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Week of Events
April 12, 2026
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History Associates presents Profs at the Pub | The Rickshaw’s Journey Through 20th Century Japan | Talk by Prof Kate McDonald
History Associates presents Profs at the Pub | The Rickshaw’s Journey Through 20th Century Japan | Talk by Prof Kate McDonald
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 […]