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Cold War Working Group Workshop | Nick Cohen “Forging an International Backstop: Commercial Banking, Foreign Policy, and the Empowerment of the IMF, 1973-1981” | Mar 4, 11 AM

West Campus Point Faculty Housing Community's outdoor plaza University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

When: Saturday, March 4, 11 AM to 12:30 PM Where: West Campus Point Faculty Housing Community's Outdoor Plaza The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) and the Cold War Working Group (CWWG) will host an in-person workshop at the West Campus Point faculty housing community's outdoor plaza. We will be reading and […]

Talk by Joshua Conrad Jackson: The History of Our Minds: Evidence for Co-Evolution of Cultural and Psychological Processes

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Dr. Joshua Conrad Jackson, a DRRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Northwestern University and an incoming professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago, is going to deliver a talk titled "The History of Our Minds: Evidence for Co-Evolution of Cultural and Psychological Processes," on Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 4-5:30PM (PST). Please click this link […]

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2023 Desert Russian History Workshop

HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The Desert Russian History Workshop meets annually and brings together historians of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union from universities throughout the western United States.  Previous venues have included the University of Nevada at Reno, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Arizona State University, and U.C. Riverside. The Desert Workshop offers a unique […]

Flyer for "The Potent Politics of Weak Brews: How 3.2% Beer Helped End Prohibition" by Lisa Jacobson on April 6 at 5:30PM
Event Series History Associates Events

History Associates Talk | Lisa Jacobson “The Potent Politics of Weak Brews: How 3.2% Beer Helped End Prohibition” | Apr 6, 5:30 PM | Draughtsmen Aleworks

Draughstmen Aleworks University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

  To commemorate the 90th anniversary of beer’s re-legalization in the United States, Lisa Jacobson will explain how a coalition of brewers, scientists, and labor leaders persuaded Congress that a beer capable of producing a mild euphoria could be legalized without violating the 18th Amendment’s ban on intoxicating beverages. Insisting that alcohol potency alone did […]

Flyer for "History and Political Economy Colloquium" on April 7 from 12-1:50PM in HSSB 4080
Event Series Colloquium on History and Political Economy

History and Political Economy Colloquium with Dr. Utathya Chattopadhyaya | “Intoxication and Political Economy”

HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

We are excited to announce the fourth session of the History Department’s colloquium on history and political economy. The colloquium offers a forum for open, substantive discussions on how to approach political economy from a historical perspective; how to grapple with and benefit from the epistemological diversity surrounding political economy; and how a historical take […]

Flyer for "The 2022-23 Focal Point: Dialogues in History, Conversations on Black life, race, and antiblackness in history." on April 12 from 1-3PM in the McCune Conference Center
Event Series Focal Point Dialogues in History

Focal Point Dialogues in History: Conversations on Black life, race, and antiblackness in history with Prof. Nyasha Mboti and Prof. Steve Zipperstein

HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The History Department's Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend this year’s FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series. Inspired by the History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary history within it, the series brings together History faculty and graduate students […]

Flyer for "The Deccani Trails of the St Andrews Qur’an Manuscript" by Keelan Overton on April 12 from 4-5:30PM in HSSB 3001E

The Deccani Trails of the St Andrews Qur’an Manuscript – Lecture by Dr. Keelan Overton

HSSB 3001E 3001E Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Shortly after its production in Safavid Tabriz or Herat, the single-volume Quran manuscript known as the "St Andrews Quran" traveled east to the Deccan region of southern India and circulated between four courtly contexts over the next two hundred years. The evidence for this dynamic life history is found in the codex itself, and this […]

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GIVE DAY 2023

Thursday, April 13th, 2023 is UCSB’s annual Give Day, a 36-hour online fundraising event. Last year, with the help of the community, more people donated to the History Department than any other department in the entire division of Humanities and Fine Arts. We are proud and honored to enjoy that distinction, and hope to repeat […]

Book Launch: ENTREPÔT OF REVOLUTIONS by Manuel Covo

Book Launch: ENTREPÔT OF REVOLUTIONS by Manuel Covo

HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

We are delighted to announce the launch of Manuel Covo's recently published, prize-winning monograph, Entrepôt of Revolutions: Saint-Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance, which will take place on Friday, April 14th, from 5-7 pm in HSSB 4080. 

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