The Evolution of the Mediterranean Diet from the Middle Ages
The concept of the Mediterranean diet is a modern invention; the Middle Ages and Renaissance had some very different food values. This lecture presents a look at the recent construct […]
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Confronting Antisemitism in the Twenty-first Century
Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSBTALK: Confronting Antisemitism in the Twenty-first Century Robert Wistrich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Monday, February 23 / 7:30 […]
The Power of Disengagement: The Idea of Hermit Life in Early China
Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, the East Asia Center, and the IHC East Asian Cultures Research Focus Group. For more information call 805.893.3907. jwil […]
Centennial Lecture of the UCSB Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
Marian Wright Edelman, the founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, is the author of the bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours […]
The Radical Legacy of Civil Rights & Feminist Movements for Contemporary Progressive Politics
Barbara Ransby is Associate Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ransby published the book Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical […]
Beyond Ethnicity and Polybius: Was the Decision of the Ptolemies to Integrate Egyptians in the Army a Good One?
This talk is sponsored by the IHC Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. John Lee (UCSB) will provide a response. For more information contact Christine Thomas. jwil 09.ii.2009
“Triumph Over Time”: Film and Discussion
"Triumph Over Time: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens in Post-War Greece" (1947, 42 minutes) In 1947, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens commissioned a 42-minute […]
CCWS Film Series Presents “Good Bye Lenin!”
This German film directed by Wolfgang Becker comically portrays the collapse of communism. Suffering a heart attack and falling into a coma after seeing her son arrested during a protest, […]
Staged Reading of Ida Fink’s “The Table”
directed by WILLIAM SMITHERS In Ida Fink's "The Table," four witnesses testify to mass murder in a small Polish-Jewish town during World War II. But does their testimony matter in […]
Anti-Poverty Policy in the Obama Administration
Peter B. Edelman is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and co-chair of the Task Force on Poverty for the Center for American Progress. In a career devoted […]