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SUMMARY:Talk by Professor Emeritus Hal Drake on "A Century of Miracles"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Drake will be discussing his latest book\, A Century of Miracles: Christians\, Pagans\, Jews\, and the Supernatural\, 312-410. The book offers a fresh examination of a complex polytheistic period in Roman history\, surveying a wide range of faiths and belief systems during this eventful century. It offers a thoroughly researched assessment of the supernatural and its sociological and cultural effects on history down to the present. Anyone engaged in religious discourse will find the analysis especially illuminating.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/talk-by-professor-emeritus-hal-drake-on-a-century-of-miracles/
LOCATION:Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library\,\, 2201 Laguna Street\, Santa Barbara\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Rosie Bermudez\, Chican@ Studies\, UC Santa Barbara. "Economic Justice is a Women's Issue: The Chicana Welfare Rights Organization's Challenge to Welfare Reform in the 1970s."
DESCRIPTION:Rosie Cano Bermudez is a doctoral candidate in the department of Chicana and Chicano studies at UC Santa Barbara. Her dissertation “Doing Dignity Work: Alicia Escalante and the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization\, 1967-1974\,” focuses on the human dignity struggles waged by single Chicana welfare mothers in East Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s at the confluence of multiple social movements. Her research interests are centered on the histories of Chicana and Mexican American women’s activism\, identity\, and feminisms during the second half of the Twentieth century in Los Angeles. She is currently a Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Fellow and Ford Fellow at UC Santa Barbara. \nHer chapter for discussion can found here. \nA light lunch will be served.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/rosie-bermudez-chican-studies-uc-santa-barbara-economic-justice-is-a-womens-issue-the-chicana-welfare-rights-organizations-challenge-to-welfare-reform-in-the-1970s/
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:20180427T130000
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SUMMARY:Nate Citino\, History\, Rice University\, "Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S.-Arab Relations\, 1945-1967."
DESCRIPTION:Citino discusses his most recent book\, Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S. – Arab Relations\, 1945-1967 (2017). He is also the author of From Arab Nationalism to OPEC: Eisenhower\, King Sa’ud\, and the making of U.S. – Saudi Relations (2002). Co-Sponsored with the Blum Center for Global Poverty Allevation and Sustainable Development. A chapter from his recent book can be found here. \nA light lunch will be served.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/nate-citino-history-rice-university-envisioning-the-arab-future-modernization-in-u-s-arab-relations-1945-1967/
LOCATION:HSSB 4041\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Spanish Colonialism and the Origins of Microeconomics\, a talk by Patricia Seed
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the next meeting of the History Department’s Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Dr. Patricia Seed (UC Irvine)\, who will be presenting a paper entitled “Spanish Colonialism and the Origins of Microeconomics”. \nThe talk will be held at 5pm on Wednesday\, May 2nd in HSSB 4020\, and will be followed by a small reception. \nSpanish Colonialism and the Origins of Microeconomics. For those wondering what Spanish colonialism has to do with the origins of modern microeconomics\, the answer is everything. This talk will take you through the canon law of the School of Salamanca\, the turbulent history of the unique Latin American institution of the encomienda\, and Islamic traditions of property\, only to see how it all came together in modern microeconomics. \nPatricia Seed is History Professor at UC Irvine and the author of several award-winning books\, including: The American Pentimento: The Pursuit of Riches and the Invention of “Indians” (University of Minnesota Press\, 2001)\, winner of the 2003 Prize in Atlantic History; Ceremonies of Possession in Europe’s Conquest of the New World\, 1492-1640 (Cambridge University Press\, 1995; Portuguese edition\, 2000) (ACLS E-selection); To Love\, Honor\, and Obey in Colonial Mexico: Conflicts Over Marriage Choice\, 1574-1821 (Stanford University Press\, 1988; Spanish edition\, 1992)\, winner of the Bolton Prize and serialized in La Jornada (Mexico City). She is also the editor of José Limón and La Malinche: The Dancer and the Dance (The University of Texas Press\, 2007). \n  \nWe hope to see many of you there!
