Critical Issues in America: Hanink on Citizenship
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesProf. Johanna Hanink (Brown University), "Modern Citizenship Tests and Classical Funeral Orations."
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Film Screening & Discussion: Ghana’s Electric Dreams
Multicultural Center (MCC) Theater Multicultural Center, Isla Vista, CA, United StatesGhana’s Electric Dreams presents a history of the roots and wide-ranging impact of the famed hydroelectric Akosombo Dam, Ghana’s most ambitious development project. R. Lane Clark (Independent Film Maker) and Stephan Miescher (History, UCSB) will respond to comments from Boatema Boateng (Communication, UC San Diego). Mona Damluji (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) will moderate. Ghana’s Electric […]
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Jin Hee Kim, American Studies, Kyung Hee Cyber University. “The Republic of Samsung: Labor, Governance, and the Crisis of Korean Democracy.”
HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesCurrently a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of the Work, Labor, and Democracy, Kim is the author of Labor Law and Labor Policy in New York State, 1920s-1930s (2006) and translator into Korean of John Dewey’s Liberalism and Social Action (2011). The editor and author of numerous books and articles on U.S. and Korean labor, Kim […]
Annual History Department Awards Ceremony
McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesPlease join us in recognizing the achievements of both the undergraduate and graduate students of the department.
The University of Kansas Press publishes Charles Delgadillo’s Crusader for Democracy: The Political Life of William Allen White
Charles Delgadillo, who took his Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara in 2010, is a lecturer at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His biography of William Allen White, the influential Republican journalist, reformer, and internationalist, recaptures an era when the phrase "liberal Republican" was not a self-evident contradiction.
Serge Ferrari, History, UC Santa Barbara. “General Electric versus the Market: the Road from Industrial to Financial Capitalism.”
HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesSerge Ferrari is completing his dissertation on GE, tracing how the corporation remade itself into a large-scale financial enterprise at the end of the twentieth century. His paper will be available here two weeks before his talk. A light lunch will be served.
Skid Row Marathon Film & Panel Discussion on Homelessness
Two screenings of SKID ROW MARATHON, an acclaimed independent film about an innovative running club formed by a judge for the court that oversees the Skid Row district in LA. An avid runner, he started a running club for clients which had some remarkable transformative effects. Two showings: Saturday August 25, 11:45am at Metro 4 […]
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New Major’s Meeting
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesCome meet your peers in the department and hear an impressive faculty panel speak about the departmental honors program, the history majors' club, and many other exciting opportunities UCSB history has to offer. hope to see you all there!
“Censorship, Politics, and the Making of a Literary Classic”, a talk by Carlos Aguirre at the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United StatesPlease join us for the next meeting of the History Department’s Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Prof. Carlos Aguirre (University of Oregon), who will be presenting a paper entitled "Censorship, Politics, and the Making of a Literary Classic: The Biography of Vargas Llosa's La ciudad y los perros". The talk will be held […]
The Topography of Citizenship
HSSB 4080October 11 (Thursday) 3 pm, HSSB 4080 : Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge), The Topography of Citizenship (co-sponsored by Critical Issues: Changing Faces of US Citizenship). Citizenship is most often discussed as a question of legal status within a framework of rights and occasionally duties. Goldhill will be looking at the physical infrastructure of citizenship and […]