Food Justice: A New Social Movement Takes Root
Robert Gottlieb will be discussing his new book Food Justice: A New Social Movement Takes Root at 11:30 am in HSSB 1233. Sponsored by the Food Studies Research Focus Group. hm 11/1/10
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Green Jobs/Sustainable Labor in the Age of Climate Justice
Please join us for a talk by Andrew Ross of New York University. Ross has published 17 books, including No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture (1989), Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade (2006), The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace (2007), and […]
The Reception of Ancient Greek Comedy: Aristophanes
Gonda Van Steen is Cassas Professor of Greek Studies at the University of Florida. She earned a BA degree in Classics in her native Belgium and a PhD degree in Classics and Hellenic Studies from Princeton University. As the Cassas Chair in Greek Studies at the University of Florida, Professor Van Steen teaches courses in […]
Health and Disease in the Bolivian Amazon
Event in the Fall Tequila Monday talk series hm 9/30/10, 11/3
The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space
Cosponsored by Public History program and the Chicano Studies Department. hm 11/8/10
Eat Drink and be Roman: The Changing Identity of Dining in the Roman World
This lecture will be held at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol, Santa Barbara, CA. For directions visit www.sbnature.org or call 805-682-4711. The Roman banquet was a spectacular social event that holds a peculiar place in modern popular culture. Whether in the form of the college Greek ‘toga party’ or […]
“The Temperance Tea Party: Free Trade, Sacred Tastes, and the Sober Consumer in Early Industrial Britain.”
The Food Studies RFG will discuss a book chapter Erika Rappaport has recently completed. hm 11/9/10
Food Crisis in Mexico
Event in the Fall Tequila Monday talk series. hm 9/30/10, jwil 19.xi.10
The Global Financial Crisis and Russia’s Economic Growth
Professor Shinichiro Tabata of the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University, Japan, specializes in the history of the Russian economy. This event is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History, the Department of Political Science, and the Department of Economics. jwil 17.xi.2010
The ‘Big One’–Coming Soon On a Fault Near You?
The San Andreas fault system is responsible for the formation of our most beloved and dramatic landscapes, and for the earthquakes that shake us up from time to time. In her illustrated lecture, Prof. Tanya Atwater will discuss the chance of someday predicting when and where the earth will break next, the same way weather […]