Please join us for a talk by Stephen Lerner of the Service Employees International Union, "Is Conventional Trade Unionism Obsolete?” Lerner is an architect of the groundbreaking Justice for Janitors campaign. He has been a union strategist for more than three decades and writes frequently for both the mainstream press and scholarly publications. He currently […]
This talk compares and contrasts the myths and realities surrounding three specific human experiments: the Tuskegee syphilis study, the Salk polio trials, and the Willowbrook hepatitis experiments. hm 12/2/10
Classes begin in Winter quarter.If you are enrolled in a discussion section that meets before the main lecture meets, you should still attend section that week. See calendar link below for details. hm 12/7/10
The Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies cordially invitesyou to the Tenth George J. Wittenstein Lecture Christian Petry's lecture explores the question whether remembering past acts of resistance against tyranny--such as that of the Munich student group in 1942-43--can provide inspiration to face today's political challenges. The White Rose (German: die Weiße Rose) was […]
This counter-conference will take place during the annual Modern Language Convention in Los Angeles, January 8th, 2011 from 1-5 at Loyola Law School (919 Albany St, 4 block from the Mariott, in Merrifield Hall). While thousands of people will be meeting at the traditional convention, UC-AFT will hold a one-day event centered on discussing actual […]
Jas' Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. This talk is sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Department of History. jwil 02.xii.2010
Pierre Sauvage, award-winning documentary filmmaker and child survivor of the Holocaust, screens and discusses excerpts from his upcoming feature documentary And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry in Marseille (2011), as well as his recent documentary short, Not Idly By--Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust (2010). His presentation addresses one of the enduring questions of the […]
Since the January 2000 Stockholm conference "The Holocaust - Education, Remembrance and Research," which was attended by high-level representatives from 46 countries, there has been much discussion of a "globalization" of memory of the Nazi Holocaust. This lecture uses memorials and museums to trace the origins and spread of public awareness of "the" Holocaust and […]
This talk examines the lives of girls and women in the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures of the prehistoric Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BCE). Testing modern assumptions and expectations against the archaeological, iconographic, and textual evidence leads to some surprising conclusions. While Minoan-Mycenaean society was probably sex-segregated (Minoan perhaps more so than Mycenaean), there is almost no […]
Please join us for a talk by Clyde Woods, Black Studies, UCSB, “The Crisis, Los Angeles’ Black Communities, and the Failed State Debate.” Woods is the author of Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta (2000) and editor of Black Geographies and the Politics of Place (2007). He is now part […]