Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference
The 2008 Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference will be held on Saturday, May 3rd from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the UCSB Marine Sciences Institute Auditorium. The conference theme […]
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Thing-Makers, Tool Freaks, and Prototypers: The Whole Earth Catalog and the Roots of Sustainability
Professor Andy Kirk is the author of Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism (2007). His talk will explore how today’s tremendous interest in sustainability and green technologies […]
Iron Curtain Polyphonies: European Cold War History in the Global Memory Matrix
UCSB’s Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS), in conjunction with the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, encourages you to attend its last lecture of the […]
“Objects of speculation to the curious”: Salvage ethnography, survivalism & folklore in late Victorian Britain
This paper will examine material ethnographies undertaken by folklorists in the British Isles during the 1890s. Rather than being viewed as antiquarian curiosities the objects collected reflect a number of […]
Re-claiming the Ruins of “Japan’s” Imperial Antiquity: Colonial Archaeological Surveys and Heritage Tourism in the Korean Peninsula (1900-1943)
This lecture addresses the politics of Japanese tourism and how imperialistic and nationalistic cultural policies have influenced archaeological heritage management practices, preservations and ranking of monuments, and classifications of museum […]
Speaking Truth to Power: Black Women in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Shana Griffin is Interim Executive Director of the New Orleans Women's Health Clinic and Project Coordinator of the Sexual & Reproductive Health Advocacy Project. She is also co-founder of the […]
Prophets, Peace-Makers, and the Civilizing Process in Ancient Native North America
Tim Pauketat is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Religion, violence, and political centralization are all entangled in larger fields of human experience, perception, and agency. The […]
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart
Dear Faculty and Graduate Student Colleagues, You are cordially invited to a discussion with Stephen Aron (UCLA), a co-author of a new world history textbook. The event will be on […]
For Blacks Only?: Reconsidering Racialized Space in Post-Civil Rights
Ingrid Banks, Professor of Black Studies at UCSB, will discuss her multi-city, fourteen-month ethnographic study that examines black beauty salon culture. These events are part of Race, Place, and Power, […]
Postwar German Literature and the Quest for the Past
This George Wittenstein lecture will be given by Amir Eshel, Stanford University:"History as a Gift: Postwar German Literature and the Quest for the Past" Tuesday, May 20, at 5 pm, […]