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X-WR-CALNAME:Edith Bleich Lecture Series featuring Professor Gary Gerstle\,
  "America's Authoritarian Turn"
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DESCRIPTION:This lecture was scheduled for Thursday\, February 26. Due to s
 evere winter weather that has canceled or delayed travel\, we have postpon
 ed this Bleich Lecture until Tuesday\, April 7\, 2026 at 5:00pm. \n\nPleas
 e join the Center for the Humanities at the upcoming Edith Bleich Lecture 
 Series featuring Professor Gary Gerstle who will present on the topic\, "A
 merica’s Authoritarian Turn."\n\nGary Gerstle will look beyond the figur
 e of Donald Trump to inquire into the roots of America’s authoritarian t
 urn. His lecture will dissect how a neoliberal political order widened eco
 nomic inequality\, stirred ethnoracial resentments\, and raised doubts abo
 ut the capacity of liberal democratic regimes to fix what had gone wrong. 
 Gerstle will explore why the unraveling of this political order in the 201
 0s energized the authoritarian right more than the democratic left and wil
 l conclude with some thoughts about where Americans might look for democra
 tic renewal.\n\nGary Gerstle is Paul Mellon Professor of American History 
 Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. Gerstle received his BA from Brow
 n University and his MA and PhD from Harvard University. He is the author\
 , editor\, and coeditor of more than ten books.  He is currently the Joy F
 oundation Fellow at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute\, Harvard University\,
  where he is working on a new book\, Politics in Our Time: Authoritarian P
 eril and Democratic Hope in the Twenty-First Century.  He resides in Cambr
 idge\, Massachusetts.\n\n____\n\nThe Edith Bleich Lecture Series was estab
 lished by Dr. Stuart Blumin in memory of Edith Bleich. Ms. Bleich was one 
 the University of Miami’s earliest and most devoted students who began h
 er academic career in 1926. Each year\, the Center invites a humanities sc
 holar to speak about their research to the University of Miami and South F
 lorida community. This event is free and open to the public and marks the 
 100th anniversary since Edith Bleich began her studies at the University o
 f Miami.
LOCATION:\, Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Science
SUMMARY:Edith Bleich Lecture Series featuring Professor Gary Gerstle\, "Ame
 rica's Authoritarian Turn"
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 aturing-professor-gary-gerstle-americas-authoritarian-turn
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