Working Class Seminar

Our guest speaker will be Alice Lynd, a legendary activist in the post WWII era in the United States, a veteran of anti-war, civil rights, labor, and anti-death penalty campaigns. Over seven decades, Alice and her late husband Staughton Lynd (1929-2022) developed a theory and practice, derived from Latin American Liberation Theology in the 1980s, about how to work with movements from below in democratic and egalitarian ways. Alice will summarize this work in a conversation with Marcus Rediker, a historian at the University of Pittsburgh.