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SUMMARY:"The Specter of Social Engineering: Scientism and its Critics in the Long 1950s" a talk by Andrew Jewett\, Harvard University
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Jewett’s talk traces fears about science’s cultural impact among intellectual and political leaders and ordinary citizens in postwar America. Jewett is the author of Science\, Democracy\, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War (2012). \nA copy of his paper can be found here.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/specter-social-engineering-scientism-critics-long-1950s-talk-andrew-jewett-harvard-university/
LOCATION:HSSB 4041\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161020T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161020T173000
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SUMMARY:"Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity\," a talk by David Sepkoski
DESCRIPTION:Why do we care about preserving biodiversity? At the beginning of the 21st century biodiversity has come to be seen as fragile and tenuous\, constantly endangered by the threat of loss. Extinction plays a central role in this understanding of biodiversity. Whereas most historians who have examined this phenomenon have placed the modern biodiversity movement in the context of a history of conservation biology and endangered species protection\, I want to frame it in a new perspective. This talk will examine the influence of biological theories about the nature and dynamics of extinction—and especially mass extinction—on the current valuation of biological diversity. I will focus particularly on the ways that new understandings of extinction in the past—for example\, the extinction of the dinosaurs—have converged with scientific and cultural anxieties about the present—the specters of global warming\, nuclear war\, and biodiversity loss. I will argue that this new model of extinction has played a prominent conceptual and rhetorical role in debates surrounding the current biodiversity crisis\, which I will examine in critical historical perspective. \nDavid Sepkoski is Senior Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin \nSepkoski_flyer2
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/catastrophic-thinking-david-sepkoski/
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:20161027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161027T173000
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SUMMARY:"Diplomacy as a Means of Political Survival: The Cities and Duchies of the Northern Holy Roman Empire in relation to France\, 1650–1730\," a talk by Indravati Félicité
DESCRIPTION:“Diplomacy as a Means of Political Survival: The Cities and Duchies of the Northern Holy Roman Empire in relation to France\, 1650–1730” \nTalk by Indravati Félicité\, Maîtresse de conférences\, Université Paris-Diderot (Paris VII)\nOctober 27 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm in HSSB 4020 \nIndravati Félicité is the author of Négocier pour exister. Les villes et duchés du nord de l’Empire face à la France 1650–1730 (Berlin : Walter de Gruyter\, 2016). This talk analyzes France’s impact on the politics of the Hanseatic cities of Lübeck\, Bremen\, and Hamburg and the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp and Mecklenburg-Schwerin at the time of King Louis XIV. This was a period of change in the constitutional premises of the Holy Roman Empire. For these German “states” as well as for the diplomats and statesmen involved in these relations\, negotiation and diplomacy became a matter of life and death\, essential for safeguarding the existence of their governments. The place held by the diplomats in this process underlines the importance of their networks and reveals their contribution to the genesis of the early modern State.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/diplomacy-means-political-survival-cities-duchies-northern-holy-roman-empire-relation-france-1650-1730-talk-indravati-felicite/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161028T120000
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SUMMARY:Prof. Cavan Concannon (USC): "An Assemblage Approach to Early Christianity\, Deleuze\, Latour\, and the Letters of Dionysios of Corinth"
DESCRIPTION:Modern historians map the diversity of early Christianity in a variety of ways\, from declines into heresy to competition among “varieties” of early Christianities. Drawing particularly on the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze and Bruno Latour\, Concannon argues that  we might better map the remains of second-century Christianity by focusing on networks of people\, ideas\, and letters that moved along broader patterns of trade and communication in the eastern Mediterranean. Focusing on the costs\, velocities\, and viscosities of movement and commerce\, he examines the network associated with Dionysios of Corinth\, whose writings come to us only as fragments and summaries in Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History. Concannon shows how non-human actants such as geography\, economic activity\, and trade routes shape the interactions within Dionysios’ network\, allowing us to think more broadly about second-century Christianity as a series of emergent networks that form\, coalesce\, and dissolve in the flow of movement and connectivity that characterized the Roman Mediterranean. Sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands RFG.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/prof-cavan-concannon-usc-assemblage-approach-early-christianity-deluze-latour-letters-dionysios-corinth/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161102T160000
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SUMMARY:Professor Timon Screech (SOAS) speaks on "God\, Art\, and Money in the First English Voyages to Japan\, 1611-1623"
DESCRIPTION:Please join the RFG Reinventing Japan in welcoming Professor Timon Screech (SOAS\, University College London) to campus on November 2\, 2016. Professor Screech will be presenting his new work on “The Shogun’s Silver Telescope: God\, Art\, and Money in the First English Voyages to Japan\, 1611-1623.” The talk will be held in SSMS 2135 at 4pm on November 2\, 2016. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the departments of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies\, History\, Economics\, History of Art and Architecture\, Global Studies\, the East Asia Center\, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/professor-timon-screech-soas-speaks-god-art-money-first-english-voyages-japan-1611-1623/
LOCATION:SSMS 2135\, Social Sciences and Media Studies Building\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161103T160000
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SUMMARY:Sophie Desrosiers speaks on Precolumbian Andean Textiles
DESCRIPTION:“Looking at the Central Andes from a Textile Viewpoint: How Textiles Shaped Peruvian Space from the Early Horizon to the Incas” \nProfessor Sophie Desrosiers brings together archeological evidence and observations of contemporary practice in order to reconstruct historical textile practices. Her main areas of study are the Andes\, Xinjiang archaeological textiles\, and silk between China and Europe during the Late Antique and Medieval periods. \nProfessor Desrosiers is the maîtresse de conferences at the Centre de Recherches Historiques at the EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales).
