Guest lecture by Richard Pells

Richard Pells, From Modernism to the Movies: The Globalization of American Culture in the 20th and 21st Centuries

In this lecture, Professor Pells will discuss the main theses in his upcoming book, due to be published by Yale University Press. The book is in some ways a sequel to his highly acclaimed Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II. Join us to hear one of the leading authorities on 20th century American cultural and intellectual history discuss how American culture is not just shaping, but also being shaped by the rest of the world.

Richard Pells is a Professor of history at the University of Texas, specializing in modern American culture. His books include Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years; The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s; Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II; and Modernist America: Art, Music, Movies, and The Globalization of American Culture (forthcoming). He has been a visiting professor at universities in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Bonn, Berlin, Cologne, Vienna, Turku, Sao Paulo, Sydney, and Indonesia. He has also lectured extensively elsewhere in Europe as well as in Latin America and Asia.