Critical Issues in America: Hanink on Citizenship
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesProf. Johanna Hanink (Brown University), "Modern Citizenship Tests and Classical Funeral Orations."
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Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture – Alex Wellerstein on “Truman’s Bomb”
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesPlease join us on May 9, 4PM, in the McCune Conference Room for the 2018 Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. Our guest speaker will be Alex Wellerstein who will be giving a lecture titled Truman's Bomb and the Making of the Atomic Presidency. When we think of the importance of the atomic bomb to the Truman presidency, we think […]
Humanities in Prison (Critical Issues in America Co-Sponsored Event)
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesCritical Issues in America presents Prof. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, “Citizenship’s Insular Cases”
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesCitizens of Nowhere: The Case for Embracing the Stateless – David Baluarte, Washington & Lee University
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesDreamland: America’s Opiate Epidemic and How We Got Here
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesQuinones will discuss the origins of our nationwide opioid epidemic: pharmaceutical marketing, changes in our heroin market, and new attitudes toward pain among American healthcare consumers. He will also discuss cultural shifts that made this epidemic possible. Sam Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and author of three books of narrative nonfiction. His book Dreamland: The True […]
Cold War Curvature: Measuring and Modeling Gravity in Postwar American Physics (David Kaiser, MIT)
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesA popular image persists of Albert Einstein as a loner, someone who avoided the hustle and bustle of everyday life in favor of quiet contemplation. Yet Einstein was deeply engaged with politics throughout his life; indeed, he was so active politically that the FBI kept him under surveillance for decades. His most enduring scientific legacy, […]
Mary Furner, History, “The Jacobs Era in US Labor Standards Law and Regulation, 1885-1899”
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesProfessor Furner is the author of Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science (with a new Introduction, 2010); "Ideas, Independencies, Governance Structures, and National Political Cultures: Norbert Elias's Work as a Window on U.S. History," in Christa Buschendorf, et al, eds, Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: Figurational Approaches to American Culture […]
Film—”Nasser’s Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt”
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cold War Studies and International History will show Icarus Film's new documentary, "Nasser's Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt," a stirring but unflinching portrayal of Gamal Abdel Nasser and his impact on Egyptian, pan-Arab, and international politics. After the screening of the film, which runs about 80 minutes, Sherene Seikaly, Associate Professor […]
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Panel Discussion: Historical Perspectives on President Trump’s Jan. 27 Executive Order on Immigration
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThree faculty of the UCSB History Department will provide historical perspectives on immigration in the U.S.: Giuliana Perrone, "The History of Exclusion in American Law" Nelson Lichtenstein, "Immigrants Built the American Left and They Will Do It Again" Paul Spickard, "Immigration in a Time of Hate" Feb. 8 Poster
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