Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

History Club Weekly Meetings
2022-06-02 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-05-26 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-05-19 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-05-12 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-05-05 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-04-28 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-04-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-04-14 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 4 more dates | HSSB 4020
UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions.

The Department of History Annual Awards Ceremony
2022-06-01 16:00 - 18:00 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Department of History is hosting their annual Awards Ceremony, this Wednesday, June 1, from 4 – 6pm to celebrate the wonderful achievements of our students!

The event will begin in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), with a reception on the HSSB 2nd Floor Terrace. Light refreshments will be served.

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Click here for the full program.2022 Program

Focal Point Dialogues | A Conversation with Ada Ferrer for Students
2022-05-27 16:00 - 17:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
A Conversation with the author for graduate and undergraduate students will follow the keynote lecture reception, on Friday May 27th, in HSSB 4041 from 4-5 pm.
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 author for graduate and undergraduate students following the keynote lecture reception, on Friday May 27th, in HSSB 4041 from 4-5 pm. To attend, please register using this form

Focal Point Dialogues in History was an initiative born in 2020 as a Department commitment to educate ourselves in the history of anti-Blackness, in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, and the national and international uprising it triggered. This education starts by understanding when did “blackness” become a thing, to begin with, and it requires leaving the “zone of comfort” of our specializations, and dare to explore…as we learn from each other, and from this year’s guest, Ada Ferrer. After an engaging dive into Herman Bennet’s African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (2018) in the first iteration of Focal Point Dialogues in 2020-21, this academic year we focus on Ada Ferrer’s Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (2014), The book can be downloaded here (You will need to have logged into your UCSB library account)
Ada Ferrer is a Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean History at NYU, and the author of several major award-winning books, among them, Cuba, an American History (2021), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. Her book Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (2014) received the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from Yale University, and several major American Historical Association awards, among them: the James Rawley Prize for the best book on Atlantic History, the Wesley Logan Prize for the best book in the History of the African Diaspora, the Friedrich Katz Prize for the best book on Latin American History, as well as the Haiti Illumination Prize from the Haitian Studies Association, among others. Her first book, Insurgent Cuba, Race, Nation, and Revolution (1999), was the recipient of the Berkshire Book Prize for the best first book by a woman historian in any field of history. Her research has been funded by major grants, including the SSRC, the NEH, the Guggenheim, the Spanish Ministry of Culture Fellowship, and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.
**Use of masks will be required to enter the classrooms. For questions write to Prof. Cecilia Méndez at mendez@history.ucsb.edu
To attend, please register using this form http://tinyurl.com/ucsbhistoryadaferrer

Focal Point Dialogues | Keynote Address "Impossible Histories" | Ada Ferrer
2022-05-27 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 1174, 1174 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
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 author for graduate and undergraduate students following the keynote lecture reception, on Friday May 27th, in HSSB 4041 from 4-5 pm. To attend, please register using this form http://tinyurl.com/ucsbhistoryadaferrer

Focal Point Dialogues in History was an initiative born in 2020 as a Department commitment to educate ourselves in the history of anti-Blackness, in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, and the national and international uprising it triggered. This education starts by understanding when did “blackness” become a thing, to begin with, and it requires leaving the “zone of comfort” of our specializations, and dare to explore…as we learn from each other, and from this year’s guest, Ada Ferrer. After an engaging dive into Herman Bennet’s African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (2018) in the first iteration of Focal Point Dialogues in 2020-21, this academic year we focus on Ada Ferrer’s Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (2014), The book can be downloaded here (You will need to have logged into your UCSB library account)
Ada Ferrer is a Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU, and the author of several major award-winning books, including Cuba, an American History (2021) winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Her book Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (2014) received the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from Yale University, and several major American Historical Association awards, among them: the James Rawley Prize for the best book on Atlantic History, the Wesley Logan Prize for the best book in the History of the African Diaspora, the Friedrich Katz Prize for the best book on Latin American History, as well as the Haiti Illumination Prize from the Haitian Studies Association, among others. Her first book, Insurgent Cuba, Race, Nation, and Revolution (1999), was the recipient of the Berkshire Book Prize for the best first book by a woman historian in any field of history. Her research has been funded by major grants, including the SSRC, the NEH, the Guggenheim, the Spanish Ministry of Culture Fellowship, and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.
**Use of masks will be required to enter the classrooms. For questions write to Prof. Cecilia Méndez at mendez@history.ucsb.edu

Spring 2022 Launch Party
2022-05-26 18:30 - 20:30 | HSSB 4020
Join the UCSB Undergraduate Journal of History and the History Club at UCSB to celebrate the launch of the Spring 2022 Volume.

There are rumors of pizza.

