Environment Now: The Rebirth of Environmentalism
The 2009-10 Critical Issues in American topic is "Forty Years after the Big Spill - Looking Back, Looking Ahead: 21st Century Environmental Challenges in a Global Context." Led by Dehlsen […]
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Shaping Max Weber and W.E.B. Du Bois: Scholarship, Politics, and Protection
Christopher McAuley’s The Mind of Oliver C. Cox appeared in 2004. He is writing a comparative study of the politics and scholarship of Max Weber and W.E.B. Du Bois, a […]
Excavations at the Burial Tumulus of Lofkënd in Albania
Between 2004 and 2008 UCLA archaeologists and their Albanian collaborators excavated one of the last remaining undisturbed prehistoric burial mounds in Albania. Dating from the Late Bronze and Early Iron […]
Getting Hitched in Heian Kyoto: Investigating Marriage in Classical Japan
Marriage in Heian era (794-1192) Japan differed greatly from modern forms and makes an excellent subject for the comparative study of gender relations. Prof. Piggot explores the subject, basing her […]
A Nuclear Winter’s Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s
The Center for Science in Society and the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) are jointly hosting this event in the Lawrence Badash Distinguished Lecture Series. Lawrence […]
The Taste of the Enemy: Food and Warfare in Asia, 1937-1953
Dr. Katarzyna Cwiertka is Europe’s premier expert on food culture in modern Japan. She is the author of three books, including Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity, Kaiseki […]
Learning the Lessons of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
The 2009-10 Critical Issues in American topic is "Forty Years after the Big Spill - Looking Back, Looking Ahead: 21st Century Environmental Challenges in a Global Context." Led by Dehlsen […]
Film screening “The Promise” (1995)
East Berlin, 1961: shortly after the Berlin Wall goes up, four friends make a daring escape while one remains behind. For the next 28 years (until 1989) they try to […]
‘Galileo, the Universe, and God’: UCSB Science and Humanities Faculty to Discuss Legacy of Galileo and his Astronomical Discoveries
The intersection between religion and science and Galileo's scientific and intellectual legacies will be the subject of "Galileo, the Universe, and God," an interdisciplinary event organized by a group of […]
Festschrift presentation in honor of Prof. Humphreys
On October 13, 2007, thirteen of Professor R. Stephen Humphreys' former graduate students at the University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of California, Santa Barbara […]