General Ved Prakash Malik was the Chief of the Indian Army from 1997 to 2000. During his tenure, India fought a war with Pakistan to eject intruders from the heights of the Kargil sector of Jammu and Kashmir. In a distinguished military career spanning more than 40 years, General Malik was involved in the executing, […]
Fifty Years of Archaeology at SBTHP: A RetrospectiveThursday, October 13 at 7:00 PM Join Dr. Robert Hoover, SBTHP board president, and Mike Imwalle, SBTHP archaeologist, as they review 50 years of archaeology at the Santa Barbara Presidio. Beginning with Dr. James Deetz in 1961, the retrospective follows the history of archaeological study from before the […]
Aleksei Kulegin is the Curator of the Museum of Political History of Russia in St. Petersburg. The balcony you see in this building is where Lenin delivered his first speech in April 1917 after he returned from exile. This building, formerly owned by Emperor Nicholas II’ lover, famous ballerina Mathilda Kshesinskaia, became the Museum of […]
Michele R. Salzman is Professor of History at UC Riverside. She is the author of On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity (UC Press, 1990), The Making of a Christian Aristocracy (Harvard University Press, 2002), and The First Book of Symmachus’ Letters. Introduction and Commentary; Translation […]
For more information contact Jessie Ambler at jessica_ambler(at)umail.ucsb.edu. This event is sponsored by the UC Multi-Campus Research Group on Ancient Mediterranean Borderlands, in cooperation with the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program. jwil 04.x.2011
For three summers between 1999 and 2001, underwater excavations off the Aegean coast of Turkey atTektaş Burnu revealed the remains of a small Greek merchant ship that sank between 440 and 425 B.C. or shortly thereafter. The vessel was carrying a primary cargo of wine and pine tar contained in more than 200 transport amphoras […]
The Graduate placement committee will hold a workshop on navigating the academic job market next Wednesday Oct. 19 at 4 pm in HSSB 4020. We will concentrate on preparing your application file, resources for identifying jobs and getting ready for interviews. If you are on the market, you might want to bring a copy of […]
Aleksei Kulegin, Curator of the Museum of Political History of Russia in St. Petersburg will present at 12:30-2:00 on Thursday, October 20, in HSSB, "Who Killed Rasputin? Myths and Reality of the Murder of the Holy Devil: Grigorii Rasputin." The presentation will be accompanied with interesting photographs and illustrations that his museum has collected. hm […]
"In England, a swallow is the first sign of summer,” Wright says. “Hence we will discuss when will the Arab spring, representing potentiality, turn to summer, representing actuality, for the people of this region.” The speakers, who are married, were living in Egypt during the Egyptian Revolution and were based there during the past decade. […]
subtitle: Pakistan's Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) Movement The Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) movement came into international visibility in 2007 when armed men, women and children occupied the oldest mosque in Islamabad, refusing to surrender until the Pakistani government met their demands. A notable aspect of this movement was the emergence of militant women activists affiliated […]