Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Documentary film screening: "McCarthy"
2020-02-03 07:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
McCarthy 2Seventy years ago this February, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin launched his destructive anticommunist rampage. Addressing the Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, WVA, McCarthy charged that 205—or was it 57?—known communists were working for the U.S. State Department, enjoying the protection of an indifferent or even a disloyal Truman administration. McCarthy went on to even wilder charges, intensifying an anticommunist Red Scare that had begun shortly after the end of World War II. For a few years in the early 1950s, the senator enjoyed remarkable support from his fellow Republicans. While many of them privately bemoaned his crudeness, they relished the damage he was inflicting on their liberal and Democratic foes. Only after McCarthy turned his attacks on other Republicans did the GOP start mobilizing against him. This riveting PBS documentary film, written, produced, and directed by Sharon Grimberg, chronicles the demagogue’s extraordinary rise and fall. After the screening, Prof. Salim Yaqub of the UCSB Department of History will lead an audience discussion.

History Scholar-Activism: Living Our Work
2020-02-03 16:00 - 17:30 | CA
Join us as we talk about how we—as historians and historians in training—approach our work as “scholar-activists” within the context of the academy. While not all of us identify as “scholar-activists,” we work with social justice and equity in mind.
Themes
Methodology: What does that look like? How do we describe it and/or think about it?
Historiography: What is it? How is it relevant to my work? And, where do I fit in?
Theory: What does theory look like in history? Can I talk about theory? Where and how can I learn more? Will my colleagues accept me?
Participants
Utathya Chattopadhyaya
Mhoze Chikowero
Lisa Jacobson
Kate McDonald
Light refreshments will be provided.
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