Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

History and East Asia Center presents Aaron Skabelund's talk "Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force During the Cold War" | Mar 1 | 4PM | HSSB 4020
2023-03-01 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
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 for the events such as the Sapporo Snow Festival, for greater acceptance during the Cold War.
EAC Inglorious, Illegal Bastards Japan_s Self-Defense Force During the Cold War

“LGBT Direct Action Bibliography, Chronology, and Inventory, 1965-73” (Marc Stein, SFSU)
2023-03-01 16:00 - 18:00 | CITRAL Seminar Room, Library, UCSB Library, 525 UCEN Rd, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Gender + Sexualities Cluster is pleased to welcome Professor Marc Stein to campus. Marc is a historian of U.S. law, politics, and society, with research and teaching interests in constitutional law, social movements, gender, race and sexuality. His books and articles have focused on twentieth-century urban gay and lesbian history; U.S. Supreme Court decisions on sex, marriage and reproduction; queer political activism; and sexual politics in the discipline of history.
Marc will speak about – “LGBT Direct Action Bibliography, Chronology, and Inventory, 1965-73” – a forthcoming database/inventory/chronology on US LGBT history that he is curating.
Reception to follow.
