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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 States

Currently 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 States

Please join us in recognizing the achievements of both the undergraduate and graduate students of the department.

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 States

Serge 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 States

Come 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 States

Please 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 4080

October 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 […]

Book Launch: Professor Xiaowei Zheng’s “The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China”

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

Please join the Department of History to celebrate the publication of Professor Xiaowei Zheng's new book, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China (Stanford University Press, 2018). Professor Matthew Sommer (History, Stanford) and Professor Anthony Barbieri-Low (History, UCSB) will speak about the significance of Professor Zheng's book for the field of modern […]

Talk by Dr. Charles Delgadillo: “Crusading for Democracy: William Allen White’s Liberal Republican Internationalism”

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

Delgadillo flyer The question of America’s role in the world has been fiercely contested for more than a century in the Republican Party. The “isolationists” have argued that American interests were better served by remaining free of foreign entanglements, while the “internationalists” have countered that American peace and prosperity demanded that it play a role […]