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Talk by Lily Geismer, Claremont McKenna College. “‘The Perfect Model for the 1990s’: Community Development Banking, Market-Based Solutions, and Democratic Neoliberalism”

HSSB 4041

Geismer is currently working on her second book, Doing Good: the Democrats and Neoliberalism from the War on Poverty to the Clinton Foundation. She is co-editor of Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century (2019) and author of Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party (2015) You can find a […]

Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture by Audra J. Wolfe: “Science, Freedom, and the Cold War: a Political History of Apolitical Science”

HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

As a part of the Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture Series, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center presents Audra J. Wolfe on the development of so-called apolitical science. Why do so many U.S. scientists continue to lean on the language of apolitical science, even as political leaders display less and less interest in scientists’ claims to expertise, or […]

Event Series History Club Weekly Meetings

History Club Weekly Meetings

HSSB 4020

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. 

Event Series History Club Weekly Meetings

History Club Weekly Meetings

HSSB 4020

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. 

History Department Alumni Career Panel and Luncheon

HSSB 1173 and Couryard University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Former History Majors are returning to UCSB to talk about their career paths and choices. Please join us for the panel and lunch and mingle with faculty, alumni and current majors.

Event Series History Club Weekly Meetings

History Club Weekly Meetings

HSSB 4020

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. 

Criminalizing Immigrant Families: Race, Gender, and Family Separations at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Loma Pelona Conference Center Loma Pelona Center, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Race and gender have shaped the law, public policy, and the emotional and physical experiences of migration throughout history.  At the present moment, however, shifting patterns of migration and the current administration's use of family separation as a deterrent has led to an intense struggle to define migration, the migrant, and the family. This conference […]

Talk by James T. Sparrow, University of Chicago. “Boundaries of the Firm, State, and Nation: the Problem of Public Utility in the American Century.”

HSSB 4041

Sparrow is the author of Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government (2011) and co-editor of Boundaries of the State in US History (2015). His current projects include Sovereign Discipline: the American Extraterritorial State in the Atomic Age and New Leviathan: Rethinking Sovereignty and Political Agency after Total War. 

Book Launch: Juan Cobo Betancourt and Natalie Cobo’s “The legislation of the archdiocese of Santafé”

HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join the Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies and the Department of History to celebrate the publication of Juan Cobo Betancourt and Natalie Cobo's new book, La legislación de la arquidiócesis de Santafé en el periodo colonial (Bogotá: Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, 2018). The book will be presented, in Spanish, by […]

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