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

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

2022 Van Gelderen Lecture | Nicole de Silva: Consumer Diplomats U.S. Women Work for Peace Through the Pocketbook, 1919-1939

University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

This talk sponsored by History Associates. follows U.S. women and their allies around the globe who worked to organize household consumers into movements that they believed could improve chances for international peace and security. These “consumer diplomats” used their buying practices to portray themselves as world citizens capable of both influencing and upholding a conception […]