Lichtenstein is the author of Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (1995). His current research examines the interplay of the civil rights and labor movements in Florida during the 1940s. hm 9/22

Fletcher, a longtime labor and international activist, is executive editor of Black Commentator and founder of the Center for Labor Renewal. Gapasin is a Central Labor Council President and former professor of Industrial Relations and Chicana/o Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Fletcher is also the author of The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation […]

Jason Kelly is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University of Indiana. Since its existence first became public knowledge in the 1760s, politicians, critics, and historians alike have represented the so-called Monks of Medmenham Abbey in a variety of ways. The 4th Earl of Sandwich, Francis Dashwood, and John Wilkes, all early members of […]

This lecture examines evidence from an ancient Roman infant cemetery recently discovered at Lugnano in Teverina (Umbria). The cemetery contained forty-eight bodies. DNA testing techniques recently developed by Robert Sallares of the University of Manchester have revealed that the bodies contain evidence of an epidemic of plasmodium falciparum malaria. The cemetery also offers evidence of […]

Tobias Higbie, Associate Professor of History at UCLA, is the author of Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 (2003), which won the Philip Taft Labor Prize in Labor History. hm 9/22; jwil 08.x.08

Diane Ackerman, author of the bestselling A Natural History of the Senses and An Alchemy of Mind, will discuss and sign copies of her latest book, The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story, at 3 p.m. on Sunday, October 19 at UCSB Campbell Hall. This groundbreaking work of nonfiction recounts a story--as powerful as Schindler's List--of […]

For the past 35 years, the US has been unquestionably the dominant power in both the Middle East and the world. But now, the global balance is shifting rapidly; we are hurtling into a post-unipolar world. As during earlier periods of deep global change, developments in the Middle East have been intimately involved. (What comparisons […]

This talk examines the literary and archaeological/topographical evidence for Agesilaos' campaign against Sardis in 395 B.C. By reading the conflicting accounts of Xenophon, the Oxyrhynchus Historian, and Diodorus Siculus in combination with the ancient topography of the Kaystros Valley, a plausible case can be made that Agesilaos marched to Sardis via Hypaipa and over Mount […]

Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, October 24 - 26, 2008University of California, Santa Barbara McCune Conference Room (6020 HSSB) 7:30pm Friday October 23 KEYNOTE: Intimate Justice Tricia Rose, Africana Studies, Brown University ______________________________ 9pm Friday October 24 Domesticity and Normativity Lisa Duggan, Program in American Studies, New York University Respondents: Erin Ninh, UCSB Asian Ameri can […]

UCSB Renaissance Studies presents the first talk in its new speaker series. There will be a light reception after the talk. For more information contact Stefania Tutino or Jim Kearney. hm 10/13/08