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  • John C. Marquez: Laboring for Freedom: Statuliberas in 18th Century Rio de Janeiro

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

    Please join us to welcome John C. Marquez from UC Riverside who will discuss a chapter titled Laboring for Freedom: Statuliberas in 18th Century Rio de Janeiro from his forthcoming book Freedom on Three Coasts on slavery, law, and belonging in Brazil and the Portuguese Empire in the Atlantic Ocean. Marquez is a scholar of the Luso-Atlantic world and colonial Latin […]

  • CLAIR presents “What’s Next for Venezuela?” January 22 | 2 PM | Online Webinar

    On Thursday, January 22nd, at 2 pm CLAIR (The Center of Latin American and Iberian Research)  is hosting a virtual discussion on the current crisis in Venezuela and the aftermath of the U.S. military intervention. David Smilde and Leonardo Vivas will examine the challenges related to governance, democracy, global and U.S. politics, and potential future […]

  • Winter 2026 | Public History Colloquium | Policing the Past

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

    Public History Colloquium is hosting its first meeting of the quarter this Friday, January 23rd from 12-1:50, HSSB 4020. The theme of the quarter is Controversies and Contested Pasts. This week the colloquia will focus on "Policing the Past" and will be discussing the following works: Ø  Gabriela Cristea and Simina Radu-Bucurenci, “Raising the Cross: Exorcising […]

  • CMES Grad Fellows Panel III | Statecraft, Memory, Belonging: From Abkhazia to Palestine

    On Monday January 26 at 9 am  CMES Spotlight Series is hosting its third iteration of the 2025-2026 academic year. This will feature a graduate student panel on the topic “Statecraft, Memory, Belonging: From Abkhazia to Palestine” and features the work of Graduate Fellows Gehad Abaza (Anthropology), Farah Hammouda (Sociology), and Amin Mahini (History).  Professor […]

  • Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture 2026 : “Reading Galileo’s Letters: Experiments in Friendship, Knowledge, and Community” by Paula Findlen

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

    Paula Findlen, Ubalto Pierotti Professor in History and Italian Studies at Stanford University will be delivering The Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture of 2026. Her talk will be on Tuesday, January 27 at 4:30 pm in the McCune Room, HSSB 6020. Her talk is titled: "Reading Galileo's Letters:  Experiments in Friendship, Knowledge, and Community"   Abstract: Galileo's […]

  • History Associates Book Club: “Lies my Teacher Told Me”

    Mosher Alumni House Alumni Association / UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

    The History Associates and the History Department are launching a new special program “A Book in Common.” The first session is taking place on Thursday 1/29 at the Mosher Alumni House. This is a Book Club for history faculty, staff, students, History Associates, and history-minded community members. We'll discuss Lies My Teacher Told Me (graphic […]

  • Ambition on the Road: Getting Ahead in Arabic Travel Writing

    HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Monday, Feb 2, 2026 | 04:00 PM Location HSSB 4080 A Syrian merchant known as the ʿAṭṭār set out on a new road in 1765. When he began to write about his journey, he did so with specific aim and purpose: success, prestige, and merit. A few years earlier, in 1758, a Maronite Christian by […]