When:
Friday, March 10, 2017
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM CT
Where: John Evans Center, 1800 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Free
Contact:
Amy Danzer
Group: SPS: Special Events
Category: Academic
Presented by Professor Geraldo Cadava
In this lecture, Geraldo Cadava will place Donald Trump in the context of United States and world history, including both Trump’s understanding of American history, and how historians have compared him to prior leaders. Trump has talked about the darkness of the recent past, a yearning to return the country to better times, to “make America great again.” He has been called a fascist, a demagogue, a narcissistic tycoon, and many other names. What’s old and what’s new about these themes and labels, and how has their use and application changed across the twentieth century? These are the questions Cadava will answer, in part based on his experience teaching a winter quarter seminar on “The History of the 2016 Election.”
6 p.m. - Check-in, refreshments, and mingling
7 p.m. - Program begins