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Identity Speaker Series "Sedentarism as Colonial Discourse in Soviet Nomadic Studies"

Event Start: May 14, 2013 11:00 PM

Event End: May 14, 2013 11:00 PM

Event Location: Humanities and Social Science Building 4080

Speaker:
Nazikbek Kydyrmyshev, Professor of International Relations, Bishkek Humanities University

Faculty Talk: Aligning aid with results: making international organizations responsive to past performance

Event Start: January 15, 2014 12:00 AM

Event End: January 15, 2014 12:00 AM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speaker:
Mark Buntaine, Assistant Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UCSB

Bren Assistant Professor, Mark Buntaine, will give a talk on his current book project.

Congratulations to Gigi Gokcek

Prof. Gigi Gokcek, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Dominican University of California was named Teacher of the Year in 2012. She earned a PhD degree from UCSB in 2006.

"The Paranoid Style Revisited: Support for the Tea Party and Contemporary American Politics"

Event Start: February 27, 2013 12:00 AM

Event End: February 27, 2013 12:00 AM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speaker:
Christopher Parker, Stuart A. Scheingold Professor of Social Justice and Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle

Prof. Chris Parker will speak on his new book, The Paranoid Style Revisited: Support for the Tea Party and Contemporary American Politics (with Matt Barreto).

National Security and United States Immigration Policy

Event Start: October 22, 2013 11:00 PM

Event End: October 22, 2013 11:00 PM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speaker:
Robbie Totten, Visiting Assistant Professor, UCSB Political Science Department

Only fair is lovely: candidate skin color and voter evaluation in an Indian election

Event Start: April 21, 2014 11:00 PM

Event End: April 21, 2014 11:00 PM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Speaker:
Amit Ahuja, Assistant Professor, UCSB Department of Political Science

Assistant Professor Amit Ahuja will give a talk as both the Identity Speaker Series and Faculty Lecture Series.

Jennings' Research Quoted in New York Times

"The Indoctrination Myth," an op-ed piece in the Sunday Review section of the New York Times by sociologist Neil Gross, discusses allegations in the recent presidential campaign that colleges and universities are "indoctrination mills" for godless liberalism. Gross cites the research of several sociologists, political scientists, and higher education researchers, including that of UCSB's M. Kent Jennings and his colleague, Laura Stoker (U.C. Berkeley) related to the question: Does attending college actually make you more liberal and less religious?

Spotlight on Faculty Research - Garrett Glasgow - Parliaments and R

Professor Garrett Glasgow, is currently working on a book on parliamentary government formation and has recently started a Meetup group for people who work with "R".