Marek Halter is an international best-selling novelist, filmmaker and human rights activist. Sponsored by the Harman P. and Sophia Taubman Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies, cosponsored by UCSB Arts & […]

Corinth, like many Greek poleis (”city-states”), did not enjoy full autonomy and freedom during the Hellenistic period. Between the battles of Chaironeia (338 BC) and Cynoscephalae (197 BC), Corinth was […]

Egyptian 20th and 21st Dynasty (1190-945 BCE) funerary arts from Thebes find their origins within the social unrest of the Late Bronze Age. In Thebes, funerary preparations were challenged with […]

Prof. Nazym Shedenova Dept. of Sociology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Almaty, Kazakhstan Prof. Shedenova is a founder of Gender Studies in Kazakhstan and an expert on the role of women […]

Food shortages in Occupied Europe offer a marked contrast to the experience with food rationing in the United States and Britain during World War II. Adding the French experience with […]

Dr Cruz-Uribe will examine the role of pilgrimage in ancient Egypt, especially during Roman and Byzantine times. Using both newly-discovered and well-known Coptic and Demotic texts, he will compare the […]

Spring Quarter 2011 classes begin on Monday, March 28. If you are enrolled in a discussion section that meets before the main lecture meets, you should still attend section that […]

This talk will explore how narratives of novelty and familiarity have been routinely deployed by practitioners, analysts, and policymakers alike in synthetic biology, and what this may mean for a […]

The invasion of Normandy, the creation of an industrial war machine, and the falling reputation of rum—how does whiskey tie them all together? Lisa Jacobson answers this question by exploring […]

Faculty are invited to bring their classes. From 1100AM to 1230PM the national teach-in will be streaming live on the big screen. From 1230 to 200PM we will have local […]