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Center for Cold War Studies and International History 2018 Graduate Student Symposium

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

This symposium is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History and co-sponsored by the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara in order to showcase the new and exciting work being done by UCSB graduate students on Cold War and related international history topics. The CCWS is a […]

Talk by Professor Emeritus Hal Drake on “A Century of Miracles”

Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, United States

Professor Drake will be discussing his latest book, A Century of Miracles: Christians, Pagans, Jews, and the Supernatural, 312-410. The book offers a fresh examination of a complex polytheistic period in Roman history, surveying a wide range of faiths and belief systems during this eventful century. It offers a thoroughly researched assessment of the supernatural and its […]

Transregional Connections: Architectural Monuments and the Construction of Early Modern Empires: Gulru Necipoglu

Transregional Connections: Architectural Monuments and the Construction of Early Modern Islamic Empires The Center for Middle East Studies at UCSB presents Tuesday, April 17th, 4:00pm, HSSB 6020 Gülru Necipoğlu (Harvard University) Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture Focusing on the 16th and 17th centuries, this lecture presents comparative […]

International Conference, “Ancient China in a Eurasian Context”

SSMS 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join us for our international conference from April 20-21 at UCSB (SSMS 2135), "Ancient China in a Eurasian Context!" The goal of our conference is to place the history and archaeology of early China in a Eurasian context, through papers that either address “connections” across Eurasia, or “comparisons” between China and other cultures in […]

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Rosie Bermudez, Chican@ Studies, UC Santa Barbara. “Economic Justice is a Women’s Issue: The Chicana Welfare Rights Organization’s Challenge to Welfare Reform in the 1970s.”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Rosie Cano Bermudez is a doctoral candidate in the department of Chicana and Chicano studies at UC Santa Barbara. Her dissertation “Doing Dignity Work: Alicia Escalante and the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization, 1967-1974,” focuses on the human dignity struggles waged by single Chicana welfare mothers in East Los Angeles in the 1960s and […]

Ian Coller – “The French Revolution and the Rights of Muslims” Monday, April 23rd at 5:00pm in the UCEN Flying A Studio

UCEN Flying A Studio , United States

The French Revolution and the Rights of Muslims Ian Coller, University of California, Irvine On 24 December 1789, a deputy named François de Hell proposed to the National Assembly an explicit decree that would allow Muslims to enjoy “all the rights, honors and advantages enjoyed by French citizens.”Coller Flyer Some historians have read this proposition […]

Talk on the 1968 Student Massacre in Mexico City: the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Polytechnic “Brigadistas” in the 1968 Student Movement

Multicultural Center (MCC) Theater Multicultural Center, Isla Vista, CA, United States

In 1968, hundreds of students were killed by the Mexican military and police for organizing student protests against government repression. On the fiftieth anniversary of this massacre, activists/survivors Gabriel Vega, Felipe Galvan, and Jesus Gutierrez will reflect on the meaning of student activism, memory, and social justice in times of repression. See the flyer for […]

Nate Citino, History, Rice University, “Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S.-Arab Relations, 1945-1967.”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Citino discusses his most recent book, Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S. - Arab Relations, 1945-1967 (2017). He is also the author of From Arab Nationalism to OPEC: Eisenhower, King Sa'ud, and the making of U.S. - Saudi Relations (2002). Co-Sponsored with the Blum Center for Global Poverty Allevation and Sustainable Development. A chapter from his recent book […]

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