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Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games
Engineering Science Building 1001 , United StatesYou are invited to join us for the third meeting of the Colloquium for Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall from the California State University, San Marcos who will be […]
Royal Manuscripts of the Moroccan Royal Library: An Introduction and Overview
HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesSpeaker: Dr. Khalid Zahri, Royal Library, Rabat, Morocco. Sponsored by the UCSB Center for Middle East Studies.
Professor Tracy Adams, University of Auckland, New Zealand, “The French Political Royal Mistress and Gallic Singularity”
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesWe are so used to the idea of the royal mistress as a constituent element of the French king’s grandeur that we tend not to think about how strange it […]
Seth Rockman, History, Brown University, “Plantation Labor Outsourced: Rethinking New England Outwork and the National Economy of Slavery in Antebellum America”
HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesRockman is the author of Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (2008) and co-editor, with Sven Beckert, of Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (2016). Scraping By won the […]
Citizens of Nowhere: The Case for Embracing the Stateless – David Baluarte, Washington & Lee University
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesProfessor Terence Keel, “The Ghost in the Machine: How Christianity Haunts the Biological Sciences”
Goleta Valley Public Library 500 N. Fairview Avenue, Goleta, CA, United StatesKeel argues that the enduring belief that race comes from "nature" reflects the haunting influence of Christian intellectual history on the development of modern scientific thinking about human ancestry.2018-Keel-flyer-pdf
Prof. Michele Salzman (UC Riverside) – Lay Aristocrats and Roman Bishops
Arts 1332 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United StatesFelix III, who held the papal seat from 483-492, is called by several scholars "Rome's first aristocratic bishop." As the first elected pope after the fall of the last western […]
Amy Stanley, “Finding Echigo in Edo: Snow Country Migrants and Their Urban Worlds”
HSSB 4080 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United StatesThe Echigo province migrant was a familiar type in nineteenth-century Edo. Every year in the tenth month, snow country peasants would come down the mountains on the Nakasendō Highway and […]
Marcia Chatelain, History, Georgetown University, “Burgers in the Age of Black Capitalism: Fast Food and the Remaking of Civil Rights after 1968”
HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesChatelain is currently writing a book about race and fast food, From Sit-In to Drive-Thru: Black America in the Age of Fast Food (under contract, Liveright, an imprint of W.W. Norton). Her first […]