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
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
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 […]
Salim Yaqub will be giving a talk on his new book, Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s, which was published by Cornell University Press in September 2016. In this book Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade in U.S.-Arab relations—a time when Americans and Arabs became an inescapable presence […]
"Protest and Politics in Historical Perspective," Panelists: Professor Giuliana Perrone, PhD UC Berkeley, "Black Lives Matter in Context: The Long HIstory of Black Activism in America" Professor Nelson Lichtenstein, PhD UC Berkeley, "$15 an Hour: Is it a Social Movement?" Professor Alice O'Connor, PhD Johns Hopkins University, "By the People: Self-Governance and the Isla Vista […]
Monday, October 10th, 5:00 pm IHC McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) How did the Mediterranean emerge as a coherent and recognizable place in the early modern period? By looking to the semi-licit world of piracy and to the development of its laws and practices in particular, we can trace a convergence of understandings and agreements […]
Please join the History Department for its 6th annual Islamic Studies Graduate Student Conference, beginning on May 20th and concluding on the 22nd in HSSB's McCune Conference Room. For additional information, including the schedule of speakers, please review the conference program which is provided below. Download the Conference Program
Keynote talk: “Men in Women's Monasteries: Nuns' Priests in the Central Middle Ages” by Fiona Griffiths, Professor of History at Stanford University The Medieval Studies Program would like to invite you to join us for our annual conference, May 7, 2016. The theme of this year's conference is "Gender and Religious Practice in the Middle Ages." […]
A Black Swan Event is by definition a highly improbable happening with a massive impact. No one questions the impact of rise of Islam, but just how improbable was it? Two of its central features look very unlikely against the background of earlier history: the appearance among the Arabs of a new monotheistic religion, and the formation of […]