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Week of Events
W16 Graduate Declaration Deadline
Last day to declare candidacy for the Winter 2016 undergraduate degree using GOLD. https://registrar.sa.ucsb.edu/w.aspx
After Tahrir: Egyptian Revolutionary Experiences and Future Visions
This four-day research collaboration workshop will take place at UC Santa Barbara on the five-year anniversary of the Tahrir Square Uprisings in 2011 that toppled Egypt's long-term dictator Hosni Mubarak. These uprisings in Egypt accelerated waves of anti-crony-capitalist demonstrations, worker organizing, youth revolts, media insurgencies, and police brutality protests that overthrew governments, mobilized populations throughout […]
January 17, 2016
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Frank Frost, “The City of Emporion: The Ancient Greeks in Spain”
Frank Frost, “The City of Emporion: The Ancient Greeks in Spain”
About the Talk Early in the sixth century BC, a group from the Greek city-state of Phokaia established a trading post on the Catalan coast not far from present-day Barcelona. It eventually became a major military base and trading center for the expansion of the Roman empire. Using the work of archaeologists supplemented by his own […]
January 22, 2016
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Book Launch and Signing: Sherene Seikaly, “Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine”
Book Launch and Signing: Sherene Seikaly, “Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine”
Event Description: The Department of History and the Center for Middle East Studies are delighted to sponsor a book launch and signing for Sherene Seikaly's new book with Stanford University Press, Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine. Comments By: Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle […]