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SUMMARY:Talk by Mateo Jarquin\, "Managaua 1979\," Monday\, April 20\, 4 pm\, HSSB 4041
DESCRIPTION:Professor Mateo Jarquin of Chapman University will be giving a talk titled “Managua 1979: International and Transnational Origins of the Cold War’s Last Great Revolution.”  \n \n\nAfter the Cuban Revolution\, armed movements across Latin America embraced violent struggle as a path to social transformation. Yet only one managed to seize power: Nicaragua’s Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN). Their unlikely victory in July 1979 gripped the world’s attention and ignited a major hotspot in the late Cold War. \nHow did it happen? Drawing from his book The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History\, Mateo Jarquín recounts the fall of the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza. The story unfolds not only inside Nicaragua and in Washington but across Latin America\, where the rebel FSLN was embedded in a regional web of state and non‑state actors conspiring to isolate Somoza\, challenge U.S. influence\, and ultimately bring about the last major left‑wing revolution of the 20th century. \nMateo Jarquín is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Master’s Program in War\, Diplomacy\, and Society at Chapman University. His research explores the intersection of democracy\, revolutions\, and international relations in modern Latin America. He is the author of The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History (University of North Carolina Press\, 2024)\, which received the 2025 Michael H. Hunt Prize in International History from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Articles from this research agenda have appeared in journals such as Cold War History and The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History. Alongside his historical work\, he writes regularly about contemporary Central American politics. Originally from Nicaragua\, Jarquín holds a PhD from Harvard University and a BA from Grinnell College. \n\nThe event is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History and the UCSB Department of History. It is free and open to the public. \n  \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/talk-by-mateo-jarquin-managaua-1979-monday-april-20-4-pm-hssb-4041/
LOCATION:HSSB 4041\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Colloquium Event,Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:History Associates Talk by Professor Anthony Barbieri on "Beyond the Mountains and Seas: Eurasian History through Travelers’ Eyes (400 BCE-1936 CE)"
DESCRIPTION:The History associates brings to you a talk by Professor Anthony Barbieri off the department of history on his latest book. The talk narrates the integrated history of Eurasia over the last two millennia through the travel of two dozen remarkable men and women who voyaged across this vast continent and reported on their encounters with a foreign culture.  It argues that\, despite increasing empirical knowledge gathered about   the “other\,” mental projections of the “monsters at the edge of the world\,” still colored peoples’ perception of the foreign “other” well into the modern era. \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-talk-by-professor-anthony-barbieri-on-beyond-the-mountains-and-seas-eurasian-history-through-travelers-eyes-400-bce-1936-ce/
LOCATION:Night Lizard Brewing Company\, 607 State Street\, Santa Barbara
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,History Associates,Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Ambition on the Road: Getting Ahead in Arabic Travel Writing
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, Feb 2\, 2026 | 04:00 PM\n\nLocation\n\nHSSB 4080 \n\n\n\nA Syrian merchant known as the ʿAṭṭār set out on a new road in 1765. When he began to write about his journey\, he did so with specific aim and purpose: success\, prestige\, and merit. A few years earlier\, in 1758\, a Maronite Christian by the name of Shukrallāh had put together a literary compendium. The inclusion of a travel-based topography arguably sought to promote an embattled community’s position vis-a-vis the sacred landscapes of the homeland. In both cases\, as in many others\, making literature was an aspirational act with tangible goals. The talk by Björn Bentlage will investigate the ambitious side of culture with a focus on Arabic narrations of travel and movement from the early modern period onwards. \nBjörn Bentlage is a lecturer and researcher of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the universities of Bern (Switzerland) and Munich (Germany). His interests range from contemporary legal debates over the connected history of the modern Middle East to literature and media since the Ottoman period. \n\n \n\n  \nFeb. 2 CMES Flyer
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ambition-on-the-road-getting-ahead-in-arabic-travel-writing/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:History Associates Talk : Alfredo Gonzalez | "An American Promise: 20th Century US Military Naturalization."
