Events
Humanities 1, Room 520
Giancarlo Casale, “What did it mean to be European in the Sixteenth Century? A View from the Ottoman Empire”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. Giancarlo Casale is a specialist in the history of the early modern Ottoman empire, although he also has interests in the history of geography and cartography, global exploration, and comparative empires. He has just completed my first book, "The Ottoman Age of Exploration," about […]
From Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Jewish Studies and History Department present From Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century Bridges of Reform Shana Bernstien Southwestern University Author of Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in 20th Century Los Angeles (2011)
Karen Sánchez-Eppler: “In the Archives of Childhood”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKaren Sánchez-Eppler is Professor of American Studies and English at Amherst College. She is the author of Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (California, 1993) and Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (Chicago, 2005), and a founding co-editor of The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. […]
Peter Blickle: “New Developments in the Discourse of Heimat”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesToday, just as during any other period since the end of the eighteenth century, the idea of Heimat (home, homeland) is a central part of German-speaking people’s attempts to make sense of the world they live in. The regressive aspects of the idea are troubling. Any concrete interaction with the idea of Heimat in the […]
Mario Garcia: “Rediscovering and Rethinking the Chicano Movement: A Historian’s Quest”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for the second talk in the Unfinished Revolutions Lecture Series: Mario Garcia: "Rediscovering and Rethinking the Chicano Movement: A Historian's Quest"
John Mraz: “Photographing the Mexican Revolution: Commitments, Icons, Documents”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJohn Mraz will examine the photography made during the armed struggle, 1910-1920, through a profusely illustrated lecture. He will then place particular emphasis on identifying the commitment of photographers to different groups in Mexico by looking at five Revolutionary icons. John Mraz is a Research Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico. This series is […]