In 1946 forty Jewish survivors of the Holocaust were murdered by townspeople in Kielce, Poland, after a non-Jewish boy reported having been kidnapped by Jews. Catholic psychologist Bogdan Bialek moved to Kielce in the late 1970s, and was shocked by the toxic atmosphere in the town. He made it his life's rork to persuade residents […]

A talk by Miroslava Chávez-García, Professor, Department of History, UCSB Relying on dozens of personal letters exchanged among Mexican male migrants across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the 1960s, this talk by Miroslava Chávez-García (UCSB Department of History) probes migrants' longing for economic opportunity, masculine affirmation, and emotional fulfillment. As the migrants' correspondence illustrates, they relied on each […]

Twine is the author, most recently, of Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class & Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market (2015); Girls with Guns: Firearms, Feminism, Militarism (2013); and A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy (2010). A copy of one of Twine's recent articles on this topic, "Gender-Fluid Geek Girls: Negotiating […]

Lecture and discussion with Prof. Susanne Lüdemann (Munich/Rutgers Univ.) Hannah Arendt (1906 –1975) was a German-born American political theorist. She escaped Europe during the Holocaust, becoming an American citizen. Her works offer provocative reflections on the conditions of possibility for political experience, an experience that defines the human condition. Her work is deeply concerned with the […]