75 years ago, the first Great German Art Exhibition (Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung) opened at the new „House of German Art“. The show was accompanied by the infamous exhibition „Degenerate Art“ („Entartete Kunst“), which was initiated by Joseph Goebbels and on view in the Munich Hofgarten close by. For the national socialist regime no other exhibition […]

“White Wash” explores the complexity of race in America through the eyes of the ocean via the history of African Americans and water culture from slavery, civil rights wade-ins to surfing in contemporary times. In examining the history of world water culture, and the history of black identity as it triumphs and evolves in the […]

11th Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future Daniel Ellsberg is America’s best known whistleblower for his role in releasing the Pentagon Papers in 1971, a move that harkened an end to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and exposed government deceit and illegality at the highest levels. In the 1960s, he became a […]

During the Cold War countless peoples and movements in both the decolonizing world and the advanced industrial states mobilized under the banner of self-determination and sought to institutionalize its status as a human right in international law. In this talk, focusing on the end of European empire in the 1970s, Professor Simpson explains why self-determination […]

This talk is sponsored by the Department of Classics, the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program, and the UC Multi-Campus Research Group on Late Antiquity. jwil 18.i.2012

This talk will be divided into two parts. The first part will give two case studies of material exchange in Eurasia during the first millennium B.C. In the second part the implications of these examples of material exchange for the study of Chinese art will be given, using illustrations mainly from later Chinese art, after […]