Pan-Africanism: A History
Girvetz 1004 Girvetz Hall, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesLecture by Professor Hakim Adi (University of Chichester, UK) Thursday, February 21, 2019, 6:15-7:30 pm Girvetz Hall 1004
Lecture by Professor Hakim Adi (University of Chichester, UK) Thursday, February 21, 2019, 6:15-7:30 pm Girvetz Hall 1004
Please join us for the next meeting of the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Alicia Boswell, who will deliver a talk entitled "Cultural Heritage and Community: Protecting the Past for the Future in the Moche Valley, Peru". The talk will be held in HSSB 4020 at 5 pm on Wednesday, March […]
As a part of the Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture Series, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center presents Audra J. Wolfe on the development of so-called apolitical science. Why do so many U.S. scientists continue to lean on the language of apolitical science, even as political leaders display less and less interest in scientists’ claims to expertise, or […]
History Associates will kick off the 2019-2020 year with a presentation by UCSB’s Professor Stephan Miescher titled Ghana’s Electric Dreams. It is based on his forthcoming monograph on the history of Ghana’s most ambitious development project, the Volta River Project and the Akosombo Dam, and their importance for the process of nation-building. It will include the showing of […]
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy’s “The Political Economy of Racial Inequality” Fall Quarter speaker series, Nelson Lichtenstein (History, UC Santa Barbara) will present “A Fabulous Failure: Bill Clinton, American Capitalism, and the Origin of Our Troubled Times.” Lichtenstein is the Academic Senate's 2019 Faculty Research Lecturer. […]
Elizabeth Buettner, Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam, will present her paper "Postcolonial Migration Meets European Integration: Britain in Comparative Perspective" on Tuesday, October 22 at 4:00 in HSSB 4020. How exceptional has Britain’s history of inward migration after 1945 been compared to that of other Western European countries? Like other former […]
On October 24 at 4:00pm in HSSB 4080, Professor Rosemarie Zagarri of George Mason University will present a talk titled "The Murky Past and Contested Future of the Electoral College." The event is free and open to the public. This talk will examine the roots of the American system for electing its president and explore […]
The Trump impeachment saga has gained startling momentum in recent days. As the proceedings accelerate, fascinating legal and policy questions arise. Can the president pardon people who have committed crimes at his behest? Can he pardon himself? Does impeachment require proof of a federal crime? Is the Senate required to hold an actual trial? Can nonfederal legal authorities—like the […]
As a special Halloween event, Professor Brad Bouley will present "To Catch a Witch: Gender, Politics, and Persecution in the European Past." Join us at noon on October 31 in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) for knowledge, pizza, and drinks. Undergraduates are especially welcome.
Join us for the next Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture...13 November 2019 at 4PM About the talk: Einstein’s ascent to worldwide celebrity was, in large part, not his own doing. The 1919 confirmation of the German Einstein’s theory of general relativity by British astronomers soon after the end of the First World War made him an […]