You are invited to the annual Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. This year's guest speaker will be Jacob Darwin Hamblin; his talk will be drawn from his new and acclaimed book […]

A panel discussion featuring Martin Berger, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz as well as UC Santa Barbara Professors Gaye Johnson, Black Studies; John S.W. Park, […]

Peter Edelman is a Professor of Law at Georgetown Law Center. During President Clinton’s first term he was Counselor to HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and then Assistant Secretary for Planning […]

Sponsored by the Department of Classics. jwil 08.ix.2013

After their own children, elderly Japanese apparently prefer robot caregivers and companions to foreign ones (in the increasingly likely event of a severe shortage of ethnic Japanese nurses and social […]

Patrik Svensson is a professor in the Humanities and information technologyand director of HUMlab, Umeå University. His current research spans information technology and learning, research infrastructure, screen cultures and the […]

Professor Thorne’s new book, El Capitan tells the story of the seizure of El Capitan from theCapitan Grande Indians. Defining terms of their capitulation, the Capitan Grande people insisted on […]

Talk Description: Before 1968, censor boards in the US and UK dictated which aspects of science they considered appropriate for movies and which scientific subjects they considered indecent or immoral. […]

Last day of Fall classes on December 6, 2013. hm 7/15/13

Classes start Monday, January 6. Monday, January 20: Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Monday, February 17: Presidents’ Day holiday. hm 10/3/13