“Aftermath”
Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB present,in commemoration of Yom Hashoah and as Holocaust Remembrance Week Inaugural Event: The Santa Barbara premiere screening […]
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The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America
In the early 1960s, young bohemians swayed together under the swirling lights of psychedelic slide shows, surrounded by walls of amplified sound, in dance halls and art galleries from Greenwich […]
“The Racial Politics of American Philanthropy.”
For over a century the largest American philanthropies, from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Gates Foundation, have promised no less than to promote the well-being of all mankind. Acting on […]
“Beyond the Global Great Society: Critical Perspectives on the Decade of Development as Lessons for Today.”
On Friday, May 2, at 1 p.m. a symposium composed of leading scholars explores the historical connections between the domestic "war" against poverty and the 20th-century development project as led […]
Palestinian and African American Coalition Politics
Professor Alex Lubin (Director of the Center for American Studies and Research at the American University of Beirut) on Wednesday May 7th at 4:00pm in the MCC. Professor Lubin will […]
Chinese Bluegrass and Beyond: Abigail Washburn in Dialogue with Jeff Wasserstrom (UC, Irvine) and Michael Berry
Abigail Washburn is a critically acclaimed singer, composer and banjo player known for her collaborations with the Sparrow Quartet, the Wu Force,and her duet performances with Bela Fleck. Her albums […]
The Chinese Boxer Crisis of 1900: Facts, Fictions, and Fantasies
Jeffrey Wasserstrom is the author of four books on China and the editor or co-editor of several more, including most recently Chinese Characters:Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land, […]
History Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium
Panel I: War and International Relations8:45 Andrew Haney, The Cossack and the Elephant: The Court-Martial of John Basil Turchin and Military Necessity in the American Civil War (Majewski) Commentator: Prof. […]
Historian Robert Gross Visits Campus
Robert A. Gross, the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History,University of Connecticut, Storrs, will present two exciting lectures at UCSB. 1) History Seminar: "Outsiders in […]
“The Spy Who Came in From the Cold”
Because of the events in Isla Vista last weekend, this event has been rescheduled to Fall quarter. The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will be showing […]