We will meet in HSSB 4020, starting at 6:30.

There will be treats.

Hear from undergrad editors and authors who will answer your questions about the whole process.

Conference May 20-21: "Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: Past, Present, and Future"
2022-05-20 - 2022-05-21 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy hosts a conference, May 20 and 21, 2022 entitled: “Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: Past, Present, and Future.”
It will be held in the McCune Room, HSSB 6020. Many former students and contemporary colleagues of Nelson Lichtenstein will deliver papers on a wide variety of topics bearing on the conference theme.
Work, capitalism, and democracy. Historians have spent decades considering their interwoven connections and how each has shaped and animated American politics, economy, and society. This conference interrogates the changing shape of historical work on these themes since the early 1980s, when Center director Nelson Lichtenstein’s first book reshaped how a new generation of scholars thought about the struggle between workers, capitalists, and the state apparatus during World War II. Since the publication of Labor’s War at Home: The CIO in World War II, labor history has been transformed from an exciting but discrete subject that probed working-class mentalities to an ever expanding interpretative approach than now encompasses the study of race, gender, capitalism, social thought, legal history and theory, government social policy, and partisan politics. Lichtenstein’s own work has tracked this scholarly advance: probing at various times and venues the social ecology of wildcat strikes, the meaning of rights at work and in society, the theory and practice of corporatism, the rise and demise of the giant corporation, the structures governing global supply chains, and the promise and failure of liberal politics in 20th century America. Those making presentations and other interventions at the Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: Past, Present, and Future conference will offer fresh perspectives on these and many other themes taken from their own research and that of the new generation of historians of which they are such a vital part.
Funding for this conference has come from UCSB’s graduate division, history department, Hull Chair of Feminist Studies, College of Letters & Science, Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, and Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.
FULL SCHEDULE HERE.

Honors Thesis Colloqium for the History Department
2022-05-13 09:00 - 17:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The very best majors in the history department share the research that they have undertaken on their senior theses.
When : May 13th, 8:45 AM – 5:00 PM
Venue : HSSB 4020 and Zoom
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Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium Schedule
May 13, 2022
HSSB 4020 or via zoom at
https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/2796093108

8:45-8:55 Arrive. Coffee and a continental breakfast will be available.
8:55-9:00 Opening comments by Professor Bouley
9:00-10:30 Panel #1
Akunna Chilaka, “The American Dream Denied: The Inland Empire and Southern California’s Legacy with Postwar, Anti-Black Racial Housing Discrimination.” Respondent: Professor Terrance Wooten, Black Studies
Bill Tamburelli, ““The Grudge Against Drudge: Clinton and the Rise of the ‘New Media’ in the 1990s.” Respondent: Professor Nelson Lichtenstein, History
Sabrina Hall, “Welfare Reform, It’s What’s for Lunch: How the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program Changed School Lunch Across America.” Respondent: Professor Lisa Jacobson, History
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Panel #2
James Scherrer, “The Empire with a Thousand Faces: State & Subject at the End of the Achaemenid Empire. Respondent: Professor Beth Digeser, History
Sydney Evans, “Gender Queerness in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe” Respondent: Professor Debra Blumenthal, History
John Young, “’New Men’ Rising: Landed Emulation in the English Country House, 1700 to 1860.” Respondent: Julie Johnson, Graduate Fellow, History Department
12:30-1:30 Lunch. A catered lunch will be served.
1:30-3:00 Panel 3
Carolina Sanchez, “The People in the Oranges: Redlands’ History of Multiethnicsm: An Inclusive Public History of a California Suburb.” Respondent: Professor Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, History
Ryker Tebbs, “100 Years of Abolition: The Gradual Abolition of Slavery in Pennsylvania.” Respondent: Professor John Majewski, History
Grace Molinari, “The PLO and the Reagan Administration The Great Thaw of 1988” Respondent: Professor Sherene Seikaly, History
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-5:00 Panel 4
Illiana Lievanos, “Mere Seconds From Launch: Able Archer 83, the NATO Exercise That Almost Triggered a Nuclear War.”Respondent: Professor Salim Yaqub, History
Tamia McDonald, “The Black Panther Party: How Media Bolstered, Decimated, and Ensured the Legacy of a Movement.” Respondent: Professor Stephan Miescher, History
Emily Searson, ” The computer got it wrong’: The Cold War Roots of the Racial Biases in Artificial Intelligence.” Respondent: Sean Gilleran, Graduate Fellow, History
Ryan Kenyon, “Imperial Ancestry: The Soviet Union’s Relationship with the Past” Respondent: Professor Cynthia Kaplan, Political Science
Click here for the full schedule of Honors Colloquium Schedule 2022

