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Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint Méry’s Intellectual World

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Sara Johnson is professor of literature of the Americas at the University of California, San Diego. Her book, Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World (Omohundro Institute/UNC Press, 2023), documents the work of Moreau de Saint-Méry, a late eighteenth-century Caribbean intellectual. The book combines traditional academic chapters and experimental forms in its use of […]

Lecture: Patrick Hunt (Stanford University) on “Hannibal’s Secret Weapon” in HSSB Room 6020

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Hannibal’s success as a military commander in the Second Punic War (218-202 BCE) – surprising and severely defeating Rome after crossing the Alps at the Trebbia, Trasimene and Cannae battles and trickery against Fabius Maximus and others – is usually not focused on his brilliant weaponization of nature and his important use of Iberian silver […]

Brad Bouley, “To Catch a Witch: Gender, Politics, and Persecution in the European Past”

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

As a special Halloween event, Professor Brad Bouley will present "To Catch a Witch: Gender, Politics, and Persecution in the European Past." Join us at noon on October 31 in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) for knowledge, pizza, and drinks. Undergraduates are especially welcome.

Book Launch: Professor Xiaowei Zheng’s “The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China”

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join the Department of History to celebrate the publication of Professor Xiaowei Zheng's new book, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China (Stanford University Press, 2018). Professor Matthew Sommer (History, Stanford) and Professor Anthony Barbieri-Low (History, UCSB) will speak about the significance of Professor Zheng's book for the field of modern […]

Annual History Department Awards Ceremony

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Please join us in recognizing the achievements of both the undergraduate and graduate students of the department.

Histories of Economy in the Middle East: A Workshop

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Histories of Economy Flyer2 MAY 18 1:30-1:45: Introduction Adam Sabra, University of California, Santa Barbara Sherene Seikaly, University of California, Santa Barbara 1:45-3:15: Commerce and Capital Adam Hanieh, “Space, Scale, and the Middle East’s Contemporary Political Economy” Jessica Goldberg, “Sea Change in Medieval Ifriqiyya” Ziad Abu-Rish, “Complicating the Post-Colonial Narrative” 3:15-3:30: Break 3:30-5:00: Money and […]

Robert Mugabe-Vladimir Putin: The End of One Era-Continuation of Another

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Mhoze Chikowero, Professor of History, UCSB, "The End of an Era in Zimbabwe?" Elena Aronova, Professor of History, UCSB, "Trolls, Bots, Cyberwarfare and the Cold War Origins of Putin's Information Wars" Monday, December 4, 5-6:30, UCSB McCune Conference Room Poster here: Mugabe poster

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Magic in Ancient Egypt

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Book Launch: The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands by Verónica Castillo-Muñoz

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Book Launch: The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands Featuring: Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Associate Professor of History, UCLA Paul Spickard, Professor of History, UCSB and: Veronica Castillo Munoz, Assistant Professor of History, UCSB

Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture – Erika Milam on “Creatures of Cain”

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join us on May 10, 4PM, in the McCune Conference Room for the Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. Our guest speaker will be Erika Lorraine Milam (Princeton University) who will be giving a lecture titled Creatures of Cain: Human Nature and the Politics of Violence During the Cold War.  Human nature contains the seeds of humanity’s […]