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Beyond the New Deal Order Conference

McCune Conference Room Humanities & Social Sciences Building, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

Conference Description: When Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle edited The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order in 1989, they made the concept of a political and social “order” central to an interpretative framework that reperiodized U.S. history, from the election of Franklin Roosevelt, through Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and on to the Ronald […]

Contemporary Iraq: Walls and Circuits

SSMS 2135 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara

Global Studies and the Center for Middle East Studies will be hosting an event titled, "CONTEMPORARY IRAQ: WALLS AND CIRCUITS.” Mona Damluji, Stanford University: "Baghdad’s Deep Dilemma: Urban Segregation Under Occupation” Paulo Hilu Pinto, Fluminense Federal University (Brazil): "Remaking Transnational Shiism in Contemporary Iraq: Economic and Religious Geographies on the Pilgrim's Road to Karbala” Paul […]

Shape Shifters: Journeys Across Terrains of Race and Identity

Conference, Shape Shifters: Journeys Across Terrains of Race and Identity, to be held in UCSB's McCune Conference Center, March 18-20. Forty scholars from three continents will be on hand. Conference Website Conference Poster Speakers Please join us for two public lectures in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020): Friday, March 18, 9:30-10:30, Paul Spickard of […]