The Chinese Typewriter: A History (Tom Mullaney, Stanford)
7 November at 4PM in the McCune Room (6th floor, HSSB) Abstract: Chinese writing is character-based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Over the past […]
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James Delbourgo (Rutgers) on the Origins of the British Museum
UCSB Library, 1312 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United StatesCollecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum In 1759, London's British Museum opened its doors for the first time--the first free national public museum in […]
History Associates and Arthur Miller’s View from the Bridge, Nov. 19
The UCSB History Associates are presenting a talk by Prof. Irwin Appel (Professor of Theater) on Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge on 19 November 2017. He will speak […]
Robert Mugabe-Vladimir Putin: The End of One Era-Continuation of Another
McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesMhoze Chikowero, Professor of History, UCSB, "The End of an Era in Zimbabwe?" Elena Aronova, Professor of History, UCSB, "Trolls, Bots, Cyberwarfare and the Cold War Origins of Putin's Information […]
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Gift of the Nile? Racism, Egyptological Bias, and Ancient Egypt as an African Civilization
HSSB 6056 UCSB, CA, United StatesProf. Stuart Tyson Smith (Anthropology) will speak for the Ancient Borderlands group.
Cold War Curvature: Measuring and Modeling Gravity in Postwar American Physics (David Kaiser, MIT)
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesA popular image persists of Albert Einstein as a loner, someone who avoided the hustle and bustle of everyday life in favor of quiet contemplation. Yet Einstein was deeply engaged […]
Life and Death at Ancient Eleon: Excavations in Central Greece, 2011-2017
Karpeles Manuscript Library 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesA lecture by Brendan Burke, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. Excavations at ancient Eleon, located 15 km east of […]
Dreamland: America’s Opiate Epidemic and How We Got Here
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesQuinones will discuss the origins of our nationwide opioid epidemic: pharmaceutical marketing, changes in our heroin market, and new attitudes toward pain among American healthcare consumers. He will also discuss cultural […]
Professor Jeremy Johns, Oxford University, “Documenting Multiculturalism in Norman Sicily”
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesSlave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games
Engineering Science Building 1001 , United StatesYou are invited to join us for the third meeting of the Colloquium for Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall from the California State University, San Marcos who will be […]