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/spanish-colonialism-and-the-origins-of-microeconomics-a-talk-by-patricia-seed/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture – Alex Wellerstein on “Truman's Bomb”
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on May 9\, 4PM\, in the McCune Conference Room for the 2018 Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. Our guest speaker will be Alex Wellerstein who will be giving a lecture titled Truman’s Bomb and the Making of the Atomic Presidency.  \nWhen we think of the importance of the atomic bomb to the Truman presidency\, we think of Truman’s weighty decision regarding the use of the weapon on Japan. But historians have known for decades that the narrative of “the decision to use the bomb” is largely mythical\, and his actual role was mostly peripheral. But despite this\, Truman did make several decisions during the war that would have vast consequences for the future of nuclear weapons\, decisions that still resonate today. This talk will look at the making of the “Atomic Presidency” during the Truman administration: the regulations\, norms\, and procedures that invest in a single person the power to destroy the world\, a power that has extraordinary relevance for us today. \n \nAlex Wellerstein is an Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in the College of Arts and Letters at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken\, New Jersey. He received his PhD from the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University in 2010\, and has BA in History from the University of California\, Berkeley. He is the author of “Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog\,” the creator of the heavily-used nuclear weapons effects simulator website NUKEMAP\, and is a regular contributor to the New Yorker’s Elements web site\, among other outlets for his more popular writing. \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.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lawrence-badash-memorial-lecture-alex-wellerstein-on-trumans-bomb/
LOCATION:HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Kelly Shannon\, Florida Atlantic University. Book talk: "U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Kelly Shannon of Florida Atlantic University will speak about her new book\, U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women’s Human Rights. She argues that since the late 1970s\, the issue of women’s human rights in Islamic societies has become increasingly important to U.S. foreign policy. Her analysis sheds new light on U.S. identity and policy creation and alters the standard narratives of the U.S. relationship with the Muslim world.The talk is free and open to the public; delicious refreshments will be served.  \nThe event is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies\, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, the Walter H. Capps Center\, and the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/kelly-shannon-florida-atlantic-university-book-talk-u-s-foreign-policy-and-muslim-womens-human-rights/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180517T160000
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SUMMARY:"Lawyers and Legal Consciousness in Early Modern Europe: A Cultural History\," a Talk by Michael P. Breen\, Reed College
DESCRIPTION:“Historians have long believed that lawyers played a central role in the dissemination of legal knowledge and the ideal of the ‘rule of law’ in early modern Europe. Recent scholarship\, however\, has called this view into question\, emphasizing instead the ways ordinary men and women appropriated the law and its institutions for their own ends. This talk will reconsider the ways legal professionals helped mediate the development of early modern legal consciousness by examining their activities beyond the courtroom and the identities they fashioned for themselves not as legal experts\, but as intellectuals\, literary figures\, and political actors.” \n  \nMichael P. Breen is Professor of History and Humanities and Chair of the Division of History and Social Sciences at Reed College. He is the author of Law\, City\, and King: Legal Culture\, Municipal Politics and State Formation inEarly Modern Dijon (2007) and numerous articles on lawyers and legal culture in early modern France. \nCo-sponsored by the Departments of History and French and Italian\, the Early Modern Center\, and the IHC. \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lawyers-and-legal-consciousness-in-early-modern-europe-a-cultural-history-a-talk-by-michael-p-breen-reed-college/
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:20180518T093000
