MacLean to deliver Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Lecture

Nancy MacLean, the distinguished William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, will deliver the annual Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Lecture at the University of Maine on March 29.

MacLean’s lecture, “The Origins of Today’s Billionaire-Funded Radical Right and the Crisis of Democracy,” will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall. A reception and book signing will be held at 5 p.m. and following the lecture.

Earlier in the day as part of the Socialist and Marxist Studies Series, MacLean will present “‘Freedom of Disintegration’: Milton Friedman, Free Market Activists, and the South’s Desegregation Crisis.” Her talk will be held at 12:30 p.m. in Bennett Hall, Room 141.

Both talks are free and open to the public.

For more information, email Nathan Godfried, godfried@maine.edu.