‘The Last Earth’: On Reclaiming the Palestinian Narrative and Recreating the Self
Dr. Ramzy Baroud will talk about his latest book, The Last Earth, a narrative nonfiction story of modern Palestinian history. The book comprises the stories of complex characters whose accounts overlap in terms of the collective experience. It tells the story of modern Palestine through the memories of those who […]
The Global Dimensions of Religious Othering
Organizers: Professors Kathie Moore and Mark Juergensmeyer Abstract: The topic of religious othering — stereotyping of people of other faiths in a prejudicial way — has become an aspect of nationalist politics and social conflict around the world. At Goettingen University in Germany and UC Santa Barbara in the United States, the […]
Research Agendas for the Study of Terrorism Workshop
The Orfalea Center is bringing together leading scholars of terrorism to focus on research agendas for deepening our collective understanding of terrorism, counterterrorism, media presentations and public perceptions of the problem of terrorism and responses to it. […]
‘The Last Earth’: On Reclaiming the Palestinian Narrative and Recreating the Self
Dr. Ramzy Baroud will talk about his latest book, The Last Earth, a narrative nonfiction story of modern Palestinian history. The book comprises the stories of complex characters whose accounts overlap in terms of the collective experience. It tells the story of modern Palestine through the memories of those who […]
Fukushima + Eight: Lessons from Citizen Science in Japan
In the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the Japanese state has assembled technologies of decontamination and monitoring that fundamentally reconfigured the environment, together with its human and non-human inhabitants. In the eight years since, civic organizations across Asia have enlisted citizen science to grapple with the uncertainties of […]
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Senior Seminar on Nuclear Weapons and International Security, Professor Neil Narang Winter 2019
UCSB’s The Current featured Professor Neil Narang’s “Nuclear Weapons and International Security” class in Winter 2019. Professor Narang is the Co-Convener of The Orfalea Center’s Global Security Hub and an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department. As he told The Current – “I don’t think there is a single […]
Critical Studies on Terrorism Special Section
An upcoming special section of the journal Critical Studies on Terrorism will feature articles from participants of the After After 9/11 Working Group hosted by the Orfalea Center’s Global Security Hub. The six articles assembled in the special section interrogate the important question, “Is there an After, After 9/11?” from a number of […]
Lella Nouri, visiting Fulbright Scholar, receives Rising Star Award
Dr. Lella Nouri, Lecturer of Criminology at Swansea University and former visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at UCSB, received the Rising Star (Early Career Researcher) Award at Swansea University’s 2018 Research and Innovation Awards. […]