February 2014

21 Feb

Sal Castro Memorial Conference on the Emerging Historiography of the Chicano Movement

Friday, February 21 / 8:30 AM-6:30 PM Saturday, February 22 / 9:00 AM-6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Twenty-four scholars will showcase the emerging historiography on the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s that represented the largest Mexican American civil rights and empowerment...

12:54 / Upcoming Events

21 Feb

The Employee: A Political History

Jean-Christian Vinel (History, University of Paris-Diderot) Friday, February 21 /1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Jean-Christian Vinel is a visiting scholar at UC-Santa Barbara in the Winter 2013. He is the editor of La grève en exil : le déclin du syndicalisme et du militantisme aux USA, en...

10:52 / Upcoming Events

21 Feb

The Man With Superpowers: The Yogi in the American Imagination and the Case of Paramahansa Yogananda

Anya Pokazanyeva (Religious Studies, UCSB) Friday, February 21 / 4:00 PM 3041 HSSB It might seem logical to assume that a Yogi, by definition, is one who does yoga. However, as these terms first entered the American imagination they did not always do so in accordance...

10:35 / IHC Research Focus Groups / Upcoming Events