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Andrew Hartman, “Rethinking Karl Marx: American Liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War”

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

As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series, Andrew Hartman (History, Illinois State University) will present “Rethinking Karl Marx: American Liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War." Hartman is the author of Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School (2008) […]

lecture by Jon Meacham, “America Then and Now”

Granada Theater Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Jon Meacham will be speaking on "American Then and Now: What History Tells Us About the Future" at the Granada Theater as part of Arts and Lectures "History Matters" series Meacham_Jon_2020_flyer    

Anna Rudolph, “Queen Radegund and the Monarchy in Medieval Europe”

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

Come hear Anna Rudolph's presentation on Queen Radegund (520AD – 587AD) – a royal sainted lady of Thuringia. Radegund was a princess and a war captive who became the unwilling queen of the Frankish Kingdom and one of the most beloved Saints of France. Radegund, an extreme ascetic, was widely believed to have the gift […]

Grace Peña Delgado, “Mexico’s New Slavery: A Critique of Neo-Abolitionism to Combat Human Trafficking”

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

As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series, Grace Peña Delgado (History, UC Santa Cruz) will present "Mexico's New Slavery: A Critique of Neo-Abolitionism to Combat Human Trafficking." Delgado is the author of Making the Chinese American: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (2012) […]

Brandon Seto, “Doctorates Without Borders: Careers in Government, Advocacy, and Communication for PhDs”

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

On February 28, Dr. Brandon Seto, Senior Floor Consultant to California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (and a 2010 UCSB history PhD), will give a talk entitled "Doctorates Without Borders: Careers in Government, Advocacy, and Communication for PhDs," about employment opportunities outside academia available to holders of PhDs. The talk, which is sponsored by UCSB's […]

Sara Beam, “Missing Babies and Tacit Tolerance of Infanticide in Early Modern Europe”

HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Aggressive criminal prosecution of unwed mothers who killed their newborns in early modern Europe (1550-1750) has led historians to assume that Europe was less tolerant of illegitimacy and infanticide than other pre-modern societies, including China and Japan. New research throws this assumption into question. In early modern Geneva, authorities often turned a blind eye to […]

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."

VIRTUAL TALK: Ryan Horne, “Aeolian Alexanders: Coins, Space, and Networks in Ancient Turkey”

Ryan Horne (World History Center, University of Pittsburgh), "Aeolian Alexanders: Coins, Space, and Networks in Ancient Turkey"   Date/Time: Monday, May 18 from 11am-12pm PST   Abstract: "An increasing number of historians and sociologists have theorized empires as a series of interlocking networks of social and political interactions. Less attention has been paid to how […]

“Coronavirus and Historical Patterns of Epidemics in Latin America”

A Zoom Talk by Dr. Marcos Cueto Wednesday, May 13, at 12 pm – 1:30 pm, via Zoom Abstract. Historical studies on epidemics in Latin America have magnified fragilities in public health structures, revealed the vulnerability of the poor and discovered cases of heroism under adversity. They have also identified an historical trend --revived in the […]

Stuart Tyson Smith, “Black Pharaohs? Egyptological Bias, Racism, and Egypt and Nubia as African Civilizations”

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Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African & African American Research welcomes UCSB Professor of Anthropology (and History Department affiliate faculty member) Stuart Tyson Smith to the W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual Lecture Series. On Tuesday, September 22 Professor Smith will present his Zoom lecture "Black Pharaohs? Egyptological Bias, Racism, and Egypt and Nubia as African Civilizations." Register […]

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