The Graduate placement committee will hold a workshop on navigating the academic job market next Wednesday Oct. 19 at 4 pm in HSSB 4020. We will concentrate on preparing your application file, resources for identifying jobs and getting ready for interviews. If you are on the market, you might want to bring a copy of […]

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 Islamabad, refusing to surrender until the Pakistani government met their demands. A notable aspect of this movement was the emergence of militant women activists affiliated […]

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 of the Murder of the Holy Devil: Grigorii Rasputin." The presentation will be accompanied with interesting photographs and illustrations that his museum has collected. hm […]

"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 people of this region.” The speakers, who are married, were living in Egypt during the Egyptian Revolution and were based there during the past decade. […]

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 a leading authority in cultural studies of diaspora, exile, and postcolonial cinemas and media and of Iranian and Middle Eastern cinemas. His Latest books are […]

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 patria, forjando trabajadores: Tuberculosis, Alcoholism and Public Health in Colombia, 1910-1925 10:25 – 10:40 BREAK 10:40 – 12:40 Heather McCrea (Kansas State University) Indians, Doctors, […]

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 Solvang Brewing Company 1547 Mission Dr., Solvang When he became the 13th Librarian of Congress in 1987, Dr. James Billington had never heard of the […]

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 goals and rules are increasingly universal. Over the past three centuries, most nations have become republics and many democracies. Almost all have embraced free market […]

This event is sponsored by the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. jwil 19.x.2011

Montefiore has written an epic history of the world's most contested place through the lives of those who created, destroyed, conquered, wrote about--and believed in--the Holy City. See this October 22 review in the Wall Street Journal. hm 10/29/11