Publics and Counterpublics with Michael Warner - Conversations with History
Conversations with History (Audio)
English - May 07, 2018 21:00 - 53 minutes - 24.3 MBSociety & Culture History politics health news interview entrepreneurship business comedy culture leadership entrepreneur Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Michael Warner, the Seymour H. Knox Professor of English and American Studies, at Yale University, and the 2018 Tanner Lecturer at Berkeley. The conversation focuses on Professor Warner’s intellectual odyssey from a Pentecostal upbringing to an Ivy League professorship of American literature. The conversation includes discussion of his scholarship on the reciprocal influence of colonial printing and the development and assertion of democratic values; his advocacy on issues surrounding gay marriage; and his theoretical insights on publics and counter public as they apply to contemporary political dialogue. Series: "Conversations with History" [Humanities] [Show ID: 33587]