Week of Events
Bookscapes: Trading Knowledge in British Colonial India
Bookscapes: Trading Knowledge in British Colonial India
Professor Swati Chattopadhyay (Department Chair, History of Art & Architecture) and Mira Rai Waits (doctoral candidate) will offer a curators' talk in conjunction with the exhibition "Conjuring India: British Views of the Subcontinent, 1780-1870," on view in the UCSB Library's Special Collections (third floor) through December 15, 2013. "Conjuring India" explores the divergent perspectives of […]
Films of the Cold War: “Lady Bug, Lady Bug” (1963)
Films of the Cold War: “Lady Bug, Lady Bug” (1963)
The Center for Cold war Studies and International History (CCWS) will kick off the new year by showing the classic 1963 film "Lady Bug, Lady Bug," about the impact of an urgent nuclear alert on a rural American school. (See description below). After the screening, Kenneth Hough, a PhD student in history at UCSB, will […]
The Afterlife of Empire: The Origins and Work of the World Bank’s Agricultural Development Service in Eastern and Central Africa, 1963-1989
The Afterlife of Empire: The Origins and Work of the World Bank’s Agricultural Development Service in Eastern and Central Africa, 1963-1989
Joseph Hodge is Professor of History at West Virginia University, and author of Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism (2007). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.
Cavafy at the Margins: Geography, History, Desire
Cavafy at the Margins: Geography, History, Desire
For more information on this lecture, click here or contact Prof. Helen Morales in the UCSB Department of Classics. Sponsored by the UCSB Argyropoulos Endowment in Hellenic Studies. jwil 16.viii.2013