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SUMMARY:Public History Colloquium: Censoring Public Memory\, Past and Present
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/public-history-colloquium-censoring-public-memory-past-and-present/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251003T120000
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SUMMARY:Gender & Sexualities Colloquium: "Commodifying Contraception: A Political Economy of Sex in Interwar Britain"
DESCRIPTION:October 3\, 2025\n12:00-1:50 pm HSSB 4020\nJulie Johnson Warkentin (History\, UCSB) will present a chapter of her dissertation\, “Commodifying Contraception: A Political Economy of Sex in Interwar Britain.”
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/gender-sexualities-colloquium-commodifying-contraception-a-political-economy-of-sex-in-interwar-britain/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251010T120000
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SUMMARY:Public History Colloquium: National Parks and the Origins of Public History in the United States
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/public-history-colloquium-national-parks-and-the-origins-of-public-history-in-the-united-states/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251017T120000
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SUMMARY:History and Political Economy Colloquium: Before Islamic Finance: A History of Muslim Private Banking from the Maghreb to Indonesia\, 1750-1975
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to welcome Professor Michael O’Sullivan from the University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill who will discuss the introduction to his forthcoming book Before Islamic Finance: A History of Muslim Private Banking from the Maghreb to Indonesia\, 1750-1975. Professor O’Sullivan is a scholar of early modern and modern South Asia in the context of Ottoman and European empires\, the Western Indian Ocean\, and connected histories of Muslim communities across Eurasia\, the Maghreb\, and East Africa. Please find the draft of the introduction attached below\, along with the poster for the colloquium and the quarter-long series. 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-and-political-economy-colloquium-before-islamic-finance-a-history-of-muslim-private-banking-from-the-maghreb-to-indonesia-1750-1975/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251024T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251024T135000
DTSTAMP:20260417T191632
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SUMMARY:Public History Colloquium: Erasing and Reclaiming Public Memory in Palestine
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/public-history-colloquium-erasing-and-reclaiming-public-memory-in-palestine/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251102T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251102T160000
DTSTAMP:20260417T191632
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SUMMARY:History Associates Talk : Alfredo Gonzalez | "An American Promise: 20th Century US Military Naturalization."
DESCRIPTION:Assistant Professor of Political Science at UCSB\, Alfredo Gonzalez will speak on “An American Promise: 20th Century US Military Naturalization.” \nDespite widespread recognition that modern social welfare programs stem from the protections pledged to war veterans\, commitments from Congress to naturalize immigrant service members and veterans are absent in debates on the military social safety net. Legal historians have shown that after World War I\, veterans’ organizations were instrumental in pressuring Congress to grant citizenship to racially ineligible war veterans\, but we know less about whether veterans’ organizations have since considered naturalization a military benefit worth protecting. I explore the boundaries of military social welfare between WWI and the War on Terror\, when military naturalization policy significantly changed from guaranteeing legal citizenship to merely expediting an immigrant’s ability to apply for naturalization. Understanding the development of military naturalization policy and its relationship to military welfare requires tracing how the process unfolded to reveal the extent\, if at all\, decision makers and veterans view political incorporation as part of the repertoire of protected benefits. \n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-talk-alfredo-gonzalez-an-american-promise-20th-century-us-military-naturalization/
LOCATION:Vista Del Monte\, 3775 Modoc Rd\, Santa Barbara\, 3775 Modoc Rd.\, Santa Barbara
CATEGORIES:History Associates,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251103T120000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Rodriguez: The Great North American Constitutional Revolution
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/sarah-rodriguez-the-great-north-american-constitutional-revolution/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T130000
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SUMMARY:History of Science Colloquium: Matthew Restall\, Discovering Columbus (and his Many Lives)
DESCRIPTION:The next meeting of the History of Science Colloquium will take place on Tuesday November 4 at 1 pm. Matthew Restall will be presenting a talk entitled “Discovering Columbus (and his Many Lives)\,” which is based on his recent book. Matthew Restall is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Anthropology and the Director of Latin American Studies at Penn State University. His research has won numerous awards and focuses on European and indigenous encounters in the Americas.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-of-science-colloquium-matthew-restall-discovering-columbus-and-his-many-lives/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251107T120000
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SUMMARY:History and Political Economy Colloquium: Elisabeth (Sissi) Luif\, The Restructuring of Labor Arbitration and AustroFascism
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to welcome Elisabeth (Sissi) Luif from the Central European University\, Vienna who will discuss a chapter from her dissertation\, titled The Restructuring of Labor Arbitration and AustroFascism: A Social History of Institutional Change\, 1933-38. Luif is a scholar of comparative fascism\, corporatism\, the Catholic Church\, and labor and working class history and is currently a visiting scholar in the Department of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara. 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-and-political-economy-colloquium-elisabeth-sissi-luif-the-restructuring-of-labor-arbitration-and-austrofascism/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251107T153000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Bond: Law and Order: Legal Limits on Freedom of Assembly and Protest in Ancient Rome
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Bond (University of Iowa) will give a lecture titled “Law and Order: Legal Limits on Freedom of Assembly and Protest in Ancient Rome.” Please note that the lecture will take place in HSSB 6020 (i.e.\, the McCune Conference Room).
