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  • John McK. Camp, The Archaeology of Democracy

    Karpeles Manuscript Library 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Speaker: Dr. John McK. Camp Director of the Athenian Agora Excavations   Event Description: Ancient Athens is generally regarded as the birthplace of the world's first democracy. The administrative center […]

  • Film Showing: Run Boy Run

    Campbell Hall Building 538, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Kristallnacht Commemoration and Santa Barbara Premiere Winner of 10 Film Festival Audience Awards   A superlative saga of courage and compassion, Run Boy Run tells the extraordinary true story of […]

    Free
  • Contemporary Iraq: Walls and Circuits

    SSMS 2135 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Global Studies and the Center for Middle East Studies will be hosting an event titled, "CONTEMPORARY IRAQ: WALLS AND CIRCUITS.” Mona Damluji, Stanford University: "Baghdad’s Deep Dilemma: Urban Segregation Under […]

  • Film Showing: Valentino’s Ghost

    HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Hailed by the Village Voice as “both sobering and illuminating,” Michael Singh’s documentary exposes how America’s foreign policy agenda in the Middle East drives U.S. media portrayals of Arabs and […]

  • Orit Bashkin, From Palestinian Village to an Iraqi Transit Camp

    HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Event Description: Over 130,000 Iraqi Jews arrived in Israel during the 1950s; they were forced to settle in transit camps where they lived in horrendous poverty. Previous scholarship on this […]

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  • End of Fall Quarter Classes

    Classes end on Friday, December 4, 2015; Winter Quarter begins Monday, Jan. 4, 2016. hm 7/19/15