Reason, Rationality, and Rules: A Short History of the Way We Think Now
This talk will be held at Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni House, 2nd floor on Thursday April 10 at 4:00 p.m. About the Speaker Lorraine Daston is Executive Director of the […]
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Shifting Centers of Maritime Activity in the Eastern Mediterranean: A View from Burgaz or “Old Knidos”
Excavation at the settlement of Burgaz on Turkey's Datça peninsula—at the junction of the Aegean and Mediterranean seas—has revealed uninterrupted occupation from the Archaic period through Late Antiquity. With its […]
Paul Starr on “America’s Peculiar Struggle over Health Care, Then and Now.”
Paul Starr, "America's Peculiar Struggle over Health Care, Then and Now." Starr is co-Founder of The American Prospect, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, author of Remedy […]
William P. Jones Reflects on the Role of Labor in the Civil Rights Movement
"The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights" William P. Jones, History Professor at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, is a leading historian of the […]
The Lost Eagle: The Untold Story of the Legionary Eagle on Rome’s Most Famous Statue
Sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. jwil 16.viii.2013
“Aftermath”
Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB present,in commemoration of Yom Hashoah and as Holocaust Remembrance Week Inaugural Event: The Santa Barbara premiere screening […]
“The Racial Politics of American Philanthropy.”
For over a century the largest American philanthropies, from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Gates Foundation, have promised no less than to promote the well-being of all mankind. Acting on […]
The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America
In the early 1960s, young bohemians swayed together under the swirling lights of psychedelic slide shows, surrounded by walls of amplified sound, in dance halls and art galleries from Greenwich […]
“Beyond the Global Great Society: Critical Perspectives on the Decade of Development as Lessons for Today.”
On Friday, May 2, at 1 p.m. a symposium composed of leading scholars explores the historical connections between the domestic "war" against poverty and the 20th-century development project as led […]
Palestinian and African American Coalition Politics
Professor Alex Lubin (Director of the Center for American Studies and Research at the American University of Beirut) on Wednesday May 7th at 4:00pm in the MCC. Professor Lubin will […]