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Stuart Tyson Smith, “Black Pharaohs? Egyptological Bias, Racism, and Egypt and Nubia as African Civilizations”

Zoom CA

Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African & African American Research welcomes UCSB Professor of Anthropology (and History Department affiliate faculty member) Stuart Tyson Smith to the W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual Lecture Series. On Tuesday, September 22 Professor Smith will present his Zoom lecture "Black Pharaohs? Egyptological Bias, Racism, and Egypt and Nubia as African Civilizations." Register […]

Free
Event Series History Club Weekly Meetings

History Club Weekly Meetings

HSSB 4020

UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions. 

New Majors’ Meeting

Please joins us at the annual History Department New Majors' Meeting! This meeting is great for incoming freshmen and transfer students, and any student that is new to our department. View the attached flyer for more details, and use this Zoom link to join: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/95769465508   New Majors' Meeting 2020 (1)

Conference: Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts

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

Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts proposes new considerations of realism on stage. Since its association with 19th-century innovations in European and American drama, theatrical realism has largely remained limited to Euro-American definitions. We explore conventions of realism in culturally-specific locations and times across East Asia, articulating alternative histories of realism that extend from the […]

Event Series History Club Weekly Meetings

History Club Weekly Meetings

HSSB 4020

UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions. 

John Majewski, Living Democracy in Capitalism’s Shadow: Creative Labor, Black Abolitionists, and the Struggle to End Slavery

Zoom CA

REGISTER NOW Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link In the two decades before the Civil War, a new type of capitalism developed in the northern United States that stressed mass education, widespread innovation, and new markets for art and design. For Black abolitionists, the changing northern economy presented new opportunities […]

Free
Event Series History Club Weekly Meetings

History Club Weekly Meetings

HSSB 4020

UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions. 

Decolonizing California through Critical Mission Studies: The Reclaiming Homelands Project

Click link to register: CA, United States

Ami Admire, Director, Rincon Youth Storytellers, Amrah Salomón J., President’s Postdoctoral Fellow (English) UC Riverside, and Ross Frank (Ethnic Studies) UC San Diego Admire and Salomón will speak about an intergenerational cultural revitalization project bringing youth and elders together to revitalize Indigenous knowledge and training indigenous youth in conducting historical research to reclaim indigenous place names […]

Free

EAP Information Session

Are you interested in going abroad and taking major courses? Come and learn about how that's possible with the Education Abroad Program (EAP). Please see meeting details on the flyer below. 

Reading 2020 Award Winners | Gender & Sexualities Cluster Welcome

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

Each year members of the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster begin the academic year by reading two award-winning and recently published articles. This year, we will begin with a discussion of the following: 2020 Best Article Prize Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History: Nic John Ramos, “Poor Influences and Criminal Locations: Los Angeles’s […]