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Climbing a stairway to heaven: Rereading dream texts as lived religion and embedded emotion in seventeenth-century New England

You are invited to the Pre-Modern Cluster's second brown bag lunch of this year. It is based on Prof. Plane's newly published book: Dreams and the Invisible World in Colonial New England: Indians, Colonists, and the Seventeenth Century From angels to demonic specters, astonishing visions to devilish terrors, dreams inspired, challenged, and soothed the men […]

The Latino Generation

Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as Latino. Though their population and influence are steadily rising, stereotypes and misconceptions about Latinos remain, from the assumption that they refuse to learn English to questions of just how "American" […]

Sanctification of Mangoes: Symbol Creation in the Cult of Mao Zedong

In 1968 during China’s “Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution,” the cult of CommunistParty Chairman Mao Zedong was at a high. A Pakistani foreign minister presented Mao with a crate of mangoes that he re-gifted to the Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Teams who were occupying the Tsinghua University campus. The gift of mangoes happened to coincide with […]

UCSB History Club and Phi Alpha Theta

Please join the UCSB History Club and Phi Alpha Theta (History Honor Society) this Wednesday (January 14) at 6:30pm at HSSB 4080 for our First General Meeting of the Winter Quarter! We will kickoff the quarter with an introduction to the History Club and our planned events and ongoing themes for the quarter as well […]

Badash Memorial Lecture: The Materiality of the Virtual: A Global Environmental History of Computing from Babbage to Bitcoin

Please join us January 21 at 5PM for the annual Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. Prof. Nathan Ensmenger will be speaking about the intersection of the histories of computing and the environment. Abstract For most Americans, one of the defining features of the modern digital economy is the invisibility of its material infrastructure. Whereas previous technological […]

ROUNDTABLE: Natural Capital–How Much Is the Ocean Worth?

Speakers:Peter Alagona (History and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Sarah Anderson (Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UCSB) Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies, UCSB; UCSB Sustainability Champion) Sharyn Maine (Santa Barbara Foundation) Richard Widick (Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, UCSB) Facilitator: Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook (English and Comparative Literature, UCSB) How much is the […]