Virgil's epic on the fall of Troy and foundation of Rome came to Mexico in the wake of the Spanish conquest. The poem had a role in the earliest accounts of Aztec traditions compiled by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún and his native collaborators, and in the transmission of classical learning that had begun to develop […]
John Munro is a graduate student in the History Department at UCSB. His dissertation looks at anti-colonial discourse in the United States between World War II and the 1960s. A recipient of awards from the UC Labor and Employment Research Fund, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Society for Historians […]
This talk is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information contact Christine Thomas. jwil 03.iv.09
Bianca Murillo's dissertation explores the politics of consumption in the Gold Coast/Ghana from 1930-75, a period that encompassed British colonialism, rapid urbanization, political independence, military rule, and severe economic decline. Drawing upon both archival and oral research, her project examines how shifting relationships between foreign capital, colonial/postcolonial governments and groups of African retailers and consumers […]
In Commemoration of Yom HaShoah This event is made possible, in part, by a Program Grant from the Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara. It is also cosponsored by Just Communities Central Coast. From the darkness of Europe's death camps to the lush mountains of New York's Catskills, Four Seasons Lodge (Andrew Jacobs, 2008, 100 […]
There is an exciting and timely series of events taking place this spring: The Shalom/Salam Conversations, in which members of the UCSB faculty and community will address aspects of the Israel/Palestine dispute. There will be three events this spring, all on Monday at 5 pm in the Multicultural Center. The series is sponsored by the […]
Amidst the current financial meltdown, it has become painfully clear that Americans spent too much, saved too little, and borrowed excessively. Although we like to believe the rest of the world behaves "like us," other capitalist nations have saved at much higher rates than Americans. Historically, Europeans, Japanese, and other Asians systematically encouraged saving by […]
The UCSB Center for Middle East Studies Conference "Centering Central Asia: Gender, State, and Nation” will be held on Friday, April 24 & Saturday, April 25, 2009. A schedule of events appears below. Friday, April 24 at the Multicultural Center Theater 7:30-8:00 pm Nancy Gallagher, Professor, History Dept., UCSB. Talk on NGOs in Afghanistan 8:00-10:00pm […]
Peter Silver, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, will discuss his recent book and current research. Professor Silver (Rutgers homepage) is a renowned historian of Early America. His first book, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America ($13 & viewable at amazon), received both the 2007 Bancroft Prize and the 2007 Mark […]
This talk is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information contact Christine Thomas. jwil 03.iv.09