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  • 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 […]

  • Ice in Paradise Event

    UCSB History on Ice FUNdraiser

    Ice in Paradise 6985 Santa Felicia Drive, Goleta, United States

    Come skate with the UCSB History Department at Ice in Paradise on Sunday, March 2, 2025 from 3:00 - 4:30 PM. Ticket fee ($10 for undergrads/grads, $15 for faculty) includes skate rental, and as many laps of the studio rink as you can accomplish in an hour and a half. Don't forget to RSVP here! […]

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    Katie Moore, “Counterfeiting and the Coming of the American Revolution”

    Goleta Valley Library 500 North Fairview Avenue, Goleta

    What does the history of counterfeiting reveal about colonial-imperial relations in British North America? What does it tell us about the nature of money itself? Join Professor Katie Moore as she utilizes counterfeiting as a lens to explore the political and social meanings of money in the century before the American Revolution, unveiling a rich […]

  • Talk: Erin Trumble, “Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan”

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

    Speaker: Graduate Student Erin Trumble   Title: "Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan"   Description: The talk will focus on retirement as a life stage and examine how it represented a time when women had both more freedom after being liberated from daily tasks and more authority due to their […]

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    History Associates Talk : Alfredo Gonzalez | “An American Promise: 20th Century US Military Naturalization.”

    Vista Del Monte, 3775 Modoc Rd, Santa Barbara 3775 Modoc Rd., Santa Barbara

    Assistant Professor of Political Science at UCSB, Alfredo Gonzalez will speak on "An American Promise: 20th Century US Military Naturalization." Despite widespread recognition that modern social welfare programs stem from the protections pledged to war veterans, commitments from Congress to naturalize immigrant service members and veterans are absent in debates on the military social safety […]

  • CLAIR presents “What’s Next for Venezuela?” January 22 | 2 PM | Online Webinar

    On Thursday, January 22nd, at 2 pm CLAIR (The Center of Latin American and Iberian Research)  is hosting a virtual discussion on the current crisis in Venezuela and the aftermath of the U.S. military intervention. David Smilde and Leonardo Vivas will examine the challenges related to governance, democracy, global and U.S. politics, and potential future […]

  • Winter 2026 | Public History Colloquium | Policing the Past

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

    Public History Colloquium is hosting its first meeting of the quarter this Friday, January 23rd from 12-1:50, HSSB 4020. The theme of the quarter is Controversies and Contested Pasts. This week the colloquia will focus on "Policing the Past" and will be discussing the following works: Ø  Gabriela Cristea and Simina Radu-Bucurenci, “Raising the Cross: Exorcising […]

  • CMES Grad Fellows Panel III | Statecraft, Memory, Belonging: From Abkhazia to Palestine

    On Monday January 26 at 9 am  CMES Spotlight Series is hosting its third iteration of the 2025-2026 academic year. This will feature a graduate student panel on the topic “Statecraft, Memory, Belonging: From Abkhazia to Palestine” and features the work of Graduate Fellows Gehad Abaza (Anthropology), Farah Hammouda (Sociology), and Amin Mahini (History).  Professor […]