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“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 […]

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 […]

History Honors Seminar Colloquium

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

  UCSB History Department's Annual Senior Honors Seminar Colloquium Friday, May 20th 4020 HSSB 8:30 AM Coffee and pastries 9:00 AM Welcome - Professor Sharon Farmer, Chair of the History Department […]

2016 Islamic Studies Graduate Student Conference – Identity, Memory, & Diaspora

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

Please join the History Department for its 6th annual Islamic Studies Graduate Student Conference, beginning on May 20th and concluding on the 22nd in HSSB's McCune Conference Room. For additional […]

U.S. Senate Historian on Career Opportunities in Public History

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

Betty K. Koed is the U.S. Senate Historian and Director of the Senate Historical office. Koed earned her Ph.D. in political and public history at the University of California, Santa […]