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  • Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture 2026 : “Reading Galileo’s Letters: Experiments in Friendship, Knowledge, and Community” by Paula Findlen

    HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Paula Findlen, Ubalto Pierotti Professor in History and Italian Studies at Stanford University will be delivering The Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture of 2026. Her talk will be on Tuesday, January 27 at 4:30 pm in the McCune Room, HSSB 6020. Her talk is titled: "Reading Galileo's Letters:  Experiments in Friendship, Knowledge, and Community"   Abstract: Galileo's […]

  • History Associates Book Club: “Lies my Teacher Told Me”

    Mosher Alumni House Alumni Association / UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

    The History Associates and the History Department are launching a new special program “A Book in Common.” The first session is taking place on Thursday 1/29 at the Mosher Alumni House. This is a Book Club for history faculty, staff, students, History Associates, and history-minded community members. We'll discuss Lies My Teacher Told Me (graphic […]

  • Ambition on the Road: Getting Ahead in Arabic Travel Writing

    HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Monday, Feb 2, 2026 | 04:00 PM Location HSSB 4080 A Syrian merchant known as the ʿAṭṭār set out on a new road in 1765. When he began to write about his journey, he did so with specific aim and purpose: success, prestige, and merit. A few years earlier, in 1758, a Maronite Christian by […]

  • History Associates Talk by Professor Anthony Barbieri on “Beyond the Mountains and Seas: Eurasian History through Travelers’ Eyes (400 BCE-1936 CE)”

    Night Lizard Brewing Company 607 State Street, Santa Barbara

    The History associates brings to you a talk by Professor Anthony Barbieri off the department of history on his latest book. The talk narrates the integrated history of Eurasia over the last two millennia through the travel of two dozen remarkable men and women who voyaged across this vast continent and reported on their encounters […]