Talk by Bastian Still, Leiden University With more than 50,000 legal-administrative cuneiform tablets, the so-called Neo- Babylonian Period (c. 625-484 BCE) is one of the best-documented periods in the history of Mesopotamia, the region between Tigris and Euphrates. Unfortunately, this invaluable and very rich material rarely finds use in wider social-historical discourses, as cuneiform specialists […]

Talk by John W.I. Lee, UCSB History Department John Wesley Gilbert (ca. 1863-1923) was born in Hephzibah, Georgia. He attended Paine College (Augusta, Georgia), then received his BA from Brown University in 1888. He was the third African American to graduate from Brown. As a Brown MA student in 1890-1891, Gilbert became the first African American […]

Amelia Brown on Greek Maritime Religion

Please join us on May 10, 4PM, in the McCune Conference Room for the Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. Our guest speaker will be Erika Lorraine Milam (Princeton University) who will be giving a lecture titled Creatures of Cain: Human Nature and the Politics of Violence During the Cold War.  Human nature contains the seeds of humanity’s […]