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  • Post-Holocaust Film: Bogdan’s Journey (1946 Kielce pogrom)

    Girvetz 1004 Girvetz Hall, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    In 1946 forty Jewish survivors of the Holocaust were murdered by townspeople in Kielce, Poland, after a non-Jewish boy reported having been kidnapped by Jews. Catholic psychologist Bogdan Bialek moved […]

  • Drawing Twentieth-Century History: The World in Flames, a talk by Fernando Bryce Copy

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

    Fernando Bryce’s upcoming public lecture, “Drawing Twentieth-Century History: The World in Flames” to take place Friday, April 7th in HSSB 4020 starting at 3 pm, is part of the yearlong new interdisciplinary graduate […]

  • “‘A Toda Madre (ATM)’: Migrant Dreams and Nightmares in El Norte”

    UCSB Library Instruction & Training Room 1312 (First Floor, Mountain Side) Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

    A talk by Miroslava Chávez-García, Professor, Department of History, UCSB Relying on dozens of personal letters exchanged among Mexican male migrants across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the 1960s, this talk […]

  • Honoring a Chicana Activist Dignity Warrior: The Life and Work of Alicia Escalante

    UCSB Main Library, Pacific View Room, 8th Floor University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    A reception honoring Alicia Escalante, life-long community activist. Please join us in recognizing the life-long activism of Alicia Escalante, the founder of the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization (ELAWRO), […]

  • Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster Brown Bag

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

    The Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster will meet periodically throughout the year for brown bag lunches to read and workshop works-in-progress from members of the research cluster. On April 17, […]

  • Hannah Arendt, On Truth and Lying in Politics

    Phelps 6206 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Lecture and discussion with Prof. Susanne Lüdemann (Munich/Rutgers Univ.) Hannah Arendt (1906 –1975) was a German-born American political theorist. She escaped Europe during the Holocaust, becoming an American citizen. Her works […]

  • Marriage and Ritual Performance among the Servants of the Babylonian Gods

    HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Talk by Bastian Still, Leiden University With more than 50,000 legal-administrative cuneiform tablets, the so-called Neo- Babylonian Period (c. 625-484 BCE) is one of the best-documented periods in the history […]