What distinguishes political language from daily-life language in thePeople's Republic of China? In what ways have different sorts of people (officials, protesters, ordinary folk) used or responded to the official language? Ludwig Wittgenstein used the term "language game" (Sprachspiel) to understand how people get through life using words. Can this notion help us understand official […]
The Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies cordially invitesyou to the Ninth Dr. George J. Wittenstein Lecture: Referring to and proceeding from his book with the above title (co-edited with Anette Storeide and published in 2006), Professor Lothe will focus on both the possibilities and challenges of narrating about the historical event of the […]
Prof. Andrews will discuss his new book, Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, which reconsiders the 1914 Ludlow Massacre from the perspectives of labor and environmental history. It won the 2009 Bancroft Prize for the best book in American history--an honor Professor Andrews shared with our own Pekka Hämäläinen. This talk is part of […]
Beyond Borders: Ancient Societies and their Conceptual Frontiers McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6th floor) Friday, 4/16, 1:00 - 6:00 pm Saturday, 4/17, 8:30 am - 4:15 pm Sunday, 4/18, 8:30 am ? 2:00 pm Borderlands: frontier zones lying along given boundaries, limits beyond which something-- a discipline, an ethnic group, a "nation"-- transforms into something […]
talk in the "Tequila Mondays" series. hm 4/8/10
Jessica Price '09, currently a volunteer at the Goleta Valley Historical Society, announces a local history lecture happening Monday night. Student prices are $5. If anyone has questions they can call the GVHS office (805) 681-7216 or they can e-mail me at jprice@westmont.edu "Known only as America’s first Air Mail Pilot, there is much more […]
In this talk Prof. Brubaker will return to his influential book, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe, to reflect upon changes since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the re-emergence of independent Central and Eastern Europe. Brubaker is a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim […]
Sponsored by the East Asian Cultures Research Focus Group, the East Asia Center, and the Department of History. jwil 14.iv.2010, hm 4/14
Friday, April 23rd, at 7pm, at the Magic Lantern Theater, is Don't Bank on Amerika, a rarely-seen documentary from 1970, co-directed by cinema scholar Peter Biskind, about the turbulence at UCSB that resulted in the burning of the I.V. branch of the Bank of America. At 7:45pm is another short from the 1980's, Beyond the […]
The UCSB Alumni Association (http://ucsbalum.com), KCSB, and Magic Lantern Films will host "Reflecting on Rebellion: Isla Vista 40 Years Later," a free program of films, panelists, and a reception mixer focusing on the I.V. riots and the Bank of America burning 40 years later. The proceedings start at 3pm with screenings of those two short […]