Title: History & Happy Hour with Captain Jack Stoney Date: January 24, 2023 Time: 5:00 – 6:30 PM Presenter: Larry Stine Location: USCB HH Description: Meet Captain Jack Stoney, privateer...
Has the United States been a force for liberty around the world? Should it be? And if so, how? To answer these questions, Christopher A. Preble traces the history of...
Title: Gullah 101 Date: February 8, 2023 Time: 2:00 PM Presenter: Luana Graves Sellars Location: USCB HH Room 115 Description: Let us introduce you to the spiritual, musical, linguistic and...
Title: The American Revolution: A World War No One Knows Date: February 14, 2023 Time: 10:30 – 11:30AM Presenter: Richard Thomas Location: USCB HH Room 115 Description: American Exceptionalism holds...
The Red Sea region is among the world’s most strategic maritime corridors, vital to global trade and naval access to the Western Indian Ocean and broader Indo-Pacific. It’s also an...
Title: What Civil War Are We Talking About? Southern Honor and the Myth of the Lost Cause Date: February 20, 2023 Time: 10:30 – 11:30 AM Presenter: Ron Roth Location:...
Susie King Taylor escapes bondage at the age of fourteen; Charlotte Forten, an educated teacher from Philadelphia, boards a steamship, as does Laura Towne, a Boston medical school graduate. All...
Title: Walk in Her Shoes Date: February 28, 2023 Time: 10:30 – 11:30 AM Presenter: Kathy Smith Location: USCB HH Room 115 Description: Women played a significant role in the...
Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen is the director of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict program at the U.S. Institute of Peace and frequently presents and publishes in a variety of academic, policy, and media forums on policy and civil society efforts related to the conflict. She has previously worked with the U.S. Department of State as an Arabic language specialist and as the program officer for the Kennedy School of Government’s Middle East Initiative at Harvard University, where she managed work on the Israeli, Palestinian, and Saudi Arabian portfolios.
Proficient in Hebrew and Arabic, Kurtzer-Ellenbogen's graduate research focused on political and social identity in Arabic discourse, with an emphasis on the Arabic language press of the Arab citizen community in Israel. She holds a bachelor's degree in Arabic and French from Georgetown University and a master's degree from Georgetown's Arabic department with a dual concentration in linguistics and Arab area studies.
Title: African American Presence in Colonial Lowcountry Date: March 3, 2023 Time: 10:30 – 11:30 AM Presenter: Meldon Hollis Jr., M.A., J.D., M.P.A. Location: USCB HH Room 115 Description: Africans...
