Start of Winter 2014 Instruction
Start of Winter 2014 Instruction
Classes start Monday, January 6. Monday, January 20: Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Monday, February 17: Presidents’ Day holiday. hm 10/3/13
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Caring Democracy: The Paradigm Changes
Caring Democracy: The Paradigm Changes
HULL LECTURE ON WOMEN AND SOCIAL JUSTICE The feminist ethic of care grew out of a challenge to the traditional public/private split with its exclusion of women from the public sphere. In the past generation, though, neoliberal economic and political policies have reduced the prospects for collective life in a “public” sphere. This talk will […]
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Junípero Serra’s Dream and the Founding of California
Junípero Serra’s Dream and the Founding of California
On Monday January 13 at 5:00 pm author Greg Orfalea will be speaking abouthis new book Journey to the Sun: Junípero Serra's Dream and the Founding of California. Afterward he will be signing copies of his book which will be available for purchase at the event. The event is free and will be held in […]
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Kinet Höyük (Turkey) and the Archaeology of Eastern Mediterranean Seaports
Kinet Höyük (Turkey) and the Archaeology of Eastern Mediterranean Seaports
The twenty-year project (1992-2011) at Kinet Höyük, an ancient seaport near Iskenderun in Turkey, offers a long perspective on maritime life in the northeasternmost corner of the Mediterranean. Kinet can be identified with classical Issos, overlooking the plain where Alexander the Great defeated the Persians in 333 BCE; and earlier, with a Hittite harbor named […]
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From Evolution to Immunology: Nature’s Contributors and the Development of a Scientific Journal, 1869-1990″
From Evolution to Immunology: Nature’s Contributors and the Development of a Scientific Journal, 1869-1990″
AbstractThe British scientific journal Nature, founded in 1869, is now one of the world’s most prestigious scientific publications. This talk examines the ways that contributor interests have influenced Nature's, development using two episodes from different points in Nature’s history: a debate about evolutionary theory in the 1880s, and a controversy about a provocative immunology paper in […]
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Cancer, Viruses, and the Expanding American State 1946-1982
Cancer, Viruses, and the Expanding American State 1946-1982
AbstractIn 1964, the National Cancer Institute established the multi-million dollar Special Virus Leukemia Program, which sought to apply the methods of Cold War defense planning to the production of a cancer vaccine. It would, as Life magazine enthused, “do more than hand out money and wait for results…it would plan research and make results.” Remarkably, […]
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Who Cares About Those Who Care? An Argument and Interaction
Who Cares About Those Who Care? An Argument and Interaction
Prof. Eileen Boris; January 30 at 4 p.m.; McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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Organizing for Economic Democracy
Organizing for Economic Democracy
UCSB kicks off this year’s Critical Issues in America program with a symposium that looks back at – and forward from – the history of the grassroots War on Poverty to consider its enduring legacy for economic justice organizing today. Panels will bring together historians and activists building on 50 years of organizing for economic […]