Friday, February 15, 2019 | 10:00am - 4:00pm UCSB | Annenberg Room (SSMS 4315)10:00: 10:00 Session 1: Valerie Hänsch, R. Lane Clark, Stephan Miescher Welcome: Stephan Miescher and Janet Walker Moderator: Bishnupriya Ghosh Respondent: Javiera Barandiarán 12:15: Lunch 1:15: Session 2: Nick Estes, Todd Darling Moderator: Emily Roehl Respondent: Mishuana Goeman 3:15: Closing Comments Jéssica Malinalli […]
The Medieval Studies Program and the Department of History are proud to sponsor a colloquium on the work and pedagogy of Sharon Farmer. The event will include presentations by six of her students exploring Professor Farmer's areas of expertise. The event will take place on February 16th in the McCune Conference Room, and the schedule […]
Lecture by Professor Hakim Adi (University of Chichester, UK) Thursday, February 21, 2019, 6:15-7:30 pm Girvetz Hall 1004
UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions.
In Native but Foreign, historian Brenden W. Rensink presents an innovative comparison of indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining Crees and Chippewas, who crossed the border from Canada into Montana, and Yaquis from Mexico who migrated into Arizona. The resulting history questions how opposing national borders affect and […]
Prof. Kiran Klaus Patel (Univ. of Maastricht) will speak about his new book The New Deal: A Global History (Princeton University Press, 2016), which won the World History Association's Bentley Book Prize in 2017. Professor Patel compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by other countries around […]
Over the course of the Enlightenment, Europe claimed a monopoly on progress for itself alone. In the eighteenth century, other places had appeared as familiar and comparable. By the early nineteenth century, they were cast as inscrutable and incommensurable. What caused this fundamental transformation in Europe’s understanding of itself? In this talk, I aim to […]
