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“‘A Toda Madre (ATM)’: Migrant Dreams and Nightmares in El Norte”

UCSB Library Instruction & Training Room 1312 (First Floor, Mountain Side) Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

A talk by Miroslava Chávez-García, Professor, Department of History, UCSB Relying on dozens of personal letters exchanged among Mexican male migrants across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the 1960s, this talk […]

Honoring a Chicana Activist Dignity Warrior: The Life and Work of Alicia Escalante

UCSB Main Library, Pacific View Room, 8th Floor University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

A reception honoring Alicia Escalante, life-long community activist. Please join us in recognizing the life-long activism of Alicia Escalante, the founder of the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization (ELAWRO), […]

Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster Brown Bag

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

The Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster will meet periodically throughout the year for brown bag lunches to read and workshop works-in-progress from members of the research cluster. On April 17, […]

Hannah Arendt, On Truth and Lying in Politics

Phelps 6206 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Lecture and discussion with Prof. Susanne Lüdemann (Munich/Rutgers Univ.) Hannah Arendt (1906 –1975) was a German-born American political theorist. She escaped Europe during the Holocaust, becoming an American citizen. Her works […]

Marriage and Ritual Performance among the Servants of the Babylonian Gods

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

Talk by Bastian Still, Leiden University With more than 50,000 legal-administrative cuneiform tablets, the so-called Neo- Babylonian Period (c. 625-484 BCE) is one of the best-documented periods in the history […]

Let us go upon the Acropolis: John Wesley Gilbert in Greece, September 1890-April 1891

UCSB Library Instruction & Training Room 1312 (First Floor, Mountain Side) Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

Talk by John W.I. Lee, UCSB History Department John Wesley Gilbert (ca. 1863-1923) was born in Hephzibah, Georgia. He attended Paine College (Augusta, Georgia), then received his BA from Brown University […]