History - Audio

Please join us on Friday, February 3 at 2:30pm in Room 204 of Falvey Memorial Library for the launch of "Music in Twentieth Century American History," our latest Digital Scholarship project. During the Fall 2016 semester, history majors enrolled in Dr. Paul Rosier's Junior Research Seminar at Villanova University embarked on a multi-media and interdisciplinary examination of the cultural, social, political, and economic dimensions of music in American history from the end of the Civil War to the early 2000s. Focusing on the ways in which music reflected and shaped developments in American society -- in particular at the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality -- students analyzed a variety of musical topics from the origins of jazz to the emergence of the Hip-Hop Nation and Rap. This event will provide an overview of the class and a walk-through of the site.

21st Annual Philosophy Conference Sponsored by the Philosophy Graduate Student Union: “Legacies of Colonialism and Philosophies of Resistance”

The speaker is Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan) who recently won the very prestigious Guggenheim Grant and who has published quite a bit recently in Newsweek.

The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia in the age of Trump and Hummus: 2/17 The Center for Arab and Islamic Studies and Communication Department presents Wajahat Ali, Journalist & Creative Director of Afflinis Labs. The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia in the age of Trump and Hummus Wednesday, Feb. 17, 6-9 p.m., Connelly Center, Cinema.

Labor Historian to Give Book Talk: 11/12 A talk about the history of labor unions--the folks who gave you the weekend, the eight-hour work day, the minimum wage, social security, child labor laws, family and medical leave, and much more. Robert Bussel, PhD, an engaging speaker, past union organizer, professor of History, and director of the Labor Education and Research Center, University of Oregon, will speak about his new book, Fighting for Total Person Unionism. It tells about the vision of two union leaders, one African American, the other a white Irish Catholic, who became a remarkable interracial duo championing workers as “total persons” interested in the workplace, as well as their communities. The event is co-sponsored by the Concentration in Writing and Rhetoric, Political Science, and History

Dr. Ray Takeyh, Ph.D. delivers the fifth annual Lore Kephart '86 Distinguished Historian Lecture, entitled "Iran in Transition: US-Iran Relations in the Nuclear Age."