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  • History Associates Talk | “Plant Life and Imperialism” | Utathya Chattopadhyaya

    Santa Barbara Eastside Branch Library 1102 E Montecito St, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

      Plant Life and Imperialism: Histories of Cannabis in British India Are histories of social structures, imperial systems, and the subjecthood of peoples not also histories of plant life? Taking one plant genus, that modern botany labels cannabis, this talk explores how and why we should embrace the contiguity between human and nonhuman life as […]

  • Flyer for "The Potent Politics of Weak Brews: How 3.2% Beer Helped End Prohibition" by Lisa Jacobson on April 6 at 5:30PM

    History Associates Talk | Lisa Jacobson “The Potent Politics of Weak Brews: How 3.2% Beer Helped End Prohibition” | Apr 6, 5:30 PM | Draughtsmen Aleworks

    Draughstmen Aleworks University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

      To commemorate the 90th anniversary of beer’s re-legalization in the United States, Lisa Jacobson will explain how a coalition of brewers, scientists, and labor leaders persuaded Congress that a beer capable of producing a mild euphoria could be legalized without violating the 18th Amendment’s ban on intoxicating beverages. Insisting that alcohol potency alone did […]

  • UCSB Give Day Logo 2 (Yellow)

    GIVE DAY 2023

    Thursday, April 13th, 2023 is UCSB’s annual Give Day, a 36-hour online fundraising event. Last year, with the help of the community, more people donated to the History Department than any other department in the entire division of Humanities and Fine Arts. We are proud and honored to enjoy that distinction, and hope to repeat […]

  • History Associates talk by Elizabeth Depalma Digeser | “Constantine the Crusader: The Roman Emperor as Christian Soldier”

    Goleta Valley Library, Multipurpose Room 500 N. Fairview Avenue, Goleta Goleta Valley Library, Goleta, CA, United States

    Constantine I (306-37) was the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity. Almost two millennia later, we may not be surprised that Constantine promoted an image of himself as a Christian military commandant. Nevertheless, this image is strikingly opposed to the previous conception of the Christian hero, that of the martyr, a person known for […]

  • Nakba in the Age of Catastrophe: Lessons from Palestine

    Sherene Seikaly will give a talk called: "Nakba in the Age of Catastrophe: Lessons from Palestine" What can the history of Palestine teach us about surviving catastrophe? In this talk, Professor Seikaly draws on one hundred years of history to reflect on land, time, and survival.  On Monday, January 22 at 5:30 pm  Location: McCune […]

  • History Associates Talk : Alfredo Gonzalez | “An American Promise: 20th Century US Military Naturalization.”

    Vista Del Monte, 3775 Modoc Rd, Santa Barbara 3775 Modoc Rd., Santa Barbara

    Assistant Professor of Political Science at UCSB, Alfredo Gonzalez will speak on "An American Promise: 20th Century US Military Naturalization." Despite widespread recognition that modern social welfare programs stem from the protections pledged to war veterans, commitments from Congress to naturalize immigrant service members and veterans are absent in debates on the military social safety […]

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