BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations DESCRIPTION:The Contemporary History Institute Speaker Series presents Dr. Andrew Hartman\, Department of History\, Illinois State University discussi ng "Karl Marx and the American Academy in the Age of Reagan" on April 4 at 4:45 p.m.\n\n \n\nIn 1985\, the Washington Times columnist Arnold Beichman wrote that Marxism was “the growth industry of the American campus.” Beichm an overstated the case\, but he was not entirely wrong. In the age of the c ulture wars of the 1980s and 1990s\, many American readers\, at least\, aca demic readers\, turned to Marx. Yet as Marxism flourished in an academic re gister\, Marx had very little purchase on American political life. Marx wa s alive\, but the variant of Marx that lived on would have been unrecogniza ble to previous generations of Marxist revolutionaries. This talk by Andrew Hartman will flesh out this ironic history of the American Marx reception in the late twentieth century. \n\n \n\nAndrew Hartman is Professor of His tory at Illinois State University and is the author of two monographs\, "Ed ucation and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School\,” published i n 2008\, and "A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars\ ," published in 2015 with a second edition in 2019. He is also the co-edito r of “American Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times\,” and is currently putting the finishing touches on his third monograph\, "Karl Marx in America\," which is contracted to be published by the University of Chicago Press. DTEND:20230404T220000Z DTSTAMP:20241123T181523Z DTSTART:20230404T204500Z GEO:39.326372;-82.102202 LOCATION:Bentley Hall\, 124 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:CHI Speaker Series\, Karl Marx and the American Academy in the Age of Reagan\, April 4 UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_42289411268829 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/contemporary_history_institute_spring_s peaker_series_1113 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR