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    • Talk: Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs

    4041 HSSB

    Colin Gordon, History, University of Iowa Gordon is an historian of U.S. public policy, political economy, and urban history. He is the author of Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (2008), Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health in Twentieth Century America (2003) and New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics, 1920-1935 (1994). This event is a part of The Political Economy of Racial Inequality, a series of UCSB talks and workshops sponsored ...

    Talk: A Fabulous Failure: Bill Clinton, American Capitalism, and the Origin of Our Troubled Times

    Corwin Pavilion 494 UCEN Rd, Isla Vista, CA, United States

    Nelson Lichtenstein, History, UC Santa Barbara Lichtenstein is the Academic Senate’s 2019 Faculty Research Lecturer. He is the author of Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit (1996); The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business (2009), and co-editor of Beyond the New Deal Order: From the Great Depression to the Great Recession (2019). This event is a part of The Political Economy of Racial Inequality, a series of UCSB talks and ...

    Talk: The Pyramid Problem: Regulating Direct Sales at the Edges of Labor and Consumption, 1972-1982

    4041 HSSB

    Bernhard Reiger, History, University of Leiden Reiger’s research examines European history within a comparative and transnational framework. His publications include Technology and the Culture of Modernity in Britain and Germany, 1890-1945 (2009) and The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle (2013). This event is a part of The Political Economy of Racial Inequality, a series of UCSB talks and workshops sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy; and the ...

    • Talk: A New Deal Voting Rights Case: A Strategy of the Roosevelt Justice Department, 1939-1941

    4041 HSSB

    Eric Rauchway, History, UC Davis Rauchway is the author of Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America (2003); The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace (2015); and Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash over the New Deal (2018). This event is a part of The Political Economy of Racial Inequality, a series of UCSB talks and workshops sponsored by the Center for the Study ...

    Talk: Economic Policy and the Civil Rights Struggle for Guaranteed Jobs

    4041 HSSB

    David Stein, African American Studies, UCLA A UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Stein is the author of the forthcoming book, Fearing Inflation, Inflating Fears: The Civil Rights Struggle for Full Employment and the Rise of the Carceral State, 1929-1986. This event is a part of The Political Economy of Racial Inequality, a series of UCSB talks and workshops sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy; and the Policy History Program. Pre-circulated papers available ...

    • Talk: The Class Politics of Inflation and Postwar Wage and Price Controls

    4041 HSSB

    Andrew Elrod is a PhD candidate in the History Department at UC Santa Barbara. He is a historian of American capitalism and economic thought who has published in the New Labor Forum, Jacobin, and Dissent. His talk will examine the responses of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations to the problems of inflation and price controls in the 1960s and 1970s. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy

    • POSTPONED Conference: Climate Fictions

    McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    THIS CONFERENCE HAS BEEN POSTPONED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE. EMAIL CHRISTENE D'ANCA FOR MORE INFORMATION (christene_danca@ucsb.edu)   As climate change has become a central topic of discussion, laced with the uncertainty of tomorrow, the UCSB Graduate Center for Literary Research has invited scholars from a variety of disciplines to reframe their conversations with a focus on this ubiquitous topic as it has been interpreted in literary fiction, as well as within the ...

    • Award: Luis Leal Award For Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature

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    Rubén Martínez will receive this year's Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. Martínez is Professor of English and the Fletcher Jones Chair in Literature & Writing at Loyola Marymount University. His books include The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City & Beyond (1993), Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico (with Joseph Rodriguez, 2006), The New Americans (2004), Crossing Over: A Mexican Family over the Migrant Trail (2001), and East Side Stories ...

    • GCLR Workshop Linshan Jiang

    GCLR Dissertation Writing Workshop

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    Please join us for this year's second GCLR Dissertation and Prospectus Writing Workshop for graduate students from any department in the Humanities at UCSB. Our presenter will be Linshan Jiang 蒋林珊, a doctoral candidate in the UCSB Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, who is presenting a chapter from her dissertation entitled "Mobilizing Shame: Tension between Nationalism and Feminism in Nieh Hualing’s Far Away, A River and Zhang Ling’s A Single Swallow." Linshan's ...

    • Hamlet's Big Adventure! (A Prequel)

    Hamlet’s Big Adventure! (A Prequel)

    Isla Vista Community Center 976 Embarcadero del Mar, Isla Vista, CA

    Before the tragedy, before the betrayal, there was a performance! Isla Vista Arts and Not Necessarily Shakespeare in the Park present "Hamlet's Big Adventure (A Prequel)," a new play by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor and directed by Grace Kimball. Showtimes are on June 3 and 4 at 4 PM; admission is free. Join us for a night full of laughs!

    • Leal Award 2023

    Award: Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature

    McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    The annual Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature will be presented to Cherríe Moraga on February 8 in the McCune Conference Room of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. The award is given to a Chicano/Latino writer who has achieved national and international recognition. Cherríe Moraga is one of the most accomplished poets, playwrights, and writers in the United States. She is the author of numerous publications, including This Bridge Called My Back, co-edited with Gloria ...

    Sal Castro Memorial Conference - Winter 2023

    Sal Castro Memorial Conference on the Chicano Movement and the Long History of Mexican American Civil Rights Struggles

    McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    The Sal Castro Memorial Conference on the Chicano Movement and the Long History of Mexican American Civil Rights Struggles will focus on the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s as a seminal period in Chicano history on the struggle for civil rights and community empowerment. Papers will also include earlier Mexican American civil rights struggles and the continuation of such struggle after the Chicano Movement. This will be the 6th bi-annual Sal Castro ...

    • Talk: Art, Art History, and Artificial Intelligence

    6206C Phelps and Zoom UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Computation and the Humanities is a series of events at the GCLR investigating the impact of computation on literary and visual research. Guests include researchers, artists, and practitioners working within and beyond the digital humanities. On March 20th, we welcome Dr. Leonardo Impett, who is a University Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities and convenor of the MPhil in Digital Humanities at Cambridge University. In this talk, Impett will introduce his current project, a new history of ...

    • Talk: Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945

    McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Professor Salim Yaqub will discuss his new book, Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945, which traverses the broad sweep of postwar U.S. history. It explores how Americans of all walks of life—political leaders, businesspeople, public intellectuals, workers, students, activists, migrants, and others—struggled to define the nation’s political, economic, geopolitical, demographic, and social character. The book chronicles the nation’s ceaseless ferment, from the rocky conversion to peacetime in the early aftermath ...

    • Love and Information - Event

    Love and Information

    Isla Vista Community Center 976 Embarcadero del Mar, Isla Vista, CA

    Isla Vista Arts and Not Necessarily Shakespeare in the Park present “Love and Information," a play by Caryl Churchill and directed by Jake Marshall, Nicole Hearfield, Logan Null, Tori Kostic, Maylin De Leon, and Benjamin Atticus Scapellati, in which over a hundred characters try to understand meaning and human connection in a world with too much information. Showtimes are on June 9 at 7 PM and June 10 at 2 PM and 7 PM; admission ...

    • Award: Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature

    McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    The annual Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature will be given to Gustavo Arellano of the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Arellano is a prize-winning columnist for the LA Times. He is one of the major Latino journalists in the United States. His columns focus on Latinos in Los Angeles and California. He has also written several books, such as Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America and A People's Guide to Orange County. ...

    Talk: Mystery Children: The Stasova International Children’s Home During Stalin’s Purge

    McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Drawing on her current book project, Communist Neverland, Elizabeth McGuire tells the story of the Stasova International Children’s Home, an elite orphanage and boarding school for the children of Communist Party leaders from all parts of the globe. Professor McGuire will focus in this talk on “Jimmy Ruegg,” one of the Stasova home’s many “mystery children.” Jimmy spent his earliest years in the International Settlement in Shanghai, believed he was German, and thought he had ...

    • Talk: The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs

    McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    UCSB Professor Emeritus of History Tsuyoshi Hasegawa engages in a colloquy with Michigan State Professor Emeritus of History Lewis Siegelbaum on Professor Hasegawa’s new book, The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs. When Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest. Although Nicholas’s life is often described as tragic, it was not fate that doomed ...

    • Leal Award 2025

    Award: Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature

    McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    The Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature, now in its twentieth year, honors a writer of Chicano/Latino background who has attained national and international distinction. The recipient of the 2025 Leal Award is Manuel Muñoz. A MacArthur Fellow and a Professor of English at the University of Arizona, Muñoz is the author of three books of short stories and one novel, all of which have been highly acclaimed and received awards. Mr. Muñoz ...

    Sal Castro Memorial Lecture 2025

    McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    The Sal Castro Memorial Lecture aims to present recent books published in Chicano/Latino history. Named after Chicano Movement icon Sal Castro, who struggled for educational justice for Chicans, this will be the inaugural lecture. Our first speaker is Prof. Oliver Rosales, who will discuss his recent book, Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley (University of Texas Press: 2024). Prof. Rosales received his Ph.D. in History from UCSB. Cosponsored by ...

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    Talk: The Vietnam War and Its Legacy After 50 Years

    McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    April/May 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall discusses the Vietnam War—one of the major conflicts of the 20th century—and reflects on its legacy. Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of History and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of eleven books, including recently JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 (Random House, 2020), which won the Elizabeth ...

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    GCLR Seminar: Urban Experiential Learning: Concepts and Pedagogical Methods

    6206C Phelps Phelps Hall, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    This seminar will focus on the concepts, pedagogical designs, and possible experiential outcomes for urban studies courses. We will draw on a summer course titled “Interdisciplinary Introduction to African Urban Studies,” which Prof. Quayson has taught in Accra for Stanford students for the past three years. The central principle underpinning the course is the ways in which any given city might be used to generate a toolkit of concepts and methods for understanding other cities, ...

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    GCLR Discussion: Ilya Kliger in Conversation with Sven Spieker

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    Join us for a conversation between professors Ilya Kliger (NYU) and Sven Spieker (UCSB) on Kliger's new book, "Sovereign Fictions: Poetics and Politics in the Age of Russian Realism" The nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries to the ideologies, institutions, and practices of modern civil society. In Sovereign Fictions, Ilya Kliger asks what happens to the novel when its fundamental sociohistorical orientation is, as in the case of Russian realism, ...

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    GCLR Talk: Interdisciplinarity and Interpretation: A Comparative Method

    Wallis Annenberg Conference Room 4315 SSMS, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Different institutional arrangements have historically been devised to house and support what is described as interdisciplinary work, including in the form of entire universities, specific schools and departments, standalone institutes and centers, and survey courses firmly lodged within disciplinary curricula, to name just a few. At the core of the efforts at interdisciplinarity are two central principles: first, that of integrative epistemologies that might be applicable to all fields of learning, including the sciences, the social ...

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    GCLR Book Presentation: The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism with Kevin B. Anderson

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    The author of the acclaimed Marx at the Margins analyses the late Marx on Indigenous communism, gender, and anti-colonialism. In his late writings, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on Russia, India, Ireland, Algeria, Latin America, and ancient Rome. These texts, some of them only now being published, provide evidence for a change of ...

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    GCLR Conference: Blue Humanities and Liquid Media: A Watery View of the World

    Wallis Annenberg Conference Room 4315 SSMS, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    The GCLR is very proud to announce the upcoming arrival of our annual graduate student conference! This year's title, "Blue Humanities and Liquid Media: A Watery View of the World" reflects our collective desire to interrogate the depths of our current historical conjuncture— marked by the pressing global socioecological crisis— and to find ways to flow between borders, disciplinary and otherwise. Our keynote speaker for the event will be the esteemed Prof. Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA). Please see ...