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The Santa Barbara Blues Society and the Resurgence of Blues

Noted jazz historian Douglas Daniels and the History Department's favorite pianist, Frank Frost, reunite to celebrate the History Associates' 20th anniversary with this special program that will also commemorate the […]

German Women Recall the Third Reich

This illustrated talk will focus on what a wide variety of women who lived during the Third Reich -- from righteous Gentiles to Nazi party members, from countesses to Hausfrauen, […]

Early Christianity and the Ancient Coastline of Ephesos

Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman archaeological research in Greece and Turkey has traditionally been overwhelmingly weighted toward the excavation of monumental structures in urban centers. This work has in turn been […]

Charles Darwin, Then and Now

Professor Mike Osborne lectures on the life, ideas and legacy of Charles Darwin. Darwin is almost 200 years old and his most popular work, The Origin of Species of 1859, […]

Goetics: The Magical Poetics of Latin Love Elegy

The language and conceptualization of love take for granted a supernatural element. From antiquity to today, we acknowledge the irresistible force of love by attributing to it the character of […]

Last Days of the Empire

A new play by Robert Potter, UCSB professor emeritus of drama, "Last Days of the Empire" is set amid the ruins of Cyrene in Roman North Africa. It interweaves characters […]