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Marriage and Ritual Performance among the Servants of the Babylonian Gods

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Talk by Bastian Still, Leiden University With more than 50,000 legal-administrative cuneiform tablets, the so-called Neo- Babylonian Period (c. 625-484 BCE) is one of the best-documented periods in the history of Mesopotamia, the region between Tigris and Euphrates. Unfortunately, this invaluable and very rich material rarely finds use in wider social-historical discourses, as cuneiform specialists […]

“The Specter of Social Engineering: Scientism and its Critics in the Long 1950s” a talk by Andrew Jewett, Harvard University

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Andrew Jewett's talk traces fears about science's cultural impact among intellectual and political leaders and ordinary citizens in postwar America. Jewett is the author of Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War (2012). A copy of his paper can be found here.

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