The Annual Public History Book Sale has arrived!!! We have more than a thousand used and new books. Used books are from the shelves of Professors Sears McGee, Laura Kalman and Randall Garr (Religious Studies). We have everything from comic books and MAD Magazines to translation guides for ancient Egyptian. Three days only! Tues/Weds/Thurs, May […]

This talk is based on a work in progress about racist violence in contemporary eastern Germany. By analyzing case studies, I examine how survivors interpret and mediate racist attacks, and how they understand these incidents not as singular crimes, but as part of larger, structural problems that reveal the normality of racist violence. This violence […]

Colleagues, Students, Friends: The Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy hosts Stephan Miescher, History, UCSB this Friday, May 11, at 1 p.m. in Humanities and Social Science Building Room 4041. Derived from his forthcoming book, Miescher offers a paper entitled, "Creating an American Island: The Volta Aluminum Company (VALCO) in Ghana, 1964-2000." Miescher is […]