West Meets East: The International Labor Organization from Geneva to the Pacific Rim is an Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara from February 3-5, 2011 McCune Conference […]

The overthrow of the Ben Ali dictatorship in Tunisia by sustained popular demonstrations has led to even more cataclysmic protests in Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, and elsewhere in the Arab World. […]

Eran Shalev, a historian of the early republic at the university of haifa, Rome rebornon western shores: historical imagination and the creation of the american republic (charlottesville: university of virginia […]

Robert Morstein-Marx is Professor of Classics at UCSB. This event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. jwil 05.I.2011

Located at the narrowest part of the Greek peninsula and controlling land and sea traffic in all four directions, Corinth became famous as one of the greatest commercial centers in […]

The talk is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) and cosponsored by the Department of History. The event is free and open to the […]

Discussant: Prof. Amit Ahuja, Political Science, UCSB The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai examines the dynamics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai, a former […]

This paper introduces the work of a group of miner-artists at a coal mine in northern Japan, as an exampleof how art and other forms of cultural expression became vehicles […]

Abstract forthcoming. Elizabeth Clark is John Kilgo Carlisle Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Duke University. This event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the […]

From the mid 1950s to the late 1980s, thousand of indigenous people -particularly Mazatecos and Chinantecos - were relocated from their towns in the state of Oaxaca to the state […]