Within the field of African history, scholars have just begun to historicize Africa's postcolonial era, roughly marked by the independence of Ghana in 1957 to the present. This new endeavor […]

Perry is a long-time union activist and editor for the National Postal Mail Handlers Union. He is the author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (2008). He […]

Participants in Professor Digeser's 213AB research seminar (Spring 2009-Fall 2009) will make individual presentations on their research. Sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and the Ancient Mediterranean Studies […]

Mohammad Amjad has just returned from Iran where he was an activist in the protest movement following the Iranian elections. An expert in Iranian nuclear diplomacy and foreign policy, he […]

Quan is Associate Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center and this year's Hull Lecturer. She also speaks on Friday at 1pm in the History dept. Co-sponsored by the Feminist […]

Quan is Associate Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center and this year's Hull Lecturer. She also speaks on "Women Sweatshop Workers: Victims of Exploitation or Agents of Change?" Thursday,February […]

Tomasz Kizny will present his documentary photo project that gives faces and voices to the victims of The Great Terror in the USSR (1936-38). First, historic prison portraits of the […]

Hasan Nuhanovic is visiting California for a lecture at the UCLA Human Rights Colloquium Series and joins us at UCSB to give a talk on the events surrounding the fall […]

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 […]

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 […]