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Mariel Aquino, “‘A unique case in the world of football”: Athletic Club de Bilbao, Nationalism, and Basque Exceptionalism.”

HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

The Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster invites all to attend a paper workshop by Mariel Aquino.  The paper explores the construction of masculinity and Basque nationalism through an examination of football (soccer), specifically the Athletic Club de Bilbao.  This is a paper workshop so please try to read the paper in advance. Mariel Aquino is […]

Jeff Sklansky, History, University of Illinois at Chicago, “The Fund of Trust: Monetary Reform and the Ethic of Investment in the Gilded Age”

Sklansky is the author of The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920 (2002) and the forthcoming Sovereign of the Market: The Money Question in Early America. A copy of his paper, “"The Fund of Trust: Monetary Reform and the Ethic of Investment in the Gilded Age" can be found here: Sklansky

Senior Honors Research Colloquium

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

Please join us for the annual Senior Honors Research Colloquium hosted by the Department of History. Twelve senior honors students will present their research, followed by comments from faculty respondents. Refreshments will be served, beginning at 8:45 a.m.