Exploring the Assyrian Empire (9th-7th c. BC) in Iraqi Kurdistan
Details forthcoming. Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program, and the History Department. jwil 14.viii.2015
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Gendered Borderlands
Huntington Library Seaver 3 Classroom, CA, United StatesJoin ICW and leading scholars in the field of borderlands studies for a roundtable on the ways in which borders are shaping gender identities and opening opportunities for the renegotiation […]
Laura Nenzi, Researching the Margins: Challenges and Consequences of Embarking on a Microhistory Project
McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesSpeaker: Laura Nenzi (Ph.D. History, UC Santa Barbara, 2004) Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Event Description: Laura Nenzi, one of our very own (2004 PhD) is returning to […]
Susan Levine, “The Moral Challenge of Abundance”: Humanitarianism and the Rise of the Food Aid Complex after World War II
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesSpeaker: Susan Levine Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago Event Description: The Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy inaugurates the fall workshop series with a talk […]
Current Immigration Crises in Historical Perspective
McCune Conference Room Humanities & Social Sciences Building, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThe History Department will be hosting a panel for this year's annual Parents' and Family Weekend titled "Current Immigration Crises in Historical Perspective." The panelists will be Adam Sabra, Salim […]
Carol Lansing, Did a Woman Rule the Vatican? The Scandalous History of Pope Joan
Trinity Episcopal Church, Guild HallSpeaker: Carol Lansing is a professor of medieval European history at UCSB. A specialist in the society, politics and culture of medieval Italy, she is the author of Power and […]
Dr. Masuda Hajimu, Purity and Order: Toward Social-Cultural Understandings of the Cold War World, 1950-1953
HSSB 4020Speaker: Masuda Hajimu (family name Masuda) received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2012 and currently is Assistant Professor of history at the National University of Singapore, where he specializes […]
Stephanie Dalley, The Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced
Karpeles Manuscript Library 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesSpeaker: Stephanie Dalley Oxford University Archaeological Institute of America Norton Lecturer Event Description: Babylon’s Hanging Garden is the only one of the original seven wonders to have been dismissed […]
Thomas Maloutas, Athens in Crisis: Segregation and Social Distance
Karpeles Manuscript LibrarySpeaker: Thomas Maloutas Harokopio University, Athens Event Description: Thomas Maloutas, Professor of Social Geography at Harokopio University in Athens, is a leading expert in cities and society. His lecture will […]
Political Theologies of Medieval and Early Modern Islam: A Workshop
McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThe workshop is open to interested faculty and graduate students. If you would like to join us at lunch, please contact Adam Morrison at cmes@cmes.ucsb.edu so that we can get […]