Summer Session B classes start
Summer Session B classes start. hm 6/21/12
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“With Their Eyes Turned Skyward: Santa Barbara’s Fallen Aviators of WWII”
Have you ever wondered how the streets surrounding the Santa Barbara Airport were named? For example, who were David Love, Augustus Griggs and Clyde Adams? They were among the 49 local aviators who lost their lives during World War II. The Goleta Valley Historical Society will host a lecture, With Their Eyes Turned Skyward: Santa […]
Summer Session B: last day of instruction
Summer Session B instruction ends hm 6/21/12
Dinetah and Navaho: History and Politics
Prof. James Brooks, President and CEO of the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe (and former UCSB professor), will speak on Dinetah and Navajo history and present politics. Prof. Brooks, together with Prof. Smith in Anthropology and Prof. Digeser in History, will be teaching a three-quarter graduate seminar on comparative borderlands at UCSB in […]
Fall 2012: first day of instruction
Fall 2012 classes begin hm 6/21/12
SCOTT NELSON, Legum Professor of History at the College of William & Mary, discusses his new book A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America’s Financial Disasters
Nelson is the author of Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of An American Legend (2008) which won the Merle Curti Prize for the best book in U.S. social and cultural history. Nelson's paper can be found here.
Violence, Holy War, and the Book of Revelation: Žižek and John, Together at Last
The UCSB-Westmont Annual Lecture in Early Christianity Prof. Steven Friesen is Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Texas- Austin. There will be a reception in HSSB 6020 following the talk. Sponsored by UCSB and Westmont College, in cooperation with the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program […]
Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War
CSU Channel Islands (CI) will host the traveling exhibition Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War at the John Spoor Broome Library from Oct. 11 through Nov. 30. The free, public exhibition opens with a reception on Thursday, Oct. 11, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the library's Exhibition Hall. The reception will feature Joan […]
The Experience of Authority in Early Modern England and America
A central question for historians of religion and culture in early modern Europe and early America is how, given the complexities of mapping “popular religion,” the authority of theological paradigms and religious institutions can be recast to acknowledge social mediations and cultural practice. In this lecture, David D. Hall uses examples from both sides of […]
“Higher Education and California Voters: Can this Election Save UC?”
Speakers include Assemblyman Das Williams; Chris Newfield, Professor of English; Gene Lucas, Executive Vice Chancellor; and Nelson Lichtenstein, MacArthur Foundation Professor of History. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy UCSB Faculty Association. More information on Proposition 30, including sites dedicated to arguments for and against the voter proposition can […]