“From Watts to Dakar: A View of African American Culture in Los Angeles and Beyond”
The Center for Black Studies Research invites you to the eighth annual Shirley Kennedy Memorial Lecture WHO: Jayne Cortez, award-winning poet, musical performer, filmmaker, and social activist WHAT: "From Watts […]
Spring Insight Open House for prospective freshmen and transfers
On Saturday, April 10, 2010, the History Department's Table at the Academic Fair will offer friendly advice and information about the History major at UCSB. Why study history at UCSB […]
Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects and the Making of the Pill
Prof. Soto Laveaga will be lecturing on her book about the origins of the birth control pill in rural Mexico. hm 3/31/10
Politics and the Chinese Language
What distinguishes political language from daily-life language in thePeople's Republic of China? In what ways have different sorts of people (officials, protesters, ordinary folk) used or responded to the official […]
Time’s Witnesses: Narratives from Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen
The Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies cordially invitesyou to the Ninth Dr. George J. Wittenstein Lecture: Referring to and proceeding from his book with the above title (co-edited […]
2nd Ancient Borderlands Conference
Beyond Borders: Ancient Societies and their Conceptual Frontiers McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6th floor) Friday, 4/16, 1:00 - 6:00 pm Saturday, 4/17, 8:30 am - 4:15 pm Sunday, 4/18, 8:30 […]
Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War
Prof. Andrews will discuss his new book, Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, which reconsiders the 1914 Ludlow Massacre from the perspectives of labor and environmental history. It won […]
National Identity and The Nation in Post Neoliberal Latin America
talk in the "Tequila Mondays" series. hm 4/8/10
Nationalizing States Revisited
In this talk Prof. Brubaker will return to his influential book, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe, to reflect upon changes since the collapse of […]