Rick Perlstein (historian and journalist) November 4 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001) and Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2009). He is writing...
Alice O’Connor (History, UCSB) October 28 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB O’Connor is the author of Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in 20th Century U.S. History (2001) and Social Science For What?: Philanthropy and the Social Question in a World Turned Rightside Up (2007). Sponsored by...
Demetria Martinez (poet, novelist, and essayist) Thursday, October 27 / 3:30 Corwin Pavilion This year the Luis Leal Award will be presented in the ceremony to Demetria Martinez from New Mexico who is a leading poet, novelist, and essayist. Her most noted book is her novel Mother Tongue about Central American political refugees in...
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman (History, San Diego State University) Wednesday, October 26 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk, Professor Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman challenges the assumption that America is an empire. Rather, it acts as an arbiter and enforcer in a world system where goals...
Reuel Schiller (Law, UC Hastings) Friday, May 13 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Schiller's areas of academic interest are twentieth-century American legal history, administrative law, and labor and employment law. A forthcoming book compares the legal strategies of the labor movement and the civil rights movement in the...
Tom Juravich (Sociology and Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Friday, May 6 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Juravich is a labor educator and musician. He is the author of Chaos on the Shop Floor: A Worker's View of Quality, Productivity and Management (1985); an ethnography of...
Barry Eichengreen (Economics and Political Science, UC Berkeley) Friday, March 4 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 A former advisor to the International Monetary Fund, Eichengreen is the author of Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (2008) and Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods...
Julia Ott (History, The New School) Friday, February 25 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Ott’s book of the same title will be published by Harvard University Press in the spring of 2011. Her next project considers the enduring influence of financial institutions and pro-investor ideology in recent...
Mario T. Garcia (Chicana and Chicano Studies, UCSB) Sal Castro (Retired Teacher, LAUSD) Wednesday, February 23 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Mario Garcia and Sal Castro will discuss their recently published book Blowout! Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice. Based on oral history,...
Neil Fligstein (Sociology, UC Berkeley) Friday, February 18 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Fligstein is the author of Markets, Politics, and Globalization (1997) and The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Capitalist Societies (2002). His current work evaluates how policies in the 1980s and 1990s to “maximize...
Hussein Ibish (Senior Fellow, American Task Force on Palestine) Wednesday, February 9 / 5:00 PM HSSB 4041 Hussein Ibish will discuss Arab- and Muslim-American activism after September 11, 2001. He will address immediate reactions to the terrorist attacks, examining how the communities coped with various kinds of fallout...
Clyde Woods (Black Studies, UCSB) Friday, January 21 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Woods is the author of Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta (2000) and editor of Black Geographies and the Politics of Place (2007). He is now part of a community/academic...
Wednesday, November 17 / 7:00 PM Campbell Hall Sandra Cisneros will give a presentation, Writing in the Time of Mexiphobia or Packing Your Papers: Readings from Unpublished Essays in 'Writings in My Pajamas.’ A panel discussion of the writing of Sandra Cisneros with Ellen McCracken (Spanish &...
Wednesday, November 10 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB William David Estrada from the Los Angeles Natural History Museum will speak on his latest book, e. Copies of his book will be available for sale and signing. Sponsored by the Chicano/Latino Research Group and the Public History...
Jane Taylor (Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Durham) Friday, November 5 / 2:00 PM HSSB 3041 In her lecture, Dr. Jane Taylor will discuss the question of ré-écriture and changing literary tastes through an analysis of two late Tristan versions, the Tristan of Pierre Sala's...
Andrew Ross (Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University) Friday, November 5 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Ross has published 17 books, including No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture (1989), Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade (2006), The University Against Itself: The...
Jose Alamillo (Chicano/a Studies, CSU Channel Islands) Wednesday, November 3 / 3:30 PM South Hall 1623 Jose Alamillo will lecture on his recent book, Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor & Leisure in a California Town, 1880-1960. Sponsored by the Chicano/Latino Research Group....
Hugh Wilford (History, CSU Long Beach) Thursday, October 28 / 12:30 PM McCune Room (HSSB 6020) In 1967, it was revealed that the CIA had secretly funded the American Friends of the Middle East, an apparently private group of pro-Arab, anti-Zionist U.S. citizens. This paper reveals the hitherto...
Winner of the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature Thursday, October 28 / 4:00 PM Corwin Pavilion The annual Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature will be awarded this year to Jimmy Santiago Baca of New Mexico, a leading poet, essayist, and novelist. Baca...
David Ayón (Senior Fellow, Loyola Marymount) Wednesday, October 20 / 3:30 PM South Hall 1623 David Ayon, a specialist in Latino politics in the U.S., will discuss the role that Latino voters may play in the midterm elections especially with the effects of the immigration debate fueled by...
John Borsos (National Union of Health Care Workers) Friday, October 15 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 John Borsos has been a health industry trade unionist for nearly two decades and is currently a leader of the insurgent National Union of Health Care Workers. He holds a Ph.D. in...
Anna Sapir Abulafia (Vice-President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University) Thursday, October 14 / 3:30 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Anna Sapir Abulafia's books include Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance (1995), Christians and Jews in Dispute. Disputational Literature and the Rise of Anti-Judaism in...
Matthew Garcia (History, Brown University) Friday, October 8 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Garcia is the author of A World of Its Own: Race, Labor and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970. He is now writing a history of the United Farm Workers. Sponsored by...
Wednesday, October 6 / 3:30 PM South Hall 1623 This seminar will focus on this emergence of the New Right in the U.S. and its hysteria over immigration as evidenced by recent events in Arizona. Participants will focus on different aspects of the immigration debate. Mario Garcia...
Jessica Wang (History, University of British Columbia) Friday, May 14 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor Wang's American Science in an Age of Anxiety provided a major study of the effects of Cold War anticommunism on the American scientific community. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work,...
J. Douglas Smith (History, Occidental College) Friday, May 7 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor Smith's Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia appeared in 2002. His current project examines one of the nation's most serious but understudied distortions of the idea of...
Theda Skocpol (Harvard, Sociology) Friday, April 30 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Skocpol is the author, most recently, of Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn; and The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism. Sponsored by the Center...
Thomas Andrews (History, University of Colorado) Friday, April 16 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Andrews, an environmental historian of the American West, won the 2009 Bancroft Prize for his book of the same title, which reconsiders the social and environmental meaning of the 1914 Ludlow Massacre. Sponsored by the...
Sven Beckert (History, Harvard) Friday, March 5 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Beckert is the author of The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie (2001). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy, and the Policy History Program....
Friday, February 26 / 2:00 PM - 4:00PM Mosher Alumni House, Alumni Hall, 2nd floor Saturday, February 27 / 9:45 AM - 4:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB As the Medieval Studies Program’s major winter quarter event, this colloquium inaugurates, on the American site, a three-year project involving...
Friday, February 26 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference will feature a screening of the documentary The Storm That Swept Mexico and well as a discussion with producer Ray Telles. The panelists are Kate Bruhn (Political Science, UCSB) and Alex Saragoza (Ethnic Studies,...
Jennifer Klein (History, Yale) Eileen Boris (Feminist Studies, UCSB) February 26 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Klein is the author of For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State (2003). Boris is Hull Professor of Feminist Studies and the author of Home...
Katie Quan (UC Berkeley Labor Center) Friday, February 5 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Quan is Associate Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center and this year's Hull Lecturer. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, the Dept. of Feminist Studies, the Dept....
Michael Soldatenko (Chicano Studies, Cal State Los Angeles) Wednesday, February 3 / 12:00 PM South Hall 1623 Professor Michael Soldatenko will talk on his newly published book Chicano Studies: The Genesis of a Discipline. Professor Soldatenko is Professor and Chair of the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal...
Jeffrey Perry (independent scholar Friday, January 29 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry is an independent, working class scholar who was formally educated at Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, and Columbia University. He is a long-time union activist and editor for the National Postal Mail Handlers Union. He is...
Larry Bartels (Political Science, Princeton) Friday, January 15 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Bartels is the author of Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice (1988) and Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (2008). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor,...