This workshop is about global politics in the 1970s, focusing primarily on the transformation of China in and around that decade. Professor Westad will make a brief presentation and then […]

Michael North is Professor of History at the University of Greifswald in Germany. He is the 2010-2011 Fulbright Chair in German Studies at UCSB. Professor North’s research and teaching interests […]

Hayden-Smith will present an in-depth look at the past and present of theVictory Garden movement. This paper will review historical case studies and discuss current national policies and models as […]

During the post-World War Two economic boom, France implemented a comprehensive urbanism program intended to modernize and rationalize the nation by putting the city, the home, and the citizen in […]

A Zimbabwean born academic and musician, Dr. Farai Berefocuses on what he calls Black performativity, the performance of Blackness as a political force and how Black performance can be said […]

Walter Woodward, the Connecticut State Historian and Assoc. Prof. of History at the Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, will be giving this talk via Skype hookup on Tuesday, April 26, 1-2:15, […]

Please join us for a talk by Katherine Stone, UCLA School of Law. Stone will talk on “Globalization and Flexibilization: The Remaking of the Employee Relationship in the 21st Century.” […]

Prof. Lipstadt will present her new book The Eichmann Trial . Reviews "Having covered the Eichmann trial myself, I can warmly recommend Deborah Lipstadt's important analysis of its fascinating perspectives." […]

Traditional research on borders and frontiers has typically emphasized the divisive influence of “hard” boundaries imposed by geography, politics, and economics. This conference seeks to widen the narrow conceptions of […]

This film, made by a former UCSB student, chronicles Judith Meisel's experience as a Holocaust survivor, which inspired her life-long cursade against racism. hm 4/26/11