November 18, 2013
All Day
Hagerty Hall 445A
The Department of Comparative Studies presents
Founding Democracy - Visualizing Legitimacy: A Contrastive Comparison of the Early American Republic and Weimar Germany
Volker Depkat
Professor of American Studies/Amerikanistik at the University of Regensburg
Dr. Depkat’s talk focuses on the different visual strategies used to depict Washington and Hindenburg and the consequences of those differences on the subsequent success or failure of the republics they helped establish.
co-sponsored by the Center for Folklore Studies
