Seminar series explores High Culture in America

As part of the St. Clare's Seminar Series at our International College of Further Education, Karen Heath from St. Anne's College, Oxford, spoke on the topic of High Culture in America: The Other Side of the Sixties.

The was the fourth talk which was part of the wider theme of The 1960s and Pop Culture and looked at the polarisation of the sixties in the USA and the conflicting constructions of the decade.

Karen Heath teaches history at St. Clare's, Oxford, and also at Queen Mary, University of London. She is a final year DPhil student at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, researching the origins of the culture wars and the rise of the modern American conservative movement through a case study of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Since its inception in 2000, the St. Clare's Seminar Series has provided an opportunity for students to explore a stimulating range of issues and ideas. Each semester the Series is linked by a common theme. Themes in previous years have included Gender and Identity, The City and Modern Life and Culture and Power.

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