The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will hold its winter workshop on Sunday, March 2nd. We will read and comment on a dissertation chapter titled "'Santa Barbara is in flames': The Battle of Santa Barbara and the Decline of the Japanese Invasion Sublime," by Kenneth Hough, history PhD student at UCSB and friend of CCWS. Ken's chapter discusses the 1942 shelling of Ellwood by a Japanese submarine and the subsequent phantom air raid in Los Angeles and how these two events were linked as the Battle of Santa Barbara and part of the moral panic of Japanese American subversion. This chapter is from his dissertation Rising Sun Over America: Friendship, Fascination and Fear in American Culture Encounters with Japan, 1900-1945 . This event will be held at Prof. Salim Yaqub's home. Delicious refreshments will be served! 

Workshop attendees are encouraged to read Ken's article in advance. Attendees can contact Prof. Yaqub for the password to unlock the file and should also send their RSVP to Salim Yaqub (syaqub@history.ucsb.edu) 

Please join us for this exciting event!