News

Re-territorializing Money? International Diffusion and Dollarization

Event Start: October 25, 2013 10:00 PM

Event End: October 25, 2013 10:00 PM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Speaker:
Michael Albert, PhD Candidate, UCSB Department of Political Science

Identity Talk - When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Marginalization, Representation, and the Political Construction of Crisis

Event Start: May 22, 2014 11:00 PM

Event End: May 22, 2014 11:00 PM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Speaker:
Dara Z. Strolovitch, Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Princeton University

Norris's Book Takes on the Issue of Truth and Politics

Co-editors Jeremy Elkins and Andrew Norris have decided to tackle difficult questions about the role of truth in politics in their new volume, Truth and Democracy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).  As they note in their own contributions to the volume, "American political culture is deeply ambivalent about truth."

Graduate Student, Skylar Covich featured in the Daily Nexus

The Daily Nexus recently profiled Graduate Student Skylar Covich, who is a favorite teaching assistant of many of the undergraduate students.  Skylar happens to be visually impaired, which has led him to develop a unique and appreciated approach to serving as a TA and leading sections.  To read the full story, please visit the Daily Nexus website.

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).