The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Making of Modern America (Oxford 2010) winner of the Spur Prize for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction Book Lawrence Culver Associate Professor of History Utah […]
Among the finds from the Achaemenid palace of Persepolis a classical Greek marble statue of highest quality, representing Odysseus’ wife Penelope, constitutes an ongoing and still unexplained surprise. How, by […]
Experience the dances of early California in the historic Presidio Chapel withdancer and teacher Diana Replogle-Purinton. Diana is the director of Las Fiesteras folk dance group, and has over three […]
The cast of England’s Globe Theater company will be performing Shakespeare’s “AComedy of Errors” in Cambell Hall Nov. 8-11. We have arranged for director Rebecca Gatward and one of the […]
The UCSB Student Veterans Organization (SVO), a student-created and student-led group that is registered with the UCSB Office of Student Life, will host a Veterans Day Celebration on Wednesday, November […]
Kate Cooper is Professor of Ancient History in the Department of Ancient History and Classics at the University of Manchester. Professor Cooper's research interest is in the cultural, social, and […]
Mikael Wolfe is a visiting assistant professor of environmental history at UCLA. He is an expert in history of modern Mexico, specifically agrarian reform, water policy, and environment. He is […]
Verónica Castillo-Muñoz, Assistant Professor in Chicano History, will be speaking about her research topic, "Contested Borderlands: Gender, Transnational Migration, and the Movement for Land Reform in Baja California, 1900-1937". Sponsored […]
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Tamale Making, Saturday, December 3 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Learn the Mexican tradition of tamale making with George Hernández, a Ventura County cook for over 40 years. Learn […]