Thursday, January 25 at 2:00 pm in HSSB 4020 John Hunt (Prof. Utah Valley University) will present a paper entitled "Networks of Witchcraft and Sorcery in Early Modern Venice." Dr. Hunt is an expert on magic, the occult, and the circulation of knowledge in the early modern period, so this should prove to be a fascinating talk. Hunt Flyer1
9:00 - 10:00 - SESSION A (Presenter will Zoom) Giulia Giamboni, History, UC Santa Barbara “Pelegrina de Saladino: Mother, Sister, Patroness, and Business Woman” This is chapter 2 of my dissertation “Gender, Charity, and Empire in the Late Medieval Eastern Mediterranean.” By investigating the life of fourteenth-century Pelegrina de Saladinis, the chapter explores the complex […]
Please join the History Department in celebrating the undergraduates at the Department's Annual Senior Honors Colloquium 2023. The program can be downloaded here. 9:00 AM – Welcoming Remarks Stephan Miescher, Chair, History Department Debra Blumenthal, Director of 2022-23 Senior Honors Seminar 9:10-10:40 - Panel I – Women and Politics Across Time and Space […]
Please join the Gender + Sexualities Cluster for a Paper Workshop on Monday, 8 May 2023, at 2 PM. We will meet in HSSB 4020 to discuss Jarett Henderson's chapter, "' He Looked Pale and the Picture of Death': Sodomy, Settler Self-Government, and the Age of Reform in 1840s Canada." ABSTRACT This chapter focuses primarily […]
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 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 […]
The very best majors in the history department share the research that they have undertaken on their senior theses. When : May 13th, 8:45 AM - 5:00 PM Venue : HSSB 4020 and Zoom Click here to join the zoom meeting. Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium Schedule May 13, 2022 HSSB 4020 or via zoom at […]
On Thursday, 20 January 2022, Anna Rudolph will share her chapter - Chapter 6_Revolutionary Radegund- with the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster. This chapter presents an in-depth study of the cult of Radegund, a sixth-century Frankish queen-saint, from the French Revolution through the turn of the twentieth century. The Revolution had a devastating effect […]
On February 28, Dr. Brandon Seto, Senior Floor Consultant to California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (and a 2010 UCSB history PhD), will give a talk entitled "Doctorates Without Borders: Careers in Government, Advocacy, and Communication for PhDs," about employment opportunities outside academia available to holders of PhDs. The talk, which is sponsored by UCSB's […]