On October 25 at 2PM, Prof. Christine Borgman from UCLA will be speaking about how the sharing of research data affects scientific practice. Her talk is the Social Sciences and […]

Freedom Now! showcases photographs rarely seen in the mainstream media,which depict the power wielded by black men, women and children in remaking U.S. society through their activism. This exhibition has […]

Thomas Trezise will facilitate a conversation about his new book, Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony. Trezise will focus the discussion on chapter 1 of his book […]

This talk examines physique pictorial magazines, magazines intended for a female teenage audience, and gay pornographic magazines—to illustrate how celebrations of beautiful male faces and bodies functioned as important and […]

The Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-330 BCE) stretched over thousands of miles and included many different cultures. Thanks to textual, visual, and archaeological materials, we can reconstruct some of the […]

History of the Present: The Middle East Syria's civil war. Egypt's political crisis. Iran's nuclear program. Drone strikes. With the Middle East dominating today's headlines, and with controversy swirling around […]

The Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy is delighted to host the Rutgers University Historian James Livingston for a conversation on his latest work. Livingston is the author of […]

You are invited to the annual Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. This year's guest speaker will be Jacob Darwin Hamblin; his talk will be drawn from his new and acclaimed book […]

A panel discussion featuring Martin Berger, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz as well as UC Santa Barbara Professors Gaye Johnson, Black Studies; John S.W. Park, […]

Peter Edelman is a Professor of Law at Georgetown Law Center. During President Clinton’s first term he was Counselor to HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and then Assistant Secretary for Planning […]