Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Vic Geraci, Wine by Design: Santa Barbara’s Quest for Terroir
2020-02-18 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 3208, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Public History program presents a talk by Vic Geraci about his new book, Wine by Design: Santa Barbara’s Quest for Terroir (Nevada, 2020).
A graduate of UCSB’s program in Public Historical Studies, Geraci taught public history at Central Connecticut State University and served as historian of food and wine at the Regional Oral History at the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley. Come learn about the practice of oral history, agricultural and food history, and the history of the wine industry in our county. There will be refreshments.

Gender Studies Paper Workshop: Kristen Thomas-McGill’s "'Even His Lungs Were Affected': Aubrey Beardsley, Earnestness, and the Artistic Politics of Interiority"
2020-02-20 15:30 | HSSB 4065, 4065 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Join the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster for a paper workshop on Kristen Thomas-McGill‘s “‘Even His Lungs Were Affected’: Aubrey Beardsley, Earnestness, and the Artistic Politics of Interiority.” The event will take place in HSSB 4065 on Thursday, February 20 at 3:30. To obtain the paper in advance, email Jarett Henderson at jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu.

History Club Weekly Meetings
2020-02-20 19:00 - 21:00 | HSSB 4020
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.

Grace Peña Delgado, "Mexico's New Slavery: A Critique of Neo-Abolitionism to Combat Human Trafficking"
2020-02-21 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series, Grace Peña Delgado (History, UC Santa Cruz) will present “Mexico’s New Slavery: A Critique of Neo-Abolitionism to Combat Human Trafficking.” Delgado is the author of Making the Chinese American: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (2012) and co-author of Latino Immigrants in the United States (2011). Delgado participates in the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Project on Trafficking, Smuggling, and Illicit Migration in Historical and Gendered Perspective. She is also a collaborator with Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition working group on modern day slavery.
Contact Nelson Lichtenstein for a copy of Professor Delgado’s papger.
Click here to download the flyer for this event.

Jill Lepore, The Case for the Nation
2020-02-21 15:00 - 16:30 | HSSB 3041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Join Harvard historian and New Yorker columnist Jill Lepore for informal conversation about her recent work on democracy and national identity. Open to all, undergraduates especially encouraged to attend.
