Events
History Department
Zachary Lockman: “Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the United States”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesArea studies is often simplistically depicted as little more than a Cold War form of knowledge, but its emergence as a component of the postwar American academic scene was in fact propelled and shaped by visions, exigencies and contingencies that were not initially or exclusively about the needs of the national security state. Zachary Lockman’s 2016 book Field Notes: […]
The Devil’s Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
Rachel Carson College, Room 301 Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"The Devil's Wheels Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic" by Sasha Disko During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s […]
CANCELLED Covell Meyskens: “Visualizing the Past: The Making of the Website ‘Everyday Life in Mao’s China'”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCovell Meyskens, Assistant Professor of History at the Naval Postgraduate School, will talk about his website Everyday Life in Mao's China which currently houses over 5,000 images China. Meyskens will discuss the website's origins, its intended and unintended contributions to the expanding field of PRC history, and suggestions for offer suggestions on how to conduct […]
Camille Fauroux: “Framing Gender across Boundaries: French Women at Work in Berlin’s War Industry (1940-1945)”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDuring the Second World War, 50,000 to 100,000 French women chose to leave France to work for the war industry in Germany. Their transnational experience points to the racial and gendered division of labor that deployed itself throughout Nazi occupied Europe. In an attempt to sustain the war effort while limiting German’s women’s draft and […]
UCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryPODCAST: EVENT PHOTOS: by Steve Kurtz UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research Presents: UCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection 6:30pm | “The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America” Public conversation with Ethan Michaeli, author of The Defender, and David Anthony, Professor of History at UC […]
Sugar Beets, Biocolonialism, and Memory in the American West
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe History Department Presents the Thom Gentle Lecture on Environmental History Bernadette Jeanne Pérez Ph.D. Candidate University of Minnesota, Twin Cities What can the sugar beet industry tell us about the relationship between agricultural science, capitalism, and American settler colonialism? In this talk, Pérez draws upon turn of the twentieth century beet sugar manuals, which […]
Past Time, Past Place: 3D Reconstruction Modeling for Examining Historic Sites
Archaeologists and historians are utilizing improving 3D technologies to create scholarly reconstructions of ancient places. These visualizations of now-disappeared spaces offer new potential for the examination of the ancient world. In this talk, Professor Sullivan will present her work on the 3D Saqqara project, a 3D visualization of the Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. The project […]
Screening of “Okinawa: The Afterburn” with Director John Junkerman
Communications 150, Studio CQ&A with Director John Junkerman to follow the film Introduction by Professor Alan Christy, Department of History Directed by John Junkerman, long-term resident of Japan and Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, the brand-new “Okinawa: The Afterburn” is a sweeping, in-depth look at the wartime and postwar history of Okinawa and the massive American military presence on the island. Consisting […]
David Brundage: "Remembering 1916 in America: The Easter Rising’s Many Faces, 1919-1962"
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDavid Brundage is Professor of history and the History Graduate Program Director. The talk will draw on an essay-in-progress for a collection entitled Remembering 1916: The Easter Rising, the Somme and the Politics of Memory, ed. Richard S. Grayson and Fearghal McGarry. Brundage focuses his attention on a period that has been relatively neglected in […]
History Department Undergraduate Research Symposium
The History Department Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event held each spring that recognizes the exceptional research being conducted by UC Santa Cruz history undergraduates. The symposium provides undergraduate students with a unique opportunity to share their research with a larger audience, as well as provides a forum for students, faculty, and the university […]