In this talk, Benjamin Soares is concerned with understanding changing modalities of religious expression and modes of belonging among Muslim youth in contemporary Mali. While much recent scholarship about Muslim youth privileges Islamism, trajectories of political radicalization, as well as ethical modes of self-fashioning associated with so-called piety movements, the case of young self-styled Sufis […]

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Scholar and artist E. Patrick Johnson is currently Chair and Directorof Graduate Studies in the Department of Performance Studies, as well as Professor of African American Studies, at Northwestern University. His one-man-show, Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales, is based on the oral histories collected in Johnson's book, Sweet Tea: […]

Kurosawa Tokiko (1806-1890) was born and raised in Mito domain, where she ran a small temple-school (terakoya). As most women in her day and age, she did not pay much attention to political issues. Then, on the evening of September 30, 1858, a neighbor rushed over announcing the arrival of a large, bright comet. In […]

Presentation of work in progress hosted by UCSB's Early Modern Center. Ann Plane, Associate Professor of History at UCSB, will present a paper as part of the Early Modern Center's works-in-progress series. Her presentation, entitled, "'When I Awaked': Colonial Encounters, Gendered Meanings, and the Cultural Significance of Dream Reporting in Seventeenth-Century New England," explores the […]

There are over 10,000 caves all over the Greek islands, where archaeologists have identified abundant materials revealing both environmental as well as cultural information dating as far back as the 7th millennium B.C. in Neolithic times. This talk will present the case study of recent excavations conducted at Leontari cave situated in Hymettus mountain in […]

The Missing Story of Ourselves is a nationally touring photographic andnarrative exhibit developed by low-income student parents, that challenges and offers alternatives to conventional "stories" about class, poor women, welfare and single parenthood in the United States. Co-sponsored by the Policy History Program, the Department of Feminist Studies, the Center for the Study of Work, […]

Because of the Jesusita Fire this event has been postponed until next year. The talk addresses transborder membership politics in historical and comparative perspective, examining changing German and Korean policies towards transborder coethnics (Germans in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and Koreans in Japan and China) during the Cold War and post-Cold War […]

Vivyan Adair is the Elihu Root Endowed Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and the Director of The ACCESS Project (serving welfare eligible student parents) at Hamilton College. She is the author of From Good Ma to Welfare Queen: A Genealogy of the Poor Woman in American Literature, Photography and Culture (2000) and the […]

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 […]