TALK: From Victory Gardens to Urban Agriculture: Join the Garden RevolutionRose Hayden-Smith (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, April 13 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Hayden-Smith will present an in-depth look at the past and present of the Victory Garden movement. This paper will review historical case studies and discuss current national policies and […]

The GWU/UCSB/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War will be taking place here at UCSB April 14-16, 2011, in the Harbor Room, on the lower level of UCen. The conference is an annual event jointly sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History, along with affiliated Cold War centers at […]

This talk is about Russia's historical experiences with and responses to terrorist activities. Alexander Kubyshkin is Professor of the Department of North American Studies, School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, and currently a Fulbright Scholar at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He will speak about the historical roots of terrorism in Russian […]

Please join us for a talk by Daniel Ernst, Georgetown University Law Center. Earnst will speak on “Government Lawyers and Bureaucratic Autonomy in the New Deal.” He is the author of the prize-winning Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (1995) and Total War and the Law: the American Home Front in World […]

Alessandro Barchiesi, Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Siena at Arezzo and G. and H. Spogli Professor of Italian Studies at Stanford University, holds the 2011-2012 Sather Lectureship at UC Berkeley. Professor Barchiesi's talk will examine representations of Italic landscapes in the Aeneid, especially wilderness, as seen in mountains and woods, and (super)natural […]

This workshop is about global politics in the 1970s, focusing primarily on the transformation of China in and around that decade. Professor Westad will make a brief presentation and then lead a discussion of some of his recent scholarship. Workshop attendees are encouraged to read in advance Professor Westad's essay, "The Great Transformation: China in […]

Michael North is Professor of History at the University of Greifswald in Germany. He is the 2010-2011 Fulbright Chair in German Studies at UCSB. Professor North’s research and teaching interests include the Holy Roman Empire, the growth of consumer culture in early modern Europe, the development of German nationalism, and the conceptualization of the Baltic […]

During the post-World War Two economic boom, France implemented a comprehensive urbanism program intended to modernize and rationalize the nation by putting the city, the home, and the citizen in order. During this period, France was also working out the repercussions of decolonization as families from former French colonies in Africa and Asia migrated to […]

Hayden-Smith will present an in-depth look at the past and present of theVictory Garden movement. This paper will review historical case studies and discuss current national policies and models as well as future work needed to sustain the Victory Garden model as part of the overall local food movement. Hayden-Smith will also discuss urban agriculture […]

A Zimbabwean born academic and musician, Dr. Farai Berefocuses on what he calls Black performativity, the performance of Blackness as a political force and how Black performance can be said to embody Blackness. He looks at the context of Black performance in Africa, the United States, and the rest of the African Diaspora. Bere received […]