Latest Past Events

History Associates presents Profs at the Pub | The Rickshaw’s Journey Through 20th Century Japan | Talk by Prof Kate McDonald

Draughtsmen Aleworks 53 Santa Felicia Drive, Goleta

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 […]

Talk: Erin Trumble, “Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan”

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

Speaker: Graduate Student Erin Trumble   Title: "Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan"   Description: The talk will focus on retirement as a life stage and examine how it represented a time when women had both more freedom after being liberated from daily tasks and more authority due to their […]

Gender + Sexualities Paper Workshop | Mika Thornburg | “Selling Self-Discovery: Constructing a Desire for Female Travel in Postwar Japan, 1960-1985”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

Mika Thornburg will share her in-progress dissertation chapter: "Selling Self-Discovery: Constructing a Desire for Female Travel in Postwar Japan, 1960-1985." Please read the paper in advance and be prepared to share your observations and insights with the group.