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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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) […]

Mary Beard, distinguished Classicist and Roman cultural historian, is delivering this fall's Sather Lectures at UC Berkeley. Their topic is “Roman Laughter: What made the Romans laugh?” Was Rome a […]