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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 […]

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

“The Story of Por-Por”

This new film is located at the intersection of labor history and music history - about union drivers and the invention of honkhorn music in Accra, Ghana. Steven Feld is […]

“Beer, Beer, Beer!”

Beer has become a familiar presence in American life, but it was once an oft-despised commodity,banned as part of Prohibition. How did this remarkable transformation from banned commodity to emblem […]

Data Sharing: A Problem of Supply or of Demand?

On October 25 at 2PM, Prof. Christine Borgman from UCLA will be speaking about how the sharing of research data affects scientific practice. Her talk is the Social Sciences and […]