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Ann Little (Colorado State University) – Blogging, Tweeting, and Instagramming the Borderlands of Public and Academic History: Social Media as a Tool for Public Engagement

HSSB 3208 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

College and university History departments (once again?) say they're in crisis: nationwide, our numbers of majors have shrunk dramatically over the past decade, not to mention the "job crisis" of the past 45 years that has outlived the expansion of the profession from 1945-1970 nearly twice over. What's an academic historian to do about this? […]

Professor Ann Little (Colorado State University) – The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands.

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

Join us for a talk by Prof. Ann Little who will be speaking about her new book, The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands. Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780) embodies the imperial conquest of North America like no other eighteenth-century figure, yet she has been largely written out of the story […]

Nicole De Silva, History UCSB, “Fashioning Chinese America Cultural Citizenship and the Transpacific Boycott of Japanese Silk Stockings, 1937-1940”

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

The Commerce, Commodities and Material Culture Research Cluster will be hosting its first paper workshop this year to discuss Nicole De Silva's paper "Fashioning Chinese America Cultural Citizenship and the Transpacific Boycott of Japanese Silk Stockings, 1937-1940." The paper positions the Japanese silk stocking boycott of 1937-1941 as a staging ground that fostered the development […]

Hail the Maintainers! or – How to Give Up the Innovation Fetish (Prof. Lee Vinsel)

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

Hail the Maintainers! or - How to Give Up the Innovation Fetish Join us for a talk by Prof. Lee Vinsel, Stevens Institute of Technology - 16 February 2017 in HSSB 4080 at 4PM Our culture is obsessed with innovation. Innovation is thought to be the goal of business, policy-making, philanthropy, education, even play. Yet, […]

David Moss, Harvard Business School, “E Pluribus Unum: Thoughts on the Perils (and Promise) of an Aging Democracy”

David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Yale.  A founder of the Tobin Project, Professor Moss is the author of Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the […]

Cheryl Jimenez Frei, UCSB, “Shaping and Contesting the Past: Monuments, Memory and Identity in Buenos Aires”

Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni Center UCSB, Santa Barbara , CA, United States

UCSB History Associates invites you to attend the Fourth Annual Van Gelderen Graduate Student Lecture  Cheryl Jimemez Frei, a PhD Student in Latin American History, will be giving a lecture related to her work on memory and the built environment in Argentina.  A luncheon will follow.  To attend the luncheon, please fill out the form […]

Film—”Nasser’s Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt”

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

The Center for Cold War Studies and International History will show Icarus Film's new documentary, "Nasser's Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt," a stirring but unflinching portrayal of Gamal Abdel Nasser and his impact on Egyptian, pan-Arab, and international politics. After the screening of the film, which runs about 80 minutes, Sherene Seikaly, Associate Professor […]

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“The Beach Boys: Classified Research with a Southern California Vibe” – Bill Leslie; The Johns Hopkins University

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

Long before companies such as Apple and Google learned how to attract and indulge their high tech workforces with espresso bars, climbing walls, flextime, and other perks, laboratories likeRAND in Santa Monica, Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, and Nortronics in Palos Verdes perfected the art of concierge science.  These were venues designed to recruit, retain, […]

Post-Holocaust Film: Bogdan’s Journey (1946 Kielce pogrom)

Girvetz 1004 Girvetz Hall, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

In 1946 forty Jewish survivors of the Holocaust were murdered by townspeople in Kielce, Poland, after a non-Jewish boy reported having been kidnapped by Jews. Catholic psychologist Bogdan Bialek moved to Kielce in the late 1970s, and was shocked by the toxic atmosphere in the town. He made it his life's rork to persuade residents […]

Mary Furner, History, “The Jacobs Era in US Labor Standards Law and Regulation, 1885-1899”

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

Professor Furner is the author of Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science (with a new Introduction, 2010); "Ideas, Independencies, Governance Structures, and National Political Cultures: Norbert Elias's Work as a Window on U.S. History," in Christa Buschendorf, et al, eds, Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: Figurational Approaches to American Culture […]

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