We want to invite you to the upcoming virtual conference - Eugenic Legacies Across Latin America, October 12 & 13, 2022. The conference invites scholars, activists and artists, to look at what we can do to address the legacies of eugenics across Latin America. We are attaching a flyer, as well as the full programme to the event. […]
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.
This presentation will walk through Santa Barbara’s recently completed African American Historic Context Statement on how the built history of a community plays a role in helping uplift African-American and Black people today. This is a unique collaboration of social justice leaders and historic preservation specialists in Santa Barbara who worked to compile Santa Barbara’s […]
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.
States of Dis/armament: Reading Statemaking in Africa’s Recent History When: WEDNESDAY, NOV 9, 2022 at 4:00 PM Where: Miller McCune Conference Room, HSSB, UC Santa Barbara Free and open to the public. Please RSVP to historyassociates@ia.ucsb.edu History Associates Members can request a complimentary parking permit for this event! What is a state? What is statemaking? What […]
Dr. Rob Boddice, Senior Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland, is going to deliver a talk titled “Consensus without Collaboration? The Future of Emotion Research from the Perspective of History,” Wednesday January 11, 2023 at 4-5:30PM (PST). The Zoom attendance link is https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/3239408139. Everyone is welcome! The talk is going to address the discipline of history’s positionality in the […]
The History Department will host SHARON FARMER, Professor Emerita (UCSB), who will present a talk, entitled “Fowl Play: France and beyond, 1979…” When: 12:00 PM, Thursday, January 12th. Where: HSSB 4020. The chapter from which Farmer will be reading deals with the time she spent in France in 1979-80, when she first began the research for her […]
Mika Thornburg will share her in-progress dissertation chapter: "Selling Self-Discovery: Constructing a Desire for Female Travel in Postwar Japan, 1960-1985." Please read the paper in advance and be prepared to share your observations and insights with the group.
HISTORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY COLLOQUIUM Julie Johnson and Erika Rappaport: "The business of pleasure" 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 […]
Seventeenth century Isfahan witnessed a craze in the composition of a new kind of book, the majmuʿa, or anthology. Curated and written in the domestic sphere of the household, anthologies archive city-writings once in circulation; they illustrate the practices of urban knowledge and their valorization by communities who took possession of them. The imaginations that […]