From the Bronze Age to the era of petroleum, the Middle East has experienced asuccession of energy profi les that helps to explain its political and cultural effl orescences and […]

Sunday, 22 June 1941, was arguably the most significant day of the 20th century. For on that day Adolf Hitler’s armies stormed into the Soviet Union, launching a surprise attack […]

Professor Steven Salaita is at the center of an international protest against academic censorship and the silencing of dissent. During the summer of 2014, he tweeted about Israel's assault on […]

"Sub Conscious" is a rather sardonic recounting of filmmaker Mel Halbach's experiences aboard a nuclear missile submarine in the 1970s. Halbach himself will be present, and he will engage in […]

On September 26 and 27, 2014, municipal police agents opened fire on students of the teacher training school Isidro Burgos of Ayotzinapa. The students were traveling in buses they commandeered […]

In 1839, a twice-divorced temple daughter from a small village in Echigo ran away to Edo. In a letter home, she wrote that she wanted to enter a daimyo's service […]

How did the citizens of Italian communes learn to trust one another, trust one another enough to build the fundamental institutions of a civil society in which citizens enjoyed participatory […]

“Gateway to Freedom liberates the history of the underground railroad from the twin plagues of mythology and cynicism. For anyone who still wonders what was at stake in the Civil […]

Ying HuAssociate Professor, East Asian Languages & Literature University of California, Irvine About the Talk: This talk examines two cases of martyr-making, that of Qiu Jin (1875-1907), an anti-Qing revolutionary […]

Classes end Friday March 13. Final Exam Schedule hm 12/18/14