5 - 6 pm at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Introductory remarks by Mara Vishniac Kohn and Jeffrey Gusky On view: Of Life and Loss: The […]

The Burden of Female Talent in Premodern China: Early Reactions to Li QingzhaoRonald Egan (EALCS, UCSB) Thursday November 13 / 12:00 PM HSSB 2252 The most celebrated woman poet in […]

Gilbert Gonzalez is Professor of Social Sciences and Director of the Labor Studies Program at UC Irvine. He is the author of Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation (1990) […]

Mary Beard, distinguished Classicist and Roman cultural historian, is delivering this fall's Sather Lectures at UC Berkeley. Their topic is “Roman Laughter: What made the Romans laugh?” Was Rome a […]

TALK: Religious Fundamentalism: A Clash of Civilizations or a Convergence of Religiosities?Olivier Roy (CNRS) Friday, November 14 / 12:30 PM 3824 Ellison Hall 1930 Buchanan Olivier Roy is a research […]

UCSB History Associates Lecture and Reception Sunday, 2:00 p.m. at the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library Conference Room 2201 Laguna Street Prof. Hämäläinen's homepage Cost: $10.00 for History Associates; $15.00 for […]

Monday, October 27 / 4:30 PM DATE CHANGE (10/23): rescheduled to November 17McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Mark LeVine: Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul […]

Marking the 40th anniversary of the Black Student takeover of North Hall, the Department of Black Studies is organizing a conference entitled, 1968: A Global Year of Student Driven Change, […]

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“A Medieval Source for Renaissance Philosophy: Valla’s Metaphysics and the Logic of Peter of Spain.”Brian P. Copenhaver, Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA “The Transition from Medieval to […]