Heidi Marx-Wolf is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba. This talk is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and by the Ancient […]

Professor Paul Spickard (Department of History, UCSB) is a specialist on Race and Ethnicity in the United States and in Comparative International Perspective. An award-winning teacher, among his many books […]

The Lawrence Badash Distinguished Lecture Sponsored by the Lawrence Badash Speakers' Fund and hosted by the UCSB Center for Science in Society During the 20th century, the United States developed […]

The Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies cordially invites you to the eighth Dr. George J. Wittenstein Lecture. Professor Mahlendorf will discuss some unexpected reader responses to her recently […]

The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will be showing the 1963 film "The Ugly American," based on William Lederer's and Eugene Burdick's bestselling novel of the […]

In this feature documentary filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine cousins retrace the Triangle Trade and […]

The transmission of a vast number of art motifs, technologies, and cultural traits from West to East in prehistoricperiod was due to the speed of communications and trading networks across […]

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 […]