Joy Connolly works mainly on Roman ideas about communication, education, and governance, and their ongoing relevance for the modern world. Her first book, The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome, was published by Princeton in 2007; her second, a book about republicanism called Talk about Virtue, is under contract with Duckworth […]
Using the concept of privilege in race, gender, and class, this discussion will raise questions about systems and structures of power that can allow us to go beyond polite “diversity talk” to discuss what would be needed to transform our society and promote justice and sustainability. Any serious effort toward those goals must confront the […]
In addition to evidence for household cults in the terrace houses at Ephesus, three of the units contained installations for cultic activities that "blur" the traditional distinction between public and private space. The likely identification of Terrace House 2 as that of C. Vibius Salutaris offers additional commentary on important aspects of such "blurring" through […]
The landmark federal Endangered Species Act—the most powerful and comprehensive U.S. environmental law, and the most ambitious biodiversity conservation statute ever enacted by any country—turns forty in 2013. Is this anniversary cause for celebration or despair? What have we learned during the past four decades? Why is endangered species conservation so complicated? And why do […]
> Released in 1982, "The Atomic Cafe" was a masterful compilation of > U.S. government propaganda films that exposed the madness of the > nuclear arms race. Jayne Loader, one of the film's directors, > screens excerpts of the documentary and engages the audience in a > discussion of her work process. Also taking part […]
This is the closing talk and reception as part of the IHC's Fallout: In the Aftermath of War series, with series closing remarks by IHC director Susan Derwin. Historian John Lee offers closing reflections on the year’s IHC program, Fallout. Using as a starting point the war memoirs of Xenophon (ca. 427-355 BC), Lee considers […]
Professor Hahamovitch explores exploited labor systems in the colonial period and the guest worker programs in the United States during the post-war period. About our speaker: Cindy Hahamovitch is the author of The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 (1997). Her No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in […]
The Division of Humanities and Fine Arts is sponsoring this special event. UCSB History professors Stefania Tutino and John Majewski were involved in putting the program together. We hope this is an entertaining and informative way to present the humanities to the general public, so please come and bring along family and friends. The Natural […]
In this talk, Hussein Ibish looks at the different ways post-dictatorship transition has unfolded in the three North African Arab states that experienced regime change during the "Arab Spring": Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. Among the questions he addresses are: What are the new systems emerging in those countries? To what extent have old governance structures […]
Please join us for the R. Stephen Humphreys Distinuished Lecture: The "Discovery of Writing" in the Qur'an: Tracing an Epistemic Revolution in Arab Late Antiquity" Professor Angelika Neuwirth Arabic Studies, Free University (Berlin) Tuesday, May 21st at 4:00 pm HSSB 4080 The Qur’an—being the first significant non-oral literary text in the Arabic language—induced an epistemic […]