This paper will examine material ethnographies undertaken by folklorists in the British Isles during the 1890s. Rather than being viewed as antiquarian curiosities the objects collected reflect a number of […]

This lecture addresses the politics of Japanese tourism and how imperialistic and nationalistic cultural policies have influenced archaeological heritage management practices, preservations and ranking of monuments, and classifications of museum […]

Shana Griffin is Interim Executive Director of the New Orleans Women's Health Clinic and Project Coordinator of the Sexual & Reproductive Health Advocacy Project. She is also co-founder of the […]

Tim Pauketat is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Religion, violence, and political centralization are all entangled in larger fields of human experience, perception, and agency. The […]

Dear Faculty and Graduate Student Colleagues, You are cordially invited to a discussion with Stephen Aron (UCLA), a co-author of a new world history textbook. The event will be on […]

Ingrid Banks, Professor of Black Studies at UCSB, will discuss her multi-city, fourteen-month ethnographic study that examines black beauty salon culture. These events are part of Race, Place, and Power, […]

This George Wittenstein lecture will be given by Amir Eshel, Stanford University:"History as a Gift: Postwar German Literature and the Quest for the Past" Tuesday, May 20, at 5 pm, […]

Dorian Warren (Department of Political Science/School of International Affairs, Columbia University) specializes in the study of inequality and American politics, focusing on the political organization of marginalized groups. His latest […]

The lecture will be from 4:00-5:30 p.m., with a reception afterwards. Mark R. Cohen is the author of Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt; Al-mujtama` al-yahudi fi Misr al-islamiyya fi al-`usur […]

The research group on Consumers, Commodities and Markets will be discussing Bianca Murillo's paper on colonial Ghana this Friday at 1 p.m. in HSSB 4020. Bianca Murillo will give a […]