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Research Focus Group Conference: China Rising

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara

On May 2 and 3, UC Santa Barbara is hosting a group of scholars, Ford Foundation project officers, film makers and movement leaders on campus. This group from China, Brazil and Ecuador offers novel “southern” or subaltern perspectives on China’s massive contemporary presence in Africa, Middle East and Latin America. This process of Chinese engagement across the continents of the global south may represent one of the most significant global-scale transformations of our era, challenging ...

Talk: Boundaries of the Firm, State, and Nation: The Problem of Public Utility in the American Century

4041 HSSB

James T. Sparrow, History, University of Chicago. Sparrow is the author of Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government (2011) and co-editor of Boundaries of the State in US History (2015). His current projects include Sovereign Discipline: The American Extraterritorial State in the Atomic Age and New Leviathan: Rethinking Sovereignty and Political Agency after Total War. This event is a part of Molding Development in the Democratic State, a series of UCSB talks and ...

IV Live Presents Improvability: The Free Sh*t Show

Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero del Norte, Isla Vista

Improvability: The Free Sh*t Show Friday, May 3rd at 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, Isla Vista Only 3 bucks! Come early to get a seat! Sponsored by IV Live, Isla Vista Arts, UCSB, and Associated Students

$3