Seminar by Stephen Humphreys (UCSB History), 12:00-1:00 PM in HSSB 4020 "Christian Communities and Muslim Rule in Early Islamic Syria and Mesopotamia (634-1070)". Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program and the Mediterranean RFG. TWA 10-21-2009, hm 10/27/09 Note also this event with Prof. Humphreys on Nov. 13:
Drawn from Prof. Watenpaugh's forthcoming book, Bread from Stone: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism, this talk examines the League of Nations' efforts on behalf of displaced Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian women and children in the early post-World War I period. It presents a case in which the rescuing of trafficked survivors […]
The 2009-10 Critical Issues in American topic is "Forty Years after the Big Spill - Looking Back, Looking Ahead: 21st Century Environmental Challenges in a Global Context." Led by Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studies William Freudenberg and supported by Water Policy Program Director Robert Wilkinson, the program references an historical benchmark - for the campus […]
Christopher McAuley’s The Mind of Oliver C. Cox appeared in 2004. He is writing a comparative study of the politics and scholarship of Max Weber and W.E.B. Du Bois, a portion of which is the subject of his talk. This talk is sponsored by the Center for Work, Labor, and Democracy. For more information contact […]
Between 2004 and 2008 UCLA archaeologists and their Albanian collaborators excavated one of the last remaining undisturbed prehistoric burial mounds in Albania. Dating from the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age (ca. 14th – 9th centuries B.C.), the cemetery yielded 100 graves and numerous spectacular finds in bronze, gold, iron, clay, semi-precious stone, and glass. […]
Marriage in Heian era (794-1192) Japan differed greatly from modern forms and makes an excellent subject for the comparative study of gender relations. Prof. Piggot explores the subject, basing her talk on a wide range of sources of the day, and in particular the Shinsarugakuki, a humorous account of carnival and family ties by the […]
Dr. Katarzyna Cwiertka is Europe’s premier expert on food culture in modern Japan. She is the author of three books, including Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity, Kaiseki Recipes: Secrets of Japanese Cuisine, and Asian Food: the Global and the Local. Along with the landscape, climate and language, food constitutes the most immediate […]
The Center for Science in Society and the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) are jointly hosting this event in the Lawrence Badash Distinguished Lecture Series. Lawrence Badash, professor emeritus of the history of science at UCSB, will talk about his new book, A NUCLEAR WINTER'S TALE: SCIENCE AND POLITICS IN THE […]
The 2009-10 Critical Issues in American topic is "Forty Years after the Big Spill - Looking Back, Looking Ahead: 21st Century Environmental Challenges in a Global Context." Led by Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studies William Freudenberg and supported by Water Policy Program Director Robert Wilkinson, the program references an historical benchmark - for the campus […]
East Berlin, 1961: shortly after the Berlin Wall goes up, four friends make a daring escape while one remains behind. For the next 28 years (until 1989) they try to meet ... Directed by Margarethe von Trotta, 115 mins. hm 10/27/09