The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will be showing the classic 1966 film, "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming." Directed by Norman Jewison and starring Car Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Jonathan Winters, and Alan Arkin, the film is a hilarious spoof on the U.S.-Soviet confrontation. It stands as a […]
Sponsored by the Department of Classics. moved from News by hm 12/1/13
Dr. Ned Kaufman will do a lunchtime talk about his current research around historic conservation, social justice, intangible resources, sustainability and the economics of heritage. He will also discuss his career inside and outside of academia. As more Ph.D.'s are seeking alternative careers, by choice and by necessity, Dr. Kaufman's academic and non-academic career offers […]
Evening Public Lecture at The Presidio at the Santa Barbara Trust forHistoric Preservation, 7pm. Dr. Ned Kaufman's lecture is entitled "Extraordinary Prizes in Ordinary Places: How Preserving Everyday Things Can Save People and the Planet." He will make a presentation around the general themes of rethinking the economics of heritage and historic preservation as a […]
Classes end Friday March 14. Final Exam Schedule hm 1/4/13, 10/3/14
In 1912, Japanese government railways embarked on a mission to remake how Europeans and Americans thought about Japan—through tourism. In this talk, historian Kate McDonald will explore how Japanese tourist organizations fought to transform the image of Japan from a looming threat to European and American interests in East Asia into a peaceful, industrial nation […]
Instruction begins on Monday March 31. Monday, May 26: Memorial Day holiday Friday, June 6: Last day of instruction. June 7-13: Final exams. final Exam Schedule hm 1/4/13, 10/3/13
Sasha Abramsky, author of The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives (2013) and contributor to The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, and other publications. Co-sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Value of Care Series. News article featured on The Current AJ 3/24/14
BORDERLANDS, broadly defined, are spaces where disparate ethnicities, cultures, religions, political systems, or linguistic traditions come into close contact and require both individuals and societies to adapt culturally, politically, economically, or technologically to encounters with other ways of life. The Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference will showcase new research on the ways that interactions […]
Dean Baker, “The Importance of Full Employment and the Routes for Getting There.” Baker is co-Founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and author of several books on American political economy, including Getting Back to Full Employment (with Jared Bernstein), and The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive (2011), and frequent contributor […]