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.
In Native but Foreign, historian Brenden W. Rensink presents an innovative comparison of indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining Crees and Chippewas, who crossed the border from Canada into Montana, and Yaquis from Mexico who migrated into Arizona. The resulting history questions how opposing national borders affect and […]
Prof. Kiran Klaus Patel (Univ. of Maastricht) will speak about his new book The New Deal: A Global History (Princeton University Press, 2016), which won the World History Association's Bentley Book Prize in 2017. Professor Patel compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by other countries around […]
Over the course of the Enlightenment, Europe claimed a monopoly on progress for itself alone. In the eighteenth century, other places had appeared as familiar and comparable. By the early nineteenth century, they were cast as inscrutable and incommensurable. What caused this fundamental transformation in Europe’s understanding of itself? In this talk, I aim to […]
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.
8:30 am – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast (HSSB 4020) 9:00 am – 10:15 am Campus Walking Tour (led by grad students) 10:15 am – 10:30 am Welcome (HSSB 4020) Professor Erika Rappaport, Department Chair; Professor Salim Yaqub, Director of Graduate Studies 10:30 am – 11:30 am Program Overview (HSSB 4020) Professors Paul Spickard, Randy Bergstrom, […]
Arnold's dissertation research examines the transformations of the regional economy of the Pacific basin caused by World War I and the booming American commodity demand that accompanied it.
Please join us for the next meeting of the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Alicia Boswell, who will deliver a talk entitled "Cultural Heritage and Community: Protecting the Past for the Future in the Moche Valley, Peru". The talk will be held in HSSB 4020 at 5 pm on Wednesday, March […]
Please join the Department of History for the second screening of the Film in/as History series, focused on our two-year curricular theme, Migrations. After La Bestia last quarter, the Film in/as History series will continue with Mediterranea (107 mins, 2015). Directed by Jonas Carpignano, Mediterranea tells the story of migrants between Burkina Faso and southern […]
