Women, Islamism & the Jasmine Revolution (or the so-called "Arab Spring") Thursday, October 6, 2011 * 12:00 noon * Center for Black Studies Research 4603 South Hall* Tunisian women have played a major role in the Jasmine revolution that led to the ousting of President Ben Ali, after 23 years of autocratic leadership. They stood […]
At this event the convenors will announce plans for lectures and events for the coming academic year which include lectures by Keiji Sato, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University (visiting at the Davis Center, Harvard University) on national mobilization and Barbara Junisbai, Pritzer College on ethnic conflict and Kazakhstan. All colleagues and graduate students who may […]
Learn the art of tule mat making and the historical signifance of tule inChumash life. Karen Osland, co-owner of Lavenpine Consulting, has been leading workshops on basketry using Native California plants for 25 years. Leave with your own mat made from tule. 15 E. De La Guerra Street, Santa Barbara $15 Public, $12.50 Students and […]
General Ved Prakash Malik was the Chief of the Indian Army from 1997 to 2000. During his tenure, India fought a war with Pakistan to eject intruders from the heights of the Kargil sector of Jammu and Kashmir. In a distinguished military career spanning more than 40 years, General Malik was involved in the executing, […]
Fifty Years of Archaeology at SBTHP: A RetrospectiveThursday, October 13 at 7:00 PM Join Dr. Robert Hoover, SBTHP board president, and Mike Imwalle, SBTHP archaeologist, as they review 50 years of archaeology at the Santa Barbara Presidio. Beginning with Dr. James Deetz in 1961, the retrospective follows the history of archaeological study from before the […]
Aleksei Kulegin is the Curator of the Museum of Political History of Russia in St. Petersburg. The balcony you see in this building is where Lenin delivered his first speech in April 1917 after he returned from exile. This building, formerly owned by Emperor Nicholas II’ lover, famous ballerina Mathilda Kshesinskaia, became the Museum of […]
Michele R. Salzman is Professor of History at UC Riverside. She is the author of On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity (UC Press, 1990), The Making of a Christian Aristocracy (Harvard University Press, 2002), and The First Book of Symmachus’ Letters. Introduction and Commentary; Translation […]
For more information contact Jessie Ambler at jessica_ambler(at)umail.ucsb.edu. This event is sponsored by the UC Multi-Campus Research Group on Ancient Mediterranean Borderlands, in cooperation with the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program. jwil 04.x.2011
For three summers between 1999 and 2001, underwater excavations off the Aegean coast of Turkey atTektaş Burnu revealed the remains of a small Greek merchant ship that sank between 440 and 425 B.C. or shortly thereafter. The vessel was carrying a primary cargo of wine and pine tar contained in more than 200 transport amphoras […]
The Graduate placement committee will hold a workshop on navigating the academic job market next Wednesday Oct. 19 at 4 pm in HSSB 4020. We will concentrate on preparing your application file, resources for identifying jobs and getting ready for interviews. If you are on the market, you might want to bring a copy of […]