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  • Nakba in the Age of Catastrophe: Lessons from Palestine

    Sherene Seikaly will give a talk called: "Nakba in the Age of Catastrophe: Lessons from Palestine" What can the history of Palestine teach us about surviving catastrophe? In this talk, […]

  • Networks of Witchcraft and Sorcery in Early Modern Venice

    HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Thursday, January 25 at 2:00 pm in HSSB 4020 John Hunt (Prof. Utah Valley University) will present a paper entitled "Networks of Witchcraft and Sorcery in Early Modern Venice." Dr. Hunt is an expert on […]

  • History and Political Economy

    HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    The colloquium offers a forum for open, substantive discussions on how to approach political economy from a historical perspective; how to grapple with and benefit from the epistemological diversity surrounding […]

  • Public History Colloquium, Eric Boyle

    HSSB 3208 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Join the Public History Colloquium for a conversation with Eric Boyle (PhD 2007), Chief Historian and Federal Preservation Officer for the Department of Energy. He will discuss his work as […]

  • Public History Colloquium, Alison Rose Jefferson

    HSSB 3208 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Alison Rose Jefferson (PhD 2015) will speak about her career as a public historian, some of her current/recent projects, and share thoughts on how they fit into a broader public […]

  • Mystery Children: The Stasova International Children’s Home During Stalin’s Purge

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Drawing on her current book project, Communist Neverland: History of an International Children’s Home, 1933–2013, Elizabeth McGuire tells the story of the Stasova International Children’s Home, an elite orphanage and boarding school for the […]

  • The Atlantic Revolutions

    Goleta Library 500 N Fairview Ave,, Goleta, California, United States

    Manuel Covo will give a talk on Atlantic Revolutions, title TBD On Wednesday, February 21 at 5:30 pm at the Goleta Library  

  • Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint Méry’s Intellectual World

    McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Sara Johnson is professor of literature of the Americas at the University of California, San Diego. Her book, Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World (Omohundro Institute/UNC Press, 2023), […]