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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Aleksei Kulegin, Curator of the Museum of Political History of Russia in St. Petersburg will present at 12:30-2:00 on Thursday, October 20, in HSSB, "Who Killed Rasputin? Myths and Reality of the Murder of the Holy Devil: Grigorii Rasputin." The presentation will be accompanied with interesting photographs and illustrations that his museum has collected. hm […]

subtitle: Pakistan's Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) Movement The Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) movement came into international visibility in 2007 when armed men, women and children occupied the oldest mosque in Islamabad, refusing to surrender until the Pakistani government met their demands. A notable aspect of this movement was the emergence of militant women activists affiliated […]

"In England, a swallow is the first sign of summer,” Wright says. “Hence we will discuss when will the Arab spring, representing potentiality, turn to summer, representing actuality, for the people of this region.” The speakers, who are married, were living in Egypt during the Egyptian Revolution and were based there during the past decade. […]

Hamid Naficy is Professor of Radio-Television-Film and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University, and he is also an affiliate faculty in Art History. He is a leading authority in cultural studies of diaspora, exile, and postcolonial cinemas and media and of Iranian and Middle Eastern cinemas. His Latest books are […]

8:55 Welcome – Gabriela Soto-Laveaga 9:00 – 10:25 Adam Warren (University of Washington) Indigenismo, Degeneration, and Racial Differentiation in Peruvian Coca Science, 1920-1950 Hanni Jalil Paier (UCSB) Luchando por la patria, forjando trabajadores: Tuberculosis, Alcoholism and Public Health in Colombia, 1910-1925 10:25 – 10:40 BREAK 10:40 – 12:40 Heather McCrea (Kansas State University) Indians, Doctors, […]

UCSB HISTORY ASSOCIATES Special Event: ‘A Life for the Books’ An Evening with Librarian of Congress James Billington Sponsored by the Friends of the Library of the Santa Ynez Valley Solvang Brewing Company 1547 Mission Dr., Solvang When he became the 13th Librarian of Congress in 1987, Dr. James Billington had never heard of the […]

In this talk, Professor Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman challenges the assumption that the United States is an empire. Rather, it acts as an arbiter and enforcer in a world system where goals and rules are increasingly universal. Over the past three centuries, most nations have become republics and many democracies. Almost all have embraced free market […]

This event is sponsored by the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. jwil 19.x.2011

Professor Smith’s research centers on the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Nubia. He is particularly interested in theidentification of ethnicity in the archaeological record and the ethnic dynamics of colonial encounters. The origins of the Napatan state, whose rulers conquered Egypt, becoming Pharaohs of the 25th Dynasty, provides the focus of his current archaeological research. […]

Montefiore has written an epic history of the world's most contested place through the lives of those who created, destroyed, conquered, wrote about--and believed in--the Holy City. See this October 22 review in the Wall Street Journal. hm 10/29/11

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Among the finds from the Achaemenid palace of Persepolis a classical Greek marble statue of highest quality, representing Odysseus’ wife Penelope, constitutes an ongoing and still unexplained surprise. How, by whom, and for what purpose was this work of art brought to the residence of the Persian king? Moreover, Roman marble copies testify to a […]

The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Making of Modern America (Oxford 2010) winner of the Spur Prize for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction Book Lawrence Culver Associate Professor of History Utah State University all are welcome hm 10/31/11

Experience the dances of early California in the historic Presidio Chapel withdancer and teacher Diana Replogle-Purinton. Diana is the director of Las Fiesteras folk dance group, and has over three decades of experience as an instructor. El Presidio Chapel 123 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara $15 Public, $12.50 Students and Seniors, $10 SBTHP Members […]