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Week of Events
LAIS Graduate Student Conference: Violence, Memory, and History
With the generous support of the History Department, UCSB will hold its first international Latin American and Iberian Studies Graduate Student Conference on May 18th and 19th, with the theme "Violence, Memory, and History". This interdisciplinary conference will bring together twenty-four graduate students from universities in the US and Europe, including several graduate students in […]
Studies in Late Antiquity, Editorial Board Meeting
1PM: Introductions/Welcome 1:30PM: Journal Related Info (30 Minutes)- Jeff Hester (Skype) 2PM: Presentations (15 mins each) 1) Blossom Stefaniw, "A Narrative History of the Tura Papyri: Creative Nonfiction and Christianity as a History of Reading" 2) Emily Albu, "The Roman Heritage of Medieval World Maps: Late Antique Transmission of Greco-Roman Geographical Knowledge" 3) Diliana Angelova, […]
Histories of Economy in the Middle East: A Workshop
Histories of Economy Flyer2 MAY 18 1:30-1:45: Introduction Adam Sabra, University of California, Santa Barbara Sherene Seikaly, University of California, Santa Barbara 1:45-3:15: Commerce and Capital Adam Hanieh, “Space, Scale, and the Middle East’s Contemporary Political Economy” Jessica Goldberg, “Sea Change in Medieval Ifriqiyya” Ziad Abu-Rish, “Complicating the Post-Colonial Narrative” 3:15-3:30: Break 3:30-5:00: Money and […]
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“Lawyers and Legal Consciousness in Early Modern Europe: A Cultural History,” a Talk by Michael P. Breen, Reed College
“Lawyers and Legal Consciousness in Early Modern Europe: A Cultural History,” a Talk by Michael P. Breen, Reed College
“Historians have long believed that lawyers played a central role in the dissemination of legal knowledge and the ideal of the ‘rule of law’ in early modern Europe. Recent scholarship, however, has called this view into question, emphasizing instead the ways ordinary men and women appropriated the law and its institutions for their own ends. […]
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Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium
Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium
Honors Student and Mentor with Thesis Poster This Friday from 9:30am to 2:45pm nine students from the 2017-18 History Senior Honors Seminar will present the results of their research in a conference-panel format, with professors commenting afterwards. Everyone is invited! Program: Panel 1, 9:30-11am: Public Policies’ Effects on People’s Lives Halley Thiel, “’There is Power […]
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