Aeschylus’ Persians and the Greek-Persian Wars
The Athenian playwright Aeschylus (?525-456 BC), author of more than seventy plays, was also a veteran of the Greek-Persian Wars of 490-479 BC. Aeschylus fought at both the land battle […]
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Constructing Sectarianism in the Middle East and South Asia
The CMES 10th Annual Middle East Studies Conference Scholars will present papers offering in-depth analyses of sectarianism in the Middle East and South Asia. The theme of the 10th Annual […]
Massacre at Nueva Linda
The documentary film "Massacre at Nueva Linda" documents the 2004 massacre of a community protesting in Guatemala. Over two hundred families were violently evicted by over 1,000 police and armed […]
Race, Labor and Power: the Career of Jack O’Dell
Professor Singh teaches history at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author of Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy; When This Time is […]
“The Pill Comes from Mexico?” Wild Yams, Steroids, and the Global Quest for Pharmaceuticals
UCSB History Associates Presents a special event for All-Gaucho Reunion Weekend. Professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga will talk about the wild Mexican yam called barbasco that transformed modern pharmaceuticals, and tell […]
China’s Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are an historic opportunity for China to show the world it has theconfidence to make progress in ensuring basic human rights for its 1.3 billion […]
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
RESCHEDULED to FallIn her latest book, The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story, bestselling author Diane Ackerman recounts a true tale--as powerful as Schindler's List--in which the keepers of the Warsaw […]
“Sophie Scholl: The Last Days”
Directed by Marc Rothemund, 2005, 120 mins.2005 Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, "Sophie Scholl - The Final Days." is the true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi […]
“Fire the Hell Out of Them:” Sanitation Workers’ Struggles and the Normalization of the Striker Replacement Strategy in the 1970s
McCartin is the author of Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-21 (1997) . He is now working on a […]
Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference
The 2008 Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference will be held on Saturday, May 3rd from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the UCSB Marine Sciences Institute Auditorium. The conference theme […]