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Week of Events
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Carol Lansing, Did a Woman Rule the Vatican? The Scandalous History of Pope Joan
Carol Lansing, Did a Woman Rule the Vatican? The Scandalous History of Pope Joan
Speaker: Carol Lansing is a professor of medieval European history at UCSB. A specialist in the society, politics and culture of medieval Italy, she is the author of Power and Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy and, most recently, Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes. She is co-editor of A […]
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Dr. Masuda Hajimu, Purity and Order: Toward Social-Cultural Understandings of the Cold War World, 1950-1953
Dr. Masuda Hajimu, Purity and Order: Toward Social-Cultural Understandings of the Cold War World, 1950-1953
Speaker: Masuda Hajimu (family name Masuda) received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2012 and currently is Assistant Professor of history at the National University of Singapore, where he specializes in the history of Japan, student movements in Asia, decolonization, and the Cold War. He is the author of Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict […]
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Stephanie Dalley, The Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced
Stephanie Dalley, The Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced
Speaker: Stephanie Dalley Oxford University Archaeological Institute of America Norton Lecturer Event Description: Babylon’s Hanging Garden is the only one of the original seven wonders to have been dismissed as imaginary. Neither archaeologists nor Assyriologists could find evidence for it, and the Greek sources describing it are centuries later than its supposed existence. An […]