2018 History Lecture Series: "'The People Want to Bring Down the Regime': A History of Dissent and the Arab Spring"

On January 24th, 2018, I had the pleasure of delivering a lecture as part of the UW Department of History's 2018 History Lecture Series. This year's series was on the theme "Speaking Truth to Power: Protest and Dissent." My colleagues Anand Yang and Laurie Marhoefer preceded me; Anand introduced the series with an overview of Mahatma Gandhi's life and the tactic of nonviolence, and Laurie delivered a fascinating talk on popular protest in Nazi Germany. The week after I spoke, my colleague Josh Reid closed out the series with a rousing lecture on the long and ongoing history of Native activism in North America and, specifically, the Pacific Northwest.

My own lecture, the third out of four, was called "'The People Want to Bring Down the Regime': A History of Dissent and the Arab Spring." Watch the lecture on YouTube here, and follow the suggested videos in the sidebar to find my colleagues' lectures.

My lecture was covered for the UW student newspaper, The Daily, by Jack Goldstein-Street, a contributing writer. Read his report here.