The Non-Aligned Movement and the Cold War, 1961-1973
The Non-Aligned Movement was created to stand apart from the Cold War. Lorenz Luthi argues, however, that the Non-Aligned Movement was a product of the Cold War and was almost […]
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Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust
In January 1942, three years before Americans arrived at Buchenwald and Dachau, Jewish photographers working for the Soviet press became the first liberators to photograph the unprecedented horror we now […]
Conflict, Consensus, and the Crossing of Boundaries in the Premodern World
The Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara is pleased to host the 3rd Biennial Graduate Student Conference on Ancient Borderlands. The full conference program […]
“Surf’s Up! But Where and How High?” Measuring and Riding Waves
It may mean Beach Boys and wood-paneled station wagons to you, but surfing today is more a matter of wave prediction data and real time animated film about key surf […]
Holocaust and Genocide
Prof. Bauer will discuss why humans are the only living creatures that kill their own kind in large numbers, and the essential similarities and difference between the Holocaust and other […]
Waves of Resistance: Surfing and History in Twentieth-Century Hawai’i
The author of Waves of Resistance: Surfing and History in 20th Century Hawaii will be speaking, following an introduction by Dr. Teresa Shewry (UCSB, English) of the Center for Literature […]
Race and Immigration in the Era of Decolonization
This talk will examine debates surrounding immigration in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the 1960s and 1970s. South Africa in 1961 and Rhodesia in 1965 […]
The Role of Maya Catholic Health Networks in Guatemala’s Armed Conflict, 1966 – 1996
Dr. Susan Fitzpatrick-BehrensCal State Northridge Thursday, April 26 11:00-12:15 HSSB 2252 In the 1960s, paraprofessional health programs proliferated in the Maya regions of Guatemala’s western highlands.. The programs responded to […]
Dams, Displacement and the Delusion of Development: The Case of Cahora Bassa
The history of Cahora Bassa reveals the persistence of “colonialism’s afterlife.” Under the 1974 Lusaka Peace Accord, which set the stage for Mozambique’s independence, in return for assuming the US$550 […]
Digitize, Democratize: Libraries and the Future of Books
Openness may seem self-evident as a principle of library policy, but libraries have often been closed and the world of knowledge in general has been fenced off by commercial interests […]