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IHC Regeneration Talk by Scott Ellsworth: The Tulsa Race Massacre: Causes, Cover Up, and the Fight for the Past

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

The 1921 Tulsa race massacre was the worst single incident of racial violence in American history. But for decades its very existence was denied. Official records went missing, incriminating articles were torn out of bound volumes of old newspapers, and researchers even had their lives threatened. Award-winning author and historian Scott Ellsworth, author of The […]

Honors Thesis Colloqium for the History Department

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The very best majors in the history department share the research that they have undertaken on their senior theses. When : May 13th, 8:45 AM - 5:00 PM Venue : HSSB 4020 and Zoom Click here to join the zoom meeting. Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium Schedule May 13, 2022 HSSB 4020 or via zoom at […]

Conference May 20-21: “Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: Past, Present, and Future”

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

The Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy hosts a conference, May 20 and 21, 2022 entitled: "Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: Past, Present, and Future." It will be held in the McCune Room, HSSB 6020. Many former students and contemporary colleagues of Nelson Lichtenstein will deliver papers on a wide variety of topics […]

Free

Spring 2022 Launch Party

HSSB 4020

Join the UCSB Undergraduate Journal of History and the History Club at UCSB to celebrate the launch of the Spring 2022 Volume.    There are rumors of pizza.   We will meet in HSSB 4020, starting at 6:30.   There will be treats.   Hear from undergrad editors and authors who will answer your questions […]

Event Series Focal Point Dialogues in History

Focal Point Dialogues | Keynote Address “Impossible Histories” | Ada Ferrer

HSSB 1174 1174 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the final events of this year’s Focal Point Dialogues in History Colloquium: A  Keynote Lecture by Pulitzer Prize winning author Ada Ferrer, “Impossible Histories: Understanding Failure and Absence in Atlantic Havana, 1812”. Friday May, 27th, 1-3 pm, in HSSB 1174  (free and open to the public, no registration […]

Event Series Focal Point Dialogues in History

Focal Point Dialogues | A Conversation with Ada Ferrer for Students

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

A Conversation with the author for graduate and undergraduate students will follow  the keynote lecture reception, on Friday May 27th, in HSSB 4041 from 4-5 pm.  The History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the final events of this year’s Focal Point Dialogues in History Colloquium: A  Keynote Lecture by Pulitzer Prize winning author Ada […]

The Department of History Annual Awards Ceremony

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

The Department of History is hosting their annual Awards Ceremony, this Wednesday, June 1, from 4 - 6pm to celebrate the wonderful achievements of our students!    The event will begin in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), with a reception on the HSSB 2nd Floor Terrace. Light refreshments will be served.    Click here […]

Genders & Sexualities Cluster | Annual Graduate Student Colloquium 2022

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

The full program can be downloaded here in May: GSRC Graduate Student Colloquium 2022 All sessions will take place at the University of California, Santa Barbara campus, located on the traditional and unceded territories of the Chumash people. We offer our respect to Chumash Elders past, present, and future as the custodians of this area’s […]

Eugenic Legacies Across Latin America: Virtual Conference

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

We want to invite you to the upcoming virtual conference - Eugenic Legacies Across Latin America, October 12 & 13, 2022.   The conference invites scholars, activists and artists, to look at what we can do to address the legacies of eugenics across Latin America. We are attaching a flyer, as well as the full programme to the event. […]

Free

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, CA, United States

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 […]