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, […]
“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, […]
Talk by Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: “The Layered Landscapes of Hebei and Guangxi: Mao-era History and the COnstruction of China’s Agricultural Heritage”
SS&MS 2135Chinese scientists, scholars, and state officials are actively engaged in a transnational movement to preserve "agricultural heritage." But what is agricultural heritage and how does it relate to a "people's […]
Symposium “BEYOND THE SPILL: THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF OIL IN CALIFORNIA”
Wireframe Studio and SRB Multipurpose RmThe year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective at UCSB is excited to invite […]
UCSB History Associates: “Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life”, talk with Jane De Hart and Laura Kalman
Buchanan 1910Please join us for a talk by Jane Sherron De Hart, professor emerita of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on her new biography, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A […]
“Agrarian Quests: The Search for Comunidades and Campesinos in Rural Peru,” a lecture by Javier Puente
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesAbstract The history of twentieth-century Peru is the history of the rural countryside, its governance, and the making of comunidadesand campesinosas foundational elements of a social, economic, and political landscape. […]
Film showing: “In the Shadow of the Moon”
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States2019 marks the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo program. The mission’s crewed flights began in 1968 with the first lunar circumnavigation; on July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first […]
Talk by Priti Ramamurthy, University of Washington: “Feminist Commodity Chains”
hssb 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United StatesA scholar of gender and globalization, Ramamurthy has conducted ethnography in the same villages in the Telangana region of southern India for three decades to examine the relationship between social […]