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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
"Ashayet Queen of Egypt" Everyone is welcome!
"Women and Wealth in the Letters & Papers of Symmachus" Everyone is welcome!
The History associates brings to you a talk by Professor Anthony Barbieri off the department of history on his latest book. The talk narrates the integrated history of Eurasia over the last two millennia through the travel of two dozen remarkable men and women who voyaged across this vast continent and reported on their encounters […]
The History Associates in partnership with the UCSB Affiliates are excited to present April's Profs at the Pub! History Professor Kate McDonald shares her favorite rickshaw stories from twentieth-century Japan. Invented in 1869, the rickshaw quickly came to define Japan’s urban modernity. Though it declined in popularity in the 1930s and 1940s, the rickshaw was […]
This paper contributes to the global history of capitalism in rural contexts, examining the impact of agro-industrial mechanization on wages in African rural communities through a case study of a sugar factory in 19th-century Egypt. Utilizing approximately fifty wage registers from the Rawda factory in Middle Egypt, dating from 1849 to 1903 and now preserved […]
Next two books in the series of A Banned Book in Common are A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943), by Betty Smith, and The Hate U Give (2017), by Angie Thomas A unique event organized by UCSB's History Associates, we discuss books that have been targets of book banners. Click here to RSVP and to […]