On March 27th, at 3:00pm, Joy Giguere, an associate professor of the History Department at Penn State University, will speak on "People Seem to go there to Enjoy Themselves: Public (Mis)behavior & the Rural Cemetery Movement in America."
On February 6th at 3:10pm Michael Socolow, an associate professor in Communication and Journalism, will speak on "Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics." The link for the symposium poster can be found below. Six Minutes in Berlin
Description: In the 1960s, Henry David Thoreau became an symbol of American dissent: a Walden Pond drop-out, an anti-war anarchist, a theorist of civil disobedience, and even a drug-user. Dr. Judd will describe this unprecedented notoriety as an episode in Thoreau’s rise from obscurity in 1862 to near universal recognition a century later. The intense […]
