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History Club Weekly Meetings
HSSB 4020UCSB’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.
Talk by April Haynes, University of Wisconsin: “‘Sold by her Own Desire’: Intimate Labor, Commodification, and Resistance in Female Intelligence Offices, 1810-1850.”
hssb 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United StatesHaynes is the author of Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-century America (2015) and the forthcoming Tender Traffic: Intimate Labors in the Early American Republic. She is the chair of the Program in Gender and Women's History at the University of Wisconsin.
Talk by Paul Thomas Chamberlin, “The Cold War’s Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace”
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesPaul Thomas Chamberlin recounts the brutal conflicts that killed millions on battlegrounds across the postcolonial world. He proposes a new geography and periodization and explores the lasting political impact of mass violence after 1945.
History Club Weekly Meetings
HSSB 4020UCSB’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.
Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium
HSSB 4020The students of this years History Senior Honors Thesis course will present their research in front of faculty, peers, and friends. All are welcome! Please see the schedule of presentations below: 8:30 a.m. Coffee and Pastries 9:00 a.m. Welcome Professor Erika Rappaport, Chair of the History Department Professor Adrienne Edgar, Director of the 2018-2019 Senior […]
Talk by Doug Genens, UCSB: “From Farm to Tourist Trap: Tourism as a Rural Development Strategy”
HSSB 4041Genens, a PhD candidate in the UCSB department of history, is writing a dissertation on the varieties of rural development in the United States after World War II.
History Club Weekly Meetings
HSSB 4020UCSB’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.
Talk by Kathryn Sklar, Berkeley, CA: “The Social Origins of Minimum Wage.”
hssb 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United StatesSklar, who taught history for many years at SUNY Binghamton, is author of Catharine Beecher: a Study in American Domesticity (1973) and Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 (1995), both of which received the Berkshire Prize. She has received fellowships from the Ford, Rockefeller, Goggenheim, and Mellon Foundations, as well as from […]
History Club Weekly Meetings
HSSB 4020UCSB’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.