Speakers include Marcos Vargas, executive director of CAUSE and Manuel Pastor of USC's Program for Environmental and Regional Equity.

Caesar's style has been admired for its stringency and simplicity–and to the detriment of a fuller appreciation of its complexities. His classic texts are worth a second glance. They reveal not only far greater debts to the administrative language of the Roman Empire than previously assumed (hence the title) but also a good number of […]

UC Santa Barbara Arts and Humanities "Nature and Culture" Series at the Wine Cask Join UC Santa Barbara historian Lisa Jacobson for a spectacular Wine Cask artisan dinner and talk at the inaugural UCSB public humanities Culture and Nature Series event. For more information about the series, please click here. Thursday, October 10, 2013 6:00 […]

A massive fence, more than two metres high, stretching over a thousand kilometres from East to West effectively separates the southwest African region into two parts. The fence, generally known as the Red Line, is a persistent legacy of South Africa’s colonial occupation of Namibia. Its construction in the 1960s marked the end of a […]

Patrick Ettinger, Professor of History and Director of the Capital Campus Public History Program at CSU Sacramento, will speak about the history of the US-Mexican border in the context of popular constructions of American immigration and current policy debates. Sponsored by the UC Santa Barbara Public History Program. Lunch will be provided. jdm/10/3/13

Professor Swati Chattopadhyay (Department Chair, History of Art & Architecture) and Mira Rai Waits (doctoral candidate) will offer a curators' talk in conjunction with the exhibition "Conjuring India: British Views of the Subcontinent, 1780-1870," on view in the UCSB Library's Special Collections (third floor) through December 15, 2013. "Conjuring India" explores the divergent perspectives of […]

The Center for Cold war Studies and International History (CCWS) will kick off the new year by showing the classic 1963 film "Lady Bug, Lady Bug," about the impact of an urgent nuclear alert on a rural American school. (See description below). After the screening, Kenneth Hough, a PhD student in history at UCSB, will […]

Joseph Hodge is Professor of History at West Virginia University, and author of Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism (2007). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.

For more information on this lecture, click here or contact Prof. Helen Morales in the UCSB Department of Classics. Sponsored by the UCSB Argyropoulos Endowment in Hellenic Studies. jwil 16.viii.2013

Dr. Maskiell is an expert on family and household relationships within slavery as well as on slave networks in both Dutch and English colonial Atlantic America. The author of "Elite Slave Networks in the Dutch Atlantic," published in Shifting the Compass: Pluricontinental Connections in Dutch Colonial and Post Colonial Literature, (ed. Dewulf, Praamstra and van […]

This new film is located at the intersection of labor history and music history - about union drivers and the invention of honkhorn music in Accra, Ghana. Steven Feld is an anthropologist/ethnomusicologist, who is currently Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of New Mexico. hm 10/9/13

Beer has become a familiar presence in American life, but it was once an oft-despised commodity,banned as part of Prohibition. How did this remarkable transformation from banned commodity to emblem of the good life occur? Join us at the UCSB Faculty Club for an evening of celebration and enlightenment, as History Prof. Lisa Jacobson explores […]

Nathan Connolly is Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, and author of By Eminent Domain: Race and Capital in the Building of An American South Florida (2011). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.

On October 25 at 2PM, Prof. Christine Borgman from UCLA will be speaking about how the sharing of research data affects scientific practice. Her talk is the Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Room 2135 Abstract Knowledge sharing in science includes sharing research data. Research funding agencies have focused on increasing the supply of data […]

Freedom Now! showcases photographs rarely seen in the mainstream media,which depict the power wielded by black men, women and children in remaking U.S. society through their activism. This exhibition has been curated by Martin Berger, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz. The exhibition runs from October 19 to December 13, 2013 […]

Thomas Trezise will facilitate a conversation about his new book, Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony. Trezise will focus the discussion on chapter 1 of his book ("Frames of Reception"), which is available for downloading on the IHC website : www.ihc.ucsb.edu/witnessing. Monday, October 28 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB […]

This talk examines physique pictorial magazines, magazines intended for a female teenage audience, and gay pornographic magazines—to illustrate how celebrations of beautiful male faces and bodies functioned as important and ubiquitous sites of pleasure in post-war Britain. Men and women utilized images and textual descriptions of masculine facial and bodily attractiveness to articulate sexual desires […]

The Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-330 BCE) stretched over thousands of miles and included many different cultures. Thanks to textual, visual, and archaeological materials, we can reconstruct some of the intricate and sophisticated ways this empire governed its diverse population and the ways those individuals and cultures responded to imperial presence. This talk examines government […]

History of the Present: The Middle East Syria's civil war. Egypt's political crisis. Iran's nuclear program. Drone strikes. With the Middle East dominating today's headlines, and with controversy swirling around the U.S. role in that region, the history department invites you to Professor Salim Yaqub's short, informative lecture, "You Say You Want a Resolution? Presidents, […]

The Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy is delighted to host the Rutgers University Historian James Livingston for a conversation on his latest work. Livingston is the author of Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890-1913 (1986); as well as The World Turned inside Out: American Thought and Culture […]