In addition to evidence for household cults in the terrace houses at Ephesus, three of the units contained installations for cultic activities that "blur" the traditional distinction between public and private space. The likely identification of Terrace House 2 as that of C. Vibius Salutaris offers additional commentary on important aspects of such "blurring" through […]

The landmark federal Endangered Species Act—the most powerful and comprehensive U.S. environmental law, and the most ambitious biodiversity conservation statute ever enacted by any country—turns forty in 2013. Is this anniversary cause for celebration or despair? What have we learned during the past four decades? Why is endangered species conservation so complicated? And why do […]

This is the closing talk and reception as part of the IHC's Fallout: In the Aftermath of War series, with series closing remarks by IHC director Susan Derwin. Historian John Lee offers closing reflections on the year’s IHC program, Fallout. Using as a starting point the war memoirs of Xenophon (ca. 427-355 BC), Lee considers […]

> Released in 1982, "The Atomic Cafe" was a masterful compilation of > U.S. government propaganda films that exposed the madness of the > nuclear arms race. Jayne Loader, one of the film's directors, > screens excerpts of the documentary and engages the audience in a > discussion of her work process. Also taking part […]

Professor Hahamovitch explores exploited labor systems in the colonial period and the guest worker programs in the United States during the post-war period. About our speaker: Cindy Hahamovitch is the author of The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 (1997). Her No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in […]