DESCRIPTION:Assistant Professor of Political Science at UCSB\, Alfredo Gonzalez will speak on “An American Promise: 20th Century US Military Naturalization.” \nDespite widespread recognition that modern social welfare programs stem from the protections pledged to war veterans\, commitments from Congress to naturalize immigrant service members and veterans are absent in debates on the military social safety net. Legal historians have shown that after World War I\, veterans’ organizations were instrumental in pressuring Congress to grant citizenship to racially ineligible war veterans\, but we know less about whether veterans’ organizations have since considered naturalization a military benefit worth protecting. I explore the boundaries of military social welfare between WWI and the War on Terror\, when military naturalization policy significantly changed from guaranteeing legal citizenship to merely expediting an immigrant’s ability to apply for naturalization. Understanding the development of military naturalization policy and its relationship to military welfare requires tracing how the process unfolded to reveal the extent\, if at all\, decision makers and veterans view political incorporation as part of the repertoire of protected benefits. \n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-talk-alfredo-gonzalez-an-american-promise-20th-century-us-military-naturalization/
LOCATION:Vista Del Monte\, 3775 Modoc Rd\, Santa Barbara\, 3775 Modoc Rd.\, Santa Barbara
CATEGORIES:History Associates,Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Talk: Erin Trumble\, "Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Graduate Student Erin Trumble\n \n\n \n\nTitle: “Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan”\n \nDescription: The talk will focus on retirement as a life stage and examine how it represented a time when women had both more freedom after being liberated from daily tasks and more authority due to their age. I will examine prescriptive literature and its silences around responsibilities for retired women\, as well as use examples from the lives of Nakako\, Ieko\, Shigako\, and Aijo to show how women engaged with travel\, literature\, and religion in new ways as a result of this freedom and authority.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/talk-erin-trumble-rebirth-after-retirement-how-elderly-women-reinvented-femininity-in-edo-japan/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Katie Moore\, "Counterfeiting and the Coming of the American Revolution"
DESCRIPTION:What does the history of counterfeiting reveal about colonial-imperial relations in British North America? What does it tell us about the nature of money itself? Join Professor Katie Moore as she utilizes counterfeiting as a lens to explore the political and\nsocial meanings of money in the century before the American Revolution\, unveiling a rich and complex monetary landscape.\nKatie A. Moore is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her first book\, Promise to Pay: The Politics and Power of Money in Early America\, was published in 2024 by the University of Chicago Press.  \nQuestions? Email historyassociates@ia.ucsb.edu
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/katie-moore-counterfeiting-and-the-coming-of-the-american-revolution/
LOCATION:Goleta Valley Library\, 500 North Fairview Avenue\, Goleta\, 93117
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250224T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250224T173000
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SUMMARY:Michael Cooperson (UCLA)\, "Towards a New Arabic Literary History"
DESCRIPTION:Towards a new Arabic literary history \nMichael Cooperson\, Professor of Arabic\, NELC\, UCLA\nWhat did pre-modern authors writing in Arabic have to say about their own literary history? Many things\, as it turns out\, most of them non-linear. In this respect\, their accounts differ from the rise-and-fall story later promulgated by European scholars––a story which has now become the dominant one even in the Arab world. \n \nWhat’s next? One way forward\, I propose\, is to draw on non-linear approaches\, both pre-modern and modern––including\, for example\, the late-nineteenth century notion of Kulturgeschichte as applied to the cultural history of Arabic-speaking societies. A new literary history of Arabic––or at least\, the one I am trying to write––should grant equal weight to all periods and regions; should foreground reception\, especially translation\, as a critical part of the story; and should embrace avowedly pedagogical elements such as commentary\, digression\, and above all\, visual explanation. \nThe talk will include a sneak preview of this work in progress; comments and criticism are welcome! I am also very interested in hearing from participants about the state of literary history in their fields of expertise.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/michael-cooperson-ucla-towards-a-new-arabic-literary-history/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020
CATEGORIES:All Events,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T190000
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SUMMARY:Juan Cobo Betancourt\, "Christianity\, Colonialism\, & the Muisca peoples of the Northern Andes"
