The Beats on War

October 29, 2008, 6:00 pm

Conaway Center
1104 South Wabash, 1st Floor

Panel discussion about the Beat Generation’s viewpoint on war and anti-war protesting.  Guests include Gerald Nicosia (Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac, Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans’ Movement), Jonah Raskin (American Scream: Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and the Making of the Beat Generation, For The Hell of it: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman), and John Schultz (No One Was Killed: Documentation and Meditation-Convention Week- Chicago, August, 1968, The Chicago Conspiracy Trial).