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 […]

Marek Halter is an international best-selling novelist, filmmaker and human rights activist. Sponsored by the Harman P. and Sophia Taubman Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies, cosponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures, Dept. of Religious Studies, Congregation B'nai B'rith, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Hillel hm 12/7/10

Corinth, like many Greek poleis (”city-states”), did not enjoy full autonomy and freedom during the Hellenistic period. Between the battles of Chaironeia (338 BC) and Cynoscephalae (197 BC), Corinth was almost continuously under the control of Antigonid Macedon, except for a brief time (243-224 BC) when it belonged to the Achaian League. This talk focuses […]

Egyptian 20th and 21st Dynasty (1190-945 BCE) funerary arts from Thebes find their origins within the social unrest of the Late Bronze Age. In Thebes, funerary preparations were challenged with limited burial space, scarce material resources, tomb robbery, and re-use. Surviving funerary materials reflect a variety of defensive innovations while at the same time preserving […]

Prof. Nazym Shedenova Dept. of Sociology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Almaty, Kazakhstan Prof. Shedenova is a founder of Gender Studies in Kazakhstan and an expert on the role of women in the Kazakhstan labor force. She has participated in a wide array of programs focused on gender in Germany, Ukraine, Hungary, United Kingdom, and India. […]

Food shortages in Occupied Europe offer a marked contrast to the experience with food rationing in the United States and Britain during World War II. Adding the French experience with rationing to comparative work on Britain and the United States offers a broader perspective on what was really important in wartime food rationing and its […]

Spring Quarter 2011 classes begin on Monday, March 28. If you are enrolled in a discussion section that meets before the main lecture meets, you should still attend section that week. See calendar link below for details. Spring 2011 final examination schedule hm 3/16/11

Dr Cruz-Uribe will examine the role of pilgrimage in ancient Egypt, especially during Roman and Byzantine times. Using both newly-discovered and well-known Coptic and Demotic texts, he will compare the pilgrimage practices of the traditional Egyptian and Nubian populations with the practices of the contemporary Christians, investigating why the Egyptians went on pilgrimages, how the […]

This talk will explore how narratives of novelty and familiarity have been routinely deployed by practitioners, analysts, and policymakers alike in synthetic biology, and what this may mean for a consideration of synthetic biology as "the new new thing" for studies of emerging technoscience. Luis Campos is a graduate of Harvard's History of Science Department […]