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 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
Phi Alpha Theta (the UCSB History club) is sponsoring a free field trip to the Presidio of Santa Barbara, Saturday, January 31 at 10 am. Anne Petersen, Curator of the Presidio (and UCSB Ph.D. in history), will conduct a guided tour that includes the history of the surrounding neighborhoods. Assemble at 10 am at the […]
Historians documenting the expanding influences of ʻsystems thinkingʼ in the UnitedStates during the Cold War period have emphasized the role of computers in spreading the gospel of systems to professional audiences while neglecting another simulation technology in broader use. This presentation will examine efforts to teach systems analysis to the communities served by the federally-organized […]
Anthony Barbieri-Low (UCSB) will provide a response to Professor Scheidel's talk. This event is part of the core seminar of the UCSB Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information, visit the web page of the RFG. jwil 23.i.09
The Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Distinguished Lecture The concept of “Muslim women’s rights” has an extraordinarily active social life these days. It circulates across continents. It travels in and out of classrooms and government policy offices; UN forums in New York and Geneva and local women’s organizations in places like Egypt, Malaysia, and […]