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Lily Anne Welty Tamai, “Mixed-Race Black Identities in Postwar Japan and Okinawa”

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The East Asia Center welcomes UCSB History alumna Dr. Lily Anne Welty Tamai (Asian American Studies, UCLA) for a talk on "Mixed-Race Black Identities in Postwar Japan and Okinawa." Mixed-race people born at the end of World War II made history quietly with their families and their communities. Wars and the military occupations that followed, […]

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Center for Cold War Studies Talk: Nancy Mitchell, “Andrew Young: Challenging Anglo-Saxon Foreign Policy?”

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Andrew Young, one of Martin Luther King's top aides and a former member of Congress, served as Jimmy Carter's ambassador to the United Nations. Outspoken and controversial, Young questioned prevailing Cold War assumptions. "Communism has never been a threat to me," he said. "Racism has always been a threat—and that has been the enemy of […]

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UCSB Africa Center Inaugural Lecture: Dr. Zoé Samudzi’s “Rewriting the Concentration Camp”

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The UCSB Africa Center cordially invites you to a special guest lecture on June 4 by Dr. Zoé Samudzi on indigenous demands for restitution, long-contested histories of colonial dispossession and property ownership in the aftermath of the German genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples in Namibia. Her talk will interrogate the trajectories of colonial ideology and practice from […]

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History Associates: “Wonders of Medieval Rome” Talk by Carol Lansing

21 W. Anapamu Street 21 Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara

Recent research, discoveries and restorations are dramatically changing how scholars view medieval Rome. The city was hardly the artistic and cultural backwater we had imagined: instead, as Julian Gardner writes, it was a crucible for the arts.  This talk will set out some of those finds.  The Aula Gotica frescoes are just one fascinating example. In […]

History Associates Talk and Performance: Mhoze Chikowero and Dr. Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa on Musics of State-making in Zimbabwe

HTTPS://UCSB.ZOOM.US/J/83279445270 Multicultural Center, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

History Associates presents, in collaboration with UCSB Multicultural Center, a special online performance from opera-singer and scholar, Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa. Tawengwa is a close collaborator of UCSB Associate Professor of History, Mhoze Chikowero, who will be moderating the post performance Q&A. Tawengwa and Chikowero worked together to adapt her senior thesis from Princeton, "Dawn of the Rooster," into […]

History Faculty John W. I. Lee on IHC’s Humanities Decanted: on his new book The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert

HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center is hosting a dialogue between John W. I. Lee (History) and Krzysztof Janowicz (Geography) about Lee’s new book, The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert. Audience Q&A will follow. The First Black Archaeologist reveals the untold story of a pioneering African American classical scholar, teacher, community leader, and […]

History Associates Talk: Giulianna Perrone | Back into the Days of Slavery: Abolition and the Free Black Family

East Side Library, Montecito Street East Side Library, 1102 E Montecito Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

SUNDAY MARCH 6, 2022 at 2:00 PM PST East Side Library 1102 E Montecito Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This event will be presented in-person and live-streamed via zoom. Click here to register and receive the zoom link. You do not need to register if attending in-person.

History Associates Talk : Graduate Student, Gokh Amin Al Shaif on Genealogies of Belonging: Lessons from an Oceanic Yemen

East Side Library, Montecito Street East Side Library, 1102 E Montecito Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

  When: SUNDAY APRIL 3, 2022, 2:00 PM PST Where : In person and on Zoom Address: East Side Library 1102 E Montecito Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103 Register to receive the zoom link: https://bit.ly/HAtalkapril3 You can find more details here: History Associates April 3 Event Flier_final    

Women in Chinese Silent Cinema

SSMS 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

In this lecture, Paul Pickowicz will screen compelling clips from Chinese silent-era films of the 1920s and 1930s.  Pickowicz will emphasize the diverse roles played by women and ask questions about why the women seen on screen, including such iconic figures as Ruan Lingyu, Li Lili, and Wang Renmei, were far more important than men […]