Prof. Andrews will discuss his new book, Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, which reconsiders the 1914 Ludlow Massacre from the perspectives of labor and environmental history. It won the 2009 Bancroft Prize for the best book in American history--an honor Professor Andrews shared with our own Pekka Hämäläinen. This talk is part of […]
Beyond Borders: Ancient Societies and their Conceptual Frontiers McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6th floor) Friday, 4/16, 1:00 - 6:00 pm Saturday, 4/17, 8:30 am - 4:15 pm Sunday, 4/18, 8:30 am ? 2:00 pm Borderlands: frontier zones lying along given boundaries, limits beyond which something-- a discipline, an ethnic group, a "nation"-- transforms into something […]
talk in the "Tequila Mondays" series. hm 4/8/10
Jessica Price '09, currently a volunteer at the Goleta Valley Historical Society, announces a local history lecture happening Monday night. Student prices are $5. If anyone has questions they can call the GVHS office (805) 681-7216 or they can e-mail me at jprice@westmont.edu "Known only as America’s first Air Mail Pilot, there is much more […]
In this talk Prof. Brubaker will return to his influential book, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe, to reflect upon changes since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the re-emergence of independent Central and Eastern Europe. Brubaker is a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim […]
Sponsored by the East Asian Cultures Research Focus Group, the East Asia Center, and the Department of History. jwil 14.iv.2010, hm 4/14
Friday, April 23rd, at 7pm, at the Magic Lantern Theater, is Don't Bank on Amerika, a rarely-seen documentary from 1970, co-directed by cinema scholar Peter Biskind, about the turbulence at UCSB that resulted in the burning of the I.V. branch of the Bank of America. At 7:45pm is another short from the 1980's, Beyond the […]
The UCSB Alumni Association (http://ucsbalum.com), KCSB, and Magic Lantern Films will host "Reflecting on Rebellion: Isla Vista 40 Years Later," a free program of films, panelists, and a reception mixer focusing on the I.V. riots and the Bank of America burning 40 years later. The proceedings start at 3pm with screenings of those two short […]
In support of a local event, we pass on this invitation by one of our professors, J. Sears McGee: Dear Friends, Have you ever wondered how I'd look in a dress? And even if you haven't, wouldn't that be worth seeing? I will be wearing a long ruffled dress and a straw hat with flowers […]
HyperCities (http://www.hypercities.com) is a collaborative research and educational platform for traveling back in time to explore the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment. Todd Presner (http://www.toddpresner.com/?page_id=2) is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. His research focuses on European intellectual history, […]