Hamas
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 […]
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“Keep on Saving”: A Transnational History of How Other Nations Forged Cultures of Thrift When America Didn’t
Amidst the current financial meltdown, it has become painfully clear that Americans spent too much, saved too little, and borrowed excessively. Although we like to believe the rest of the […]
Centering Central Asia: Gender, State, and Nation
The UCSB Center for Middle East Studies Conference "Centering Central Asia: Gender, State, and Nation” will be held on Friday, April 24 & Saturday, April 25, 2009. A schedule of […]
Terror and Intercultural War in the Era of the American Revolution
Peter Silver, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, will discuss his recent book and current research. Professor Silver (Rutgers homepage) is a renowned historian of Early America. His first […]
Ancient Fiction and the Politics of Genre
This talk is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information contact Christine Thomas. jwil 03.iv.09
Economic Crises and Lessons from the New Deal
Presented by the UCSB Affiliates and the UCSB History Associates. The First Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall is located at 21 E. Constance Ave. (at State Street). See: Detailed description of […]
Drug Violence, Public Security, and the Rule of Law in Mexico
David Shirk is Director of the Trans-Border Institute and Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science […]
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
Steven Greenhouse of The New York Times is the nation’s most authoritative reporter on labor and employment issues. For 15 years his investigative exposes have probed the way some of […]
The Jetsons Fallacy: Science Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Future of the Human Species
Abstract:Science fiction films and novels often present us with remarkably imaginative visions of the future. In this talk I argue that all the most popular and influential versions of such […]
The Future of Planetary Governance and the Emergence of Global Action Networks
THE GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PROGRAM,in conjunction with the search for a chaired professorship in GLOBAL AUTHORITY AND GOVERNANCE sponsored by the DUNCAN AND SUZANNE MELLICHAMP INITIATIVE, is pleased to […]