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Event Series Gender + Sexualities

“LGBT Direct Action Bibliography, Chronology, and Inventory, 1965-73” (Marc Stein, SFSU)

CITRAL Seminar Room, Library UCSB Library, 525 UCEN Rd, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The Gender + Sexualities Cluster is pleased to welcome Professor Marc Stein to campus. Marc is a historian of U.S. law, politics, and society, with research and teaching interests in constitutional law, social movements, gender, race and sexuality. His books and articles have focused on twentieth-century urban gay and lesbian history; U.S. Supreme Court decisions on […]

Event Series Gender + Sexualities

“Queer Public History: A Conversation with Marc Stein”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The Gender + Sexualities Cluster is pleased to welcome Professor Marc Stein to campus. Marc is a historian of U.S. law, politics, and society, with research and teaching interests in constitutional law, social movements, gender, race and sexuality. His books and articles have focused on twentieth-century urban gay and lesbian history; U.S. Supreme Court decisions on […]

From Table to Text: Borders and Boundaries in Food History

  From Table to Text: Borders and Boundaries in Food History March 3rd and 4th, 2023 A Virtual Conference Hosted by the History Department,  University of California at Santa Barbara Organizers: Erika Rappaport and Elizabeth Schmidt All paper panels will take place via Zoom. If you need assistance setting up a Zoom account, please let us […]

Graduate Recruitment Day

HSSB 4020

Admitted graduate students are invited to visit the Department of History and get to know its faculty and current graduate students.  Panels, roundtables and social events will introduce prospective grad students to our department. Download the program and schedule here: 2023 Recruitment Day Schedule

Event Series Gender + Sexualities

Coffee on Campus (with Marc Stein)

HSSB 3041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The Gender + Sexualities Cluster is pleased to welcome Professor Marc Stein to campus. Marc is a historian of U.S. law, politics, and society, with research and teaching interests in constitutional law, social movement s, gender, race and sexuality. His books and articles have focused on twentieth-century urban gay and lesbian history; U.S. Supreme Court decisions […]

Cold War Working Group Workshop | Nick Cohen “Forging an International Backstop: Commercial Banking, Foreign Policy, and the Empowerment of the IMF, 1973-1981” | Mar 4, 11 AM

West Campus Point Faculty Housing Community's outdoor plaza University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

When: Saturday, March 4, 11 AM to 12:30 PM Where: West Campus Point Faculty Housing Community's Outdoor Plaza The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) and the Cold War Working Group (CWWG) will host an in-person workshop at the West Campus Point faculty housing community's outdoor plaza. We will be reading and […]

Talk by Joshua Conrad Jackson: The History of Our Minds: Evidence for Co-Evolution of Cultural and Psychological Processes

Zoom CA

Dr. Joshua Conrad Jackson, a DRRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Northwestern University and an incoming professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago, is going to deliver a talk titled "The History of Our Minds: Evidence for Co-Evolution of Cultural and Psychological Processes," on Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 4-5:30PM (PST). Please click this link […]

2023 Desert Russian History Workshop

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

The Desert Russian History Workshop meets annually and brings together historians of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union from universities throughout the western United States.  Previous venues have included the University of Nevada at Reno, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Arizona State University, and U.C. Riverside. The Desert Workshop offers a unique […]

Event Series History Associates Events

History Associates Talk | Lisa Jacobson “The Potent Politics of Weak Brews: How 3.2% Beer Helped End Prohibition” | Apr 6, 5:30 PM | Draughtsmen Aleworks

Draughstmen Aleworks University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

  To commemorate the 90th anniversary of beer’s re-legalization in the United States, Lisa Jacobson will explain how a coalition of brewers, scientists, and labor leaders persuaded Congress that a beer capable of producing a mild euphoria could be legalized without violating the 18th Amendment’s ban on intoxicating beverages. Insisting that alcohol potency alone did […]