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Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint Méry’s Intellectual World

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara

Sara Johnson is professor of literature of the Americas at the University of California, San Diego. Her book, Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World (Omohundro Institute/UNC Press, 2023), documents the work of Moreau de Saint-Méry, a late eighteenth-century Caribbean intellectual. The book combines traditional academic chapters and experimental forms in its use of […]

The World of Ancient Greek Potters: Skills, Spaces, Social Networks

ARTS 1341 UC Santa Barbara

Greek pots, with their delicate shapes, lively scenes and varied contexts of use and deposition have enjoyed great popularity with ancient and modern viewers alike. They have also been scrutinized as documentation of gender roles, extent of literacy, social and economic status, and as media for political propaganda. Scholars have recently widened their research scope […]

The Atlantic Revolutions

Goleta Library 500 N Fairview Ave,, Goleta

Manuel Covo will give a talk on Atlantic Revolutions, title TBD On Wednesday, February 21 at 5:30 pm at the Goleta Library