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 of Athenian democracy was the Agora, the main square of the city, which has been under excavation for the past eighty-five years. Here have been […]
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 a Polish boy who seeks the kindness of others in his solitary struggle to outlast the Nazi occupation and keep alive his Jewish faith. Escaping […]
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 Occupation” Paulo Hilu Pinto, Fluminense Federal University (Brazil): "Remaking Transnational Shiism in Contemporary Iraq: Economic and Religious Geographies on the Pilgrim's Road to Karbala” Paul […]
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 Muslims. It reveals truths behind taboo subjects often avoided or treated as sound bites and challenges the media barrage of misinformation about our complex relationship […]
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 migration focused on the state and its actions towards, and representations of, these newcomers. Later generations of scholars highlighted the resistance of Mizrahi men to […]
Event Description: Israel’s opposition to the Iran nuclear deal is well-known. But how are other U.S. allies in the Middle East, especially Arab Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait, reacting to the agreement? Are the Sunni Arab countries on a collision course with Iran and its allies, or is some degree […]
Ms. Fedorova is completing a dissertation on American food aid and agricultural development in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and early 1930s. This event is one of many included in the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "Power and Policy across National Borders" series.
Classes end on Friday, December 4, 2015; Winter Quarter begins Monday, Jan. 4, 2016. hm 7/19/15
Ken Lipartito is the co-author of Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience (2012) and of Baker & Botts in the Development of Modern Houston (2011 paperback). This event is one of many included in the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "Power and Policy across National Borders" series.
In the early years of this century, the Nobel Prize winning chemist Paul Crutzen popularized the idea that humans had entered a new geological age, the "Anthropocene." This concept, he argued, captured the fact that over the past 250 years humans and their technologies had reshaped the planet, permanently transforming its complex biophysical systems. His […]
