Fletcher, a longtime labor and international activist, is executive editor of Black Commentator and founder of the Center for Labor Renewal. Gapasin is a Central Labor Council President and former professor of Industrial Relations and Chicana/o Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Fletcher is also the author of The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation […]

Jason Kelly is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University of Indiana. Since its existence first became public knowledge in the 1760s, politicians, critics, and historians alike have represented the so-called Monks of Medmenham Abbey in a variety of ways. The 4th Earl of Sandwich, Francis Dashwood, and John Wilkes, all early members of […]

This lecture examines evidence from an ancient Roman infant cemetery recently discovered at Lugnano in Teverina (Umbria). The cemetery contained forty-eight bodies. DNA testing techniques recently developed by Robert Sallares of the University of Manchester have revealed that the bodies contain evidence of an epidemic of plasmodium falciparum malaria. The cemetery also offers evidence of […]

Tobias Higbie, Associate Professor of History at UCLA, is the author of Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 (2003), which won the Philip Taft Labor Prize in Labor History. hm 9/22; jwil 08.x.08

Diane Ackerman, author of the bestselling A Natural History of the Senses and An Alchemy of Mind, will discuss and sign copies of her latest book, The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story, at 3 p.m. on Sunday, October 19 at UCSB Campbell Hall. This groundbreaking work of nonfiction recounts a story--as powerful as Schindler's List--of […]

This talk examines the literary and archaeological/topographical evidence for Agesilaos' campaign against Sardis in 395 B.C. By reading the conflicting accounts of Xenophon, the Oxyrhynchus Historian, and Diodorus Siculus in combination with the ancient topography of the Kaystros Valley, a plausible case can be made that Agesilaos marched to Sardis via Hypaipa and over Mount […]

For the past 35 years, the US has been unquestionably the dominant power in both the Middle East and the world. But now, the global balance is shifting rapidly; we are hurtling into a post-unipolar world. As during earlier periods of deep global change, developments in the Middle East have been intimately involved. (What comparisons […]

Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, October 24 - 26, 2008University of California, Santa Barbara McCune Conference Room (6020 HSSB) 7:30pm Friday October 23 KEYNOTE: Intimate Justice Tricia Rose, Africana Studies, Brown University ______________________________ 9pm Friday October 24 Domesticity and Normativity Lisa Duggan, Program in American Studies, New York University Respondents: Erin Ninh, UCSB Asian Ameri can […]

UCSB Renaissance Studies presents the first talk in its new speaker series. There will be a light reception after the talk. For more information contact Stefania Tutino or Jim Kearney. hm 10/13/08

Was John Cabot the first European after the Norse to set foot in North America? Brian Fagan takes us on a fascinating 1,500-year archaeological and historical journey in search of the answer, which is closely linked to the importance of fish like cod to Christian doctrine. We begin with Christ's 40-day fast in the wilderness, […]

Dias de los Muertos event Thursday, October 30 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 As part of its Food Matters series, the IHC will celebrate the Days of the Dead with a screening of the PBS film Food for the Ancestors. Food for the Ancestors is a culinary-history exploration of Days of the […]

Presented by the CCWS Cold War film series. The president of United States has just signed a treaty with the Soviet Union requiring both countries to destroy their nuclear weapons. The polls show the treaty to be unpopular. The charismatic Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff believes that the Soviets will cheat and launch […]

In this colloquium, Josiah Ober will draw on his recent book Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens (Princeton University Press, 2008) to discuss the institutional contexts of democratic knowledge management in classical Athens. Josiah Ober is Professor of Classics and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, and holds the Constantine Mitsotaki […]