1PM: Introductions/Welcome 1:30PM: Journal Related Info (30 Minutes)- Jeff Hester (Skype) 2PM: Presentations (15 mins each) 1)  Blossom Stefaniw, "A Narrative History of the Tura Papyri: Creative Nonfiction and Christianity as a History of Reading" 2)  Emily Albu, "The Roman Heritage of Medieval World Maps: Late Antique Transmission of Greco-Roman Geographical Knowledge" 3)  Diliana Angelova, […]

Histories of Economy Flyer2 MAY 18 1:30-1:45: Introduction Adam Sabra, University of California, Santa Barbara Sherene Seikaly, University of California, Santa Barbara 1:45-3:15: Commerce and Capital Adam Hanieh, “Space, Scale, and the Middle East’s Contemporary Political Economy” Jessica Goldberg, “Sea Change in Medieval Ifriqiyya” Ziad Abu-Rish, “Complicating the Post-Colonial Narrative” 3:15-3:30: Break 3:30-5:00: Money and […]

In this talk, Sheila Lodge will show how Santa Barbara became the community that it is through planning. She will describe the many battles it sometimes took and the process that was developed to make the critical decisions. Because of her personal involvement in the struggles, her talk is partially a memoir. Sheila Lodge is […]

Prof. Johanna Hanink (Brown University), "Modern Citizenship Tests and Classical Funeral Orations."

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