A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze, navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "The River." The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric […]

Bartels is the author of Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice (1988) and Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (2008). He will also deliver […]

A panel discussion treating the futures of racial, ethnic, and economic diversity in the UC system in an era of budget crisis and fee “deregulation.” Will the University of California […]

Wired for War – The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century “ has written what is likely to be the definitive work on this subject for some time […]

Within the field of African history, scholars have just begun to historicize Africa's postcolonial era, roughly marked by the independence of Ghana in 1957 to the present. This new endeavor […]

Perry is a long-time union activist and editor for the National Postal Mail Handlers Union. He is the author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (2008). He […]

Participants in Professor Digeser's 213AB research seminar (Spring 2009-Fall 2009) will make individual presentations on their research. Sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and the Ancient Mediterranean Studies […]

Mohammad Amjad has just returned from Iran where he was an activist in the protest movement following the Iranian elections. An expert in Iranian nuclear diplomacy and foreign policy, he […]

Quan is Associate Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center and this year's Hull Lecturer. She also speaks on Friday at 1pm in the History dept. Co-sponsored by the Feminist […]

Quan is Associate Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center and this year's Hull Lecturer. She also speaks on "Women Sweatshop Workers: Victims of Exploitation or Agents of Change?" Thursday,February […]