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Week of Events
Graduate Recruitment Day—Schedule of Events
8:30 am – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast (HSSB 4020) 9:00 am – 10:15 am Campus Walking Tour (led by grad students) 10:15 am – 10:30 am Welcome (HSSB 4020) Professor Erika Rappaport, Department Chair; Professor Salim Yaqub, Director of Graduate Studies 10:30 am – 11:30 am Program Overview (HSSB 4020) Professors Paul Spickard, Randy Bergstrom, […]
February 25, 2019
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Book Talk: Brendan W. Rensink, Brigham Young University “Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands”
Book Talk: Brendan W. Rensink, Brigham Young University “Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands”
In Native but Foreign, historian Brenden W. Rensink presents an innovative comparison of indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining Crees and Chippewas, who crossed the border from Canada into Montana, and Yaquis from Mexico who migrated into Arizona. The resulting history questions how opposing national borders affect and […]
February 27, 2019
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Book Talk by Kiran Klaus Patel, University of Maastricht: “The New Deal: A Global History”
Book Talk by Kiran Klaus Patel, University of Maastricht: “The New Deal: A Global History”
Prof. Kiran Klaus Patel (Univ. of Maastricht) will speak about his new book The New Deal: A Global History (Princeton University Press, 2016), which won the World History Association's Bentley Book Prize in 2017. Professor Patel compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by other countries around […]
February 28, 2019
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Talk by Dr. Alexander Statman: “Global Enlightenment: France, China, and the Idea of Progress”
Talk by Dr. Alexander Statman: “Global Enlightenment: France, China, and the Idea of Progress”
Over the course of the Enlightenment, Europe claimed a monopoly on progress for itself alone. In the eighteenth century, other places had appeared as familiar and comparable. By the early nineteenth century, they were cast as inscrutable and incommensurable. What caused this fundamental transformation in Europe’s understanding of itself? In this talk, I aim to […]
February 28, 2019
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History Club Weekly Meetings
History Club Weekly Meetings
UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions.
March 1, 2019
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Talk by Kashia Arnold, UCSB: “Integrating the Pacific: Commodities in Motion and the Pacific World.”
Talk by Kashia Arnold, UCSB: “Integrating the Pacific: Commodities in Motion and the Pacific World.”
Arnold's dissertation research examines the transformations of the regional economy of the Pacific basin caused by World War I and the booming American commodity demand that accompanied it.