Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Distinguished Scholar lecture
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A guest lecturer plans to argue that in the absence of any powerful ideological and political rival, America has fallen victim to illusions about its global role. Alan Dawley, professor of history at The College of New Jersey, will deliver the University of Southern Indiana’s School of Liberal Arts annual Distinguished Scholar Presentation at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 21, in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. The lecture is open to the public. In an abstract of the lecture, Dawley wrote, “We indulge in the fantasy of cheap prosperity, the delusion of super-power, and the myth of messianic mission, while the real world goes off in different directions. This talk is intended to provide a reality check on the illusions of global America.” He also will present a lecture entitled “The Search for Progressive Internationalism” to the University community at 9 a.m. Thursday, April 21, in Forum II in the Wright Administration Building. The lecture will put the debate over America’s proper role in the Middle East and elsewhere in historical context. The lecture is open to faculty, staff, and students. Dawley is a prize-winning historian and long-time civic activist currently residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Beginning as editor of a civil rights newspaper in Mississippi, he participated in a series of social movements aimed at improving society, and his interest in the ways ordinary people make history carried over into his scholarly research and writing. Educated at Oberlin College and Harvard University, he has held posts at the University of Warwick, Princeton University, and New York University. His first book, Class and Community, about the creative responses of New England’s working people to the industrial revolution, was awarded the prestigious Bancroft Prize. In Struggles for Justice, he expanded the focus to the nation as a whole in telling the story of the long-term origins of the New Deal. His most recent work, Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution, looks at the international role of American reformers at the time when the United States first projected its power overseas. Currently, he is at work on Global America, an account of the United States in 20th century world history. His evening lecture is free and open to the public. |
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