The Fraught Crossroads Where Class, Race, Sex and Violence Keep Converging across American History, Lawrence Weschler, author

Using assemblage artist Edward Kienholz's harrowing 1970 lynching tableau Five Car Stud as a point of departure, Lawrence Weschler explores the ways in which race has served as the radioactive core of Ameican hsitory, continually warping the potential for ordinary class-based politics and accounting for all manner of perverse Amrican exceptionalisms (the subject of Weschler's current work-in-progress).

Sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities,  Co-sponsored by the American Studies Department and the Orser  Center for the Study of Place, Community, and Culture.