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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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" […]
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, […]
Please join us for a talk by Clyde Woods, Black Studies, UCSB, “The Crisis, Los Angeles’ Black Communities, and the Failed State Debate.” Woods is the author of Development Arrested: […]
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 […]
West Meets East: The International Labor Organization from Geneva to the Pacific Rim is an Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara from February 3-5, 2011 McCune Conference […]
The overthrow of the Ben Ali dictatorship in Tunisia by sustained popular demonstrations has led to even more cataclysmic protests in Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, and elsewhere in the Arab World. […]