Winter Quarter Instruction Begins
Monday, January 4: Classes begin Monday, January 19: Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Monday, February 15: Presidents’ Day holiday.
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Phi Alpha Theta’s “Welcome Back!” Meeting
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesPhi Alpha Theta will be hosting its annual "Welcome Back!" meeting and providing an overview of its goals and events for the Winter 2016 quarter. This meeting is very important, so please consider attending! A quick peek into what PAT is doing this quarter includes a research workshop, a club trip to the Huntington Library, and a talk by UCSB History […]
Grant-Writing Workshop for Graduate Students
HSSB 4065 4065 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThe Graduate Finance Committee will hold a workshop to help graduate students familiarize themselves with the process of applying for funding within and outside UCSB. Students should bring drafts of grant proposals for discussion, if possible. The workshop will begin with a discussion of applying for central funding and move on to outside applications. This workshop […]
Frank Frost, “The City of Emporion: The Ancient Greeks in Spain”
Karpeles Manuscript Library 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesAbout the Talk Early in the sixth century BC, a group from the Greek city-state of Phokaia established a trading post on the Catalan coast not far from present-day Barcelona. It eventually became a major military base and trading center for the expansion of the Roman empire. Using the work of archaeologists supplemented by his own […]
W16 Graduate Declaration Deadline
Last day to declare candidacy for the Winter 2016 undergraduate degree using GOLD. https://registrar.sa.ucsb.edu/w.aspx
After Tahrir: Egyptian Revolutionary Experiences and Future Visions
McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThis four-day research collaboration workshop will take place at UC Santa Barbara on the five-year anniversary of the Tahrir Square Uprisings in 2011 that toppled Egypt's long-term dictator Hosni Mubarak. These uprisings in Egypt accelerated waves of anti-crony-capitalist demonstrations, worker organizing, youth revolts, media insurgencies, and police brutality protests that overthrew governments, mobilized populations throughout […]
Book Launch and Signing: Sherene Seikaly, “Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine”
McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesEvent Description: The Department of History and the Center for Middle East Studies are delighted to sponsor a book launch and signing for Sherene Seikaly's new book with Stanford University Press, Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine. Comments By: Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle […]
Public Lecture: “Racialized Paths to Proletarianization: Myths about Black Economic Competition, Cheap Labor, and White Vulnerability”
HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesTiffany Willoughby-Herard (African American Studies, UC Irvine) The presentation discusses a key historiographical intervention about so-called "cheap labor" in WASTE OF A WHITE SKIN: THE CARNEGIE CORPORATION AND THE RACIAL LOGIC OF WHITE VULNERABILITY. What did calls for the protection of "civilized labor" and a "white wage" mean to the history of race and class […]
Maurice Isserman, “The Rucksack Revolution: Mountaineering and American Culture, 1945-1963”
HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesMaurice Isserman writes pathbreaking books on the American left - and on mountaineering. In the latter category are Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes(2008, with Stewart Weaver); and Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering (2016). In the former can be found Which Side […]
Activism and Social Change: Panel Discussion
Davidson Library (UCSB) Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesProfessors Alice O'Connor (History), Hahrie Han (Political Science), and National People's Action Director Ryan Greenwood will lead a discussion of "Activism and Social Change" as part of the Library's UCSB Reads 2016 programming. The panelists will explore both historical and contemporary activism, including the Black Lives Matter movement, and Bryan Stevenson's legal work as highlighted […]