Speaker: Thomas Maloutas Harokopio University, Athens Event Description: Thomas Maloutas, Professor of Social Geography at Harokopio University in Athens, is a leading expert in cities and society. His lecture will be on social and ethnic segregation in Athens today. He will address the impact of the ongoing economic and political crisis on the city’s social […]
The workshop is open to interested faculty and graduate students. If you would like to join us at lunch, please contact Adam Morrison at cmes@cmes.ucsb.edu so that we can get an accurate head count. October 30, 2015: 9:45 AM Greetings and Introduction 10:00 – 10:50 Bilal Orfali (American University of Beirut), "Mystical Poetics: Courtly […]
Professor Barry Eidlin, a sociologist, is the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press). A copy of the paper he will be presenting can be found here. This event is one of many included in the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "Power […]
Speaker: Joshua C. Tate SMU Dedman School of Law Event Description: Please join us in HSSB 4080 at noon on Monday, November 2 to hear Josh Tate lecture on the Magna Carta. Josh is a professor at SMU Dedman School of Law and is the author of many articles on medieval legal history. Light […]
Professor Engerman’s most recent book is Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts (Oxford University Press, 2009). 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.
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 […]