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SUMMARY:Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Honors Student and Mentor with Thesis Poster\nThis Friday from 9:30am to 2:45pm nine students from the 2017-18 History Senior Honors Seminar will present the results of their research in a conference-panel format\, with professors commenting afterwards. Everyone is invited! \nProgram: \nPanel 1\, 9:30-11am: Public Policies’ Effects on People’s Lives \n\nHalley Thiel\, “’There is Power in the Blood:’ The Growth of the California Oil Industry and Its Resistance to Standard Oil”\nMentor: Dr. Graves; comment by Dr. Martin\nPenelope Fergison\, “Head for the Hills: Race and Property Value in Oakland”\nMentor: Prof. Perrone; comment by Prof Lichtenstein\nSasha Bates\, “Ignoring Atrocities: The Reagan Administration Funding the Salvadoran Government\, 1981-1984”\nMentor: Prof. Yaqub; comment by Prof. Bergstrom\n\nPanel 2\, 11:15-12:45: Individual Agency in Policy Formation \n\nMilo Schaberg\, “Nuclear Semiotics: Thomas Sebeok and the ‘Atomic Priesthood’”\nMentor: Prof. Aronova; comment by Prof. McCray\nAvery Barboza\, “A Sixteenth Century Cold War: England\, Spain\, and John Hawkins”\nMentor: Prof. McGee; comment by Prof. Covo\nAmanda Krstic\, “Age of Quarrel: Slavery and Diplomacy in Maryland in the\nAge of Atlantic Revolutions”\nMentor: Prof. Covo; comment by Prof. Perrone\n\nLunch break\, 12:45-1:15 (will be provided for all participants) \nPanel 3\, 1:15-2:45: Culture’s Effects on Life and Politics \n\nMegan Lucas\, “Bluestockings on Campus: Women at Smith College and Vassar College in the Nineteenth Century”\nMentor: Dr. Case; comment by Prof. Chavez-Garcia\nJessica Kanter\, “Historiographies of Colonial Rule: Italian Fascists in Libya and the British in Zimbabwe”\nMentor: Prof. Chikowero; comment by Ross Melczer\nZingha Foma\, “The Origin of Dutch African Prints: Tracing African Culture\, Politics and History through Textile and Dress Practices”\nMentor: Prof. Spickard; comment by Prof. Miescher
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/senior-honors-thesis-colloquium/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference,Public Lecture,Student Presentations
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SUMMARY:Serge Ferrari\, History\, UC Santa Barbara. "General Electric versus the Market: the Road from Industrial to Financial Capitalism."
DESCRIPTION:Serge Ferrari is completing his dissertation on GE\, tracing how the corporation remade itself into a large-scale financial enterprise at the end of the twentieth century. His paper will be available here two weeks before his talk. \nA light lunch will be served.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/serge-ferrari-history-uc-santa-barbara-general-electric-versus-the-market-the-road-from-industrial-to-financial-capitalism/
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:20181005T170000
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SUMMARY:"Censorship\, Politics\, and the Making of a Literary Classic"\, a talk by Carlos Aguirre at the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the next meeting of the History Department’s Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Prof. Carlos Aguirre (University of Oregon)\, who will be presenting a paper entitled “Censorship\, Politics\, and the Making of a Literary Classic: The Biography of Vargas Llosa’s La ciudad y los perros“. \nThe talk will be held at 5pm on Friday\, October 5th in HSSB 4020\, and will be followed by a small reception. \nThis event is supported by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, the History Department Colloquium Committee\, the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program\, and the Program in Comparative Literature. \nAbstract\nMario Vargas Llosa’s first novel\, La ciudad y los perros (Barcelona\, 1963)\, marked the beginning of the author’s outstanding literary career but also\, according to many\, of the “Latin American boom\,” a literary\, political\, and publishing phenomenon that changed the landscape of Latin American and world literature. A novel about a group of adolescents in a military school in Lima that was widely read as a critique of Peruvian militaristic\, machista\, and authoritarian culture\, it became an almost instant classic but was also involved in a series of literary and political controversies. Exploring the role of literary and friendship networks\, the Spanish publishing industry\, the negotiations with Franco’s censorship office\, the scandals that surrounded its reception\, and the political climate of the time\, this talk will reconstruct the process by which the manuscript of a novel written by an almost unknown author became a powerful literary\, cultural\, and political artifact. \nAbout the speaker\nCarlos Aguirre is Professor of History at the University of Oregon and the author or editor of several books on slavery and abolition\, crime and punishment\, intellectuals\, and the history of Lima. His most recent publications include The Peculiar Revolution. Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment under Military Rule\, co-edited with Paulo Drinot (2017) and Bibliotecas y Cultura Letrada en América Latina. Siglos XIX y XX\, co-edited with Ricardo Salvatore (2018). For more information on professor Aguirre’s works\, check https://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~caguirre/home.html \nWe hope to see many of you there!
