Reputation and Habitual Misbehavior on a ‘Spicy Little Isle Where Ladies were Few’ (Paper Workshop)

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Please join us for our second Gender + Sexualities Paper Workshop of the Winter Quarter on Thursday, 16 February, at 2 PM.  We will meet in HSSB 4041 to discuss Kristen Thomas-McGill's paper, “Reputation and Habitual Misbehavior on a 'Spicy Little Isle Where Ladies were Few.'”  You can find a copy of Kristen’s paper here. Please read the paper in [...]

History and East Asia Center presents Aaron Skabelund’s talk “Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force During the Cold War” | Mar 1 | 4PM | HSSB 4020

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

 The Self-Defense Force— Japan’s post-World War II military—and specifically the Ground Self Defense Force (GSDF), struggled for legitimacy in a society at best indifferent to them and often hostile to their very existence. This talk focuses on the GSDF and its efforts, in the form of natural disaster relief operations, civil engineering projects, and support for the events such as [...]

“LGBT Direct Action Bibliography, Chronology, and Inventory, 1965-73” (Marc Stein, SFSU)

CITRAL Seminar Room, Library UCSB Library, 525 UCEN Rd, Santa Barbara, CA

The Gender + Sexualities Cluster is pleased to welcome Professor Marc Stein to campus. Marc is a historian of U.S. law, politics, and society, with research and teaching interests in constitutional law, social movements, gender, race and sexuality. His books and articles have focused on twentieth-century urban gay and lesbian history; U.S. Supreme Court decisions on sex, marriage and reproduction; queer [...]

“Queer Public History: A Conversation with Marc Stein”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

The Gender + Sexualities Cluster is pleased to welcome Professor Marc Stein to campus. Marc is a historian of U.S. law, politics, and society, with research and teaching interests in constitutional law, social movements, gender, race and sexuality. His books and articles have focused on twentieth-century urban gay and lesbian history; U.S. Supreme Court decisions on sex, marriage and reproduction; queer [...]

From Table to Text: Borders and Boundaries in Food History

University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

  From Table to Text: Borders and Boundaries in Food History March 3rd and 4th, 2023 A Virtual Conference Hosted by the History Department,  University of California at Santa Barbara Organizers: Erika Rappaport and Elizabeth Schmidt All paper panels will take place via Zoom. If you need assistance setting up a Zoom account, please let us know.  For questions please contact: [...]

Graduate Recruitment Day

HSSB 4020

Admitted graduate students are invited to visit the Department of History and get to know its faculty and current graduate students.  Panels, roundtables and social events will introduce prospective grad students to our department. Download the program and schedule here: 2023 Recruitment Day Schedule

Coffee on Campus (with Marc Stein)

HSSB 3041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

The Gender + Sexualities Cluster is pleased to welcome Professor Marc Stein to campus. Marc is a historian of U.S. law, politics, and society, with research and teaching interests in constitutional law, social movement s, gender, race and sexuality. His books and articles have focused on twentieth-century urban gay and lesbian history; U.S. Supreme Court decisions on sex, marriage and reproduction; [...]

Deadly Curves: Dissection and Desire in Japan, 1879-1930 (Paper Workshop)

University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Please join us for our final Gender + Sexualities Paper Workshop of the Winter Quarter on Thursday, 16 March, at 2 PM.  We will meet in HSSB 4041 to discuss Kandra Polantis, “Deadly Curves: Dissection and Desire in Japan, 1879-1930." You can find a copy of Kandra’s paper here. Please read the paper in advance and be prepared to share [...]

Talk by Joshua Conrad Jackson: The History of Our Minds: Evidence for Co-Evolution of Cultural and Psychological Processes

Zoom CA

Dr. Joshua Conrad Jackson, a DRRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Northwestern University and an incoming professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago, is going to deliver a talk titled "The History of Our Minds: Evidence for Co-Evolution of Cultural and Psychological Processes," on Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 4-5:30PM (PST). Please click this link to attend. Everyone is welcome!  Biologically [...]

2023 Desert Russian History Workshop

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

The Desert Russian History Workshop meets annually and brings together historians of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union from universities throughout the western United States.  Previous venues have included the University of Nevada at Reno, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Arizona State University, and U.C. Riverside. The Desert Workshop offers a unique format in which papers on [...]

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