BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16041-371c9767890073599b0e1f265d6566f5@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260427T095944Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T173000 SUMMARY:A History from Within of the Nervous State DESCRIPTION:\nThis session will combine a lecture by Julie Gottlieb and a film screening of screenwriter and filmmaker Nicola Baldwin’s The Nerv ous State\, on which Gottlieb was associate producer.\n\nThe film is a d ramatization of a rediscovered diary\, F.L. Lucas’s Journal Under the Te rror\, 1938 (1939)\, a source that provides unique insight into the inte llectual and emotional life of its author against the backdrop of accele rating political crisis and the deteriorating mental health of his young wife Prudence. The film represents his activism as a public intellectua l against appeasement\, fascism and antisemitism\, and his desperation t o preserve democratic values. I will provide the context for the Lucases ’ biographies and their historical significance\, before moving on offer ing an account of the dynamic process of collaboration and co-creation t hat has allowed us to tell a story to the public that has particular res onance and relevance in our own historical moment of permacrisis.\n\nJul ie Gottlieb is professor of modern history in the School of History\, Ph ilosophy and the Digital Humanities at the University of Sheffield\, UK. She was educated at McGill University and the University of Cambridge. She has written extensively on women in modern British politics\, women and political extremism\, the aftermath of women’s suffrage\, and the hi story from below (and the history from within) of international crisis. Her current research concerns an epidemic of war-fear-triggered suicides during Britain’s so-called ‘war of nerves’ (1938–1940)\, and she holds a Leverhulme Research Award to explore this. Her publications include Fe minine Fascism (2000/2nd edition 2021)\, ‘Guilty Women’\, Foreign Policy and Appeasement in Interwar Britain (2015)\, The Nervous State: F.L. Lu cas and the Internalization of Crisis\, 1938 (forthcoming 2026)\, and ma ny edited collections and special issues\, most recently Women on the Ri ght (co-edited with Clarisse Berthezene and Laura Lee Downs\, 2024).\n\n For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/nervous-state/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

This session wi ll combine a lecture by Julie Gottlieb and a film screening of screenwri ter and filmmaker Nicola Baldwin’s The Nervous State, on which Gottlieb was associate producer.

The film is a dramatization of a rediscovered diary, F.L. Lucas’s Journal Under the Terror, 1938 (1939), a source that provides unique insight into the intellectual and emotiona l life of its author against the backdrop of accelerating political cris is and the deteriorating mental health of his young wife Prudence. The f ilm represents his activism as a public intellectual against appeasement , fascism and antisemitism, and his desperation to preserve democratic v alues. I will provide the context for the Lucases’ biographies and their historical significance, before moving on offering an account of the dy namic process of collaboration and co-creation that has allowed us to te ll a story to the public that has particular resonance and relevance in our own historical moment of permacrisis.

Julie Gottlieb is profes sor of modern history in the School of History, Philosophy and the Digit al Humanities at the University of Sheffield, UK. She was educated at Mc Gill University and the University of Cambridge. She has written extensi vely on women in modern British politics, women and political extremism, the aftermath of women’s suffrage, and the history from below (and the history from within) of international crisis. Her current research conce rns an epidemic of war-fear-triggered suicides during Britain’s so-calle d ‘war of nerves’ (1938–1940), and she holds a Leverhulme Research Award to explore this. Her publications include Feminine Fascism (20 00/2nd edition 2021), ‘Guilty Women’, Foreign Policy and Appeasement in Interwar Britain (2015), The Nervous State: F.L. Lucas and the Internalization of Crisis, 1938 (forthcoming 2026), and many ed ited collections and special issues, most recently Women on the Righ t (co-edited with Clarisse Berthezene and Laura Lee Downs, 2024).

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/nervous-state/

URL:https://sites.psu.edu/birthingthenation/calendar_event/a-history-from-wi thin-of-the-nervous-state-a-public-event-with-dr-julie-gottlieb/ LOCATION:Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR