February 2012

Thursday-Friday, February 23-24 McCune Conferenc Room, 6020 HSSB Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni Center Every year UNESCO observes the International Mother Language Day on February 21st, in remembrance of the students that died in Dhaka (Bangladesh) during the Bengali Language Movement protests in 1952. UCSB's Spanish and Portuguese...

Bradley Simpson (History, Princeton University) Thursday, February 23 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4020 During the Cold War countless peoples and movements in both the decolonizing world and the advanced industrial states mobilized under the banner of self-determination, and sought to institutionalize its status as a human...