On Wednesday, May 3, from 4 pm to 5:15 pm in the McCune Room (HSSB 6020), the Center for Cold War Studies and International History will host a talk by Salim Yaqub. I'll be talking about my new book, Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945. Professor Salim Yaqub discusses […]
Please join the Gender + Sexualities Cluster for a Paper Workshop on Monday, 8 May 2023, at 2 PM. We will meet in HSSB 4020 to discuss Jarett Henderson's chapter, "' He Looked Pale and the Picture of Death': Sodomy, Settler Self-Government, and the Age of Reform in 1840s Canada." ABSTRACT This chapter focuses primarily […]
Announcing an exciting, two-day Public History Book Sale!! Pre-Sale: Wednesday May 10, 12:00-4:00pm in HSSB 3208 Come for hidden gems and a dusty used-book store vibe. You never know what you will find! Featuring books donated by Professor Laura Kalman, there is something for everyone. Main Sale: Thursday May 11, 9:00am--4:00pm outside of […]
The History Department's Colloquium Committee, in celebration of Haitian Flag's Day, presents a film screening: "Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Defeated Dessalines, the Man who Defeated Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte." Everyone is cordially invited to join. A Q&A session with filmmaker Arnold Antonin will be held after the screening via Zoom.
The colloquium offers a forum for open, substantive discussions on how to approach political economy from a historical perspective; how to grapple with and benefit from the epistemological diversity surrounding political economy; and how a historical take on political economy can help contextualize and address urgent contemporary issues– at UCSB, in Santa Barbara/Southern California, in […]
In A Dam for Africa historian Stephan Miescher explores four intersecting narratives that weave together around Akosombo: Ghanaian aspirations about building a hydroelectric dam in the context of decolonization and Cold War; international efforts of the US aluminum industry in benefiting from Akosombo through subsidizing the VALCO aluminum smelter; local stories of upheaval and devastation […]
HISTORY MAJORS: Professors Erika Rappaport, Utathya Chattopadhyaya, and Jarett Henderson are members of a History Department Committee that is examining the experience of our undergraduate students in the History Major at UCSB. As a first step, they would like to invite you to join us on Wednesday, 24 May 2023, between 11 AM and […]
Please join the History Department in celebrating the undergraduates at the Department's Annual Senior Honors Colloquium 2023. The program can be downloaded here. 9:00 AM – Welcoming Remarks Stephan Miescher, Chair, History Department Debra Blumenthal, Director of 2022-23 Senior Honors Seminar 9:10-10:40 - Panel I – Women and Politics Across Time and Space […]
Come eat pastries, drink coffee, and meet the Editorial Board of the UC Santa Barbara Undergraduate Journal of History as they celebrate the launch of their Spring 2023 issue. See the table of content here. All Welcome.
9:00 - 10:00 - SESSION A (Presenter will Zoom) Giulia Giamboni, History, UC Santa Barbara “Pelegrina de Saladino: Mother, Sister, Patroness, and Business Woman” This is chapter 2 of my dissertation “Gender, Charity, and Empire in the Late Medieval Eastern Mediterranean.” By investigating the life of fourteenth-century Pelegrina de Saladinis, the chapter explores the complex […]
