TALK: Religious Fundamentalism: A Clash of Civilizations or a Convergence of Religiosities?Olivier Roy (CNRS) Friday, November 14 / 12:30 PM 3824 Ellison Hall 1930 Buchanan Olivier Roy is a research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a lecturer for both the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) […]
Mary Beard, distinguished Classicist and Roman cultural historian, is delivering this fall's Sather Lectures at UC Berkeley. Their topic is “Roman Laughter: What made the Romans laugh?” Was Rome a world of practical jokes, Bakhtinian, carnival and hearty chuckles? Or (for the elite, at least) was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable […]
UCSB History Associates Lecture and Reception Sunday, 2:00 p.m. at the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library Conference Room 2201 Laguna Street Prof. Hämäläinen's homepage Cost: $10.00 for History Associates; $15.00 for non-members Phone 893-4388 to reserve your place. hm 11/6/08
Monday, October 27 / 4:30 PM DATE CHANGE (10/23): rescheduled to November 17McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Mark LeVine: Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam An eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves Black Sabbath. A twenty-two-year-old rapper from the Gaza Strip. A young Lebanese singer who quotes Bob Marley's "Redemption […]
Marking the 40th anniversary of the Black Student takeover of North Hall, the Department of Black Studies is organizing a conference entitled, 1968: A Global Year of Student Driven Change, to take place, November 20-22, 2008. While recognizing the courage and insight of the 1968 student awakening, this conference places that Black activism in a […]
“A Medieval Source for Renaissance Philosophy: Valla’s Metaphysics and the Logic of Peter of Spain.”Brian P. Copenhaver, Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA “The Transition from Medieval to Renaissance Philosophy: Lorenzo Valla.” Lodi Nauta, Professor in Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, University of Groningen For copies of the readings to be discussed in this […]
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The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will hold the first workshop event of the 2008-2009 academic year. Professor Nelson Lichtenstein of the Department of History will join us to discuss his original essay, “Did 1968 Change History?”, a reflection on the political and cultural legacy of that momentous year, from both […]
Wuzhaishan, a second-century family cemetery site in Shandong Province, was the first site in China to be excavated by amateur antiquarian archaeologists in 1786, a few decades after similar excavations began at Pompeii. Excavations continued in the twentieth century by European, Japanese, and Chinese archaeologists. My approach has been to analyze finds from these excavations […]
Good luck with your final exams! hm 11/26