DESCRIPTION:Public Lecture: Juan Cobo Betancourt\, “Christianity\, Colonialism\, & the Muisca peoples of the Northern Andes” \nAlhecama Theatre\, 215 E. Canon Perdido Street\, located in El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park \nFree and open to the public. RSVP to historyassociates@ia.ucsb.edu \nHow does colonialism work without a strong colonial state? How does religious conversion work without an effective missionary project? How can historians work with an archive full of fictions? Taking the history of the Muisca peoples of the Northern Andes of what is now Colombia\, who from the 1530s found themselves at the centre of efforts by Europeans to transform them into Catholic\, tribute-paying vassals of the Spanish crown\, this talk explores the complex and contradictory ways in which Christianity\, Spanish colonialism\, and Indigenous politics came together to produce a new kind of society to the disappointment of everyone involved. \nJuan Cobo Betancourt is Associate Professor of History and Director\nof the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program and\nCenter for Latin American and Iberian Research at UC Santa\nBarbara. He has written three books on questions of religion\,\nrace\, law\, and language in colonial Latin America.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/juan-cobo-betancourt-christianity-colonialism-the-muisca-peoples-of-the-northern-andes/
LOCATION:Alhecama Theater\, 215 A East Canon Perdido Street\, Santa Barbara\, 93101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,All Events,Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Sergey Saluschev\, "Reluctant Abolitionists: Slavery and Abolition in the Nineteenth-Century Caucasus\, 1801-1914"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/sergey-saluschev-reluctant-abolitionists-slavery-and-abolition-in-the-nineteenth-century-caucasus-1801-1914/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020
CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Graduate Program,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240508T170000
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SUMMARY:Van Gelderen Lecture 2024 - "Protect the One Who Carries You": Amulets and Daily Life in Roman Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Evan Andersson will present this year’s Van Gelderen Lecture\,  \n“‘Protect the One Who Carries You’: Amulets and Daily Life in Roman Egypt” \nOn Wednesday\, May 8\, 2024 at 5:00pm \nIn the McCune Room\, HSSB 6020
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/van-gelderen-2024-protect-the-one-who-carries-you/
LOCATION:HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Graduate Program,History Associates,Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Women and Revolution: War\, Violence\, and Family Separations Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
DESCRIPTION:Verónica Castillo-Muñoz will give a talk called: \n“Women and Revolution: War\, Violence\, and Family Separations Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.” \nOn April 24 at 5:30pm \nAt Alhecama Theater\, 215 E. Canon Perdido
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/women-and-revolution-war-violence-and-family-separations-across-the-u-s-mexico-borderlands/
LOCATION:Alhecama Theater\, 215 A East Canon Perdido Street\, Santa Barbara\, 93101\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Associates,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240421T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240421T140000
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SUMMARY:Reparations Past and Present
DESCRIPTION:For more than 200 years\, Americans have argued about whether freed slaves should be compensated for the time and livelihood taken from them. These debates intensified after the Civil War and have once again entered our public discourse.\nHistory Professor Giuliana Perrone will put these debates in context and give listeners some sense of their long history. \nSo come raise a pint as you hear about America’s past! \nSunday\, April 21\, 2024 at 12pm\nThird Window Brewing\, The Barrel Room
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/reparations-past-and-present/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240418T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240418T180000
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SUMMARY:Ending Poverty in California: A  Movement\, A Plan\, A More Equitable Future
