Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture – Alex Wellerstein on “Truman’s Bomb”
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesPlease join us on May 9, 4PM, in the McCune Conference Room for the 2018 Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. Our guest speaker will be Alex Wellerstein who will be giving a lecture titled Truman's Bomb and the Making of the Atomic Presidency. When we think of the importance of the atomic bomb to the Truman presidency, we think […]
Kelly Shannon, Florida Atlantic University. Book talk: “U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women’s Human Rights”
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesProfessor Kelly Shannon of Florida Atlantic University will speak about her new book, U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights. She argues that since the late 1970s, the issue of women’s human rights in Islamic societies has become increasingly important to U.S. foreign policy. Her analysis sheds new light on U.S. identity and policy creation […]
Kathryn Sklar, History, SUNY Binghampton. “Florence Kelley and the Improbable Origins of Minimum Wage Legislation in the United States, 1887-1899.”
hssb 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United StatesKathryn Kish Sklar is Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, SUNY Binghamton. After graduating from Harvard and the University of Michigan, she taught for several years at UCLA and was Harmsworth Professor of U.S. History at Oxford University. Her books include Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: the Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900, (1995), Women's Rights Emerges […]
“Lawyers and Legal Consciousness in Early Modern Europe: A Cultural History,” a Talk by Michael P. Breen, Reed College
HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States“Historians have long believed that lawyers played a central role in the dissemination of legal knowledge and the ideal of the ‘rule of law’ in early modern Europe. Recent scholarship, however, has called this view into question, emphasizing instead the ways ordinary men and women appropriated the law and its institutions for their own ends. […]
LAIS Graduate Student Conference: Violence, Memory, and History
UCenWith the generous support of the History Department, UCSB will hold its first international Latin American and Iberian Studies Graduate Student Conference on May 18th and 19th, with the theme "Violence, Memory, and History". This interdisciplinary conference will bring together twenty-four graduate students from universities in the US and Europe, including several graduate students in […]
Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesHonors Student and Mentor with Thesis Poster This Friday from 9:30am to 2:45pm nine students from the 2017-18 History Senior Honors Seminar will present the results of their research in a conference-panel format, with professors commenting afterwards. Everyone is invited! Program: Panel 1, 9:30-11am: Public Policies’ Effects on People’s Lives Halley Thiel, “’There is Power […]
Studies in Late Antiquity, Editorial Board Meeting
HSSB 60561PM: Introductions/Welcome 1:30PM: Journal Related Info (30 Minutes)- Jeff Hester (Skype) 2PM: Presentations (15 mins each) 1) Blossom Stefaniw, "A Narrative History of the Tura Papyri: Creative Nonfiction and Christianity as a History of Reading" 2) Emily Albu, "The Roman Heritage of Medieval World Maps: Late Antique Transmission of Greco-Roman Geographical Knowledge" 3) Diliana Angelova, […]
Histories of Economy in the Middle East: A Workshop
McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesHistories of Economy Flyer2 MAY 18 1:30-1:45: Introduction Adam Sabra, University of California, Santa Barbara Sherene Seikaly, University of California, Santa Barbara 1:45-3:15: Commerce and Capital Adam Hanieh, “Space, Scale, and the Middle East’s Contemporary Political Economy” Jessica Goldberg, “Sea Change in Medieval Ifriqiyya” Ziad Abu-Rish, “Complicating the Post-Colonial Narrative” 3:15-3:30: Break 3:30-5:00: Money and […]
Talk by History Associates Board Member Sheila Lodge on the “History of Planning in Santa Barbara”
Alhecama Theatre 215 A E. Canon Perdido St, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesIn this talk, Sheila Lodge will show how Santa Barbara became the community that it is through planning. She will describe the many battles it sometimes took and the process that was developed to make the critical decisions. Because of her personal involvement in the struggles, her talk is partially a memoir. Sheila Lodge is […]