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/sophie-desrosiers-speaks-precolumbian-andean-textiles/
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:20161120T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161120T180000
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SUMMARY:"China and the 2008 Riots in Tibet: What Happened\, and How Do We Know?" with Prof. Zheng
DESCRIPTION:UCSB’s Professor Xiaowei Zheng (November 20 at 4:30PM at the Goleta Public Library) will discuss the difficulties in assessing the 2008 riots in Tibet. The rioting that began on March 14 in the Tibetan capital\, Lhasa\, spread quickly to other Tibetan cities. In Lhasa\, rioters targeted Han Chinese merchants who suffered injuries\, casualties\, and massive property damage. In the crackdown that followed\, the authorities arrested over a thousand Tibetans. Controversy quickly emerged over allegations that there had been serious inaccuracies and biases in reports about the coverage of the riots in the international media. Zheng will analyze the coverage\, drawing upon video images and press accounts. The media stories shaped people’s understanding of the events\, demonstrating how challenging it can be even to know the very recent past. \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/china-2008-riots-tibet-happened-know-prof-zheng/
LOCATION:Goleta Valley Public Library\, 500 N. Fairview Avenue\, Goleta\, CA\, 93117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170111T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170111T173000
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SUMMARY:Talk by Prof Rui Kohiyama on American Women Missionaries and Romantic Love in Meiji Japan
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in welcoming Professor Rui Kohiyama (American and Gender Studies\, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University) to UCSB. Professor Kohiyama will give a talk on “American Woman Missionaries\, Christian Homes\, and Romantic Love in Meiji Japan.” American women missionaries are well known for their educational and reformatory intervention in various mission fields in Asia. Although their initiatives in criticizing child marriage and widowhood in india and foot-binding in China are famous\, those in Japan are vague: all we have been told is that they introduced “modern education for women” in Japan. This presentation will clarify the relationship between “modern education for women” and the missionary aim of creating Christian homes\, and point out the unexpected outcome of  missionary education: nurturing “romantic love” in mission schools. \nProfessor Rui Kohiyama is author of As Our god Along Will Lead Us: The Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Foreign Missionary Enterprise and its Encounter with Meiji Japan (in Japanese\, 1992) and co-editor/co-author of Introduction to the History of Gender in the United States (in Japanese\, 2010).
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/talk-prof-rui-kohiyama-american-women-missionaries-romantic-love-meiji-japan/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170114T141500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170114T154500
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SUMMARY:The Bisno Schall Gallery at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse
DESCRIPTION:The UCSB History Associates invite you to a docent-led tour of the Bisno Schall Gallery in the tower of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse. From 1929 until 2011 the magnificent Seth Thomas masterpiece that moves the hands on the tower clock was out of sight. Dr. David Bisno and the late Dick Schall funded a renovation project (complete with murals on the walls and ceiling) that was completed in 2011. See the flyer for details\, and sign up for space with Sears McGee (jsmcgee@history.ucsb.edu). BSG-flyer-pub
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/bisno-schall-gallery-santa-barbara-county-courthouse/
LOCATION:Santa Barbara County Courthouse\, 1000 Anacapa Street\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T190000
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SUMMARY:Salim Yaqub\, History\, "Imperfect strangers: Americans\, Arabs\, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s"
DESCRIPTION:Salim Yaqub will be giving a talk on his new book\, Imperfect Strangers: Americans\, Arabs\, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s\, which was published by Cornell University Press in September 2016. In this book Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade in U.S.-Arab relations—a time when Americans and Arabs became an inescapable presence in each other’s lives and perceptions\, and when each society came to feel profoundly vulnerable to the political\, economic\, cultural\, and even physical encroachments of the other. Throughout the seventies\, these impressions aroused striking antagonism between the United States and the Arab world. Over the same period\, however\, elements of the U.S. intelligentsia grew more respectful of Arab perspectives\, and a newly assertive Arab American community emerged into political life. These patterns left a contradictory legacy of estrangement and accommodation that continued in later decades and remains with us today. \nYaqub is Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, and Director of UCSB’s Center for Cold War Studies and International History. He is the author of Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East (University of North Carolina\, 2004) and of several articles and book chapters on the history of U.S. foreign relations\, the international politics of the Middle East\, and Arab American political activism.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/salim-yaqub-history-imperfect-strangers-americans-arabs-u-s-middle-east-relations-1970s/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170127T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170127T150000
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SUMMARY:Marshall Steinbaum\, Economics\, The Roosevelt Institute\, "Student Debt and the Labor Market: Challenges to Theory and Policy"
