Kurosawa Tokiko (1806-1890) was born and raised in Mito domain, where she ran a small temple-school (terakoya). As most women in her day and age, she did not pay much attention to political issues. Then, on the evening of September 30, 1858, a neighbor rushed over announcing the arrival of a large, bright comet. In […]

Presentation of work in progress hosted by UCSB's Early Modern Center. Ann Plane, Associate Professor of History at UCSB, will present a paper as part of the Early Modern Center's works-in-progress series. Her presentation, entitled, "'When I Awaked': Colonial Encounters, Gendered Meanings, and the Cultural Significance of Dream Reporting in Seventeenth-Century New England," explores the […]

There are over 10,000 caves all over the Greek islands, where archaeologists have identified abundant materials revealing both environmental as well as cultural information dating as far back as the 7th millennium B.C. in Neolithic times. This talk will present the case study of recent excavations conducted at Leontari cave situated in Hymettus mountain in […]

The Missing Story of Ourselves is a nationally touring photographic andnarrative exhibit developed by low-income student parents, that challenges and offers alternatives to conventional "stories" about class, poor women, welfare and single parenthood in the United States. Co-sponsored by the Policy History Program, the Department of Feminist Studies, the Center for the Study of Work, […]

Vivyan Adair is the Elihu Root Endowed Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and the Director of The ACCESS Project (serving welfare eligible student parents) at Hamilton College. She is the author of From Good Ma to Welfare Queen: A Genealogy of the Poor Woman in American Literature, Photography and Culture (2000) and the […]

Because of the Jesusita Fire this event has been postponed until next year. The talk addresses transborder membership politics in historical and comparative perspective, examining changing German and Korean policies towards transborder coethnics (Germans in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and Koreans in Japan and China) during the Cold War and post-Cold War […]

There is an exciting and timely series of events taking place this spring: The Shalom/Salam Conversations, in which members of the UCSB faculty and community will address aspects of the Israel/Palestine dispute. There will be three events this spring, all on Monday at 5 pm in the Multicultural Center. The series is sponsored by the […]

Professor Clendinning is the author of Demons of Domesticity: Women and the English Gas Iindustry, 1889-1939, Ashgate Publications, Aldershot , England , 2004. Anyone interested in gender, consumer culture, imperialism and European history more generally is encouraged to attend. hm 4/20/09

Fernando Cervantes, J.E. & Lillian Byrne Tipton Distinguished Visiting Professor in Catholic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, UCSB, for Spring 2009 will present a paper exploring the interaction of Christianity among the populations of the New World. His presentation will seek to shed light on what J.H. Elliott once called “the remarkable survival of a […]

The renowned historian Arnold Toynbee posed the question whether we, the general public, but also scholars and students of historical events, are correctly informed. This question has concerned George Wittenstein for many decades, as it has a determining influence on "what becomes history". Dr. Wittenstein will discuss the common and disturbing phenomenon of historical facts […]