Events for the Week of: 12-18 April 2021, from Discussions, Talks, Panels & Forums category

Salomé, the dancing girl who callously bargained for the beheading of John the Baptist, has captivatingly threaded her way through history in art, literature, and opera. This ancient femme fatale, the subject of Ella Ferris Pell's Salomé (1890) recently exhbited at the Timken, is fascinating to examine historically. Join Timken Docent and USD Professor of Biblical Studies Dr. Florence Gillman for virtual talks about the actual people who have inspired some of the Timken's masterpieces.

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Location: Online Streaming Event

Wednesday, April 14 - 10::00 AM to 11:00 AM

Due to the University of San Diego's response to COVID 19, SOLES has decided to move this showcase to a virtual format!

As part of the University of San Diego's annual Research Week, SOLES’ Diversity, Inclusion, & Social Justice Excellence (DISJ) Showcase will happen on April 14, 2021! Join SOLES faculty and students across all departments as they present their research as it relates to our central themes of diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice.

Event Agenda

• Faculty Panel - 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
• Research Presentations - 12:30 to 2:30 PM
• Student Panel - 2:30 to 3:30 PM

Admission/Cost: FREE
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Location:
Online Streaming Event

Wednesday, April 14 - 11:30 AM to 3:30 PM

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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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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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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San Diego State University Chinese Cultural Center and the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum are proud to present a special series on the history of Chinese Americans at SDSU. This inaugural talk will be presented by Dr. William Tong, who will discuss new laser-based methods for archaeology and cultural heritage applications in China and Europe.

Admission/Cost: FREE
Zoom Link

Location:
Online Streaming Event

Saturday, April 17 - 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM


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