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