48th Annual Susman Conference

Please join us for the 48th Annual Susman Conference! Graduate students will present thought-provoking work related to this year's theme: Bearing Witness, Challenging Myth: Imperial Pasts and Fascist Presents. This conference asks, what can scholars do in troubled times? How can they bring their expertise, training, and analytical tools to bear in confrontation with authoritarianism and in defense of human rights? What have scholars done in past times of fascism or revolution? What does it mean to bear witness, and what is its value? And where, in all of this, does the historian’s representation, indeed their construction of themself, factor in? Dr. Joseph Kaplan, Visiting Professor of African American History at Berea College, will deliver the keynote lecture.