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 the answer, which is closely linked to the importance of fish like cod to Christian doctrine. We begin with Christ's 40-day fast in the wilderness, […]
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 the Dead with a screening of the PBS film Food for the Ancestors. Food for the Ancestors is a culinary-history exploration of Days of the […]
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. The polls show the treaty to be unpopular. The charismatic Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff believes that the Soviets will cheat and launch […]
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 democratic knowledge management in classical Athens. Josiah Ober is Professor of Classics and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, and holds the Constantine Mitsotaki […]
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 adoptions in the Tokugawa period. Almost everyone is in the know but pretends the lord is alive. This study helped Roberts figure out the why […]
Wednesday, November 5 / 7:30 PMUCSB Campbell Hall Israeli writer David Grossman is the author of some of the most controversial books in his country's history, including the award-winning The Yellow Wind, observations collected over three months in the West Bank. The recipient of 21 international literary awards, Grossman's acclaimed body of works has been […]
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 has played in the resistance of Chicanos to cultural and identity repression and in affirming the cultural and identity integrity of Chicanos. In addition to […]
5 - 6 pm at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Introductory remarks by Mara Vishniac Kohn and Jeffrey Gusky On view: Of Life and Loss: The Polish Photographs of Roman Vishniac (1930s) and Jeffrey Gusky (1990s) Student and survivor art work 6 pm: Candlelight Walk of Remembrance from the Museum to […]
The Burden of Female Talent in Premodern China: Early Reactions to Li QingzhaoRonald Egan (EALCS, UCSB) Thursday November 13 / 12:00 PM HSSB 2252 The most celebrated woman poet in Chinese history, Li Qingzhao was already famous during her lifetime (1084-1150s). But while early critics and commentators universally acknowledged her literary talent, there was also […]
Gilbert Gonzalez is Professor of Social Sciences and Director of the Labor Studies Program at UC Irvine. He is the author of Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation (1990) and Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880-1930 (2004). hm 9/22