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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 […]

UCSB History on Ice FUNdraiser

Ice in Paradise 6985 Santa Felicia Drive, Goleta

Come skate with the UCSB History Department at Ice in Paradise on Sunday, March 2, 2025 from 3:00 - 4:30 PM. Ticket fee ($10 for undergrads/grads, $15 for faculty) includes skate rental, and as many laps of the studio rink as you can accomplish in an hour and a half. Don't forget to RSVP here! […]

Michael Cooperson (UCLA), “Towards a New Arabic Literary History”

HSSB 4020

Towards a new Arabic literary history Michael Cooperson, Professor of Arabic, NELC, UCLA What did pre-modern authors writing in Arabic have to say about their own literary history? Many things, as it turns out, most of them non-linear. In this respect, their accounts differ from the rise-and-fall story later promulgated by European scholars––a story which […]