A massive fence, more than two metres high, stretching over a thousand kilometres from East to West effectively separates the southwest African region into two parts. The fence, generally known as the Red Line, is a persistent legacy of South Africa’s colonial occupation of Namibia. Its construction in the 1960s marked the end of a […]
Patrick Ettinger, Professor of History and Director of the Capital Campus Public History Program at CSU Sacramento, will speak about the history of the US-Mexican border in the context of popular constructions of American immigration and current policy debates. Sponsored by the UC Santa Barbara Public History Program. Lunch will be provided. jdm/10/3/13
Professor Swati Chattopadhyay (Department Chair, History of Art & Architecture) and Mira Rai Waits (doctoral candidate) will offer a curators' talk in conjunction with the exhibition "Conjuring India: British Views of the Subcontinent, 1780-1870," on view in the UCSB Library's Special Collections (third floor) through December 15, 2013. "Conjuring India" explores the divergent perspectives of […]
The Center for Cold war Studies and International History (CCWS) will kick off the new year by showing the classic 1963 film "Lady Bug, Lady Bug," about the impact of an urgent nuclear alert on a rural American school. (See description below). After the screening, Kenneth Hough, a PhD student in history at UCSB, will […]
Joseph Hodge is Professor of History at West Virginia University, and author of Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism (2007). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.
For more information on this lecture, click here or contact Prof. Helen Morales in the UCSB Department of Classics. Sponsored by the UCSB Argyropoulos Endowment in Hellenic Studies. jwil 16.viii.2013
Dr. Maskiell is an expert on family and household relationships within slavery as well as on slave networks in both Dutch and English colonial Atlantic America. The author of "Elite Slave Networks in the Dutch Atlantic," published in Shifting the Compass: Pluricontinental Connections in Dutch Colonial and Post Colonial Literature, (ed. Dewulf, Praamstra and van […]
This new film is located at the intersection of labor history and music history - about union drivers and the invention of honkhorn music in Accra, Ghana. Steven Feld is an anthropologist/ethnomusicologist, who is currently Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of New Mexico. hm 10/9/13
Beer has become a familiar presence in American life, but it was once an oft-despised commodity,banned as part of Prohibition. How did this remarkable transformation from banned commodity to emblem of the good life occur? Join us at the UCSB Faculty Club for an evening of celebration and enlightenment, as History Prof. Lisa Jacobson explores […]
On October 25 at 2PM, Prof. Christine Borgman from UCLA will be speaking about how the sharing of research data affects scientific practice. Her talk is the Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Room 2135 Abstract Knowledge sharing in science includes sharing research data. Research funding agencies have focused on increasing the supply of data […]