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