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Contemporary Iraq: Walls and Circuits

SSMS 2135 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

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 […]

Film Showing: Valentino’s Ghost

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Hailed by the Village Voice as “both sobering and illuminating,” Michael Singh’s documentary exposes how America’s foreign policy agenda in the Middle East drives U.S. media portrayals of Arabs and […]

Orit Bashkin, From Palestinian Village to an Iraqi Transit Camp

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Event Description: Over 130,000 Iraqi Jews arrived in Israel during the 1950s; they were forced to settle in transit camps where they lived in horrendous poverty. Previous scholarship on this […]

Free

End of Fall Quarter Classes

Classes end on Friday, December 4, 2015; Winter Quarter begins Monday, Jan. 4, 2016. hm 7/19/15

Jason M. Kelly: The Anthropocene’s Great Divergence

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

In the early years of this century, the Nobel Prize winning chemist Paul Crutzen popularized the idea that humans had entered a new geological age, the "Anthropocene." This concept, he […]

Winter Quarter Instruction Begins

Monday, January 4: Classes begin Monday, January 19: Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Monday, February 15: Presidents’ Day holiday.

Phi Alpha Theta’s “Welcome Back!” Meeting

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Phi Alpha Theta will be hosting its annual "Welcome Back!" meeting and providing an overview of its goals and events for the Winter 2016 quarter. This meeting is very important, so please consider attending! […]