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Susan Buck-Morss: "Year 1"

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History
Susan Buck-Morss, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at CUNY Graduate Center, and Jan Rock Zubrow ‘77 Professor Emerita of Government at Cornell University delivers the keynote lecture for Clifford Symposium 2017.

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

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Panel Discussion: "The Dark Side of Utopia"

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History
Middlebury faculty discuss life under communism.
Kevin Moss, “Enemies of the People”
Sergei Davydov, “1917, 1945, 1968”
Nikolina Dobreva, “Exit Visa”
Roberto Veguez, “Why I Left?”
Ioana Uricaru, “Ideology and Ethics”
Tatiana Smorodinska, “Homo Sovieticus”

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

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Panel Discussion: "The Revolution Abroad"

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History
Historians discuss the reception of communist ideas in Japan, East Germany and France.
Nicholas Clifford (Middlebury College), “The Chairman’s New Paris Fashions, 1966-1980”
Max Ward (Middlebury College), “Translating the Revolution in Interwar Japan: Japanese Police Manuals on Political Crime”
Andrew Demshuk (American University), “1968 in Leipzig and the Demolition of Belief in Communism.”
Discussant: James Ralph (Middlebury College)

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

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The Soviet Economy, 1917-1991: Its Life and Afterlife

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Economics and History
Clifford Symposium closing keynote address by Mark Harrison (Professor, Department of Economics, University of Warwick).

A closing address by Andrea Lloyd, VP for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty precedes the lecture.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

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Charles S. Grant Memorial Lecture - Clayborne Carson

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“’Where Do We Go From Here?’: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Unanswered Question”, Clayborne Carson

Professor Carson is the founding director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. In 1985 the late Coretta Scott King asked him to oversee the King Papers Project. His book, “In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s”, won the OAH’s Frederick Jackson Turner Prize. More recently, he is the author of “Martin’s Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.”

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

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"An Outrage"

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“An Outrage” is a powerful new documentary film by Hannah Ayers and Lance Warren that takes a fearless look at lynching in the American South. Lynching, the unlawful murder of individuals witnessed by mobs, was at its most endemic in the 1890s, when one African American was killed in the South every four days. Filmed at actual lynching sites in six states, “An Outrage” shines a bright light on this dark chapter of American history, made tangible through the memories and thoughts of descendants of lynching victims, community activists, and scholars.

Twilight Auditorium 101

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