The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
Steven Greenhouse of The New York Times is the nation’s most authoritative reporter on labor and employment issues. For 15 years his investigative exposes have probed the way some of […]
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The Jetsons Fallacy: Science Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Future of the Human Species
Abstract:Science fiction films and novels often present us with remarkably imaginative visions of the future. In this talk I argue that all the most popular and influential versions of such […]
The Future of Planetary Governance and the Emergence of Global Action Networks
THE GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PROGRAM,in conjunction with the search for a chaired professorship in GLOBAL AUTHORITY AND GOVERNANCE sponsored by the DUNCAN AND SUZANNE MELLICHAMP INITIATIVE, is pleased to […]
From Main Street to Wall Street: What News Gets Reported and What Does Not
Joining Steven Greenhouse on this timely panel are award-winning investigative reporter Ann Louise Bardach and Peter Dreier, director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Program at Occidental College. Sponsored by […]
“Rasta” Sufis and Muslim Youth Culture in Mali
In this talk, Benjamin Soares is concerned with understanding changing modalities of religious expression and modes of belonging among Muslim youth in contemporary Mali. While much recent scholarship about Muslim […]
Exchange and Identity
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Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales
Scholar and artist E. Patrick Johnson is currently Chair and Directorof Graduate Studies in the Department of Performance Studies, as well as Professor of African American Studies, at Northwestern University. […]
Portents and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Kurosawa Tokiko and the Comet of 1858
Kurosawa Tokiko (1806-1890) was born and raised in Mito domain, where she ran a small temple-school (terakoya). As most women in her day and age, she did not pay much […]
When I Awaked’: Colonial Encounters, Gendered Meanings, and the Cultural Significance of Dream Reporting in Seventeenth-Century New England
Presentation of work in progress hosted by UCSB's Early Modern Center. Ann Plane, Associate Professor of History at UCSB, will present a paper as part of the Early Modern Center's […]
Excavating Neolithic Caves in Attica: Rituals to Pan and the Origins of Agriculture in Greek Prehistory
There are over 10,000 caves all over the Greek islands, where archaeologists have identified abundant materials revealing both environmental as well as cultural information dating as far back as the […]