“Beyond the Global Great Society: Critical Perspectives on the Decade of Development as Lessons for Today.”

On Friday, May 2, at 1 p.m. a symposium composed of leading scholars explores the historical connections between the domestic “war” against poverty and the 20th-century development project as led by policymakers and foundations in the United States. It is entitled “Beyond the Global Great Society: Critical Perspectives from the Decade of Development as Lessons for Today.”
Among the participants: Amy Offner, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania; Alyosha Goldstein, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico; Karen Ferguson, Department of History, Simon Fraser University; and from UCSB, Javiera Barandiaran, Department of Global Studies; Gabriela Soto-Lavega, Department of History; and Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Department of Sociology. More information on the symposium and its participants can be found here: https://www.history.ucsb.edu/greatsociety/news/event/183-032614

These events are sponsored by the 2013-14 Critical Issues in America Series: The Great Society at Fifty: Democracy in America 1964/2014, the Department of History, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.

Added by: AJ 4/29/14