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Flyer for "'He Looked Pale and the Picture of Death': Sodomy, Settler Self-Government, and the Age of Reform in 1840s Canada" on May 8th aat 2PM in HSSB 4020
Event Series Gender + Sexualities

Gender + Sexualities Workshop – ‘He Looked Pale and the Picture of Death’: Sodomy, Settler Self-Government, and the Age of Reform in 1840s Canada

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

Please join the Gender + Sexualities Cluster for a Paper Workshop on Monday, 8 May 2023, at 2 PM.  We will meet in HSSB 4020 to discuss Jarett Henderson's chapter, "' He Looked Pale and the Picture of Death': Sodomy, Settler Self-Government, and the Age of Reform in 1840s Canada." ABSTRACT This chapter focuses primarily […]

Flyer for Public History Book Sale, information is on event page.

Public History Book Sale

Announcing an exciting, two-day Public History Book Sale!!   Pre-Sale: Wednesday May 10, 12:00-4:00pm in HSSB 3208 Come for hidden gems and a dusty used-book store vibe. You never know what you will find! Featuring books donated by Professor Laura Kalman, there is something for everyone.   Main Sale: Thursday May 11, 9:00am--4:00pm outside of […]

Film Screening for the Haitian Revolution: May 18th | 4pm | HSSB 6020

HSSB 6020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The History Department's Colloquium Committee, in celebration of Haitian Flag's Day, presents a film screening: "Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Defeated Dessalines, the Man who Defeated Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte." Everyone is cordially invited to join.  A Q&A session with filmmaker Arnold Antonin will be held after the screening via Zoom.

History and Political Economy Colloquium with Prof. Adam Sabra

HSSB 4065 4065 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 political economy; and how a historical take on political economy can help contextualize and address urgent contemporary issues– at UCSB, in Santa Barbara/Southern California, in […]

Flyer for A Dam for Africa, Akosombo Stories from Ghana Book Launch on May 19 from 3-5PM in HSSB 1174

Book Launch: Stephan Miescher, A Dam for Africa

HSSB 1174 1174 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

In A Dam for Africa historian Stephan Miescher explores four intersecting narratives that weave together around Akosombo: Ghanaian aspirations about building a hydroelectric dam in the context of decolonization and Cold War; international efforts of the US aluminum industry in benefiting from Akosombo through subsidizing the VALCO aluminum smelter; local stories of upheaval and devastation […]

Flyer for Pizza the Past on May 24 from 11-1PM in HSSB 4080

Pizza The Past

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

HISTORY MAJORS: Professors Erika Rappaport, Utathya Chattopadhyaya, and Jarett Henderson are members of a History Department Committee that is examining the experience of our undergraduate students in the History Major at UCSB.    As a first step, they would like to invite you to join us on Wednesday, 24 May 2023, between 11 AM and […]

Free
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UCSB History Department’s Annual Senior Honors Colloquium

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

Please join the History Department in celebrating the undergraduates at the Department's Annual Senior Honors Colloquium 2023. The program can be downloaded here.   9:00 AM – Welcoming Remarks Stephan Miescher, Chair, History Department Debra Blumenthal, Director of 2022-23 Senior Honors Seminar   9:10-10:40 - Panel I – Women and Politics Across Time and Space […]

UCSB Undergraduate Journal of History Spring 2023 Cover

Spring 2023 Issue Launch Party

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Come eat pastries, drink coffee, and meet the Editorial Board of the UC Santa Barbara Undergraduate Journal of History as they celebrate the launch of their Spring 2023 issue.  See the table of content here. All Welcome.     

Free
People gathered around a table for the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster Graduate Student Workshop
Event Series Gender + Sexualities

Annual Gender + Sexualities Graduate Student Colloquium

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

9:00 - 10:00 - SESSION A (Presenter will Zoom) Giulia Giamboni, History, UC Santa Barbara  “Pelegrina de Saladino: Mother, Sister, Patroness, and Business Woman” This is chapter 2 of my dissertation “Gender, Charity, and Empire in the Late Medieval Eastern Mediterranean.” By investigating the life of fourteenth-century Pelegrina de Saladinis, the chapter explores the complex […]

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