Identity, Commemoration and Remembrance: Funerary Practice and Contested Identities in Sudanese Nubia during the Time of the Kushite Pharaohs (c. 750-650 BCE)
Professor Smith’s research centers on the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Nubia. He is particularly interested in theidentification of ethnicity in the archaeological record and the ethnic dynamics of colonial […]
Jerusalem: The Biography
Montefiore has written an epic history of the world's most contested place through the lives of those who created, destroyed, conquered, wrote about--and believed in--the Holy City. See this October […]
Penelope in Persepolis or The Power of Images to Stop War with an Arch-Enemy
Among the finds from the Achaemenid palace of Persepolis a classical Greek marble statue of highest quality, representing Odysseus’ wife Penelope, constitutes an ongoing and still unexplained surprise. How, by […]
The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Making of Modern America
The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Making of Modern America (Oxford 2010) winner of the Spur Prize for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction Book Lawrence Culver Associate Professor of History Utah […]
Early California Dance
Experience the dances of early California in the historic Presidio Chapel withdancer and teacher Diana Replogle-Purinton. Diana is the director of Las Fiesteras folk dance group, and has over three […]
Shakespeare and Pizza? “A Comedy of Errors”
The cast of England’s Globe Theater company will be performing Shakespeare’s “AComedy of Errors” in Cambell Hall Nov. 8-11. We have arranged for director Rebecca Gatward and one of the […]
Veterans Day Celebration at Storke Plaza
The UCSB Student Veterans Organization (SVO), a student-created and student-led group that is registered with the UCSB Office of Student Life, will host a Veterans Day Celebration on Wednesday, November […]
Martyrs, Apologists and the Ancient Novel
Kate Cooper is Professor of Ancient History in the Department of Ancient History and Classics at the University of Manchester. Professor Cooper's research interest is in the cultural, social, and […]
A Thirsty Revolution
Mikael Wolfe is a visiting assistant professor of environmental history at UCLA. He is an expert in history of modern Mexico, specifically agrarian reform, water policy, and environment. He is […]