Phi Alpha Theta/History Club Meeting
Phi Alpha Theta and History Club Meeting HSSB 4080 6pm-8pm
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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" […]
End of Fall Quarter Instruction
Classes end on Friday, December 12, 2014; Winter Quarter begins Monday, Jan. 5, 2015. hm 10/4/14
Start of Summer Session B Instruction
See the calendar at the link below. hm 7/19/15
Sanctification of Mangoes: Symbol Creation in the Cult of Mao Zedong
In 1968 during China’s “Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution,” the cult of CommunistParty Chairman Mao Zedong was at a high. A Pakistani foreign minister presented Mao with a crate of mangoes that he re-gifted to the Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Teams who were occupying the Tsinghua University campus. The gift of mangoes happened to coincide with […]
Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Modern Japan
Inaugural gathering of the UCSB History Department's "Empires, Borderlands and Legacies" cluster.Space is limited, but guests are welcome. hm 1/6/15
UCSB History Club and Phi Alpha Theta
Please join the UCSB History Club and Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society) this Wednesday (January 14) at 6:30pm at HSSB 4080 for our First General Meeting of the Winter Quarter! We will kickoff the quarter with an introduction to the History Club and our planned events and ongoing themes for the quarter as well […]
Badash Memorial Lecture: The Materiality of the Virtual: A Global Environmental History of Computing from Babbage to Bitcoin
Please join us January 21 at 5PM for the annual Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. Prof. Nathan Ensmenger will be speaking about the intersection of the histories of computing and the environment. Abstract For most Americans, one of the defining features of the modern digital economy is the invisibility of its material infrastructure. Whereas previous technological […]
ROUNDTABLE: Natural Capital–How Much Is the Ocean Worth?
Speakers:Peter Alagona (History and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Sarah Anderson (Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UCSB) Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies, UCSB; UCSB Sustainability Champion) Sharyn Maine (Santa Barbara Foundation) Richard Widick (Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, UCSB) Facilitator: Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook (English and Comparative Literature, UCSB) How much is the […]
Spring 2015 History Courses Informational Meeting
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesSpring 2015 Registration begins 02/04/2015. Come learn in detail about all the exciting and new courses offered by the HISTORY department in Spring quarter. This includes not only courses which fulfill the major requirements, but those that simultaneously fulfill general education requirements in the College of Letters and Science and the College of Engineering. THURSDAY JAN […]