10 events found.
UCSB History on Ice FUNdraiser
Ice in Paradise 6985 Santa Felicia Drive, Goleta, United StatesCome skate with the UCSB History Department at Ice in Paradise on Sunday, March 2, 2025 from 3:00 - 4:30 PM. Ticket fee ($10 for undergrads/grads, $15 for faculty) includes skate rental, and as many laps of the studio rink as you can accomplish in an hour and a half. Don't forget to RSVP here! […]
Tiffany Caesar, “A Black Womanist Archival Tradition: Revising the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival 50th Anniversary,” Public History Colloquium
4041 HSSB University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesDr. Tiffany Caesar shares her efforts in preserving the legacy of Margaret Walker and the 1973 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival at Jackson State University. The 1973 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival served as the premiere gathering of black women, writers, artists, scholars, and activists to celebrate Phillis Wheatley and black women's creativity. The original conference included […]
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 […]
History and Political Economy Colloquium
HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesShelley Bookspan, The Historian as Detective, Public History Colloquium
HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesShelley Bookspan, a graduate of UCSB’s public history program, will talk about her extensive and varied career as a consulting historian, and offer students tips and guidance about careers in consulting. Please email shcase@ucsb.edu for suggested reading.
History and Political Economy Colloquium
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesPublic History Colloquium, Meleia Simon-Reynolds, Watsonville is in the Heart
The Watsonville is in the Heart Research Initiative is a partnership between the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and The Tobera Project, a Watsonville community organization founded by Dioscoro “Roy” Respino Recio, Jr. (b. April 19, 1968). The partnership is named after the novel America is the Heart by Filipino American immigrant poet and writer, Carlos Bulosan. […]
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 […]
Public History Colloquium, Adam McNeil, “The Importance of Podcasting for the Study of Black Life”
Adam Xavier McNeil is the 2025-26 postdoctoral fellow at the American Philosophical Society and is an incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Rhode Island's Africana Studies department. McNeil defended his dissertation, “Contested Liberty: Fugitive Women & the Shadow of Re-Enslavement and Displacement in Revolutionary Virginia,” at Rutgers University in March 2025. He will speak about his work […]