October 13, 2016 - Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB

13 Oct

Insubordinate Spaces for Intemperate Times: Why Civic Engagement Matters Now

George Lipsitz (Black Studies, UCSB) Barbara Tomlinson (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Thursday, October 13, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What is a university and why does the work we do here matter? What is the relationship between what goes on in our classrooms, studios and laboratories...

13 Oct

The Color Line and the Borderline: Locating William Ellis, the Texas Slave who Became a Mexican Millionaire, in the Archives and in Family History

Karl Jacoby (History, Columbia University) Members of the Ellis family Thursday, October 13, 2016 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican banker and broker, with an apartment on Central Park West...

12:13 / Community Matters / Upcoming Events / IHC Series

October 2016

Insubordinate Spaces for Intemperate Times: Why Civic Engagement Matters Now

The Color Line and the Borderline: Locating William Ellis, the Texas Slave who Became a Mexican Millionaire, in the Archives and in Family History