History of the 1970 Isla Vista Riots
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 […]
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HyperCities: The Challenges of Building a Web 2.0 Research and Teaching Platform
HyperCities (http://www.hypercities.com) is a collaborative research and educational platform for traveling back in time to explore the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment. Todd Presner (http://www.toddpresner.com/?page_id=2) […]
Medieval Studies Spring Mini-Colloquium: “The Medieval Other”
Papers include: Benjamin M. Liu, Hispanic Studies, UC Riverside: “Medieval Spain’s Asian Other.” This paper will be looking at the figure of resemblance that Foucault identifies as “aemulatio”, in the […]
Obama and the Struggle to Reform U.S. Policy
Skocpol is the author, most recently, of Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn; and The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the […]
What’s so Urban About Food Security? The Why and Where of Hunger in Accra Ghana
talk in the Tequila Mondays series hm 4/8/10
The Deep Prehistory of Indian Gaming: The Perspective from Mesoamerica
Although it was not until the early 1980s that high stakes Indian Gaming was permitted in the United States, at the time of the arrival of Europeans in North America […]
The Rabbinic Sage as Martyred Saint: Transformations of Jewish Narrative and Liturgy in Late Antiquity
Sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Ph.D. Emphasis. jwil 01.v.2010
Subversion or Citizenship?: Civil Wars, State-making, and National Imaginings in Peru: A Historical and Theoretical Perspective
Unlike other American countries, Peru does not have a memory of its nineteenth-century civil wars. Peru's political confrontations lacked the clear-cut ideological contours that characterized civil strife in, say, the […]
The Muslim Scare in Europe: Hysteria or Threat?
Award-winning author and journalist Ian Buruma will discuss the debates about Muslim radicalism, immigration, and the challenge from religion in several European countries where anti-immigrant populism is on the rise […]
The End of the Public University and the Beginning of the Next
History is replete with nations that declined because their leaders gradually undermined their own best institutions. The U.S. now appears to be doing this to its exemplary higher education system, […]