Traditional research on borders and frontiers has typically emphasized the divisive influence of “hard” boundaries imposed by geography, politics, and economics. This conference seeks to widen the narrow conceptions of space underlying traditional work on borders by focusing on borderlands and frontier zones, spaces of interaction between different cultural groups. The conference pays particular attention […]
Co-sponsored by Department of History, UCSB hm 4/26/11
This film, made by a former UCSB student, chronicles Judith Meisel's experience as a Holocaust survivor, which inspired her life-long cursade against racism. hm 4/26/11
Carolyn de la Pena is a professor of American Studies. Sponsored by the Food Studies Research Focus Group and the History Department. hm 4/26/11
The battle over plans to build a Muslim religious center near ground zero has thrown into sharp relief anti-Muslim rhetoric that contradicts American values of religious tolerance. This panel will explore the origin of these sentiments in the context of ground zero as an emotionally-charged memorial space, and the exploitation of this history for political […]
Please join us for a talk by Tom Juravich, Sociology and Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century." Juravich is a labor educator and musician. He is the author of Chaos on the Shop Floor: A Worker's View of Quality, Productivity and Management (1985); an ethnography of […]
Between 1904 and 1914, the United States built the Panama Canal, an ambitious engineering project undertaken in the shadow of the French failure two decades earlier. The French experience taught American administrators several lessons, none more potent than the need to mitigate the destructiveness of so-called "tropical" diseases such as malaria and yellow fever. The […]
Eva Golinger will discuss the Bolivarian project for participatory democracy in Venezuela that has occurred through the empowerment of the country's poor majority during the last decade. As an advisor to elected President Hugo Chávez, she will also address some of the problems and conflicts facing Venezuela and the leftist South American-Caribbean bloc it helped […]
This documentary explores the historical accounts of migrant Mexican farm workers brought into the U.S. from 1942 to1964 under the temporary contract worker program known as the Bracero Program to work as cheap, controlled, and disposable workers. Discussion with Gonzalez following the screening. Gilbert G Gonzalez, Vivian Price, and Adrian Salinas,. Co-sponsored by the Hull […]
Presidio Chapel at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara SHP123 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, CA Independent scholar Vladimir Guerrero is author of the book The Anza Trail and the Settling of California. Guerrero will discuss the concepts of caste, race and class among the Anza settlers and the population of Alta California at the […]