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5th Annual Van Gelderen Lecture: Ships and Saints: Mapping the World of Athanasius of Alexandra, Chris Nofziger

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

Please join us for this year's Van Gelderen Lecture, which will feature Chris Nofziger. Chris is currently an advanced PhD candidate in Roman history under the the direction of Beth Digeser. He will be presenting his work on Athanasius of Alexandria, bishop of Alexandria from 328 to 373 CE. Athanasius was sent into exile five […]

Center for Cold War Studies and International History 2018 Graduate Student Symposium

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

This symposium is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History and co-sponsored by the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara in order to showcase the new and exciting work being done by UCSB graduate students on Cold War and related international history topics. The CCWS is a […]

Talk by Professor Emeritus Hal Drake on “A Century of Miracles”

Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, United States

Professor Drake will be discussing his latest book, A Century of Miracles: Christians, Pagans, Jews, and the Supernatural, 312-410. The book offers a fresh examination of a complex polytheistic period in Roman history, surveying a wide range of faiths and belief systems during this eventful century. It offers a thoroughly researched assessment of the supernatural and its […]

Transregional Connections: Architectural Monuments and the Construction of Early Modern Empires: Gulru Necipoglu

Transregional Connections: Architectural Monuments and the Construction of Early Modern Islamic Empires The Center for Middle East Studies at UCSB presents Tuesday, April 17th, 4:00pm, HSSB 6020 Gülru Necipoğlu (Harvard University) Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture Focusing on the 16th and 17th centuries, this lecture presents comparative […]