Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Center for Cold War Studies and International History 2018 Graduate Student Symposium
2018-04-13 09:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
This symposium is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History and co-sponsored by the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara in order to showcase the new and exciting work being done by UCSB graduate students on Cold War and related international history topics. The CCWS is a project of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the History Department.
Please find the program here, and find out more about the CCWS here.

International Conference, "Ancient China in a Eurasian Context"
2018-04-20 09:00 - 2018-04-21 13:00 | SSMS 2135, Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us for our international conference from April 20-21 at UCSB (SSMS 2135), “Ancient China in a Eurasian Context!”
The goal of our conference is to place the history and archaeology of early China in a Eurasian context, through papers that either address “connections” across Eurasia, or “comparisons” between China and other cultures in West Asia and Europe.
Highlights include a keynote by Jessica Rawson of Oxford on the role of the steppe in the rise of the Qin Empire, a second-day address by Duan Qingbo, the archaeologist of the First Emperor’s mausoleum near Xi’an, and Peter S. Wells, one of the leading pre-historians of Europe.
All are welcome to join and this event is free and open to the public.
Download the program HERE.

LAIS Graduate Student Conference: Violence, Memory, and History
2018-05-18 - 2018-05-19 | UCen
With the generous support of the History Department, UCSB will hold its first international Latin American and Iberian Studies Graduate Student Conference on May 18th and 19th, with the theme “Violence, Memory, and History”.
This interdisciplinary conference will bring together twenty-four graduate students from universities in the US and Europe, including several graduate students in the Department of History at UCSB.
The conference will take place at the UCen, at the Santa Barbara Harbor Room on Friday and the Lobero Room on Saturday.
You can download a full conference schedule and list of panels and participants by clicking here (updated).
This event is sponsored by the Graduate Division; the  College of Letters and Science; the History Department; the  Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor; and the Office of the  Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy.

Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium
2018-05-18 09:30 - 15:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Honors Student and Mentor with Thesis Poster
This Friday from 9:30am to 2:45pm nine students from the 2017-18 History Senior Honors Seminar will present the results of their research in a conference-panel format, with professors commenting afterwards. Everyone is invited!
Program:
Panel 1, 9:30-11am: Public Policies’ Effects on People’s Lives

Halley Thiel, “’There is Power in the Blood:’ The Growth of the California Oil Industry and Its Resistance to Standard Oil”
Mentor: Dr. Graves; comment by Dr. Martin
Penelope Fergison, “Head for the Hills: Race and Property Value in Oakland”
Mentor: Prof. Perrone; comment by Prof Lichtenstein
Sasha Bates, “Ignoring Atrocities: The Reagan Administration Funding the Salvadoran Government, 1981-1984”
Mentor: Prof. Yaqub; comment by Prof. Bergstrom

Panel 2, 11:15-12:45: Individual Agency in Policy Formation

Milo Schaberg, “Nuclear Semiotics: Thomas Sebeok and the ‘Atomic Priesthood’”
Mentor: Prof. Aronova; comment by Prof. McCray
Avery Barboza, “A Sixteenth Century Cold War: England, Spain, and John Hawkins”
Mentor: Prof. McGee; comment by Prof. Covo
Amanda Krstic, “Age of Quarrel: Slavery and Diplomacy in Maryland in the
Age of Atlantic Revolutions”
Mentor: Prof. Covo; comment by Prof. Perrone

Lunch break, 12:45-1:15 (will be provided for all participants)
Panel 3, 1:15-2:45: Culture’s Effects on Life and Politics

Megan Lucas, “Bluestockings on Campus: Women at Smith College and Vassar College in the Nineteenth Century”
Mentor: Dr. Case; comment by Prof. Chavez-Garcia
Jessica Kanter, “Historiographies of Colonial Rule: Italian Fascists in Libya and the British in Zimbabwe”
Mentor: Prof. Chikowero; comment by Ross Melczer
Zingha Foma, “The Origin of Dutch African Prints: Tracing African Culture, Politics and History through Textile and Dress Practices”
Mentor: Prof. Spickard; comment by Prof. Miescher

HYDRO SYMPOSIUM
2019-02-15 10:00 - 16:00 | SSMS 4513
Friday, February 15, 2019 | 10:00am – 4:00pm
UCSB | Annenberg Room (SSMS 4315)10:00: 10:00 Session 1: Valerie Hänsch,
R. Lane Clark, Stephan Miescher
Welcome: Stephan Miescher and
Janet Walker
Moderator: Bishnupriya Ghosh
Respondent: Javiera Barandiarán
12:15: Lunch
1:15: Session 2: Nick Estes,
Todd Darling
Moderator: Emily Roehl
Respondent: Mishuana Goeman
3:15: Closing Comments
Jéssica Malinalli Coyotecatl Contreras
Sage Gerson, Christopher McQuilkin
(Sawyer Seminar Grad Fellows)
Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective

