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The Reception of Ancient Greek Comedy: Aristophanes

Gonda Van Steen is Cassas Professor of Greek Studies at the University of Florida. She earned a BA degree in Classics in her native Belgium and a PhD degree in Classics and Hellenic Studies from Princeton University. As the Cassas Chair in Greek Studies at the University of Florida, Professor Van Steen teaches courses in […]

Eat Drink and be Roman: The Changing Identity of Dining in the Roman World

This lecture will be held at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol, Santa Barbara, CA. For directions visit www.sbnature.org or call 805-682-4711. The Roman banquet was a spectacular social event that holds a peculiar place in modern popular culture. Whether in the form of the college Greek ‘toga party’ or […]

Food Crisis in Mexico

Event in the Fall Tequila Monday talk series. hm 9/30/10, jwil 19.xi.10

The Global Financial Crisis and Russia’s Economic Growth

Professor Shinichiro Tabata of the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University, Japan, specializes in the history of the Russian economy. This event is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History, the Department of Political Science, and the Department of Economics. jwil 17.xi.2010

The ‘Big One’–Coming Soon On a Fault Near You?

The San Andreas fault system is responsible for the formation of our most beloved and dramatic landscapes, and for the earthquakes that shake us up from time to time. In her illustrated lecture, Prof. Tanya Atwater will discuss the chance of someday predicting when and where the earth will break next, the same way weather […]

Is Conventional Trade Unionism Obsolete?

Please join us for a talk by Stephen Lerner of the Service Employees International Union, "Is Conventional Trade Unionism Obsolete?” Lerner is an architect of the groundbreaking Justice for Janitors campaign. He has been a union strategist for more than three decades and writes frequently for both the mainstream press and scholarly publications. He currently […]