75 years ago, the first Great German Art Exhibition (Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung) opened at the new „House of German Art“. The show was accompanied by the infamous exhibition „Degenerate Art“ („Entartete Kunst“), which was initiated by Joseph Goebbels and on view in the Munich Hofgarten close by. For the national socialist regime no other exhibition […]
“White Wash” explores the complexity of race in America through the eyes of the ocean via the history of African Americans and water culture from slavery, civil rights wade-ins to surfing in contemporary times. In examining the history of world water culture, and the history of black identity as it triumphs and evolves in the […]
11th Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future Daniel Ellsberg is America’s best known whistleblower for his role in releasing the Pentagon Papers in 1971, a move that harkened an end to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and exposed government deceit and illegality at the highest levels. In the 1960s, he became a […]
During the Cold War countless peoples and movements in both the decolonizing world and the advanced industrial states mobilized under the banner of self-determination and sought to institutionalize its status as a human right in international law. In this talk, focusing on the end of European empire in the 1970s, Professor Simpson explains why self-determination […]
This talk is sponsored by the Department of Classics, the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program, and the UC Multi-Campus Research Group on Late Antiquity. jwil 18.i.2012
This talk will be divided into two parts. The first part will give two case studies of material exchange in Eurasia during the first millennium B.C. In the second part the implications of these examples of material exchange for the study of Chinese art will be given, using illustrations mainly from later Chinese art, after […]
Think America’s political discourse is nastier than it’s ever been? Think again. According to History Prof. John Majewski, the political scene now is downright genteel compared to what it was like in the days when America was young. Come hear what politicos said about each other in that era when Prof. Majewski speaks on “Political […]
For over forty years, "Looking Glass" was the nickname of the Airborne Command Post--an essential element in the command and control of the Strategic Air Command's forces. This made-for-TV docudrama is a fictionalized account of how quickly a nuclear war could break out between the US and the Soviet Union over Middle East oil. This […]
The catacombs of ancient Rome form the single most important source of information concerning the rise of Christianity from an archaeological point of view. This lecture focuses on exciting new results produced by a science-based approach to these materials, as performed within the framework of a recently concluded international project based at Utrecht University in […]
Nicholas Cahill is Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the Sardis Expedition. During the seventh and sixth centuries BCE, the Lydians, a native Anatolian culture located in what is now western Turkey, established the first empire in this region since the Bronze Age. As they conquered Greek cities along […]