DESCRIPTION:Marshall Steinbaum\, who holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago\, is Senior Economist and Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He has authored numerous papers on job mobility\, economic inequality\, student debt\, entrepreneurship and the corporate economy.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/marshall-steinbaum-economics-roosevelt-institute-student-debt-labor-market-challenges-theory-policy/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170203T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170203T150000
DTSTAMP:20260607T062742
CREATED:20170116T194007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170116T194007Z
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SUMMARY:Jeff Sklansky\, History\, University of Illinois at Chicago\, "The Fund of Trust: Monetary Reform and the Ethic of Investment in the Gilded Age"
DESCRIPTION:Sklansky is the author of The Soul’s Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought\, 1820-1920 (2002) and the forthcoming Sovereign of the Market: The Money Question in Early America. A copy of his paper\, “”The Fund of Trust: Monetary Reform and the Ethic of Investment in the Gilded Age” can be found here: Sklansky
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/jeff-sklansky-history-university-illinois-chicago-fund-trust-monetary-reform-ethic-investment-gilded-age/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Paper Workshop,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T183000
DTSTAMP:20260607T062742
CREATED:20170206T184619Z
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Historical Perspectives on President Trump's Jan. 27 Executive Order on Immigration
DESCRIPTION:Three faculty of the UCSB History Department will provide historical perspectives on immigration in the U.S.: \nGiuliana Perrone\, “The History of Exclusion in American Law” \n Nelson Lichtenstein\, “Immigrants Built the American Left and They Will Do It Again” \nPaul Spickard\, “Immigration in a Time of Hate” \nFeb. 8 Poster
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/panel-discussion-historical-perspectives-president-trumps-jan-27-executive-order-immigration/
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:20170209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170209T133000
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SUMMARY:Ann Little (Colorado State University) - Blogging\, Tweeting\, and Instagramming the Borderlands of Public and Academic History: Social Media as a Tool for Public Engagement
DESCRIPTION:College and university History departments (once again?) say they’re in crisis: nationwide\, our numbers of majors have shrunk dramatically over the past decade\, not to mention the “job crisis” of the past 45 years that has outlived the expansion of the profession from 1945-1970 nearly twice over. What’s an academic historian to do about this? Social media like Facebook\, blogs\, Twitter\, and Instagram can be tools for building interest and support for our work as historians\, and can help build careers to boot. \nThis talk by Ann M. Little (from Colorado State University’s Department of History) will examine the promise (mostly) and perils of being a historian in public online. \n \nIn keeping with the theme\, if you want to check out Ann on Twitter\, she’s at @historiann or read her blog.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ann-little-colorado-state-university-blogging-tweeting-instagramming-borderlands-public-academic-history-social-media-tool-public-engagement/
LOCATION:HSSB 3208\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170216T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170216T173000
DTSTAMP:20260607T062742
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170201T002704Z
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SUMMARY:Hail the Maintainers! or - How to Give Up the Innovation Fetish (Prof. Lee Vinsel)
DESCRIPTION:Hail the Maintainers! or – How to Give Up the Innovation Fetish \nJoin us for a talk by Prof. Lee Vinsel\, Stevens Institute of Technology – 16 February 2017 in HSSB 4080 at 4PM \nOur culture is obsessed with innovation. Innovation is thought to be the goal of business\, policy-making\, philanthropy\, education\, even play. Yet\, the vast majority of human activity aims not at creating or adopting innovative things but in maintaining old ones. While our society celebrates Innovators\, the simple truth is that most of us are Maintainers. This talk first traces the rise of innovation-speak in the USA. The Cult of Invention that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries laid the foundation\, but rise of the word “innovation” itself was a distinctly post-World War II phenomenon. Ironically\, the term was used more and more after 1970—and particularly after 1990—when the United States experienced low economic growth and fewer meaningful innovations than in the previous hundred years. \nInnovation-speak was a reaction to and antidote for economic malaise\, and all institutions\, including universities\, were to be reformed in its name. After laying out this history\, I will put forward an alternative view of human life with technology\, drawing on a tradition of thought\, including historians like Ruth Schwartz Cowan and David Edgerton. I will conclude by exploring the consequences of this more grounded view of technology and society for both the future of historical and social scientific technology studies and for policy-making. \nThis talk is co-sponsored with the Machines\, People\, and Politics RFG \nA flyer for Lee’s talk is here.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/hail-maintainers-give-innovation-fetish-prof-lee-vinsel/
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:David Moss\, Harvard Business School\, “E Pluribus Unum: Thoughts on the Perils (and Promise) of an Aging Democracy”
