Women Sweatshop Workers: Victims of Exploitation or Agents of Change?
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 […]
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Missing Link: China and Global Struggles Against Walmart
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 […]
Stalin’s Great Terror: Historic Photo Documents and Memorial Culture Today
Tomasz Kizny will present his documentary photo project that gives faces and voices to the victims of The Great Terror in the USSR (1936-38). First, historic prison portraits of the […]
Under the U.N. Flag: The International Community and the Genocide in Srebrenica
Hasan Nuhanovic is visiting California for a lecture at the UCLA Human Rights Colloquium Series and joins us at UCSB to give a talk on the events surrounding the fall […]
The Place of Liberal Arts in a Public University
The idea of a liberal education is threatened today by the assumption that learning is insignificant if it does not have immediate economic and commercial impact. This panel will examine […]
Twenty years after the Fall of the Wall: Assessments, biographies, perspectives
POSTPONED until Winter quarter 2010 due to visa problems Daniela Dahn was born in Berlin, studied journalism in Leipzig and worked as a TV-journalist. After 1981 work as a freelance […]
Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding School
A Native American perspective on Indian Boarding Schools, this film uncovers the dark history of U.S. Government policy which took Indian children from their homes, forced them into boarding schools, […]
3rd Annual Ask-a-Vet Forum
Student Veterans at UCSB, an organization of undergraduate and graduate students, will hold its third annual Ask-a-Vet Forum this Wednesday, February 17. The event will be at 7:30pm in the […]
Pythagoras the Theurgist: Images of the Ideal Philosopher in Late Platonism
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 […]
Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership in Europe: The View from Germany
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 […]