Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Talk on the 1968 Student Massacre in Mexico City: the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Polytechnic "Brigadistas" in the 1968 Student Movement
2018-04-25 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Multicultural Center (MCC) Theater, Multicultural Center, Isla Vista, CA, 93117, United States
In 1968, hundreds of students were killed by the Mexican military and police for organizing student protests against government repression. On the fiftieth anniversary of this massacre, activists/survivors Gabriel Vega, Felipe Galvan, and Jesus Gutierrez will reflect on the meaning of student activism, memory, and social justice in times of repression. See the flyer for the event here.

Humanities in Prison (Critical Issues in America Co-Sponsored Event)
2018-04-26 09:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

Nate Citino, History, Rice University, "Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S.-Arab Relations, 1945-1967."
2018-04-27 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Citino discusses his most recent book, Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S. – Arab Relations, 1945-1967 (2017). He is also the author of From Arab Nationalism to OPEC: Eisenhower, King Sa’ud, and the making of U.S. – Saudi Relations (2002). Co-Sponsored with the Blum Center for Global Poverty Allevation and Sustainable Development. A chapter from his recent book can be found here.
A light lunch will be served.

Dr. Nancy Winter, "Traders & Refugees: Contributions to Etruscan Architecture"
2018-04-30 12:00 - 13:30 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

Spanish Colonialism and the Origins of Microeconomics, a talk by Patricia Seed
2018-05-02 17:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us for the next meeting of the History Department’s Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Dr. Patricia Seed (UC Irvine), who will be presenting a paper entitled “Spanish Colonialism and the Origins of Microeconomics”.
The talk will be held at 5pm on Wednesday, May 2nd in HSSB 4020, and will be followed by a small reception.
Spanish Colonialism and the Origins of Microeconomics. For those wondering what Spanish colonialism has to do with the origins of modern microeconomics, the answer is everything. This talk will take you through the canon law of the School of Salamanca, the turbulent history of the unique Latin American institution of the encomienda, and Islamic traditions of property, only to see how it all came together in modern microeconomics.
Patricia Seed is History Professor at UC Irvine and the author of several award-winning books, including: The American Pentimento: The Pursuit of Riches and the Invention of “Indians” (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), winner of the 2003 Prize in Atlantic History; Ceremonies of Possession in Europe’s Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640 (Cambridge University Press, 1995; Portuguese edition, 2000) (ACLS E-selection); To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico: Conflicts Over Marriage Choice, 1574-1821 (Stanford University Press, 1988; Spanish edition, 1992), winner of the Bolton Prize and serialized in La Jornada (Mexico City). She is also the editor of José Limón and La Malinche: The Dancer and the Dance (The University of Texas Press, 2007).

We hope to see many of you there!

Book Launch and Talk: Market Encounters: Consumer Cultures in Twentieth-Century Ghana, by Bianca Murillo (CSU Dominguez Hills)
2018-05-03 17:00 - 18:30 | buchanan 1940, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
Dr. Murillo, who received her Ph.D in African history from UCSB in 2009, will be discussing her new book on twentieth century Ghana. Market Encounters, which was published as a part of Ohio University Press’s series New African Histories, explores the shifting social terrains that made the buying and selling of goods in modern Ghana possible. Fusing economic and business history with social and cultural history, she traces the evolution of consumerism in the colonial Gold Coast and independent Ghana from the late nineteenth century through to the political turmoil of the 1970s.
This talk is co-sponsored by the African Studies Research Focus Group.

UCSB History Associates
2018-05-07 11:27

Trinity Episcopal Church, Guild Hall
2018-05-07 11:27

Unnamed Venue
2018-05-07 11:27

Karpeles Manuscript Library
2018-05-07 11:27
