Ida Wise East Lecture

The University of Lynchburg’s Ida Wise East Memorial Lecture series presents Dr. Elizabeth Anker on Thursday, Feb. 29. Anker’s lecture, “Ugly Freedoms in American Politics,” will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Hall Campus Center’s Memorial Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public.

Anker is a professor of American studies and political science at The George Washington University and director of GW’s film studies program. She is co-editor of the journal Theory & Event and frequently discusses current events on TV news outlets.
Anker is the author of the nonfiction books “Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom” and “Ugly Freedoms,” the latter of which won an honorable mention for the John Hope Franklin Prize for Best Book in American studies.

For information email crim@lynchburg.edu.