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Book Launch: Juan Cobo Betancourt and Natalie Cobo’s “The legislation of the archdiocese of Santafé”

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

Please join the Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies and the Department of History to celebrate the publication of Juan Cobo Betancourt and Natalie Cobo's new book, La legislación de la arquidiócesis de Santafé en el periodo colonial (Bogotá: Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, 2018). The book will be presented, in Spanish, by […]

flyer of Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture by Audra J. Wolfe: "Science, Freedom, and the Cold War: a Political History of Apolitical Science"

Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture by Audra J. Wolfe: “Science, Freedom, and the Cold War: a Political History of Apolitical Science”

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

As a part of the Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture Series, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center presents Audra J. Wolfe on the development of so-called apolitical science. Why do so many U.S. scientists continue to lean on the language of apolitical science, even as political leaders display less and less interest in scientists’ claims to expertise, or […]

Book Talk: Brendan W. Rensink, Brigham Young University “Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands”

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

In Native but Foreign, historian Brenden W. Rensink presents an innovative comparison of indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining Crees and Chippewas, who crossed the border from Canada into Montana, and Yaquis from Mexico who migrated into Arizona. The resulting history questions how opposing national borders affect and […]

Colloquium: Celebrating the Work and Pedagogy of Sharon Farmer

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

The Medieval Studies Program and the Department of History are proud to sponsor a colloquium on the work and pedagogy of Sharon Farmer. The event will include presentations by six of her students exploring Professor Farmer's areas of expertise. The event will take place on February 16th in the McCune Conference Room, and the schedule […]

Book Launch and Signing by David Treuer, University of Southern California: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 to the Present

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

Almost from the moment it occurred, the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota was cast in the popular imagination as a point of no return, at which not only did hundreds of Lakota men, women and children perish but so, in a sense, did Native American life […]

Heavenly Hermaphrodites, a Lecture by Leah DeVun

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

DeVun Flier This lecture examines how certain ancient and medieval thinkers claimed that “hermaphroditism” was the original condition of humanity, created by God and documented in the first chapters of Genesis. The idea that Adam was a hermaphrodite fueled medieval debates about sex and gender, as well as about human nature. In the modern world, […]

Film showing: “In the Shadow of the Moon”

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

2019 marks the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo program. The mission’s crewed flights began in 1968 with the first lunar circumnavigation; on July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first human to step foot on another planet. By the end of 1972 Apollo’s funding was cut and NASA’s moon explorations were over. From 1969 to […]

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Talk by Professor Bonnie Honig, Brown University: “Postures of Refusal”

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

Postures of Refusal: From Antigone to Kaepernick How do the postures of our bodies communicate citizens' dissidence or conformity, non-compliance or care? When Kaepernick kneels, Black Lives Matter lie down in the streets, soldiers stand at attention, and we all speak of moral fortitude as having a spine or showing spine, are these mere dramatizations […]

Film screening: “1968: The Year that Shaped a Generation”

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

1968 Poster1968 was a pivotal year in U.S. and global history. In the United States, students protested the Vietnam War. In France, they protested university conditions and sparked worker strikes across the country. In Mexico City, they protested state violence. This was also the year when the peaceful protest known as the “Prague Spring” flourished […]

Parents’ and Family Weekend faculty panel event: “Crossings and Boundaries”

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

Please join us for our Parents' and Family Weekend faculty panel event. The History Department faculty will discuss the ways in which boundaries—ideological, cultural, political, and intellectual—build barriers that impact the lives of ordinary people and their ability to access resources, knowledge, and power. Come join us, and bring along your family!

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