TENNECO DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
RECENTLY SPONSORED AND CO-SPONSORED EVENTS
April 2008
Sterling Evans, Brandon University
"Nothing New About NAFTA: The History of Commodities and Interconnections in Mexico, the United States, and Canada"
April 2008
Paul Sutter, University of Georgia
"Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: Georgia's 'Little Grand Canyon' and Conversation in the South"
March 2008
Deirdre Moloney, George Mason University
"National Insecurities: U.S. Immigrants and Deportation Policy Since 1882"
March 2008
C. Stephen Jaeger, University of Illinois
"Charisma and its Ghosts in the Middle Ages: The Death of a Religious Leader and his Postmortem Authority"
March 2008
Andrew Sandoval-Strausz, University of New Mexico
"A History of American Hospitality: The Importance of Accommodating Strangers"
November 2007
Michael Botson, Houston Community College
"Labor, Civil Rights and the Hughes Tool Company"
October 2007
Greg Grandin, New York University
"Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism"
October 2007
James Carter, Texas A&M, Corpus Christi
"Inventing Vietnam: Lessons in Nation Building from a Forgotten Example"
October 2007
Susan Ferber, Oxford University Press
"Publishing History"
October 2007
Dominque Barthelemy, University of Paris-Sorbonne
"The Origins of French Chivalry"
May-June 2007: UH Moores School of Music (co-sponsor)
Texas Music Festival - Master Class Series
April 2007: UH Departments of History and Modern and Classical Languages (co-sponsor)
Carlos Monsivais
"Imagenes de la tradicion viva en Mexico"
March 2007: Houston Area African Studies Group (co-sponsor)
Michael Watts, African Studies, University of California, Berkeley
"Rethinking the Resource Course: Oil Insurgency
and the Conflict in the Niger Delta"
March 2007: UH Department of History (co-sponsor)
Jay Hakes, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library
March 2007: UH Visual Studies (co-sponsor)
Sally Mann, Photographer
"America's Best Photographer"
March 2007: UH Department of History (co-sponsor)
Deborah Willis, New York University
"Black: A Celebration of Culture"
March 2007: UH Moores School of Music (co-sponsor)
Conrad Herwig, Trombonist
Ninth Annual Moores Jazz Festival
March 2007: Program of Empirical Legal Studies (co-sponsor)
Wendy Martinek, Binghamton University
"The Strategy of Dissent on the U.S. Court of Appeals"
February 2007: UH Center for Public History (co-sponsor)
J. Samuel Walker, Nuclear Regulatory Commission
"Three Mile Island"
February 2007: UH Department of Physics (co-sponsor)
Harry L. Swinney, University of Texas
"Emergence of Order in Physical, Chemical and Biological Systems"
November 2006: UH Department of Physics (co-sponsor)
Neal Lane, Rice University
"U.S. Science - Glorious Past, Uncertain Future"
November 2006: Empirical Legal Studies (co-sponsor)
Arthur McEvoy, University of Wisconsin Law School
"The New Legal Realism"
November 2006: Honors College (co-sponsor)
Thomas Cole, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
"The Strangest Demise of Jim Crow"
September 2006
Douglas Seefeldt, University of Nebraska
"History in the Digital Age"
September 2006: Department of Houston (co-sponsor)
Susan Ferber, Oxford University Press
"Everything You Wanted to Know about Academic Publishing But Were Afraid to Ask"
June 2006
"Southwest Vistas: The Border in American History"
NEH Teachers Institute co-sponsored by Humanities Texas and UH History Department
April 2006: Department of History (co-sponsor)
Fifth Annual Mexican-American History Workshop
April 2006
Stefania Barca
Universitario Suor Orsola and
Visiting Fellow in Agrarian Studies, Yale University
"Emodying Environmental History: Labor, Health, and
Social Struggle in Italy, 1958-2000"
April 2006
Marco Armiero
Institute of Mediterranean Studies
and National Council for Scientific Research (Naples)
"Looking for a Common Ground:
