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Winter Quarter instruction begins

Classes begin in Winter quarter.If you are enrolled in a discussion section that meets before the main lecture meets, you should still attend section that week. See calendar link below […]

The White Rose, or: German Students against Hitler

The Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies cordially invitesyou to the Tenth George J. Wittenstein Lecture Christian Petry's lecture explores the question whether remembering past acts of resistance against […]

Strategies for Defending Higher Education

This counter-conference will take place during the annual Modern Language Convention in Los Angeles, January 8th, 2011 from 1-5 at Loyola Law School (919 Albany St, 4 block from the […]

Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture

Jas' Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. This talk is […]

America and the Holocaust

Pierre Sauvage, award-winning documentary filmmaker and child survivor of the Holocaust, screens and discusses excerpts from his upcoming feature documentary And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry in Marseille (2011), as […]

The Global Landscape of Holocaust Memorials since 1945

Since the January 2000 Stockholm conference "The Holocaust - Education, Remembrance and Research," which was attended by high-level representatives from 46 countries, there has been much discussion of a "globalization" […]

Women in Prehistoric Greece

This talk examines the lives of girls and women in the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures of the prehistoric Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BCE). Testing modern assumptions and expectations against the archaeological, […]

Some Problems with Hubris in Ancient Greek Law

This paper will examine some characteristic problems and issues in the study of Athenian law, and of ancient Greek law more generally, through an analysis of the offense of hubris […]