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The Right and Labor: Politics, Ideology and Imagination

This conference explores the hostility of the political right to American trade unionism, both in terms of management-labor conflict and in the world of politics, ideas, and cultural imaginings. All […]

Pre-Modern Perspectives on Torture

This colloquium will be held from 3:00-6:00 p.m. at the Marine Sciences Institute Auditorium (Room 1302). Speakers: Alison Frazier, University of Texas: “Machiavelli, Trauma, and the Scandal of the Prince.” […]

Race, Unions and the New Inequality in Los Angeles

William P. Jones is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Jones is author of The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the […]

The Crisis in Gaza

THE CRISIS IN GAZA IN REGIONAL & GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Speakers: Richard Falk, Visiting Professor, Global and International Studies, UC Santa Barbara and Emeritus Professor, Princeton University UN Special Rapporteur on […]

Reassessing the Pantheon in Rome

The Pantheon in Rome has a far more interesting and complex history than we give it credit for. Admired as a creation of almost mystical perfection, it is in reality […]

1989 and the Architecture of Order

Mary Sarotte, "1989 and the Architecture of Order: International Relations, German Unification, and the Competition to Lead the Post-Cold War World" In this talk, Professor of History Mary Sarotte (University […]

Phi Alpha Theta

Phi Alpha Theta meetings for Winter quarter 2009 are going to be Thursdays, every other week, at 5 pm in HSSB 4020. After this meeting on Thurs Jan 29, the […]