Spring Quarter 2011 classes begin on Monday, March 28. If you are enrolled in a discussion section that meets before the main lecture meets, you should still attend section that week. See calendar link below for details. Spring 2011 final examination schedule hm 3/16/11

Dr Cruz-Uribe will examine the role of pilgrimage in ancient Egypt, especially during Roman and Byzantine times. Using both newly-discovered and well-known Coptic and Demotic texts, he will compare the pilgrimage practices of the traditional Egyptian and Nubian populations with the practices of the contemporary Christians, investigating why the Egyptians went on pilgrimages, how the […]

This talk will explore how narratives of novelty and familiarity have been routinely deployed by practitioners, analysts, and policymakers alike in synthetic biology, and what this may mean for a consideration of synthetic biology as "the new new thing" for studies of emerging technoscience. Luis Campos is a graduate of Harvard's History of Science Department […]

Faculty are invited to bring their classes. From 1100AM to 1230PM the national teach-in will be streaming live on the big screen. From 1230 to 200PM we will have local speakers and discussion about the current assault on unions, students, the poor and elderly, women, people of color, and gays. There will be a lot […]

The invasion of Normandy, the creation of an industrial war machine, and the falling reputation of rum—how does whiskey tie them all together? Lisa Jacobson answers this question by exploring the political and cultural ramifications of domestic whiskey shortages during World War II. Contrary to the common assumption that the federal government steered clear of […]

In Roman antiquity as much as now, the landscapes of Asia Minor were strewn with the traces of prior human habitation, from Hittite rock-cut reliefs to abandoned Urartian fortifications. Anatolian authors writing under Roman rule—notably during the second and third centuries CE—had a keen interest in exploring mythological and pseudo-historical narratives about the local past; […]

Lecture I: An Integrated Cast in a Segregated AmericaThursday, April 7, 4 p.m., Karl Geiringer Hall (Music 1250) On the Town (1944) was the first Broadway show of Leonard Bernstein (music), Betty Comden and Adolph Green (book and lyrics), and Jerome Robbins (choreography). It featured three sailors enjoying a one-day leave in New York City, […]

Ronald Mellor is Professor of History at UCLA. This event is sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa in cooperation with the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. jwil 24.iii.2011

TALK: From Victory Gardens to Urban Agriculture: Join the Garden RevolutionRose Hayden-Smith (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, April 13 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Hayden-Smith will present an in-depth look at the past and present of the Victory Garden movement. This paper will review historical case studies and discuss current national policies and […]

This talk is about Russia's historical experiences with and responses to terrorist activities. Alexander Kubyshkin is Professor of the Department of North American Studies, School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, and currently a Fulbright Scholar at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He will speak about the historical roots of terrorism in Russian […]

The GWU/UCSB/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War will be taking place here at UCSB April 14-16, 2011, in the Harbor Room, on the lower level of UCen. The conference is an annual event jointly sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History, along with affiliated Cold War centers at […]

Alessandro Barchiesi, Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Siena at Arezzo and G. and H. Spogli Professor of Italian Studies at Stanford University, holds the 2011-2012 Sather Lectureship at UC Berkeley. Professor Barchiesi's talk will examine representations of Italic landscapes in the Aeneid, especially wilderness, as seen in mountains and woods, and (super)natural […]

Please join us for a talk by Daniel Ernst, Georgetown University Law Center. Earnst will speak on “Government Lawyers and Bureaucratic Autonomy in the New Deal.” He is the author of the prize-winning Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (1995) and Total War and the Law: the American Home Front in World […]

This workshop is about global politics in the 1970s, focusing primarily on the transformation of China in and around that decade. Professor Westad will make a brief presentation and then lead a discussion of some of his recent scholarship. Workshop attendees are encouraged to read in advance Professor Westad's essay, "The Great Transformation: China in […]

Michael North is Professor of History at the University of Greifswald in Germany. He is the 2010-2011 Fulbright Chair in German Studies at UCSB. Professor North’s research and teaching interests include the Holy Roman Empire, the growth of consumer culture in early modern Europe, the development of German nationalism, and the conceptualization of the Baltic […]

During the post-World War Two economic boom, France implemented a comprehensive urbanism program intended to modernize and rationalize the nation by putting the city, the home, and the citizen in order. During this period, France was also working out the repercussions of decolonization as families from former French colonies in Africa and Asia migrated to […]

Hayden-Smith will present an in-depth look at the past and present of theVictory Garden movement. This paper will review historical case studies and discuss current national policies and models as well as future work needed to sustain the Victory Garden model as part of the overall local food movement. Hayden-Smith will also discuss urban agriculture […]

A Zimbabwean born academic and musician, Dr. Farai Berefocuses on what he calls Black performativity, the performance of Blackness as a political force and how Black performance can be said to embody Blackness. He looks at the context of Black performance in Africa, the United States, and the rest of the African Diaspora. Bere received […]

Walter Woodward, the Connecticut State Historian and Assoc. Prof. of History at the Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, will be giving this talk via Skype hookup on Tuesday, April 26, 1-2:15, in HSSB 3001E (the seminar room located in the old Religious Studies Dept office) as part of the history department colloquium series and my History […]

Please join us for a talk by Katherine Stone, UCLA School of Law. Stone will talk on “Globalization and Flexibilization: The Remaking of the Employee Relationship in the 21st Century.” She is the author of the prize-winning From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace (2004), as well as dozens of path-breaking law […]