Paper Title
Lessons Learned from 'Hall of Socialism': Juxtaposing Finnish-American Radicalism with Today's Protest Movements
Location
Fisher 126
Event Website
http://www.finnforumx.com/
Start Date
12-4-2014 2:00 PM
End Date
12-4-2014 2:20 PM
Description
Historical accounts of revolutionary movements oftentimes occlude the pleasures of countering hegemony or criticize the “frivolity” of what is perceived to be non-political activities. However, turn of the century Finnish-American socialist theater clubs and early twentieth century Finnish-American communist halls and their uncounted social groups and activities prove to be a rich resource in reconsidering the importance of acknowledging and understanding the role that pleasure has played and should play in political protest. Finnish-American radical activities, especially those condemned already at the time as hall socialism, are important historical precedents to today’s alter-globalization student festivals and protest concerts, midnight raves
Presenter Bio
A PhD Student in the Department of Transnational Studies at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York, Aho is working on the intersection of relationality, (queercrip) temporality, and forms of capitalism, while remaining interested in television studies, issues of class, regionalism, rurality, and affect theory more generally. She completed an internship at Finlandia University’s Finnish American Historical Archive in 2007.
Lessons Learned from 'Hall of Socialism': Juxtaposing Finnish-American Radicalism with Today's Protest Movements
Fisher 126
Historical accounts of revolutionary movements oftentimes occlude the pleasures of countering hegemony or criticize the “frivolity” of what is perceived to be non-political activities. However, turn of the century Finnish-American socialist theater clubs and early twentieth century Finnish-American communist halls and their uncounted social groups and activities prove to be a rich resource in reconsidering the importance of acknowledging and understanding the role that pleasure has played and should play in political protest. Finnish-American radical activities, especially those condemned already at the time as hall socialism, are important historical precedents to today’s alter-globalization student festivals and protest concerts, midnight raves
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