Fascism, Populism and Wannabe Fascism in the Past and Present

Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 1 - 2:30pm

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Please join HSS in welcoming Dr. Federico Finchelstein, Professor and Chair of History at the New School for Social Research. 

Dr. Finchelstein will be speaking in the American Democracy Lecture Series—a series which offers the Cooper community a forum for discussion and debate about the current state of American democracy.

This lecture will be held on Wednesday, September 18th from 1:00 - 2:30 PM in the Rose Auditorium. 

Please note this event is open to Cooper Union staff, faculty, and students.

Located in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.