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Book Launch: Stephan Miescher, A Dam for Africa

HSSB 1174 1174 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

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 […]

Pizza The Past

HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

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 […]

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UCSB History Department’s Annual Senior Honors Colloquium

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

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 […]

Spring 2023 Issue Launch Party

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

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.     

Free
Event Series Gender + Sexualities

Annual Gender + Sexualities Graduate Student Colloquium

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

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 […]

UCSB History Virtual Open House for Diversity in Graduate Admissions (First-Gen & BIPOC)

Zoom (Online)

The UCSB History Department Invites You to a Virtual Open House for Diversity in Graduate Admissions Welcome First-Gen & BIPOC Applicants! Date: Thurs., October 12, 3-4 pm PST Topics Include Benefits of graduate study Unspoken challenges and expectations Successful applications Funding opportunities Personal and professional rewards Faculty strengths and expertise Career opportunities *Register here via Zoom  *All […]

Event Series Gender and Sexualities Colloquium

Gender + Sexualities Cluster Colloquium with Dr. Luke Roberts

HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Join us at the first Gender and Sexualities Research Colloquium to discuss Dr. Luke Robert's paper, "Mori Nao Divorces Her Samurai Husband  and His Family Puts Him in a Cage."  The paper is an introduction to a forthcoming book that explores marriage and gender roles in the samurai class in early nineteenth century Japan.  A […]

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