As once-thriving U.S. manufacturing sectors contract, the idea that unemployed citizens will now find work in nano-scale manufacturing draws commitments of educational resources across the country. So-called nanotechnician curricula proliferate at two-year institutions and their enrollments climb steadily. Yet industrial forecasters and even some instructors see few jobs of this kind on the horizon. This […]

To date, more than 280,000 women have served in Iraq, Afghanistan and surrounding regions. Their jobs include working as convoy gunners, searching homes, and conducting IED sweeps. On February 21, Laura Browder will discuss her book and exhibit (with photographs by Sascha Pflaeging) When Janey Comes Marching Home, which gives a presence and a voice […]

Before the advent of aviation, industrializing nations sought to produce increasingly accurate surveys of territorial possessions, drawing on new technologies and sciences to interpret and reproduce sights and images. Kaplan will argue that most analysis of the imagery of air power?reconnaissance analog and digital photography?situates this kind of visual data as universalized panopticism; total, rational, […]

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22HSSB 4020 9:00-10:00 AM--Meet-and-Greet Breakfast 9:45-10:00 AM--Welcome and Introduction Salim Yaqub and Ken Hough Session 1 10:00-11:45 Eric Fenrich, UCSB, Department of History "Nine Black Kids and a Silver Ball: Little Rock, Sputnik, and the American International Image" Comment: Cody Stephens, UCSB, Department of History Audience Q & A Henry Maar, UCSB, Department […]