Public History Colloquium: Erasing and Reclaiming Public Memory in Palestine
2025-10-24 12:00 - 13:50 (America/Los_Angeles)

History Associates Talk : Alfredo Gonzalez | "An American Promise: 20th Century US Military Naturalization."
2025-11-02 14:00 - 16:00 | Vista Del Monte, 3775 Modoc Rd, Santa Barbara, 3775 Modoc Rd., Santa Barbara
Assistant Professor of Political Science at UCSB, Alfredo Gonzalez will speak on “An American Promise: 20th Century US Military Naturalization.”
Despite widespread recognition that modern social welfare programs stem from the protections pledged to war veterans, commitments from Congress to naturalize immigrant service members and veterans are absent in debates on the military social safety net. Legal historians have shown that after World War I, veterans’ organizations were instrumental in pressuring Congress to grant citizenship to racially ineligible war veterans, but we know less about whether veterans’ organizations have since considered naturalization a military benefit worth protecting. I explore the boundaries of military social welfare between WWI and the War on Terror, when military naturalization policy significantly changed from guaranteeing legal citizenship to merely expediting an immigrant’s ability to apply for naturalization. Understanding the development of military naturalization policy and its relationship to military welfare requires tracing how the process unfolded to reveal the extent, if at all, decision makers and veterans view political incorporation as part of the repertoire of protected benefits.

Sarah Rodriguez: The Great North American Constitutional Revolution
2025-11-03 12:00 - 13:15 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

History of Science Colloquium: Matthew Restall, Discovering Columbus (and his Many Lives)
2025-11-04 13:00 - 15:00
The next meeting of the History of Science Colloquium will take place on Tuesday November 4 at 1 pm. Matthew Restall will be presenting a talk entitled “Discovering Columbus (and his Many Lives),” which is based on his recent book. Matthew Restall is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology and the Director of Latin American Studies at Penn State University. His research has won numerous awards and focuses on European and indigenous encounters in the Americas.

History and Political Economy Colloquium: Elisabeth (Sissi) Luif, The Restructuring of Labor Arbitration and AustroFascism
2025-11-07 12:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us to welcome Elisabeth (Sissi) Luif from the Central European University, Vienna who will discuss a chapter from her dissertation, titled The Restructuring of Labor Arbitration and AustroFascism: A Social History of Institutional Change, 1933-38. Luif is a scholar of comparative fascism, corporatism, the Catholic Church, and labor and working class history and is currently a visiting scholar in the Department of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara.

Sarah Bond: Law and Order: Legal Limits on Freedom of Assembly and Protest in Ancient Rome
2025-11-07 15:30 - 17:00
Sarah Bond (University of Iowa) will give a lecture titled “Law and Order: Legal Limits on Freedom of Assembly and Protest in Ancient Rome.” Please note that the lecture will take place in HSSB 6020 (i.e., the McCune Conference Room).

Gender & Sexualities Colloquium: "To Be Worthy of the Name of My Father: Métis, Paternity and Belonging in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Colonial and Postcolonial French Africa and France"
2025-11-14 12:00 - 13:50
November 14, 2025
12:00-1:50 pm HSSB 4020
Professor Rachel Jean-Baptiste (History, Stanford) will present her article, “To Be Worthy of the Name of My Father: Métis, Paternity and Belonging in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Colonial and Postcolonial French Africa and France,” Gender & History 37, no. 2 (2025): 462-476.

Political Economy Colloquium: Tiraana Bains: How to Rule a Global Empire
2025-11-21 12:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Professor Tiraana Bains is delivering a talk entitled “How to Rule a Global Empire, 1784-1793” on Nov. 21, 2025. Please join us!

Gender & Sexualities Colloquium: Graduate Student Workshop
2025-12-05 09:00 - 16:00
Day-long Graduate Student Workshop that provides a venue for students in history and other disciplines to share and receive formative feedback on their works in progress.

History Associates Talk : Shaun Armstead on "African-American women in peace organizations"
2026-01-25 14:00 - 16:00 | Presidio Chapel (123 E Canon Perdido St, Santa Barbara), Presidio Chapel, 123 E Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara
History professor Shaun Armstead will speak on African American women in peace organizations.

More details : TBA

History Associates Book Club: "Lies my Teacher Told Me"
2026-01-29 17:00 - 18:00 | Mosher Alumni House, Alumni Association / UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106
Book Club for history faculty, staff, students, History Associates, and history-minded community members. We’ll discuss Lies My Teacher Told Me (graphic novel, PDF will be available closer to the time). Food will be served.
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