For more information:
Megan Laurie
(801) 863-7149
UVSC to Host History Lecture Series
As part of the Utah Valley State College Department of History’s “Turning Points in History” lecture series, Dr. Laura Woodworth-Ney from Idaho State University will speak Monday, Sept. 19, 2005 at 7 p.m. in room 101 of the Liberal Arts Building. Woodworth-Ney’s talk will be entitled “Reclaiming Culture: Women, Ideology, and the Settlement of the Irrigated West, 1870-1924” and will be free and open to the public. Woodworth-Ney’s talk is the first of three that will be featured in the “Turning Points in History” lecture series during Fall semester.
“We want to get people interested and excited about history,” said Lyn Bennett, an associate professor of history at UVSC. “Dr. Woodworth-Ney is researching several issues that are very western, such as irrigation, gender roles and race. While hers is a historical perspective, I think we can learn a lot from what she will share.”
Woodworth-Ney is an associate professor of history and the director of Women’s Studies at Idaho State University. She wrote the book Mapping Identity: The Creation of the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation, 1805-1902 and has published numerous articles on topics that explore the connections between federal policy, community and culture in the American West. She serves on the advisory board of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University and is the editor of Idaho Yesterdays, which publishes current research on the history and culture of Idaho.
For more information about this lecture and the “Turning Points in History” lecture series, contact Dr. Lyn Ellen Bennett at (801) 863-8136.
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