Traditional research on borders and frontiers has typically emphasized the divisive influence of “hard” boundaries imposed by geography, politics, and economics. This conference seeks to widen the narrow conceptions of space underlying traditional work on borders by focusing on borderlands and frontier zones, spaces of interaction between different cultural groups. The conference pays particular attention […]

This film, made by a former UCSB student, chronicles Judith Meisel's experience as a Holocaust survivor, which inspired her life-long cursade against racism. hm 4/26/11

Co-sponsored by Department of History, UCSB hm 4/26/11

Carolyn de la Pena is a professor of American Studies. Sponsored by the Food Studies Research Focus Group and the History Department. hm 4/26/11

The battle over plans to build a Muslim religious center near ground zero has thrown into sharp relief anti-Muslim rhetoric that contradicts American values of religious tolerance. This panel will explore the origin of these sentiments in the context of ground zero as an emotionally-charged memorial space, and the exploitation of this history for political […]

Please join us for a talk by Tom Juravich, Sociology and Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century." Juravich is a labor educator and musician. He is the author of Chaos on the Shop Floor: A Worker's View of Quality, Productivity and Management (1985); an ethnography of […]