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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

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 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 […]

Talk by Professor Emerita, Sharon Farmer | Fowl Play: France and beyond, 1979…

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The History Department will host  SHARON FARMER, Professor Emerita (UCSB),  who will present a talk, entitled “Fowl Play: France and beyond, 1979…”  When: 12:00 PM, Thursday, January 12th. Where: HSSB 4020.  The chapter from which Farmer will be reading deals with the time she spent in France in 1979-80, when she first began the research for her […]

Honors Thesis Colloqium for the History Department

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

The very best majors in the history department share the research that they have undertaken on their senior theses. When : May 13th, 8:45 AM - 5:00 PM Venue : HSSB 4020 and Zoom Click here to join the zoom meeting. Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium Schedule May 13, 2022 HSSB 4020 or via zoom at […]

Gender Cluster Workshop | Anna Rudolph

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  On Thursday, 20 January 2022, Anna Rudolph will share her chapter - Chapter 6_Revolutionary Radegund- with the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster.    This chapter presents an in-depth study of the cult of Radegund, a sixth-century Frankish queen-saint, from the French Revolution through the turn of the twentieth century. The Revolution had a devastating effect […]

Brandon Seto, “Doctorates Without Borders: Careers in Government, Advocacy, and Communication for PhDs”

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On February 28, Dr. Brandon Seto, Senior Floor Consultant to California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (and a 2010 UCSB history PhD), will give a talk entitled "Doctorates Without Borders: Careers in Government, Advocacy, and Communication for PhDs," about employment opportunities outside academia available to holders of PhDs. The talk, which is sponsored by UCSB's […]

Lisa Jacobson, “A Taste of Success: Whiskey Drinking, Masculine Identities, and the Sensory Imagination in the Postwar US”

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Join the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster for a paper workshop on Lisa Jacobson's "A Taste of Success: Whiskey Drinking, Masculine Identities, and the Sensory Imagination in the Postwar US." The event will take place in HSSB 4020 on November 22 at 3:00. To obtain the paper in advance, email Jarett Henderson at jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu. Please […]

Elizabeth Buettner, “Postcolonial Migration Meets European Integration: Britain in Comparative Perspective”

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Elizabeth Buettner, Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam, will present her paper "Postcolonial Migration Meets European Integration: Britain in Comparative Perspective" on Tuesday, October 22 at 4:00 in HSSB 4020. How exceptional has Britain’s history of inward migration after 1945 been compared to that of other Western European countries? Like other former […]

Book Talk and Launch: Eileen Boris’s Making the Woman Worker

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

On October 18 at 2:00 in HSSB 4020, Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Feminist Studies, presents a book talk titled "How Did an Americanist Come to Write Transnational History?" in connection with the launch of her new book, Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019. This event is hosted by […]

Graduate Recruitment Day—Schedule of Events

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8:30 am – 9:00 am                   Continental Breakfast (HSSB 4020) 9:00 am – 10:15 am                 Campus Walking Tour (led by grad students) 10:15 am – 10:30 am               Welcome (HSSB 4020) Professor Erika Rappaport, Department Chair; Professor Salim Yaqub, Director of Graduate Studies 10:30 am – 11:30 am               Program Overview (HSSB 4020) Professors Paul Spickard, Randy Bergstrom, […]