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Eastern Illinois University

2014

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Alice Bag: “Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage To Hollywood Stage, A Chicana Punk Story”, Alice Bag Oct 2014

Alice Bag: “Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage To Hollywood Stage, A Chicana Punk Story”, Alice Bag

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Alice Bag was the lead singer of The Bags, the first female fronted punk band to play the Masque during the West Coast punk revolution of 1977. Her new book Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage is the story of her upbringing in East L.A., her eventual migration to Hollywood and the euphoria and aftermath of the first punk wave. Violence Girl reveals how domestic abuse fueled her desire for female empowerment and sheds a new perspective on the origin of hardcore, a style most often associated with white suburban males.

Alice is a long-time blogger-turned-author and a …


Dr. Isabel Hull: “Rethinking The First World War Through The Lens Of International Law”, Isabel Hull Sep 2014

Dr. Isabel Hull: “Rethinking The First World War Through The Lens Of International Law”, Isabel Hull

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Dr. Hull is the John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. Commemorating the one-hundred-year anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, Hull will provide insight into the significance of the War from the vantage of international law. Her most recent book is A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Research Fellow.