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/censorship-politics-and-the-making-of-a-literary-classic-a-talk-by-carlos-aguirre-at-the-colloquium-on-latin-american-and-caribbean-history/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Talk by Professor Ula Taylor\, UC Berkeley: "The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam"
DESCRIPTION:The partiarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization’s men\, who were fiercely committed dto these masculine roles. Black women’s experience in the NOI\, however\, has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. In her presentation\, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to escape the devaluation of black womanhood while also clinging to the empowering promises of patriarchy. Taylor shows how\, despite being relegated to a lifestyle that did not encourage working outside of the home\, NOI women found freedom in being able to bypass the degrading experiences connected to labor performed largely by working-class black women and in raising and educating their children in racially affirming environments. \nCo-sponsored by the College of Letters and Sciences; the MultiCultural Center; the Department of History; Hull Chair in Feminist Studies; and Black Studies
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/talk-by-professor-ula-taylor-uc-berkeley-the-promise-of-patriarchy-women-and-the-nation-of-islam/
LOCATION:Embarcadero Hall\, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte\, Isla Vista
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181201T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181201T153000
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SUMMARY:UCSB History Associates Lecture: "Pious Postmortems: Anatomy and the Making of Saints"\, Professor Brad Bouley
DESCRIPTION:During the Reformation\, the Catholic Church suffered a crisis in one of its oldest and most powerful institutions: belief in the saints. To support the veneration of these individuals\, canonization officials turned\, it would seem paradoxically\, to medical science. Canon lawyers and physicians thought that medicine could be used to prove miracles. The category of supernatural was\, however\, a tricky one and so canon lawyers\, theologians\, and doctors developed a range of techniques to establish the bounds of nature. This talk examines the means used to determine the existence of the supernatural in human bodies. Surprisingly\, the tools employed in the search for the holy mirror and presage many of the techniques later used by experimental scientists to establish the factuality of unusual observations. \nThe speaker\, Brad Bouley\, completed his PhD at Stanford in 2012 and taught at Penn Sate until he joined the UCSB History department in 2017. His specialty is Italian history from the 16th through the 18th centuries. Bouley studies the intersections of religious history\, the history of science\, and the history of food and urban provisioning. His first monograph\, Pious Postmortems: Anatomy\, Sanctity and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe\, was published last year. \nPlease RSVP using this flier
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ucsb-history-associates-lecture-pious-postmortems-anatomy-and-the-making-of-saints-professor-brad-bouley/
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:20181207T130000
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SUMMARY:Talk by Leon Fink\, Georgetown: "Neoliberalism Before Its Time? Labor and the Free Trade Ideal in the Era of the 'Great Compression.'"
DESCRIPTION:Fink\, the editor of LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History\, is the author or editor of a dozen books. These include The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order (2014); Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World’s First Globalized Industry\, from 1812 to the Present (2011); The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South (2003); and Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment (1997).
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/talk-by-leon-fink-georgetown-neoliberalism-before-its-time-labor-and-the-free-trade-ideal-in-the-era-of-the-great-compression/
LOCATION:hssb 4041\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190123T170000
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SUMMARY:Talk by Sigrid Schmalzer\, University of Massachusetts\, Amherst: "The Layered Landscapes of Hebei and Guangxi: Mao-era History and the COnstruction of China's Agricultural Heritage"
DESCRIPTION:Chinese scientists\, scholars\, and state officials are actively engaged in a transnational movement to preserve “agricultural heritage.” But what is agricultural heritage and how does it relate to a “people’s history” of agriculture? This talk will focus on two sites where the PRC state is actively seeking to promote and preserve agricultural heritage. Both sites are famed for their spectacular agricultural terraces: one lies in the northern province of Hebei and the other in the southern province of Guangxi. Despite ethnic\, cultural\, and environmental differences\, the two sites share some important historical experiences. In both places\, people identify terracing as a form of survivial for their migrant ancestors in a new land. More recently\, the two sites underwent a powerful\, transformative Mao-era history that matters deeply to local people but is in danger or erasure or cooption today in the ahnds of an eco-authoritarian state. The speaker will explore these two cases to demonstrate the need for a critical historical approach: she will urge scholars to recognize the significance of the Mao era in the construction of both agricultural knowledge and the agricultural heritage paradigm\, while resisting efforts to coopt that history in the service of state power. \nSigrid Schmalzer is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. Her first book\, The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China\, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008 and won the Sharlin Memorial Award from the Social Science History Association. Her second book\, Red Revolution\, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China (Chicago\, 2016) won the Joseph Levenson Prize form the Association for Asian Studies.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/talk-by-sigrid-schmalzer-university-of-massacusetts-amherst-the-layered-landscapes-of-hebei-and-guangxi-mao-era-history-and-the-construction-of-chinas-agricultural-heritage/
