Entrance is free. All films are captioned. This event is co-sponsored by the International Studies Program, the Center for Advanced Media Studies, and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
Group discussion about: Peter Hudson (UCLA) Bankers and Empire (2018, University of Chicago Press) This event is co-sponsored by the Program in International Studies.
Dr. Helfand co-founded Physicians for Social Responsibility, is past president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize), and is a member of the international steering group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (recipient of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize). This event is co-sponsored by International […]
Jacob Eyferth Associate Professor Departments of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago During the collective era (1956–80), China’s farmers earned an average annual cash income from collective sources of ¥15, equivalent to US $9 in terms of purchasing power. Total income was higher, since members of collectives received much of their pay in […]
Discussion of Bankers and Empire with the author, Peter Hudson (UCLA) This event is co-sponsored by the Program in International Studies.
Wayne Soon, Associate Professor, Program of the History of Medicine in the Department of Surgery and Program of History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities This presentation argues that comparative histories of health insurance can be a productive lens to reexamine nation-building processes, political patronage, and industrial productivity. While postwar China and Taiwan similarly […]
Entrance is free. All films are captioned. This event is co-sponsored by the International Studies Program, the Center for Advanced Media Studies, and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
Johns Hopkins Department of Political Science Professor Steven David will kickoff the Fall 2024 Aronson Center Speaker Series with a discussion on "Will the US and China Go to War? Answers from International Relations Theory." Lunch will be provided.
Entrance is free. All films are captioned. This event is co-sponsored by the International Studies Program, the Center for Advanced Media Studies, and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.
Group discussion about: Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, Dependency Crisis in Brazil and Argentina. A Critique of Market and State Utopias (2024, University of Pittsburgh Press). This event is co-sponsored by the Program in International Studies.
Matias Vernengo, Professor of Economics at Bucknell University, will discuss the last 10 months of Javier Milei's presidency in Argentina. Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina last November, and was inaugurated later in December, facing an economic crisis that has been ongoing for too long, and that he claims was caused by the Peronist […]
Discussion of Dependency Crisis with the author, Felipe Antunes de Oliveira. This event is co-sponsored by the Program in International Studies.