The idea of a liberal education is threatened today by the assumption that learning is insignificant if it does not have immediate economic and commercial impact. This panel will examine the values underlying the idea of free and open-ended inquiry and the place of the liberal arts in a public university. Participants include: Professors Laurie […]
POSTPONED until Winter quarter 2010 due to visa problems Daniela Dahn was born in Berlin, studied journalism in Leipzig and worked as a TV-journalist. After 1981 work as a freelance journalist and writer. In 1989, she was a founding member of the civil rights group "Demokratischer Aufbruch." Numerous prizes, such as the Fontane prize, the […]
A Native American perspective on Indian Boarding Schools, this film uncovers the dark history of U.S. Government policy which took Indian children from their homes, forced them into boarding schools, and enacted a policy of educating them in the ways of Western Society. It gives a voice to the countless Indian children forced through a […]
Student Veterans at UCSB, an organization of undergraduate and graduate students, will hold its third annual Ask-a-Vet Forum this Wednesday, February 17. The event will be at 7:30pm in the SRB-Multi Purpose Room. A panel of student veterans will discuss their experiences in the military and as returning students, and will respond to questions from […]
Professor Paul Spickard (Department of History, UCSB) is a specialist on Race and Ethnicity in the United States and in Comparative International Perspective. An award-winning teacher, among his many books are Japanese Americans: The Formation and Transformations of an Ethnic Group Revised Edition (2009); Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and […]
Heidi Marx-Wolf is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba. This talk is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies Ph.D. emphasis. jwil 10.ii.2010
The Lawrence Badash Distinguished Lecture Sponsored by the Lawrence Badash Speakers' Fund and hosted by the UCSB Center for Science in Society During the 20th century, the United States developed a unique kind of empire, one bound together less by military conquest and direct political administration than by the expansion of markets, corporate influence, and […]
The Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies cordially invites you to the eighth Dr. George J. Wittenstein Lecture. Professor Mahlendorf will discuss some unexpected reader responses to her recently published memoir, "The Shame of Survival: Working through a Nazi Childhood", and the ghosts they raised up for some readers and for herself. Ursula Mahlendorf […]
The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will be showing the 1963 film "The Ugly American," based on William Lederer's and Eugene Burdick's bestselling novel of the same name, which was first published in 1958. Prof. Salim Yaqub will offer commentary and lead a Q & A session after the movie. Harrison […]
In this feature documentary filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine cousins retrace the Triangle Trade and gain a powerful new perspective on the black/white divide. Discussion with Professor Wade Roof and Dr. Gloria Willingham following the screening. Katrina Browne, 86 min., […]