During the heydey of silent films, Santa Barbara’s Flying A Studios competed withthe best of them, creating almost 900 films between 1912-1920. On Saturday, July 7, UCSB film Prof. Dana Driskel and local historian Neal Graffy will recreate that lost era with clips that will include the first known surviving film made here, a classic […]
Summer Session A instruction ends hm 6/21/12
Summer Session B classes start. hm 6/21/12
Have you ever wondered how the streets surrounding the Santa Barbara Airport were named? For example, who were David Love, Augustus Griggs and Clyde Adams? They were among the 49 local aviators who lost their lives during World War II. The Goleta Valley Historical Society will host a lecture, With Their Eyes Turned Skyward: Santa […]
Summer Session B instruction ends hm 6/21/12
Prof. James Brooks, President and CEO of the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe (and former UCSB professor), will speak on Dinetah and Navajo history and present politics. Prof. Brooks, together with Prof. Smith in Anthropology and Prof. Digeser in History, will be teaching a three-quarter graduate seminar on comparative borderlands at UCSB in […]
Fall 2012 classes begin hm 6/21/12
Nelson is the author of Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of An American Legend (2008) which won the Merle Curti Prize for the best book in U.S. social and cultural history. Nelson's paper can be found here.
The UCSB-Westmont Annual Lecture in Early Christianity Prof. Steven Friesen is Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Texas- Austin. There will be a reception in HSSB 6020 following the talk. Sponsored by UCSB and Westmont College, in cooperation with the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program […]
A central question for historians of religion and culture in early modern Europe and early America is how, given the complexities of mapping “popular religion,” the authority of theological paradigms and religious institutions can be recast to acknowledge social mediations and cultural practice. In this lecture, David D. Hall uses examples from both sides of […]