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 Ph.D. Emphasis. jwil 04.i.2010

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 received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Riverside, in 1986/. Sponsored by the IHC, Center for Middle East Studies, the Department […]

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 Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Multicultural Center. hm 12/30/09

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 4, 4 PM,Multicultural Center. Co-sponsored by the Feminist Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Multicultural Center. hm 12/30/09

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 victims with biographical notes accompanied by excerpts from diaries and private documents are shown. Next, Kizny presents his recent photographs of the Soviet killing fields […]

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 and genocide of the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia in July 1995. Nuhanovic is a Bosnian Muslim who worked as a translator for the […]

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 the values underlying the idea of free and open-ended inquiry and the place of the liberal arts in a public university. Participants include: Professors Laurie […]

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 journalist and writer. In 1989, she was a founding member of the civil rights group "Demokratischer Aufbruch." Numerous prizes, such as the Fontane prize, the […]

A Native American perspective on Indian Boarding Schools, this film uncovers the dark history of U.S. Government policy which took Indian children from their homes, forced them into boarding schools, and enacted a policy of educating them in the ways of Western Society. It gives a voice to the countless Indian children forced through a […]

Student Veterans at UCSB, an organization of undergraduate and graduate students, will hold its third annual Ask-a-Vet Forum this Wednesday, February 17. The event will be at 7:30pm in the SRB-Multi Purpose Room. A panel of student veterans will discuss their experiences in the military and as returning students, and will respond to questions from […]

Heidi Marx-Wolf is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba. This talk is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies Ph.D. emphasis. jwil 10.ii.2010

Professor Paul Spickard (Department of History, UCSB) is a specialist on Race and Ethnicity in the United States and in Comparative International Perspective. An award-winning teacher, among his many books are Japanese Americans: The Formation and Transformations of an Ethnic Group Revised Edition (2009); Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and […]

The Lawrence Badash Distinguished Lecture Sponsored by the Lawrence Badash Speakers' Fund and hosted by the UCSB Center for Science in Society During the 20th century, the United States developed a unique kind of empire, one bound together less by military conquest and direct political administration than by the expansion of markets, corporate influence, and […]

The Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies cordially invites you to the eighth Dr. George J. Wittenstein Lecture. Professor Mahlendorf will discuss some unexpected reader responses to her recently published memoir, "The Shame of Survival: Working through a Nazi Childhood", and the ghosts they raised up for some readers and for herself. Ursula Mahlendorf […]

The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will be showing the 1963 film "The Ugly American," based on William Lederer's and Eugene Burdick's bestselling novel of the same name, which was first published in 1958. Prof. Salim Yaqub will offer commentary and lead a Q & A session after the movie. Harrison […]

The transmission of a vast number of art motifs, technologies, and cultural traits from West to East in prehistoricperiod was due to the speed of communications and trading networks across the Eurasian Steppes beginning in the second millennium B.C.. The formation of larger territorial states, nomadic confederations and empires (such as the Xiongnu) beginning in […]

In this feature documentary filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine cousins retrace the Triangle Trade and gain a powerful new perspective on the black/white divide. Discussion with Professor Wade Roof and Dr. Gloria Willingham following the screening. Katrina Browne, 86 min., […]

The Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy hosts JENNIFER KLEIN (Yale, History) and EILEEN BORIS (UCSB, Feminist Studies) this Friday, February 26 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building. They will discuss their paper, "Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State." A copy can be […]

In this talk, Professor Topik considers the political economy and culture of coffee consumption in the Americas. He argues that it wasn't the Boston Tea Party that turned coffee into the Liberty Drink. Rather, economic and political factors in North and South America shaped this consumer culture. Steven Topik is Professor of History at UC […]

Dr. David Lowenthal, Professor Emeritus, University College, London, is the author of many works, including the well-known The Past is a Foreign Country. Dr. Lowenthal also be available to meet with graduate students and faculty, hosted by our public history program, from 4-5 in HSSB 3008. As recommended reading before the talk Prof. Lowenthal suggests […]

In this talk, Hussein Ibish examines the arguments put forward by Palestinian and Arab-American proponents of abandoning the goal of ending the occupation and establishing a Palestinian state and instead seeking to promote a single, democratic state in all of Mandate Palestine. Dr. Ibish argues that ending the occupation and peace with Israel, while difficult […]

March 4 has been declared "Day of Action" to protest the ongoing de-funding of public education and the rest of the public sector. Local actions will acquaint the public with the seriousness of the situation. Two years ago the California state education budget was $102 billion dollars. This year it is $84 billion. Two years […]

Sam Walton founded Ozark-based Wal-Mart and made it a distinctively productive corporation in the decades immediately following World War II. The key to success was a rationalization of the firm's chaotic and expensive supply chain and the efficient employment of thousands of poorly-educated refugees from the agricultural revolution then sweeping the old Southwest. Bar codes, […]

Sponsored by the Department of Classics. jwil 16.ii.2010

This lecture is part of the Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy series. Sven Beckert is the author of The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie (2001). He organizes the biannual History of Capitalism Conferences hosted by the Department of History at Harvard University. A copy of Beckert's […]