Lineup for 2019-2020 Seminar Series Announced
APHI SEMINAR LINEUP—2019-2020
September 18 Nico Slate (Carnegie Mellon University)
“Truth and Power: The Civil Rights Movement and Education”
October 16 Aaron Lecklider (UMASS-Boston)
“‘Socialism & Sex Is What I Want’: Radical Women and Homosexuality in the 1930s and 40s”
November 13 Joe Ryan-Hume (University of Glasgow)
‘Lynching the Loony’: Robert Bork and A Liberal Battle in a Conservative Age”
December 4 Sarah Phillips (Boston University)
“This Little Piggy Went to Market: Agricultural Abundance, Postwar Farm Policy, and the Neoliberal Ascent “
February 19 Marc Dollinger, San Francisco State University)
“Antisemitism, Academic Freedom, and the University: A View From the Left and the Right”
March 4 Sarah Miller-Davenport (University of Sheffield)
“The Arts in a Time of Austerity: New York’s Culture Industry as Solution to Economic Crisis”
April 29 Corinne Field (University of Virginia)
“‘The Oldest Lecturer in the World!’: Sojourner Truth, Racial Justice, and the Political Significance of Longevity in Nineteenth-Century America