Public Lecture
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Juan Cobo Betancourt, “Christianity, Colonialism, & the Muisca peoples of the Northern Andes”
Alhecama Theater 215 A East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, United StatesPublic Lecture: Juan Cobo Betancourt, "Christianity, Colonialism, & the Muisca peoples of the Northern Andes" Alhecama Theatre, 215 E. Canon Perdido Street, located in El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park Free and open to the public. RSVP to historyassociates@ia.ucsb.edu How does colonialism work without a strong colonial state? How does religious conversion work […]
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Michael Cooperson (UCLA), “Towards a New Arabic Literary History”
HSSB 4020Towards a new Arabic literary history Michael Cooperson, Professor of Arabic, NELC, UCLA What did pre-modern authors writing in Arabic have to say about their own literary history? Many things, as it turns out, most of them non-linear. In this respect, their accounts differ from the rise-and-fall story later promulgated by European scholars––a story which […]
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Katie Moore, “Counterfeiting and the Coming of the American Revolution”
Goleta Valley Library 500 North Fairview Avenue, GoletaWhat does the history of counterfeiting reveal about colonial-imperial relations in British North America? What does it tell us about the nature of money itself? Join Professor Katie Moore as she utilizes counterfeiting as a lens to explore the political and social meanings of money in the century before the American Revolution, unveiling a rich […]
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Talk: Erin Trumble, “Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan”
McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesSpeaker: Graduate Student Erin Trumble Title: "Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan" Description: The talk will focus on retirement as a life stage and examine how it represented a time when women had both more freedom after being liberated from daily tasks and more authority due to their […]
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History Associates Talk : Alfredo Gonzalez | “An American Promise: 20th Century US Military Naturalization.”
Vista Del Monte, 3775 Modoc Rd, Santa Barbara 3775 Modoc Rd., Santa BarbaraAssistant Professor of Political Science at UCSB, Alfredo Gonzalez will speak on "An American Promise: 20th Century US Military Naturalization." Despite widespread recognition that modern social welfare programs stem from the protections pledged to war veterans, commitments from Congress to naturalize immigrant service members and veterans are absent in debates on the military social safety […]
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Ambition on the Road: Getting Ahead in Arabic Travel Writing
HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesMonday, Feb 2, 2026 | 04:00 PM Location HSSB 4080 A Syrian merchant known as the ʿAṭṭār set out on a new road in 1765. When he began to write about his journey, he did so with specific aim and purpose: success, prestige, and merit. A few years earlier, in 1758, a Maronite Christian by […]
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History Associates Talk by Professor Anthony Barbieri on “Beyond the Mountains and Seas: Eurasian History through Travelers’ Eyes (400 BCE-1936 CE)”
Night Lizard Brewing Company 607 State Street, Santa BarbaraThe History associates brings to you a talk by Professor Anthony Barbieri off the department of history on his latest book. The talk narrates the integrated history of Eurasia over the last two millennia through the travel of two dozen remarkable men and women who voyaged across this vast continent and reported on their encounters […]
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Talk by Mateo Jarquin, “Managaua 1979,” Monday, April 20, 4 pm, HSSB 4041
HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesProfessor Mateo Jarquin of Chapman University will be giving a talk titled "Managua 1979: International and Transnational Origins of the Cold War’s Last Great Revolution." After the Cuban Revolution, armed movements across Latin America embraced violent struggle as a path to social transformation. Yet only one managed to seize power: Nicaragua’s Frente Sandinista de […]
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Van Gelderen Lecture by Alexandra Noi | “The Other Side of Eugenics: Socialist Experiments with Nurture over Nature”
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesOur Graduate Student, Alexandra Noi will present this year’s Van Gelderen Lecture. Her talk is titled : “The Other Side of Eugenics: Socialist Experiments with Nurture over Nature” On Wednesday, May 6, 2026 at 5:00pm. In the McCune Room, HSSB 6020.