Registration is now open for the virtual conference "Imperial Foodways: Culinary Economies and Provisioning Politics." The full program, with panel and paper titles, can be viewed here. To Register, please click here. Because papers are pre-circulated, organizers Elizabeth Schmidt and Erika Rappaport ask attendees to indicate which panels they plan to attend on the registration form. Once you […]
The History Department's Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the keynote lecture of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series. The lecture, “Body, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic,” will be delivered by Prof. Herman L. Bennett. Herman L. Bennett is Professor at the Graduate Center at the City University […]
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.
The participants of the 2020-2021 Senior Honors Thesis Seminar will be holding a Zoom colloquium to showcase their research on Friday, May 28th. We encourage you to attend and show support for your fellow undergraduate history majors. This is also a great opportunity to get a feel for what the colloquium is like if you […]
Hilary Bernstein and Patricia Fumerton will each provide short introductions to their new books, followed by a conversation between the authors and then with the audience. Hilary Bernstein, Associate Professor of History, specializes in early modern France, with a particular focus on the history, culture, and politics of provincial towns in the sixteenth and seventeenth […]
I am excited to invite you all to the 2021 History Department Virtual Awards Ceremony! The ceremony will take place on Wednesday, June 2nd at 4pm via Zoom. Please join us in honoring the recipients of the 2021 History Associates and Department of History awards. Friends and family are welcome to attend! Zoom link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/6855143149 […]
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.
Darnovsky_reproductive genetic technologies_June2021“Eugenics in California & the World: Race, Class, Gender/Sexuality, & Disability” A Virtual Symposium, Friday & Saturday, June 4-5, 2021 ASL & Live Captioning YouTube Links: DAY ONE & DAY TWO Transcripts Day One Plenary & Sessions 1 and 2 Day Two Sessions 3 & 4 Day Two Session 5 Day Two Closing Panel […]
The UCSB Africa Center cordially invites you to a special guest lecture on June 4 by Dr. Zoé Samudzi on indigenous demands for restitution, long-contested histories of colonial dispossession and property ownership in the aftermath of the German genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples in Namibia. Her talk will interrogate the trajectories of colonial ideology and practice from […]
Join the History Department’s Colloquium in Public History on Friday, June 4 at noon for a Zoom talk by Christopher E. Johnson (National Park Service), Anne Lindsay (Public History, CSU Sacramento), and Jenni Sorkin (History of Art and Architecture, UCSB). This presentation describes collaborative work completed under the Women’s History Initiative, one of three national initiatives […]
