Bianca Murillo's dissertation explores the politics of consumption in the Gold Coast/Ghana from 1930-75, a period that encompassed British colonialism, rapid urbanization, political independence, military rule, and severe economic decline. Drawing upon both archival and oral research, her project examines how shifting relationships between foreign capital, colonial/postcolonial governments and groups of African retailers and consumers […]

In Commemoration of Yom HaShoah This event is made possible, in part, by a Program Grant from the Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara. It is also cosponsored by Just Communities Central Coast. From the darkness of Europe's death camps to the lush mountains of New York's Catskills, Four Seasons Lodge (Andrew Jacobs, 2008, 100 […]

There is an exciting and timely series of events taking place this spring: The Shalom/Salam Conversations, in which members of the UCSB faculty and community will address aspects of the Israel/Palestine dispute. There will be three events this spring, all on Monday at 5 pm in the Multicultural Center. The series is sponsored by the […]

Amidst the current financial meltdown, it has become painfully clear that Americans spent too much, saved too little, and borrowed excessively. Although we like to believe the rest of the world behaves "like us," other capitalist nations have saved at much higher rates than Americans. Historically, Europeans, Japanese, and other Asians systematically encouraged saving by […]

Peter Silver, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, will discuss his recent book and current research. Professor Silver (Rutgers homepage) is a renowned historian of Early America. His first book, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America ($13 & viewable at amazon), received both the 2007 Bancroft Prize and the 2007 Mark […]

The UCSB Center for Middle East Studies Conference "Centering Central Asia: Gender, State, and Nation” will be held on Friday, April 24 & Saturday, April 25, 2009. A schedule of events appears below. Friday, April 24 at the Multicultural Center Theater 7:30-8:00 pm Nancy Gallagher, Professor, History Dept., UCSB. Talk on NGOs in Afghanistan 8:00-10:00pm […]

This talk is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information contact Christine Thomas. jwil 03.iv.09

Presented by the UCSB Affiliates and the UCSB History Associates. The First Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall is located at 21 E. Constance Ave. (at State Street). See: Detailed description of talk, and Prof. Brownlee's faculty homepage with list of publications. $8 for UCSB Affiliates, History Associates or Chancellor's Council members $10 for non-members E-MAIL Katie […]

David Shirk is Director of the Trans-Border Institute and Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, and was a fellow at the Center for U.S.- Mexican Studies from 1998-99 and 2001-2003. He conducts research […]

Steven Greenhouse of The New York Times is the nation’s most authoritative reporter on labor and employment issues. For 15 years his investigative exposes have probed the way some of the nation’s largest corporations treat and mistreat their workers, from the Brooklyn waterfront to the Piedmont South, and from Toyota assembly lines to Wal-Mart check-out […]