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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 States

1968 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 […]

Talk by Professor Bonnie Honig, Brown University: “Postures of Refusal”

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

Postures 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 […]

Public History event: Career Diversity speakers

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

The 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 States

Professor 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, […]

“Podcasting the Past: Teaching Tolerance and the Making of Queer America”

CITRAL Seminar Room, Library UCSB Library, 525 UCEN Rd, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

"Podcasting the Past: Teaching Tolerance and the Making of Queer America" — History Department Gender and Sexualities Cluster  Interactive talk with Dr. Leila Rupp, Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies Leila Rupp, […]