This is a great opportunity for the 2015-2016 new undergraduate majors and those interested in the History, Medieval Studies, and the History of Public Policy majors and the History and Labor Studies minors to meet some of the Department of History faculty. Students will make connections with faculty and with other students and learn about […]
Classes begin on Thursday, September 24, and end on Friday, December 4, 2015. Wednesday, November 11 Veterans’ Day holiday. November 26-27 Thanksgiving holidays November 30 - December 4 Examinations are strongly discouraged and mandatory non-instructional activities require advance approval from the Office of Student Life. hm 7/19/15
Conference Description: When Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle edited The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order in 1989, they made the concept of a political and social “order” central to an interpretative framework that reperiodized U.S. history, from the election of Franklin Roosevelt, through Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and on to the Ronald […]
Well in advance of the exam date for information regarding the exam to satisfy the American History and Institutions general education requirement and to obtain the required reading list, please contact: Monica I. Garcia, Ph.D. Undergraduate Advisor, History HSSB 4036 https://www.history.ucsb.edu/advisingcalendar.php Email: migarcia@hfa.ucsb.edu EXAM DATE AND TIME: TUESDAY September 29, 2015 8:00-11:00am HSSB 3038 […]
Details forthcoming. Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program, and the History Department. jwil 14.viii.2015
Join ICW and leading scholars in the field of borderlands studies for a roundtable on the ways in which borders are shaping gender identities and opening opportunities for the renegotiation of femininity, masculinity, and family dynamics along the U.S.-Mexico Border. Often focused on the history of capital, labor, and immigration, borderlands historians are also calling […]
Speaker: Laura Nenzi (Ph.D. History, UC Santa Barbara, 2004) Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Event Description: Laura Nenzi, one of our very own (2004 PhD) is returning to UCSB to give a lecture about her recent (2015) second book The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko. The talk will focus on the process […]
Speaker: Susan Levine Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago Event Description: The Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy inaugurates the fall workshop series with a talk on October 16 by Susan Levine, Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She offers a paper, "'The Moral Challenge of Abundance': Humanitarianism […]
The History Department will be hosting a panel for this year's annual Parents' and Family Weekend titled "Current Immigration Crises in Historical Perspective." The panelists will be Adam Sabra, Salim Yaqub, Harold Marcuse, and Verónica Castillo-Muñoz. See below for additional information.
Speaker: Carol Lansing is a professor of medieval European history at UCSB. A specialist in the society, politics and culture of medieval Italy, she is the author of Power and Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy and, most recently, Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes. She is co-editor of A […]
