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Name: UCSB Africa Center Inaugural Lecture: Dr. Zoé Samudzi’s “Rewriting the Concentration Camp”
Start: 2021-06-04T11:00:00-07:00
End: 2021-06-04T13:00:00-07:00
Location: Zoom

February 2021
February 25, 2021 @ 12:30 pm

AfroLatinx Voices Series: Re-Writing Black Religions in the Atlantic World–A Conversation with Andrea Mosquera-Guerrero

Zoom CA

How might we re-write the history and historiography of religion, race, and art in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Atlantic world? Prof. Andrea Guerrero-Mosquera (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco) will discuss the role of historians in uncovering and debating ideas about the past of people of African descent during the colonial period. She invites us to […]

Free
February 25, 2021 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Adrienne Edgar, “Mixed Children in Soviet Central Asia: Dilemmas of Identity and Belonging”

Zoom CA

The UCSB Department of Political Science's Identity Politics Group invites you to join them at a Workshop in which Professor Adrienne Edgar (History, UCSB) will present a chapter from her forthcoming book, Intimate Internationalism: Mixed Marriage in Soviet Central Asia. The chapter to be discussed is "Mixed Children in Soviet Central Asia: Dilemmas of Identity […]

Free
March 2021
March 9, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

ISRRAR Event–Dr. Samiha Rahman, “Redefining Black Excellence: Ihsan, Islamic Education, and the Tijani Sufi Order”

Zoom CA

Since the 1980s, hundreds of predominantly working-class African American Muslim youth have migrated to the West African Tijani Sufi town of Medina Baye, Senegal. They hope to circumvent the antiblackness, Islamophobia, and economic inequality they face in the U.S. in search of a transformative educational encounter in a society where Blackness and Islam constitute the […]
March 12, 2021 @ 1:00 pm Focal Point Dialogues in History

FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar II: Empire and Liberation

Zoom CA

Building on the collective knowledge shared in our first webinar, the History Department's Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the second session of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series. Inspired by the History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary […]
April 2021
April 16, 2021 @ 1:00 pm Focal Point Dialogues in History

FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar III: Racial Capitalism and Liberalism

Zoom CA

Building on the collective knowledge shared in the two previous webinars, the History Department's Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the third and final session of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series. Inspired by the History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the […]
April 24, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

CWWG Workshop–Mattie Webb, “Beyond Desegregation: Waging a Battle Against Apartheid in the South African Workplace”

Zoom CA

On Saturday, April 24, from 2 to 4 pm, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will host a workshop. They will read and discuss a dissertation chapter, “Beyond Desegregation: Waging a Battle Against Apartheid in the South African Workplace,” by Mattie Webb, a doctoral candidate in the UCSB history department. This workshop […]
May 2021
May 19, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Lily Anne Welty Tamai, “Mixed-Race Black Identities in Postwar Japan and Okinawa”

Zoom CA

The East Asia Center welcomes UCSB History alumna Dr. Lily Anne Welty Tamai (Asian American Studies, UCLA) for a talk on "Mixed-Race Black Identities in Postwar Japan and Okinawa." Mixed-race people born at the end of World War II made history quietly with their families and their communities. Wars and the military occupations that followed, […]

Free
May 20, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm

Center for Cold War Studies Talk: Nancy Mitchell, “Andrew Young: Challenging Anglo-Saxon Foreign Policy?”

Zoom CA

Andrew Young, one of Martin Luther King's top aides and a former member of Congress, served as Jimmy Carter's ambassador to the United Nations. Outspoken and controversial, Young questioned prevailing Cold War assumptions. "Communism has never been a threat to me," he said. "Racism has always been a threat—and that has been the enemy of […]

Free
May 21, 2021 @ 1:00 pm Focal Point Dialogues in History

FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Keynote Lecture with Prof. Herman Bennett: “Body, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic”

Zoom CA

The History Department's Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the keynote lecture of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series. The lecture, “Body, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic,” will be delivered by Prof. Herman L. Bennett. Herman L. Bennett is Professor at the Graduate Center at the City University […]
June 2021
June 4, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

UCSB Africa Center Inaugural Lecture: Dr. Zoé Samudzi’s “Rewriting the Concentration Camp”

Zoom CA

The UCSB Africa Center cordially invites you to a special guest lecture on June 4 by Dr. Zoé Samudzi on indigenous demands for restitution, long-contested histories of colonial dispossession and property ownership in the aftermath of the German genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples in Namibia. Her talk will interrogate the trajectories of colonial ideology and practice from […]

Free

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February 2021

AfroLatinx Voices Series: Re-Writing Black Religions in the Atlantic World–A Conversation with Andrea Mosquera-Guerrero

Adrienne Edgar, “Mixed Children in Soviet Central Asia: Dilemmas of Identity and Belonging”

March 2021

ISRRAR Event–Dr. Samiha Rahman, “Redefining Black Excellence: Ihsan, Islamic Education, and the Tijani Sufi Order”

FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar II: Empire and Liberation

April 2021

FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar III: Racial Capitalism and Liberalism

CWWG Workshop–Mattie Webb, “Beyond Desegregation: Waging a Battle Against Apartheid in the South African Workplace”

May 2021

Lily Anne Welty Tamai, “Mixed-Race Black Identities in Postwar Japan and Okinawa”

Center for Cold War Studies Talk: Nancy Mitchell, “Andrew Young: Challenging Anglo-Saxon Foreign Policy?”

FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Keynote Lecture with Prof. Herman Bennett: “Body, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic”

June 2021

UCSB Africa Center Inaugural Lecture: Dr. Zoé Samudzi’s “Rewriting the Concentration Camp”

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