Our Campus, Our Community: Advancing a New Politics for Social Change
Speakers include Marcos Vargas, executive director of CAUSE and Manuel Pastor of USC's Program for Environmental and Regional Equity.
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The Style is the – Empire. Caesar’s Writing Reevaluated
Caesar's style has been admired for its stringency and simplicity–and to the detriment of a fuller appreciation of its complexities. His classic texts are worth a second glance. They reveal […]
Beer: From Prohibition to America’s Emblem of the Good Life?
UC Santa Barbara Arts and Humanities "Nature and Culture" Series at the Wine Cask Join UC Santa Barbara historian Lisa Jacobson for a spectacular Wine Cask artisan dinner and talk […]
Namibia’s Red Line: On the History of a Fence in Southern Africa
A massive fence, more than two metres high, stretching over a thousand kilometres from East to West effectively separates the southwest African region into two parts. The fence, generally known […]
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall”: Border Crossings and the Imperatives of American Border Control
Patrick Ettinger, Professor of History and Director of the Capital Campus Public History Program at CSU Sacramento, will speak about the history of the US-Mexican border in the context of […]
Bookscapes: Trading Knowledge in British Colonial India
Professor Swati Chattopadhyay (Department Chair, History of Art & Architecture) and Mira Rai Waits (doctoral candidate) will offer a curators' talk in conjunction with the exhibition "Conjuring India: British Views […]
Films of the Cold War: “Lady Bug, Lady Bug” (1963)
The Center for Cold war Studies and International History (CCWS) will kick off the new year by showing the classic 1963 film "Lady Bug, Lady Bug," about the impact of […]
The Afterlife of Empire: The Origins and Work of the World Bank’s Agricultural Development Service in Eastern and Central Africa, 1963-1989
Joseph Hodge is Professor of History at West Virginia University, and author of Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism (2007). Sponsored by […]
Cavafy at the Margins: Geography, History, Desire
For more information on this lecture, click here or contact Prof. Helen Morales in the UCSB Department of Classics. Sponsored by the UCSB Argyropoulos Endowment in Hellenic Studies. jwil 16.viii.2013
“Do not forget to send the Negro”: Elite ties, enslaved lives in colonial Massachusetts and New York, 1660-1720
Dr. Maskiell is an expert on family and household relationships within slavery as well as on slave networks in both Dutch and English colonial Atlantic America. The author of "Elite […]