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May 2017
Graduate Student Colloquium: Isabella Gabrovsky on “Rethinking Britain” and Mario Tumen on “Decolonization of Taxation in Peru”
The Workshop on Theoretical Perspectives on War, Political Violence, Nationalism and the State (History 291) is pleased to invite you to its final open presentation and discussion this Friday May 26 from 3:00 to 5:30 pm in HSSB 4020. Two graduate students, Isabella Gabrovsky and Mario Tumen, will be presenting their work in progress on Britain and Peru. Please, join the conversation. Their papers can be downloaded from the links below. Everybody is welcome! “Rethinking Britain: An English identity Crisis in the Era…
Find out more »October 2017
“En la frontera de los pijaos”: the making of an Andean borderland (Santiago Muñoz, Universidad de los Andes)
Please join us for the first meeting of the new Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez, who will deliver a talk entitled “‘En la frontera de los pijaos’: the making of an Andean borderland in northern South America”. The talk will be held in HSSB 4020 at 5 pm on Wednesday, October 4th, and will be followed by a small reception. Abstract: In the 1550s a coalition of native groups took arms against the Spanish…
Find out more »February 2018
Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games
You are invited to join us for the third meeting of the Colloquium for Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall from the California State University, San Marcos who will be presenting a paper entitled “‘Slave Revolts on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Videogames”. The lecture considers existing films and video games on the Haitian Revolution in light of anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s arguments about the “unthinkability” of this event. It will compare existing cinematic representations of the Revolution to…
Find out more »February 2019
Talk by Anya Zilberstein, Concordia University: “Vegetable Diets for People and other Animals in the 18th Century”
In her seminar paper, “’The Chief Supper of Hogs… and Peasants who are Not Too Nice’: Vegetable Diets for People and other Animals in the Long 18th Century,” Anya Zilberstein presents her new project. She will discuss the mutual influences and broader implications of 18th-century attempts to impose dietary shifts on animals and people, by situating them in transatlantic debates about poor relief as well as experiments in the emerging food and agricultural sciences in the period. She welcomes discussion…
Find out more »November 2019
Lisa Jacobson, “A Taste of Success: Whiskey Drinking, Masculine Identities, and the Sensory Imagination in the Postwar US”
Join the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster for a paper workshop on Lisa Jacobson‘s “A Taste of Success: Whiskey Drinking, Masculine Identities, and the Sensory Imagination in the Postwar US.” The event will take place in HSSB 4020 on November 22 at 3:00. To obtain the paper in advance, email Jarett Henderson at jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu. Please note that this event was originally scheduled for an earlier date, so you may have seen posters with an incorrect date and time.
Find out more »January 2020
Gender Studies Paper Workshop: Jarett Henderson’s “The ‘Turton Job’ and the Sexual Politics of the Durham Administration in Britain and British North America”
Join the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster for a paper workshop on Jarett Henderson‘s “The ‘Turton Job’ and the Sexual Politics of the Durham Administration in Britain and British North America.” The event will take place in HSSB 4065 on Thursday, January 30 at 3:30. To obtain the paper in advance, email Jarett Henderson at jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu.
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Gender Studies Paper Workshop: Kristen Thomas-McGill’s “‘Even His Lungs Were Affected’: Aubrey Beardsley, Earnestness, and the Artistic Politics of Interiority”
Join the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster for a paper workshop on Kristen Thomas-McGill‘s “‘Even His Lungs Were Affected’: Aubrey Beardsley, Earnestness, and the Artistic Politics of Interiority.” The event will take place in HSSB 4065 on Thursday, February 20 at 3:30. To obtain the paper in advance, email Jarett Henderson at jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu.
Find out more »May 2020
Virtual Paper Workshop: Victoria Cosby (Queen’s University), “Sisters Suffering Separation: Harriet Dobbs Cartwright and her Siblings Spread from Upper Canada to India”
Join the Gender and Sexualities research cluster for a Virtual Paper Workshop Friday, 8 May 2020, at 3:00 PM. That day we will discuss Victoria Cosby’s COVID-cancelled conference paper (email jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu for the Zoom link and a copy) that utilizes Harriet Dobbs Cartwright’s familial letters to Ireland to explore how Cartwright understood the relationship she had with her sisters who were spread from Upper Canada to Ireland to India in the first third of the 19th century. Victoria is a…
Find out more »August 2021
“The Politics of Food and Occupation During the Second World War”
“The Politics of Food and Occupation During the Second World War.” Erika Rappaport, Lisa Jacobson, and Elizabeth Schmidt would like to invite you to register for this workshop, which will take place on August 28th, 2021 at 9:00-11:30am PDT. Once you register, you will receive a link to the three pre-circulated papers up for discussion in the workshop. Food & Occupation FlyerThe Full Program, with paper titles and author affiliations, can be viewed here. To Register, please click here. (The…
Find out more »June 2022
Genders & Sexualities Cluster | Annual Graduate Student Colloquium 2022
The full program can be downloaded here in May: GSRC Graduate Student Colloquium 2022 All sessions will take place at the University of California, Santa Barbara campus, located on the traditional and unceded territories of the Chumash people. We offer our respect to Chumash Elders past, present, and future as the custodians of this area’s memories, traditions, and cultures. Session A – 9:00 AM Julia Crisler, History, UC Santa Barbara The Hunstwomen: Kennel Mistresses? Medieval Female Kennel Masters and Leaders…
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