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Public History event: Career Diversity speakers

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

The Public History program and History Graduate program are hosting two guests, Megan Bowman and Peter Bachman, to discuss their experiences teaching at independent schools. Both teach at Fintridge Preparatory School, which is in the Los Angeles area, and both are historians. This Career Diversity event is part of an ongoing series to encourage graduate […]

Talk by George O’Malley: “Tracking the Intercolonial Slave Trade”

hssb 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States

Professor Gregory O’Malley, of UC Santa Cruz, is the author of Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 (2014), a logistical study of slave trading and its economic, political, and cultural consequences. His current project, “The Intra-American Slave Trade Database” tracks more than 11,000 voyages. A copy of his paper, co-written with UC Irvine […]

“Podcasting the Past: Teaching Tolerance and the Making of Queer America”

CITRAL Seminar Room, Library UCSB Library, 525 UCEN Rd, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

"Podcasting the Past: Teaching Tolerance and the Making of Queer America" — History Department Gender and Sexualities Cluster  Interactive talk with Dr. Leila Rupp, Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies Leila Rupp, Department of Feminist Studies, will talk about the process of designing and co-hosting a podcast, "Queer America," sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching […]

Talk by Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: “The Layered Landscapes of Hebei and Guangxi: Mao-era History and the COnstruction of China’s Agricultural Heritage”

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Chinese scientists, scholars, and state officials are actively engaged in a transnational movement to preserve "agricultural heritage." But what is agricultural heritage and how does it relate to a "people's history" of agriculture? This talk will focus on two sites where the PRC state is actively seeking to promote and preserve agricultural heritage. Both sites […]

Symposium “BEYOND THE SPILL: THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF OIL IN CALIFORNIA”

Wireframe Studio and SRB Multipurpose Rm

The year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective at UCSB is excited to invite you to our upcoming symposium, BEYOND THE SPILL: THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF OIL IN CALIFORNIA, which will take place on January 24-25 at UCSB. Attached to […]

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UCSB History Associates: “Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life”, talk with Jane De Hart and Laura Kalman

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Please join us for a talk by Jane Sherron De Hart, professor emerita of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on her new biography, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life. It is the first full life—private, public, legal, philosophical—of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the deepest and most profoundly transformative legal minds […]

“Agrarian Quests: The Search for Comunidades and Campesinos in Rural Peru,” a lecture by Javier Puente

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

Abstract The history of twentieth-century Peru is the history of the rural countryside, its governance, and the making of comunidadesand campesinosas foundational elements of a social, economic, and political landscape. Throughout a number of decades, domestic state powers and transnational capital turned lands and pastures into battlegrounds of ideas about labor, property, and modernization at […]

Film showing: “In the Shadow of the Moon”

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

2019 marks the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo program. The mission’s crewed flights began in 1968 with the first lunar circumnavigation; on July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first human to step foot on another planet. By the end of 1972 Apollo’s funding was cut and NASA’s moon explorations were over. From 1969 to […]

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Talk by Priti Ramamurthy, University of Washington: “Feminist Commodity Chains”

hssb 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States

A scholar of gender and globalization, Ramamurthy has conducted ethnography in the same villages in the Telangana region of southern India for three decades to examine the relationship between social reproduction of families and agricultural transformation. She is co-editor and co-author of The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization (2008).

Heavenly Hermaphrodites, a Lecture by Leah DeVun

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

DeVun Flier This lecture examines how certain ancient and medieval thinkers claimed that “hermaphroditism” was the original condition of humanity, created by God and documented in the first chapters of Genesis. The idea that Adam was a hermaphrodite fueled medieval debates about sex and gender, as well as about human nature. In the modern world, […]