IHC Regeneration Talk by Scott Ellsworth: The Tulsa Race Massacre: Causes, Cover Up, and the Fight for the Past
2022-05-12 16:00 - 18:00 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
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 and Its Search for Justice, unpacks the story of the massacre and the challenges it presents for racial justice today.
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Gender + Sexualities Cluster | Erika Rappaport | Hotels, Swimming Pools & Bikinis: Public Relations, White Sexuality and Disavowal of State Violence in 1960s Kenya
2022-05-12 15:00 - 16:30 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

IHC RFG | Crossing Borderlands | Discussion with Stuart Tyson Smith: "Backwater Puritans”? Racism, Egyptological Stereotype, and the Intersection of Local and International at Kushite Tombos
2022-05-12 14:00 - 15:30 | HSSB 6056
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Women in Chinese Silent Cinema
2022-05-10 15:30 - 17:00 | SSMS 2135, Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
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 silent cinema.

2022 Van Gelderen Lecture | Nicole de Silva: Consumer Diplomats U.S. Women Work for Peace Through the Pocketbook, 1919-1939
2022-05-03 17:00 - 18:00 | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
This talk sponsored by History Associates. follows U.S. women and their allies around the globe who worked to organize household consumers into movements that they believed could improve chances for international peace and security. These “consumer
diplomats” used their buying practices to portray themselves as world citizens
capable of both influencing and upholding a conception of global community.

This event will be in-person and live-streamed via Zoom. You do not need to register if you are attending in-person. There will be a Q&A and light refreshments following the lecture.
Register to receive the Zoom link: bit.ly/vglecture22

Click here for the flyer: History Associates Van Gelderen Lecture 2022

Focal Point Dialogues | Spring 2022: A revolution in Black consciousness”? World historical impact of the Haitian Revolution | Ada Ferrer’s Freedom’s Mirror
2022-04-29 13:00 - 15:00 | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Focal Point Dialogues was an initiative born in 2020 as a Department commitment to educate ourselves in the history of anti-Blackness. The idea was conceived in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd and the national and international uprising it triggered. This education starts by understanding when did “blackness” become a thing, to begin with, and it requires from all of us leaving the “zone of comfort” of our specializations, and dare to explore…as we learn from each other, and from this year’s guest, Ada Ferrer. After an engaging dive into Herman Bennet’s African Kings and Black Slaves : Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (UPenn Press, 2018) in the first iteration of Focal Point Dialogues in 2020-21, this academic year we focus on Ada Ferrer’s Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (Cambridge U. Press, 2014).
The book can be downloaded here (You will need to have logged into your UCSB library account)
When : April 29th, 1-3 PM
Where: HSSB 4080
The discussants for this session are:
Xiaowei Zheng
Evelyne Laurent-Perrault
Mhoze Chikowero
Manuel Covo

Gender & Sexualities Cluster | Arunima Datta | Stranded: travelling Indian Ayahs Negotiating War and Abandonment in Europe
2022-04-28 15:30 - 17:00 | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
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Professor Lydia Barnett, "Working the Wetlands: Ecological Knowledge in Early Modern Italy"
2022-04-12 15:30 - 17:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

Spring Open House for Prospective Students
2022-04-09 09:00 - 15:00 | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
This year’s Open House event (formerly known as Spring Insight) is scheduled for Saturday, April 9, 2022, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm PST. The Open House is coordinated by the Office of Admissions and traditionally has been the most important opportunity to introduce prospective students and their families to UCSB. In the past, most, if not all, academic and student affairs departments have participated in the Open House, but in 2020 and 21, the event was canceled because of COVID. There is hope that the Open House can return this year with all activities scheduled outdoors.
History will be laying out its Table where we will be chatting with prospective students about the History department majors and minors, the History Club, graduate and faculty research projects, History courses, etc.
Sign up here to attend.

Thinking About Career Options with a Degree in History: A Conversation with Alumni
2022-04-08 17:00 - 18:00 | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Date: April 8th, 2022
Time: 5:00 PM
Venue: Click here to join
Zoom Meeting ID: 822 6050 0131
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History Department celebrates GIVE DAY 2022
2022-04-07 08:00 - 17:00 | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

History Associates Talk : Graduate Student, Gokh Amin Al Shaif on Genealogies of Belonging: Lessons from an Oceanic Yemen
2022-04-03 14:00 - 15:30 | East Side Library, Montecito Street, East Side Library, 1102 E Montecito Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93103, United States
When: SUNDAY APRIL 3, 2022, 2:00 PM PST
Where : In person and on Zoom
Address: East Side Library
1102 E Montecito Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Register to receive the zoom link:
https://bit.ly/HAtalkapril3
You can find more details here: History Associates April 3 Event Flier_final