DESCRIPTION:What would a California without poverty look like? How would ending economic hardship advance freedom and well-being for all? This is a prospect that has captured the imaginations of activists\, reformers\, and everyday people for decades\, ever since Upton Sinclair made it the centerpiece of his near successful gubernatorial campaign in 1934. Today\, it animates the work of a new generation of community-based leaders who have come together in End Poverty in California (EPIC)\, an organization devoted to elevating the voices of people experiencing economic hardship\, creating and implementing policies rooted in their needs\, and advancing a state agenda focused on equal opportunity for all. Since 2022\, EPIC has been building grassroots support through its statewide listening tour and coalition-building activities\, captured in the acclaimed documentary film Poverty and Power. Featuring excerpts from the film and a conversation with EPIC President Devon Gray\, Chief Advisor for Storytelling and Narrative Greg Kaufmann\, and Director of Organizing and Community Engagement Jasmine Dellafosse\, this discussion\, moderated by Professor Alice O’Connor\, will focus on a movement that aims to change the narrative about poverty—and California’s economic future. \n                                       Event held on Thursday\, April 18th at 4pm in HSSB 6020 (McCune Conference Room) \nDevon Gray is President of End Poverty in California. He aligns EPIC’s organization’s priorities across issue areas to make a lasting impact for Californians. Prior to joining EPIC\, he was a director with Evergreen Strategy Group\, where he advised gun violence prevention organizations on policy and strategy. Gray previously served in the Newsom Administration as Special Advisor to the Governor’s Chief of Staff and is an alumnus of national and statewide political campaigns. \nGreg Kaufmann is EPIC Chief Advisor for Storytelling and Narrative. He leads EPIC’s storytelling and narrative strategy\, creating platforms for people in poverty to share their experiences\, ideas\, and insights so that we change the story about poverty in California. Prior to joining EPIC\, Kaufmann was poverty correspondent at The Nation where his column was syndicated by Bill Moyers and Melissa Harris-Perry called him “one of the most consistent voices on poverty in America.” \nJasmine Dellafosse is Director of Organizing and Community Engagement at EPIC. She leads EPIC’s organizing and community engagement work to help build a movement that creates equal opportunity and ends poverty in California\, affirming the dignity of all people. Dellafosse has confronted systemic racism for almost a decade—first as a youth organizer in her hometown of Stockton\, CA\, where she helped urban development projects such as bringing food desert areas access to fresh produce. \nAlice O’Connor is Professor of History and Director of the Blum Center on Poverty\, Inequality\, and Democracy at UCSB. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Imagining California series\, the Blum Center on Poverty\, Inequality\, and Democracy\, and the Department of History
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ending-poverty-in-california-a-movement-a-plan-a-more-equitable-future/
LOCATION:HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nakba in the Age of Catastrophe: Lessons from Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Sherene Seikaly will give a talk called: \n“Nakba in the Age of Catastrophe: Lessons from Palestine” \nWhat can the history of Palestine teach us about surviving catastrophe? In this talk\, Professor Seikaly draws on one hundred years of history to reflect on land\, time\, and survival.  \nOn Monday\, January 22 at 5:30 pm  \nLocation: McCune Room 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/nakba-in-the-age-of-catastrophe-lessons-from-palestine/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:History Associates,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231119T140000
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SUMMARY:Bought and Sold Three Times in One Day: Robert Glenn’s Oral History of Child Trafficking in the Slave South
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, November 19 at 2:00 p.m. at the Goleta Library \nJohn Majewski will give a talk called: “Bought and Sold Three Times in One Day: Robert Glenn’s Oral History of Child Trafficking in the Slave South”
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/bought-and-sold-three-times-in-one-day-robert-glenns-oral-history-of-child-trafficking-in-the-slave-south/
LOCATION:Goleta Library\, 500 N Fairview Ave\,\, Goleta\, California\, 93117\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Associates,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230417T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230417T180000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T201302Z
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SUMMARY:The Pasha's New Clothes: The History Section of an 18th-Century Library from Acre - Lecture by Prof. Dana Sajdi (Boston College)
DESCRIPTION:This is an exploration of the history booklist found in a recently discovered ‘library catalogue’ from a college in 18th-century Acre. Endowed by the notorious Ottoman governor of the region Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar (d. 1804)\, the library seems to have been one of the largest in the Ottoman Levant. In addition to introducing the larger ‘al-Jazzar Library Project’\, I will argue that the eclectic nature of the history collection exceeds the purposes of a college curriculum or the needs of local readers. Despite their variety\, the books were carefully chosen and cUrated to reflect the colorful career of the patron himself and to construct a heroic and royal image of him resembling that of imperial rulers. This is a vanity collection that the Pasha used to display his new clothes. \nThis event is organized by the King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-pashas-new-clothes-the-history-section-of-an-18th-century-library-from-acre-a-lecture-by-professor-dana-sajdi-boston-college/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230412T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230412T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T153504
