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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 […]

The Atlantic Revolutions

Goleta Library 500 N Fairview Ave,, Goleta, California, United States

Manuel Covo will give a talk on Atlantic Revolutions, title TBD On Wednesday, February 21 at 5:30 pm at the Goleta Library  

Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint Méry’s Intellectual World

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Sara Johnson is professor of literature of the Americas at the University of California, San Diego. Her book, Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World (Omohundro Institute/UNC Press, 2023), […]