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  • History and Political Economy Colloquium with Prof. Adam Sabra

    HSSB 4065 4065 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    The colloquium offers a forum for open, substantive discussions on how to approach political economy from a historical perspective; how to grapple with and benefit from the epistemological diversity surrounding political economy; and how a historical take on political economy can help contextualize and address urgent contemporary issues– at UCSB, in Santa Barbara/Southern California, in […]

  • Flyer for A Dam for Africa, Akosombo Stories from Ghana Book Launch on May 19 from 3-5PM in HSSB 1174

    Book Launch: Stephan Miescher, A Dam for Africa

    HSSB 1174 1174 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    In A Dam for Africa historian Stephan Miescher explores four intersecting narratives that weave together around Akosombo: Ghanaian aspirations about building a hydroelectric dam in the context of decolonization and Cold War; international efforts of the US aluminum industry in benefiting from Akosombo through subsidizing the VALCO aluminum smelter; local stories of upheaval and devastation […]

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    UCSB History Department’s Annual Senior Honors Colloquium

    HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Please join the History Department in celebrating the undergraduates at the Department's Annual Senior Honors Colloquium 2023. The program can be downloaded here.   9:00 AM – Welcoming Remarks Stephan Miescher, Chair, History Department Debra Blumenthal, Director of 2022-23 Senior Honors Seminar   9:10-10:40 - Panel I – Women and Politics Across Time and Space […]

  • People gathered around a table for the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster Graduate Student Workshop
    Gender + Sexualities

    Annual Gender + Sexualities Graduate Student Colloquium

    HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    9:00 - 10:00 - SESSION A (Presenter will Zoom) Giulia Giamboni, History, UC Santa Barbara  “Pelegrina de Saladino: Mother, Sister, Patroness, and Business Woman” This is chapter 2 of my dissertation “Gender, Charity, and Empire in the Late Medieval Eastern Mediterranean.” By investigating the life of fourteenth-century Pelegrina de Saladinis, the chapter explores the complex […]

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    UCSB History Department’s Annual Senior Honors Colloquium

    HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Please join the History Department in celebrating the undergraduates at the Department's Annual Senior Honors Colloquium 2024. The program can be downloaded here.   Department of History Senior Honors Colloquium Friday, 17 May 2024 HSSB 4020   Coffee: 8:45 am First Panel, 9-10:30 a.m.: To Get Us Started… Roselind Zeng, “Chinese Protein PR: Selling Soymilk […]

  • The Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture Series: The Human Factor: Work as Science in Twentieth-Century China: Victor Seow
    The Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture Series

    Victor Seow, “The Human Factor: Work as Science in Twentieth-Century China”

    McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    In 1935, the Commercial Press in Shanghai published a modest-sized volume on a subject most of its readers likely never heard of. Titled An Overview of Industrial Psychology (工業心理學概觀), this text was written by a young psychologist who was trained in and recently returned from Britain. It was the first in Chinese on the titular […]

  • Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, "The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs"

    Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, “The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs”

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

    UCSB Professor of History (emeritus) Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and Michigan State Professor of History (emeritus) Lewis Siegelbaum will engage in a colloquy on Professor Hasegawa's new book, The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs. When Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to […]

  • Juan Cobo Betancourt Book Presentation: "The Coming of the Kingdom: The Muisca, Catholic Reform, and Spanish Colonialism in the New Kingdom of Granada"

    Juan Cobo Betancourt, “The Coming of the Kingdom: The Muisca, Catholic Reform, and Spanish Colonialism in the New Kingdom of Granada

    McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Book Presentation: "The Coming of the Kingdom: The Muisca, Catholic Reform, and Spanish Colonialism in the New Kingdom of Granada" Juan Cobo Betancourt UC Santa Barbara | Associate Professor of History Commentator: Yanna Yannakakis Emory University | Professor of History The Coming of the Kingdom explores the experiences of the Indigenous Muisca peoples of the […]

  • Juan Cobo Betancourt Book Presentation: "The Coming of the Kingdom: The Muisca, Catholic Reform, and Spanish Colonialism in the New Kingdom of Granada"
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    Juan Cobo Betancourt, “Christianity, Colonialism, & the Muisca peoples of the Northern Andes”

    Alhecama Theater 215 A East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, United States

    Public Lecture: Juan Cobo Betancourt, "Christianity, Colonialism, & the Muisca peoples of the Northern Andes" Alhecama Theatre, 215 E. Canon Perdido Street, located in El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park Free and open to the public. RSVP to historyassociates@ia.ucsb.edu How does colonialism work without a strong colonial state? How does religious conversion work […]

  • Michael Cooperson: Towards a New Arabic Literary History

    Michael Cooperson (UCLA), “Towards a New Arabic Literary History”

    HSSB 4020

    Towards a new Arabic literary history Michael Cooperson, Professor of Arabic, NELC, UCLA What did pre-modern authors writing in Arabic have to say about their own literary history? Many things, as it turns out, most of them non-linear. In this respect, their accounts differ from the rise-and-fall story later promulgated by European scholars––a story which […]