Corinth, like many Greek poleis (”city-states”), did not enjoy full autonomy and freedom during the Hellenistic period. Between the battles of Chaironeia (338 BC) and Cynoscephalae (197 BC), Corinth was almost continuously under the control of Antigonid Macedon, except for a brief time (243-224 BC) when it belonged to the Achaian League. This talk focuses […]
Egyptian 20th and 21st Dynasty (1190-945 BCE) funerary arts from Thebes find their origins within the social unrest of the Late Bronze Age. In Thebes, funerary preparations were challenged with limited burial space, scarce material resources, tomb robbery, and re-use. Surviving funerary materials reflect a variety of defensive innovations while at the same time preserving […]
Prof. Nazym Shedenova Dept. of Sociology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Almaty, Kazakhstan Prof. Shedenova is a founder of Gender Studies in Kazakhstan and an expert on the role of women in the Kazakhstan labor force. She has participated in a wide array of programs focused on gender in Germany, Ukraine, Hungary, United Kingdom, and India. […]
Food shortages in Occupied Europe offer a marked contrast to the experience with food rationing in the United States and Britain during World War II. Adding the French experience with rationing to comparative work on Britain and the United States offers a broader perspective on what was really important in wartime food rationing and its […]
Dr Cruz-Uribe will examine the role of pilgrimage in ancient Egypt, especially during Roman and Byzantine times. Using both newly-discovered and well-known Coptic and Demotic texts, he will compare the pilgrimage practices of the traditional Egyptian and Nubian populations with the practices of the contemporary Christians, investigating why the Egyptians went on pilgrimages, how the […]
Spring Quarter 2011 classes begin on Monday, March 28. If you are enrolled in a discussion section that meets before the main lecture meets, you should still attend section that week. See calendar link below for details. Spring 2011 final examination schedule hm 3/16/11
This talk will explore how narratives of novelty and familiarity have been routinely deployed by practitioners, analysts, and policymakers alike in synthetic biology, and what this may mean for a consideration of synthetic biology as "the new new thing" for studies of emerging technoscience. Luis Campos is a graduate of Harvard's History of Science Department […]
The invasion of Normandy, the creation of an industrial war machine, and the falling reputation of rum—how does whiskey tie them all together? Lisa Jacobson answers this question by exploring the political and cultural ramifications of domestic whiskey shortages during World War II. Contrary to the common assumption that the federal government steered clear of […]
Faculty are invited to bring their classes. From 1100AM to 1230PM the national teach-in will be streaming live on the big screen. From 1230 to 200PM we will have local speakers and discussion about the current assault on unions, students, the poor and elderly, women, people of color, and gays. There will be a lot […]
In Roman antiquity as much as now, the landscapes of Asia Minor were strewn with the traces of prior human habitation, from Hittite rock-cut reliefs to abandoned Urartian fortifications. Anatolian authors writing under Roman rule—notably during the second and third centuries CE—had a keen interest in exploring mythological and pseudo-historical narratives about the local past; […]