Department of History

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  • John C. Marquez: Laboring for Freedom: Statuliberas in 18th Century Rio de Janeiro

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

    Please join us to welcome John C. Marquez from UC Riverside who will discuss a chapter titled Laboring for Freedom: Statuliberas in 18th Century Rio de Janeiro from his forthcoming book Freedom on Three Coasts on slavery, law, and belonging in Brazil and the Portuguese Empire in the Atlantic Ocean. Marquez is a scholar of the Luso-Atlantic world and colonial Latin […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Talk by Mateo Jarquin, “Managaua 1979,” Monday, April 20, 4 pm, HSSB 4041

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

    Professor Mateo Jarquin of Chapman University will be giving a talk titled "Managua 1979: International and Transnational Origins of the Cold War’s Last Great Revolution."   After the Cuban Revolution, armed movements across Latin America embraced violent struggle as a path to social transformation. Yet only one managed to seize power: Nicaragua’s Frente Sandinista de […]