Social History, Environmental History, and the Study of Conflicts"
February 2006
Mark Bixler, author, The Lost Boys of Sudan,
and Jerry Fowler,
U.S. Holocaust Museum
"The Imperative to Act: Darfur and Sudan"
February 2006
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Historian and Activist
"Sandinistas, Miskito Indians, and the Contra War:
A Case Study in the History of
Nationalism, Indigenism,
and U.S. Imperialism in Latin America"
October 2005
Texas Medieval Association Annual Meeting
October 2005
"21st-Century Motherhood: Change"
Conference co-hosted with UH Women's Studies Program
May 2005: Department of History (co-sponsor)
Fourth Annual Mexican-American History Workshop
April 2005: Department of History (co-sponsor)
John Turtino, Georgetown University
"New Spain, Mexico, and the United States: Rethinking the History of North America"
April 2005: Department of History (co-sponsor)
Jay Rubenstein, University of New Mexico
"Chroniclers of the First Crusade: Stories of the Clash of Cultures at the End of Time"
April 2005: Department of History (co-sponsor)
First Regional Conference for Graduate and Undergraduate Students, Phi Alpha Theta
March 2005: Department of History, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, UH Law Center, and Office of the President (co-sponsor)
American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting
February 2005: Department of History (co-sponsor)
James H. Jones, Author and Historian
"Science in the Bedroom: Alfred C. Kinsey and the Rise of Scientific Research on Human Sexuality"
February 2005: Department of History, Project for the Active Teaching of History ("PATH")(co-sponsor)
Odetta, Folk Music Legend and Civil Rights Activist
"Songs for Social Change"
May 2004: Department of History (co-sponsor)
Third Annual Mexican-American History Workshop
April 2004: Department of History, PATH (co-sponsor)
Spike Lee, Filmmaker
October 2004: Fifth Tenneco Community Symposium: "Families in Crisis"
November 2003: Graduate School of Social Work (co-sponsor)
A Debate with Benjamin L. Hooks, Civil Rights Leader, and Linda Chaves, Center for Equal Opportunity "Affirmative Action - Is it still needed?"
November 2003: Department of History (co-sponsor)
Southern Historical Association Conference
October 2003: Department of Philosophy (co-sponsor)
"Bringing Science to Life: Finding a Language for the Mind"
October 2003: Department of History (co-sponsor)
Southwest Conference on Asian Studies
September 2003: Department of History, PATH (co-sponsor)
Howard Zinn, Columbia University
"America Today and America Past"
May 2003: Department of History (co-sponsor)
Mexican American History Workshop
April 2003: Graduate School of Social Work (co-sponsor)
Kevin Phillips, author, Washington, D.C.
"Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich"
April 2003: Department of History (co-sponsor)
National Council on Public History Conference
April 2003: School of Theatre
Arnold Aronson, Columbia University School of the Arts
"Looking Into the Abyss: Reflections on Scenographic Space"
Mary Henderson, author, New York
"Early 20th Century American Scene Design"
February 2003: School of Music (co-sponsor)
Otis Murphy, alto saxophone, Indiana University
Recital and Master Class
February 2003: School of Music (co-sponsor)
William H. Street, saxophone, University of Alberta
Roger Admiral, piano, University of Alberta
Jean-Marie Londeix, saxophone
Recital, Master Class, Lecture
February 2003: Department of History (co-sponsor)
Roman de la Campa, SUNY at Stony Brook
Symposium: Building a Latin American Studies Program
February 2003: School of Music (co-sponsor)
Michael Brecker, tenor saxophone
Texas Music Festival Jazz Project
February 2003: Department of Chemical Engineering (co-sponsor)
John Villadsen, National Technical University of Denmark
"The Impact of Chemical Engineering on Bio-Reaction Engineering"
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