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Mawangdui and Its Roaming in the Celestial Realm: Immortality and the Imagination in Han Dynasty China
Among the motifs decorating Han dynasty mortuary objects, including those found in the tomb of the noblewoman at Mawangdui, are clouds and creatures representing an "other world" through which the […]
Wal-Mart and the Future of US Business
The "Big Box" Phenomenon: Wal-Mart and the Future of American Business UCSB History Associates event, $10 members, $12 non-members. See the UCSB Daily Nexus, Wednesday, October 7, 2009: Lichtenstein Lectures […]
Archaeology in Sri Lanka: Challenges and Prospects for the Future
The island of Sri Lanka has been known by many names throughout its history: Ratnadipa, or the "land of gems" in Buddhist Sanskrit literature, Taprobane among Greeks and Romans, Serendib […]
Paradise Now film screening
A 2006 Golden Globe winner for best foreign language film, Paradise Now intensely and powerfully tells the story of two lifelong friends that are tapped by an unidentified Palestinian resistance […]
Campuswide Teach-In on UC Budget Crisis
This teach-in explores the origins and character of the current crisis at the University of California. The program is as follows; for more information see the Keep California's Promise website. […]
Rethinking Early China in Light of the Mawangdui Finds
Many of the archaeological discoveries at Mawangdui have great artistic merit and aesthetic appeal. Beyond these qualities, however, the Mawangdui finds suggest that certain of our assumptions about early China, […]
The California Missions: History, Art, and Preservation
Julia Costello will be talking about her newly published book, The California Missions, History, Art, and Preservation (Edna E. Kimbro and Julia G. Costello with Tevvy Ball), as the Norman […]
Too Many Temples: Interpreting the Evidence at Omrit in Northern Israel
Daniel Showalter is co-director of the Omrit Excavations project. This event is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. jwil 04.x.2009
The Medicalization of the Maya: Ethnicity, Culture and Morality in Postrevolutionary Yucatan
This presentation will examine how the medical establishment in Mérida and medical student brigades from the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán interpreted the health conditions of rural Maya communities and prescribed […]