by ncarsenault | Jul 8, 2019 | 2015, Economics, History & Social Sciences, Human Rights, International, Politics
Presented by Saskia Sassen (Professor of Sociology, Columbia University & The Committee on Global Thought). Reading The middle classes: An historic actor in today’s global world Web Links A Short of History of Vultures [behind pay-wall] The Language...
by ncarsenault | Jul 8, 2019 | 2015, Conflict, East Asia, Economics, History & Social Sciences, Japan, Politics, United States
Presented by Ryan Yokota (Ph.D. Candidate in East Asian History, University of Chicago). Web Links Ryan Yokota’s Papers on Academia.edu Nikkei Chicago
by ncarsenault | Jul 8, 2019 | 2015, Art, Film & Literature, Economics, History & Social Sciences, Human Rights, International, Politics
Video Jeff McCarter (Founder & Executive Director, Free Spirit Media) talks about how young people from low-income neighborhoods in Chicago can benefit from education and hands-on training in media production. Web Link Free Spirit...
by ncarsenault | Jul 8, 2019 | 2015, Economics, Egypt, History & Social Sciences, Middle East
Video Debora Heard (PhD Candidate, University of Chicago) delivered a presentation on the topic of how relatively recent concepts of inequality and racial differentiation shape our views of the Nubian and Egyptian past....
by ncarsenault | Jul 8, 2019 | 2015, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Eastern Europe / Russia / Eurasia, Economics, History & Social Sciences, Politics
Readings Economic Lives during Socialism Adriatic for All: Summer Holidays in Croatia Plan, Market and Unequal Regional Development in Yugoslavia Systemic Changes and Unemployment Growth in Yugoslavia, 1965–1984 The Problem of Social Class under Socialism Postwar...
