The Modern Life of Roman Republicanism
Joy Connolly works mainly on Roman ideas about communication, education, and governance, and their ongoing relevance for the modern world. Her first book, The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political […]
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Beyond Race, Gender, and Class: Understanding the Roots of Privilege
Using the concept of privilege in race, gender, and class, this discussion will raise questions about systems and structures of power that can allow us to go beyond polite “diversity […]
Imagining House Churches in Light of Evidence for Cultic Activities in the Terrace Houses in Ephesus
In addition to evidence for household cults in the terrace houses at Ephesus, three of the units contained installations for cultic activities that "blur" the traditional distinction between public and […]
Forty Years of Endangered Species: Conflict and Conservation in California and Beyond
The landmark federal Endangered Species Act—the most powerful and comprehensive U.S. environmental law, and the most ambitious biodiversity conservation statute ever enacted by any country—turns forty in 2013. Is this […]
The Making of “The Atomic Cafe”
> Released in 1982, "The Atomic Cafe" was a masterful compilation of > U.S. government propaganda films that exposed the madness of the > nuclear arms race. Jayne Loader, one […]
Remembering War, Looking Forward
This is the closing talk and reception as part of the IHC's Fallout: In the Aftermath of War series, with series closing remarks by IHC director Susan Derwin. Historian John […]
“The Widening Gyre: Colonial Labor, Guestworkers, and the End of Empire.”
Professor Hahamovitch explores exploited labor systems in the colonial period and the guest worker programs in the United States during the post-war period. About our speaker: Cindy Hahamovitch is the […]
The Plague! Making Sense of Epidemics, Contagions, and Pestilence
The Division of Humanities and Fine Arts is sponsoring this special event. UCSB History professors Stefania Tutino and John Majewski were involved in putting the program together. We hope this […]
You Say You Want a Revolution? Transition, Stability and Chaos in Post-Dictatorship Arab States
In this talk, Hussein Ibish looks at the different ways post-dictatorship transition has unfolded in the three North African Arab states that experienced regime change during the "Arab Spring": Egypt, […]
“The ‘Discovery of Writing’ in the Qur’an: Tracing an Epistemic Revolution in Arab Late Antiquity
Please join us for the R. Stephen Humphreys Distinuished Lecture: The "Discovery of Writing" in the Qur'an: Tracing an Epistemic Revolution in Arab Late Antiquity" Professor Angelika Neuwirth Arabic Studies, […]