Volker Depkat "Founding Democracy - Visualizing Legitimacy: A Contrastive Comparison of the Early American Republic and Weimar Germany"

Volker Depkat, Professor of American Studies / Amerikanistik at the University of Regensburg will give an informal talk that will start at 4:30.  The title of the talk is "Founding Democracy - Visualizing Legitimacy: A Contrastive Comparison of the Early American Republic and Weimar Germany."  It focuses on the different visual strategies used to depict Washington and Hindenburg and the consequences of those differences on the subsequent success or failure of the republics they helped establish.