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Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games
Engineering Science Building 1001 , United StatesYou are invited to join us for the third meeting of the Colloquium for Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall from the California State University, San Marcos who will be presenting a paper entitled "'Slave Revolts on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Videogames". The lecture considers existing films and video games on the […]
Royal Manuscripts of the Moroccan Royal Library: An Introduction and Overview
HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesSpeaker: Dr. Khalid Zahri, Royal Library, Rabat, Morocco. Sponsored by the UCSB Center for Middle East Studies.
Professor Tracy Adams, University of Auckland, New Zealand, “The French Political Royal Mistress and Gallic Singularity”
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesWe are so used to the idea of the royal mistress as a constituent element of the French king’s grandeur that we tend not to think about how strange it is that in Ancien Régime France nine women who were not part of the royal family exercised significant political influence. Adams suggests that the key […]
Seth Rockman, History, Brown University, “Plantation Labor Outsourced: Rethinking New England Outwork and the National Economy of Slavery in Antebellum America”
HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesRockman is the author of Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (2008) and co-editor, with Sven Beckert, of Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (2016). Scraping By won the OAH's Merle Curti Prize, the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, and the H.L. Mitchell Prize from the Southern Historical Association. Rockman spent the 2016-17 year at […]
Citizens of Nowhere: The Case for Embracing the Stateless – David Baluarte, Washington & Lee University
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesProfessor Terence Keel, “The Ghost in the Machine: How Christianity Haunts the Biological Sciences”
Goleta Valley Public Library 500 N. Fairview Avenue, Goleta, CA, United StatesKeel argues that the enduring belief that race comes from "nature" reflects the haunting influence of Christian intellectual history on the development of modern scientific thinking about human ancestry.2018-Keel-flyer-pdf
Prof. Michele Salzman (UC Riverside) – Lay Aristocrats and Roman Bishops
Arts 1332 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United StatesFelix III, who held the papal seat from 483-492, is called by several scholars "Rome's first aristocratic bishop." As the first elected pope after the fall of the last western emperor, his aristocratic origins would bestow a distinctly new status to the office of bishop of Rome on the eve of new challenges to his […]
Amy Stanley, “Finding Echigo in Edo: Snow Country Migrants and Their Urban Worlds”
HSSB 4080 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United StatesThe Echigo province migrant was a familiar type in nineteenth-century Edo. Every year in the tenth month, snow country peasants would come down the mountains on the Nakasendō Highway and enter the city through Itabashi Station. They wandered down the main street in Hongō, where they were met by labor scouts who had learned to […]
Marcia Chatelain, History, Georgetown University, “Burgers in the Age of Black Capitalism: Fast Food and the Remaking of Civil Rights after 1968”
HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesChatelain is currently writing a book about race and fast food, From Sit-In to Drive-Thru: Black America in the Age of Fast Food (under contract, Liveright, an imprint of W.W. Norton). Her first book South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration was published by Duke University Press in 2015. Chatelain co-edited, with Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, Staging a Dream: Untold Stories […]