Dr. Bassam Haddad will be addressing the causes behind the Syrian uprisings and the various factors that led to the twists and turns that still engulf Syria, and, of late, beyond. Bassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies Program and teaches in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, […]
This is the annual Tibesar Lecture of the Academy of American Franciscan History. Prof. Ellen McCracken will discuss Franciscan Fray Angelico Chavez (1910-1996), one of New Mexico's foremost 20th century intellectuals, whose historiography crucially involved strategies of re-materialization of New Mexico history. The many innovative material practices in which he engaged increased the understanding of […]
The Pre-Modern Cluster in the Department of History announces its first event, a brown bag lunch presentation. All interested faculty and grad students are welcome to attend. hm 10/22/14
Wednesday October 29th 3:30-4:30pm in HSSB 4020 Come learn about courses and internships at the UC Centers in Washington D.C. and Sacramento. Come learn about the new changes and great opportunities and hear stories from students who just returned from UCDC!
Kati Marton, award-winning former NPR and ABC News correspondent andbestselling author, discusses her critically-acclaimed book, The Great Escape: Nine Jews who Fled Hitler and Changed the World. As the New York Times writes, The Great Escape "describes the crossroads where art and politics meet, the perils of dictatorship and the horrors of war, all of […]
In 1910, the Vote (the newspaper of the Women’s Freedom League) launched a photography competition inviting their suffragette readers to send in photographs of themselves engaged in domestic labour. The result was a bizarre series of images depicting the leaders of the militant suffrage movement performing mundane household tasks, such as cleaning the stove and […]
In spite of the frequent coverage in the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Publishers Weekly, Inside Higher Ed, and on listservs, websites, scholarly journal articles and beyond, the students, assistant professors, and even published authors at higher ranks has failed to keep up with the very rapid pace of change in scholarly publishing. […]
Join us for an Open House! Help us thank the sponsors of our project to conserve the 21 paintings of California Missions by Edwin Deakin with this exhibit and reception. You will have an opportunity to see some of the newly restored paintings illuminated by our new LED lighting system made possible by a generous […]
The Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP is happy to announce our Fall 2014 workshop and symposium, hosted and co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara.Space is limited, please register now by contacting Courtney Mahaney (cmahaney@ucsc.edu). Friday, 7 November - Symposium 12:30-6pm This one day interdisciplinary meeting sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program at UCSB will […]
In this talk, I consider American expansion in Mexican California,a region seen as an important gateway to the vast Pacific beyond its shores. The encroachment on Spanish and later Mexican territory also permitted the development of a trade in raw materials that, for instance, supplied the shoe factories that were springing up all over New […]