Alessandro Barchiesi, Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Siena at Arezzo and G. and H. Spogli Professor of Italian Studies at Stanford University, holds the 2011-2012 Sather Lectureship at UC Berkeley. Professor Barchiesi's talk will examine representations of Italic landscapes in the Aeneid, especially wilderness, as seen in mountains and woods, and (super)natural […]

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 lead a discussion of some of his recent scholarship. Workshop attendees are encouraged to read in advance Professor Westad's essay, "The Great Transformation: China in […]

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 include the Holy Roman Empire, the growth of consumer culture in early modern Europe, the development of German nationalism, and the conceptualization of the Baltic […]

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 well as future work needed to sustain the Victory Garden model as part of the overall local food movement. Hayden-Smith will also discuss urban agriculture […]

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 order. During this period, France was also working out the repercussions of decolonization as families from former French colonies in Africa and Asia migrated to […]

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 to embody Blackness. He looks at the context of Black performance in Africa, the United States, and the rest of the African Diaspora. Bere received […]

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, in HSSB 3001E (the seminar room located in the old Religious Studies Dept office) as part of the history department colloquium series and my History […]

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.” She is the author of the prize-winning From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace (2004), as well as dozens of path-breaking law […]

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." --Elie Wiesel "A penetrating and authoritative dissection of a landmark case and its after effects." --Publishers Weekly "Just in time for its fiftieth anniversary, renowned […]

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 space underlying traditional work on borders by focusing on borderlands and frontier zones, spaces of interaction between different cultural groups. The conference pays particular attention […]