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SUMMARY:The Deccani Trails of the St Andrews Qur'an Manuscript - Lecture by Dr. Keelan Overton
DESCRIPTION:Shortly after its production in Safavid Tabriz or Herat\, the single-volume Quran manuscript known as the “St Andrews Quran” traveled east to the Deccan region of southern India and circulated between four courtly contexts over the next two hundred years. The evidence for this dynamic life history is found in the codex itself\, and this talk summarizes the findings of a multi-year interdisciplinary archaeological excavation of the manuscript. Weaving between the object\, archive\, and political realities of the Deccan sultanates\, Mughal court\, and Tipu Sultan\, I consider how the St Andrews Quran inspires the writing of ground-based art histories that challenge prevailing taxonomies. \nThis event is organized by the King Abdul Aziz In Saud Chair in Islamic Studies.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-deccani-trails-of-the-st-andrews-quran-manuscript-lecture-by-dr-keelan-overton/
LOCATION:HSSB 3001E\, 3001E Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230412T130000
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SUMMARY:Focal Point Dialogues in History: Conversations on Black life\, race\, and antiblackness in history with Prof. Nyasha Mboti and Prof. Steve Zipperstein
DESCRIPTION:The History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend this year’s FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series. Inspired by the History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary history within it\, the series brings together History faculty and graduate students to engage in a dialogue on Black life\, race\, and antiblackness in history. \nFor our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series this year\, the Colloquium Committee\, after careful discussion\, has decided to invite both Professor Steve Zipperstein and Professor Nyasha Mboti (Professor of Communication at the University of the Free State) to join us and have a dialogue with us on April 12 1-3PM at the McCune Conference Room. \nProfessor Zipperstein will talk about the important Waco/Branch Davidian standoff on its 30th anniversary. This talk will discuss how Waco (and a prior episode at Ruby Ridge\, Idaho) laid the groundwork for the dangerous rise of anti-government white nationalism in the United States\, leading to the January 2021 Trump-inspired attack on the U.S. Capitol. \nProfessor Mboti will talk about his new book\, Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto\, Vol. 1 (2023). The book utilizes the notion of “apartheid” as a paradigm and theoretical framework. It argues that apartheid is not quite what we were told or what we thought. Instead\, seen from the experience and point of view of the oppressed\, apartheid has astonishing virulence\, prevalence\, persistence\, and undetectability. Apartheid Studies\, in a word\, is an interdisciplinary invitation to study how oppression\, inequality\, injustice\, and harm persist\, and what to do about it. \nSteve and Nyasha will each talk for 30 minutes\, and they will then engage in a conversation with each other and comment on each other’s talk for 15-20 minutes. Steve and Nyasha address antiblackness from different perspectives and positionalities\, which will also greatly deepen our understanding of this issue. We will then open the floor and invite questions and comments from the audience. \nOur department has purchased 34 PDF copies of Apartheid Studies\, which have been made available on a Box folder. Graduate students: please contact Prof. Zheng if you want a copy of the book. Africa World Press has graciously agreed to share this book with interested graduate students.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-in-history-conversations-on-black-life-race-and-antiblackness-in-history-with-prof-nyasha-mboti-and-prof-steve-zipperstein/
LOCATION:HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230406T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230406T190000
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SUMMARY:History Associates Talk | Lisa Jacobson "The Potent Politics of Weak Brews: How 3.2% Beer Helped End Prohibition"  |  Apr 6\, 5:30 PM  |  Draughtsmen Aleworks
DESCRIPTION: \nTo commemorate the 90th anniversary of beer’s re-legalization in the United States\, Lisa Jacobson will explain how a coalition of brewers\, scientists\, and labor leaders persuaded Congress that a beer capable of producing a mild euphoria could be legalized without violating the 18th Amendment’s ban on intoxicating beverages. Insisting that alcohol potency alone did not determine intoxication\, this anti-prohibitionist coalition promoted new understandings of pleasure and risk that have long since influenced how alcohol is regulated and sold in the United States.\nLisa Jacobson is an Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara. She hopes that her book Fashioning New Cultures of Drink: The Reinvention of Wine\, Beer\, and Whiskey after Prohibition will be available for pre-order by the 91st anniversary of beer’s re-legalization.\n \nDownload the flyer here: Potent Politics of Weak Brews_2.24
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-potent-politics/
LOCATION:Draughstmen Aleworks\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Book Talk,History Associates,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230304T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230304T123000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230303T073906Z
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SUMMARY:Cold War Working Group Workshop | Nick Cohen "Forging an International Backstop: Commercial Banking\, Foreign Policy\, and the Empowerment of the IMF\, 1973-1981" | Mar 4\, 11 AM
DESCRIPTION:When: Saturday\, March 4\, 11 AM to 12:30 PM \nWhere: West Campus Point Faculty Housing Community’s Outdoor Plaza \nThe Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) and the Cold War Working Group (CWWG) will host an in-person workshop at the West Campus Point faculty housing community’s outdoor plaza. We will be reading and discussing a paper\, “Forging an International Backstop: Commercial Banking\, Foreign Policy\, and the Empowerment of the IMF\, 1973-1981\,” by Nick Cohen\, a doctoral candidate in the UCSB history department.  \nAbstract: How were the practice and image of commercial banking reinvented alongside the expansion and empowerment of the International Monetary Fund in the decade preceding the global debt crisis of the 1980s? Historians of both business and foreign relations in the 1970s have rightly emphasized the instrumental role played by the Oil Shocks in facilitating the resurgence of global finance and remaking the global balance of power in an era of interdependence. Examining the history of US commercial banking alongside the rise of the IMF\, this paper argues that global financialization was also contingent upon a sort of Polanyian double-movement\, in which the explosion in the size and power of private international capital markets relied on the concurrent empowerment of the international institution meant to backstop such lending. In the wake of the first oil shock\, commercial banks doubled down on the lucrative new business of lending to developing nations in the global south and eastern bloc eager for funds to cope with ballooning balance-of-payments deficits. In response to this same balance-of-payments problem\, the IMF began to increase in size and capability through the introduction and gradual expansion of the so-called “Witteveen Facility.” By examining political debates in the United States concerning the regulation of international finance this paper demonstrates that for US policymakers questions over US contributions to the IMF and the role of private American banks overseas were often one in the same. By the end of the 1970s\, moreover\, commercial bankers had become some of the most vocal advocates for expanding IMF resources. By examining archival material from the Carter administration and the IMF\, the papers of notorious Citibank chief Walter Wriston\, and congressional records\, this paper straddles the line between political economy and diplomatic history. \n  \nThe CWWG is a collaborative\, graduate student-led group designed to provide a supportive\, welcoming environment for graduate students working on or around the Cold War and international history. CWWG workshops provide an occasion for graduate students\, faculty\, and others to join together as peers to read and provide feedback on scholarly work in progress (dissertation chapters\, journal articles\, conference papers\, etc.) by members of our community. We strongly encourage other UCSB graduate students and faculty members to consider submitting their own work for discussion in future workshops.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/cold-war-working-group-workshop-nick-cohen-forging-an-international-backstop-commercial-banking-foreign-policy-and-the-empowerment-of-the-imf-1973-1981-mar-4-11-am/
LOCATION:West Campus Point Faculty Housing Community’s outdoor plaza\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Colloquium Event,Public Lecture,Student Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T160000
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SUMMARY:"Queer Public History: A Conversation with Marc Stein"
DESCRIPTION:The Gender + Sexualities Cluster is pleased to welcome Professor Marc Stein to campus. Marc is a historian of U.S. law\, politics\, and society\, with research and teaching interests in constitutional law\, social movements\, gender\, race and sexuality. His books and articles have focused on twentieth-century urban gay and lesbian history; U.S. Supreme Court decisions on sex\, marriage and reproduction; queer political activism; and sexual politics in the discipline of history. \n“Queer Public History: A Conversation with Marc Stein” will revolve around his recently published edited collection of the same name that considers queer public history and scholarly activism within the same frame. \nAll are welcome. 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/queer-public-history-a-conversation-with-marc-stein/
