Should academics go public? How does it work? What are the risks of speaking out? What are the risks of being silent? What are the benefits? How to go about it? David Perry, a widely-published journalist and historian, will speak about the perils and promises of breaking out of the Ivory Tower in this networked age, then lead the group in a workshop where they think about their own public voice.
David Perry is a journalist and medieval historian. After receiving a PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2006, David was a professor of history at Dominican University in the Chicago area. His book, Sacred Plunder: Venice and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade (Penn State University Press in 2015) explores the construction and contests over the memorialization of the Fourth Crusade as revealed in texts about the movement of relics from East to West. Since 2013, David has published over 400 essays in numerous outlets, including CNN, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, and The Nation. His journalism covers contemporary politics, parenting, health justice, higher education, and the myriad ways that history informs the present.
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The workshop will be followed by David Perry’s evening talk at 7:30pm for Medieval Club of New York in the English Department Lounge, Room 4406, on “8Chan Medievalism and Global White Supremacy,” co-sponsored by Medieval Club of New York, the Russell Hope Memorial Fund, PublicsLab, and the Center for the Humanities. Here’s the full description for the talk:
https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/8chan-medievalism-and-global-white-supremacy
