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France Winddance Twine, Sociology, UCSB, “Diversity, Sexuality and Inequality in the San Francisco Tech Industry.”

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

Twine is the author, most recently, of Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class & Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market (2015); Girls with Guns: Firearms, Feminism, Militarism (2013); and A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy (2010). A copy of one of Twine's recent articles on this topic, "Gender-Fluid Geek Girls: Negotiating […]

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, Elizabeth Schmidt will discuss, “Culinary Commonplacing: The Literary Value of Food Manuscripts in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain.” Draft papers will be distributed before the […]

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 offer provocative reflections on the conditions of possibility for political experience, an experience that defines the human condition. Her work is deeply concerned with the […]

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 of Mesopotamia, the region between Tigris and Euphrates. Unfortunately, this invaluable and very rich material rarely finds use in wider social-historical discourses, as cuneiform specialists […]

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 in 1888. He was the third African American to graduate from Brown. As a Brown MA student in 1890-1891, Gilbert became the first African American […]

“Thinking Palestine Panel: 1967 and Beyond”, Panel and Poster Exhibit

Unnamed Venue University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join us on April 28 from 4-6:30 pm for a panel, poster exhibit, and reception for the event “Thinking Palestine: 1967 and Beyond.” The event will be at Wireframe Studio in the Music Library, Music Building 1st floor. June 2017 will mark fifty years of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza […]

Dana Frank, History, UC Santa Cruz, leads an all day Op-Ed writing workshop

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

Professor Dana Frank of UC Santa Cruz will be leading an all day op-ed writing workshop on Saturday, May 6th. This workshop, offered on an annual basis by the UCSB Center for Work, Labor, and Democracy, provides faculty and students with an opportunity to hone their op-ed writing skills, translating their historical expertise into opinion pieces […]