Week of Events
Senior Honors Research Colloquium
Senior Honors Research Colloquium
Please join us for the annual Senior Honors Research Colloquium hosted by the Department of History. Twelve senior honors students will present their research, followed by comments from faculty respondents. Refreshments will be served, beginning at 8:45 a.m.
Leilah Danielson, History, Northern Arizona University, “Workers’ Education in the 1930s and Beyond”
Leilah Danielson, History, Northern Arizona University, “Workers’ Education in the 1930s and Beyond”
Danielson is the author of American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the 20th Century (2014). Visit https://www.history.ucsb.edu/labor/home for more details on her talk.
The Politics of Rights and The 1911 Revolution in China, a talk by Xiaowei Zheng
The Politics of Rights and The 1911 Revolution in China, a talk by Xiaowei Zheng
The Workshop Theoretical Perspectives on War, Political Violence, Nationalism, and the State (His 291) is pleased to present Xiaowei Zheng, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at UCSB, who will speak about her forthcoming book with Stanford University Press, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China. The appointment […]
A Woman’s Drink? Gender & the Global History of the Tea Shop
A Woman’s Drink? Gender & the Global History of the Tea Shop
In this talk, Professor Erika Rappaport of the UCSB History Department explores how tea shops emerged in the 18th century and came to be defined as “women’s spaces” in 19th century and early 20th century Europe and North America -- but as “male spaces” in parts of Africa and South Asia. These institutions helped build […]