The African Studies Research Focus Group will hold its first research seminar for the 2010-2011 academic year on October 28 in HSSB 6020 (McCune Conference Room), focused on the theme of Usable Pasts: Memory and Self-Craft Through History, Song and Clothwork in Zimbabwe and among the Ainu (Japan). Presenters will include: Mhoze Chikowero (Assistant Professor, […]
Prof. Hasegawa's Faculty Research Lecture will be on Friday, Oct. 29 at 3:30 pm at the McCune Conference Room (6th floor HSSB). A reception will follow. The Faculty Research Lectureship is the highest honor the UCSB Academic Senate gives to one of its members. An expert in modern Russian/Soviet history and the Cold War, Hasegawa […]
Please join us for a talk by Cassandra Engeman on "The Dynamics of Social Movement Unionism: Local Union Involvement in Immigrants’ Rights Movements in Los Angeles." Engeman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology. Her work focuses on social movements and social movement outcomes, union-community coalitions in the United States, and union strategy. […]
What are some effective practices of feminist pedagogy?What is your teaching metaphor? What are some difficulties or obstacles facing instructors who advocate feminisms? Please come with examples of difficult situations that you manage in classrooms, strategies you implement to build feminist classrooms, and any other tools and techniques you use as an instructor. Suggested reading: […]
Gonda Van Steen is Cassas Professor of Greek Studies at the University of Florida. She earned a BA degree in Classics in her native Belgium and a PhD degree in Classics and Hellenic Studies from Princeton University. As the Cassas Chair in Greek Studies at the University of Florida, Professor Van Steen teaches courses in […]
This discussion concerns the recent controversies surrounding the proposed building of a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan and the threatened burning of the Qur'an in Gainesville, FL. America's Muslims have become a flashpoint for public debate about freedom of religion, freedom of speech, civil rights, and U.S. relations with Muslim majority countries in the […]
Robert Gottlieb will be discussing his new book Food Justice: A New Social Movement Takes Root at 11:30 am in HSSB 1233. Sponsored by the Food Studies Research Focus Group. hm 11/1/10
Please join us for a talk by Andrew Ross of New York University. Ross has published 17 books, including No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture (1989), Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade (2006), The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace (2007), and […]
Gonda Van Steen is Cassas Professor of Greek Studies at the University of Florida. She earned a BA degree in Classics in her native Belgium and a PhD degree in Classics and Hellenic Studies from Princeton University. As the Cassas Chair in Greek Studies at the University of Florida, Professor Van Steen teaches courses in […]
Event in the Fall Tequila Monday talk series hm 9/30/10, 11/3