Hertel-Fernandez is completing a book, Politics at Work, and with Theda Skocpol is writing a study that examines the rise of the Koch political network. Visit https://www.history.ucsb.edu/labor/home for more details.
Please join us for the annual Senior Honors Research Colloquium hosted by the Department of History. Twelve senior honors students will present their research, followed by comments from faculty respondents. Refreshments will be served, beginning at 8:45 a.m.
Danielson is the author of American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the 20th Century (2014). Visit https://www.history.ucsb.edu/labor/home for more details on her talk.
The Workshop Theoretical Perspectives on War, Political Violence, Nationalism, and the State (His 291) is pleased to present Xiaowei Zheng, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at UCSB, who will speak about her forthcoming book with Stanford University Press, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China. The appointment […]
In this talk, Professor Erika Rappaport of the UCSB History Department explores how tea shops emerged in the 18th century and came to be defined as “women’s spaces” in 19th century and early 20th century Europe and North America -- but as “male spaces” in parts of Africa and South Asia. These institutions helped build […]
Dr. Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Iceland and a Visiting Scholar all this year in the UCSB History Department, will give a talk May 22, at noon in HSSB 4020. Dr. Magnusson brings us an expert's interpretation of two major aspects of current European historical writing: life writing and […]
Public lecture by geologist Arthur Sylvester. See PDF below for details and registration information. 2017-Sylvester-flyer-pdf
On Thursday, May 25, from 12:00 to 1:30 pm in the Multicultural Center Theater, the UCSB Department of History and the Center for Cold War Studies and International History will host a panel discussion entitled Politics in the Age of Trump: Some Historical Perspective. Three UCSB historians will speak on the following topics: Giuliana Perrone, […]
The Workshop on Theoretical Perspectives on War, Political Violence, Nationalism and the State (History 291) is pleased to invite you to its final open presentation and discussion this Friday May 26 from 3:00 to 5:30 pm in HSSB 4020. Two graduate students, Isabella Gabrovsky and Mario Tumen, will be presenting their work in progress on Britain and Peru. […]
After the 1994 genocide Rwanda had the highest proportion of orphans in the world. Emmanuel, one of those orphans himself, was among the people who stepped up to help raise child survivors and integrate them into a new, post-genocidal society, where they must share their communities with former killers.
