Blake Slonecker, associate professor of history and chair of humanities at Heritage University, will speak about Marshall Bloom on Thursday, April 2, at 4:30 p.m. in 219 T.J. Day Hall at Linfield College.
Slonecker will present “We are Marshall Bloom: Sexuality, Suicide, and the Collective Memory of the Sixties,” a discussion of the entwined histories of the Liberation News Service (LNS), a news agency for leftist underground media, and Montague Farm, a commune in western Massachusetts, exploring the disputed legacy of Marshall Bloom, one of the founders of LNS and Montague farm.
Slonecker’s book, “A New Dawn for the New Left: Liberation News Service, Montague Farm, and the Long Sixties” (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), was recently described as “a flawlessly structured, richly textured and page-turning account of the New Left’s utopian impulse.” Currently, he is at work on a new project, “Pushing Off: Sexual Politics in the Underground Press,” that examines the complex role of alternative media in promoting feminism, gay liberation and the sexual revolution in the Pacific Northwest.
The lecture is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Linfield departments of history, political science and English, along with PLACE, (Program for Liberal Arts and Community Engagement), exploring this year’s theme “How Do We Know?” Paths to Wisdom. For more information, contact Joe Wilkins, associate professor of English, at 503-883-2696, jwilkins@linfield.edu .
