Abstract forthcoming. Elizabeth Clark is John Kilgo Carlisle Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Duke University. This event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. jwil 05.I.2011

From the mid 1950s to the late 1980s, thousand of indigenous people -particularly Mazatecos and Chinantecos - were relocated from their towns in the state of Oaxaca to the state of Veracruz, to make way for two large dams. There is no record of how many families where relocated, and only few anthropological accounts followed […]

Solvang’s particular Danishness has evolved in step with the American twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. An emphasis on tourism has both preserved and distorted the heritage that fueled the community’s origin. By looking at the details of Solvang’s architecture and objects, we learn what lures recreational shoppers from around the world. Interviews with Solvang’s residents reveal […]

When Apple Computer recently announced that CEO Steve Jobs wastaking a medical leave, its stock dropped 5 per cent in one day and pundits began to speculate about the company’s future. How did the fate of a multi-billion dollar enterprise come to rest so heavily on the health of a single individual? Join us February […]

Please join us for a talk by NEIL FLIGSTEIN, Sociology, UC Berkeley. “A Long Strange Trip: The State and the Market for Mortgage Securitization, 1968-2010.” Fligstein is the author of Markets, Politics, and Globalization (1997) and The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Capitalist Societies (2002). His current work evaluates how policies in the […]

Dear friends of Lawrence Badash and members of the community, The UCSB Center for Science and Society is pleased to announce the second annual Lawrence Badash Lecture. The Badash Lecture honors a scholar of science and society whose work has advanced not only the history of science, but also the larger aims of social justice, […]