Our Graduate Student, Alexandra Noi will present this year’s Van Gelderen Lecture. Her talk is titled : “The Other Side of Eugenics: Socialist Experiments with Nurture over Nature” On Wednesday, May 6, 2026 at 5:00pm. In the McCune Room, HSSB 6020.
Professor Mateo Jarquin of Chapman University will be giving a talk titled "Managua 1979: International and Transnational Origins of the Cold War’s Last Great Revolution." After the Cuban Revolution, armed movements across Latin America embraced violent struggle as a path to social transformation. Yet only one managed to seize power: Nicaragua’s Frente Sandinista de […]
Andrew Young, one of Martin Luther King's top aides and a former member of Congress, served as Jimmy Carter's ambassador to the United Nations. Outspoken and controversial, Young questioned prevailing Cold War assumptions. "Communism has never been a threat to me," he said. "Racism has always been a threat—and that has been the enemy of […]
