The Rabbinic Sage as Martyred Saint: Transformations of Jewish Narrative and Liturgy in Late Antiquity
Sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Ph.D. Emphasis. jwil 01.v.2010
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The Deep Prehistory of Indian Gaming: The Perspective from Mesoamerica
Although it was not until the early 1980s that high stakes Indian Gaming was permitted in the United States, at the time of the arrival of Europeans in North America […]
Subversion or Citizenship?: Civil Wars, State-making, and National Imaginings in Peru: A Historical and Theoretical Perspective
Unlike other American countries, Peru does not have a memory of its nineteenth-century civil wars. Peru's political confrontations lacked the clear-cut ideological contours that characterized civil strife in, say, the […]
The Muslim Scare in Europe: Hysteria or Threat?
Award-winning author and journalist Ian Buruma will discuss the debates about Muslim radicalism, immigration, and the challenge from religion in several European countries where anti-immigrant populism is on the rise […]
The End of the Public University and the Beginning of the Next
History is replete with nations that declined because their leaders gradually undermined their own best institutions. The U.S. now appears to be doing this to its exemplary higher education system, […]
The Catholic Church and Social Revolutionaries in Latin America
talk in the Tequila Mondays series hm 4/8/10
Does it Take More Courage to be a Cybernetician Than to be a Gunman?
Prof. Medina's research deals with the adoption of computer technologies in Latin America, especially cybernetics in Allende's Chile. From 1971 to 1973 Chilean and British engineers, working under the direction […]
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Presentations by Suzanne Levine, Seth Wulsin, Damian Nemirovsky and Kacey Link. hm 5/19/10
Revisioning an Ancient Synagogue: New Light from the UT Excavations at Ostia
Sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and the Archaeology Research Focus Group. jwil 12.v.2010
Evaluating Agricultural Strategies in Ancient Anatolia
"Risk, sustainability, and decision making: evaluating agricultural strategies in ancient Anatolia" Identifying how ancient societies made decisions regarding agricultural land use is important for understanding why some pre-industrial agricultural systems […]