Speaker: Carol Lansing is a professor of medieval European history at UCSB. A specialist in the society, politics and culture of medieval Italy, she is the author of Power and Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy and, most recently, Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes. She is co-editor of A […]
Speaker: Masuda Hajimu (family name Masuda) received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2012 and currently is Assistant Professor of history at the National University of Singapore, where he specializes in the history of Japan, student movements in Asia, decolonization, and the Cold War. He is the author of Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict […]
Speaker: Stephanie Dalley Oxford University Archaeological Institute of America Norton Lecturer Event Description: Babylon’s Hanging Garden is the only one of the original seven wonders to have been dismissed as imaginary. Neither archaeologists nor Assyriologists could find evidence for it, and the Greek sources describing it are centuries later than its supposed existence. An […]
Speaker: Thomas Maloutas Harokopio University, Athens Event Description: Thomas Maloutas, Professor of Social Geography at Harokopio University in Athens, is a leading expert in cities and society. His lecture will be on social and ethnic segregation in Athens today. He will address the impact of the ongoing economic and political crisis on the city’s social […]
The workshop is open to interested faculty and graduate students. If you would like to join us at lunch, please contact Adam Morrison at cmes@cmes.ucsb.edu so that we can get an accurate head count. October 30, 2015: 9:45 AM Greetings and Introduction 10:00 – 10:50 Bilal Orfali (American University of Beirut), "Mystical Poetics: Courtly […]
Professor Barry Eidlin, a sociologist, is the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press). A copy of the paper he will be presenting can be found here. This event is one of many included in the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "Power […]
Speaker: Joshua C. Tate SMU Dedman School of Law Event Description: Please join us in HSSB 4080 at noon on Monday, November 2 to hear Josh Tate lecture on the Magna Carta. Josh is a professor at SMU Dedman School of Law and is the author of many articles on medieval legal history. Light […]
Professor Engerman’s most recent book is Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts (Oxford University Press, 2009). This event is one of many included in the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "Power and Policy across National Borders" series.
Speaker: Dr. John McK. Camp Director of the Athenian Agora Excavations Event Description: Ancient Athens is generally regarded as the birthplace of the world's first democracy. The administrative center of Athenian democracy was the Agora, the main square of the city, which has been under excavation for the past eighty-five years. Here have been […]
Kristallnacht Commemoration and Santa Barbara Premiere Winner of 10 Film Festival Audience Awards A superlative saga of courage and compassion, Run Boy Run tells the extraordinary true story of a Polish boy who seeks the kindness of others in his solitary struggle to outlast the Nazi occupation and keep alive his Jewish faith. Escaping […]
