This paper will examine some characteristic problems and issues in the study of Athenian law, and of ancient Greek law more generally, through an analysis of the offense of hubris ("intentionally dishonoring behavior"). Topics to be discussed include (1) the Athenian law of hubris; (2) parallels with the laws and practices of other Greek communities […]

West Meets East: The International Labor Organization from Geneva to the Pacific Rim is an Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara from February 3-5, 2011 McCune Conference Room on the 6th floor, HSSB Thursday, Feb. 3, 3:00 - 5:00 pm Friday, Feb 4, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Saturday, Feb. 5, 9:00 […]

The overthrow of the Ben Ali dictatorship in Tunisia by sustained popular demonstrations has led to even more cataclysmic protests in Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, and elsewhere in the Arab World. UCSB has two of the best experts on Egypt and Tunisia in the US to provide perspective on recent events. Both have done extensive research […]

Eran Shalev, a historian of the early republic at the university of haifa, Rome rebornon western shores: historical imagination and the creation of the american republic (charlottesville: university of virginia press, 2009). His talk will demonstrate how throughout the republic's history, the configuration of the state-as-star and the consequent image of the united states as […]

Robert Morstein-Marx is Professor of Classics at UCSB. This event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. jwil 05.I.2011

Located at the narrowest part of the Greek peninsula and controlling land and sea traffic in all four directions, Corinth became famous as one of the greatest commercial centers in the ancient world. Her mighty rock fortress of Acrocorinth also made her almost impervious to attack. Corinth was a prime player in all the important […]

The talk is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) and cosponsored by the Department of History. The event is free and open to the public. A brief reception will follow Dr. Ibish's presentation. Please join us for this exciting event! Hussein Ibish will discuss Arab- and Muslim-American activism after […]

Discussant: Prof. Amit Ahuja, Political Science, UCSB The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai examines the dynamics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai, a former colonial port that now hosts new economic ventures such as software engineering, back office services and export processing. Over the past two decades of neoliberal […]

This paper introduces the work of a group of miner-artists at a coal mine in northern Japan, as an exampleof how art and other forms of cultural expression became vehicles for building new forms of democratic subjectivity after the end of WWII. The miner-artists’ vision was but one of a multiplicity of visions that jostled […]

Abstract forthcoming. Elizabeth Clark is John Kilgo Carlisle Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Duke University. This event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. jwil 05.I.2011

From the mid 1950s to the late 1980s, thousand of indigenous people -particularly Mazatecos and Chinantecos - were relocated from their towns in the state of Oaxaca to the state of Veracruz, to make way for two large dams. There is no record of how many families where relocated, and only few anthropological accounts followed […]

Solvang’s particular Danishness has evolved in step with the American twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. An emphasis on tourism has both preserved and distorted the heritage that fueled the community’s origin. By looking at the details of Solvang’s architecture and objects, we learn what lures recreational shoppers from around the world. Interviews with Solvang’s residents reveal […]

When Apple Computer recently announced that CEO Steve Jobs wastaking a medical leave, its stock dropped 5 per cent in one day and pundits began to speculate about the company’s future. How did the fate of a multi-billion dollar enterprise come to rest so heavily on the health of a single individual? Join us February […]

Please join us for a talk by NEIL FLIGSTEIN, Sociology, UC Berkeley. “A Long Strange Trip: The State and the Market for Mortgage Securitization, 1968-2010.” Fligstein is the author of Markets, Politics, and Globalization (1997) and The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Capitalist Societies (2002). His current work evaluates how policies in the […]

Dear friends of Lawrence Badash and members of the community, The UCSB Center for Science and Society is pleased to announce the second annual Lawrence Badash Lecture. The Badash Lecture honors a scholar of science and society whose work has advanced not only the history of science, but also the larger aims of social justice, […]

A panel of UCSB student veterans will participate in this event, now in its fourth year. The students will discuss their experiences in the armed forces, including service in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their transition to university life. This event is sponsored by Student Veterans at UCSB, a non-partisan student group sponsored by the Office […]

Date: Thursday, Feb. 24th from 5:00-6:00 p.m.Location: 2nd Floor conference room, #2135, Social Sciences and Media Studies building Abstract of Talk: Ana Elena Puga trains a theater/performance studies lens on the struggle to control public perception of undocumented migrant rights activist Elvira Arellano, who was deported in 2007. Puga coins the term "migrant melodrama" to […]

Please join us for a talk by JULIA OTT, New School for Social Research, “When Wall Street Met Main Street, 1890-1932.” Ott’s book of the same title will be published by Harvard University Press in the spring of 2011. Her next project considers the enduring influence of financial institutions and pro-investor ideology in recent U.S. […]

There will be a public memorial for Tom Sizgorich at UCSB on a date around early March, to be announced. Hal Drake has also set up a fund for the Tom Sizgorich Memorial Incoming Graduate Student Award. It will go to an outstanding incoming graduate student from an economically disadvantaged background pursuing any of Tom's […]

Prof. Sabrina Ramet. Professor of Political Science, The Norwegian University of Science &Technology Visiting Scholar, Northwestern University, 1 Sept 2010--31 March 2011 Location: Lane Rm, 3rd fl, Ellison Hall Sponsored by RFG Identity. hm 1/30/11, 2/27 image

This presentation will examine the work and experiences of United States Peace Corps volunteers who served in South America during the 1960s. Paying particular attention to the interaction of volunteers with South American people, their multiple interests and contradictions and to their motivations for becoming volunteers, the talk will evaluate the way in which the […]

The Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE) is known for its remarkable political stability. Yet, its very first royal succession was shrouded in mystery-- murder mystery. Why did the founding emperor, Taizu, pass over his grown sons to designate his younger brother Taizong to be his heir? Or did he? Did Taizong kill his older brother Taizu, […]

Please join us for a talk by BARRY EICHENGREEN, Economics and Political Science, UC Berkeley. “The Crisis and the Global Economy.” A former advisor to the International Monetary Fund, Eichengreen is the author of Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (2008) and Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods (2006). The […]