Spotlight! Guest Instructor Series: Dr. Fred Pincus
Radicalism at UMBC: The Early Years
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 · 12 - 1 PM
Online
Reposted from our partners from the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery. Original Post to RSVP can be found here.
Radicalism at UMBC: The Early Years
UMBC students, faculty and staff participated in a wide range of radical social movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Like other students across the country, protests against the Vietnam War and systemic racism were common. Demands for more on-campus student decision-making power were also important including administration’s censorship of a literary magazine, the hiring and firing of faculty and the development of a Black Studies program. This resulted in demonstrations, sit-ins and student strikes. Dr. Fred Pincus, UMBC Professor Emeritus of Sociology, will also report on a small, where-are-they-now study of former activists.
AOK Library & Gallery Spotlight! Guest Instructor Series will be
hosting a public symposium throughout the Fall 2021 semester examining
the topic of radicalism. The aim of the symposium is not to declare a
definitive definition of radicalism but to offer a regional and
historical context to the term. The inspiration for the theme is the
Library’s Special Collections’ Radical Literature and Alternative Press
Center collections.