Professor Emily Rosenberg delivers this year’s keynote address at the 2008 annual International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, taking place this year at UCSB. Emily Rosenberg’s research and […]

About this LectureThe annual Kress Lecture is sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. Directions to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art may be found […]

On January 20, 1942, 15 high ranking German officers gathered in a villa on the outskirts of Berlin for a clandestine meeting that would ultimately seal the fate of the […]

Professor Buck-Morss' lecture entitled "Hegel, Haiti and Universal History" connects Haiti's revolution to political universality, questioning the adequacy of multiculturalism and alternative modernities as approaches to historical scholarship today. Susan […]

Ralph Hanna, Professor of Paleography and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford University “The Matter of Fulk: Romance and History in Fourteenth-Century Shropshire” Fouke le Fitz Waryn, an Anglo-Norman prose text […]

Since the beginnings of archaeological research in Ephesos, inscriptions have played a central role as an essential source for the analysis of its socio-historical milieu. Their archaeological context, however, has […]

Prof. Robert Davis (Ohio State University) will present a chapter of his new research project entitled "Counting slaves in the Early Modern Mediterranean." The chapter will be distributed in advance […]

Following his 12-2 p.m. seminar, Prof. Davis will give a talk on "The Celebration of Slavery in the Christian-Muslim World." Refreshments will be served around 5:30. Robert Davis is professor […]

The so-called Magnesian Gate is a component of the oldest city walls of Ephesos, which date to the Hellenistic period and served as the main entry into the city until […]

Margaret Weir is the author of Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States (1992), and The Social Divide (1998). She is now working on a […]