Associate Professor Matthew Pauly shares insights from his current book project, which explores how Soviet authorities appropriated medical knowledge derived from the treatment of a “passive” juvenile population to create a new assurance of municipal well-being in Odesa. IN-PERSON AND ONLINE | Wednesday, March 11… Continue Reading Children’s Health and Medical Knowledge in Soviet Odesa with Matthew Pauly

This talk examines the ways that the 20th century cookbook, The Way to a Man’s Heart: The SettlementCook Book, became a beloved Jewish icon. Filled with non-kosher recipes, the cookbook has been called “unabashedly Jewish” and “a Jewish Joy of Cooking” by generations of reviewers and cooks, yet dismissed… Continue Reading Leonard Gilman Lecture on Jewish Culture: “Recipes for the Melting Pot: Reading The Settlement Cook Book” with Nora Rubel

To modern audiences, feminists and abolitionists are heroic figures who fought for liberty and defended human dignity. Yet standard accounts rarely consider these figures in their full complexity. Throughout the nineteenth century, radical reformers fought for women’s rights while summoning the spirits of dead people.… Continue Reading Sex, Science, and Seances: The Radical Politics of Nineteenth-Century Progressives with Rachel Walker