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This conference explores the hostility of the political right to American trade unionism, both in terms of management-labor conflict and in the world of politics, ideas, and cultural imaginings. All sessions will take place in HSSB 6020. Visit the conference home page for more information. This conference is sponsored by the Center for the Study […]

Jones is author of The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South (2005). His new book project is The New Color of Class: Race and Inequality in the Service Economy. jwil 23.i.09

William P. Jones is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Jones is author of The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South, and is currently writing a book titled The New Color of Class: Race and Inequality in the Service Economy. He is the […]

This colloquium will be held from 3:00-6:00 p.m. at the Marine Sciences Institute Auditorium (Room 1302). Speakers: Alison Frazier, University of Texas: “Machiavelli, Trauma, and the Scandal of the Prince.” Kenneth Pennington, The Catholic University of America: "Women on the Rack: Three Trials.” Comment: Lisa Hajjar, Law and Society, UCSB For more information contact Ed […]

This History Associates event will feature Josh Ashenmiller (PhD Furner, 2004), speaking on 40th anniversary of the Santa Barbara oil spill that triggered the modern environmental movement. He will speak in the McCune room at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 25.The event is free. Co-sponsored by History and Environmental Studies. hm 1/7/09

THE CRISIS IN GAZA IN REGIONAL & GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Speakers: Richard Falk, Visiting Professor, Global and International Studies, UC Santa Barbara and Emeritus Professor, Princeton University UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights; Author of Achieving Human Rights (2009); Costs of War: the UN, International Law and World Order After Iraq (2008). “Did the UN Fail […]

The Pantheon in Rome has a far more interesting and complex history than we give it credit for. Admired as a creation of almost mystical perfection, it is in reality full of interesting quirks and compromises. We know very little about the Pantheon’s history from independent sources (indeed, even its attested attribution to the emperor […]

Mary Sarotte, "1989 and the Architecture of Order: International Relations, German Unification, and the Competition to Lead the Post-Cold War World" In this talk, Professor of History Mary Sarotte (University of Southern California) vividly recounts the dramatic events of 1989. Drawing on newly released documents from Washington, Moscow, Warsaw, East Berlin, Bonn, and London, Professor […]

Phi Alpha Theta meetings for Winter quarter 2009 are going to be Thursdays, every other week, at 5 pm in HSSB 4020. After this meeting on Thurs Jan 29, the next will be Thurs Feb 12. hm 1/28/09