This is a great opportunity for the 2016-2017 new undergraduate majors and those interested in the History, Medieval Studies, and the History of Public Policy majors and the History and Labor Studies minors to meet members of the Department of History faculty. Students will make connections with faculty and with other students and learn about […]
All graduating History majors and their families are invited: Sunday June 12th 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 […]
UCSB History Department's Annual Senior Honors Seminar Colloquium Friday, May 20th 4020 HSSB 8:30 AM Coffee and pastries 9:00 AM Welcome - Professor Sharon Farmer, Chair of the History Department - Professor Debra Blumenthal, Director of 2015-16 Senior Honors Seminar 9:15 AM Bruno Tomasini, “The Danger of Moral Necessity: The Dissolution of the Civil Rights Congress” […]
In the mid-1960s, NASA began building space technologies for the war in Vietnam. Students from the New Left vigorously protested against the space agency, which responded in the early 1970s by scrapping several of its military projects and instead developing satellites that could collect useful ecological data on natural resources around the world. Soon scientists, engineers, […]
The Senior Honors Seminar is a two-quarter seminar for majors in History, History of Public Policy, and Medieval Studies to be held in fall 2016 and winter 2017. The informational meeting for interested and eligible students is scheduled for Wednesday, May 4th from 2-3:30 pm in HSSB 4020. Please contact Prof. Hilary Bernstein at bernstein@history.ucsb.edu […]
This presentation explores the intersections of photographic images, family history, tourism, and Ho-Chunk survivance through an examination of two photographic collections housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society: the Charles Van Schaick Collection and the H.H. Bennett Collection. The Van Schaick collection includes nearly taken between 1879-1936, and the H.H. Bennett Collection is comprised of hundreds […]
Speaker: Lerna Ekmekcioglu is McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she is also affiliated with Women and Gender Studies Program. She specializes on Turkish and Armenian lands in the beginning of the 20th century and the history of Armenian feminism. In 2006 she co-edited a volume in Turkish about the […]
Daily, all over the world, women and children (especially) are abused by intimate partners and family members, friends and colleagues. While a legal infrastructure and legal responses will not end gender-based violence (GBV) and domestic violence (DV), they can provide reliefs for survivors of violence. They can serve as spaces from which GBV and DV […]
Lecture by Dr. Arunima Datta Dr. Arunima Datta received her PhD in 2015 in Southeast Asian history from the National University of Singapore. She is currently a post-doctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Malayan Branch of the Asiatic Society. She has published several […]
Phi Alpha Theta will be hosting its annual "Welcome Back!" meeting and providing an overview of its goals and events for the Winter 2016 quarter. This meeting is very important, so please consider attending! A quick peek into what PAT is doing this quarter includes a research workshop, a club trip to the Huntington Library, and a talk by UCSB History […]