History Club Weekly Meetings
HSSB 4020UCSB’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. […]
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History Associates Talk | States of Dis/armament | Mhoze Chikowero
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesStates of Dis/armament: Reading Statemaking in Africa’s Recent History When: WEDNESDAY, NOV 9, 2022 at 4:00 PM Where: Miller McCune Conference Room, HSSB, UC Santa Barbara Free and open to the […]
Talk by Rob Boddice: Consensus without Collaboration? The Future of Emotion Research from the Perspective of History
Dr. Rob Boddice, Senior Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland, is going to deliver a talk titled “Consensus without Collaboration? The Future of Emotion Research from the Perspective of History,” Wednesday January 11, […]
Talk by Professor Emerita, Sharon Farmer | Fowl Play: France and beyond, 1979…
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThe History Department will host SHARON FARMER, Professor Emerita (UCSB), who will present a talk, entitled “Fowl Play: France and beyond, 1979…” When: 12:00 PM, Thursday, January 12th. Where: HSSB 4020. The […]
Gender + Sexualities Paper Workshop | Mika Thornburg | “Selling Self-Discovery: Constructing a Desire for Female Travel in Postwar Japan, 1960-1985”
HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesMika Thornburg will share her in-progress dissertation chapter: "Selling Self-Discovery: Constructing a Desire for Female Travel in Postwar Japan, 1960-1985." Please read the paper in advance and be prepared to share your observations […]
History and Political Economy Colloquium | “Business of pleasure” | Julie Johnson and Erika Rappaport
HSSB 4080 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesHISTORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY COLLOQUIUM Julie Johnson and Erika Rappaport: "The business of pleasure" The colloquium offers a forum for open, substantive discussions on how to approach political economy from […]
Anthologizing the City of Isfahan: Family Archives and Urban Knowledge, lecture by Professor Kathryn Babayan
HSSB 4080 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United StatesSeventeenth century Isfahan witnessed a craze in the composition of a new kind of book, the majmuʿa, or anthology. Curated and written in the domestic sphere of the household, anthologies […]
Graduate Seminar with Professor Kathryn Babayan: Archival Practices Beyond the State: Microhistories of Households in early modern Isfahan
Girvetz 2320In recent scholarship, family archives in the form of a manuscript have been posited as sites for more broadly rethinking archives in the pre-modern Islamicate world.In the context of Isfahan, […]
History Associates Talk | “Plant Life and Imperialism” | Utathya Chattopadhyaya
Santa Barbara Eastside Branch Library 1102 E Montecito St, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesPlant Life and Imperialism: Histories of Cannabis in British India Are histories of social structures, imperial systems, and the subjecthood of peoples not also histories of plant life? Taking […]
Lecture: Prof. John W.I. Lee (UCSB History) on “Women in Ancient Persia” at the Goleta Valley Library
Goleta Valley Library 500 North Fairview Avenue, GoletaWestern stereotypes of Ancient Persia often focus on images of exotic harems, scheming queens, and decadent court life. Prof. Lee explains what the ancient textual and archaeological sources actually reveal […]