Week of Events
Latex and Blood: Science, Markets, and American Empire
Latex and Blood: Science, Markets, and American Empire
The Lawrence Badash Distinguished Lecture Sponsored by the Lawrence Badash Speakers' Fund and hosted by the UCSB Center for Science in Society During the 20th century, the United States developed a unique kind of empire, one bound together less by military conquest and direct political administration than by the expansion of markets, corporate influence, and […]
Hauntings: Ghosts from a Nazi Childhood
Hauntings: Ghosts from a Nazi Childhood
The Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies cordially invites you to the eighth Dr. George J. Wittenstein Lecture. Professor Mahlendorf will discuss some unexpected reader responses to her recently published memoir, "The Shame of Survival: Working through a Nazi Childhood", and the ghosts they raised up for some readers and for herself. Ursula Mahlendorf […]
“The Ugly American” (1963)
“The Ugly American” (1963)
The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will be showing the 1963 film "The Ugly American," based on William Lederer's and Eugene Burdick's bestselling novel of the same name, which was first published in 1958. Prof. Salim Yaqub will offer commentary and lead a Q & A session after the movie. Harrison […]
Cultural Diffusion Across Eurasia, 500 BC-AD 200
Cultural Diffusion Across Eurasia, 500 BC-AD 200
The transmission of a vast number of art motifs, technologies, and cultural traits from West to East in prehistoricperiod was due to the speed of communications and trading networks across the Eurasian Steppes beginning in the second millennium B.C.. The formation of larger territorial states, nomadic confederations and empires (such as the Xiongnu) beginning in […]
“Traces of Trade: A Story from the Deep South”
“Traces of Trade: A Story from the Deep South”
In this feature documentary filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine cousins retrace the Triangle Trade and gain a powerful new perspective on the black/white divide. Discussion with Professor Wade Roof and Dr. Gloria Willingham following the screening. Katrina Browne, 86 min., […]
Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State
Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State
The Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy hosts JENNIFER KLEIN (Yale, History) and EILEEN BORIS (UCSB, Feminist Studies) this Friday, February 26 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building. They will discuss their paper, "Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State." A copy can be […]