Please join us for the next meeting of the new Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Alex Borucki, who will deliver a talk entitled "Slaves, Silver, and Atlantic Empires: The Slave Trade to Spanish South America, 1700-1810". The talk will be held in HSSB 4020 at 5 pm on Wednesday, November 1st, […]
7 November at 4PM in the McCune Room (6th floor, HSSB) Abstract: Chinese writing is character-based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Over the past two centuries, Chinese script has encountered presumed alphabetic universalism at every turn, whether in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards, word […]
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum In 1759, London's British Museum opened its doors for the first time--the first free national public museum in the world. But how did it come into being? This talk recounts the overlooked yet colorful life of the museum's founder: Sir Hans Sloane. Born […]
The UCSB History Associates are presenting a talk by Prof. Irwin Appel (Professor of Theater) on Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge on 19 November 2017. He will speak at a luncheon in HSSB 4020 at noon, after which we will proceed to the theater to see the play (directed by Appel). Please see […]
Mhoze Chikowero, Professor of History, UCSB, "The End of an Era in Zimbabwe?" Elena Aronova, Professor of History, UCSB, "Trolls, Bots, Cyberwarfare and the Cold War Origins of Putin's Information Wars" Monday, December 4, 5-6:30, UCSB McCune Conference Room Poster here: Mugabe poster
Prof. Stuart Tyson Smith (Anthropology) will speak for the Ancient Borderlands group.
A popular image persists of Albert Einstein as a loner, someone who avoided the hustle and bustle of everyday life in favor of quiet contemplation. Yet Einstein was deeply engaged with politics throughout his life; indeed, he was so active politically that the FBI kept him under surveillance for decades. His most enduring scientific legacy, […]
A lecture by Brendan Burke, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. Excavations at ancient Eleon, located 15 km east of Thebes in central Greece, have revealed a center of vibrant activity throughout the Late Bronze Age, starting with a burial complex of the Late Helladic […]
Quinones will discuss the origins of our nationwide opioid epidemic: pharmaceutical marketing, changes in our heroin market, and new attitudes toward pain among American healthcare consumers. He will also discuss cultural shifts that made this epidemic possible. Sam Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and author of three books of narrative nonfiction. His book Dreamland: The True […]
