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Stephanie Dalley, The Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced

Karpeles Manuscript Library 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Speaker: 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 Library

Speaker: 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 States

The 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 […]

Magna Carta Lecture

HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Speaker: Joshua C. Tate SMU Dedman School of Law   Event Description: Please join us in HSSB 4080 at noon on Monday, November 2 to hear Josh Tate lecture on […]

John McK. Camp, The Archaeology of Democracy

Karpeles Manuscript Library 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Speaker: Dr. John McK. Camp Director of the Athenian Agora Excavations   Event Description: Ancient Athens is generally regarded as the birthplace of the world's first democracy. The administrative center […]

Film Showing: Run Boy Run

Campbell Hall Building 538, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Kristallnacht Commemoration and Santa Barbara Premiere Winner of 10 Film Festival Audience Awards   A superlative saga of courage and compassion, Run Boy Run tells the extraordinary true story of […]

Free

Contemporary Iraq: Walls and Circuits

SSMS 2135 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Global Studies and the Center for Middle East Studies will be hosting an event titled, "CONTEMPORARY IRAQ: WALLS AND CIRCUITS.” Mona Damluji, Stanford University: "Baghdad’s Deep Dilemma: Urban Segregation Under […]

Film Showing: Valentino’s Ghost

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Hailed by the Village Voice as “both sobering and illuminating,” Michael Singh’s documentary exposes how America’s foreign policy agenda in the Middle East drives U.S. media portrayals of Arabs and […]