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Book Talk: Brendan W. Rensink, Brigham Young University “Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands”

HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

In Native but Foreign, historian Brenden W. Rensink presents an innovative comparison of indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining Crees and Chippewas, who […]

Book Talk and Launch: Eileen Boris’s Making the Woman Worker

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

On October 18 at 2:00 in HSSB 4020, Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Feminist Studies, presents a book talk titled "How Did an Americanist Come to Write Transnational History?" in […]

VIRTUAL TALK: Alan Liu, “Friending the Past: The Sense of History in the Digital Age”

"In Friending the Past, Alan Liu explores how we can learn from the relationship between past societies whose media forms fostered a communal and self-aware sense of history. Interlaced among these inquiries, Liu shows how extensive 'network archaeologies' can be constructed as novel ways of thinking about our affiliations with time and with each other."