“To resist,” from the Latin resistere, means to stand fast, to uphold principles against pressure to abandon them. In her lecture, Claudia Koonz will discuss the appeal of the Nazis’ mandate to “Love only they neighbor who is like thyself.” Using examples from visual and print media from the 1930s, Koonz will explore the moral […]

History Conference Room (HSSB 4020) The Robert Sherwood play, which won him the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1936, tells the story of a song and dance man traveling through Europe with a troupe of blonde beauties on the eve of World War II. It was later made into a movie starring Clark Gable and […]

About this LectureThe annual Church Lecture is sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, and made possible by the generosity of Sandra Church. 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 John […]

The History Department's annual graduate recruitment day runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, March 7. Highlights include: 10 a.m. bagel breakfast in HSSB 4208, informational sessions for admitted applicants (11 a.m.-5 p.m., with a break for lunch), and a 5 p.m. reception in HSSB 4020. A full schedule is now available.

The fundamental role that imitation played in Latin literature lies beyond any doubt. Ancient readers, however, did not deem every act of textual adaptation acceptable, and in fact relegated some to the category of plagiarism. In addition, disagreements recurrently arose in Latin literary history regarding whether an author had licitly imitated a source or had […]

Do scholars in Europe approach American Studies differently than their colleagues in the US? Looking at the history and culture of the United States from a distance, they indeed show a tendency to ask uncommon questions. European perspectives onto America may also derive from intellectual traditions rooted in specific national schools of thought. A typical […]

Professor Odd Arne Westad (London School of Economics and Political Science) will discuss the current state of Cold War studies. Professor Westad is the author of The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Time (Cambridge University Press, 2005), which won the Bancroft Prize in 2006. He is currently editing a […]

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. […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]