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Focal Point Dialogues | Winter 2022: Sovereignty, statehood, anti-slavery, and the law | Ada Ferrer’s Freedom’s Mirror

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

Focal Point Dialogues was an initiative born in 2020 as a Department commitment to educate ourselves in the history of anti-Blackness. The idea was conceived in the aftermath of  the killing of George Floyd and the national and international uprising it triggered. This education starts by understanding when did "blackness" become a thing, to begin with, […]

History Associates Talk: Giulianna Perrone | Back into the Days of Slavery: Abolition and the Free Black Family

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

SUNDAY MARCH 6, 2022 at 2:00 PM PST East Side Library 1102 E Montecito Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103 This event will be presented in-person and live-streamed via zoom. Click here to register and receive the zoom link. You do not need to register if attending in-person.

History Associates Talk : Graduate Student, Gokh Amin Al Shaif on Genealogies of Belonging: Lessons from an Oceanic Yemen

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

  When: SUNDAY APRIL 3, 2022, 2:00 PM PST Where : In person and on Zoom Address: East Side Library 1102 E Montecito Street Santa Barbara, CA 93103 Register to receive the zoom link: https://bit.ly/HAtalkapril3 You can find more details here: History Associates April 3 Event Flier_final    

Spring Open House for Prospective Students

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

  This year's Open House event (formerly known as Spring Insight) is scheduled for Saturday, April 9, 2022, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm PST. The Open House is coordinated by the Office of Admissions and traditionally has been the most important opportunity to introduce prospective students and their families to UCSB. In the past, most, […]

Focal Point Dialogues | Spring 2022: A revolution in Black consciousness”? World historical impact of the Haitian Revolution | Ada Ferrer’s Freedom’s Mirror

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

Focal Point Dialogues was an initiative born in 2020 as a Department commitment to educate ourselves in the history of anti-Blackness. The idea was conceived in the aftermath of  the killing of George Floyd and the national and international uprising it triggered. This education starts by understanding when did "blackness" become a thing, to begin with, […]

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, CA, United States

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 […]