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/sarah-bond-law-and-order-legal-limits-on-freedom-of-assembly-and-protest-in-ancient-rome/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251114T135000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T220850Z
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SUMMARY:Gender & Sexualities Colloquium: "To Be Worthy of the Name of My Father: Métis\, Paternity and Belonging in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Colonial and Postcolonial French Africa and France"
DESCRIPTION:November 14\, 2025\n12:00-1:50 pm HSSB 4020\nProfessor Rachel Jean-Baptiste (History\, Stanford) will present her article\, “To Be Worthy of the Name of My Father: Métis\, Paternity and Belonging in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Colonial and Postcolonial French Africa and France\,” Gender & History 37\, no. 2 (2025): 462-476.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/gender-sexualities-colloquium-to-be-worthy-of-the-name-of-my-father-metis-paternity-and-belonging-in-twentieth-and-twenty-first-century-colonial-and-postcolonial-french-africa-and-france/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251121T120000
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SUMMARY:Political Economy Colloquium: Tiraana Bains: How to Rule a Global Empire
DESCRIPTION:Professor Tiraana Bains is delivering a talk entitled “How to Rule a Global Empire\, 1784-1793” on Nov. 21\, 2025. Please join us!  
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/political-economy-colloquium-tiraana-bains-how-to-rule-a-global-empire/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251205T160000
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SUMMARY:Gender & Sexualities Colloquium: Graduate Student Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Day-long Graduate Student Workshop that provides a venue for students in history and other disciplines to share and receive formative feedback on their works in progress.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/gender-sexualities-colloquium-graduate-student-workshop/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260116T150000
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SUMMARY:John C. Marquez: Laboring for Freedom: Statuliberas in 18th Century Rio de Janeiro
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to welcome John C. Marquez from UC Riverside who will discuss a chapter titled Laboring for Freedom: Statuliberas in 18th Century Rio de Janeiro from his forthcoming book Freedom on Three Coasts on slavery\, law\, and belonging in Brazil and the Portuguese Empire in the Atlantic Ocean. Marquez is a scholar of the Luso-Atlantic world and colonial Latin America\, with a focus on Portuguese empire\, Black brotherhoods\, women’s histories\, and claims-making by enslaved peoples and their descendants between Angola\, Portugal\, and Brazil.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/john-c-marquez-laboring-for-freedom-statuliberas-in-18th-century-rio-de-janeiro/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T150000
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SUMMARY:CLAIR presents "What’s Next for Venezuela?" January 22 | 2 PM | Online Webinar
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, January 22nd\, at 2 pm CLAIR (The Center of Latin American and Iberian Research)  is hosting a virtual discussion on the current crisis in Venezuela and the aftermath of the U.S. military intervention. David Smilde and Leonardo Vivas will examine the challenges related to governance\, democracy\, global and U.S. politics\, and potential future scenarios. For more information\, see the flyer enclosed or the CLAIR website. \nClick here to register for the Webinar. \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/clair-presents-whats-next-for-venezuela-january-22-2-pm-online-webinar/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:and Politics,Community Event,People and Politics,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260123T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260123T140000
DTSTAMP:20260417T191632
CREATED:20260120T192612Z
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SUMMARY:Winter 2026 | Public History Colloquium | Policing the Past
DESCRIPTION:Public History Colloquium is hosting its first meeting of the quarter this Friday\, January 23rd from 12-1:50\, HSSB 4020. \nThe theme of the quarter is Controversies and Contested Pasts. This week the colloquia will focus on “Policing the Past” and will be discussing the following works: \nØ  Gabriela Cristea and Simina Radu-Bucurenci\, “Raising the Cross: Exorcising Romania’s Communist Past in Museums\, Memorials\, and Monuments\,” in Peter Apor and Oksana Sarkisova\, eds.\, Past for the Eyes: East European Representations of Communism in Cinema and Museums after 1989 (2008).  \nØ  Nikolai Vukov\, “The ‘Unmemorable’ and the ‘Unforgettable’: ‘Museumizing the Socialist Past in Post-1989 Bulgaria\,” in Past for the Eyes. \nØ Karen Cox\, No Common Ground\, chapter 2.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/winter-2026-public-history-colloquium-policing-the-past/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260126T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260126T103000
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SUMMARY:CMES Grad Fellows Panel III    |    Statecraft\, Memory\, Belonging: From Abkhazia to Palestine
DESCRIPTION:On Monday January 26 at 9 am  CMES Spotlight Series is hosting its third iteration of the 2025-2026 academic year. \nThis will feature a graduate student panel on the topic “Statecraft\, Memory\, Belonging: From Abkhazia to Palestine” and features the work of Graduate Fellows Gehad Abaza (Anthropology)\, Farah Hammouda (Sociology)\, and Amin Mahini (History).  Professor Mona Damluji (Film and Media) will be the discussant. \nTo register please visit this link.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/cmes-grad-fellows-panel-iii-statecraft-memory-belonging-from-abkhazia-to-palestine/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Student Presentations,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260127T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260127T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T191632
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture 2026 : "Reading Galileo's Letters:  Experiments in Friendship\, Knowledge\, and Community" by Paula Findlen
DESCRIPTION:Paula Findlen\, Ubalto Pierotti Professor in History and Italian Studies at Stanford University will be delivering The Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture of 2026. Her talk will be on Tuesday\, January 27 at 4:30 pm in the McCune Room\, HSSB 6020. Her talk is titled:\n“Reading Galileo’s Letters:  Experiments in Friendship\, Knowledge\, and Community”\n \nAbstract:\nGalileo’s letters are an essential archive for understanding his life and work\, but what exactly was their role in the evolution and presentation of his science?  This talk explores the instrumental role of Galileo’s letters in the production and communication of scientific knowledge and the evolution of the scientific community with which he engaged.  It also explores the role of letters in the controversies surrounding his science and discusses why we should see Galileo’s letters as one of his important experiments.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lawrence-badash-memorial-lecture-2026-reading-galileos-letters-experiments-in-friendship-knowledge-and-community-by-paula-findlen/
LOCATION:HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,All Events,Colloquium Event,The Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T170000
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SUMMARY:History Associates Book Club: "Lies my Teacher Told Me"
DESCRIPTION:The History Associates and the History Department are launching a new special program “A Book in Common.” The first session is taking place on Thursday 1/29 at the Mosher Alumni House. This is a Book Club for history faculty\, staff\, students\, History Associates\, and history-minded community members. We’ll discuss Lies My Teacher Told Me (graphic novel\, PDF will be available closer to the time). Food will be served. \nFree book: Lies My Teacher Told me (download here)\nFree dinner: please register ahead of time.\nA roomy venue with space for everyone \nImportant food for thought: why history matters\, with everything going on right now.\n \n \nVersion 1.0.0\n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-book-club-lies-my-teacher-told-me/
LOCATION:Mosher Alumni House\, Alumni Association / UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, 93106
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,History Associates
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260202T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260202T173000
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SUMMARY:Ambition on the Road: Getting Ahead in Arabic Travel Writing
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, Feb 2\, 2026 | 04:00 PM\n\nLocation\n\nHSSB 4080 \n\n\n\nA Syrian merchant known as the ʿAṭṭār set out on a new road in 1765. When he began to write about his journey\, he did so with specific aim and purpose: success\, prestige\, and merit. A few years earlier\, in 1758\, a Maronite Christian by the name of Shukrallāh had put together a literary compendium. The inclusion of a travel-based topography arguably sought to promote an embattled community’s position vis-a-vis the sacred landscapes of the homeland. In both cases\, as in many others\, making literature was an aspirational act with tangible goals. The talk by Björn Bentlage will investigate the ambitious side of culture with a focus on Arabic narrations of travel and movement from the early modern period onwards. \nBjörn Bentlage is a lecturer and researcher of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the universities of Bern (Switzerland) and Munich (Germany). His interests range from contemporary legal debates over the connected history of the modern Middle East to literature and media since the Ottoman period. \n\n \n\n  \nFeb. 2 CMES Flyer
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ambition-on-the-road-getting-ahead-in-arabic-travel-writing/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Colloquium on Genders and Sexualities with Solange Ashby
