Echoes from El Pueblo Viejo
Alhecama Theatre 914 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States2017-EPV-flyer-pdf
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Gender and Sexualities Brown Bag: Sasha Coles
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThe Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster will meet periodically throughout the year for brown bag lunches to read and workshop works-in-progress from members of the research cluster. On May 8, Sasha Coles will discuss “A Nation’s Wealth Surrounds a Worm”: Mormonism, Consumer Politics, and Utah’s Silk Industry, 1860s-1906.” Draft papers will be distributed before the event, […]
Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture – Erika Milam on “Creatures of Cain”
McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesPlease join us on May 10, 4PM, in the McCune Conference Room for the Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. Our guest speaker will be Erika Lorraine Milam (Princeton University) who will be giving a lecture titled Creatures of Cain: Human Nature and the Politics of Violence During the Cold War. Human nature contains the seeds of humanity’s […]
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Political Science, Columbia, “How Employers Recruit Their Workers into Politics”
HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesHertel-Fernandez is completing a book, Politics at Work, and with Theda Skocpol is writing a study that examines the rise of the Koch political network. Visit https://www.history.ucsb.edu/labor/home for more details.
Senior Honors Research Colloquium
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesPlease 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. Refreshments will be served, beginning at 8:45 a.m.
Leilah Danielson, History, Northern Arizona University, “Workers’ Education in the 1930s and Beyond”
HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesDanielson is the author of American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the 20th Century (2014). Visit https://www.history.ucsb.edu/labor/home for more details on her talk.
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 StatesThe 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 Studies at UCSB, who will speak about her forthcoming book with Stanford University Press, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China. The appointment […]
A Woman’s Drink? Gender & the Global History of the Tea Shop
Karpeles Manuscript Library 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesIn 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 century and early 20th century Europe and North America -- but as “male spaces” in parts of Africa and South Asia. These institutions helped build […]
Face 2 Face: Egodocuments and Microhistory – An adventure in historical thinking
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesDr. Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Iceland and a Visiting Scholar all this year in the UCSB History Department, will give a talk May 22, at noon in HSSB 4020. Dr. Magnusson brings us an expert's interpretation of two major aspects of current European historical writing: life writing and […]
UCSB History Associates Lecture: Things that Go Bump in the Night in Santa Barbara
American Red Cross Building 2706 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesPublic lecture by geologist Arthur Sylvester. See PDF below for details and registration information. 2017-Sylvester-flyer-pdf