Sasha Abramsky, author of The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives (2013) and contributor to The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, and other publications. Co-sponsored […]

BORDERLANDS, broadly defined, are spaces where disparate ethnicities, cultures, religions, political systems, or linguistic traditions come into close contact and require both individuals and societies to adapt culturally, politically, economically, […]

Dean Baker, “The Importance of Full Employment and the Routes for Getting There.” Baker is co-Founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and author of several books on […]

This talk will be held at Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni House, 2nd floor on Thursday April 10 at 4:00 p.m. About the Speaker Lorraine Daston is Executive Director of the […]

Excavation at the settlement of Burgaz on Turkey's Datça peninsula—at the junction of the Aegean and Mediterranean seas—has revealed uninterrupted occupation from the Archaic period through Late Antiquity. With its […]

Paul Starr, "America's Peculiar Struggle over Health Care, Then and Now." Starr is co-Founder of The American Prospect, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, author of Remedy […]

"The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights" William P. Jones, History Professor at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, is a leading historian of the […]

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Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB present,in commemoration of Yom Hashoah and as Holocaust Remembrance Week Inaugural Event: The Santa Barbara premiere screening […]

For over a century the largest American philanthropies, from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Gates Foundation, have promised no less than to promote the well-being of all mankind. Acting on […]