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 presents significant methodological challenges, since African states have not always had the means nor the political will to maintain state archives. This scenario has prompted […]
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 edited Theodore W. Allen’s Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race (2006). Sponsored by the Center for the […]
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 Ph.D. Emphasis. jwil 04.i.2010
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 received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Riverside, in 1986/. Sponsored by the IHC, Center for Middle East Studies, the Department […]
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 Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Multicultural Center. hm 12/30/09
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 4, 4 PM,Multicultural Center. Co-sponsored by the Feminist Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Multicultural Center. hm 12/30/09
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 victims with biographical notes accompanied by excerpts from diaries and private documents are shown. Next, Kizny presents his recent photographs of the Soviet killing fields […]
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 and genocide of the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia in July 1995. Nuhanovic is a Bosnian Muslim who worked as a translator for the […]
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 the values underlying the idea of free and open-ended inquiry and the place of the liberal arts in a public university. Participants include: Professors Laurie […]
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 journalist and writer. In 1989, she was a founding member of the civil rights group "Demokratischer Aufbruch." Numerous prizes, such as the Fontane prize, the […]