BostonTalks throws it back to the epic time of the 1960s! Hear short talks on rock ’n’ roll music and women’s activism during the 1960s.
Stephanie Yuhl is a Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and an Associate in the Critical Conservation Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is also Director of the Montserrat Program at Holy Cross, a year-long living learning liberal arts seminar exclusively for first-year students. Yuhl has received awards for mentoring and teaching, including most recently the Burns Career Teaching Medal for Outstanding Teaching. Her research and teaching interests include twentieth-century US cultural and social history, with emphases social movements, gender/sexualities, public history, and the American South.
Known as Boston’s premier music archivist, David Bieber first worked in radio for WBUR and WBCN before being selected to curate a collection of rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia at The Verb Hotel in Fenway, which is a dynamic reimagining of a classic mid-century motel.