Dr Cruz-Uribe will examine the role of pilgrimage in ancient Egypt, especially during Roman and Byzantine times. Using both newly-discovered and well-known Coptic and Demotic texts, he will compare the […]
Spring Quarter 2011 classes begin on Monday, March 28. If you are enrolled in a discussion section that meets before the main lecture meets, you should still attend section that […]
This talk will explore how narratives of novelty and familiarity have been routinely deployed by practitioners, analysts, and policymakers alike in synthetic biology, and what this may mean for a […]
Faculty are invited to bring their classes. From 1100AM to 1230PM the national teach-in will be streaming live on the big screen. From 1230 to 200PM we will have local […]
The invasion of Normandy, the creation of an industrial war machine, and the falling reputation of rum—how does whiskey tie them all together? Lisa Jacobson answers this question by exploring […]
In Roman antiquity as much as now, the landscapes of Asia Minor were strewn with the traces of prior human habitation, from Hittite rock-cut reliefs to abandoned Urartian fortifications. Anatolian […]
Lecture I: An Integrated Cast in a Segregated AmericaThursday, April 7, 4 p.m., Karl Geiringer Hall (Music 1250) On the Town (1944) was the first Broadway show of Leonard Bernstein […]
Ronald Mellor is Professor of History at UCLA. This event is sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa in cooperation with the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus […]
TALK: From Victory Gardens to Urban Agriculture: Join the Garden RevolutionRose Hayden-Smith (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, April 13 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Hayden-Smith will present an […]
The GWU/UCSB/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War will be taking place here at UCSB April 14-16, 2011, in the Harbor Room, on the lower level of UCen. […]