2006 Lectures and Seminars

Contentious Performances
December 7, 2006, 12 pm
Charles Tilly, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science.
A conversation with Professor Tilly about his work on collective political claims, such as coups, demonstrations, guerrilla attacks, and the formation of special-interest associations.

Little Caesar and the HUAC Mob: Edward G. Robinson, the Red Scare, and the Decline of Liberal Hollywood
October 16, 2006, 12 pm
Steven J. Ross, Professor of History at USC and Co-Director of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities. Moderated by Professor Eric Foner.

U.S. Exceptionalism and the European Myth of America: the Problem of a Common Euro-American History
September 22, 2006, 1 pm
Tiziano Bonazzi, Professor at the University of Bologna

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