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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 […]

Event Series History Associates Events

History Associates Talk | Lisa Jacobson “The Potent Politics of Weak Brews: How 3.2% Beer Helped End Prohibition” | Apr 6, 5:30 PM | Draughtsmen Aleworks

Draughstmen Aleworks University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

  To commemorate the 90th anniversary of beer’s re-legalization in the United States, Lisa Jacobson will explain how a coalition of brewers, scientists, and labor leaders persuaded Congress that a […]

History and Political Economy Colloquium with Dr. Utathya Chattopadhyaya | “Intoxication and Political Economy”

HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

We are excited to announce the fourth session of the History Department’s colloquium on history and political economy. The colloquium offers a forum for open, substantive discussions on how to […]

Event Series Focal Point Dialogues in History

Focal Point Dialogues in History: Conversations on Black life, race, and antiblackness in history with Prof. Nyasha Mboti and Prof. Steve Zipperstein

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

The History Department's Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend this year’s FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series. Inspired by the History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its […]

GIVE DAY 2023

Thursday, April 13th, 2023 is UCSB’s annual Give Day, a 36-hour online fundraising event. Last year, with the help of the community, more people donated to the History Department than […]