Consumerism and the End of the Cold War
Professor Emily Rosenberg delivers this year’s keynote address at the 2008 annual International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, taking place this year at UCSB. Emily Rosenberg’s research and […]
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Flight of Fancy: Whiteness, Suburbanization, and Identity in San Juan, Puerto Rico since 1940
Prof. Figueroa is the author of Sugar, Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico (University of North Carolina Press, 2005. His scholarly interests include slavery, post-emancipation, and racial discourses and […]
International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War
Here at UCSB, this Friday and Saturday, April 4-5, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History is hosting the 2008 annual International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold […]
Food fit for Pharaohs: Food and Drink in Ancient Egypt
About this LectureThe annual Kress Lecture is sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. Directions to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art may be found […]
Conspiracy: The 1942 Wannsee Conference
On January 20, 1942, 15 high ranking German officers gathered in a villa on the outskirts of Berlin for a clandestine meeting that would ultimately seal the fate of the […]
Hegel, Haiti and Universal History
Professor Buck-Morss' lecture entitled "Hegel, Haiti and Universal History" connects Haiti's revolution to political universality, questioning the adequacy of multiculturalism and alternative modernities as approaches to historical scholarship today. Susan […]
Writing History and Lyric in Trilingual England
Ralph Hanna, Professor of Paleography and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford University “The Matter of Fulk: Romance and History in Fourteenth-Century Shropshire” Fouke le Fitz Waryn, an Anglo-Norman prose text […]
Topography and the Inscriptions of Ephesos: What Findspots Reveal about Socio-Cultural History
Since the beginnings of archaeological research in Ephesos, inscriptions have played a central role as an essential source for the analysis of its socio-historical milieu. Their archaeological context, however, has […]
Counting Slaves in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Prof. Robert Davis (Ohio State University) will present a chapter of his new research project entitled "Counting slaves in the Early Modern Mediterranean." The chapter will be distributed in advance […]
The Celebration of Slavery in the Christian-Muslim World
Following his 12-2 p.m. seminar, Prof. Davis will give a talk on "The Celebration of Slavery in the Christian-Muslim World." Refreshments will be served around 5:30. Robert Davis is professor […]