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Studies in Late Antiquity, Editorial Board Meeting

HSSB 6056

1PM: Introductions/Welcome 1:30PM: Journal Related Info (30 Minutes)- Jeff Hester (Skype) 2PM: Presentations (15 mins each) 1)  Blossom Stefaniw, "A Narrative History of the Tura Papyri: Creative Nonfiction and Christianity as a History of Reading" 2)  Emily Albu, "The Roman Heritage of Medieval World Maps: Late Antique Transmission of Greco-Roman Geographical Knowledge" 3)  Diliana Angelova, […]

Histories of Economy in the Middle East: A Workshop

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Histories of Economy Flyer2 MAY 18 1:30-1:45: Introduction Adam Sabra, University of California, Santa Barbara Sherene Seikaly, University of California, Santa Barbara 1:45-3:15: Commerce and Capital Adam Hanieh, “Space, Scale, and the Middle East’s Contemporary Political Economy” Jessica Goldberg, “Sea Change in Medieval Ifriqiyya” Ziad Abu-Rish, “Complicating the Post-Colonial Narrative” 3:15-3:30: Break 3:30-5:00: Money and […]

Talk by History Associates Board Member Sheila Lodge on the “History of Planning in Santa Barbara”

Alhecama Theatre 215 A E. Canon Perdido St, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

In this talk, Sheila Lodge will show how Santa Barbara became the community that it is through planning. She will describe the many battles it sometimes took and the process that was developed to make the critical decisions. Because of her personal involvement in the struggles, her talk is partially a memoir. Sheila Lodge is […]

Critical Issues in America: Hanink on Citizenship

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

Prof. Johanna Hanink (Brown University), "Modern Citizenship Tests and Classical Funeral Orations."

Film Screening & Discussion: Ghana’s Electric Dreams

Multicultural Center (MCC) Theater Multicultural Center, Isla Vista, CA, United States

Ghana’s Electric Dreams presents a history of the roots and wide-ranging impact of the famed hydroelectric Akosombo Dam, Ghana’s most ambitious development project. R. Lane Clark (Independent Film Maker) and Stephan Miescher (History, UCSB) will respond to comments from Boatema Boateng (Communication, UC San Diego). Mona Damluji (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) will moderate. Ghana’s Electric […]

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Jin Hee Kim, American Studies, Kyung Hee Cyber University. “The Republic of Samsung: Labor, Governance, and the Crisis of Korean Democracy.”

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

Currently a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of the Work, Labor, and Democracy, Kim is the author of Labor Law and Labor Policy in New York State, 1920s-1930s (2006) and translator into Korean of John Dewey’s Liberalism and Social Action (2011). The editor and author of numerous books and articles on U.S. and Korean labor, Kim […]

Annual History Department Awards Ceremony

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join us in recognizing the achievements of both the undergraduate and graduate students of the department.

Serge Ferrari, History, UC Santa Barbara. “General Electric versus the Market: the Road from Industrial to Financial Capitalism.”

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

Serge Ferrari is completing his dissertation on GE, tracing how the corporation remade itself into a large-scale financial enterprise at the end of the twentieth century. His paper will be available here two weeks before his talk. A light lunch will be served.