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.
Dr. Rob Boddice, Senior Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland, is going to deliver a talk titled “Consensus without Collaboration? The Future of Emotion Research from the Perspective of History,” Wednesday January 11, 2023 at 4-5:30PM (PST). The Zoom attendance link is https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/3239408139. Everyone is welcome! The talk is going to address the discipline of history’s positionality in the […]
The History Department will host SHARON FARMER, Professor Emerita (UCSB), who will present a talk, entitled “Fowl Play: France and beyond, 1979…” When: 12:00 PM, Thursday, January 12th. Where: HSSB 4020. The chapter from which Farmer will be reading deals with the time she spent in France in 1979-80, when she first began the research for her […]
Mika Thornburg will share her in-progress dissertation chapter: "Selling Self-Discovery: Constructing a Desire for Female Travel in Postwar Japan, 1960-1985." Please read the paper in advance and be prepared to share your observations and insights with the group.
Seventeenth century Isfahan witnessed a craze in the composition of a new kind of book, the majmuʿa, or anthology. Curated and written in the domestic sphere of the household, anthologies archive city-writings once in circulation; they illustrate the practices of urban knowledge and their valorization by communities who took possession of them. The imaginations that […]
In recent scholarship, family archives in the form of a manuscript have been posited as sites for more broadly rethinking archives in the pre-modern Islamicate world.In the context of Isfahan, household anthologies provide a particularly rich ground for theorizing and reassessing pre-modern archival mechanisms and spaces. The anthology referred to in Persian as the majmuʿa […]
Please join us for our second Gender + Sexualities Paper Workshop of the Winter Quarter on Thursday, 16 February, at 2 PM. We will meet in HSSB 4041 to discuss Kristen Thomas-McGill's paper, “Reputation and Habitual Misbehavior on a 'Spicy Little Isle Where Ladies were Few.'” You can find a copy of Kristen’s paper here. […]
The Self-Defense Force— Japan’s post-World War II military—and specifically the Ground Self Defense Force (GSDF), struggled for legitimacy in a society at best indifferent to them and often hostile to their very existence. This talk focuses on the GSDF and its efforts, in the form of natural disaster relief operations, civil engineering projects, and support […]
The Gender + Sexualities Cluster is pleased to welcome Professor Marc Stein to campus. Marc is a historian of U.S. law, politics, and society, with research and teaching interests in constitutional law, social movements, gender, race and sexuality. His books and articles have focused on twentieth-century urban gay and lesbian history; U.S. Supreme Court decisions on […]
The Gender + Sexualities Cluster is pleased to welcome Professor Marc Stein to campus. Marc is a historian of U.S. law, politics, and society, with research and teaching interests in constitutional law, social movements, gender, race and sexuality. His books and articles have focused on twentieth-century urban gay and lesbian history; U.S. Supreme Court decisions on […]