SOLD OUT - Lectures on Tap: The Untold History of Riot Control in the U.S.

Scholar Ryan L. Bince, PhD, traces the other side of American protest history — not the movements and leaders, but the letters, military treatises, manuals, and training videos that shaped official strategies for managing dissent.

The lecture follows the evolution of laws, institutions, and key figures that defined "riot control" in America from the nation's founding to today, and what that history reveals about the boundaries of democratic dissent.

Bince is a recent PhD graduate from Northwestern University's program in Rhetoric and Public Culture, with research centered on crowds, security culture, and political theory.