• Winter 2026 | Public History Colloquium | Policing the Past

    HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Public History Colloquium is hosting its first meeting of the quarter this Friday, January 23rd from 12-1:50, HSSB 4020. The theme of the quarter is Controversies and Contested Pasts. This week the colloquia will focus on "Policing the Past" and will be discussing the following works: Ø  Gabriela Cristea and Simina Radu-Bucurenci, “Raising the Cross: Exorcising […]

  • John C. Marquez: Laboring for Freedom: Statuliberas in 18th Century Rio de Janeiro

    HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Please join us to welcome John C. Marquez from UC Riverside who will discuss a chapter titled Laboring for Freedom: Statuliberas in 18th Century Rio de Janeiro from his forthcoming book Freedom on Three Coasts on slavery, law, and belonging in Brazil and the Portuguese Empire in the Atlantic Ocean. Marquez is a scholar of the Luso-Atlantic world and colonial Latin […]

  • History and Political Economy Colloquium: Elisabeth (Sissi) Luif, The Restructuring of Labor Arbitration and AustroFascism

    HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Please join us to welcome Elisabeth (Sissi) Luif from the Central European University, Vienna who will discuss a chapter from her dissertation, titled The Restructuring of Labor Arbitration and AustroFascism: A Social History of Institutional Change, 1933-38. Luif is a scholar of comparative fascism, corporatism, the Catholic Church, and labor and working class history and is currently a visiting […]