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Rich Bodek, a professor of history at College of Charleston, will speak at Carthage on Thursday, May 1. He will present a Humanities Colloquium at 11:40 a.m. in the A. W. Clausen Center for World Business, Room 107. His talk is titled “Pulp Fiction, or How Did Working Class Men Understand Their World in the 1930s?”

Prof. Bodek (Ph.D., University of Michigan) directs his college’s Faculty Liberal Arts & Sciences Colloquium, and his research is on Berlin, Weimar Germany, and the intersection of technology and culture in the postwar western world (specifically radio in the 1940s and 1950s, and motorcycles from the 1950s to the present). His publications include Proletarian Performance in Weimar Berlin: Agitprop, Chorus, and BrechtThe Fruits of Exile: Central European Intellectual Immigration to America in the Age of Fascism, and a translated novel, Claire Bergmann’s Was wird aus deinen Kindern, Pitt? (What Will Become of the Children?), which was banned by the Nazis.