Speaker: Laura Nenzi  (Ph.D. History, UC Santa Barbara, 2004) Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville   Event Description: Laura Nenzi, one of our very own (2004 PhD) is returning to UCSB to give a lecture about her recent (2015) second book The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko. The talk will focus on the process […]

Speaker: Carol Lansing is a professor of medieval European history at UCSB. A specialist in the society, politics and culture of medieval Italy, she is the author of Power and Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy and, most recently, Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes. She is co-editor of A […]

Speaker: Masuda Hajimu (family name Masuda) received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2012 and currently is Assistant Professor of history at the National University of Singapore, where he specializes in the history of Japan, student movements in Asia, decolonization, and the Cold War. He is the author of Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict […]