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Senior Honors Research Colloquium

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

Please join us for the annual Senior Honors Research Colloquium hosted by the Department of History. Twelve senior honors students will present their research, followed by comments from faculty respondents. […]

The Politics of Rights and The 1911 Revolution in China, a talk by Xiaowei Zheng

HSSB 3001E 3001E Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The Workshop Theoretical Perspectives on War, Political Violence, Nationalism, and the State (His 291) is pleased to present Xiaowei Zheng, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultural […]

A Woman’s Drink? Gender & the Global History of the Tea Shop

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

In this talk, Professor Erika Rappaport of the UCSB History Department explores how tea shops emerged in the 18th century and came to be defined as “women’s spaces” in 19th […]

Politics in the Age of Trump: Some Historical Perspective

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

On Thursday, May 25, from 12:00 to 1:30 pm in the Multicultural Center Theater, the UCSB Department of History and the Center for Cold War Studies and International History will […]

Healing in Rwanda: Dealing with Legacies of the 1994 Genocide, presentation by Emmanuel Habimana

TD-W 1701 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States

After the 1994 genocide Rwanda had the highest proportion of orphans in the world. Emmanuel, one of those orphans himself, was among the people who stepped up to help raise child survivors and integrate them into a new, post-genocidal society, where they must share their communities with former killers.