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Farina Mir: “Reconsidering Modernity in an Indian Vernacular: Punjabi Literature and the Writing of Colonial History”

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

FARINA MIR University of Michigan, Associate Professor of History KAPANY ENDOWMENT VISITING LECTURE SERIES About the Talk This talk considers the literary history of one Indian vernacular tradition, Punjabi, to interrogate assumptions about the temporality of literary history embedded in today's normative mode of writing the history of literature, assumptions critically linked to notions of […]

“The Visual Archive: Ho-Chunk Cultural Performance, Modern Labor, and Survivance in Wisconsin, 1879-1960.”

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

This presentation explores the intersections of photographic images, family history, tourism, and Ho-Chunk survivance through an examination of two photographic collections housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society: the Charles Van Schaick Collection and the H.H. Bennett Collection. The Van Schaick collection includes nearly taken between 1879-1936, and the H.H. Bennett Collection is comprised of hundreds […]

“Was the Rise of Islam a Black Swan Event?” Michael Cook, 2016 R. Stephen Humphreys Distinguished Visiting Scholar

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

A Black Swan Event is by definition a highly improbable happening with a massive impact. No one questions the impact of rise of Islam, but just how improbable was it? Two of its central features look very unlikely against the background of earlier history: the appearance among the Arabs of a new monotheistic religion, and the formation of […]

Wolfenden’s Witnesses: Making Sense of Homosexuality in Postwar Britain

HSSB 4202 4202 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Brian Lewis, Professor of History at McGill University, Montreal will be giving a lecture related to his recently published book Wolfenden's Witnesses: Homosexuality in Postwar Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. In addition to two other books, Professor Lewis has published two collections of essays on British Queer History. He is currently writing a study of sexologist […]

Senior Honors Seminar Informational Meeting

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The Senior Honors Seminar is a two-quarter seminar for majors in History, History of Public Policy, and Medieval Studies to be held in fall 2016 and winter 2017. The informational meeting for interested and eligible students is scheduled for Wednesday, May 4th from 2-3:30 pm in HSSB 4020. Please contact Prof. Hilary Bernstein at bernstein@history.ucsb.edu […]

2016 Annual Medieval Studies Program Conference: “Gender & Religious Practice in the Middle Ages”

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Keynote talk: “Men in Women's Monasteries: Nuns' Priests in the Central Middle Ages” by Fiona Griffiths, Professor of History at Stanford University The Medieval Studies Program would like to invite you to join us for our annual conference, May 7, 2016. The theme of this year's conference is "Gender and Religious Practice in the Middle Ages." […]

Seeking Peace Amid Violence: Professor James F. Brooks to Speak on Awat’ovi Massacre

Alhecama Theatre 914 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Modern Americans love thinking that the Hopi people of the Southwest represent the epitome of peacefulness. But in the year 1700, in the populous village of Awat’ovi, Hopi slaughtered Hopi by the hundreds in a predawn raid, showering crushed red pepper, fire, and arrows into subterranean kivas while kidnapping the women and children who survived. […]

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Talk by Neil Maher: Cold War Star Wars: The New Left and the Space Race During the Vietnam War

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

In the mid-1960s, NASA began building space technologies for the war in Vietnam. Students from the New Left vigorously protested against the space agency, which responded in the early 1970s by scrapping several of its military projects and instead developing satellites that could collect useful ecological data on natural resources around the world.  Soon scientists, engineers, […]

“The Calorie, Development, and War in Mandate Palestine, 1915-1945”

Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, United States

Sherene Seikaly Event Description: This talk explores British economic policy in the Middle East in general and Palestine specifically during WWII. Scholarly depictions have focused on the importance of measuring and realizing economic growth. This analysis looks instead at the construction and provision of basic needs during times of scarcity. It shows how British officials […]

Film Screening/Talk: “American Umpire”

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

Elizabeth Cobbs and James Shelley grant us a sneak preview of their forthcoming PBS documentary film, "American Umpire," based on Prof. Cobbs's acclaimed history book of the same name. The film recounts America's post-World War II role as the world's policemen and explores whether the United States can, and should, continue to play that role […]

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