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IHC Regeneration Talk by Scott Ellsworth: The Tulsa Race Massacre: Causes, Cover Up, and the Fight for the Past

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

The 1921 Tulsa race massacre was the worst single incident of racial violence in American history. But for decades its very existence was denied. Official records went missing, incriminating articles were torn out of bound volumes of old newspapers, and researchers even had their lives threatened. Award-winning author and historian Scott Ellsworth, author of The […]

Honors Thesis Colloqium for the History Department

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The very best majors in the history department share the research that they have undertaken on their senior theses. When : May 13th, 8:45 AM - 5:00 PM Venue : HSSB 4020 and Zoom Click here to join the zoom meeting. Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium Schedule May 13, 2022 HSSB 4020 or via zoom at […]

Conference May 20-21: “Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: Past, Present, and Future”

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

The Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy hosts a conference, May 20 and 21, 2022 entitled: "Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: Past, Present, and Future." It will be held in the McCune Room, HSSB 6020. Many former students and contemporary colleagues of Nelson Lichtenstein will deliver papers on a wide variety of topics […]

Free

Spring 2022 Launch Party

HSSB 4020

Join the UCSB Undergraduate Journal of History and the History Club at UCSB to celebrate the launch of the Spring 2022 Volume.    There are rumors of pizza.   We will meet in HSSB 4020, starting at 6:30.   There will be treats.   Hear from undergrad editors and authors who will answer your questions […]

The Department of History Annual Awards Ceremony

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

The Department of History is hosting their annual Awards Ceremony, this Wednesday, June 1, from 4 - 6pm to celebrate the wonderful achievements of our students!    The event will begin in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), with a reception on the HSSB 2nd Floor Terrace. Light refreshments will be served.    Click here […]

Eugenic Legacies Across Latin America: Virtual Conference

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

We want to invite you to the upcoming virtual conference - Eugenic Legacies Across Latin America, October 12 & 13, 2022.   The conference invites scholars, activists and artists, to look at what we can do to address the legacies of eugenics across Latin America. We are attaching a flyer, as well as the full programme to the event. […]

Free

History Associates: “Prioritizing the Preservation of Black Legacies in Santa Barbara”

East Side Library, Montecito Street East Side Library, 1102 E Montecito Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

This presentation will walk through Santa Barbara’s recently completed African American Historic Context Statement on how the built history of a community plays a role in helping uplift African-American and Black people today. This is a unique collaboration of social justice leaders and historic preservation specialists in Santa Barbara who worked to compile Santa Barbara’s […]

History Associates Talk | States of Dis/armament | Mhoze Chikowero

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

States of Dis/armament: Reading Statemaking in Africa’s Recent History When: WEDNESDAY, NOV 9, 2022 at 4:00 PM Where: Miller McCune Conference Room, HSSB, UC Santa Barbara Free and open to the public. Please RSVP to historyassociates@ia.ucsb.edu History Associates Members can request a complimentary parking permit for this event! What is a state? What is statemaking? What […]

Talk by Rob Boddice: Consensus without Collaboration? The Future of Emotion Research from the Perspective of History

Dr. Rob Boddice, Senior Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland, is going to deliver a talk titled “Consensus without Collaboration? The Future of Emotion Research from the Perspective of History,” Wednesday January 11, 2023 at 4-5:30PM (PST). The Zoom attendance link is https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/3239408139. Everyone is welcome!  The talk is going to address the discipline of history’s positionality in the […]

Talk by Professor Emerita, Sharon Farmer | Fowl Play: France and beyond, 1979…

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The History Department will host  SHARON FARMER, Professor Emerita (UCSB),  who will present a talk, entitled “Fowl Play: France and beyond, 1979…”  When: 12:00 PM, Thursday, January 12th. Where: HSSB 4020.  The chapter from which Farmer will be reading deals with the time she spent in France in 1979-80, when she first began the research for her […]