The San Andreas fault system is responsible for the formation of our most beloved and dramatic landscapes, and for the earthquakes that shake us up from time to time. In […]

See calendar link for details. hm 5/28/10

Please join us for a talk by Stephen Lerner of the Service Employees International Union, "Is Conventional Trade Unionism Obsolete?” Lerner is an architect of the groundbreaking Justice for Janitors […]

This talk compares and contrasts the myths and realities surrounding three specific human experiments: the Tuskegee syphilis study, the Salk polio trials, and the Willowbrook hepatitis experiments. hm 12/2/10

Classes begin in Winter quarter.If you are enrolled in a discussion section that meets before the main lecture meets, you should still attend section that week. See calendar link below […]

The Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies cordially invitesyou to the Tenth George J. Wittenstein Lecture Christian Petry's lecture explores the question whether remembering past acts of resistance against […]

This counter-conference will take place during the annual Modern Language Convention in Los Angeles, January 8th, 2011 from 1-5 at Loyola Law School (919 Albany St, 4 block from the […]

Jas' Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. This talk is […]

Pierre Sauvage, award-winning documentary filmmaker and child survivor of the Holocaust, screens and discusses excerpts from his upcoming feature documentary And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry in Marseille (2011), as […]

Since the January 2000 Stockholm conference "The Holocaust - Education, Remembrance and Research," which was attended by high-level representatives from 46 countries, there has been much discussion of a "globalization" […]