"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. […]
Hamid Naficy is Professor of Radio-Television-Film and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University, and he is also an affiliate faculty in Art History. He is a leading authority in cultural studies of diaspora, exile, and postcolonial cinemas and media and of Iranian and Middle Eastern cinemas. His Latest books are […]
8:55 Welcome – Gabriela Soto-Laveaga 9:00 – 10:25 Adam Warren (University of Washington) Indigenismo, Degeneration, and Racial Differentiation in Peruvian Coca Science, 1920-1950 Hanni Jalil Paier (UCSB) Luchando por la patria, forjando trabajadores: Tuberculosis, Alcoholism and Public Health in Colombia, 1910-1925 10:25 – 10:40 BREAK 10:40 – 12:40 Heather McCrea (Kansas State University) Indians, Doctors, […]
UCSB HISTORY ASSOCIATES Special Event: ‘A Life for the Books’ An Evening with Librarian of Congress James Billington Sponsored by the Friends of the Library of the Santa Ynez Valley Solvang Brewing Company 1547 Mission Dr., Solvang When he became the 13th Librarian of Congress in 1987, Dr. James Billington had never heard of the […]
In this talk, Professor Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman challenges the assumption that the United States is an empire. Rather, it acts as an arbiter and enforcer in a world system where goals and rules are increasingly universal. Over the past three centuries, most nations have become republics and many democracies. Almost all have embraced free market […]
This event is sponsored by the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. jwil 19.x.2011
Montefiore has written an epic history of the world's most contested place through the lives of those who created, destroyed, conquered, wrote about--and believed in--the Holy City. See this October 22 review in the Wall Street Journal. hm 10/29/11
Professor Smith’s research centers on the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Nubia. He is particularly interested in theidentification of ethnicity in the archaeological record and the ethnic dynamics of colonial encounters. The origins of the Napatan state, whose rulers conquered Egypt, becoming Pharaohs of the 25th Dynasty, provides the focus of his current archaeological research. […]
Among the finds from the Achaemenid palace of Persepolis a classical Greek marble statue of highest quality, representing Odysseus’ wife Penelope, constitutes an ongoing and still unexplained surprise. How, by whom, and for what purpose was this work of art brought to the residence of the Persian king? Moreover, Roman marble copies testify to a […]