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Talk: Erin Trumble, “Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan”

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara

Speaker: Graduate Student Erin Trumble   Title: "Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan"   Description: The talk will focus on retirement as a life stage and examine how it represented a time when women had both more freedom after being liberated from daily tasks and more authority due to their […]

Juan Cobo Betancourt, “Christianity, Colonialism, & the Muisca peoples of the Northern Andes”

Alhecama Theater 215 A East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara

Public Lecture: Juan Cobo Betancourt, "Christianity, Colonialism, & the Muisca peoples of the Northern Andes" Alhecama Theatre, 215 E. Canon Perdido Street, located in El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park Free and open to the public. RSVP to historyassociates@ia.ucsb.edu How does colonialism work without a strong colonial state? How does religious conversion work […]