Two UCSB doctoral students, Hayate Murayama of the History Department and Shelby King of the Religious Studies Department, will deliver brief talks based on their original research.

On Saturday, April 20, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will host an in-person workshop from 11:00-12:30 pm at the West Campus Point faculty housing community's outdoor plaza. We will be reading and discussing a paper, "The Spirit of Tashkent: Soviet Internationalism, Peaceful Coexistence, and Third World Conflict," by Matt Brown, a doctoral candidate in the UCSB History Department.

On Monday, February 12, at 4 pm in the McCune Room, Elizabeth McGuire, Associate Professor of History, California State University, East Bay, will be talking about her current book project, Communist Neverland. The book 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. Through dozens of first-person interviews, Prof. McGuire investigates how the fierce struggle for world communism looked through the eyes of children, and how they became symbols, pawns, and victims in the violent geopolitics of the world around them. The event is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History. Delicious refreshments will be served!