LOCATION:SS&MS 2135
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190130T173000
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SUMMARY:"Agrarian Quests: The Search for Comunidades and Campesinos in Rural Peru\,”  a lecture by Javier Puente
DESCRIPTION:Abstract \nThe history of twentieth-century Peru is the history of the rural countryside\, its governance\, and the making of comunidadesand campesinosas foundational elements of a social\, economic\, and political landscape. Throughout a number of decades\, domestic state powers and transnational capital turned lands and pastures into battlegrounds of ideas about labor\, property\, and modernization at large. In turn\, clashing visions of power placed comunidadesand campesinosat the center of their responses to enduring uncertainties and anxieties on the economic exploitation and sociopolitical control of the country. Hacendados\, engineers\, intellectuals\, corporations\, political parties\, the military\, among others\, contended and disputed the meaning of being a comunidadand a campesino. Ultimately\, a civil war brought the search to a violent end\, revealing the extent\, limitations\, and failures of the rural making of a nation-state. \nAbout  \nJAVIER PUENTE holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University and currently serves as assistant professor of Andean history at the Instituto de Historia of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. \nThis lecture s presented as part of the LAIS 200 graduate seminar. It is free and open to the campus community. A small reception follows the talk. Students interested in discussing further Dr. Puente’s work after the reception are encouraged to contact the LAIS Program Director at mendez@lais.ucsb.edu to get the reading materials. \n*LAIS thanks the generous co-sponsorship of the Departments of History\, Global Studies\, and the Global Environmental Justice Project to this event. \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/agrarian-quests-the-search-for-comunidades-and-campesinos-in-rural-peru-a-lecture-by-javier-puente/
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:20190221T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T193000
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SUMMARY:Pan-Africanism: A History
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by Professor Hakim Adi (University of Chichester\, UK) \nThursday\, February 21\, 2019\, 6:15-7:30 pm \nGirvetz Hall 1004
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/pan-africanism-a-history/
LOCATION:Girvetz 1004\, Girvetz Hall\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T190000
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SUMMARY:Alicia Boswell\, UCSB: "Cultural Heritage and Community: Protecting the Past for the Future in the Moche Valley\, Peru"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the next meeting of the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Alicia Boswell\, who will deliver a talk entitled “Cultural Heritage and Community: Protecting the Past for the Future in the Moche Valley\, Peru”. \nThe talk will be held in HSSB 4020 at 5 pm on Wednesday\, March 6th\, and will be followed by a small reception. \nAbstract: Media reports on cultural heritage issues focus primarily on the destruction of ancient monuments and the illicit looting and sale of antiquities\, especially at the hands of groups such as ISIS. In doing so\, they largely ignore the likelihood that antiquities extraction and site destruction is more related to issues of global economic development. This talk addresses the global and national socioeconomic pressures connected to heritage destruction in Peru and highlights a model implemented to combat archaeological site destruction in the Moche Valley\, Peru by Moche Inc\, a nonprofit organization that Boswell collaborates with. This model\, which engages local communities in heritage preservation and development projects demonstrates that the benefits of conserving archaeological sites can extend beyond site preservation and tourism opportunities. Community collaboration and protection of archaeological sites can contribute to economic opportunities and long-term community development. \nAbout the Speaker: Alicia Boswell is Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at UCSB. \nTo access the pre-circulated paper\, please visit https://items.ssrc.org/facing-extreme-el-ninos-at-the-local-level/
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/alicia-boswell-ucsb-cultural-heritage-and-community-protecting-the-past-for-the-future-in-the-moche-valley-peru/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T180000
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture by Audra J. Wolfe: "Science\, Freedom\, and the Cold War: a Political History of Apolitical Science"
