Please join the RFG Reinventing Japan in welcoming Professor Timon Screech (SOAS, University College London) to campus on November 2, 2016. Professor Screech will be presenting his new work on "The Shogun's Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the First English Voyages to Japan, 1611-1623." The talk will be held in SSMS 2135 at […]

Giuliana Perrone, new Assistant Professor in the History Department, will give a talk at the IHC on the role the courts played in (re)constructing the lives of black families. Perrone will discuss the problems and possibilities Reconstruction-era courts presented to former slaves and the legal system in "Slaves into Citizens: Legitimizing Black Domestic Relationships in Reconstruction-Era State […]

"Looking at the Central Andes from a Textile Viewpoint: How Textiles Shaped Peruvian Space from the Early Horizon to the Incas" Professor Sophie Desrosiers brings together archeological evidence and observations of contemporary practice in order to reconstruct historical textile practices. Her main areas of study are the Andes, Xinjiang archaeological textiles, and silk between China and […]

On November 8 Isla Vista residents will take part in a historic vote that will determine the future of self-governance in the community.  With ballot initiatives E and F, they will weigh in on proposals to create a new Community Services District with an elected board, and a utility tax to empower it to provide […]

"Protest and Politics in Historical Perspective," Panelists: Professor Giuliana Perrone, PhD UC Berkeley, "Black Lives Matter in Context: The Long HIstory of Black Activism in America" Professor Nelson Lichtenstein, PhD UC Berkeley, "$15 an Hour: Is it a Social Movement?" Professor Alice O'Connor, PhD Johns Hopkins University, "By the People: Self-Governance and the Isla Vista […]