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History Department 2017 Graduation Reception for Undergraduates

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

All graduating History majors and their families are invited: Sunday June 18th 10:00am-12:00pm in HSSB 4020 The UCSB Department of History is pleased to invite you to the annual UC Santa Barbara History Department Graduation Reception. Please join History faculty members and your fellow students for a buffet breakfast and mingling. This celebration is for […]

“The Devil’s Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic,” A Talk by Sasha Disko

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

During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s burgeoning motorcycle culture. With automobiles largely a luxury of the upper classes, motorcycles […]

Phi Alpha Theta Meeting: Learn About CSU Long Beach’s M.A. in History Program

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

Please join UCSB's Phi Alpha Theta and the History Club in welcoming Dr. David Shafer, Chair of the Department of History at CSU-LB. Dr. Shafer will be on campus to introduce the M.A. in History Program at CSULB.  

“Diplomacy as a Means of Political Survival: The Cities and Duchies of the Northern Holy Roman Empire in relation to France, 1650–1730,” a talk by Indravati Félicité

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

"Diplomacy as a Means of Political Survival: The Cities and Duchies of the Northern Holy Roman Empire in relation to France, 1650–1730" Talk by Indravati Félicité, Maîtresse de conférences, Université Paris-Diderot (Paris VII) October 27 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in HSSB 4020 Indravati Félicité is the author of Négocier pour exister. Les villes […]

“The Forgotten Wine Porters of Northern Italy and their Forgotten Saint, 1200-1900” a talk by Lester K. Little (Smith College)

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

Please join us for Professor Lester K. Little's lecture, "The Forgotten Wine Porters of Northern Italy and their Forgotten Saint, 1200-1900." Little is Professor Emeritus at Smith College and the author of Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe; Benedictine Maledictions; and Indispensable Immigrants: The Wine Porters of Northern Italy and their Saint, […]

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Lecture by Dr. Lella Gandini on Early Childhood Education

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

"Early Childhood Education and Society in Post-War Italy: The Case of Reggio Emilia" In Northern Italy in the late 1960's, within the context of the  emerging Italian feminist movement and of social protests advocating  for better social services, child care, and schools for young  children, the city of Reggio Emilia developed an innovative system for […]

“Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity,” a talk by David Sepkoski

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

Why do we care about preserving biodiversity? At the beginning of the 21st century biodiversity has come to be seen as fragile and tenuous, constantly endangered by the threat of loss. Extinction plays a central role in this understanding of biodiversity. Whereas most historians who have examined this phenomenon have placed the modern biodiversity movement […]

Meeting for Winter 2017 Scheduling for History Majors and Minors

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

Registration Begins 10/22!!!! Are you a first year? A transfer student? New to the Department of History? Just want guidance? Come learn about all the amazing courses History is offering in Winter quarter and learn how to schedule the most advantageous schedule for YOU! ALWAYS THINK HISTORY FIRST The days, times, and locations of all […]