This talk will explore how narratives of novelty and familiarity have been routinely deployed by practitioners, analysts, and policymakers alike in synthetic biology, and what this may mean for a consideration of synthetic biology as "the new new thing" for studies of emerging technoscience. Luis Campos is a graduate of Harvard's History of Science Department […]
The invasion of Normandy, the creation of an industrial war machine, and the falling reputation of rum—how does whiskey tie them all together? Lisa Jacobson answers this question by exploring the political and cultural ramifications of domestic whiskey shortages during World War II. Contrary to the common assumption that the federal government steered clear of […]
Faculty are invited to bring their classes. From 1100AM to 1230PM the national teach-in will be streaming live on the big screen. From 1230 to 200PM we will have local speakers and discussion about the current assault on unions, students, the poor and elderly, women, people of color, and gays. There will be a lot […]
In Roman antiquity as much as now, the landscapes of Asia Minor were strewn with the traces of prior human habitation, from Hittite rock-cut reliefs to abandoned Urartian fortifications. Anatolian authors writing under Roman rule—notably during the second and third centuries CE—had a keen interest in exploring mythological and pseudo-historical narratives about the local past; […]
Lecture I: An Integrated Cast in a Segregated AmericaThursday, April 7, 4 p.m., Karl Geiringer Hall (Music 1250) On the Town (1944) was the first Broadway show of Leonard Bernstein (music), Betty Comden and Adolph Green (book and lyrics), and Jerome Robbins (choreography). It featured three sailors enjoying a one-day leave in New York City, […]
Ronald Mellor is Professor of History at UCLA. This event is sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa in cooperation with the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. jwil 24.iii.2011
TALK: From Victory Gardens to Urban Agriculture: Join the Garden RevolutionRose Hayden-Smith (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, April 13 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Hayden-Smith will present an in-depth look at the past and present of the Victory Garden movement. This paper will review historical case studies and discuss current national policies and […]
The GWU/UCSB/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War will be taking place here at UCSB April 14-16, 2011, in the Harbor Room, on the lower level of UCen. The conference is an annual event jointly sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History, along with affiliated Cold War centers at […]
This talk is about Russia's historical experiences with and responses to terrorist activities. Alexander Kubyshkin is Professor of the Department of North American Studies, School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, and currently a Fulbright Scholar at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He will speak about the historical roots of terrorism in Russian […]
Please join us for a talk by Daniel Ernst, Georgetown University Law Center. Earnst will speak on “Government Lawyers and Bureaucratic Autonomy in the New Deal.” He is the author of the prize-winning Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (1995) and Total War and the Law: the American Home Front in World […]