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Name: Ambition on the Road: Getting Ahead in Arabic Travel Writing
Start: 2026-02-02T16:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-02-02T17:30:00-08:00
Location: HSSB 4080

November 2016
November 2, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Professor Timon Screech (SOAS) speaks on “God, Art, and Money in the First English Voyages to Japan, 1611-1623”

SSMS 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join the RFG Reinventing Japan in welcoming Professor Timon Screech (SOAS, University College London) to campus on November 2, 2016. Professor Screech will be presenting his new work on "The Shogun's Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the First English Voyages to Japan, 1611-1623." The talk will be held in SSMS 2135 at […]
October 2019
October 31, 2019 @ 12:00 pm

Brad Bouley, “To Catch a Witch: Gender, Politics, and Persecution in the European Past”

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

As a special Halloween event, Professor Brad Bouley will present "To Catch a Witch: Gender, Politics, and Persecution in the European Past." Join us at noon on October 31 in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) for knowledge, pizza, and drinks. Undergraduates are especially welcome.
February 2021
February 19, 2021 @ 1:00 pm Focal Point Dialogues in History

FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar I: Sovereignty and the Political

Zoom CA

The History Department's Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the inaugural session of our 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 UCSB History faculty […]
March 2021
March 12, 2021 @ 1:00 pm Focal Point Dialogues in History

FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar II: Empire and Liberation

Zoom CA

Building on the collective knowledge shared in our first webinar, the History Department's Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the second session of our 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 […]
April 2021
April 16, 2021 @ 1:00 pm Focal Point Dialogues in History

FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar III: Racial Capitalism and Liberalism

Zoom CA

Building on the collective knowledge shared in the two previous webinars, the History Department's Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the third and final session of our 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 […]
May 2021
May 21, 2021 @ 1:00 pm Focal Point Dialogues in History

FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Keynote Lecture with Prof. Herman Bennett: “Body, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic”

Zoom CA

The History Department's Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the keynote lecture of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series. The lecture, “Body, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic,” will be delivered by Prof. Herman L. Bennett. Herman L. Bennett is Professor at the Graduate Center at the City University […]
May 28, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

A Conversation on Early Modern Print Culture: Hilary Bernstein and Patricia Fumerton Present Their New Books

Zoom CA

Hilary Bernstein and Patricia Fumerton will each provide short introductions to their new books, followed by a conversation between the authors and then with the audience. Hilary Bernstein, Associate Professor of History, specializes in early modern France, with a particular focus on the history, culture, and politics of provincial towns in the sixteenth and seventeenth […]
February 2026
February 2 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Ambition on the Road: Getting Ahead in Arabic Travel Writing

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

Monday, Feb 2, 2026 | 04:00 PM Location HSSB 4080 A 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 […]

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November 2016

Professor Timon Screech (SOAS) speaks on “God, Art, and Money in the First English Voyages to Japan, 1611-1623”

October 2019

Brad Bouley, “To Catch a Witch: Gender, Politics, and Persecution in the European Past”

February 2021

FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar I: Sovereignty and the Political

March 2021

FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar II: Empire and Liberation

April 2021

FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar III: Racial Capitalism and Liberalism

May 2021

FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Keynote Lecture with Prof. Herman Bennett: “Body, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic”

A Conversation on Early Modern Print Culture: Hilary Bernstein and Patricia Fumerton Present Their New Books

February 2026

Ambition on the Road: Getting Ahead in Arabic Travel Writing

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