Talk Description: Before 1968, censor boards in the US and UK dictated which aspects of science they considered appropriate for movies and which scientific subjects they considered indecent or immoral. This talk will explore how filmmakers between 1930 and 1968 crafted stories involving evolutionary biology and how religious groups attempted to control these evolutionary narratives […]
Last day of Fall classes on December 6, 2013. hm 7/15/13
Classes start Monday, January 6. Monday, January 20: Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Monday, February 17: Presidents’ Day holiday. hm 10/3/13
HULL LECTURE ON WOMEN AND SOCIAL JUSTICE The feminist ethic of care grew out of a challenge to the traditional public/private split with its exclusion of women from the public sphere. In the past generation, though, neoliberal economic and political policies have reduced the prospects for collective life in a “public” sphere. This talk will […]
On Monday January 13 at 5:00 pm author Greg Orfalea will be speaking abouthis new book Journey to the Sun: Junípero Serra's Dream and the Founding of California. Afterward he will be signing copies of his book which will be available for purchase at the event. The event is free and will be held in […]
The twenty-year project (1992-2011) at Kinet Höyük, an ancient seaport near Iskenderun in Turkey, offers a long perspective on maritime life in the northeasternmost corner of the Mediterranean. Kinet can be identified with classical Issos, overlooking the plain where Alexander the Great defeated the Persians in 333 BCE; and earlier, with a Hittite harbor named […]
AbstractThe British scientific journal Nature, founded in 1869, is now one of the world’s most prestigious scientific publications. This talk examines the ways that contributor interests have influenced Nature's, development using two episodes from different points in Nature’s history: a debate about evolutionary theory in the 1880s, and a controversy about a provocative immunology paper in […]
AbstractIn 1964, the National Cancer Institute established the multi-million dollar Special Virus Leukemia Program, which sought to apply the methods of Cold War defense planning to the production of a cancer vaccine. It would, as Life magazine enthused, “do more than hand out money and wait for results…it would plan research and make results.” Remarkably, […]
Prof. Eileen Boris; January 30 at 4 p.m.; McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
UCSB kicks off this year’s Critical Issues in America program with a symposium that looks back at – and forward from – the history of the grassroots War on Poverty to consider its enduring legacy for economic justice organizing today. Panels will bring together historians and activists building on 50 years of organizing for economic […]