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Event Series Focal Point Dialogues in History

Focal Point Dialogues | A Conversation with Ada Ferrer for Students

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

A Conversation with the author for graduate and undergraduate students will follow  the keynote lecture reception, on Friday May 27th, in HSSB 4041 from 4-5 pm.  The History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the final events of this year’s Focal Point Dialogues in History Colloquium: A  Keynote Lecture by Pulitzer Prize winning author Ada […]

France Winddance Twine, Sociology, UCSB, “Diversity, Sexuality and Inequality in the San Francisco Tech Industry.”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Twine is the author, most recently, of Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class & Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market (2015); Girls with Guns: Firearms, Feminism, Militarism (2013); and A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy (2010). A copy of one of Twine's recent articles on this topic, "Gender-Fluid Geek Girls: Negotiating […]

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Maurice Isserman, “The Rucksack Revolution: Mountaineering and American Culture, 1945-1963”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Maurice Isserman writes pathbreaking books on the American left - and on mountaineering. In the latter category are Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes(2008, with Stewart Weaver); and Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering (2016). In the former can be found Which Side […]

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Public Lecture: “Racialized Paths to Proletarianization: Myths about Black Economic Competition, Cheap Labor, and White Vulnerability”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Tiffany Willoughby-Herard (African American Studies, UC Irvine) The presentation discusses a key historiographical intervention about so-called "cheap labor" in WASTE OF A WHITE SKIN: THE CARNEGIE CORPORATION AND THE RACIAL LOGIC OF WHITE VULNERABILITY. What did calls for the protection of "civilized labor" and a "white wage" mean to the history of race and class […]

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Maria Fedorova, Radical Relief: American Food Aid to the Soviet Union, 1921-1923

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Ms. Fedorova is completing a dissertation on American food aid and agricultural development in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and early 1930s.   This event is one of many included in the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "Power and Policy across National Borders" series.

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