UCSB Santa Barbara Department of History logo

Zoom

  1. Events
  2. Venues
  3. Zoom
CA Get Directions
Events at this venue
Today

A black-and-white image of a group of women gathered around a pile of foliage.

8th Annual Van Gelderen Lecture: Sasha Coles, “The Great Silk Experiment: Silkworms, Mulberry Trees, and Women Workers in Mormon Country, 1850s-1910s”

Zoom CA

UCSB History Associates presents the eighth annual Van Gelderen Graduate Student Lecture, this year given by Dr. Sasha Coles. From the 1850s to the early 1900s, Latter-Day Saint (or Mormon) women in both rural and urban Great Basin settlements planted mulberry trees, raised silkworms, and attempted to produce silk cocoons, thread, and cloth of a […]

Flyer for Focal Point: Herman Bennett, African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic on 3/12/21 at 1PM
Event Series Focal Point Dialogues in History

FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar II: Empire and Liberation

Zoom CA

Building on the collective knowledge shared in our first webinar, the History Department's Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the second session of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series.  Inspired by the History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary […]

Flyer for Cannabis and South Asia by Utathya Chattopadhyaya on 3/9/21 from 4-6PM

IHC Talk: Utathya Chattopadhyaya, “Cannabis and South Asia”

Zoom CA

The IHC's Asian/American Studies Collective welcomes UCSB History professor Utathya Chattopadhyaya for a talk on the role of cannabis in South Asian experiences of empire. Historical scholarship now conceives empire as a webbed uneven field of power relations and a multispecies enterprise. In other words, the anxious and breathless struggle of European imperialism to sustain itself […]

Free
Flyer for Zoom talk for Redefining Black Excellence: Ihsan, Islamic Education, and the Tikani Sufi Order on3/9/21 at 4PM

ISRRAR Event–Dr. Samiha Rahman, “Redefining Black Excellence: Ihsan, Islamic Education, and the Tijani Sufi Order”

Zoom CA

Since the 1980s, hundreds of predominantly working-class African American Muslim youth have migrated to the West African Tijani Sufi town of Medina Baye, Senegal. They hope to circumvent the antiblackness, Islamophobia, and economic inequality they face in the U.S. in search of a transformative educational encounter in a society where Blackness and Islam constitute the […]

Luke Roberts on a bicycle in front of a field and a building

History Associates: Luke Roberts, “A Samurai Wife Divorces her Lout of a Husband”

Zoom CA

Join the History Associates for an engaging presentation from UCSB History Professor Luke Roberts on a specific case that influenced gender roles in 19th-century Japan. Zoom link: ucsb.zoom.us/j/6855143149 Mori Nao, a young samurai wife in Japan, desired a divorce from her abusive husband in 1824. Legally a man could divorce his wife but a wife […]

Free
Flyer fro Abina and the Important Men: Graphic History as Public History on 3/5/21 at 12PM
Event Series Colloquium in Public History

Public History Colloquium Event–”Abina and the Important Men: Graphic History as Public History”

Zoom CA

Join the History Department’s Colloquium in Public History on Friday, March 5 at noon for a Zoom talk by Trevor R. Getz (San Francisco State University). Abina and the Important Men began as an attempt to address a classroom problem: how to teach students about the dual responsibilities of the historian to historical subjects and contemporary audiences.  […]

Free
Text of Humanities Decanted with wine being poured into a vase. Book cover of Making Art Work by W. Patrick McCray

Humanities Decanted–W. Patrick McCray, “Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture”

Zoom CA

The IHC's Humanities Decanted series invites all to a dialogue between Patrick McCray (History) and Alan Liu (English) about McCray’s new book, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture (MIT Press, 2020). Audience Q&A will follow. Despite C. P. Snow’s warning, in 1959, of an unbridgeable chasm between […]

Free
The Undergraduate Journal of History Vol. 1, No.1 Spring 2021

Launch Party for the UCSB Undergraduate Journal of History

Zoom CA

The UCSB Undergraduate Journal of History is about to release its first issue, and its editors and contributors cordially invite the public to its Zoom launch party on March 2. The event will feature a short Q&A featuring four of the ten undergraduate authors and moderated by members of the editorial team.    To celebrate […]

Free

6 people in camoflauge uniform wading in a river. UCSB Cold War Working Group

CWWG Workshop–Addison Jensen, “WITCHIEs, Chickies, and Donut Dollies: The Women’s Rights Movement and American GIs”

Zoom CA

On Saturday, February 27, from 2 to 4 pm, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will host a workshop. They will read and discuss a dissertation chapter, “WITCHIEs, Chickies, and Donut Dollies: The Women’s Rights Movement and American GIs,” by Addie Jensen, a doctoral candidate in the UCSB history department. This […]

Free
Flyer for We are Charrua Women: From Negation to Re-Existence in Our Body-Territory on 2/26/21 at 4PM

Mónica Michelena: “We Are Charrúa Women: From Negation to Re-Existence in Our Body-Territory”

Zoom CA

UCSB and UCSD have joined together to welcome Mónica Michelena, Secretary of the Charrúa Nation's Council and former Advisor on Indigenous Affairs for Uruguay's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2014-18). Charrúa women have gone through dispossession, exclusion, and negation that left marks on their collective memory and body-territory. This genocidal process did not end in 19th-century […]

Free
Contact Us

Department of History
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9410

Directory
Fax: 805.893.7671

Spot a problem?
Contact the Webmaster

Academics
People
Site Administration