directed by WILLIAM SMITHERS In Ida Fink's "The Table," four witnesses testify to mass murder in a small Polish-Jewish town during World War II. But does their testimony matter in a court of law? Cast: Prosecutor: William Smithers First Man: George Backman First Woman: Dianne Hull Second Man: Ed Giron Second Woman: Danielle Aubuchon Ida […]

This German film directed by Wolfgang Becker comically portrays the collapse of communism. Suffering a heart attack and falling into a coma after seeing her son arrested during a protest, Alex's (Daniel Brühl) socialist mother Christiane (Katrin Sass), remains comatose through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the German Democratic Republic. Knowing that the […]

Peter B. Edelman is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and co-chair of the Task Force on Poverty for the Center for American Progress. In a career devoted to social thought, social justice, and public policy, Professor Edelman has written extensively on poverty, constitutional law, and children and youth. He is the author […]

Professor Dana Frank is Co-Director of the UCSC Center for Labor Studies. Her books include Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2008), Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (2000), and Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 (1994). Workshop participants are invited to read Dana Frank's […]

Today we speak of movie stars, rock stars, all-star athletes, and even academic stars. The role of "stars" in the cult of personality has a long tradition. From the time of early Egyptian and Near Eastern civilizations, man-- or more precisely, royalty-- aspired to dwell among the stars in heaven for all eternity as the […]

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

The History of Reading Group is hosting a one-day, interdisciplinary conference that will provide a forum for sharing recent research findings in the history of reading, with an eye toward investigating the technologies that shape reading as a social experience. The keynote speakers will be Adrian Johns (University of Chicago) and Elaine Treharne (Florida State […]

Brian Cummings is Professor of English at the University of Sussex, where he was Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies from 2004 to 2008. He is the author of The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace (Oxford University Press, 2002), which was named a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year […]

Welcome back students, faculty and staff--we hope you had an energizing spring break!The last day of instruction is June 5. For a full schedule of this quarter, follow the link below. hm 3/24/09

Legendary reporter and author William Greider has covered American politics for the last 40 years as a columnist and editor for the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and as a national affairs correspondent for The Nation. In his recently released book Come Home America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country, Greider examines […]

Legendary reporter and author William Greider has covered American politics for the last 40 years as a columnist and editor for the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and as a national affairs correspondent for The Nation. In his recently released book Come Home America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country, Greider examines […]

The speakers will be: Paolo Squatriti of the University of Michigan: “Storms Floods and Climate Change in the Dark Ages: An Italian Case” and D. Fairchild Ruggles of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: "Islamic Gardens in the Mediterranean (7th-15th Centuries): Environmental Perspectives on Water and Landscape” with a comment by David Cleveland of the UCSB […]

On Saturday, April 4, 2009, the History Department's Table at the Academic Fair will offer friendly advice and information about the History major at UCSB. Why study history at UCSB instead of at another UC campus? Besides the obvious advantages of our climate and location, UCSB's History program offers a broad array of courses from […]