Film Screening: Keeping in Mind

Event Schedule: 

4:30-5:00pm- Pizza Reception

5:00-7:00pm- Screening of Keeping in Mind

7:00-7:30pm- Panel with film creator Adam Kulakow, civil rights historian Matthew Countryman, and anthropologist Gayle Rubin

Keeping in Mind: The McCarthy Era at the University of Michigan

In the 1950s, the University of Michigan caved to political intimidation when President Harlan Hatcher fired two faculty members, and suspended a third, who refused to cooperate with Senator McCarthy’s red-baiting Committee on “Un-American Activities.” As another tyrannical government takes aim at universities, join us for a screening of Keeping in Mind, a 1989 documentary featuring interviews with Hatcher and the three men he sacrificed to political expediency: Chandler Davis, Clement Markert, and Mark Nickerson. The screening will be preceded by a pizza reception (4:30pm) and followed by a panel discussion.