8:55 Welcome – Gabriela Soto-Laveaga 9:00 – 10:25 Adam Warren (University of Washington) Indigenismo, Degeneration, and Racial Differentiation in Peruvian Coca Science, 1920-1950 Hanni Jalil Paier (UCSB) Luchando por la patria, forjando trabajadores: Tuberculosis, Alcoholism and Public Health in Colombia, 1910-1925 10:25 – 10:40 BREAK 10:40 – 12:40 Heather McCrea (Kansas State University) Indians, Doctors, […]

UCSB HISTORY ASSOCIATES Special Event: ‘A Life for the Books’ An Evening with Librarian of Congress James Billington Sponsored by the Friends of the Library of the Santa Ynez Valley Solvang Brewing Company 1547 Mission Dr., Solvang When he became the 13th Librarian of Congress in 1987, Dr. James Billington had never heard of the […]

In this talk, Professor Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman challenges the assumption that the United States is an empire. Rather, it acts as an arbiter and enforcer in a world system where goals and rules are increasingly universal. Over the past three centuries, most nations have become republics and many democracies. Almost all have embraced free market […]

This event is sponsored by the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. jwil 19.x.2011