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, […]

Papers include: Benjamin M. Liu, Hispanic Studies, UC Riverside: “Medieval Spain’s Asian Other.” This paper will be looking at the figure of resemblance that Foucault identifies as “aemulatio”, in the context of Medieval Spain’s knowledge of and relation to Asia. From Ramon Llull to late-14th and 15th century maps and travel narratives, China and “Greater […]

Skocpol is the author, most recently, of Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn; and The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy. hm 4/27/10

talk in the Tequila Mondays series hm 4/8/10

Sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Ph.D. Emphasis. jwil 01.v.2010

Although it was not until the early 1980s that high stakes Indian Gaming was permitted in the United States, at the time of the arrival of Europeans in North America high stakes gambling was widespread among indigenous peoples. This is particularly well documented in Mesoamerica where 16th century historians describe a variety of games of […]