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Hussein Ibish, Anxious Allies: The Arab Gulf States and the Iran Nuclear Deal

HSSB 6056 UCSB, CA, United States

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 […]

Maria Fedorova, Radical Relief: American Food Aid to the Soviet Union, 1921-1923

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

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.

End of Fall Quarter Classes

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

Ken Lipartito, Reassembling the Economic: New Departures in Historical Materialism

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.

Jason M. Kelly: The Anthropocene’s Great Divergence

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

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 […]

Winter Quarter Instruction Begins

Monday, January 4: Classes begin Monday, January 19: Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Monday, February 15: Presidents’ Day holiday.

Phi Alpha Theta’s “Welcome Back!” Meeting

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

Phi Alpha Theta will be hosting its annual "Welcome Back!" meeting and providing an overview of its goals and events for the Winter 2016 quarter. This meeting is very important, so please consider attending! A quick peek into what PAT is doing this quarter includes a research workshop, a club trip to the Huntington Library, and a talk by UCSB History […]

Grant-Writing Workshop for Graduate Students

HSSB 4065 4065 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The Graduate Finance Committee will hold a workshop to help graduate students familiarize themselves with the process of applying for funding within and outside UCSB. Students should bring drafts of grant proposals for discussion, if possible. The workshop will begin with a discussion of applying for central funding and move on to outside applications. This workshop […]

Frank Frost, “The City of Emporion: The Ancient Greeks in Spain”

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

About the Talk Early in the sixth century BC, a group from the Greek city-state of Phokaia established a trading post on the Catalan coast not far from present-day Barcelona. It eventually became a major military base and trading center for the expansion of the Roman empire. Using the work of archaeologists supplemented by his own […]

W16 Graduate Declaration Deadline

Last day to declare candidacy for the Winter 2016 undergraduate degree using GOLD.   https://registrar.sa.ucsb.edu/w.aspx