On January 20, 1942, 15 high ranking German officers gathered in a villa on the outskirts of Berlin for a clandestine meeting that would ultimately seal the fate of the European Jewish population. Ninety minutes later, the blueprint for Hitler’s Final Solution was in place. The Wannsee Protocol, found in the files of the Reich’s […]
Professor Buck-Morss' lecture entitled "Hegel, Haiti and Universal History" connects Haiti's revolution to political universality, questioning the adequacy of multiculturalism and alternative modernities as approaches to historical scholarship today. Susan Buck-Morss is Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory in the Department of Government, Cornell University, and member of the graduate fields of Comparative Literature, […]
Ralph Hanna, Professor of Paleography and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford University “The Matter of Fulk: Romance and History in Fourteenth-Century Shropshire” Fouke le Fitz Waryn, an Anglo-Norman prose text of c. 1325-30, is the only surviving full rendition of a narrative retold at least three times, in English and French, during the period c.1260-c.1400. […]
Since the beginnings of archaeological research in Ephesos, inscriptions have played a central role as an essential source for the analysis of its socio-historical milieu. Their archaeological context, however, has never been presented systematially, since the inscriptions have been published piecemeal in the service of specific topical interests. Since the majority of the Ephesian inscriptions […]
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, […]