In this presentation, I employ urban violence to examine how men constructed, performed, and struggled for their masculine identity. I argue that gender identity, performing masculinity, and the construction of manhood were important sites of the adaptation to industrial urban life in crucial years of interwar Egypt. On the backdrop of rapid urbanization and industrialization, […]

The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will be showing the classic 1966 film, "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming." Directed by Norman Jewison and starring Car Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Jonathan Winters, and Alan Arkin, the film is a hilarious spoof on the U.S.-Soviet confrontation. It stands as a […]

U.S. Ambassador Dennis Ross serves as Counselor, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Ghaith al-Omari is Executive Director, American Task Force on Palestine. The event is free and open to the public. Ambassador Ross, the Washington Institute's Ziegler Distinguished fellow and counselor from 2001-2009, returned as its Counselor in December 2011 after serving […]

Sponsored by the Department of Classics. moved from News by hm 12/1/13

Dr. Ned Kaufman will do a lunchtime talk about his current research around historic conservation, social justice, intangible resources, sustainability and the economics of heritage. He will also discuss his career inside and outside of academia. As more Ph.D.'s are seeking alternative careers, by choice and by necessity, Dr. Kaufman's academic and non-academic career offers […]

Evening Public Lecture at The Presidio at the Santa Barbara Trust forHistoric Preservation, 7pm. Dr. Ned Kaufman's lecture is entitled "Extraordinary Prizes in Ordinary Places: How Preserving Everyday Things Can Save People and the Planet." He will make a presentation around the general themes of rethinking the economics of heritage and historic preservation as a […]

Classes end Friday March 14. Final Exam Schedule hm 1/4/13, 10/3/14

In 1912, Japanese government railways embarked on a mission to remake how Europeans and Americans thought about Japan—through tourism. In this talk, historian Kate McDonald will explore how Japanese tourist organizations fought to transform the image of Japan from a looming threat to European and American interests in East Asia into a peaceful, industrial nation […]

Instruction begins on Monday March 31. Monday, May 26: Memorial Day holiday Friday, June 6: Last day of instruction. June 7-13: Final exams. final Exam Schedule hm 1/4/13, 10/3/13

Sasha Abramsky, author of The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives (2013) and contributor to The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, and other publications. Co-sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Value of Care Series. News article featured on The Current AJ 3/24/14