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Keynote Speakers
Distinguished Professor Morris Dickstein
The Graduate Center/CUNY
Joseph G. Astman Distinguished Conference Scholar
Keynote Address: Culture and Crisis: The Divided Mind of the Great Depression
Distinguished Professor Gail Levin
Baruch College and The Graduate Center/CUNY
Keynote Address: Lee Krasner in the 1930s: Making Art, Making Trouble and Making Do in the Great Depression
University Professor Emeritus Fritz Stern
Columbia University
Joseph G. Astman Distinguished Conference Scholar
Keynote Address: 1935: The Fatal Illusions of Europe
Special Invited Scholars
Kirstin Downey
Author, "The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins -- Social Security, Unemployment Insurance and the Minimum Wage"
Susan Jacoby
Author, "Never Say Die: Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age" and "The Age of American Unreason"
Distinguished Professor Morris Rossabi
Queens College and The Graduate Center/CUNY and Columbia University
Address: The 1930s in the Far East: Japanese Belligerence and Chinese Fragmentation