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  • Lecture: “Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism”

    Dr. Premilla Nadasen, who will deliver the Hull Lecture in Women and Social Justice, will be speaking about her new book Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism in the McCune Conference Room.

  • Ending Poverty in California: A Movement, A Plan, A More Equitable Future

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

    What would a California without poverty look like? How would ending economic hardship advance freedom and well-being for all? This is a prospect that has captured the imaginations of activists, […]

  • Reparations Past and Present

    For more than 200 years, Americans have argued about whether freed slaves should be compensated for the time and livelihood taken from them. These debates intensified after the Civil War […]

  • Public History Colloquium

    Prof. Susan Burch will speak about her latest book, which has recently received the National Women’s Studies Association Alison Piepmeier Book Prize, and the Disability History Association’s Outstanding Book of […]

  • UCSB History Department’s Annual Senior Honors Colloquium

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

    Please join the History Department in celebrating the undergraduates at the Department's Annual Senior Honors Colloquium 2024. The program can be downloaded here.   Department of History Senior Honors Colloquium […]

  • Victor Seow, “The Human Factor: Work as Science in Twentieth-Century China”

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

    In 1935, the Commercial Press in Shanghai published a modest-sized volume on a subject most of its readers likely never heard of. Titled An Overview of Industrial Psychology (工業心理學概觀), this […]