Thursday, November 12, 2026
duPont Library - Torian Room
5:00pm
The talk will examine the current U.S./Israeli-Iran conflict, including both the 12-Day War in June 2025 and the current war. It will consider the origins and consequences of the conflict while also providing firsthand insight into the lived experience of the conflict.
Annie Tracy Samuel is an associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Policy Council, and president of the Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of the modern history and politics of Iran and the Middle East, and her book on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the Iran-Iraq War, entitled The Unfinished History of the Iran-Iraq War: Faith, Firepower, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.
Sponsored by the University Lectures Committee, the International and Global Studies Program and the Departments of Politics, History, and Religious Studies.
