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Spring 2023 Issue Launch Party

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Come eat pastries, drink coffee, and meet the Editorial Board of the UC Santa Barbara Undergraduate Journal of History as they celebrate the launch of their Spring 2023 issue.  See the table of content here. All Welcome.     

Free

Event Series Gender + Sexualities

“Queer Public History: A Conversation with Marc Stein”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The Gender + Sexualities Cluster is pleased to welcome Professor Marc Stein to campus. Marc is a historian of U.S. law, politics, and society, with research and teaching interests in constitutional law, social movements, gender, race and sexuality. His books and articles have focused on twentieth-century urban gay and lesbian history; U.S. Supreme Court decisions on […]

Event Series Gender + Sexualities

Reputation and Habitual Misbehavior on a ‘Spicy Little Isle Where Ladies were Few’ (Paper Workshop)

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join us for our second Gender + Sexualities Paper Workshop of the Winter Quarter on Thursday, 16 February, at 2 PM.  We will meet in HSSB 4041 to discuss Kristen Thomas-McGill's paper, “Reputation and Habitual Misbehavior on a 'Spicy Little Isle Where Ladies were Few.'” You can find a copy of Kristen’s paper here. […]

Event Series Gender + Sexualities

Gender + Sexualities Paper Workshop | Mika Thornburg | “Selling Self-Discovery: Constructing a Desire for Female Travel in Postwar Japan, 1960-1985”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Mika Thornburg will share her in-progress dissertation chapter: "Selling Self-Discovery: Constructing a Desire for Female Travel in Postwar Japan, 1960-1985." Please read the paper in advance and be prepared to share your observations and insights with the group.

Grace Peña Delgado, “Mexico’s New Slavery: A Critique of Neo-Abolitionism to Combat Human Trafficking”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series, Grace Peña Delgado (History, UC Santa Cruz) will present "Mexico's New Slavery: A Critique of Neo-Abolitionism to Combat Human Trafficking." Delgado is the author of Making the Chinese American: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (2012) […]

Ronny Regev, “‘We Want No More Economic Islands’: The Mobilization of the Black Consumer Market in the Postwar US”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

On February 14 Ronny Regev (History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presents, "'We Want No More Economic Islands': The Mobilization of the Black Consumer Market in the Postwar US." WWII ushered in an era of economic growth in the United States, which enshrined consumption as an integral part of liberal citizenship. African Americans were often excluded […]

Jennifer Burns, “The Last Conservative: The Life of Milton Friedman”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series, Jennifer Burns (History, Stanford University) will present "The Last Conservative: The Life of Milton Friedman." Professor Burns is the author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (2009), and is now at work on […]

Andrew Hartman, “Rethinking Karl Marx: American Liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series, Andrew Hartman (History, Illinois State University) will present “Rethinking Karl Marx: American Liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War." Hartman is the author of Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School (2008) […]

David Stein, “Containing Keynesianism in an Age of Civil Rights: Jim Crow Monetary Policy and the Struggle for Guaranteed Jobs, 1956-1979”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "The Political Economy of Racial Inequality" Fall Quarter speaker series, David Stein (African American Studies, University of California Los Angeles) will present "Containing Keynesianism in an Age of Civil Rights: Jim Crow Monetary Policy and the Struggle for Guaranteed Jobs, 1956-1979." […]

Eric Rauchway, “A New Deal Voting Rights Case: A Strategy of the Roosevelt Justice Department, 1939-1941”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "The Political Economy of Racial Inequality" Fall Quarter speaker series, Eric Rauchway (History, University of California Davis) will present "A New Deal Voting Rights Case: A Strategy of the Roosevelt Justice Department, 1939-1941." Rauchway is the author of Murdering McKinley: The Making […]