DESCRIPTION:David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School\, where he teaches in the Business\, Government\, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Yale.  A founder of the Tobin Project\, Professor Moss is the author of Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the Origins of American Social Policy (1996); When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager (2002); and editor of Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It (2014). A copy of his paper\, “E Pluribus Unum: Thoughts on the Perils (and Promise) of an Aging Democracy\,” will be available soon. \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/david-moss-harvard-business-school-e-pluribus-unum-thoughts-perils-promise-aging-democracy/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Cheryl Jimenez Frei\, UCSB\, "Shaping and Contesting the Past: Monuments\, Memory and Identity in Buenos Aires"
DESCRIPTION:UCSB History Associates invites you to attend the Fourth Annual Van Gelderen Graduate Student Lecture  \nCheryl Jimemez Frei\, a PhD Student in Latin American History\, will be giving a lecture related to her work on memory and the built environment in Argentina.  A luncheon will follow.  To attend the luncheon\, please fill out the form here: 2017-Frei flyer-3 \nIn 2013\, then-President of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner sparked both protest and praise after announcing the removal of a nearly century-old monument of Christopher Columbus in Buenos Aires. It had been a gift from Argentina’s prominent Italian immigrant community\, to celebrate the nation’s centen-nial of independence. After two years of contentious public debates\, Kirchner celebrated the inaugural of the massive monument that replaced it—a sculpture of Jua-na Azurduy de Padilla\, a nineteenth-century female rev-olutionary fighter of indigenous heritage\, and a histori-cal figure previously unknown to most. \nThe controversy over these statues provides a flashpoint to examine the history and iconography of monuments in Buenos Aires’s commemorative core\, to question how history\, identity\, and memory are pro-duced and internalized through public spaces. How did monuments perform specific didactic functions in the past\, and do they continue to do so in the present? If so\, who has authority in representation? What should be-come of monuments to now-questionable heroes and narratives of the past? \nCheryl Jimenez Frei is completing her PhD dissertation in Latin American History. Her research specialties include Argentina\, memory\, and the built environment\, visual culture\, and public history. Her article\, “Contesting Columbus: Monuments\, Memory and Identity in Buenos Aires\,” was recently accepted by the Journal of Latin American Studies.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/cheryl-jimenez-frei-ucsb-shaping-contesting-past-monuments-memory-identity-buenos-aires/
LOCATION:Alumni Hall\, Mosher Alumni Center\, UCSB\, Santa Barbara \, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:"The Beach Boys: Classified Research with a Southern California Vibe" - Bill Leslie; The Johns Hopkins University
DESCRIPTION:Long before companies such as Apple and Google learned how to attract and indulge their high tech workforces with espresso bars\, climbing walls\, flextime\, and other perks\, laboratories likeRAND in Santa Monica\, Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu\, and Nortronics in Palos Verdes perfected the art of concierge science.  These were venues designed to recruit\, retain\, and inspire researchers with bold architecture\, scenic views\, challenging problems\, brilliant colleagues and a lifestyle best described as “cold war avant-garde”.  Whether through curated contemporary art collections\, guest lecture series by recent Nobel prize winners\, or simply the opportunity to live and play in some of the area’s best beachfront resorts\, these companies reimagined the scientific life as a aesthetic choice for members of an emerging ‘creative class\,’ with a distinctly regional flair. Southern California promised a new style of doing science where researchers themselves called the shots\, where the bottom line did not constrain blue sky thinking\, and where youthful exuberance had the chance to prove itself. \n \n  \nAbout the Speaker: Bill Leslie has taught the history of science and technology at Johns Hopkins University since 1981.  He has written on industrial research\, Cold War science\, corporate architecture\, and most recently the architecture of science.  Much of his recent work looks at science and technology in the developing world—Iran\, India\, and Pakistan—and at the aerospace industry in Southern California.  He is currently writing a history of Johns Hopkins University. \nA flyer for the talk is here.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/beach-boys-classified-research-southern-california-vibe-bill-leslie-johns-hopkins-university/
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:Mary Furner\, History\, “The Jacobs Era in US Labor Standards Law and Regulation\, 1885-1899”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Furner is the author of Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science (with a new Introduction\, 2010); “Ideas\, Independencies\, Governance Structures\, and National Political Cultures: Norbert Elias’s Work as a Window on U.S. History\,” in Christa Buschendorf\, et al\, eds\, Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: Figurational Approaches to American Culture (2011); and “From ‘State Interference’ to the ‘Return of the Market’: The Rhetoric of Economic Regulation From the Old Gilded Age to the New\,” in Edward Balleisen & David Moss\, eds.\, Government and Markets (2009). \nHer presentation will be followed by a symposium honoring Professor Furner’s contributions to the field.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/mary-furner-history-jacobs-era-us-labor-standards-law-regulation-1885-1899/
LOCATION:HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Conference,Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Drawing Twentieth-Century History: The World in Flames\, a talk by Fernando Bryce  Copy
