Join us for the 2021 Hooker Distinguished Lectures with historian Quinn Slobodian

Join us for the prestigious Hooker Distinguished Lectures series as we welcome historian Dr. Quinn Slobodian, Associate Professor, Department of History, Wellesley College.

Slobodian, whose most recent book is Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, is a historian of modern German and international history. He will be giving a four-day series of talks and seminars:

• Tuesday, March 23 (7-9 p.m.) – Public lecture: “The End of Neoliberal Globalism?”The talk will explore the fate of neoliberal globalism, which “has lost another of its nine lives” with the outbreak of the pandemic. Access the talk via Zoom.
• Wednesday, March 24 (12-1:30 p.m.) – Philosophy lunch seminar
• Thursday, March 25 (2:30-4 p.m.) – History department talk (open to all who are interested): “Investments for Survival: Goldbugs, Moneydeath and the Rise of Apocalypse Economics”How have goldbug ideology, scientific racism and predictions of imminent apocalypse come to be intertwined with Far-Right ideology in Western Europe and North America? Access the talk via Zoom.
• Friday, March 26 (1-3 p.m.) – Public interview with Quinn Slobodian and Ian McKay (chair, L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History).