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Todays panel on the crises of the 1970s. So we have a great panel today. I am going to just start up i talk a little bit about what how we kind of framed this panel and how we are hoping what we are hoping to accomplish. We have the roundtable intensely. We are each want to speak about 10 minutes. Just a few roof remarks about the literature on the 1970s and thinking about the 1970s and what this unique time means to us today. And then we would like to open it up for a lot of conversation both with each other and most importantly with the audience. So we will be sticking to a pretty tight time and hopefully having a lot of time for comp for conversation. One of the things we were thinking about was the central role of the idea of crisis in thinking about the 1970s, both in the contemporary clinical imagination of a time and also in historical scholarship. From watergate to the energy crisis, the urban crisis, a fiscal crisis, the rhetoric of the era is huge with extensive danger and hi ....
Increasing divorce rates drug use and crime. From the american historical Associations Annual meeting last month in new york city this is two hours. Welcome, everybody, to todays panel on the crises of the 1970s. So we have a great panel today and i im going to just start out by talking a little bit about what we thought how we kind of framed this panel and what we are kind of hoping to accomplish. One of the things we have set this up as a round table intentionally. All of us were going to speak for maybe about ten minutes, so kind of making a few brief remarks about the literature on the 1970s and thinking you about the 1970s, what this unique time means to us today and then we would like to open it up and have a lot of time for conversation, both among both with each other and most importantly, with the audience. So we are going to be sticking to a pretty, you know pretty tight time and hopefully having a lot of time for c ....
So, one of the things that we were thinking about in setting up this panel is the central role of the idea of crisis in thinking you about the 1970s, both in the contemporary political imagination of the time and also in historical scholarship. From water bait to the Energy Crisis, the urban crisis the fiscal crisis, the rhetoric of the era is infused with this sense of danger and awareness of historical change. And histories of the decade, too, often treat it in these kind of heightened terms. Theres as many people have observed, the period of 1970s has gone from being easily dismissed historical footnote or a kind of punchline of some sort to being sort of interesting the 1960s, 1980s to being seen as in some ways a moment when many of the things that were most aware of in our own present world really came into existence. History such as nixon land the invisible bridge laura kalmans right star rising, no direction home jeff cowys ....
Introduction. Thank you for coming out. I wanted to thank keplers for hos hosting this event. This is a great option, you dont have to buy by book, but buy a book and support the organization. I have three short excerpts i would like to read for you. And then i thought we could have a short question and answer. Has anyone read the book yet . Some people have started it. Some people finished it. Some people working on it. Just to give you context. The format of the book is unusual. One of my publishers told me it is category stretcher. It is written primarily as a memoir. It is a personal experience of trying to balance a demanding career and motherhood and how i completely failed. But i tried to make sense of the failure and put it into a bigger context. And the idea for turning it into a book started when i started hearing stories from other women that were similar to mine about burning out and i realized how maxed out we are and i wanted to understand it in a bigger way. I tried to i ....