DESCRIPTION:Fernando Bryce’s upcoming public lecture\, “Drawing Twentieth-Century History: The World in Flames” to take place Friday\, April 7th in HSSB 4020 starting at 3 pm\, is part of the yearlong new interdisciplinary graduate workshop “Theoretical Perspectives on War\, Political Violence\, Nationalism and the State” (History 291) in the History Department.  After the formal talk (3:00-4:30) and a coffee break\, Bryce will stay for one more hour further to discuss his work with students registered in the workshop and any other interested students and faculty. The following paper is available for discussion: Natalia Majluf\, “Seeing History” (Fernando Bryce. Lima: Museo de Arte de Lima\, 2011). For further reading see Rodrigo Quijano\, “Present Allusion”. Fernando Bryce. Barcelona: Fundació Antoni Tàpies\, 2005\, or Jiménez Fernando Bryce\, The Untimely Copyist\, Jiménez in Artnexus 2010 \nSince the goal of History 291 is to tackle the problems of war and political violence\, including colonialism and empire from a multiplicity of disciplinary angles\, I have taken the somehow experimental step of inviting an internationally renowned artist whose remarkable visual work addresses precisely those concerns. Historians\, as Michel-Trouillout pointed out\, are not the only ones to provide historical narratives. Or\, as Natalia Mafluf\, Director of the Museum of Art of Lima\, eloquently wrote: \n“Bryce focuses on the grand narratives\, on the century’s historical events and decisive processes: the conquests of European imperialism\, the great wars\, the revolutions and ideological debates of the Cold War –that is\, the development of the international ideologies of communism and capitalism shaping the political struggles of the twentieth century. Bryce’s project is thus aligned with certain recurrent themes of critical studies related to culture\, images\, politics\, politics and the formation of subjectivities in the public sphere. At the same time\, his series distance themselves from the practice of academics and professional historians\, who usually focus on particular problematics or on the study of complex social processes by way of narrative argumentation. His drawings nevertheless provide a different approach to historical facts; one might say that what the academic discipline of history basically focuses on explaining\, is what Bryce proposes instead to show. In other words\, what he discovered\, very simply\, was a method that allows us to see history”. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the History Department\, the Departments of Film and Media Studies\, Spanish and Portuguese\, History of Art and Architecture\, the Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies\, and the Office of the Associate Vice-chancellor on Diversity\, Equity and Academic Policy. \nFor more information about Fernando Bryce\, please scroll down. For inquiries please write  Prof. Cecilia Méndez at mendez@history.ucsb.edu \n\nFERNANDO BRYCE (b. 1965 Lima) attended university in both Lima and Paris and lived for many years in Berlin. Currently\, he lives and works in Lima and New York.  His ink on paper drawings systematically re-examine the ways historical events are represented in printed media. The process\, which Bryce describes as ‘mimetic analysis’ involves culling archives for print materials like advertisements\, newspaper articles\, and propaganda pamphlets in order to faithfully reproduce a selection of these materials\, creating his own ink-on-paper “reconstructions.” \nIn May 2011\, Bryce had his first one-person exhibition in North America at Alexander and Bonin\, El Mundo en Llamas [The World in Flames] in which the expansive sets of drawings El Mundo en Llamas and Das Reich / Aufbau were shown. Drawing Modern History\,  a survey exhibition of his work\, was on view in 2011 at the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) and traveled to Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC)\, Mexico City and Malba-Colección Costantini\, Buenos Aires. His work was included in “Manifesta 4\,”Frankfurt (2002); “8th International Istanbul Biennial\,” (2003); “26th Biennial of SãoPaulo” (2004); “54th Carnegie International\,” Pittsburgh (2005); “T1 – The Pantagruel Syndrome\,” Castello di Rivoli\, Turin (2006); “The 11th Biennale de Lyon\,” (2011) ; “The 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art”\, Cartagena de Indias (2014). \n* * * \nFERNANDO BRYCE: “DRAWING MODERN HISTORY” \nOver the past decade Fernando Bryce (Lima\, 1965) has produced a vast corpus of drawings that forge new forms of representation of historical memory. His method\, which he early defined with a dose of humor as “mimetic analysis”\, is based on the careful copy of official documents\, press images\, political propaganda and advertisements so as to form large series of ink drawings that focus on power relations and their mediatization in twentieth-century history. Through the basic play of re-presentation (in the most literal sense of showing again)\, by copying or the simple mise en scène of documents and objects\, Bryce uses appropriation\, parody and irony as weapons to expose the prejudices underlying commonly accepted official discourses. \nThis exhibition\, jointly presented by Fundación Telefónica\, the Museo de Arte de Lima and the City of Lima\, brings together for the first time the greater part of the artist’s most ambitious series. A significant group of Bryce’s early work is shown at Fundación Telefónica. In these drawings and paintings made between Berlin and Lima in the second half of the 1990s\, the artist explores diverse approaches to the representation of the local context and its history through images drawn from the mass media. The large series of drawings presented at the Museo de Arte de Lima reveal the way in which Bryce’s project gradually acquires a programmatic character and assumes an almost encyclopedic ambition. At the turn of the millennium\, his work opens up\, as in concentric circles\, to encompass other regions and other chapters in twentieth-century history. He centers on the printed matter of ideology to cover war and revolution\, colonial exploits\, imperial domination and art programs\, as officially portrayed in their own graphic language. Through his drawings\, Bryce literally recovers the figuration of ideology. His project engages the images of the modern world\, fixed selectively to forge a genealogy of the present. \nTatiana Cuevas and Natalia Majluf\, curators (2011) \n* * * \nFROM THE NEW YORK TIMES \nThe wars and conflicts of the 20th century yielded entities like Unesco\, a United Nations agency dedicated to encouraging international peace and\, according to its website\, “universal respect for human rights.” In his current show\, the Peruvian-born artist Fernando Bryce reproduces images and text printed in Unesco’s Courier magazine between 1948 and 1954\, as well as other publications devoted to promoting new aesthetic or cultural ideas.