Criminalizing Immigrant Families: Race, Gender, and Family Separations at the U.S.-Mexico Border
2019-05-03 09:30 - 17:30 | Loma Pelona Conference Center, Loma Pelona Center, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Race and gender have shaped the law, public policy, and the emotional and physical experiences of migration throughout history. At the present moment, however, shifting patterns of migration and the current administration’s use of family separation as a deterrent has led to an intense struggle to define migration, the migrant, and the family. This conference explores these struggles on both sides of the border from historical and contemporary perspectives.

9:30: Welcome Addresses
Charles Hale (Dean of Social Sciences, UCSB)
Erika Rappaport (Chair of the Department of History, UCSB)
Veronica Castillo-Muñoz (History, UCSB)
10:00-12:15: “Border Families: Violence and Separations”
Chair: Veronica Castillo-Muñoz (History, UCSB)
Leisy Abrego (UCLA, Chicana/o Studies)
Central Americans as Criminals and Crisis:
The Legal Violence of Family Separations at the US-Mexico Border
Natalia Molina (Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California)
The Birth of the “Anchor Baby”: The Decoupling of Race and Citizenship for Mexican Americans
Veronica Montes (Bryn Mawr College, Department of Sociology)
Stranded in Tijuana: The Central American Caravan at the Closed Gate of the US-Mexico Border
Robert Irwin (UC Davis, Spanish)
Criminality, Paternity, Feelings: Testimonial Narratives from the Streets of Tijuana
12:15 – 2:00: Lunch and Keynote Talk
Immigration Research at UCSB: Confronting Local Concerns, Federal Policies and Global Problems
Edward Telles, UCSB Department of Sociology
2:15-3:45: “Scholarship as Resistance”
Chair: Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval (UCSB, Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Ana Y. Guerrero (UCSB, Department of Education)
“Como la Monarcha: A Journey to a PhD“
Monica Cornejo (UCSB, Department of Communication)
Experiences of an Undocumented Scholar in Research and the Academic Environment
Ana Guerrero Gallegos (UCSB Alumni, Chicano Studies and History)
Opposing an Image: Immigration and Resistance in the San Fernando Valley
3:45-4:00: Coffee Break
4:00-5:30
“Deportations and the Law in the Age of Trump”
Chair: Alice O’Connor
(UCSB History and the Blum Center for Global Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development)
Joseph Huprich (Immigration attorney, Huprich and Vega)
Vivek Mittal (Managing Attorney UC Immigrant Service Center)
Anahi Mendoza (Executive Directory, Santa Barbara County Immigrant Legal Defense Center)

Conference: Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts
2020-10-01 - 2020-10-03 | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts proposes new considerations of realism on stage. Since its association with 19th-century innovations in European and American drama, theatrical realism has largely remained limited to Euro-American definitions. We explore conventions of realism in culturally-specific locations and times across East Asia, articulating alternative histories of realism that extend from the premodern into the present. Through our individual inquiries, we aim to broaden the term’s analytic power and shed collective light on the diversity and versatility of this important representational mode. The conference will end with a play reading performed by LAUNCH PAD, UCSB.
View the complete schedule and conference information at www.realismseastasia.com. You can download the informational flyer here: Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts.

Interdisciplinary Conference on "Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster"
2021-04-29 - 2021-04-30 | Zoom, CA
The interdisciplinary virtual conference Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster will take place on Friday, April 30, 2021 at 9:00am-4:00pm (Pacific Time, US & Canada), when an international slate of speakers representing a variety of disciplines will share their insights on the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.

