Neither Priests nor Consuls: Authors and Authority in Roman Prose (1st cent. BC)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics. jwil 16.ii.2010
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The Empire of Cotton: A Global History
This lecture is part of the Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy series. Sven Beckert is the author of The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie (2001). He organizes the biannual History of Capitalism Conferences hosted by the Department of History at Harvard University. A copy of Beckert's […]
Victory Gardens: Join the Garden Revolution!
With interest in home gardens at the highest it has been in decades (even the White House has one), this event will take us back to another time when national interest was focused on household agriculture—the Victory Gardens of World War II. Our own Rose Hayden-Smith will talk about current national policy and models and […]
Barbarian ‘Modernity’ and the Endurance of Romanitas: Some Continuity Issues Revisited
Philip Rousseau is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Early Christian Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Early Christianity at The Catholic University of America. Sponsored by the IHC Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and the Mediterranean Studies program. jwil 16.ii.2010
Reconstructing and Field Testing Ancient Greek Linen Body Armor: The UWGB Linothorax Project
For nearly 1,000 years, one of the most common forms of protection used by ancient Mediterranean warriors, including the armies of the Greeks and Alexander the Great, was the linothorax, a type of body armor apparently made out of linen. Due to the perishable nature of its material, however, no examples have survived; today it […]
Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia
Drawn from Prof. Vladislav Zubok's new book of the same title (Harvard University Press, 2009), this talk examines one of the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history: the the story of the Russian intelligentsia after Stalin. In pursuing the dream of a civil, democratic, socialist society, Russian intellectuals, writers, and […]
Last day of Winter quarter instruction
For detailed academic calendar information, see: http://www.registrar.ucsb.edu/calinfo.htm. hm 2/22/10
Winter quarter grades reported by midnight
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Start of Spring quarter instruction
For detailed academic calendar information, see: http://www.registrar.ucsb.edu/calinfo.htm. hm 2/22/10