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"The 1970's Revisited: Reflections by Two Historians" with Nils Gilman & Michael Koncewicz

Join us for two talks with a pair of excellent historians:

Michael Koncewicz will be giving the talk "Resistance During the Watergate Era: Looking Back at the Republicans Who Defied Nixon" which draws from his new book They Said No to Nixon. Koncewicz is an Assistant Research Scholar at New York University, where he oversees the Cold War archival collections at the Tamiment Library. Koncewicz is an alumni of UCI's History graduate program and received his Ph.D. in 2014.

Nils Gilman will be giving the talk "Why Modernization Theory Never Dies". Nils Gilman has recently been named the Vice President of Programs at the Berggruen Institute. He most recently served three years as Chief of Staff to the Chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley, and before that in a variety of senior roles at enterprise software companies, management consulting firms, and research institutions. The author of Mandarins of the Future (2004) among many other works, he has a Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. in American History from UC Berkeley.