Dr. Brian Crim, history department chair and John Franklin East Distinguished Chair in the Humanities, will reflect on the close relationship between popular culture and national security policy at the fall History Seminar on Wednesday, Oct. 25.
The lecture, “Spy Facts vs. Spy Fiction: ‘Homeland,’ the Covert Sphere, and the End of the War on Terror,” will be held from 5-6 p.m. in Hopwood Auditorium at the University of Lynchburg. The public is welcome and admission is free.
In his lecture, Crim will use the TV series “Homeland” as a case study. The series, which ran from 2011-20, came at the end of the so-called “War on Terror,” Crim said, and “addressed national anxieties about a permanent and intrusive intelligence community.”
For more information, email crim@lynchburg.edu.
