This event is co-sponsored by the History Associates and the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2013. The cost is $8 for HA members, $10 for non-members. Four “big ideas” swept across the Southwest borderlands of North American in the thousand years preceding the consolidation of the Spanish colony of […]
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Dr. Daly Thompson will talk about her new book. For fuller details, including abstract, please visit the URL below. Chapter One of the book is available from Prof. Chikowero for reading before the talk. hm 4/10/13
Professor Saccarelli offers insights on Silone’s role as a secret collaborator with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. His paper can be found here. About our speaker: Emmanuel Saccarelli an Associate Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University, and is the author of Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of […]
Joy Connolly works mainly on Roman ideas about communication, education, and governance, and their ongoing relevance for the modern world. Her first book, The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome, was published by Princeton in 2007; her second, a book about republicanism called Talk about Virtue, is under contract with Duckworth […]
Using the concept of privilege in race, gender, and class, this discussion will raise questions about systems and structures of power that can allow us to go beyond polite “diversity talk” to discuss what would be needed to transform our society and promote justice and sustainability. Any serious effort toward those goals must confront the […]
In addition to evidence for household cults in the terrace houses at Ephesus, three of the units contained installations for cultic activities that "blur" the traditional distinction between public and private space. The likely identification of Terrace House 2 as that of C. Vibius Salutaris offers additional commentary on important aspects of such "blurring" through […]
The landmark federal Endangered Species Act—the most powerful and comprehensive U.S. environmental law, and the most ambitious biodiversity conservation statute ever enacted by any country—turns forty in 2013. Is this anniversary cause for celebration or despair? What have we learned during the past four decades? Why is endangered species conservation so complicated? And why do […]
This is the closing talk and reception as part of the IHC's Fallout: In the Aftermath of War series, with series closing remarks by IHC director Susan Derwin. Historian John Lee offers closing reflections on the year’s IHC program, Fallout. Using as a starting point the war memoirs of Xenophon (ca. 427-355 BC), Lee considers […]
> Released in 1982, "The Atomic Cafe" was a masterful compilation of > U.S. government propaganda films that exposed the madness of the > nuclear arms race. Jayne Loader, one of the film's directors, > screens excerpts of the documentary and engages the audience in a > discussion of her work process. Also taking part […]