Welcome back students, faculty and staff--we hope you had an energizing spring break!The last day of instruction is June 5. For a full schedule of this quarter, follow the link below. hm 3/24/09

Legendary reporter and author William Greider has covered American politics for the last 40 years as a columnist and editor for the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and as a national affairs correspondent for The Nation. In his recently released book Come Home America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country, Greider examines […]

Legendary reporter and author William Greider has covered American politics for the last 40 years as a columnist and editor for the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and as a national affairs correspondent for The Nation. In his recently released book Come Home America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country, Greider examines […]

The speakers will be: Paolo Squatriti of the University of Michigan: “Storms Floods and Climate Change in the Dark Ages: An Italian Case” and D. Fairchild Ruggles of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: "Islamic Gardens in the Mediterranean (7th-15th Centuries): Environmental Perspectives on Water and Landscape” with a comment by David Cleveland of the UCSB […]

On Saturday, April 4, 2009, the History Department's Table at the Academic Fair will offer friendly advice and information about the History major at UCSB. Why study history at UCSB instead of at another UC campus? Besides the obvious advantages of our climate and location, UCSB's History program offers a broad array of courses from […]

More than a century of archaeological work at Ephesos on the west coast of Turkey has unearthed impressive marble public buildings of the high Roman imperial period. But are these urban monuments the best representation of the overwhelming majority of the city’s ancient inhabitants? A new project has generated promising evidence about other districts of […]

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 Israel/Palestine dispute. There will be three events this spring, all on Monday at 5 pm in the Multicultural Center. The series is sponsored by the […]

Student Veterans at UCSB will be hosting the second annual “Ask A Vet Forum” on Wednesday, April 8. The purpose of this event is to promote better understanding of student veterans’ issues and to increase awareness of veterans amongst the campus community. Student veterans will address their difficult transition from soldier to student and discuss […]

Virgil's epic on the fall of Troy and foundation of Rome came to Mexico in the wake of the Spanish conquest. The poem had a role in the earliest accounts of Aztec traditions compiled by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún and his native collaborators, and in the transmission of classical learning that had begun to develop […]

John Munro is a graduate student in the History Department at UCSB. His dissertation looks at anti-colonial discourse in the United States between World War II and the 1960s. A recipient of awards from the UC Labor and Employment Research Fund, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Society for Historians […]

This talk is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information contact Christine Thomas. jwil 03.iv.09

Bianca Murillo's dissertation explores the politics of consumption in the Gold Coast/Ghana from 1930-75, a period that encompassed British colonialism, rapid urbanization, political independence, military rule, and severe economic decline. Drawing upon both archival and oral research, her project examines how shifting relationships between foreign capital, colonial/postcolonial governments and groups of African retailers and consumers […]

In Commemoration of Yom HaShoah This event is made possible, in part, by a Program Grant from the Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara. It is also cosponsored by Just Communities Central Coast. From the darkness of Europe's death camps to the lush mountains of New York's Catskills, Four Seasons Lodge (Andrew Jacobs, 2008, 100 […]

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 Israel/Palestine dispute. There will be three events this spring, all on Monday at 5 pm in the Multicultural Center. The series is sponsored by the […]

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 world behaves "like us," other capitalist nations have saved at much higher rates than Americans. Historically, Europeans, Japanese, and other Asians systematically encouraged saving by […]

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 events appears below. Friday, April 24 at the Multicultural Center Theater 7:30-8:00 pm Nancy Gallagher, Professor, History Dept., UCSB. Talk on NGOs in Afghanistan 8:00-10:00pm […]

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 book, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America ($13 & viewable at amazon), received both the 2007 Bancroft Prize and the 2007 Mark […]

This talk is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information contact Christine Thomas. jwil 03.iv.09

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 talk, and Prof. Brownlee's faculty homepage with list of publications. $8 for UCSB Affiliates, History Associates or Chancellor's Council members $10 for non-members E-MAIL Katie […]

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 at the University of California, San Diego, and was a fellow at the Center for U.S.- Mexican Studies from 1998-99 and 2001-2003. He conducts research […]

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 nation’s largest corporations treat and mistreat their workers, from the Brooklyn waterfront to the Piedmont South, and from Toyota assembly lines to Wal-Mart check-out […]

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 sci-fi visions – movies like Star Wars, Star Trek, Blade Runner, AI, Spiderman, and Iron Man – systematically mislead us in one important respect: they […]

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 invite you to a lecture by SANJEEV KHAGRAM Wyss Visiting Scholar, Harvard Business School Thursday, April 30, 2009 12 p.m. Orfalea Center Seminar Room 1005 […]