Public lecture by geologist Arthur Sylvester. See PDF below for details and registration information. 2017-Sylvester-flyer-pdf
Sunday, November 19 at 2:00 p.m. at the Goleta Library John Majewski will give a talk called: "Bought and Sold Three Times in One Day: Robert Glenn’s Oral History of Child Trafficking in the Slave South"
Sherene Seikaly will give a talk called: "Nakba in the Age of Catastrophe: Lessons from Palestine" What can the history of Palestine teach us about surviving catastrophe? In this talk, Professor Seikaly draws on one hundred years of history to reflect on land, time, and survival. On Monday, January 22 at 5:30 pm Location: McCune […]
Manuel Covo will give a talk on Atlantic Revolutions, title TBD On Wednesday, February 21 at 5:30 pm at the Goleta Library
Verónica Castillo-Muñoz will give a talk called: "Women and Revolution: War, Violence, and Family Separations Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands." On April 24 at 5:30pm At Alhecama Theater, 215 E. Canon Perdido
Evan Andersson will present this year's Van Gelderen Lecture, "'Protect the One Who Carries You': Amulets and Daily Life in Roman Egypt" On Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 5:00pm In the McCune Room, HSSB 6020
Public Lecture: Juan Cobo Betancourt, "Christianity, Colonialism, & the Muisca peoples of the Northern Andes" Alhecama Theatre, 215 E. Canon Perdido Street, located in El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park Free and open to the public. RSVP to historyassociates@ia.ucsb.edu How does colonialism work without a strong colonial state? How does religious conversion work […]
What does the history of counterfeiting reveal about colonial-imperial relations in British North America? What does it tell us about the nature of money itself? Join Professor Katie Moore as she utilizes counterfeiting as a lens to explore the political and social meanings of money in the century before the American Revolution, unveiling a rich […]
Speaker: Graduate Student Erin Trumble Title: "Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan" Description: The talk will focus on retirement as a life stage and examine how it represented a time when women had both more freedom after being liberated from daily tasks and more authority due to their […]
The History Associates and the History Department are launching a new special program “A Book in Common.” The first session is taking place on Thursday 1/29 at the Mosher Alumni House. This is a Book Club for history faculty, staff, students, History Associates, and history-minded community members. We'll discuss Lies My Teacher Told Me (graphic […]