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“The Specter of Social Engineering: Scientism and its Critics in the Long 1950s” a talk by Andrew Jewett, Harvard University

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

Andrew Jewett's talk traces fears about science's cultural impact among intellectual and political leaders and ordinary citizens in postwar America. Jewett is the author of Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War (2012). A copy of his paper can be found here.

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Outlaws and Scofflaws: Pirates and the Making of the Mediterranean – Judith Tucker (Georgetown University)

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Monday, October 10th, 5:00 pm IHC McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) How did the Mediterranean emerge as a coherent and recognizable place in the early modern period? By looking to the semi-licit world of piracy and to the development of its laws and practices in particular, we can trace a convergence of understandings and agreements […]

Meeting for Winter 2017 Scheduling for History Majors and Minors

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

Registration Begins 10/22!!!! Are you a first year? A transfer student? New to the Department of History? Just want guidance? Come learn about all the amazing courses History is offering in Winter quarter and learn how to schedule the most advantageous schedule for YOU! ALWAYS THINK HISTORY FIRST The days, times, and locations of all […]

“Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity,” a talk by David Sepkoski

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

Why do we care about preserving biodiversity? At the beginning of the 21st century biodiversity has come to be seen as fragile and tenuous, constantly endangered by the threat of loss. Extinction plays a central role in this understanding of biodiversity. Whereas most historians who have examined this phenomenon have placed the modern biodiversity movement […]

Suez at Sixty: Remembering the Suez Crisis and War of 1956

HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

This fall marks the 60th anniversary of the Suez War of 1956, a pivotal moment in Egyptian, Middle Eastern, and international history. In response to Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal Company, Britain, France, and Israel launched a coordinated military assault against Egypt. The United States, the Soviet Union, and much of the international community […]

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Lecture by Dr. Lella Gandini on Early Childhood Education

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

"Early Childhood Education and Society in Post-War Italy: The Case of Reggio Emilia" In Northern Italy in the late 1960's, within the context of the  emerging Italian feminist movement and of social protests advocating  for better social services, child care, and schools for young  children, the city of Reggio Emilia developed an innovative system for […]

“The Forgotten Wine Porters of Northern Italy and their Forgotten Saint, 1200-1900” a talk by Lester K. Little (Smith College)

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

Please join us for Professor Lester K. Little's lecture, "The Forgotten Wine Porters of Northern Italy and their Forgotten Saint, 1200-1900." Little is Professor Emeritus at Smith College and the author of Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe; Benedictine Maledictions; and Indispensable Immigrants: The Wine Porters of Northern Italy and their Saint, […]

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“Diplomacy as a Means of Political Survival: The Cities and Duchies of the Northern Holy Roman Empire in relation to France, 1650–1730,” a talk by Indravati Félicité

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

"Diplomacy as a Means of Political Survival: The Cities and Duchies of the Northern Holy Roman Empire in relation to France, 1650–1730" Talk by Indravati Félicité, Maîtresse de conférences, Université Paris-Diderot (Paris VII) October 27 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in HSSB 4020 Indravati Félicité is the author of Négocier pour exister. Les villes […]

Prof. Cavan Concannon (USC): “An Assemblage Approach to Early Christianity, Deleuze, Latour, and the Letters of Dionysios of Corinth”

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

Modern historians map the diversity of early Christianity in a variety of ways, from declines into heresy to competition among “varieties” of early Christianities. Drawing particularly on the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze and Bruno Latour, Concannon argues that  we might better map the remains of second-century Christianity by focusing on networks of people, ideas, […]

Democracy and Its Opponents in the 2016 Elections

Beyond the horse race, UCSB faculty from a variety of disciplines and viewpoints consider the larger meaning of the campaign and its implications for U.S. society and politics. Participants in this special panel include Paul Amar, Global Studies; Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, Chicano/a Studies; Hahrie Han, Political Science; and Alice O’Connor, History.

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