Charles Darwin, Then and Now
Professor Mike Osborne lectures on the life, ideas and legacy of Charles Darwin. Darwin is almost 200 years old and his most popular work, The Origin of Species of 1859, […]
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Sweet Land of Liberty: The Unfinished Struggle for Racial Equality in the North
Tom Sugrue is best known for his highly influential The Origins of the Urban Crisis (1996), which won the Bancroft Prize in History, among other awards. He has also written […]
The Mysterious Philistines: Excavations at Ashkelon Cast New Light on Their Origins, Language, Religion, and Daily Life
Professor Stager will present the annual Hebrew Bible lecture, sponsored by the UCSB Department of Religious Studies and by Westmont College.
Goetics: The Magical Poetics of Latin Love Elegy
The language and conceptualization of love take for granted a supernatural element. From antiquity to today, we acknowledge the irresistible force of love by attributing to it the character of […]
Last Days of the Empire
A new play by Robert Potter, UCSB professor emeritus of drama, "Last Days of the Empire" is set amid the ruins of Cyrene in Roman North Africa. It interweaves characters […]
Hitler’s Assault on the Golden Rule
“To resist,” from the Latin resistere, means to stand fast, to uphold principles against pressure to abandon them. In her lecture, Claudia Koonz will discuss the appeal of the Nazis’ […]
History Associates and “Idiot’s Delight”
History Conference Room (HSSB 4020) The Robert Sherwood play, which won him the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1936, tells the story of a song and dance man traveling through […]
In Poseidon’s Realm: Underwater Archaeology in the Mediterranean
About this LectureThe annual Church Lecture is sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, and made possible by the generosity of Sandra Church. Directions to […]
Graduate Recruitment Day is Friday, March 7 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The History Department's annual graduate recruitment day runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, March 7. Highlights include: 10 a.m. bagel breakfast in HSSB 4208, informational sessions for […]
Saving the Hero: Or, Why Virgil Was No Plagiarist
The fundamental role that imitation played in Latin literature lies beyond any doubt. Ancient readers, however, did not deem every act of textual adaptation acceptable, and in fact relegated some […]