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Susan Levine, “The Moral Challenge of Abundance”: Humanitarianism and the Rise of the Food Aid Complex after World War II

October 16, 2015 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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Speaker:
Susan Levine
Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago
Event Description:
The Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy inaugurates the fall workshop series with a talk on October 16 by Susan Levine, Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She offers a paper, “‘The Moral Challenge of Abundance’: Humanitarianism and the Rise of the Food Aid Complex after World War II.” Her most recent book is School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America’s Favorite Welfare Program (2010). Her presentation takes place on Friday, October 16 at 1 p.m. in Humanities and Social Science Building Room 4041 on the UCSB campus.

A copy of Professor Levine’s paper can be found at her talk announcement here: https://www.history.ucsb.edu/labor/news/event/412

A light lunch will be served.

Details

Date:
October 16, 2015
Time:
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Venue

HSSB 4020
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 United States
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