Aleksei Kulegin, Curator of the Museum of Political History of Russia in St. Petersburg will present at 12:30-2:00 on Thursday, October 20, in HSSB, "Who Killed Rasputin? Myths and Reality […]
subtitle: Pakistan's Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) Movement The Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) movement came into international visibility in 2007 when armed men, women and children occupied the oldest mosque in […]
"In England, a swallow is the first sign of summer,” Wright says. “Hence we will discuss when will the Arab spring, representing potentiality, turn to summer, representing actuality, for the […]
Hamid Naficy is Professor of Radio-Television-Film and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University, and he is also an affiliate faculty in Art History. He is […]
8:55 Welcome – Gabriela Soto-Laveaga 9:00 – 10:25 Adam Warren (University of Washington) Indigenismo, Degeneration, and Racial Differentiation in Peruvian Coca Science, 1920-1950 Hanni Jalil Paier (UCSB) Luchando por la […]
UCSB HISTORY ASSOCIATES Special Event: ‘A Life for the Books’ An Evening with Librarian of Congress James Billington Sponsored by the Friends of the Library of the Santa Ynez Valley […]
In this talk, Professor Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman challenges the assumption that the United States is an empire. Rather, it acts as an arbiter and enforcer in a world system where […]
This event is sponsored by the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. jwil 19.x.2011
Professor Smith’s research centers on the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Nubia. He is particularly interested in theidentification of ethnicity in the archaeological record and the ethnic dynamics of colonial […]