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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
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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/
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260222T140000
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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