Update posted April 15: Listen to podcast of Belinda Davis's lecture.

The History and Social Studies Education Department will present the History, Psychology, and Social Movements Lecture Series at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in April. Both lectures will examine the psychology of social movements.

The first lecture will be held on Wednesday, April 14, at 4:30 p.m. in the center’s auditorium. Presenter Belinda Davis (pictured right), associate professor of history at Rutgers University and a specialist in twentieth-century German history, will discuss “The Inner Life of Politics: The ‘New Left’ in West Germany, 1962–1983.” Davis's lecture is based on a current book project, which draws upon a series of in-depth interviews she conducted with participants in the protest movements in Germany. Her first book, Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin, explored the effects of the Great War on domestic life.

The second lecture will be held on Friday, April 30, at 4:30 p.m. in the auditorium. Deborah Gould (pictured at left), assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will present “A Shifting Emotional Habitus: Bowers vs. Hardwick and the Emergence of the Direct Action AIDS Movement.”