What are you looking forward to the most about the talk and why? What do you think are the major contributions of this presenter to their field? How does this converse with their other scholarship?

Preview: Lynne M. Jackson, “How the Constitution Worked for and against Dred Scott,”

Provided Description of Assignment:
Submit brief but substantive written preview for a speaker that looks at their previous work and explaining how it seems to fit into the discourse on their topic/past scholarship, or just what makes it seem interesting and important. DO NOT simply repeat the information that is given on the Kinder Institute web site, or the speaker’s web page at their home university. Push yourself to find something of interest about the speaker or topic (even if you are not sure it is) and fill in key background information that may not be easily available elsewhere. Your main intended audience should be fellow Kinder Institute students, including undergraduates, who might be considering either attending the event or watching it remotely. Try to make the topic intelligible and relevant to their concerns, career plans or interests.
The preview must “Describes presenter’s background & research. Anticipates the subject of presentation and its relation to presenter’s body of work. Mostly makes original comments—NOT copied and pasted, i.e. what are you looking forward to the most about the talk and why? What do you think are the major contributions of this presenter to their field? How does this converse with their other scholarship? Etc.”

The topic of this preview will be Lynne M. Jackson’s speech at the State Historical Society of Missouri. Here is a link describing the event https://democracy.missouri.edu/events/kicd-constitution-day-lecture/

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