. You can read through the entire series here as they become available. By Kyra Sanchez Clapper Like the transitiona…

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Events

The Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology invites you to a very special zEvent! You must register in advance, you can do so on the website below.

Please join us via Zoom this Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. CST.

The Sixteenth Annual William J. Murnane Memorial Lecture
“Jerome Robbins and Akhenaten: An American Choreographer’s Encounters with Ancient Egypt,” presented by Dr. Paul Stanwick

Events Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology

Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities (MOCH) Events

Dear friends, Joan Scott is next week! We apologize for any inconvenience if you were using our FB calendar and have reached out to the other host to get it updated!

https://www.memphis.edu/moch/events/index.php

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We're so excited to hear Dr. Duenas Vargas tomorrow! Zoom link is in the event page.

Join us tomorrow for this semester’s History Matters Lecture by Dr. Dueñas-Vargas. Pizza provided 🍕Zoomlink in our Linktree!

Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities Additional MOCH Events

Join the Marcus Orr Center today for the second installment of the Humanities @ Work series.

MOCH will host a roundtable with UM alumni employed in a range of careers to discuss how graduate work in the humanities prepared them for their next big step. Our own Caroline Carrico will be speaking!

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Our newsletter is out! Read it here:
https://www.memphis.edu/history/newsletter/pdfs/newsletter2021october.pdf

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Providing Access to DRS Students

There are a lot of costs associated with being a college student. Disability Resources for Students at the University of Memphis is working to provide extra support to our students with disabilities: breaking down financial barriers where we can and helping students stay in school to complete their degrees and advance in their fields.

For a second year, they are raising money through the University of Memphis’s MomentUM crowd-sourcing fundraiser. Last year, they raised over $3,500 and hope to match that amount over the next month. Their campaign, which ends on December 2, will help students with financial needs in areas like one-on-one tutoring, purchasing academic software not already available through the University, and providing psychological educational evaluations at on-campus centers. Last year, we were able to cover diagnostic costs for law students, graduate students in multiple programs, and undergraduates working on degrees in education and social work. The impact of past donations has been remarkable, an impact that can continue with your support.

As we know, small donations can add up. Please consider donating and sharing this campaign with others so that we can support disabled students and get them across that graduation stage, passing the State Bar, or getting Nursing Board Certified. Every amount helps.

We thank you for your consideration.
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Dr. Duenas Vargas will be delivering our semesterly pizza lecture the first Friday of November!

Join us Friday November 5th for this semester’s History Matters Lecture by Dr. Dueñas-Vargas. Pizza provided 🍕