The day before, an associated Carsey-Wolf Center virtual discussion of the award-winning documentary “The Babushkas of Chernobyl,” with Director Holly Morris, will take place on Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 4:00pm (Pacific Time, US & Canada), before which registered participants can pre-screen the film. Information on registering for both events and the conference website are below:

Conference Website

Register for the Virtual Conference at 9am-4pm Pacific Time (US & Canada) on Friday, April 30, 2021

Register for the Carsey-Wolf Center Virtual Discussion at 4pm Pacific Time (US & Canada) on Thursday, April, 29, 2021

Thirty-five years after the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl, the interdisciplinary virtual conference Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster considers its afterlife and reverberations in various disciplines, including culture and the arts. Situated at a watershed moment during the Cold War, Chernobyl has spawned an unprecedented quantity of global responses from scientists, writers, filmmakers, and artists, and it has become a key moment for the global environmental movement. This conference views the accident and its aftermath in the context of broader global ecologies of disaster and considers how catastrophe is coded and understood — or fails to be understood — through the prism of science, art, literature, and film. How do all these disciplines and discourses confront the disaster, and where do they converge to produce the fiction, or the truth, of what we call “Chernobyl”? The conference brings together scholars and experts in Comparative Literature, History, Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Nuclear Engineering, Medicine, Art, Film, and Germanic and Slavic Studies.

Sponsored by the Division of Arts and Letters and the T. A. Barron Environmental Fund. Event partners include the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, the, and the Carsey-Wolf Center. Other sponsors include the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Department of Global Studies, Comparative Literature Program, Environmental Studies, Cold War Studies, College of Creative Studies, and History Department. (Rescheduled from April 2020 when it was postponed due to COVID-19.)

Conference on "Imperial Foodways: Culinary Economies and Provisioning Politics"
2021-05-21 - 2021-05-23 | Zoom, CA
Registration is now open for the virtual conference “Imperial Foodways: Culinary Economies and Provisioning Politics.”
The full program, with panel and paper titles, can be viewed here. To Register, please click here.
Because papers are pre-circulated, organizers Elizabeth Schmidt and Erika Rappaport ask attendees to indicate which panels they plan to attend on the registration form. Once you complete the registration, a conference organizer will be in touch with links to the relevant papers.
Please be advised that the format of this conference is workshop-style: because the papers are pre-circulated, authors will not be giving a formal presentation, and attendees are expected to have read papers beforehand to participate in the discussion.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact organizers at foodandempireworkshop@gmail.com.

Conference May 20-21: "Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: Past, Present, and Future"
2022-05-20 - 2022-05-21 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy hosts a conference, May 20 and 21, 2022 entitled: “Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: Past, Present, and Future.”
It will be held in the McCune Room, HSSB 6020. Many former students and contemporary colleagues of Nelson Lichtenstein will deliver papers on a wide variety of topics bearing on the conference theme.
Work, capitalism, and democracy. Historians have spent decades considering their interwoven connections and how each has shaped and animated American politics, economy, and society. This conference interrogates the changing shape of historical work on these themes since the early 1980s, when Center director Nelson Lichtenstein’s first book reshaped how a new generation of scholars thought about the struggle between workers, capitalists, and the state apparatus during World War II. Since the publication of Labor’s War at Home: The CIO in World War II, labor history has been transformed from an exciting but discrete subject that probed working-class mentalities to an ever expanding interpretative approach than now encompasses the study of race, gender, capitalism, social thought, legal history and theory, government social policy, and partisan politics. Lichtenstein’s own work has tracked this scholarly advance: probing at various times and venues the social ecology of wildcat strikes, the meaning of rights at work and in society, the theory and practice of corporatism, the rise and demise of the giant corporation, the structures governing global supply chains, and the promise and failure of liberal politics in 20th century America. Those making presentations and other interventions at the Work, Capitalism, and Democracy: Past, Present, and Future conference will offer fresh perspectives on these and many other themes taken from their own research and that of the new generation of historians of which they are such a vital part.
Funding for this conference has come from UCSB’s graduate division, history department, Hull Chair of Feminist Studies, College of Letters & Science, Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, and Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.
FULL SCHEDULE HERE.

2023 Desert Russian History Workshop
2023-03-17 13:00 - 2023-03-18 17:00 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Desert Russian History Workshop meets annually and brings together historians of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union from universities throughout the western United States. Previous venues have included the University of Nevada at Reno, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Arizona State University, and U.C. Riverside.
The Desert Workshop offers a unique format in which papers on a variety of topics in Russian/Soviet history receive intensive reading and discussion by the entire group of 30-35 faculty and graduate students. Each year we select around ten papers, which are made available to participants one month before the workshop.
For more information on attending the workshop or for access to the papers on the password-protected web page, please contact Prof. Adrienne Edgar at edgar@ucsb.edu
Click this link for access to the workshop web page:
https://www.history.ucsb.edu/2023-desert-russ…history-workshop/ ‎
This event is sponsored by the UCSB Department of History, the UCSB Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, and the UCSB College of Letters and Science.
