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Speaker Lawrence Grossberg; Morris Davis Distinguished Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date Mar 2, 2012
Time 4:00 pm
Location Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum; 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana
Cost Free and Open to the Public
Sponsor Center for Advanced Study
Contact Liesel Wildhagen
E-Mail wildhage@illinois.edu
Phone 217-333-6729
Event type Lecture
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Originating Calendar Center for Advanced Study
How Can We Sing . . . in a Strange Land? In Search of Political Possibility
Political culture in many parts of the world lives in the shadow of both fascism and the 1960s. Yet we may have learned the wrong lessons from this history. The possibilities of political struggle in the contemporary world depend on our capacities to re-imagine counter-cultural unities and to re-invent ways to sing the popular. Perhaps we can start with Marvin Gaye's old question, "What's going on?"
