This talk examines the literary and archaeological/topographical evidence for Agesilaos' campaign against Sardis in 395 B.C. By reading the conflicting accounts of Xenophon, the Oxyrhynchus Historian, and Diodorus Siculus in […]

For the past 35 years, the US has been unquestionably the dominant power in both the Middle East and the world. But now, the global balance is shifting rapidly; we […]

Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, October 24 - 26, 2008University of California, Santa Barbara McCune Conference Room (6020 HSSB) 7:30pm Friday October 23 KEYNOTE: Intimate Justice Tricia Rose, Africana Studies, Brown […]

UCSB Renaissance Studies presents the first talk in its new speaker series. There will be a light reception after the talk. For more information contact Stefania Tutino or Jim Kearney. […]

Was John Cabot the first European after the Norse to set foot in North America? Brian Fagan takes us on a fascinating 1,500-year archaeological and historical journey in search of […]

Dias de los Muertos event Thursday, October 30 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 As part of its Food Matters series, the IHC will celebrate the Days of […]

Presented by the CCWS Cold War film series. The president of United States has just signed a treaty with the Soviet Union requiring both countries to destroy their nuclear weapons. […]

In this colloquium, Josiah Ober will draw on his recent book Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens (Princeton University Press, 2008) to discuss the institutional contexts of […]

Monday, November 3 / 12:00 PMHSSB 2252 Luke Roberts will speak on keeping the deaths of daimyo officially secret for days or months at a time so as to engineer […]

Wednesday, November 5 / 4:00 PMMcCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This book presentation and discussion will focus on Mario T. Garcia's new book concerning the historic role that Chicano Catholicism […]