Pierre Sauvage, award-winning documentary filmmaker and child survivor of the Holocaust, screens and discusses excerpts from his upcoming feature documentary And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry in Marseille (2011), as well as his recent documentary short, Not Idly By--Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust (2010).  His presentation addresses one of the enduring questions of the […]

Since the January 2000 Stockholm conference "The Holocaust - Education, Remembrance and Research," which was attended by high-level representatives from 46 countries, there has been much discussion of a "globalization" of memory of the Nazi Holocaust. This lecture uses memorials and museums to trace the origins and spread of public awareness of "the" Holocaust and […]

Please join us for a talk by Clyde Woods, Black Studies, UCSB, “The Crisis, Los Angeles’ Black Communities, and the Failed State Debate.” Woods is the author of Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta (2000) and editor of Black Geographies and the Politics of Place (2007). He is now part […]

This talk examines the lives of girls and women in the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures of the prehistoric Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BCE). Testing modern assumptions and expectations against the archaeological, iconographic, and textual evidence leads to some surprising conclusions. While Minoan-Mycenaean society was probably sex-segregated (Minoan perhaps more so than Mycenaean), there is almost no […]