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Marcia Chatelain, History, Georgetown University, “Burgers in the Age of Black Capitalism: Fast Food and the Remaking of Civil Rights after 1968”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Chatelain is currently writing a book about race and fast food, From Sit-In to Drive-Thru: Black America in the Age of Fast Food (under contract, Liveright, an imprint of W.W. Norton).  Her first book South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration was published by Duke University Press in 2015. Chatelain co-edited, with Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, Staging a Dream: Untold Stories […]

Onontio’s Reward: When Louis XIV’s head hung from Native American necks

HSSB 3001E 3001E Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

French royal medals crossed into a radically different cultural context when awarded to the Amerindian people of Canada in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. So it may come as a surprise that the symbolic potential of these medals was only fully realized by the indigenous warriors that they were gifted to. These small […]

The Museum of Methodology and the Criminalization of Culture, Rio c. 1938 (Amy Buono, UCSB/UERJ)

Engineering Science Building 1001, University of California Santa Barbara Lagoon Rd, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join us for the next meeting of the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Amy Buono, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at UCSB and Researcher at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, who will be presenting a paper entitled "The Museum […]

5th Annual Van Gelderen Lecture: Ships and Saints: Mapping the World of Athanasius of Alexandra, Chris Nofziger

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

Please join us for this year's Van Gelderen Lecture, which will feature Chris Nofziger. Chris is currently an advanced PhD candidate in Roman history under the the direction of Beth Digeser. He will be presenting his work on Athanasius of Alexandria, bishop of Alexandria from 328 to 373 CE. Athanasius was sent into exile five […]

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