This talk examines the lives of girls and women in the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures of the prehistoric Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BCE). Testing modern assumptions and expectations against the archaeological, iconographic, and textual evidence leads to some surprising conclusions. While Minoan-Mycenaean society was probably sex-segregated (Minoan perhaps more so than Mycenaean), there is almost no […]
Please join us for a talk by Clyde Woods, Black Studies, UCSB, “The Crisis, Los Angeles’ Black Communities, and the Failed State Debate.” Woods is the author of Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta (2000) and editor of Black Geographies and the Politics of Place (2007). He is now part […]
This paper will examine some characteristic problems and issues in the study of Athenian law, and of ancient Greek law more generally, through an analysis of the offense of hubris ("intentionally dishonoring behavior"). Topics to be discussed include (1) the Athenian law of hubris; (2) parallels with the laws and practices of other Greek communities […]
West Meets East: The International Labor Organization from Geneva to the Pacific Rim is an Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara from February 3-5, 2011 McCune Conference Room on the 6th floor, HSSB Thursday, Feb. 3, 3:00 - 5:00 pm Friday, Feb 4, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Saturday, Feb. 5, 9:00 […]
The overthrow of the Ben Ali dictatorship in Tunisia by sustained popular demonstrations has led to even more cataclysmic protests in Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, and elsewhere in the Arab World. UCSB has two of the best experts on Egypt and Tunisia in the US to provide perspective on recent events. Both have done extensive research […]
Eran Shalev, a historian of the early republic at the university of haifa, Rome rebornon western shores: historical imagination and the creation of the american republic (charlottesville: university of virginia press, 2009). His talk will demonstrate how throughout the republic's history, the configuration of the state-as-star and the consequent image of the united states as […]
Robert Morstein-Marx is Professor of Classics at UCSB. This event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. jwil 05.I.2011
Located at the narrowest part of the Greek peninsula and controlling land and sea traffic in all four directions, Corinth became famous as one of the greatest commercial centers in the ancient world. Her mighty rock fortress of Acrocorinth also made her almost impervious to attack. Corinth was a prime player in all the important […]
The talk is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) and cosponsored by the Department of History. The event is free and open to the public. A brief reception will follow Dr. Ibish's presentation. Please join us for this exciting event! Hussein Ibish will discuss Arab- and Muslim-American activism after […]
Discussant: Prof. Amit Ahuja, Political Science, UCSB The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai examines the dynamics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai, a former colonial port that now hosts new economic ventures such as software engineering, back office services and export processing. Over the past two decades of neoliberal […]