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  • Nakba in the Age of Catastrophe: Lessons from Palestine

    Sherene Seikaly will give a talk called: "Nakba in the Age of Catastrophe: Lessons from Palestine" What can the history of Palestine teach us about surviving catastrophe? In this talk, […]

  • Networks of Witchcraft and Sorcery in Early Modern Venice

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

    Thursday, January 25 at 2:00 pm in HSSB 4020 John Hunt (Prof. Utah Valley University) will present a paper entitled "Networks of Witchcraft and Sorcery in Early Modern Venice." Dr. Hunt is an expert on […]

  • History and Political Economy

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

    The colloquium offers a forum for open, substantive discussions on how to approach political economy from a historical perspective; how to grapple with and benefit from the epistemological diversity surrounding […]

  • Public History Colloquium, Eric Boyle

    HSSB 3208 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Join the Public History Colloquium for a conversation with Eric Boyle (PhD 2007), Chief Historian and Federal Preservation Officer for the Department of Energy. He will discuss his work as […]

  • Public History Colloquium, Alison Rose Jefferson

    HSSB 3208 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Alison Rose Jefferson (PhD 2015) will speak about her career as a public historian, some of her current/recent projects, and share thoughts on how they fit into a broader public […]

  • Mystery Children: The Stasova International Children’s Home During Stalin’s Purge

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

    Drawing on her current book project, Communist Neverland: History of an International Children’s Home, 1933–2013, Elizabeth McGuire tells the story of the Stasova International Children’s Home, an elite orphanage and boarding school for the […]