Journalism historian offers colloquium on radical press
Linda Lumsden, an assistant professor of journalism, will discuss her research on anarchist and socialist newspapers and magazines in the decade before World War I at a journalism research colloquium at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 26, in Marshall Building Room 341. The talk, "‘Striking Images’: Visual Rhetoric of the Radical Press, 1908-1918," is free and open to all.
Anarchist and socialist periodicals opposed capitalism and the rise of the corporate state. A key element of their protest was the use of imagery to telegraph their views on a range of social issues: labor, politics, gender, race, free speech, and war. Crude but powerful, radical cartoons provoked the government to try to imprison at least one artist.
The visual rhetoric of publications like The Blast, The Masses and Mother Earth offered a social critique that remains relevant in the face of today’s global economic crisis. Join Professor Lumsden for an exploration of this early mass media imagery in the School of Journalism’s first colloquium. Her research builds on her two books on the suffrage movement in the 1910s. She holds a Ph.D. from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in magazines from Syracuse University.
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