A Boy of Heart Mountain and Hello, Maggie!
Please join us next Tuesday, October 26, for a talk by Shigeru "Shig" Yabu, a Japanese American who was interned at the Heart Mountain Concentration Camp from 1942-1945. He is […]
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The American Friends of the Middle East: The CIA, Arabism, and Anti-Zionism in Cold War America
This talk is about an American Arabist organization that received clandestine support from the CIA. In 1967, it was revealed that the CIA had secretly funded the American Friends of […]
God Made Marriage but the White Man Made the Law’: Slavery and Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
Critical Issues in America "'God Made Marriage but the White Man Made the Law': Slavery and Marriage in the Nineteenth Century" Tera Hunter, Professor of History and African-American Studies, Princeton […]
Usable Pasts: Memory and Self-craft Through History, Song and Clothwork in Zimbabwe and among the Ainu of Japan
The African Studies Research Focus Group will hold its first research seminar for the 2010-2011 academic year on October 28 in HSSB 6020 (McCune Conference Room), focused on the theme […]
The Dynamics of Social Movement Unionism: Local Union Involvement in Immigrants Rights Movements in Los Angeles
Please join us for a talk by Cassandra Engeman on "The Dynamics of Social Movement Unionism: Local Union Involvement in Immigrants’ Rights Movements in Los Angeles." Engeman is a Ph.D. […]
Lessons of Hiroshima: Past and Present
Prof. Hasegawa's Faculty Research Lecture will be on Friday, Oct. 29 at 3:30 pm at the McCune Conference Room (6th floor HSSB). A reception will follow. The Faculty Research Lectureship […]
What is a Feminist Classroom?
What are some effective practices of feminist pedagogy?What is your teaching metaphor? What are some difficulties or obstacles facing instructors who advocate feminisms? Please come with examples of difficult situations […]
Aeschylus’ Persians on the Eve of the Greek War of Independence
Gonda Van Steen is Cassas Professor of Greek Studies at the University of Florida. She earned a BA degree in Classics in her native Belgium and a PhD degree in […]
The Manhattan Mosque and Burning Qur’ans: Placing an American Dilemma in Perspective
This discussion concerns the recent controversies surrounding the proposed building of a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan and the threatened burning of the Qur'an in Gainesville, FL. America's Muslims […]
Food Justice: A New Social Movement Takes Root
Robert Gottlieb will be discussing his new book Food Justice: A New Social Movement Takes Root at 11:30 am in HSSB 1233. Sponsored by the Food Studies Research Focus Group. […]