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Salim Yaqub, History, “Imperfect strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s”

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

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 […]

History Department Panel – UCSB Parents’ Weekend – Protest and Politics in Historical Perspective

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

"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 […]

Outlaws and Scofflaws: Pirates and the Making of the Mediterranean – Judith Tucker (Georgetown University)

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

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 […]

2016 Islamic Studies Graduate Student Conference – Identity, Memory, & Diaspora

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

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

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2016 Annual Medieval Studies Program Conference: “Gender & Religious Practice in the Middle Ages”

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

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." […]

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“Was the Rise of Islam a Black Swan Event?” Michael Cook, 2016 R. Stephen Humphreys Distinguished Visiting Scholar

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

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 […]

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Robin and Robert Jones present “Refugees on the Greek Island of Lesbos”

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

On Thursday, April 14th at 2pm in HSSB 6020, Robin and Robert Jones will speak about their experiences working with refugees landing on the Greek island of Lesbos. Their presentation is co-sponsored by the History Department, the Center for Middle East Studies, and the Argyropoulos Hellenic Studies Endowment. Robin and Robert Jones live part of their year […]

Book Launch and Signing: Sherene Seikaly, “Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine”

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

Event Description: The Department of History and the Center for Middle East Studies are delighted to sponsor a book launch and signing for Sherene Seikaly's new book with Stanford University Press, Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine.   Comments By: Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle […]

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After Tahrir: Egyptian Revolutionary Experiences and Future Visions

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

This four-day research collaboration workshop will take place at UC Santa Barbara on the five-year anniversary of the Tahrir Square Uprisings in 2011 that toppled Egypt's long-term dictator Hosni Mubarak. These uprisings in Egypt accelerated waves of anti-crony-capitalist demonstrations, worker organizing, youth revolts, media insurgencies, and police brutality protests that overthrew governments, mobilized populations throughout […]

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Jason M. Kelly: The Anthropocene’s Great Divergence

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

In the early years of this century, the Nobel Prize winning chemist Paul Crutzen popularized the idea that humans had entered a new geological age, the "Anthropocene." This concept, he argued, captured the fact that over the past 250 years humans and their technologies had reshaped the planet, permanently transforming its complex biophysical systems. His […]

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