Following his 12-2 p.m. seminar, Prof. Davis will give a talk on "The Celebration of Slavery in the Christian-Muslim World." Refreshments will be served around 5:30. Robert Davis is professor of Italian Renaissance and Early-modern Mediterranean history. He has researched and published on Italian and especially Venetian - society and popular culture during the sixteenth […]
Prof. Robert Davis (Ohio State University) will present a chapter of his new research project entitled "Counting slaves in the Early Modern Mediterranean." The chapter will be distributed in advance to those who request it, and a cold lunch will be served. Please contact Claudio Fogu in the Department of French and Italian (cfogu@french-ital.ucsb.edu) for […]
The so-called Magnesian Gate is a component of the oldest city walls of Ephesos, which date to the Hellenistic period and served as the main entry into the city until late antiquity. This presentation will examine the chronology of the architecture and the various functions of this location, first as a waystation on the sacred […]
Margaret Weir is the author of Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States (1992), and The Social Divide (1998). She is now working on a study of metropolitan inequalities in the United States, with a particular focus on the politics of coalition-building in Chicago and Los Angeles. Sponsored by the […]
The Athenian playwright Aeschylus (?525-456 BC), author of more than seventy plays, was also a veteran of the Greek-Persian Wars of 490-479 BC. Aeschylus fought at both the land battle of Marathon (490 BC), and at the naval battle of Salamis (480 BC). His brother Cynegirus was killed at Marathon. The Persians is one of […]
The CMES 10th Annual Middle East Studies Conference Scholars will present papers offering in-depth analyses of sectarianism in the Middle East and South Asia. The theme of the 10th Annual Middle East Studies Conference is to examine critically the concept and evolution of sectarianism. Special focus is placed on the role played by foreign powers, […]
The documentary film "Massacre at Nueva Linda" documents the 2004 massacre of a community protesting in Guatemala. Over two hundred families were violently evicted by over 1,000 police and armed military reserves. The film investigate the massacre and the ways in which counterinsurgency methods developed during the civil war of the 1970s and 1980s have […]
Professor Singh teaches history at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author of Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy; When This Time is Named: Jack O'Dell and the Black Freedom Movement, and The Afterlife of Fascism: A Post-World War II History (work in progress). Singh's talk is sponsored by the […]
UCSB History Associates Presents a special event for All-Gaucho Reunion Weekend. Professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga will talk about the wild Mexican yam called barbasco that transformed modern pharmaceuticals, and tell the story of the peasant farmers who learned how to deal with the world's biggest drug companies. In the 1940s, rheumatoid arthritis afflicted more Americans […]
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are an historic opportunity for China to show the world it has theconfidence to make progress in ensuring basic human rights for its 1.3 billion citizens. With a few months until the opening ceremonies however, the Chinese government is more worried about political stability, and is tightening its grip on […]