Anthony Barbieri-Low (UCSB) will provide a response to Professor Scheidel's talk. This event is part of the core seminar of the UCSB Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information, visit the web page of the RFG. jwil 23.i.09

Historians documenting the expanding influences of ʻsystems thinkingʼ in the UnitedStates during the Cold War period have emphasized the role of computers in spreading the gospel of systems to professional audiences while neglecting another simulation technology in broader use. This presentation will examine efforts to teach systems analysis to the communities served by the federally-organized […]

The Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Distinguished Lecture The concept of “Muslim women’s rights” has an extraordinarily active social life these days. It circulates across continents. It travels in and out of classrooms and government policy offices; UN forums in New York and Geneva and local women’s organizations in places like Egypt, Malaysia, and […]

This talk is sponsored by the IHC Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information, contact Christine Thomas. jwil 09.ii.2009

This event is sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Program. jwil 11.ii.09

Sponsored by the IHC research focus group on Identity Studies. jwil 06.ii.09

Following the film, Professor Drake will lead a discussion about Roman history. Refreshments will be available. For more information contact Phi Alpha Theta president Jason Smith. jwil 16.ii.09

This talk is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy and the Policy History Program. jwil 13.ii.09

The Commodities and Markets research group will meet on Friday, February 20, from noon-1pm in HSSB 4041, to discuss Nelson Lichtenstein's paper, entitled "Wal-Mart's Long March to China: How a Mid-American Retailer Came to Stake its Future on the Chinese Economy." Nelson will give a short introduction but we will spend most of the hour […]

Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, the East Asia Center, and the IHC East Asian Cultures Research Focus Group. For more information call 805.893.3907. jwil 10.ii.2009

The concept of the Mediterranean diet is a modern invention; the Middle Ages and Renaissance had some very different food values. This lecture presents a look at the recent construct and its relationship with overview of medieval and Renaissance diets. It ties the diets of the present and the past together. Allen J. Grieco is […]

Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSBTALK: Confronting Antisemitism in the Twenty-first Century Robert Wistrich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Monday, February 23 / 7:30 PM Congregation B'nai B'rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road What are the most salient and significant features of the current offensive directed against the State […]

Barbara Ransby is Associate Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ransby published the book Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision and founded the organization “Ella’s Daughters” to advance activism in the tradition of Ella Baker (1903-1986). Baker was a grassroots organizer in the […]

This talk is sponsored by the IHC Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. John Lee (UCSB) will provide a response. For more information contact Christine Thomas. jwil 09.ii.2009

"Triumph Over Time: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens in Post-War Greece" (1947, 42 minutes) In 1947, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens commissioned a 42-minute color movie to accompany its fundraising campaign. Directed by archaeologist Oscar Broneer and produced by numismatist Margaret Thompson with the aid of staff from Fox […]