Events on Thursday, April 15 (2021)
Events List
Ancient Rome: from the Gladiators to Imperial Madness
10:30 am - Thursday, April 15
A series of Streaming lectures with Archeology Expert and Tour Guide Simone Lanna
Each live lecture will last about 90 minutes with Q&A
You will receive a link after your ticket purchase. Recordings will be available.
A percentage of proceeds will be donated to the Italian Cultural Center, San Diego.
Admission/Cost: $27-$32
Location:
Online Streaming Event
Dates, times and topics:
Friday, April 9 - 10:30 AM: Colosseum & Gladiators: Explore the Colosseum and empathize with its main characters: the emperors, the gladiators, the architect, and the spectators.
Saturday, April 10 - 10:30 AM: Ostia Antica: Explore Ostia Antica through the eyes of four characters: the politician, the slave, the merchant, and the fireman.
Thursday, April 15 - 10:30 AM: Ides of March: Rome, March 15, 44 BC. at noon, Caesar reaches the Senators in the meeting room. a bad omen. He cancels the meeting. Fifteen minutes later his corpse lays on the floor, covered in blood.
Friday, April 16 - 10:30 AM: Imperial Madness: Blood, intrigues, betrayals, love and hate stories of the most famous dynasty of Ancient Rome: Tiberius, Caligola, Claudius, and Nero.
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Talk: Remains of the Everyday - a Century of Recycling in Beijing
1:00 pm - Thursday, April 15
Joshua Goldstein of USC presents his new book looking at the history of the recycling industry in China. “Remains of the Everyday” traces the changing material culture and industrial ecology of China through the lens of recycling.
Over the last century, waste recovery and secondhand goods markets have been integral to Beijing’s economic functioning and cultural identity, and acts of recycling have figured centrally in the ideological imagination of modernity and citizenship. on the one hand, the Chinese state has repeatedly promoted acts of voluntary recycling as exemplary of conscientious citizenship. on the other, informal recycling networks-from the night soil carriers of the Republican era to the collectors of plastic and cardboard in Beijing’s neighborhoods today-have been represented as undisciplined, polluting, and technologically primitive due to the municipal government’s failure to control them.
The result, Goldstein argues, is the repeatedly re-inscribed exclusion of waste workers from formations of modern urban citizenship as well as the intrinsic liminality of recycling itself as an economic process.
Date and Time
Admission/Cost: FREE
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Location:
Online Streaming Event
Thursday, April 15 - 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
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