HyperCities (http://www.hypercities.com) is a collaborative research and educational platform for traveling back in time to explore the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment. Todd Presner (http://www.toddpresner.com/?page_id=2) is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. His research focuses on European intellectual history, […]

Papers include: Benjamin M. Liu, Hispanic Studies, UC Riverside: “Medieval Spain’s Asian Other.” This paper will be looking at the figure of resemblance that Foucault identifies as “aemulatio”, in the context of Medieval Spain’s knowledge of and relation to Asia. From Ramon Llull to late-14th and 15th century maps and travel narratives, China and “Greater […]

Skocpol is the author, most recently, of Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn; and The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy. hm 4/27/10

talk in the Tequila Mondays series hm 4/8/10

Although it was not until the early 1980s that high stakes Indian Gaming was permitted in the United States, at the time of the arrival of Europeans in North America high stakes gambling was widespread among indigenous peoples. This is particularly well documented in Mesoamerica where 16th century historians describe a variety of games of […]

Sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Ph.D. Emphasis. jwil 01.v.2010

Unlike other American countries, Peru does not have a memory of its nineteenth-century civil wars. Peru's political confrontations lacked the clear-cut ideological contours that characterized civil strife in, say, the United States, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, or Uruguay, where nineteenth-century struggles created enduring memories that, in turn, shaped much of these countries? political identities and national […]

Award-winning author and journalist Ian Buruma will discuss the debates about Muslim radicalism, immigration, and the challenge from religion in several European countries where anti-immigrant populism is on the rise and Islam is the main focus – from the arguments about multiculturalism in Britain to the proposed burqa ban in France. Is the danger posed […]

History is replete with nations that declined because their leaders gradually undermined their own best institutions. The U.S. now appears to be doing this to its exemplary higher education system, with the University of California serving as Exhibit A. This lecture will look at the contradictions within the American funding model for higher education, and […]

talk in the Tequila Mondays series hm 4/8/10

Prof. Medina's research deals with the adoption of computer technologies in Latin America, especially cybernetics in Allende's Chile. From 1971 to 1973 Chilean and British engineers, working under the direction of the pioneering British cybernetician Stafford Beer, built a computer network to help make Chile’s socialist revolution a reality. The team called the system Cybersyn. […]

Presentations by Suzanne Levine, Seth Wulsin, Damian Nemirovsky and Kacey Link. hm 5/19/10

Sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and the Archaeology Research Focus Group. jwil 12.v.2010

A manuscript of the Old Tibetan Chronicle found in the cave library ofDunhuang represents one of the earliest attempts at Tibetan narrative history. The author-compilers draw on Tibetan inscriptions, Indian epics, Chinese histories, Tibetan ritual literature, and a legacy of composition in performance and song to create a narrative of Tibet's imperial period (c.600-866). This […]

"Risk, sustainability, and decision making: evaluating agricultural strategies in ancient Anatolia" Identifying how ancient societies made decisions regarding agricultural land use is important for understanding why some pre-industrial agricultural systems flourished and others collapsed. Local environmental and cultural factors influence how people balance goals of short-term profitability and long-term sustainability in agricultural decision making. The […]

Participants in the 2009-2010 History Senior Honors Colloquium, directed by Professor Hilary Bernstein, will present their research. Each student's presentation will be followed by a faculty comment. Refreshments will be served. Session I (9-10:30 a.m): Literature and Politics in Italy and America Christy Mason, “Valuing Virtue: Nineteenth-Century Sexuality and the Act of Seduction, 1818-1860” (Cohen) […]

The Friends of Ancient History, a professional organization of southern California archaeologists, classicists, and historians, will hold its spring 2010 conference at UCSB on Saturday, May 22. The conference will feature the following talks: Larry Tritle (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles), "The Hoplite Agony: A Soldier's View" with response by Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University) Paul […]

Presentations will take place on Monday, May 24, during our scheduled class period, 2-4:50, in Girvetz 1106. 2:00-2:10 Introductions 2:10-2:40 Panel One – El Presidio de Santa Barbara Anjelica Gonzalez, Education Dept (Supervisor: Ms. Karen Anderson) Torrey Ah-Tye, Marketing and Public Relations Dept (Supervisor: Mr. Jared Brach) Samantha Rohman, Marketing and Public Relations Dept (Supervisor: […]

In a talk based on his new book, Vietnam's Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War, Andrew L. Johns assesses the influence of the Republican Party -- its congressional leadership, politicians, grassroots organizations, and the Nixon administration -- on the escalation, prosecution, and resolution of the Vietnam War. Dr. Andrew Johns’ research […]

Hello Everyone, Please join us for the History Associates & the Department of History Awards Ceremony and Reception Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 4 p.m.. We're coming together to honor the recipients of this year's History Associates & the Department of History Awards. hm 5/3/10

For detailed academic calendar information, see: http://www.registrar.ucsb.edu/calinfo.htm. hm 2/22/10