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  • Drawing Twentieth-Century History: The World in Flames, a talk by Fernando Bryce Copy

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

    Fernando Bryce’s upcoming public lecture, “Drawing Twentieth-Century History: The World in Flames” to take place Friday, April 7th in HSSB 4020 starting at 3 pm, is part of the yearlong new interdisciplinary graduate […]

  • Honoring a Chicana Activist Dignity Warrior: The Life and Work of Alicia Escalante

    UCSB Main Library, Pacific View Room, 8th Floor University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    A reception honoring Alicia Escalante, life-long community activist. Please join us in recognizing the life-long activism of Alicia Escalante, the founder of the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization (ELAWRO), […]

  • Marriage and Ritual Performance among the Servants of the Babylonian Gods

    HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Talk by Bastian Still, Leiden University With more than 50,000 legal-administrative cuneiform tablets, the so-called Neo- Babylonian Period (c. 625-484 BCE) is one of the best-documented periods in the history […]

  • Let us go upon the Acropolis: John Wesley Gilbert in Greece, September 1890-April 1891

    UCSB Library Instruction & Training Room 1312 (First Floor, Mountain Side) Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

    Talk by John W.I. Lee, UCSB History Department John Wesley Gilbert (ca. 1863-1923) was born in Hephzibah, Georgia. He attended Paine College (Augusta, Georgia), then received his BA from Brown University […]

  • Echoes from El Pueblo Viejo

    Alhecama Theatre 914 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

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  • Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture – Erika Milam on “Creatures of Cain”

    McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Please join us on May 10, 4PM, in the McCune Conference Room for the Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. Our guest speaker will be Erika Lorraine Milam (Princeton University) who will […]

  • The Politics of Rights and The 1911 Revolution in China, a talk by Xiaowei Zheng

    HSSB 3001E 3001E Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    The Workshop Theoretical Perspectives on War, Political Violence, Nationalism, and the State (His 291) is pleased to present Xiaowei Zheng, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultural […]

  • A Woman’s Drink? Gender & the Global History of the Tea Shop

    Karpeles Manuscript Library 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    In this talk, Professor Erika Rappaport of the UCSB History Department explores how tea shops emerged in the 18th century and came to be defined as “women’s spaces” in 19th […]