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After Tahrir: Egyptian Revolutionary Experiences and Future Visions
McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThis four-day research collaboration workshop will take place at UC Santa Barbara on the five-year anniversary of the Tahrir Square Uprisings in 2011 that toppled Egypt's long-term dictator Hosni Mubarak. These uprisings in Egypt accelerated waves of anti-crony-capitalist demonstrations, worker organizing, youth revolts, media insurgencies, and police brutality protests that overthrew governments, mobilized populations throughout […]
Book Launch and Signing: Sherene Seikaly, “Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine”
McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesEvent Description: The Department of History and the Center for Middle East Studies are delighted to sponsor a book launch and signing for Sherene Seikaly's new book with Stanford University Press, Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine. Comments By: Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle […]
Public Lecture: “Racialized Paths to Proletarianization: Myths about Black Economic Competition, Cheap Labor, and White Vulnerability”
HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesTiffany Willoughby-Herard (African American Studies, UC Irvine) The presentation discusses a key historiographical intervention about so-called "cheap labor" in WASTE OF A WHITE SKIN: THE CARNEGIE CORPORATION AND THE RACIAL LOGIC OF WHITE VULNERABILITY. What did calls for the protection of "civilized labor" and a "white wage" mean to the history of race and class […]
Maurice Isserman, “The Rucksack Revolution: Mountaineering and American Culture, 1945-1963”
HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesMaurice Isserman writes pathbreaking books on the American left - and on mountaineering. In the latter category are Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes(2008, with Stewart Weaver); and Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering (2016). In the former can be found Which Side […]
Activism and Social Change: Panel Discussion
Davidson Library (UCSB) Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesProfessors Alice O'Connor (History), Hahrie Han (Political Science), and National People's Action Director Ryan Greenwood will lead a discussion of "Activism and Social Change" as part of the Library's UCSB Reads 2016 programming. The panelists will explore both historical and contemporary activism, including the Black Lives Matter movement, and Bryan Stevenson's legal work as highlighted […]
Beyond Hebrew: Zionism and the Politics of Multilingualism in Palestine, 1920-1948
HSSB 3041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesEvent Description: The promotion of modern Hebrew as a spoken vernacular is often viewed as a central accomplishment of the Zionist movement in Palestine before Israeli statehood. But by viewing twentieth-century history through the lens of language, author Liora Halperin questions the common narrative of a Zionist move away from multilingualism during the years following […]
Desmond King, “When the State Stops: The Unruly Demise of Federal Civil Rights Activism”
HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesProfessor Desmond King is the author Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of Diverse Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2002) and co-author (with Lawrence Jacobs) of Fed Power: The Federal Reserve and the Great Recession (forthcoming).
Probing “Presence”: Photography and Policing in Colonial South Africa
SSMS 2135 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesTALK: Lorena Rizzo (University of Bielefeld & Harvard University) Probing “Presence” – Photography and Policing in Colonial South Africa The presentation starts from research conducted in the Western Cape Archives in 2012/3. While working on a collection of photographic albums produced in a Cape Town convict station in the late 19th and early 20th century, […]