Julia Costello will be talking about her newly published book, The California Missions, History, Art, and Preservation (Edna E. Kimbro and Julia G. Costello with Tevvy Ball), as the Norman […]

This presentation will examine how the medical establishment in Mérida and medical student brigades from the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán interpreted the health conditions of rural Maya communities and prescribed […]

Daniel Showalter is co-director of the Omrit Excavations project. This event is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. jwil 04.x.2009

The Federal Communications Act, as amended by Congress in 1951, grants the President of the United States the authority, during times of “public peril or disaster or other national emergency,” […]

Professor Novak, who is also a research professor at the American Bar Foundation, works in the fields of U.S. legal, political, and intellectual history. His first book first book, The […]

Biribi is nowadays a forgotten and incomprehensible word for most people in France. But it was a well-known name in the late nineteenth and in the first half of the […]

The program includes:20 minute movie clip from Senorita Extraviada Panel: Professor Hobson, Graduate Student Sara Watkins, and members from Mujeres de Juarez Snacks will be provided UCSB History grad student […]

Does graduate education in the humanities have a future at the University of California, and if so what might it look like? In this roundtable, the first event in the […]

Seminar by Stephen Humphreys (UCSB History), 12:00-1:00 PM in HSSB 4020 "Christian Communities and Muslim Rule in Early Islamic Syria and Mesopotamia (634-1070)". Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program and […]

Drawn from Prof. Watenpaugh's forthcoming book, Bread from Stone: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism, this talk examines the League of Nations' efforts on behalf of displaced […]