\nThe largest work includes 81 ink-on-paper drawings — what Mr. Bryce calls “reconstructions” — made from the Unesco Courier. Among the selections here\, writers argue against racism\, call for better access to education and ask how art and technology might aid peace and unity. On the opposite wall are 31 ink-on-paper reconstructions of advertisements for gallery exhibitions published from 1944 to 1947 in ARTnews\, the reigning English-language contemporary art magazine of that period. In the rear gallery are 28 silk-screen prints with reproductions of images from Parisian and Latin American art magazines.\nCulled from museum and library archives\, Mr. Bryce’s project hints at the complications between originals and the copies. After all\, art during the midcentury was often experienced — particularly by people outside urban centers — through black-and-white reproductions in magazines. The rise of abstraction as an international language in art is another concern raised by this show\, since it was seen as having the ability to erase cultural differences. The gallery’s walls are filled with grand and wonderful ideas: foundations for a new and better world. The sobering fact is how familiar these problems of yesterday feel today. \nSource: \nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/arts/design/fernando-bryce-explores-midcentury-cultural-ideas.html?_r=0 \nFor more on Fernando Bryce: \n\nhttp://db-artmag.com/en/78/feature/the-artist-and-the-propaganda-machine-how-fernando-bryce-retells/\nhttp://www.alexanderandbonin.com/sites/default/files/jimenez_artnexus_2010.pdf
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/drawing-twentieth-century-history-the-world-in-flames-a-talk-by-fernando-bryce-copy/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Honoring a Chicana Activist Dignity Warrior: The Life and Work of Alicia Escalante
DESCRIPTION:A reception honoring Alicia Escalante\, life-long community activist. \n\nPlease join us in recognizing the life-long activism of Alicia Escalante\, the founder of the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization (ELAWRO)\, who recently donated her papers to the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives at the UCSB Library. Escalante organized the ELAWRO in 1967 after tiring of the indignities poor\, single mothers of color like her secured at the hands of local authorities. Focused on economic justice and human dignity\, Escalante’s social and political activism sheds new light on the multiple insurgencies and inter-organizational dynamics across a wide berth of movements\, including welfare rights\, women of color and white women’s feminist struggles\, and Chicano battles for self-determination. Today\, Escalante and the ELAWRO carry tremendous historical insight for the current struggles for human dignity\, as they teach us the critical role of individual as well as collective\, grassroots activism and leadership in furthering movements for social justice. \nSpeakers to include: Alicia Escalante; Miroslava Chavez-Garcia\, History; & Rosie Bermudez\, PhD Candidate\, Chicana/o Studies. Reception to follow. \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/honoring-a-chicana-activist-dignity-warrior-the-life-and-work-of-alicia-escalante/
LOCATION:UCSB Main Library\, Pacific View Room\, 8th Floor\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Marriage and Ritual Performance among the Servants of the Babylonian Gods
DESCRIPTION:Talk by Bastian Still\, Leiden University \nWith more than 50\,000 legal-administrative cuneiform tablets\, the so-called Neo-\nBabylonian Period (c. 625-484 BCE) is one of the best-documented periods in the\nhistory of Mesopotamia\, the region between Tigris and Euphrates. Unfortunately\,\nthis invaluable and very rich material rarely finds use in wider social-historical\ndiscourses\, as cuneiform specialists still engage predominantly in conventional\ninvestigations of philological\, juridical and economic nature. Attempts to further the\nfield of Assyriology by providing much needed social perspectives are still strikingly\nmissing with the result that the complex fabric of this ancient society as a whole\nremains a poorly understood subject of research – this is particularly obvious in the\nstudy of Babylonian marriage. \nThis talk presents a novel approach to marriage in Babylonian society of the\nmid-first millennium BCE\, based on a combination of social network analysis\,\nsociological theory and anthropological studies.  Focusing on priests in the city of Borsippa\, \nthe talk reveals how marriage practices helped shape not only the social order of the community but also the daily cult activities of the temple of Borsippa.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/marriage-and-ritual-performance-among-the-servants-of-the-babylonian-gods/
LOCATION:HSSB 4041\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Let us go upon the Acropolis: John Wesley Gilbert in Greece\, September 1890-April 1891
