Gift of the Nile? Racism, Egyptological Bias, and Ancient Egypt as an African Civilization
HSSB 6056 UCSB, CA, United StatesProf. Stuart Tyson Smith (Anthropology) will speak for the Ancient Borderlands group.
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Cold War Curvature: Measuring and Modeling Gravity in Postwar American Physics (David Kaiser, MIT)
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesA popular image persists of Albert Einstein as a loner, someone who avoided the hustle and bustle of everyday life in favor of quiet contemplation. Yet Einstein was deeply engaged with politics throughout his life; indeed, he was so active politically that the FBI kept him under surveillance for decades. His most enduring scientific legacy, […]
Life and Death at Ancient Eleon: Excavations in Central Greece, 2011-2017
Karpeles Manuscript Library 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesA lecture by Brendan Burke, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. Excavations at ancient Eleon, located 15 km east of Thebes in central Greece, have revealed a center of vibrant activity throughout the Late Bronze Age, starting with a burial complex of the Late Helladic […]
Dreamland: America’s Opiate Epidemic and How We Got Here
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesQuinones will discuss the origins of our nationwide opioid epidemic: pharmaceutical marketing, changes in our heroin market, and new attitudes toward pain among American healthcare consumers. He will also discuss cultural shifts that made this epidemic possible. Sam Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and author of three books of narrative nonfiction. His book Dreamland: The True […]
Professor Jeremy Johns, Oxford University, “Documenting Multiculturalism in Norman Sicily”
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesSlave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games
Engineering Science Building 1001 , United StatesYou are invited to join us for the third meeting of the Colloquium for Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall from the California State University, San Marcos who will be presenting a paper entitled "'Slave Revolts on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Videogames". The lecture considers existing films and video games on the […]
Royal Manuscripts of the Moroccan Royal Library: An Introduction and Overview
HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesSpeaker: Dr. Khalid Zahri, Royal Library, Rabat, Morocco. Sponsored by the UCSB Center for Middle East Studies.
Professor Tracy Adams, University of Auckland, New Zealand, “The French Political Royal Mistress and Gallic Singularity”
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesWe are so used to the idea of the royal mistress as a constituent element of the French king’s grandeur that we tend not to think about how strange it is that in Ancien Régime France nine women who were not part of the royal family exercised significant political influence. Adams suggests that the key […]
Seth Rockman, History, Brown University, “Plantation Labor Outsourced: Rethinking New England Outwork and the National Economy of Slavery in Antebellum America”
HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesRockman is the author of Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (2008) and co-editor, with Sven Beckert, of Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (2016). Scraping By won the OAH's Merle Curti Prize, the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, and the H.L. Mitchell Prize from the Southern Historical Association. Rockman spent the 2016-17 year at […]