Event Category: Lectures and Talks
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Nov 13HSMT Colloquium: “Rewarding Supporters and Alienating Workers: Towards a Critical History of Health Insurance, Medicine, and Ideology 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 …
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Dec 2Training and Belief: Vietnam Era Conscientious Objectors and the Path to Pacifism
David Hice (UW-Madison)
Room 4281, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall
Between 1963 and 1972, roughly 150,000 young men filed for and received I-O conscientious objector (CO) status, exempting them from military service as pacifists. Among them were an unprecedented number of religious and secular CO’s not raised in pacifist religions, an increase commonly attributed to the unpopularity of the war and the liberalization of CO …
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Apr 82027 Doria Dee Johnson Lecture in History & Social Justice
Details to be announced!
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Apr 142027 Karpat Lecture: “Sharing Jerusalem: Urban Mixing and Its Limits in a Late Ottoman City”
Michelle Campos
Room 4281, Irving & Dorothy Levy Hall
About the Speaker: Michelle Campos is a scholar of 19th- and early 20th-century Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern history whose work focuses on three overlapping fields: the history of Palestine and Israel; the late Ottoman Empire and the making of the modern Middle East; and Sephardic Jewish studies. She approaches Ottoman Palestine as inseparable from …
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Apr 15