DESCRIPTION:“Ashayet Queen of Egypt” \nEveryone is welcome! 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/colloquium-on-genders-and-sexualities-with-solange-ashby/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Colloquium on Genders and Sexualities with Michele Salzman
DESCRIPTION:“Women and Wealth in the Letters & Papers of Symmachus” \nEveryone is welcome! 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/colloquium-on-genders-and-sexualities-with-michele-salzman/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260222T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260222T160000
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SUMMARY:History Associates Talk by Professor Anthony Barbieri on "Beyond the Mountains and Seas: Eurasian History through Travelers’ Eyes (400 BCE-1936 CE)"
DESCRIPTION:The History associates brings to you a talk by Professor Anthony Barbieri off the department of history on his latest book. The talk narrates the integrated history of Eurasia over the last two millennia through the travel of two dozen remarkable men and women who voyaged across this vast continent and reported on their encounters with a foreign culture.  It argues that\, despite increasing empirical knowledge gathered about   the “other\,” mental projections of the “monsters at the edge of the world\,” still colored peoples’ perception of the foreign “other” well into the modern era. \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-talk-by-professor-anthony-barbieri-on-beyond-the-mountains-and-seas-eurasian-history-through-travelers-eyes-400-bce-1936-ce/
LOCATION:Night Lizard Brewing Company\, 607 State Street\, Santa Barbara
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,History Associates,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260409T170000
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SUMMARY:Labor and Capitalism in Modern Egypt: Wages in a Sugar Factory\, 1847-1904
DESCRIPTION:This paper contributes to the global history of capitalism in rural contexts\, examining the impact of agro-industrial mechanization on wages in African rural communities through a case study of a sugar factory in 19th-century Egypt. Utilizing approximately fifty wage registers from the Rawda factory in Middle Egypt\, dating from 1849 to 1903 and now preserved in the Egyptian National Archives\, the study offers a detailed analysis of wage trends over this fifty-year period. By focusing on the monthly wages of various labor categories—ranging from European and local engineers to factory supervisors and\, notably\, accountants involved in sugar production—this research traces shifts in the value of skilled labor. Preliminary findings suggest a decline in the relative value of skill over time\, with technological innovation or labor shortages serving as key factors in any subsequent increases in skill valuation. \n  \nAdam Mestyan is a historian of the modern Middle East and the Ford Foundation Professor of Middle Eastern Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His research and teaching focus on how globalization and war have shaped Arab societies and cultures—especially Egypt\, Syria\, and the Red Sea region—from the late Ottoman Empire to today. He is the author of Modern Arab Kingship – Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East (Princeton\, 2023); Primordial History\, Print Capitalism\, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo (Ifao\, 2021); and Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt (Princeton\, 2017). Currently he is writing a history of economic life in Egypt through the story of its sugar industry. \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/labor-and-capitalism-in-modern-egypt-wages-in-a-sugar-factory-1847-1904/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events
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SUMMARY:UCSB History Associates presents A Banned Book in Common (Apr 9\, 14\, 19\, 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Next two books in the series of A Banned Book in Common are \nA Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943)\, by Betty Smith\, and\nThe Hate U Give (2017)\, by Angie Thomas \nA unique event organized by UCSB’s History Associates\, we discuss books that have been targets of book banners. \nClick here to RSVP and to see the flyer
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ucsb-history-associates-presents-a-banned-book-in-common-apr-9-14-19-2026/2026-04-09/
LOCATION:Santa Barbara Public Library\, Faulkner Gallery\, 40 E. Anapamu Street\, Santa Barbara.\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Associates
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260412T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260412T160000
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SUMMARY:History Associates presents Profs at the Pub  |   The Rickshaw’s Journey Through 20th Century Japan   |  Talk by Prof Kate McDonald
DESCRIPTION:The History Associates in partnership with the UCSB Affiliates are excited to present April’s Profs at the Pub! History Professor Kate McDonald shares her favorite rickshaw stories from twentieth-century Japan. Invented in 1869\, the rickshaw quickly came to define Japan’s urban modernity. Though it declined in popularity in the 1930s and 1940s\, the rickshaw was quickly reinvented as a popular – and flexible – cultural symbol.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-talk-the-rickshaws-journey-through-20th-century-japan-kate-mcdonald/
