The Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library presents: “Indians at Mission Santa Bárbara: Life at the Mission in 1800” Featuring Dr. John Johnson Sunday December 4 at 3:00 in the Bonaventure Room at Old Mission Santa Bárbara. This lecture is part of the celebration of the 225th anniversary of Mission Santa Bárbara. Admission is free, but donations […]
Gabriela Ramos is lecturer in Latin American History at the University of Cambridge, and author the Death and Conversion in the Andes: Cuzco and Lima 1532-1670 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010) winner of the Howard F. Cline Prize awarded by the Conference on Latin American History in 2011. Her talk will explore the ways […]
See the calendar at:www.registrar.ucsb.edu/cal2012.htm On our Courses page you will find some syllabi (click the Download link), and links to the instructors' faculty pages, where there are often announcements about waiting list and "crashing" policies. hm 11/6/11
Please join us for the next event in the IHC's Public Goods series: McCune Conference Room, Contrary to conventional wisdom, the notion of welfare as a public good has a venerated?if highly contested?history, and has found valence in many different cultures, political regimes, and religious traditions over the course of centuries. It has also been […]
Dear History Graduate Students: I plan to devote two-hours of my History 223A (Research Seminar in Modern Europe) to the art of note-taking and note-organizing. I decided to open this session to interested graduate students. The workshop will be held at 4-6, Monday, January 23, in HSSB 4041. Roger Eardly-Pryor will demonstrate how to take […]
It was harvest season. Much of the grain was already processed and had been loaded into one of the storerooms and winnowing was underway in the backyard. The fire started in one of the storerooms. It quickly spread igniting the wooden beams that supported the flat clay roof, which roof collapsed crushing the wooden shelves […]
Arnesen offers a provocative talk on the relationship between the idea of a “long civil rights movement” and the historiographical reappraisal of the role played by the Communist Party in post World War II American politics and society. Arnesen is the author of Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality (2001) […]
Matthew Gordon is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Miami University of Ohio A Reception Immediately Following the Talk, HSSB 4041 hm 1/30/12
University of California-Santa BarbaraFebruary 2-3, 2012 We invite you to attend a conference which brings together historians, social theorists, contemporary student activists, and Port Huron veterans to discuss the origins, historical impact, and contemporary relevance of the New Left's founding manifesto. (conference website) Keynote speeches by: Michael Kazin and Tom Hayden and: Paul Booth Charles […]
Despite its manifest absurdity, the rational actor model continues to domi-nate discussions of modern capitalism. This lecture proposes an alterna- tive perspective, by deepening and broadening Keynes's brief mention of "animal spirits" in economic decisions. Building on the work of anthropolo- gists and cultural historians, Lears explores the tangled relationships be- tween capitalism and emotional […]