“The Case for Protest”: a public lecture on Friday, September 28

Historians of print and digital culture convene on Madison for this weekend’s conference, Protest on the Page, sponsored by the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture. As part of the conference, there will be a free public lecture on Friday September 28, given by editor, author, and activist Victor Navasky.

Victor Navasky
The Case for Protest: verbal and visual, noisy and silent, legal and illegal, overt and covert, and other forms too numerous to mention

Friday, September 28, 5:30 p.m.
Lecture is free and open to the public

Victor Navasky is the Publisher Emeritus of The Nation and the George T. Delacorte Professor in Magazine Journalism, Director of the Delecorte Center for Magazine Journalism, and Chair of the Columbia Journalism Review. In addition, he is the author of such noted books as Kennedy Justice (1971), Naming Names (National Book Award, 1982), and A Matter of Opinion (George Polk Book Award, 2005). Perhaps best known for his long career as editor and then publisher of The Nation, Navasky has an understanding of dissent and its publications that has few peers.

For more information about the conference, visit the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture website.