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Documentary film screening: “McCarthy”

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

McCarthy 2Seventy years ago this February, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin launched his destructive anticommunist rampage. Addressing the Women's Republican Club in Wheeling, WVA, McCarthy charged that 205—or was it 57?—known communists were working for the U.S. State Department, enjoying the protection of an indifferent or even a disloyal Truman administration. McCarthy went on […]

History Scholar-Activism: Living Our Work

Join us as we talk about how we—as historians and historians in training—approach our work as “scholar-activists” within the context of the academy. While not all of us identify as "scholar-activists," we work with social justice and equity in mind. Themes Methodology: What does that look like? How do we describe it and/or think about […]

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. 

Jennifer Burns, “The Last Conservative: The Life of Milton Friedman”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series, Jennifer Burns (History, Stanford University) will present "The Last Conservative: The Life of Milton Friedman." Professor Burns is the author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (2009), and is now at work on […]

Anna Rudolph, “Queen Radegund and the Monarchy in Medieval Europe”

Karpeles Manuscript Library 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Come hear Anna Rudolph's presentation on Queen Radegund (520AD – 587AD) – a royal sainted lady of Thuringia. Radegund was a princess and a war captive who became the unwilling queen of the Frankish Kingdom and one of the most beloved Saints of France. Radegund, an extreme ascetic, was widely believed to have the gift […]

Panel Discussion, “Impeachment in Historical Perspective”

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

On Tuesday, February 11, from 4 to 5:30 pm in HSSB 6020 (McCune Center), the Center for Cold War Studies and International History and the Walter H. Capps Center will host a panel discussion titled, "Impeachment in Historical Perspective." Three UCSB historians will speak on the following topics: Giuliana Perrone on the Impeachment and Senate Trial of Andrew Johnson Laura Kalman on […]

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. 

Ronny Regev, “‘We Want No More Economic Islands’: The Mobilization of the Black Consumer Market in the Postwar US”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

On February 14 Ronny Regev (History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presents, "'We Want No More Economic Islands': The Mobilization of the Black Consumer Market in the Postwar US." WWII ushered in an era of economic growth in the United States, which enshrined consumption as an integral part of liberal citizenship. African Americans were often excluded […]

Vic Geraci, Wine by Design: Santa Barbara’s Quest for Terroir

HSSB 3208 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The Public History program presents a talk by Vic Geraci about his new book, Wine by Design: Santa Barbara’s Quest for Terroir (Nevada, 2020). A graduate of UCSB's program in Public Historical Studies, Geraci taught public history at Central Connecticut State University and served as historian of food and wine at the Regional Oral History […]

Gender Studies Paper Workshop: Kristen Thomas-McGill’s “‘Even His Lungs Were Affected’: Aubrey Beardsley, Earnestness, and the Artistic Politics of Interiority”

HSSB 4065 4065 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Join the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster for a paper workshop on Kristen Thomas-McGill's "'Even His Lungs Were Affected': Aubrey Beardsley, Earnestness, and the Artistic Politics of Interiority." The event will take place in HSSB 4065 on Thursday, February 20 at 3:30. To obtain the paper in advance, email Jarett Henderson at jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu.

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