PERFORMANCE: Theater of War
Theater of War is an innovative project that presents professional actors reading scenes from ancient Greek drama about soldiers returning from war. Following the reading, a panel of veterans and […]
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Population Growth and Sociopolitical Change in late pre-Contact Hawaii: Insights from Household Archaeology in Leeward Kohala, Hawaii Island
Captain Cook’s encounter with Hawaiian society in 1779 was the first to document a society of laborers, craftsmen, and a chiefly elite: a society that anthropologists of today classify as […]
Whose Cis-‐Story Is This? Challenging Cis/Trans/Gender Oppositions in Feminist History
The last decade has seen the elaboration of histories of trans exclusion from feminist venues, and also the institutionalization of the term "cis." Both pose binary oppositions between transgender and […]
“An Open Game”: DOOM, Game Engines, and the New Game Industry of the 1990s
AbstractShortly before the release of id Software’s computer game, DOOM, at the end of 1993, id released a news release announcing the game and promising to “push back the boundaries […]
Saving Russian Patriotism: Dmitry Likhachev and the Struggle of Identity in Soviet Intelligentsia
Russian intelligentsia vanished during the Soviet times, but not quite. It turned out that one of the last Mohicans of this vanishing tribe, Dmitry Likhachev, lived long enough to have […]
New Promise, Old Premise: Workforce Education and Opportunity in American Nanomanufacturing
As once-thriving U.S. manufacturing sectors contract, the idea that unemployed citizens will now find work in nano-scale manufacturing draws commitments of educational resources across the country. So-called nanotechnician curricula proliferate […]
When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans
To date, more than 280,000 women have served in Iraq, Afghanistan and surrounding regions. Their jobs include working as convoy gunners, searching homes, and conducting IED sweeps. On February 21, […]
Ontologies of Aerial Observation: Panoramic Reconnaissance and the Pre-History of Air War
Before the advent of aviation, industrializing nations sought to produce increasingly accurate surveys of territorial possessions, drawing on new technologies and sciences to interpret and reproduce sights and images. Kaplan […]
Graduate Symposium on the Cold War
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22HSSB 4020 9:00-10:00 AM--Meet-and-Greet Breakfast 9:45-10:00 AM--Welcome and Introduction Salim Yaqub and Ken Hough Session 1 10:00-11:45 Eric Fenrich, UCSB, Department of History "Nine Black Kids and a […]
What We Know and How We Know It
“As an African American educator, one of my main concerns is that we all need tobe liberated from schooling that perpetuates America’s myths,” King has written. “One such myth that […]