History Associates and Arthur Miller’s View from the Bridge, Nov. 19
The UCSB History Associates are presenting a talk by Prof. Irwin Appel (Professor of Theater) on Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge on 19 November 2017. He will speak […]
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Gift of the Nile? Racism, Egyptological Bias, and Ancient Egypt as an African Civilization
HSSB 6056 UCSB, CA, United StatesProf. Stuart Tyson Smith (Anthropology) will speak for the Ancient Borderlands group.
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Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games
Engineering Science Building 1001 , United StatesYou are invited to join us for the third meeting of the Colloquium for Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall from the California State University, San Marcos who will be […]
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Citizens of Nowhere: The Case for Embracing the Stateless – David Baluarte, Washington & Lee University
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States -
Professor Terence Keel, “The Ghost in the Machine: How Christianity Haunts the Biological Sciences”
Goleta Valley Public Library 500 N. Fairview Avenue, Goleta, CA, United StatesKeel argues that the enduring belief that race comes from "nature" reflects the haunting influence of Christian intellectual history on the development of modern scientific thinking about human ancestry.2018-Keel-flyer-pdf
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Marcia Chatelain, History, Georgetown University, “Burgers in the Age of Black Capitalism: Fast Food and the Remaking of Civil Rights after 1968”
HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesChatelain is currently writing a book about race and fast food, From Sit-In to Drive-Thru: Black America in the Age of Fast Food (under contract, Liveright, an imprint of W.W. Norton). Her first […]
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Onontio’s Reward: When Louis XIV’s head hung from Native American necks
HSSB 3001E 3001E Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesFrench royal medals crossed into a radically different cultural context when awarded to the Amerindian people of Canada in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. So it may come […]
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5th Annual Van Gelderen Lecture: Ships and Saints: Mapping the World of Athanasius of Alexandra, Chris Nofziger
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesPlease join us for this year's Van Gelderen Lecture, which will feature Chris Nofziger. Chris is currently an advanced PhD candidate in Roman history under the the direction of Beth […]
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Talk by Deborah Coen (Yale), “Climate Science in the Age of Empire”
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Talk by Professor Emeritus Hal Drake on “A Century of Miracles”
Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, United StatesProfessor Drake will be discussing his latest book, A Century of Miracles: Christians, Pagans, Jews, and the Supernatural, 312-410. The book offers a fresh examination of a complex polytheistic period in Roman […]