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Previous Dissent in America Teach-Ins

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• Teach-ins Spring 2007
• Teach-ins Fall 2006
• Teach-ins Spring 2006
• Teach-ins Fall 2005
• Teach-ins Spring 2005
• Teach-ins Fall 2004
• Teach-ins Spring 2004
• Teach-ins Fall 2003
• Teach-ins Spring 2003
• Teach-ins Fall 2002

Dissent in America Teach-Ins  

Evolving from Professor Ralph Young's Dissent in America course and co-sponsored by the History Department and the History Honors Society Phi Alpha Theta, each Friday since September 2002 students gather to discuss the historical background to the current political situation in the world.

The Teach-ins are held Fridays, 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm, Anderson Hall 821.

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To learn more about the teach-ins, see the article "The Right to Dissent" on page 25 of The Temple Review, as well as the 2003 Philadelphia Inquirer article, History Scholars Fight Present War.

The Associated Press and WPVI Channel 6 reported on the October 15, 2004 teach-in. The AP article was published in over 50 news sources including CNN, The Washington Post, The Guardian, New York Newsday, The Miami Herald, The Chicago Sun-Times and many others.

A related article appeared in the Organization of American Historians Newsletter

Also see Professor Young's article on dissent in the July 2004 issue of USA Today Magazine.

And an article about the teach-ins is in the March 2010 issue of the AHA's Perspectives on History

 

Spring 2010 Teach-Ins

February

2/5	Temple student Wafai Dias, “Art and My Palestinian Identity.”
2/12	Professor James Hilty, "Students as Agents of Change: Temple in the 'fifties and 'sixties."
2/19	In conjunction with ONE BOOK ONE PHILADELPHIA & the Free Library of Philadelphia, Professors David Farber, David Watt & Khalid Blankinship on “Persepolis and the Consequences of the Iranian Revolution.”
2/26	Professor Beth Bailey, “America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force.”

March

3/5	Temple student Drew Landes, member of Students for Justice in Palestine, “The History of Violent Resistance.”
3/19	Temple students James Mongeluzo and Jessica Reed, “Student Activism: 2000 to the Present.”
3/26	Russian Filmaker Vladimir Sinelnikov on "The Pirates of Somalia"

April

4/2	Professor Whitney Strub, the Queer Student Union, & LGBT Student Activists, “LGBT Activism: National Histories, Local Struggles.”
4/9	Temple student Joseph Alter on "A Brief History of Anarchism"
4/16	Temple student Renee Amirault on"Amnesty International."

         

        

Fall 2009 Teach-Ins

September

9/11	Professor Mohammad Kiani, “Where is My Vote: Iran at the Crossroads.”
9/18	Investigative Reporter Dave Lindorff, “Health Reform Town Hall Meetings: Democracy in Action or Illusion of Democracy?”
9/25	History Graduate Student Claude Barnes, “Innocent Victims or Juvenile Delinquents?: American Views of Social Problems at Home and Abroad.”

October

10/2	Alan Luxenberg, “Israel and Palestine: Roots of Conflict and Resolution.”
10/9	Emily Gleason & Kim Nguyen of the Project for Nuclear Awareness, “Atomic Age: Your Life in the World of Nuclear Weapons.”
10/16	Laila Kazi, “Art and Afghan Identity.”
10/23	Gladys Monterroso, Secretary General of the Encuentro por Guatemala and Human Rights Activist, “Kidnapped, Tortured, and Raped.”
10/30	To be determined.

November

11/6	Renee Amirault, “The Refugee Media Project.”
11/13	Ed Joyce, “Evolution of a Concept: A Brief History of Church/State Separation.”
11/20	The Honorable Judge John Jones, “Intelligent Design on Trial: The View from the Bench.”

 

Spring 2009 Teach-Ins

January

1/23	Temple Students, “Conversation, Contemplation, Community.”  This is a project by the students of Professor Kathleen Biddick’s Honors History/Religion course “Contemplating Asylum.”
1/30	Professor Mbaye Fara Gay, Photographer David Katzenstein, & Professor Kathleen Biddick, “The Role of Islam in a Modern African Democracy: Sufism in Senegal.”

February

2/6	Professor Howard Spodek, “Terror in Mumbai.”
2/13	Sociology Grad Student Mike Norton, “Can the Subprime Mortgage Crisis be Resolved?”
2/20	Professors Rebecca Alpert, Laura Levitt, Khalid Blankinship, and John Raines, “Gaza.”
2/27	Professor David Watt, “The Kite Runner, the Taliban, & the American Imagination.”

March

3/20	Gerardo Reyes, Marc Rodriguez, and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, “From the Farm to Your Table: Farmworkers, Campus Dining, and You.”
3/27	April Glaser & Petri Dish of the Prometheus Radio Project about the Corporate Control of the Airwaves: “The FCC Demystified: Freeing the Airwaves from Corporate Control.”

April

4/3	Professor Richard Immerman, “‘I’ve Met the Enemy and He is I’: Working for the American Intelligence Community.”
4/10	Sakura Saunders & Jonathan Luna, “The Beehive Collective: The Latin American Indigenous Struggle.”
4/17	Professor Vladislav Zubok, “Georgia On My Mind: Russia, Georgia, the EU, and the US.”