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  • 9/19 Benton Salon on Art, Power & Propaganda

    Don't miss TODAY'S SALON at THE BENTON
    It promises to be a lively discussion of "What's Art Got to Do with Power and Propaganda?" 

    5 to 7 pm
    Free admission 
    Wine and light hors d'oeuvres

    Moderator:
    Scott Harding, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Community Organization, School of Social Work. His areas of specialization include community organization and practice, poverty, social problems and social welfare policy, political advocacy, and war, militarism, and imperialism.

    Panelists:
    Anke Finger, Associate Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies. Her teaching and research focus on modernism, media studies, digital humanities, literature and other arts, contemporary aesthetics, inter-culturality, and everyday life theories and practices. She is interested in forms of artistic and creative meshing.

    Janet Watson, Associate Professor, History. Her areas of specialty are 20th-century European culture, modern Britain and gender studies, and her research interests are the evolution of British representations of the First World War, national identity, memory, and the Second World War.

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