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Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture – Alex Wellerstein on “Truman’s Bomb”

HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join us on May 9, 4PM, in the McCune Conference Room for the 2018 Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. Our guest speaker will be Alex Wellerstein who will be giving a lecture titled Truman's Bomb and the Making of the Atomic Presidency.  When we think of the importance of the atomic bomb to the Truman presidency, we think […]

Kelly Shannon, Florida Atlantic University. Book talk: “U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women’s Human Rights”

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

Professor Kelly Shannon of Florida Atlantic University will speak about her new book, U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights. She argues that since the late 1970s, the issue of women’s human rights in Islamic societies has become increasingly important to U.S. foreign policy. Her analysis sheds new light on U.S. identity and policy creation […]