Hi Kelley
Thanks! I’m interested to hear Adam’s talk.
Elizabeth
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Subject: [scrantonreads] Adam Pratt's talk at PSWS (Monday 10/10) *room change*
Dear Scranton Reads friends,
Happy October! I'm looking forward to all of our events this year.
I'm writing to remind you about Monday's talk at Penn State Worthington
Scranton -- and to let you know about a room change. Our usual location, the
Sherbine Lounge, is undergoing a renovation that has taken much longer than
expected.
So we'll move the talk -- but same day, same time -- to the Hawk Lecture Hall
(Room 201) in our Business Building. This is a tiered lecture hall (and the
students say that the chairs are particularly comfortable).
I'm really excited about Adam's discussion of historical "bad behavior" with
reference to The Handmaid's Tale. I've included the fuller discussion of his
topic below and on the attached flyer, which I hope you'll share.
Here are some directions and a map of the campus with parking lots marked
(http://worthingtonscranton.psu.edu/campus-map). The campus can be busy on
Mondays, so you may need to look for parking in the lower lots too, but I've
let the security guards know that there will be cars without permits on Monday.
The Hawk Lecture Hall is on the second floor of the Business Building.
Please feel free to email me with any questions.
Hope to see you there--
Kelley
Kelley Wagers
Associate Professor of English
Penn State Worthington Scranton
kjw14@xxxxxxx<mailto:kjw14@xxxxxxx>
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Adam Pratt, Ph.D., "Historians and Their Subjects Behaving Badly"
Monday, October 10
12:15-1:20 p.m.
Hawk Lecture Hall, 201 Business Building
Drawing on connections between Margaret Atwood's work of fiction and the
essential work of history, Dr. Pratt will discuss what can sometimes go wrong
in studies of the past. Dr. Pratt will talk about what historians do, namely,
interpret the past through primary sources, and how that process, as simple as
it sounds, can go awry. He will describe a few cases of historians being less
than honest about their findings, and instances when historical actors left
records that were highly doctored so they came out looking better than they
should have. Please join us for a fun and illuminating discussion of historical
bad behavior.
Dr. Pratt is an assistant professor of history at The University of Scranton.
He specializes in Jacksonian America and the U.S. Civil War.
