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Hail the Maintainers! or – How to Give Up the Innovation Fetish (Prof. Lee Vinsel)

HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Hail the Maintainers! or - How to Give Up the Innovation Fetish Join us for a talk by Prof. Lee Vinsel, Stevens Institute of Technology - 16 February 2017 in HSSB 4080 at 4PM Our culture is obsessed with innovation. Innovation is thought to be the goal of business, policy-making, philanthropy, education, even play. Yet, […]

David Moss, Harvard Business School, “E Pluribus Unum: Thoughts on the Perils (and Promise) of an Aging Democracy”

David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Yale.  A founder of the Tobin Project, Professor Moss is the author of Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the […]

Cheryl Jimenez Frei, UCSB, “Shaping and Contesting the Past: Monuments, Memory and Identity in Buenos Aires”

Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni Center UCSB, Santa Barbara , CA, United States

UCSB History Associates invites you to attend the Fourth Annual Van Gelderen Graduate Student Lecture  Cheryl Jimemez Frei, a PhD Student in Latin American History, will be giving a lecture related to her work on memory and the built environment in Argentina.  A luncheon will follow.  To attend the luncheon, please fill out the form […]

Film—”Nasser’s Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt”

HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The Center for Cold War Studies and International History will show Icarus Film's new documentary, "Nasser's Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt," a stirring but unflinching portrayal of Gamal Abdel Nasser and his impact on Egyptian, pan-Arab, and international politics. After the screening of the film, which runs about 80 minutes, Sherene Seikaly, Associate Professor […]

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“The Beach Boys: Classified Research with a Southern California Vibe” – Bill Leslie; The Johns Hopkins University

HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Long before companies such as Apple and Google learned how to attract and indulge their high tech workforces with espresso bars, climbing walls, flextime, and other perks, laboratories likeRAND in Santa Monica, Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, and Nortronics in Palos Verdes perfected the art of concierge science.  These were venues designed to recruit, retain, […]

Post-Holocaust Film: Bogdan’s Journey (1946 Kielce pogrom)

Girvetz 1004 Girvetz Hall, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

In 1946 forty Jewish survivors of the Holocaust were murdered by townspeople in Kielce, Poland, after a non-Jewish boy reported having been kidnapped by Jews. Catholic psychologist Bogdan Bialek moved to Kielce in the late 1970s, and was shocked by the toxic atmosphere in the town. He made it his life's rork to persuade residents […]

Mary Furner, History, “The Jacobs Era in US Labor Standards Law and Regulation, 1885-1899”

HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Professor Furner is the author of Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science (with a new Introduction, 2010); "Ideas, Independencies, Governance Structures, and National Political Cultures: Norbert Elias's Work as a Window on U.S. History," in Christa Buschendorf, et al, eds, Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: Figurational Approaches to American Culture […]

Drawing Twentieth-Century History: The World in Flames, a talk by Fernando Bryce Copy

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

Fernando Bryce’s upcoming public lecture, “Drawing Twentieth-Century History: The World in Flames” to take place Friday, April 7th in HSSB 4020 starting at 3 pm, is part of the yearlong new interdisciplinary graduate workshop “Theoretical Perspectives on War, Political Violence, Nationalism and the State” (History 291) in the History Department.  After the formal talk (3:00-4:30) and a coffee break, Bryce […]

“‘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 by Miroslava Chávez-García (UCSB Department of History) probes migrants' longing for economic opportunity, masculine affirmation, and emotional fulfillment. As the migrants' correspondence illustrates, they relied on each […]

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), who recently donated her papers to the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives at the UCSB Library. Escalante organized the ELAWRO in 1967 after tiring of […]

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