The Commodities and Markets research group will meet on Friday, February 20, from noon-1pm in HSSB 4041, to discuss Nelson Lichtenstein's paper, entitled "Wal-Mart's Long March to China: How a […]

Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSBTALK: Confronting Antisemitism in the Twenty-first Century Robert Wistrich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Monday, February 23 / 7:30 […]

Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, the East Asia Center, and the IHC East Asian Cultures Research Focus Group. For more information call 805.893.3907. jwil […]

The concept of the Mediterranean diet is a modern invention; the Middle Ages and Renaissance had some very different food values. This lecture presents a look at the recent construct […]

Marian Wright Edelman, the founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, is the author of the bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours […]

Barbara Ransby is Associate Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ransby published the book Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical […]

This talk is sponsored by the IHC Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. John Lee (UCSB) will provide a response. For more information contact Christine Thomas. jwil 09.ii.2009

"Triumph Over Time: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens in Post-War Greece" (1947, 42 minutes) In 1947, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens commissioned a 42-minute […]

directed by WILLIAM SMITHERS In Ida Fink's "The Table," four witnesses testify to mass murder in a small Polish-Jewish town during World War II. But does their testimony matter in […]

This German film directed by Wolfgang Becker comically portrays the collapse of communism. Suffering a heart attack and falling into a coma after seeing her son arrested during a protest, […]