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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 StatesThe 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 StatesIn 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 […]
Humanities in Prison (Critical Issues in America Co-Sponsored Event)
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
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 StatesCitino 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 […]
Dr. Nancy Winter, “Traders & Refugees: Contributions to Etruscan Architecture”
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Spanish Colonialism and the Origins of Microeconomics, a talk by Patricia Seed
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesPlease join us for the next meeting of the History Department’s Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Dr. Patricia Seed (UC Irvine), who will be presenting a paper entitled “Spanish Colonialism and the Origins of Microeconomics.”
The talk will be held at 5pm on Wednesday, May 2nd in HSSB 4020, and will be followed by a small reception.
Spanish Colonialism and the Origins of Microeconomics
For those wondering what Spanish colonialism has to do with the origins of modern microeconomics, the answer is everything. This talk will take you through the canon law of the School of Salamanca, the turbulent history of the unique Latin American institution of the encomienda, and Islamic traditions of property, only to see how it all came together in modern microeconomics.
Patricia Seed is History Professor at UC Irvine and the author of several award-winning books, including: The American Pentimento: The Pursuit of Riches and the Invention of “Indians” (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), winner of the 2003 Prize in Atlantic History; Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640 (Cambridge University Press, 1995; Portuguese edition, 2000) (ACLS E-selection); To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico: Conflicts Over Marriage Choice, 1574-1821 (Stanford University Press, 1988; Spanish edition, 1992), winner of the Bolton Prize and serialized in La Jornada (Mexico City). She is also the editor of José Limón and La Malinche: The Dancer and the Dance (The University of Texas Press, 2007).
We hope to see many of you there!
Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History
Book Launch and Talk: Market Encounters: Consumer Cultures in Twentieth-Century Ghana, by Bianca Murillo (CSU Dominguez Hills)
buchanan 1940 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United StatesDr. Murillo, who received her Ph.D in African history from UCSB in 2009, will be discussing her new book on twentieth century Ghana. Market Encounters, which was published as a part of Ohio University Press's series New African Histories, explores the shifting social terrains that made the buying and selling of goods in modern Ghana possible. Fusing […]