SSMS 2135
Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA
In this lecture, Paul Pickowicz will screen compelling clips from Chinese silent-era films of the 1920s and 1930s. Pickowicz will emphasize the diverse roles played by women and ask questions about why the women seen on screen, including such iconic figures as Ruan Lingyu, Li Lili, and Wang Renmei, were far more important than men to the success of Chinese [...]
HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)
University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
The 1921 Tulsa race massacre was the worst single incident of racial violence in American history. But for decades its very existence was denied. Official records went missing, incriminating articles were torn out of bound volumes of old newspapers, and researchers even had their lives threatened. Award-winning author and historian Scott Ellsworth, author of The Ground Breaking: An American City [...]
HSSB 1174
1174 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
The History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the final events of this year’s Focal Point Dialogues in History Colloquium: A Keynote Lecture by Pulitzer Prize winning author Ada Ferrer, “Impossible Histories: Understanding Failure and Absence in Atlantic Havana, 1812”. Friday May, 27th, 1-3 pm, in HSSB 1174 (free and open to the public, no registration required). A Conversation with the [...]
HSSB 4020
University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
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 [...]
CITRAL Seminar Room, Library
UCSB Library, 525 UCEN Rd, Santa Barbara, CA
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 [...]
HSSB 4041
University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
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 [...]
West Campus Point Faculty Housing Community's outdoor plaza
University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
When: Saturday, March 4, 11 AM to 12:30 PM Where: West Campus Point Faculty Housing Community's Outdoor Plaza The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) and the Cold War Working Group (CWWG) will host an in-person workshop at the West Campus Point faculty housing community's outdoor plaza. We will be reading and discussing a paper, “Forging an International [...]