LOCATION:HSSB 4041\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T180000
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SUMMARY:“LGBT Direct Action Bibliography\, Chronology\, and Inventory\, 1965-73” (Marc Stein\, SFSU)
DESCRIPTION:The Gender + Sexualities Cluster is pleased to welcome Professor Marc Stein to campus. Marc is a historian of U.S. law\, politics\, and society\, with research and teaching interests in constitutional law\, social movements\, gender\, race and sexuality. His books and articles have focused on twentieth-century urban gay and lesbian history; U.S. Supreme Court decisions on sex\, marriage and reproduction; queer political activism; and sexual politics in the discipline of history. \nMarc will speak about – “LGBT Direct Action Bibliography\, Chronology\, and Inventory\, 1965-73” – a forthcoming database/inventory/chronology on US LGBT history that he is curating. \nReception to follow. 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lgbt-direct-action-bibliography-chronology-and-inventory-1965-73-marc-stein-sfsu/
LOCATION:CITRAL Seminar Room\, Library\, UCSB Library\, 525 UCEN Rd\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T153504
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230223T061012Z
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SUMMARY:History and East Asia Center presents Aaron Skabelund's talk "Inglorious\, Illegal Bastards:  Japan’s Self-Defense Force During the Cold War" | Mar 1 | 4PM | HSSB 4020
DESCRIPTION: The Self-Defense Force— Japan’s post-World War II military—and specifically the Ground Self Defense Force (GSDF)\, struggled for legitimacy in a society at best indifferent to them and often hostile to their very existence. This talk focuses on the GSDF and its efforts\, in the form of natural disaster relief operations\, civil engineering projects\, and support for the events such as the Sapporo Snow Festival\, for greater acceptance during the Cold War.  \nEAC Inglorious\, Illegal Bastards Japan_s Self-Defense Force During the Cold War
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-and-east-asia-center-presents-aaron-skabelunds-talk-inglorious-illegal-bastards-japans-self-defense-force-during-the-cold-war-mar-1-4pm-hssb-4020/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230226T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230226T153000
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SUMMARY:History Associates Talk | Patricia Cline Cohen  |  "What the Dobbs decision got wrong about the history of 19th-century abortion."
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-talk-patricia-cline-cohen-what-the-dobbs-decision-got-wrong-about-the-history-of-19th-century-abortion/
LOCATION:Santa Barbara Public Library\, Faulkner Gallery\, 40 E. Anapamu Street\, Santa Barbara.\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,History Associates,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220527T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220527T150000
DTSTAMP:20260424T153504
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SUMMARY:Focal Point Dialogues | Keynote Address "Impossible Histories" | Ada Ferrer
DESCRIPTION:The History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the final events of this year’s Focal Point Dialogues in History Colloquium: \n\nA  Keynote Lecture by Pulitzer Prize winning author Ada Ferrer\, “Impossible Histories: Understanding Failure and Absence in Atlantic Havana\, 1812”. Friday May\, 27th\, 1-3 pm\, in HSSB 1174  (free and open to the public\, no registration required).\nA Conversation with the author for graduate and undergraduate students following the keynote lecture reception\, on Friday May 27th\, in HSSB 4041 from 4-5 pm. To attend\, please register using this form http://tinyurl.com/ucsbhistoryadaferrer\n\nFocal Point Dialogues in History was an initiative born in 2020 as a Department commitment to educate ourselves in the history of anti-Blackness\, in the aftermath of  the killing of George Floyd\, and the national and international uprising it triggered. This education starts by understanding when did “blackness” become a thing\, to begin with\, and it requires leaving the “zone of comfort”  of our specializations\, and dare to explore…as we learn from each other\, and from this year’s guest\, Ada Ferrer. After an engaging dive into Herman Bennet’s African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (2018) in the first iteration of Focal Point Dialogues in 2020-21\, this academic year we focus on Ada Ferrer’s Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (2014)\, The book can be downloaded here (You will need to have logged into your UCSB library account) \nAda Ferrer is a Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU\, and the author of several major award-winning books\, including Cuba\, an American History (2021) winner of the Pulitzer Prize.  