Who Cares About Those Who Care? An Argument and Interaction
Prof. Eileen Boris; January 30 at 4 p.m.; McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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Organizing for Economic Democracy
UCSB kicks off this year’s Critical Issues in America program with a symposium that looks back at – and forward from – the history of the grassroots War on Poverty […]
Following the Data: Environmental Archives between Geophysics and Biology
AbstractIn this talk I will present my current project, which explores the practices and politics of large-scale data collection in the environmental sciences during the Cold War. One of the […]
Battles of Cradles: Abandoned Babies in the Late Ottoman Empire
AbstractThe nineteenth century developments on the issue of child abandonment and provisions for them reveal significant traits of the political agenda, specifically regarding national identity, citizenship, and demographic politics. In […]
Faculty Panel on the Big Burn
A panel of UCSB faculty from multiple disciplines will discuss the UCSB Reads selection, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America. Panelists are Peter S. Alagona (History) Karen Lunsford […]
Bare Needs: Palestinian Capitalists and British Colonial Rule
Abstract: In British-ruled Palestine, Palestinian elites and British colonial officials attempted to define and regulate basic needs with varying consequences for economic thought and practices. In the 1930s, against the […]
Life, Sovereignty, and the Political: Towards a Middle Eastern Global History
AbstractWith one of the latest turns in historiography, it seems that documents as quintessentially national as the American Declaration of Independence can have a global history. This is indeed an […]
“The Recovery of Nazi-Looted Art: The Bloch-Bauer Klimt Paintings”
Los Angeles attorney specializing in recovery of property stolen by the Nazis responsible for the landmark Supreme Court case returning Gustav Klimt paintings–valued at $325 million–to their rightful heir. The […]
Urbanizing Masculinity: Workers, Weavers and Futuwat in Violent Alliances and Fluid Identities
In this presentation, I employ urban violence to examine how men constructed, performed, and struggled for their masculine identity. I argue that gender identity, performing masculinity, and the construction of […]
“The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks in Historical Perspective”
U.S. Ambassador Dennis Ross serves as Counselor, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Ghaith al-Omari is Executive Director, American Task Force on Palestine. The event is free and […]