Week of Events
Ancient Fiction and the Politics of Genre
Ancient Fiction and the Politics of Genre
This talk is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information contact Christine Thomas. jwil 03.iv.09
Economic Crises and Lessons from the New Deal
Economic Crises and Lessons from the New Deal
Presented by the UCSB Affiliates and the UCSB History Associates. The First Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall is located at 21 E. Constance Ave. (at State Street). See: Detailed description of talk, and Prof. Brownlee's faculty homepage with list of publications. $8 for UCSB Affiliates, History Associates or Chancellor's Council members $10 for non-members E-MAIL Katie […]
Drug Violence, Public Security, and the Rule of Law in Mexico
Drug Violence, Public Security, and the Rule of Law in Mexico
David Shirk is Director of the Trans-Border Institute and Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, and was a fellow at the Center for U.S.- Mexican Studies from 1998-99 and 2001-2003. He conducts research […]
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
Steven Greenhouse of The New York Times is the nation’s most authoritative reporter on labor and employment issues. For 15 years his investigative exposes have probed the way some of the nation’s largest corporations treat and mistreat their workers, from the Brooklyn waterfront to the Piedmont South, and from Toyota assembly lines to Wal-Mart check-out […]
The Jetsons Fallacy: Science Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Future of the Human Species
The Jetsons Fallacy: Science Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Future of the Human Species
Abstract:Science fiction films and novels often present us with remarkably imaginative visions of the future. In this talk I argue that all the most popular and influential versions of such sci-fi visions – movies like Star Wars, Star Trek, Blade Runner, AI, Spiderman, and Iron Man – systematically mislead us in one important respect: they […]
The Future of Planetary Governance and the Emergence of Global Action Networks
The Future of Planetary Governance and the Emergence of Global Action Networks
THE GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PROGRAM,in conjunction with the search for a chaired professorship in GLOBAL AUTHORITY AND GOVERNANCE sponsored by the DUNCAN AND SUZANNE MELLICHAMP INITIATIVE, is pleased to invite you to a lecture by SANJEEV KHAGRAM Wyss Visiting Scholar, Harvard Business School Thursday, April 30, 2009 12 p.m. Orfalea Center Seminar Room 1005 […]
From Main Street to Wall Street: What News Gets Reported and What Does Not
From Main Street to Wall Street: What News Gets Reported and What Does Not
Joining Steven Greenhouse on this timely panel are award-winning investigative reporter Ann Louise Bardach and Peter Dreier, director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Program at Occidental College. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy and the Policy History Program, and co-sponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and […]
“Rasta” Sufis and Muslim Youth Culture in Mali
“Rasta” Sufis and Muslim Youth Culture in Mali
In this talk, Benjamin Soares is concerned with understanding changing modalities of religious expression and modes of belonging among Muslim youth in contemporary Mali. While much recent scholarship about Muslim youth privileges Islamism, trajectories of political radicalization, as well as ethical modes of self-fashioning associated with so-called piety movements, the case of young self-styled Sufis […]