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Events at this venue

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  • Film screening: “1968: The Year that Shaped a Generation”

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    1968 Poster1968 was a pivotal year in U.S. and global history. In the United States, students protested the Vietnam War. In France, they protested university conditions and sparked worker strikes across the country. In Mexico City, they protested state violence. This was also the year when the peaceful protest known as the “Prague Spring” flourished […]

  • Parents’ and Family Weekend faculty panel event: “Crossings and Boundaries”

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Please join us for our Parents' and Family Weekend faculty panel event. The History Department faculty will discuss the ways in which boundaries—ideological, cultural, political, and intellectual—build barriers that impact the lives of ordinary people and their ability to access resources, knowledge, and power. Come join us, and bring along your family!

  • Critical Issues in America: Hanink on Citizenship

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Prof. Johanna Hanink (Brown University), "Modern Citizenship Tests and Classical Funeral Orations."

  • Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture – Alex Wellerstein on “Truman’s Bomb”

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Please join us on May 9, 4PM, in the McCune Conference Room for the 2018 Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. Our guest speaker will be Alex Wellerstein who will be giving a lecture titled Truman's Bomb and the Making of the Atomic Presidency.  When we think of the importance of the atomic bomb to the Truman presidency, we think […]

  • Dreamland: America’s Opiate Epidemic and How We Got Here

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Quinones will discuss the origins of our nationwide opioid epidemic: pharmaceutical marketing, changes in our heroin market, and new attitudes toward pain among American healthcare consumers. He will also discuss cultural shifts that made this epidemic possible. Sam Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and author of three books of narrative nonfiction. His book Dreamland: The True […]

  • Cold War Curvature: Measuring and Modeling Gravity in Postwar American Physics (David Kaiser, MIT)

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    A popular image persists of Albert Einstein as a loner, someone who avoided the hustle and bustle of everyday life in favor of quiet contemplation. Yet Einstein was deeply engaged with politics throughout his life; indeed, he was so active politically that the FBI kept him under surveillance for decades. His most enduring scientific legacy, […]

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    Mary Furner, History, “The Jacobs Era in US Labor Standards Law and Regulation, 1885-1899”

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Professor Furner is the author of Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science (with a new Introduction, 2010); "Ideas, Independencies, Governance Structures, and National Political Cultures: Norbert Elias's Work as a Window on U.S. History," in Christa Buschendorf, et al, eds, Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: Figurational Approaches to American Culture […]