Tomasz Kizny will present his documentary photo project that gives faces and voices to the victims of The Great Terror in the USSR (1936-38). First, historic prison portraits of the victims with biographical notes accompanied by excerpts from diaries and private documents are shown. Next, Kizny presents his recent photographs of the Soviet killing fields […]

Hasan Nuhanovic is visiting California for a lecture at the UCLA Human Rights Colloquium Series and joins us at UCSB to give a talk on the events surrounding the fall and genocide of the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia in July 1995. Nuhanovic is a Bosnian Muslim who worked as a translator for the […]

The idea of a liberal education is threatened today by the assumption that learning is insignificant if it does not have immediate economic and commercial impact. This panel will examine the values underlying the idea of free and open-ended inquiry and the place of the liberal arts in a public university. Participants include: Professors Laurie […]