Alicia Boswell, UCSB: “Cultural Heritage and Community: Protecting the Past for the Future in the Moche Valley, Peru”

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

Please join us for the next meeting of the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Alicia Boswell, who will deliver a talk entitled "Cultural Heritage and Community: Protecting the Past for the Future in the Moche Valley, Peru". The talk will be held in HSSB 4020 at 5 pm on Wednesday, March […]

Talk by Dr. Alexander Statman: “Global Enlightenment: France, China, and the Idea of Progress”

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

Over the course of the Enlightenment, Europe claimed a monopoly on progress for itself alone. In the eighteenth century, other places had appeared as familiar and comparable. By the early nineteenth century, they were cast as inscrutable and incommensurable. What caused this fundamental transformation in Europe’s understanding of itself? In this talk, I aim to […]

Book Talk by Kiran Klaus Patel, University of Maastricht: “The New Deal: A Global History”

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

Prof. Kiran Klaus Patel (Univ. of Maastricht) will speak about his new book The New Deal: A Global History (Princeton University Press, 2016), which won the World History Association's Bentley Book Prize in 2017. Professor Patel compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by other countries around […]

“Censorship, Politics, and the Making of a Literary Classic”, a talk by Carlos Aguirre at the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History

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

Please join us for the next meeting of the History Department’s Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Prof. Carlos Aguirre (University of Oregon), who will be presenting a paper entitled "Censorship, Politics, and the Making of a Literary Classic: The Biography of Vargas Llosa's La ciudad y los perros". The talk will be held […]

Slaves, Silver, and Atlantic Empires (Alex Borucki, UC Irvine)

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

Please join us for the next meeting of the new Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Alex Borucki, who will deliver a talk entitled "Slaves, Silver, and Atlantic Empires: The Slave Trade to Spanish South America, 1700-1810". The talk will be held in HSSB 4020 at 5 pm on Wednesday, November 1st, […]