Week of Events
The Medicalization of the Maya: Ethnicity, Culture and Morality in Postrevolutionary Yucatan
The Medicalization of the Maya: Ethnicity, Culture and Morality in Postrevolutionary Yucatan
This presentation will examine how the medical establishment in Mérida and medical student brigades from the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán interpreted the health conditions of rural Maya communities and prescribed solutions to the "Indian problem" in the 1930s and 1940s. In general, physicians identified Maya customs as the primary cause for the high incidence of […]
Too Many Temples: Interpreting the Evidence at Omrit in Northern Israel
Too Many Temples: Interpreting the Evidence at Omrit in Northern Israel
Daniel Showalter is co-director of the Omrit Excavations project. This event is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. jwil 04.x.2009
Signals Astray: Radio, Radioactivity, and Cold War Culture
Signals Astray: Radio, Radioactivity, and Cold War Culture
The Federal Communications Act, as amended by Congress in 1951, grants the President of the United States the authority, during times of “public peril or disaster or other national emergency,” to “suspend or amend . . . the rules and regulations applicable to any or all stations or devices capable of emitting electromagnetic radiations.” In […]
The “Myth” of the Weak American State
The “Myth” of the Weak American State
Professor Novak, who is also a research professor at the American Bar Foundation, works in the fields of U.S. legal, political, and intellectual history. His first book first book, The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America, used nineteenth-century state court records to document the long history of governmental activism in the United States. […]