Return of the Repressed

Professor David Clay Large, Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies at U.C. Berkeley and Co-Director of Berkeley’s Austrian Studies Program will present a Wheeler Center lecture entitled “Return of the Repressed” Today's Europen Populism in Historical Perspective at 6 PM on September 26that the Hilton Garden Inn in Bozeman Montana. His lecture will focus on the emergence and current prominence of right-wing populism in Europe and the origin of these sentiments through the course of the twentieth-century.

Professor Large is currently Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies at U. C. Berkeley and Co-Director of Berkeley’s Austrian Studies Program. He is also Roger Boas Professor of History at the Fromm Institute, University of San Francisco.  

Over a long academic career, David has taught at Berkeley, Smith College, Yale University, and Montana State University Bozeman.  His latest book is a social and cultural history of the grand spas of Central Europe, a project that required rigorous field work at the resorts in question. David also works frequently in documentary-television, acting as consultant, scriptwriter, and talking-head for the BBC, PBS, NBC Sports, and various German networks.

For nearly 40 years, the Burton K. Wheeler Center at MSU has worked to provide opportunities for Montanans to explore and engage in non-partisan discussions of important policy topics.