Dear Faculty and Graduate Student Colleagues, You are cordially invited to a discussion with Stephen Aron (UCLA), a co-author of a new world history textbook. The event will be on Monday, May 19, in HSSB 4041, noon-1 or 2 p.m. The background: For 2c I am using one of the most recent world history textbooks, […]

Ingrid Banks, Professor of Black Studies at UCSB, will discuss her multi-city, fourteen-month ethnographic study that examines black beauty salon culture. These events are part of Race, Place, and Power, a series of classes, forums, presentations, and discussions aimed at evaluating emerging concepts, theories, and policies about race and space. This series is coordinated by […]

This George Wittenstein lecture will be given by Amir Eshel, Stanford University:"History as a Gift: Postwar German Literature and the Quest for the Past" Tuesday, May 20, at 5 pm, in HSSB 6020. Dr. Eshel will explore prevalent approaches to the literary and cultural engagement with National Socialism in Germany from the 1950s to the […]

Dorian Warren (Department of Political Science/School of International Affairs, Columbia University) specializes in the study of inequality and American politics, focusing on the political organization of marginalized groups. His latest project is an examination of the contrasting fates of community/labor mobilizations against Wal-Mart in Chicago and Los Angeles. This talk is sponsored by the Program […]