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 […]
This talk will be held at Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni House, 2nd floor on Thursday April 10 at 4:00 p.m. About the Speaker Lorraine Daston is Executive Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She has published on a wide range of topics in the history of science, including […]
Excavation at the settlement of Burgaz on Turkey's Datça peninsula—at the junction of the Aegean and Mediterranean seas—has revealed uninterrupted occupation from the Archaic period through Late Antiquity. With its proximity to fertile land and the sea, Burgaz is generally considered to be the early settlement of the Knidians, long famed for their nude cult […]
Paul Starr, "America's Peculiar Struggle over Health Care, Then and Now." Starr is co-Founder of The American Prospect, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, author of Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health-Care Reform as well as the Pulitzer Prize winning: The Social Transformation of American Medicine (1982). He has […]
"The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights" William P. Jones, History Professor at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, is a leading historian of the 20th Century United States, with a particular interest in race, class and work. He has written books on African American industrial workers in the Jim […]
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Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB present,in commemoration of Yom Hashoah and as Holocaust Remembrance Week Inaugural Event: The Santa Barbara premiere screening of Aftermath, winner of the Yad Vashem Chairman's Award at this year’s Jerusalem Film Festival, will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 28, […]
For over a century the largest American philanthropies, from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Gates Foundation, have promised no less than to promote the well-being of all mankind. Acting on this grandiose mission, these powerful private institutions have had great influence globally and at home in areas such as education, public health, and economic development. […]
In the early 1960s, young bohemians swayed together under the swirling lights of psychedelic slide shows, surrounded by walls of amplified sound, in dance halls and art galleries from Greenwich Village to San Francisco. For a generation of historians, their tribal rites have long represented a sharp break with a vastly more conservative early cold […]