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Fernando Bryce’s upcoming public lecture, “Drawing Twentieth-Century History: The World in Flames” to take place Friday, April 7th in HSSB 4020 starting at 3 pm, is part of the yearlong new interdisciplinary graduate workshop “Theoretical Perspectives on War, Political Violence, Nationalism and the State” (History 291) in the History Department. After the formal talk (3:00-4:30) and a coffee break, Bryce […] |
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A talk by Miroslava Chávez-García, Professor, Department of History, UCSB Relying on dozens of personal letters exchanged among Mexican male migrants across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the 1960s, this talk by Miroslava Chávez-García (UCSB Department of History) probes migrants' longing for economic opportunity, masculine affirmation, and emotional fulfillment. As the migrants' correspondence illustrates, they relied on each […] |
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A reception honoring Alicia Escalante, life-long community activist. Please join us in recognizing the life-long activism of Alicia Escalante, the founder of the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization (ELAWRO), who recently donated her papers to the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives at the UCSB Library. Escalante organized the ELAWRO in 1967 after tiring of […]
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Twine is the author, most recently, of Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class & Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market (2015); Girls with Guns: Firearms, Feminism, Militarism (2013); and A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy (2010). A copy of one of Twine's recent articles on this topic, "Gender-Fluid Geek Girls: Negotiating […] |
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The Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster will meet periodically throughout the year for brown bag lunches to read and workshop works-in-progress from members of the research cluster. On April 17, Elizabeth Schmidt will discuss, “Culinary Commonplacing: The Literary Value of Food Manuscripts in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain.” Draft papers will be distributed before the […]
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Lecture and discussion with Prof. Susanne Lüdemann (Munich/Rutgers Univ.) Hannah Arendt (1906 –1975) was a German-born American political theorist. She escaped Europe during the Holocaust, becoming an American citizen. Her works offer provocative reflections on the conditions of possibility for political experience, an experience that defines the human condition. Her work is deeply concerned with the […] |
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Talk by Bastian Still, Leiden University With more than 50,000 legal-administrative cuneiform tablets, the so-called Neo- Babylonian Period (c. 625-484 BCE) is one of the best-documented periods in the history of Mesopotamia, the region between Tigris and Euphrates. Unfortunately, this invaluable and very rich material rarely finds use in wider social-historical discourses, as cuneiform specialists […] |
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Talk by John W.I. Lee, UCSB History Department John Wesley Gilbert (ca. 1863-1923) was born in Hephzibah, Georgia. He attended Paine College (Augusta, Georgia), then received his BA from Brown University in 1888. He was the third African American to graduate from Brown. As a Brown MA student in 1890-1891, Gilbert became the first African American […] |
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Amelia Brown on Greek Maritime Religion |
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Please join us on April 28 from 4-6:30 pm for a panel, poster exhibit, and reception for the event “Thinking Palestine: 1967 and Beyond.” The event will be at Wireframe Studio in the Music Library, Music Building 1st floor. June 2017 will mark fifty years of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza […] |
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While completing her dissertation in history at UCSB, Rathe is affiliated with the Blum Center for Global Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development. She studies welfare and social policy in the twentieth century. |
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Professor Dana Frank of UC Santa Cruz will be leading an all day op-ed writing workshop on Saturday, May 6th. This workshop, offered on an annual basis by the UCSB Center for Work, Labor, and Democracy, provides faculty and students with an opportunity to hone their op-ed writing skills, translating their historical expertise into opinion pieces […] |