Film Screening at Pollock Theater: RBG
Pollock TheaterScreening of the film RBG at the Pollock Theater. At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected […]
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Film screening: “1968: The Year that Shaped a Generation”
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States1968 Poster1968 was a pivotal year in U.S. and global history. In the United States, students protested the Vietnam War. In France, they protested university conditions and sparked worker strikes […]
Professor Barbieri-Low Speaks on “Paradise” at Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesProfessor Anthony Barbieri-Low will speak on "Visions of Immortality and Paradise in Ancient China and Egypt" as part of the Art Matters series at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. […]
Talk by Professor Bonnie Honig, Brown University: “Postures of Refusal”
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesPostures of Refusal: From Antigone to Kaepernick How do the postures of our bodies communicate citizens' dissidence or conformity, non-compliance or care? When Kaepernick kneels, Black Lives Matter lie down […]
UCSB History Associates Lecture: “Pious Postmortems: Anatomy and the Making of Saints”, Professor Brad Bouley
Karpeles Manuscript Library 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesDuring the Reformation, the Catholic Church suffered a crisis in one of its oldest and most powerful institutions: belief in the saints. To support the veneration of these individuals, canonization […]
Talk by Leon Fink, Georgetown: “Neoliberalism Before Its Time? Labor and the Free Trade Ideal in the Era of the ‘Great Compression.'”
hssb 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United StatesFink, the editor of LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History, is the author or editor of a dozen books. These include The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World […]
Talk by Stuart McManus, Chinese University of Hong Kong: “Agency, Intersectionality, and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Hispanic World
HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesHow did Mediterranean culture shape life in the multiethnic global empires of Spain and Portugal? To answer this question, this talk will explore the role of the classical tradition in […]
Public History event: Career Diversity speakers
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThe Public History program and History Graduate program are hosting two guests, Megan Bowman and Peter Bachman, to discuss their experiences teaching at independent schools. Both teach at Fintridge Preparatory […]
Talk by George O’Malley: “Tracking the Intercolonial Slave Trade”
hssb 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United StatesProfessor Gregory O’Malley, of UC Santa Cruz, is the author of Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 (2014), a logistical study of slave trading and its economic, political, […]