WHAT & WHEN:New and returning 2009-2010 History TAs must attend the TA Initial Training Day on Monday, September 21, from 9 am to 3 pm, as part of the Department's […]

For the full Fall 2009 calendar, go to:Fall 2009 calendar. For information on the First Day of Class, go to the Information announcement on the homepage under NEWS, or directly […]

Among the motifs decorating Han dynasty mortuary objects, including those found in the tomb of the noblewoman at Mawangdui, are clouds and creatures representing an "other world" through which the […]

The "Big Box" Phenomenon: Wal-Mart and the Future of American Business UCSB History Associates event, $10 members, $12 non-members. See the UCSB Daily Nexus, Wednesday, October 7, 2009: Lichtenstein Lectures […]

A 2006 Golden Globe winner for best foreign language film, Paradise Now intensely and powerfully tells the story of two lifelong friends that are tapped by an unidentified Palestinian resistance […]

The island of Sri Lanka has been known by many names throughout its history: Ratnadipa, or the "land of gems" in Buddhist Sanskrit literature, Taprobane among Greeks and Romans, Serendib […]

This teach-in explores the origins and character of the current crisis at the University of California. The program is as follows; for more information see the Keep California's Promise website. […]

Many of the archaeological discoveries at Mawangdui have great artistic merit and aesthetic appeal. Beyond these qualities, however, the Mawangdui finds suggest that certain of our assumptions about early China, […]

Julia Costello will be talking about her newly published book, The California Missions, History, Art, and Preservation (Edna E. Kimbro and Julia G. Costello with Tevvy Ball), as the Norman […]

This presentation will examine how the medical establishment in Mérida and medical student brigades from the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán interpreted the health conditions of rural Maya communities and prescribed […]