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