Marian Wright Edelman, the founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, is the author of the bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours and eight other books. The first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she worked as counsel for the Poor People’s Campaign begun by Dr. […]
Barbara Ransby is Associate Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ransby published the book Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision and founded the organization “Ella’s Daughters” to advance activism in the tradition of Ella Baker (1903-1986). Baker was a grassroots organizer in the […]
This talk is sponsored by the IHC Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. John Lee (UCSB) will provide a response. For more information contact Christine Thomas. jwil 09.ii.2009
"Triumph Over Time: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens in Post-War Greece" (1947, 42 minutes) In 1947, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens commissioned a 42-minute color movie to accompany its fundraising campaign. Directed by archaeologist Oscar Broneer and produced by numismatist Margaret Thompson with the aid of staff from Fox […]
directed by WILLIAM SMITHERS In Ida Fink's "The Table," four witnesses testify to mass murder in a small Polish-Jewish town during World War II. But does their testimony matter in a court of law? Cast: Prosecutor: William Smithers First Man: George Backman First Woman: Dianne Hull Second Man: Ed Giron Second Woman: Danielle Aubuchon Ida […]
This German film directed by Wolfgang Becker comically portrays the collapse of communism. Suffering a heart attack and falling into a coma after seeing her son arrested during a protest, Alex's (Daniel Brühl) socialist mother Christiane (Katrin Sass), remains comatose through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the German Democratic Republic. Knowing that the […]
Peter B. Edelman is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and co-chair of the Task Force on Poverty for the Center for American Progress. In a career devoted to social thought, social justice, and public policy, Professor Edelman has written extensively on poverty, constitutional law, and children and youth. He is the author […]
Professor Dana Frank is Co-Director of the UCSC Center for Labor Studies. Her books include Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2008), Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (2000), and Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 (1994). Workshop participants are invited to read Dana Frank's […]
Today we speak of movie stars, rock stars, all-star athletes, and even academic stars. The role of "stars" in the cult of personality has a long tradition. From the time of early Egyptian and Near Eastern civilizations, man-- or more precisely, royalty-- aspired to dwell among the stars in heaven for all eternity as the […]
This talk is sponsored by the IHC Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information contact Christine Thomas. jwil 09.ii.2009