End of Summer Session B Classes
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Hotel Mariachi: Urban Space and Cultural Heritage in Los Angeles (FREE!)
Thursday, September 18, 2014Mariachi 5:00 p.m. Lecture 5:30 p.m. Presidio Chapel, El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park 123 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara For more information: 805-965-0093 or www.sbthp.org Join the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation as Catherine Kurland and Evangeline Ordaz-Molina discuss Hotel Mariachi, their book which depicts the mariachi […]
2014-2015 New Majors Meeting
Please join faculty members from the Department of History for a New Majors MeetingTuesday September 30th from 1-2pm in HSSB 4020 This a great opportunity for all new majors to meet members of the History faculty, the Department Chair, and Faculty Advisors
UCEAP Meeting Just for HISTORY Majors
There is a UC EAP meeting ONLY for HIST, HISPP and MDVST majors on Tuesday October 14th from 4-5pm in HSSB 4020!
Geneologies of Chimurenga (Self-Liberation) Music: Re-writing Zimbabwean Nationalism Through Song
This is the first lecture of the year sponsored by the Research Focus Group on identity. Our very own Mhoze Chikowero, who is spending the year in southern Africa on an ACLS fellowship, has agreed to speak to the RFG during a brief visit to Santa Barbara next week. hm 10/10/14
A Garden History
Presented by Goleta Valley Historical Society and co-hosted by Fairview Gardens History Education Center at Rancho La Patera & Stow House (click for map) With interest in home hardens at the highest it's been in decade, this lecture will take us back to another time when national interest was focused on household agriculture -- the […]
Chair’s Welcome Reception for History Faculty, Affiliates, Lecturers
This event is by invitation only; wine and cheese will be served. hm 10/4/14
Winter 2015 Scheduling Meeting for Majors
All HISTORY Majors and Minors are encouraged to attend the Winter 2015 Scheduling Meeting Tuesday October 21st 3:30-4:30 in HSSB 4020 Come learn about new classes, course descriptions, and courses that fulfill GEs! All first year and transfer students are strongly encouraged to attend.
“Modernist Worlds at War: Wells, Welles, Spielberg, and Anglo-American Paranoia”
Jed Esty is the author of Unseasonable Youth: Modernism,Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development (Oxford 2012) and A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England (Princeton 2004), and is currently at work on a new project entitled Ages of Innocence: Culture and Literature from Pax Britannica to the American Century. Jed Esty will be […]
Single Puritan Girls in Tudor England
It was reportedly H.L. Mencken who defined a Puritan as a person who was “haunted by the fear that someone, somewhere might be happy.” But if the 17th century Puritan Simonds D’Ewes was any example, Shakespeare might have been closer to the truth in his comedy about The Merry Wives of Windsor. UCSB History Prof. […]