The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space
Cosponsored by Public History program and the Chicano Studies Department. hm 11/8/10
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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 […]
Fall quarter instruction ends
See calendar link for details. hm 5/28/10
Is Conventional Trade Unionism Obsolete?
Please join us for a talk by Stephen Lerner of the Service Employees International Union, "Is Conventional Trade Unionism Obsolete?” Lerner is an architect of the groundbreaking Justice for Janitors campaign. He has been a union strategist for more than three decades and writes frequently for both the mainstream press and scholarly publications. He currently […]
Human Experimentation in 20th Century American Medicine: Myths and Realities.
This talk compares and contrasts the myths and realities surrounding three specific human experiments: the Tuskegee syphilis study, the Salk polio trials, and the Willowbrook hepatitis experiments. hm 12/2/10
Winter Quarter instruction begins
Classes begin in Winter quarter.If you are enrolled in a discussion section that meets before the main lecture meets, you should still attend section that week. See calendar link below for details. hm 12/7/10