Her book Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (2014) received the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from Yale University\, and several major American Historical Association awards\, among them: the James Rawley Prize for the best book on Atlantic History\, the Wesley Logan Prize for the best book in the History of the African Diaspora\, the Friedrich Katz Prize for the best book on Latin American History\, as well as the Haiti Illumination Prize from the Haitian Studies Association\, among others. Her first book\, Insurgent Cuba\, Race\, Nation\, and Revolution (1999)\, was the recipient of the Berkshire Book Prize for the best first book by a woman historian in any field of history. Her research has been funded by major grants\, including the SSRC\, the NEH\, the Guggenheim\, the Spanish Ministry of Culture Fellowship\, and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.   \n**Use of masks will be required to enter the classrooms. For questions write to Prof. Cecilia Méndez at mendez@history.ucsb.edu
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-spring-2022-keynote-address-ada-ferrer/
LOCATION:HSSB 1174\, 1174 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Colloquium Event,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T180000
DTSTAMP:20260424T153504
CREATED:20220427T235635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T183832Z
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SUMMARY:IHC Regeneration Talk by Scott Ellsworth: The Tulsa Race Massacre: Causes\, Cover Up\, and the Fight for the Past
DESCRIPTION:The 1921 Tulsa race massacre was the worst single incident of racial violence in American history. But for decades its very existence was denied. Official records went missing\, incriminating articles were torn out of bound volumes of old newspapers\, and researchers even had their lives threatened. Award-winning author and historian Scott Ellsworth\, author of The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice\, unpacks the story of the massacre and the challenges it presents for racial justice today.  \nClick here for the flyer \nVisit the event page for more information: bit.ly/Ellsworth-IHC
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ihc-regeneration-talk-by-scott-ellsworth-the-tulsa-race-massacre-causes-cover-up-and-the-fight-for-the-past/
LOCATION:HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Book Talk,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T163000
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SUMMARY:Gender + Sexualities Cluster | Erika Rappaport | Hotels\, Swimming Pools & Bikinis: Public Relations\, White Sexuality and Disavowal of State Violence in 1960s Kenya
DESCRIPTION: 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/gender-sexualities-cluster-erika-rappaport-hotels-swimming-pools-bikinis-public-relations-white-sexuality-and-disavowal-of-state-violence-in-1960s-kenya/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T153000
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SUMMARY:IHC RFG  |  Crossing Borderlands  |  Discussion with Stuart Tyson Smith: "Backwater Puritans”? Racism\, Egyptological Stereotype\, and the Intersection of Local and International at Kushite Tombos
DESCRIPTION:  \nClick here to Register and receive the Zoom link. \n Click here for the flyer
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ihc-rfg-crossing-borderlands-discussion-with-stuart-tyson-smith-backwater-puritans-racism-egyptological-stereotype-and-the-intersection-of-local-and-international-at-kushite-tombos/
LOCATION:HSSB 6056
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Public Lecture,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220510T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220510T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T153504
CREATED:20220505T205223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T183950Z
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SUMMARY:Women in Chinese Silent Cinema
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Paul Pickowicz will screen compelling clips from Chinese silent-era films of the 1920s and 1930s.  Pickowicz will emphasize the diverse roles played by women and ask questions about why the women seen on screen\, including such iconic figures as Ruan Lingyu\, Li Lili\, and Wang Renmei\, were far more important than men to the success of Chinese silent cinema.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/women-in-chinese-silent-cinema/
LOCATION:SSMS 2135\, Social Sciences and Media Studies Building\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T153504
CREATED:20220419T044301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T185417Z
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SUMMARY:Gender & Sexualities Cluster | Arunima Datta | Stranded: travelling Indian Ayahs Negotiating War and Abandonment in Europe
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin Zoom Meeting (https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87526376038)
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/gender-sexualities-cluster-arunima-datta-stranded-travelling-indian-ayahs-negotiating-war-and-abandonment-in-europe/
LOCATION:University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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