DESCRIPTION:Talk by John W.I. Lee\, UCSB History Department \n \nJohn Wesley Gilbert (ca. 1863-1923) was born in Hephzibah\, Georgia. He attended Paine College (Augusta\, Georgia)\, then received his BA from Brown University in 1888. He was the third African American to graduate from Brown. As a Brown MA student in 1890-1891\, Gilbert became the first African American to attend the fledgling American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA). The ASCSA was founded in 1881 by a group of scholars from Brown\, Columbia\, Harvard\, Yale\, and other American colleges as a research and teaching center for Greek archaeology\, literature\, and history. \nDrawing on Gilbert’s own writings and other contemporary documents\, this talk examines the historical significance of Gilbert’s time in Greece. During his year as a student at the American School\, Gilbert traveled throughout Greece\, wrote a thesis on the demes (political subdivisions) of ancient Athens\, and took part in the ASCSA’s excavations at the ancient city of Eretria. \nAfter studying in Greece\, Gilbert returned to the U.S. to teach at Paine College in Augusta\, Georgia. He was a leader in the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (now Christian Methodist Episcopal Church) and was an important voice for African American education and for racial equality and harmony in the U.S. \nThis talk is part of the ‘Black Classicism’ lecture series presented in conjunction with the “14 Black Classicists” exhibition hosted by the AD&A Museum and the UCSB Library.  The lecture is co-sponsored by the Argyropoulos Endowment in Hellenic Studies\, and the departments of Classics and Black Studies.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/let-us-go-upon-the-acropolis-john-wesley-gilbert-in-greece-september-1890-april-1891/
LOCATION:UCSB Library Instruction & Training Room 1312 (First Floor\, Mountain Side)\, Davidson Library\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Amelia Brown (University of Queensland)\, Maritime Religion in Ancient Greek Culture
DESCRIPTION:Amelia Brown on Greek Maritime Religion
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/amelia-brown-university-of-queensland-maritime-religion-in-ancient-greek-culture/
LOCATION:HSSB 4041\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Echoes from El Pueblo Viejo
DESCRIPTION:2017-EPV-flyer-pdf
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/echoes-from-el-pueblo-viejo/
LOCATION:Alhecama Theatre\, 914 Santa Barbara Street\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture - Erika Milam on "Creatures of Cain"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on May 10\, 4PM\, in the McCune Conference Room for the Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. Our guest speaker will be Erika Lorraine Milam (Princeton University) who will be giving a lecture titled Creatures of Cain: Human Nature and the Politics of Violence During the Cold War.  \nHuman nature contains the seeds of humanity’s destruction. Or so it seemed to popular consumers of evolutionary theory in the late 1960s who maintained that the essential quality distinguishing the human animal from its simian kin lay in our capacity for murder. This startlingly pessimistic view enjoyed particular currency in the United States between 1966 and 1975. Even ten years earlier\, this vision of humanity would have struck many scientists as odd. After the Second World War\, liberal American biologists and anthropologists had crafted an account of humanity’s past that emphasized a common evolutionary heritage bonded through continued inter-breeding into a universal family of man. Her talk tells the story of how definitions of human nature came to grip public science with such force and why purported insights shifted\, so dramatically and in such a short time\, from seeing humanity as characterized by our unique capacity for reasoned cooperation to emphasizing\, even lauding\, our proficiency with violence. \n \nErika Milam is an Associate Professor of History at Princeton University where she specializes in the history of evolutionary theory. Her research explores how scientists have used animals as models for understanding human behavior\, from sex to aggression. She is author of Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2010) and coeditor\, with Robert Nye\, of Scientific Masculinities (Chicago: University of Chicago Press\, 2015).   \nThe Badash Lecture honors the late Prof. Lawrence Badash\, a long-time professor in the history of science at UCSB. The lecture is made possible with generous donations from Larry’s partner Nancy Hofbauer\, his former student Peter Neushel\, and numerous other donors who have contributed their support to the series. \nA flyer for this event is here. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lawrence-badash-memorial-lecture-erika-milam-on-creatures-of-cain/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:The Politics of Rights and The 1911 Revolution in China\, a talk by Xiaowei Zheng
DESCRIPTION:The Workshop Theoretical Perspectives on War\, Political Violence\, Nationalism\, and the State (His 291) is pleased to present Xiaowei Zheng\, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at UCSB\, who will speak about her forthcoming book with Stanford University Press\, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China.  The appointment is Friday May 19th from 3:00 to 4:30 pm\, in HSSB 3001E. \nProfessor Zheng’s presentation will focus on her books’ introduction and conclusions\, which can downloaded from the following links:  Zheng Introduction_coded_ED Feb 3 2017\, Zheng Conclusion_coded_ED Feb 3 2017 \nChina’s 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation. Its leaders\, however\, were not rebellious troublemakers on the periphery of imperial order. On the contrary\, they were a powerful political and economic elite deeply entrenched in local society and well-respected both for their imperially sanctioned cultural credentials and for their mastery of new ideas. The revolution they spearheaded produced a new\, democratic political culture that enshrined national sovereignty\, constitutionalism\, and the rights of the people as indisputable principles. Based upon previously untapped Qing and Republican sources\, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China is a nuanced and colorful chronicle of the revolution as it occurred in local and regional areas. Xiaowei Zheng explores the ideas that motivated the revolution\, the popularization of those ideas\, and their animating impact on the Chinese people at large. The focus of the book is not on the success or failure of the revolution\, but rather on the transformative effect that revolution has on people and what they learn from it. \nFor questions about this event please contact Prof. Cecilia Méndez at mendez@history.ucsb.edu.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-politics-of-rights-and-the-1911-revolution-in-china-a-talk-by-xiaowei-zheng/
