Claremont McKenna College

Poetry and Piety: Spanish Fascism and Catholic Culture

MARTIN BLINKHORN

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1993

How did the doctrine of hate and oppression that we call fascism manage to gain a foothold in so many of the countries and among so many of the peoples of Europe? To help explain this phenomenon and to provide insight into what modern governments and citizens can do to check the spread of fascism in our time, the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies has engaged Professor Martin Blinkhorn of Lancaster University (United Kingdom) to deliver the second in a series of lectures on the ideological roots and current manifestations of 20th century European Fascism.

Dr. Blinkhorn brings to his Athenaeum presentation an extraordinarily distinguished background in teaching, research, and writing on the comparative social and political history of southern European countries. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, director of Lancaster University's Centre for Social History, and editor of European History Quarterly, he has authored or edited, among other books, Carlism and Crisis in Spain, 1931-1939 (1975); Spain in Conflict 1931-1939: Democracy and its Enemies (1987); and Fascists and Conservatives in Europe (1990).

All are invited to join in the continued exploration of the development, proliferation, and resurgence of fascism in our time.