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  • Gender and Sexualities Colloquium: Professor Candice Lyons

    The Gender and Sexualities Colloquium invites you to a workshop with Professor Candice Lyons, UCSB Department of Black Studies   “Loyalty, Love, or None of the Above: 19th Century U.S. Women's Queer Connections"  Friday, November 17 at 12:30 HSSB 4080 This is a workshop, so please read the attached paper before our event.  If you […]

  • 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, Professor Seikaly draws on one hundred years of history to reflect on land, time, and survival.  On Monday, January 22 at 5:30 pm  Location: McCune […]

  • 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 magic, the occult, and the circulation of knowledge in the early modern period, so this should prove to be a fascinating talk. Hunt Flyer1

  • 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 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 […]