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Beyond UCSB in History

Hello Fellow Historians (and those simply interested in History), Please join the UCSB History Club and Honor Society (Phi AlphaTheta) this upcoming Wednesday (November 12) for our third general meeting of the quarter at 6:00pm at HSSB 4080. Prof. McGee and Prof. Ann Plane will host a "Beyond UCSB in History" workshop for everyone interested […]

Labor and Empire

This talk inaugurates a conference on “Labor and Empire” that continues through November 15. Chibber is the author of Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (2013). Conference participants include Sven Beckert, Avi Chomsky, Dana Frank, Julie Green, Paul Kramer, Jana Lipman, Elizabeth McKillen, and Steve Striffler. Sponsored by LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History of […]

David: The Divided Heart

Of all the figures in the Bible, David arguably stands out as the most perplexing and enigmatic. He was many things: a warrior who subdued Goliath and the Philistines; a king who united a nation; a poet who created beautiful, sensitive verse; a loyal servant of God who proposed the great Temple and founded the […]

Phi Alpha Theta/History Club Meeting

Please join the UCSB History Club and Phi Alpha Theta this Wednesday (November 19) at 6:00pm in HSSB 4080 for our fourth general meeting (and second to last one) of the quarter! We will be celebrating the holidays with a Thanksgiving-style potluck complete with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and the works. We also will be […]

Greeting the Dead: Managing Solitary Existence in Japan

At a moment when the population is declining, marriage and birth rates are down, one-third of people live alone while one-fourth are 65 or older, and reports of “lonely death” (of solitary people whose bodies are discovered days, or weeks, after death) are commonplace, the social ecology of existence is undergoing radical change in 21st […]

Climbing a stairway to heaven: Rereading dream texts as lived religion and embedded emotion in seventeenth-century New England

You are invited to the Pre-Modern Cluster's second brown bag lunch of this year. It is based on Prof. Plane's newly published book: Dreams and the Invisible World in Colonial New England: Indians, Colonists, and the Seventeenth Century From angels to demonic specters, astonishing visions to devilish terrors, dreams inspired, challenged, and soothed the men […]

The Latino Generation

Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as Latino. Though their population and influence are steadily rising, stereotypes and misconceptions about Latinos remain, from the assumption that they refuse to learn English to questions of just how "American" […]