LOCATION:Draughtsmen Aleworks\, 53 Santa Felicia Drive\, Goleta\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Associates
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260414T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260414T190000
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SUMMARY:UCSB History Associates presents A Banned Book in Common (Apr 9\, 14\, 19\, 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Next two books in the series of A Banned Book in Common are \nA Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943)\, by Betty Smith\, and\nThe Hate U Give (2017)\, by Angie Thomas \nA unique event organized by UCSB’s History Associates\, we discuss books that have been targets of book banners. \nClick here to RSVP and to see the flyer
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ucsb-history-associates-presents-a-banned-book-in-common-apr-9-14-19-2026/2026-04-14/
LOCATION:Santa Barbara Public Library\, Faulkner Gallery\, 40 E. Anapamu Street\, Santa Barbara.\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Associates
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SUMMARY:UCSB History Associates presents A Banned Book in Common (Apr 9\, 14\, 19\, 2026)
DESCRIPTION:Next two books in the series of A Banned Book in Common are \nA Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943)\, by Betty Smith\, and\nThe Hate U Give (2017)\, by Angie Thomas \nA unique event organized by UCSB’s History Associates\, we discuss books that have been targets of book banners. \nClick here to RSVP and to see the flyer
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ucsb-history-associates-presents-a-banned-book-in-common-apr-9-14-19-2026/2026-04-19/
LOCATION:Santa Barbara Public Library\, Faulkner Gallery\, 40 E. Anapamu Street\, Santa Barbara.\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Associates
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260420T160000
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SUMMARY:Talk by Mateo Jarquin\, "Managaua 1979\," Monday\, April 20\, 4 pm\, HSSB 4041
DESCRIPTION:Professor Mateo Jarquin of Chapman University will be giving a talk titled “Managua 1979: International and Transnational Origins of the Cold War’s Last Great Revolution.”  \n \n\nAfter the Cuban Revolution\, armed movements across Latin America embraced violent struggle as a path to social transformation. Yet only one managed to seize power: Nicaragua’s Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN). Their unlikely victory in July 1979 gripped the world’s attention and ignited a major hotspot in the late Cold War. \nHow did it happen? Drawing from his book The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History\, Mateo Jarquín recounts the fall of the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza. The story unfolds not only inside Nicaragua and in Washington but across Latin America\, where the rebel FSLN was embedded in a regional web of state and non‑state actors conspiring to isolate Somoza\, challenge U.S. influence\, and ultimately bring about the last major left‑wing revolution of the 20th century. \nMateo Jarquín is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Master’s Program in War\, Diplomacy\, and Society at Chapman University. His research explores the intersection of democracy\, revolutions\, and international relations in modern Latin America. He is the author of The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History (University of North Carolina Press\, 2024)\, which received the 2025 Michael H. Hunt Prize in International History from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Articles from this research agenda have appeared in journals such as Cold War History and The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History. Alongside his historical work\, he writes regularly about contemporary Central American politics. Originally from Nicaragua\, Jarquín holds a PhD from Harvard University and a BA from Grinnell College. \n\nThe event is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History and the UCSB Department of History. It is free and open to the public. \n  \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/talk-by-mateo-jarquin-managaua-1979-monday-april-20-4-pm-hssb-4041/
LOCATION:HSSB 4041\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Colloquium Event,Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Van Gelderen Lecture by Alexandra Noi   |   “The Other Side of Eugenics: Socialist Experiments with Nurture over Nature”
DESCRIPTION:Our Graduate Student\, Alexandra Noi will present this year’s Van Gelderen Lecture. \nHer talk is titled : “The Other Side of Eugenics: Socialist Experiments with Nurture over Nature” \nOn Wednesday\, May 6\, 2026 at 5:00pm. \nIn the McCune Room\, HSSB 6020.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/van-gelderen-lecture-by-alexandra-noi-the-other-side-of-eugenics-socialist-experiments-with-nurture-over-nature/
LOCATION:HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture,Student Presentations
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