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    Hail the Maintainers! or – How to Give Up the Innovation Fetish (Prof. Lee Vinsel)

    HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Hail the Maintainers! or - How to Give Up the Innovation Fetish Join us for a talk by Prof. Lee Vinsel, Stevens Institute of Technology - 16 February 2017 in HSSB 4080 at 4PM Our culture is obsessed with innovation. Innovation is thought to be the goal of business, policy-making, philanthropy, education, even play. Yet, […]

  • Professor Ann Little (Colorado State University) – The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands.

    HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Join us for a talk by Prof. Ann Little who will be speaking about her new book, The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands. Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780) embodies the imperial conquest of North America like no other eighteenth-century figure, yet she has been largely written out of the story […]

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    Talk by Prof Rui Kohiyama on American Women Missionaries and Romantic Love in Meiji Japan

    HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Please join us in welcoming Professor Rui Kohiyama (American and Gender Studies, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University) to UCSB. Professor Kohiyama will give a talk on “American Woman Missionaries, Christian Homes, and Romantic Love in Meiji Japan.” American women missionaries are well known for their educational and reformatory intervention in various mission fields in Asia. Although […]

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    Mariel Aquino, “‘A unique case in the world of football”: Athletic Club de Bilbao, Nationalism, and Basque Exceptionalism.”

    HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    The Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster invites all to attend a paper workshop by Mariel Aquino.  The paper explores the construction of masculinity and Basque nationalism through an examination of football (soccer), specifically the Athletic Club de Bilbao.  This is a paper workshop so please try to read the paper in advance. Mariel Aquino is […]

  • Five Centuries of Mortality: The Second Plague Pandemic in Comparative Perspective, Egypt, 1347 – 1844 CE Stuart Borsch (Assumption College)

    HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    This talk will analyze the impact of the Second plague pandemic in Egypt (1347-1844 CE). The Second plague pandemic refers to the long series of epidemics that struck the Middle East and Europe, starting with the Black Death, 1347-1351 CE. This pandemic generally lasted until the early 1700s in Europe, but longer in the Middle […]

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    Prof. Cavan Concannon (USC): “An Assemblage Approach to Early Christianity, Deleuze, Latour, and the Letters of Dionysios of Corinth”

    HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Modern historians map the diversity of early Christianity in a variety of ways, from declines into heresy to competition among “varieties” of early Christianities. Drawing particularly on the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze and Bruno Latour, Concannon argues that  we might better map the remains of second-century Christianity by focusing on networks of people, ideas, […]

  • U.S. Senate Historian on Career Opportunities in Public History

    HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Betty K. Koed is the U.S. Senate Historian and Director of the Senate Historical office. Koed earned her Ph.D. in political and public history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also taught history and provided editorial assistance to The Public Historian. A Senate Historian, Koed supervises all historical and archival projects, provides […]

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    Magna Carta Lecture

    HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Speaker: Joshua C. Tate SMU Dedman School of Law   Event Description: Please join us in HSSB 4080 at noon on Monday, November 2 to hear Josh Tate lecture on the Magna Carta. Josh is a professor at SMU Dedman School of Law and is the author of many articles on medieval legal history. Light […]