Graduate Recruitment Day—Schedule of Events

8:30 am – 9:00 am                   Continental Breakfast (HSSB 4020)

9:00 am – 10:15 am                 Campus Walking Tour (led by grad students)

10:15 am – 10:30 am               Welcome (HSSB 4020) Professor Erika Rappaport, Department Chair; Professor Salim Yaqub, Director of Graduate Studies

10:30 am – 11:30 am               Program Overview (HSSB 4020) Professors Paul Spickard, Randy Bergstrom, Erika Rappaport, Salim Yaqub, Alice O’Connor, Brad Bouley

11:30 am – 1:00 pm                Lunch/Meetings with Faculty by Field (various venues)

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm                  Seminars/Individual Meetings with Faculty/Students by Field

Colloquium talk sponsored by the Center for Work, Labor, and Democracy: Kashia Arnold, PhD Candidate, Department of History, UCSB, “U.S. Silk Imports during World War I: Contextualizing U.S.-Japanese Relations, Munitions Production, and Wartime Substitution,” HSSB 4041

Ancient History mini-colloquium, presentations by Justin Devris and Q.Z. Lau, 12:30–1:30 (note earlier start time), HSSB 3041

East Asia meeting, hosted by Professors Tony Barbieri-Low, Luke Roberts, and Kate McDonald, 1:30–2:30, HSSB 3041

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm                  Break

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm                  Faculty Roundtable on Empire and Borderlands (HSSB 4020) Professors Beth Digeser, Butch Ware, James Brooks, and Kate McDonald

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm                  History Graduate Student Association Q & A panel: “Life in Santa Barbara as a Graduate Student,” HSSB 4020

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm                  Pizza/Refreshments with UCSB History Graduate Students (HSSB 4020)

After hours                              Grad Student Pub Crawl!