Tuesday, April 8 2025, 12:45 - 1:45pm 101 LeConte Hall Join us as Dr. Steven Soper explores answers to the question - How modern is surveillance? Soper's study of association of life in nineteenth-century Italy, Building a Civil Society, was published last fall by the University of Toronto Press. It won the American Association of Italian Studies 2014 prize for the best book on 18th- or 19th-century Italy, and the Society for Italian Historical Studies 2014 Marraro prize for the best book on the history of Italy. He is currently working on a second book project, concerning political prisoners in southern Italy on the eve of Italian unification. Students of all majors are welcome. Free pizza. This is an FYO event. LunchTime Time Machine Event flyer for April 8, on the history of surveillance (428.37 KB)