Did the Cold War truly end in 1991? In Part III of The Unfinished Cold War Lecture Series, Professor Melvyn Leffler provides some surprising answers to this question while discussing the Cold War roots of today’s international conflicts. Melvyn P. Leffler is a world-renowned expert on the Cold War and serves as the Edward R. […]
The Early Modern Center of the University of California, Santa Barbara, in collaboration with the Transcriptions Project, invites scholars to attend a conference on the Center's 2007-2008 theme, "Science & Technology, 1500-1800." This one-day interdisciplinary conference will be a forum to explore the interrelated fields of science and technology in the early modern period. We […]
Professor Janet Afary will look at the impact of globalization on Islamic discourses of Iran and the region, from Pan-Islamism of the late nineteenth century to today's debates on Reformist Islam. Janet Afary has a Ph.D. in Modern Middle East History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she received the Horace H. Rackham […]
The Santa Barbara Historical Museum presents "Red Cross Threads of History: A Santa Barbara County Retrospective." Celebrate the American Red Cross's 116-year-long presence in our county by visiting this exhibit of vintage Red Cross clothing, photos, pins, and posters. The exhibit is at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, Covarrubias Adobe, 136 East De la Guerra […]
The first Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference, organized by the graduate students of the UCSB Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group, will be held on Friday, March 21 and Saturday, March 22, 2008. Conference sessions begin at 1 p.m. on Friday the 21st, and at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday the 22nd. All sessions will be […]
Professor Emily Rosenberg delivers this year’s keynote address at the 2008 annual International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, taking place this year at UCSB. Emily Rosenberg’s research and teaching interests focus on the history of U.S. economic and cultural expansion from the late nineteenth century to the present. Her fields of interest include […]
Here at UCSB, this Friday and Saturday, April 4-5, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History is hosting the 2008 annual International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War. You are welcome to attend the academic presentations! The full conference schedule is below. The annual International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War […]
Prof. Figueroa is the author of Sugar, Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico (University of North Carolina Press, 2005. His scholarly interests include slavery, post-emancipation, and racial discourses and practices in the Caribbean, historical film (both fiction and documentary), and the history of Latinos/Latinas in the USA. His new research project focuses on urbanism, […]
About this LectureThe annual Kress Lecture is sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. Directions to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art may be found here. For more information about the Archaeological Institute of America, click here. About the Speaker Dr. Salima Ikram, a well known Egyptologist, is an associate […]
On January 20, 1942, 15 high ranking German officers gathered in a villa on the outskirts of Berlin for a clandestine meeting that would ultimately seal the fate of the European Jewish population. Ninety minutes later, the blueprint for Hitler’s Final Solution was in place. The Wannsee Protocol, found in the files of the Reich’s […]