In 1910, the Vote (the newspaper of the Women’s Freedom League) launched a photography competition inviting their suffragette readers to send in photographs of themselves engaged in domestic labour. The result was a bizarre series of images depicting the leaders of the militant suffrage movement performing mundane household tasks, such as cleaning the stove and […]

In spite of the frequent coverage in the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Publishers Weekly, Inside Higher Ed, and on listservs, websites, scholarly journal articles and beyond, the students, assistant professors, and even published authors at higher ranks has failed to keep up with the very rapid pace of change in scholarly publishing. […]

Join us for an Open House! Help us thank the sponsors of our project to conserve the 21 paintings of California Missions by Edwin Deakin with this exhibit and reception.  You will have an opportunity to see some of the newly restored paintings illuminated by our new LED lighting system made possible by a generous […]

The Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP is happy to announce our Fall 2014 workshop and symposium, hosted and co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara.Space is limited, please register now by contacting Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu). Friday, 7 November - Symposium 12:30-6pm This one day interdisciplinary meeting sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program at UCSB will […]