The Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy hosts JENNIFER KLEIN (Yale, History) and EILEEN BORIS (UCSB, Feminist Studies) this Friday, February 26 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and […]
In this talk, Professor Topik considers the political economy and culture of coffee consumption in the Americas. He argues that it wasn't the Boston Tea Party that turned coffee into […]
Dr. David Lowenthal, Professor Emeritus, University College, London, is the author of many works, including the well-known The Past is a Foreign Country. Dr. Lowenthal also be available to meet […]
March 4 has been declared "Day of Action" to protest the ongoing de-funding of public education and the rest of the public sector. Local actions will acquaint the public with […]
In this talk, Hussein Ibish examines the arguments put forward by Palestinian and Arab-American proponents of abandoning the goal of ending the occupation and establishing a Palestinian state and instead […]
Sam Walton founded Ozark-based Wal-Mart and made it a distinctively productive corporation in the decades immediately following World War II. The key to success was a rationalization of the firm's […]
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This lecture is part of the Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy series. Sven Beckert is the author of The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of […]
With interest in home gardens at the highest it has been in decades (even the White House has one), this event will take us back to another time when national […]
Philip Rousseau is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Early Christian Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Early Christianity at The Catholic University of America. Sponsored […]