LOCATION:HSSB 3001E\, 3001E Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Book Talk,Paper Workshop,Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:A Woman’s Drink? Gender & the Global History of the Tea Shop
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Professor Erika Rappaport of the UCSB History Department explores how tea shops emerged in the 18th century and came to be defined as “women’s spaces” in 19th century and early 20th century Europe and North America — but as “male spaces” in parts of Africa and South Asia. These institutions helped build mass markets but also shaped the “gendered” meanings surrounding selling and drinking tea. \nOriginal manuscripts will be on display.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/a-womans-drink-gender-the-global-history-of-the-tea-shop/
LOCATION:Karpeles Manuscript Library\, 21 West Anapamu Street\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170522T120000
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SUMMARY:Face 2 Face: Egodocuments and Microhistory - An adventure in historical thinking
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson\, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Iceland and a Visiting Scholar all this year in the UCSB History Department\, will give a talk May 22\, at noon in HSSB 4020. \nDr. Magnusson brings us an expert’s interpretation of two major aspects of current European historical writing: life writing and microhistory. He will discuss the significance of the concept of gender for historical analysis\, particularly on the basis of the importance of different types of egodocu-ments for the self-expression of the sexes. He will evaluate the status of the autobiography as a historical source\, with some consideration of other types of life writing or egodocuments in Iceland. He will show how the form of the genre affects the sexes’ access to self-expression and how their differing ‘cultural space’ opens up opportunities for people self-creation. Dr. Magnusson views these developments in an international light. Sources of this kind and women’s perspectives are necessary to enable scholars to interpret much material that has previously defied their analysis. \nTHERE WILL BE FOOD.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/face-2-face-egodocuments-and-microhistory-an-adventure-in-historical-thinking/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Colloquium: Isabella Gabrovsky on "Rethinking Britain" and Mario Tumen on "Decolonization of Taxation in Peru"
DESCRIPTION:The Workshop on Theoretical Perspectives on War\, Political Violence\, Nationalism and the State (History 291)  is pleased to invite you to its final open presentation and discussion this Friday May 26 from 3:00 to 5:30 pm  in HSSB 4020.  Two graduate students\, Isabella Gabrovsky and Mario Tumen\, will be presenting their work in progress on Britain and Peru. Please\, join the conversation. Their papers can be downloaded from the links below.  Everybody is welcome! \n“Rethinking Britain: An English identity Crisis in the Era of Devolution.” \nBy Isabella Gabrovsky. PhD student\, Political Science Department\, UCSB. \nThis paper (Gabrovsky Rethinking Britain rev) seeks to explore the rise of nationalist movements in the UK\, how they differfrom the global rise of the far-right\, and what changes in Westminster we might expect as a result. While the leftist Scottish National Party surged to become the second largest party in the UK\, there has been a rise of right-wing nationalist groups in England such as the UK Independence Party. Analysis of historical context will shed light on how these two diametrically opposed political ideologies expanded simultaneously. This is seen in the psephological maps of the 2015 General Election and the Brexit referendum. The current political climate in the UK\, where two separate nationalist movements are in power\, is unprecedented and more importantly\, unsustainable. The policies that arise during this time will determine not only what role the UK will play on a global stage\, but also\, if the UK will exist as a unitary state in the near future. There is a significant gap in the current political literature deconstructing the motivations behind these nationalist movements. This paper will address that void\, asses the potential political ramifications\, and provide possible policy prescriptions. Isabella Gabrovsky currently is a PhD student at UCSB in the Political Science department. She has previously worked in the Scottish Parliament. \n  \n“Decolonization of Taxation: Indigenous Peasants and the Civil War of 1895 in Peru” \nBy Mario Tumen. PhD student\, History Department\, UCSB \nBy looking at the civil war\, or the “Revolution of 1895” as it happened in the department of Ancash\, Peru\, this essay ( Tumen\, Decolonization of Taxation) analyzes the role indigenous peasants played in the abolition of the contribución personal\, a tax they had paid since colonial times. Through war\, they exercised their citizenship and influenced the distribution of power within the state. Yet\, the largest peasant insurrection of the nineteenth century\, the Atusparia Rebellion\, had shaken social order in the department ten years before. I argue that resilient efforts to abolish the contribución personal in 8 Ancash date back to 1885 and continued in the period leading up to Revolution of 1895. \nEverybody is welcome\, please spread the word! \n* * Coffee will be served. \nFor questions or comments\, please contact prof. Cecilia Méndez at mendez@history.ucsb.edu
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/graduate-student-colloquium-isabella-gabrovsky-on-rethinking-britain-and-mario-tumen-on-decolonization-of-taxation-in-peru/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Panel Discussion,Paper Workshop,Public Lecture
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