Corinth, like many Greek poleis (”city-states”), did not enjoy full autonomy and freedom during the Hellenistic period. Between the battles of Chaironeia (338 BC) and Cynoscephalae (197 BC), Corinth was almost continuously under the control of Antigonid Macedon, except for a brief time (243-224 BC) when it belonged to the Achaian League. This talk focuses […]

Egyptian 20th and 21st Dynasty (1190-945 BCE) funerary arts from Thebes find their origins within the social unrest of the Late Bronze Age. In Thebes, funerary preparations were challenged with limited burial space, scarce material resources, tomb robbery, and re-use. Surviving funerary materials reflect a variety of defensive innovations while at the same time preserving […]

Prof. Nazym Shedenova Dept. of Sociology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Almaty, Kazakhstan Prof. Shedenova is a founder of Gender Studies in Kazakhstan and an expert on the role of women in the Kazakhstan labor force. She has participated in a wide array of programs focused on gender in Germany, Ukraine, Hungary, United Kingdom, and India. […]

Food shortages in Occupied Europe offer a marked contrast to the experience with food rationing in the United States and Britain during World War II. Adding the French experience with rationing to comparative work on Britain and the United States offers a broader perspective on what was really important in wartime food rationing and its […]