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Professor Terence Keel, “The Ghost in the Machine: How Christianity Haunts the Biological Sciences”
Goleta Valley Public Library 500 N. Fairview Avenue, Goleta, CA, United StatesKeel argues that the enduring belief that race comes from "nature" reflects the haunting influence of Christian intellectual history on the development of modern scientific thinking about human ancestry.2018-Keel-flyer-pdf
“Agrarian Quests: The Search for Comunidades and Campesinos in Rural Peru,” a lecture by Javier Puente
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesAbstract The history of twentieth-century Peru is the history of the rural countryside, its governance, and the making of comunidadesand campesinosas foundational elements of a social, economic, and political landscape. Throughout a number of decades, domestic state powers and transnational capital turned lands and pastures into battlegrounds of ideas about labor, property, and modernization at […]
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Building a Green New Deal: Community, Coalition, Organizing for Environmental Justice: A Public Forum
HSSB 6020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesIn communities, classrooms, and protest sites across the country, people have embraced the call for a Green New Deal as a way of recognizing that climate change presents us with an unprecedented historic challenge—and the need for comprehensive and transformational reform. California’s Central Coast has a powerful tradition of grassroots activism to draw on in […]
Susan Lederer, “‘Send My Body to the Medical College’: Alternative Afterlives in Turn of the Century America”
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesDr. Susan Lederer, Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Madison will be giving a talk on Thursday, January 9 at 5:30 pm entitled "'Send My Body to the Medical College': Alternative Afterlives in Turn of the Century America." In 1876 American and English newspapers reported the extraordinary will made by an American […]
What Really Happened at Waco?
https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/6855143149 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThe 51-day standoff between the FBI and David Koresh's Branch Davidians ended in tragedy on April 19, 1993. A fire consumed the Branch Davidian compound during an FBI tear gas operation that morning, resulting in 75 deaths. To this day conspiracy theories about Waco continue motivating anti-government and other militia movements in the United States. […]
Focal Point Dialogues | Winter 2022: Sovereignty, statehood, anti-slavery, and the law | Ada Ferrer’s Freedom’s Mirror
HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesFocal Point Dialogues was an initiative born in 2020 as a Department commitment to educate ourselves in the history of anti-Blackness. The idea was conceived in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd and the national and international uprising it triggered. This education starts by understanding when did "blackness" become a thing, to begin with, […]
Focal Point Dialogues | Spring 2022: A revolution in Black consciousness”? World historical impact of the Haitian Revolution | Ada Ferrer’s Freedom’s Mirror
University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesFocal Point Dialogues was an initiative born in 2020 as a Department commitment to educate ourselves in the history of anti-Blackness. The idea was conceived in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd and the national and international uprising it triggered. This education starts by understanding when did "blackness" become a thing, to begin with, […]
IHC Regeneration Talk by Scott Ellsworth: The Tulsa Race Massacre: Causes, Cover Up, and the Fight for the Past
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThe 1921 Tulsa race massacre was the worst single incident of racial violence in American history. But for decades its very existence was denied. Official records went missing, incriminating articles were torn out of bound volumes of old newspapers, and researchers even had their lives threatened. Award-winning author and historian Scott Ellsworth, author of The […]
Conference May 20-21: “Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: Past, Present, and Future”
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThe Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy hosts a conference, May 20 and 21, 2022 entitled: "Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: Past, Present, and Future." It will be held in the McCune Room, HSSB 6020. Many former students and contemporary colleagues of Nelson Lichtenstein will deliver papers on a wide variety of topics […]
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