Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Bookscapes: Trading Knowledge in British Colonial India
2013-10-15 00:00 (America/Denver) | CA
Professor Swati Chattopadhyay (Department Chair, History of Art & Architecture) and Mira Rai Waits (doctoral candidate) will offer a curators’ talk in conjunction with the exhibition “Conjuring India: British Views of the Subcontinent, 1780-1870,” on view in the UCSB Library’s Special Collections (third floor) through December 15, 2013. “Conjuring India” explores the divergent perspectives of the colonial experience of India through books from the collection of Sara Miller McCune and the UCSB Library.
The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
hm 10/4/13

Films of the Cold War: "Lady Bug, Lady Bug" (1963)
2013-10-16 00:00
The Center for Cold war Studies and International History (CCWS) will kick off the new year by showing the classic 1963 film “Lady Bug, Lady Bug,” about the impact of an urgent nuclear alert on a rural American school. (See description below). After the screening,
Kenneth Hough, a PhD student in history at UCSB, will lead a brief discussion of the film.
The film showing is free and open to the public; delicious refreshments will be served. Please join us for this exciting event!
In this classic 1963 film, a school’s civil defense warning system is activated, signaling the onset of nuclear war. The principal closes the school and instructs the teachers to escort the students to their homes. Amid mounting dread–made all the more haunting by the film’s quiet, rural setting–the children try to comprehend the looming catastrophe, and to make sense of a world that could unleash it.
hm 10/6/13

The Afterlife of Empire: The Origins and Work of the World Bank's Agricultural Development Service in Eastern and Central Africa, 1963-1989
2013-10-18 00:00
Joseph Hodge is Professor of History at West Virginia University, and author of Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism (2007).
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.

Cavafy at the Margins: Geography, History, Desire
2013-10-19 00:00
For more information on this lecture, click here or contact Prof. Helen Morales in the UCSB Department of Classics.
Sponsored by the UCSB Argyropoulos Endowment in Hellenic Studies.
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