Past Events

• Conference on "New Directions in Critical Criminology” hosted at UTK with strong participation from American Studies
• Jean O’Brien (University of Minnesota American Studies Faculty) presents the 2016 Milton Klein Lecture on " “Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit"
• American Studies proudly co-sponsors visit by National Book Award winner, Nikky Finney
• Archeological Field School at Coan Hall, Virginia, June 2015
• Defining and Disrupting Colorblind Racial Ideology: a lecture by Helen Neville, April 20
• AMST co-sponsors Perspectives on Structural Violence keynote lecture, April 13
• Ida B and Beyond: a Conference on the Legacy of Ida B. Wells featuring a keynote speech by Mia Bays, Rutgers University, at UTK on March 26, 2015
• Kenneth Warren, University of Chicago, will speak on William Gardner Smith's The Stone Face in McClung Tower 1210, March 26, 2015
• Leading "black lives matter" activist (and former UTK student) Rev. Osagyefo Sekou to speak on March 23, 2015 in the Great Room of UTK's International House
• Dom Flemons of the Carolina Chocolate Drops at UTK, March 13
• American Studies Brownbag with Dawn Coleman and Luke Harlow, January 26
• New for Spring 2015, "The Knoxville Class"  (AMST 410:  Knoxville and East Tennessee, an Interdisciplinary Exploration)
• Black Lives Matter!  A walkout and and teach-in on issues of racial justice, December 2.
• Lawrence Buell, Harvard University, will speak on his recent book,The Dream of the Great American Novel in McClung Tower 1210, November 13, 2014
• Faculty Panel on Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, November 12, 2014
• "The Urban Origins of American Judaism"—a public lecture by Debra Dash Moore, November 10, 2014
• Inside the Mind of the Christian Right—a Deep History of the Culture Wars"—a public lecture by Molly Worthen, November 6, 2014
• American Studies Brownbag with Michelle Commander and Barbara Heath, November 3
• Teach-In on Mass Incarceration, September 10, 2014
• Announcing the American Studies Capstone Seminar for Fall 2014
• American Studies proudly co-sponsors International Social Theory Consortium, May 15-17
• New American Studies introductory course announced for Spring 2014
• Women in Politics conference at UTK, April 10-11
• American Studies Brown-Bag symposium featuring Mary Campbell and Martin Griffin, March 31