Thomas Trezise will facilitate a conversation about his new book, Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony. Trezise will focus the discussion on chapter 1 of his book ("Frames of Reception"), which is available for downloading on the IHC website : www.ihc.ucsb.edu/witnessing. Monday, October 28 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB […]

This talk examines physique pictorial magazines, magazines intended for a female teenage audience, and gay pornographic magazines—to illustrate how celebrations of beautiful male faces and bodies functioned as important and ubiquitous sites of pleasure in post-war Britain. Men and women utilized images and textual descriptions of masculine facial and bodily attractiveness to articulate sexual desires […]

The Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-330 BCE) stretched over thousands of miles and included many different cultures. Thanks to textual, visual, and archaeological materials, we can reconstruct some of the intricate and sophisticated ways this empire governed its diverse population and the ways those individuals and cultures responded to imperial presence. This talk examines government […]

History of the Present: The Middle East Syria's civil war. Egypt's political crisis. Iran's nuclear program. Drone strikes. With the Middle East dominating today's headlines, and with controversy swirling around the U.S. role in that region, the history department invites you to Professor Salim Yaqub's short, informative lecture, "You Say You Want a Resolution? Presidents, […]

The Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy is delighted to host the Rutgers University Historian James Livingston for a conversation on his latest work. Livingston is the author of Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890-1913 (1986); as well as The World Turned inside Out: American Thought and Culture […]

You are invited to the annual Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. This year's guest speaker will be Jacob Darwin Hamblin; his talk will be drawn from his new and acclaimed book Arming Mother Nature. A description of the talk and information about the speaker is below. The talk will be held November 7, 2013 7:00 PM […]

A panel discussion featuring Martin Berger, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz as well as UC Santa Barbara Professors Gaye Johnson, Black Studies; John S.W. Park, Asian American Studies; and Jeffrey Stewart, Black Studies. Moderated by Alice O'Connor, History.

Peter Edelman is a Professor of Law at Georgetown Law Center. During President Clinton’s first term he was Counselor to HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and then Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Earlier in his career he was a Legislative Assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Issues Director for Senator Edward Kennedy's 1980 Presidential […]

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After their own children, elderly Japanese apparently prefer robot caregivers and companions to foreign ones (in the increasingly likely event of a severe shortage of ethnic Japanese nurses and social workers). Robots are perceived by seniors, and by politicians too, of eliminating the socio-cultural anxieties provoked by foreign laborers and caregivers. (And for some right-wing […]

Patrik Svensson is a professor in the Humanities and information technologyand director of HUMlab, Umeå University. His current research spans information technology and learning, research infrastructure, screen cultures and the digital humanities as an emerging field. Apart from having main responsibility for HUMlab, he is currently heavily involved in Umeå University's new Arts Campus and […]