Professor Stager will present the annual Hebrew Bible lecture, sponsored by the UCSB Department of Religious Studies and by Westmont College.

The language and conceptualization of love take for granted a supernatural element. From antiquity to today, we acknowledge the irresistible force of love by attributing to it the character of sorcery. We speak of an infatuated person as spellbound, entranced, enchanted, beguiled, charmed, or even bewitched by the object of desire. To fall in love […]

A new play by Robert Potter, UCSB professor emeritus of drama, "Last Days of the Empire" is set amid the ruins of Cyrene in Roman North Africa. It interweaves characters from the 5th century AD, World War II, and present-day Libya. "Plays always have to be about the present as well as the past," says […]