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Abstract The history of twentieth-century Peru is the history of the rural countryside, its governance, and the making of comunidadesand campesinosas foundational elements of a social, economic, and political landscape. Throughout a number of decades, domestic state powers and transnational capital turned lands and pastures into battlegrounds of ideas about labor, property, and modernization at […]
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2019 marks the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo program. The mission’s crewed flights began in 1968 with the first lunar circumnavigation; on July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first human to step foot on another planet. By the end of 1972 Apollo’s funding was cut and NASA’s moon explorations were over. From 1969 to […]
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A scholar of gender and globalization, Ramamurthy has conducted ethnography in the same villages in the Telangana region of southern India for three decades to examine the relationship between social reproduction of families and agricultural transformation. She is co-editor and co-author of The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization (2008). |
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DeVun Flier This lecture examines how certain ancient and medieval thinkers claimed that “hermaphroditism” was the original condition of humanity, created by God and documented in the first chapters of Genesis. The idea that Adam was a hermaphrodite fueled medieval debates about sex and gender, as well as about human nature. In the modern world, […]
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Almost from the moment it occurred, the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota was cast in the popular imagination as a point of no return, at which not only did hundreds of Lakota men, women and children perish but so, in a sense, did Native American life […] |
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Please join us for the next meeting of the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Edgardo Pérez, who will deliver a talk entitled "Slavery, irreverence, and sovereignty in the revolutionary Caribbean". The talk will be held in HSSB 4020 at 5 pm on Wednesday, February 6th, and will be followed by […] |
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UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions. |
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Jim Newland, Program Manager for Strategic Planning & Recreation Services, California State Parks, will be speaking on Tuesday, February 12, 1:30-4pm, HSSB 3208, as part of our series on alternate careers for historians. In addition to talking about his own work as a historian within the California State Parks, he will be discussing upcoming opportunities within the park system. Within the […]
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In her seminar paper, “’The Chief Supper of Hogs… and Peasants who are Not Too Nice’: Vegetable Diets for People and other Animals in the Long 18th Century,” Anya Zilberstein presents her new project. She will discuss the mutual influences and broader implications of 18th-century attempts to impose dietary shifts on animals and people, by […] |
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What comes next upon graduation? What resources does the History department provide for that challenge? How have other historians achieved their “dream job” as university professors? If these questions have crossed your mind, join us for a night of wine and delicious treats as professors Carol Lansing, Cheryl Jimenez Frei and Utathya Chattopadhyaya tell […] |
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UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions. |
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Friday, February 15, 2019 | 10:00am - 4:00pm UCSB | Annenberg Room (SSMS 4315)10:00: 10:00 Session 1: Valerie Hänsch, R. Lane Clark, Stephan Miescher Welcome: Stephan Miescher and Janet Walker Moderator: Bishnupriya Ghosh Respondent: Javiera Barandiarán 12:15: Lunch 1:15: Session 2: Nick Estes, Todd Darling Moderator: Emily Roehl Respondent: Mishuana Goeman 3:15: Closing Comments Jéssica Malinalli […] |
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The Medieval Studies Program and the Department of History are proud to sponsor a colloquium on the work and pedagogy of Sharon Farmer. The event will include presentations by six of her students exploring Professor Farmer's areas of expertise. The event will take place on February 16th in the McCune Conference Room, and the schedule […] |
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Lecture by Professor Hakim Adi (University of Chichester, UK) Thursday, February 21, 2019, 6:15-7:30 pm Girvetz Hall 1004 UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions. |
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In Native but Foreign, historian Brenden W. Rensink presents an innovative comparison of indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining Crees and Chippewas, who crossed the border from Canada into Montana, and Yaquis from Mexico who migrated into Arizona. The resulting history questions how opposing national borders affect and […] |
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Prof. Kiran Klaus Patel (Univ. of Maastricht) will speak about his new book The New Deal: A Global History (Princeton University Press, 2016), which won the World History Association's Bentley Book Prize in 2017. Professor Patel compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by other countries around […] |
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Over the course of the Enlightenment, Europe claimed a monopoly on progress for itself alone. In the eighteenth century, other places had appeared as familiar and comparable. By the early nineteenth century, they were cast as inscrutable and incommensurable. What caused this fundamental transformation in Europe’s understanding of itself? In this talk, I aim to […] UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions. |
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8:30 am – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast (HSSB 4020) 9:00 am – 10:15 am Campus Walking Tour (led by grad students) 10:15 am – 10:30 am Welcome (HSSB 4020) Professor Erika Rappaport, Department Chair; Professor Salim Yaqub, Director of Graduate Studies 10:30 am – 11:30 am Program Overview (HSSB 4020) Professors Paul Spickard, Randy Bergstrom, […]
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Talk by Kashia Arnold, UCSB: “Integrating the Pacific: Commodities in Motion and the Pacific World.”
Talk by Kashia Arnold, UCSB: “Integrating the Pacific: Commodities in Motion and the Pacific World.”
Arnold's dissertation research examines the transformations of the regional economy of the Pacific basin caused by World War I and the booming American commodity demand that accompanied it. |
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