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“China and the 2008 Riots in Tibet: What Happened, and How Do We Know?” with Prof. Zheng

Goleta Valley Public Library 500 N. Fairview Avenue, Goleta, CA, United States

UCSB's Professor Xiaowei Zheng (November 20 at 4:30PM at the Goleta Public Library) will discuss the difficulties in assessing the 2008 riots in Tibet. The rioting that began on March 14 in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, spread quickly to other Tibetan cities. In Lhasa, rioters targeted Han Chinese merchants who suffered injuries, casualties, and massive property damage. In […]

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“The Devil’s Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic,” A Talk by Sasha Disko

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

During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s burgeoning motorcycle culture. With automobiles largely a luxury of the upper classes, motorcycles […]

Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster Brown Bag

HSSB, location TBD University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster will meet periodically throughout the year for brown bag lunches to read and workshop works-in-progress from members of the research cluster. On December 5th, Sarah Case will discuss, "Juliette Derricotte, Mildred Rutherford Mell, and the Limits of Interwar Interracialism." Draft papers will be distributed before the event, and all participants […]

Mariel Aquino, “‘A unique case in the world of football”: Athletic Club de Bilbao, Nationalism, and Basque Exceptionalism.”

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

The Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster invites all to attend a paper workshop by Mariel Aquino.  The paper explores the construction of masculinity and Basque nationalism through an examination of football (soccer), specifically the Athletic Club de Bilbao.  This is a paper workshop so please try to read the paper in advance. Mariel Aquino is […]

American History & Institutions Exam 9/27/2016

HSSB 3038

American History & Institutions Exam Alternative way of satisfying UCSB AH & I GE requirement, 01/11/2017 9:00-12:00 am in HSSB 3038 Well in advance of the exam date, contact Monica I. Garcia Ph.D. for information regarding the exam to satisfy the American History and Institutions general education requirement and to obtain the required reading list, please […]

Talk by Prof Rui Kohiyama on American Women Missionaries and Romantic Love in Meiji Japan

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

Please join us in welcoming Professor Rui Kohiyama (American and Gender Studies, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University) to UCSB. Professor Kohiyama will give a talk on “American Woman Missionaries, Christian Homes, and Romantic Love in Meiji Japan.” American women missionaries are well known for their educational and reformatory intervention in various mission fields in Asia. Although […]

Critical Race Theory and The Health Sciences

Boston University School of Law 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, United States

This symposium, organized in part by UCSB History and Black Studies Professor Terence Keel, will explore the embedded nature of race in the health sciences and identify opportunities to disrupt and rethink these arrangements in pursuit of racial justice and health equity. We will examine the interconnected histories of science, medicine, and law that lead […]

Trevor Burnard, History, University of Melbourne, “Slavery and British Industrialisation: the ‘New History of Capitalism Movement’ and Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery.”

Trevor Burnard is the author of Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 (2015) and The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint Domingue and British Jamacia (2016, with John Garrigus) A copy of his paper, "Slavery and British Industrialisation: The 'New History of Capitalism Movement' and Eric Williams' Capitalism and Slavery" can be found here: Slavery and […]

The Bisno Schall Gallery at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse

Santa Barbara County Courthouse 1000 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The UCSB History Associates invite you to a docent-led tour of the Bisno Schall Gallery in the tower of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse. From 1929 until 2011 the magnificent Seth Thomas masterpiece that moves the hands on the tower clock was out of sight. Dr. David Bisno and the late Dick Schall funded a […]

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Black Classicism in the United States- Lecture by Prof. Michele Ronnick, Wayne State University

Art, Design, and Architecture Museum University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Professor Michele Ronnick of Wayne State University will give a lecture as part of the new exhibit, "14 Black Classicists," at the Art, Design, and Architecture Museum. The talk describes the work of African-American classical scholars who taught Greek and Latin at the college or university level following the Civil War. These scholars made pathbreaking achievements, […]

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