Event Category: 2026
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Oct 22“Speaking Truths, Half-Truths and Untruths to Power: A Formerly Enslaved Philosopher Struggles with his Past”
Christian Thomsen (National Museum of Denmark)
Room 4281, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall
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Oct 27Book Presentation: White, Black, Brown: Becoming Puerto Rican in Chicago
Michael Staudenmaier
Room 3204, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall
Luisa Capetillo Cultural Series Presented by Puerto Rican Studies Hub
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Oct 30HSMT Colloquium: “In Search of the New Farmers of America: Brief Notes on Black Farm Boys”
Bobby J. Smith II (University of Illinois)
Room 4281, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall, 232 N. Park St.
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series In this talk, Dr. Bobby J. Smith II discusses his new book, Black Farm Boys: The Untold Story of the New Farmers of America, examining the rise, influence, and disappearance of the New Farmers of America (NFA). Founded in 1935, the NFA was the nation’s first national organization for …
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Nov 13HSMT Colloquium: “Rewarding Supporters and Alienating Workers: Towards a Critical History of Health Insurance, Medicine, and Idealogy in China and Taiwan”
Wayne Soon (University of Minnesota)
Room 4281, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall, 232 N. Park St.
This presentation examines the history of health insurance in the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China in Taiwan and argues that both states privileged key political supporters while often failing the workers they claimed to serve from the 1950s to 1980s. Health insurance programs for party cadres in China and civil servants …