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History and East Asia Center presents Aaron Skabelund’s talk “Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force During the Cold War” | Mar 1 | 4PM | HSSB 4020

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

 The Self-Defense Force— Japan’s post-World War II military—and specifically the Ground Self Defense Force (GSDF), struggled for legitimacy in a society at best indifferent to them and often hostile to […]

Graduate Recruitment Day

HSSB 4020

Admitted graduate students are invited to visit the Department of History and get to know its faculty and current graduate students.  Panels, roundtables and social events will introduce prospective grad […]

Event Series Gender + Sexualities

Coffee on Campus (with Marc Stein)

HSSB 3041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The Gender + Sexualities Cluster is pleased to welcome Professor Marc Stein to campus. Marc is a historian of U.S. law, politics, and society, with research and teaching interests in constitutional […]

Cold War Working Group Workshop | Nick Cohen “Forging an International Backstop: Commercial Banking, Foreign Policy, and the Empowerment of the IMF, 1973-1981” | Mar 4, 11 AM

West Campus Point Faculty Housing Community's outdoor plaza University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

When: Saturday, March 4, 11 AM to 12:30 PM Where: West Campus Point Faculty Housing Community's Outdoor Plaza The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) and the […]

2023 Desert Russian History Workshop

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

The Desert Russian History Workshop meets annually and brings together historians of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union from universities throughout the western United States.  Previous venues have included […]