DESCRIPTION:As a part of the Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture Series\, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center presents Audra J. Wolfe on the development of so-called apolitical science. \nWhy do so many U.S. scientists continue to lean on the language of apolitical science\, even as political leaders display less and less interest in scientists’ claims to expertise\, or even the existence of facts? In a new book\, Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science\, historian Audra J. Wolfe suggests the answer lies in Cold war propaganda. \nFrom the late 1940s through the late 1960s\, the U.S. foreign policy establishment saw a particular way of thinking about scientific freedom as essential to winning the global Cold War. Throughout this period\, the engines of U.S. propaganda amplified\, circulated\, and\, in some cases\, produced a vision of science\, American style\, that highlighted scientists’ independence from outside interference and government control. Working (both overly and covertly\, wittingly and unwittingly) with governmental and private organizations\, U.S. scientists tried to come to terms with the meanings of “scientific freedom” and “U.S. ideology.” More often than not\, they ended up defining scientific values as the opposite of Communist science. \nScience\, in this view\, was apolitical. \nThe Cold War ended long ago\, but the language of science and freedom continues to shape public debates over the relationship between science and politics in the United States. \nAudra J. Wolfe\, Ph.D. is a Philadelphia-based writer\, editor\, and historian.  She is the author of Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science (2018) and Competing with the Soviets: Science\, Technology\, and the State in Cold War America (2013). Her articles have appeared in both scholarly and more popular venues\, including the Washington Post\, The Atlantic.com\, Slate\, and the popular podcast American History Tellers. \nWolfe holds a Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania (2002). Previously\, she studied biochemistry and chemistry at Purdue University (B.S.\, 1997). She has taught courses on Cold War science as well as science and the media at the University of Pennsylvania. As a publishing professional\, Wolfe has worked at the University of Pennsylvania Press\, Rutgers University Press\, and the Chemical Heritage Foundation\, where she additionally served as executive producer for an award-winning podcast\, Distillations. Her editorial and publishing consulting company\, The Outside Reader\, supports the work of scholars and scholarly publishers.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lawrence-badash-memorial-lecture-by-audra-j-wolfe-science-freedom-and-the-cold-war-a-political-history-of-apolitical-science/
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:20191005T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T160000
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SUMMARY:History Associates Presents: Stephan Miescher's Ghana's Electric Dreams
DESCRIPTION:History Associates will kick off the 2019-2020 year with a presentation by UCSB’s Professor Stephan Miescher titled Ghana’s Electric Dreams. It is based on his forthcoming monograph on the history of Ghana’s most ambitious development project\, the Volta River Project and the Akosombo Dam\, and their importance for the process of nation-building. It will include the showing of part of a documentary film based on Miescher’s research which was directed and edited by R. Lane Clark. The film visits sites affected by the dam and the broader vision of modernization that it represents. \nGhana’s Electric Dreams will be presented at 4:00 on Saturday\, October 5 at the Santa Barbara Public Library (Faulkner Gallery) at 40 E Anapamu Street. The event is free and open to the public\, although donations to support History Associates are welcomed. \nClick here to see the flyer for the event.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-presents-stephan-mieschers-ghanas-electric-dreams/
LOCATION:Faulkner Gallery\, 40 E Anapamu Street\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,History Associates,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T160000
DTSTAMP:20260608T053744
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190924T192240Z
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SUMMARY:Nelson Lichtenstein\, "A Fabulous Failure: Bill Clinton\, American Capitalism\, and the Origin of Our Troubled Times"
DESCRIPTION:As part of the The Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy’s “The Political Economy of Racial Inequality” Fall Quarter speaker series\, Nelson Lichtenstein (History\, UC Santa Barbara) will present “A Fabulous Failure: Bill Clinton\, American Capitalism\, and the Origin of Our Troubled Times.” Lichtenstein is the Academic Senate’s 2019 Faculty Research Lecturer. He is the author of Walter Geuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit (1996)\, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business (2009)\, and co-editor of Beyond the New Deal Order: From the Great Depression to the Great Recession (2019).
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/nelson-lichtenstein-a-fabulous-failure-bill-clinton-american-capitalism-and-the-origin-of-our-troubled-times/
LOCATION:Corwin Pavilion\, 494 UCEN Road\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191022T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191022T180000
DTSTAMP:20260608T053744
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LAST-MODIFIED:20191014T221128Z
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Buettner\, "Postcolonial Migration Meets European Integration: Britain in Comparative Perspective"
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Buettner\, Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam\, will present her paper “Postcolonial Migration Meets European Integration: Britain in Comparative Perspective” on Tuesday\, October 22 at 4:00 in HSSB 4020. \nHow exceptional has Britain’s history of inward migration after 1945 been compared to that of other Western European countries? Like other former imperial powers\, Britain became home to many peoples from its former colonies and Commonwealth\, many of whom were not of European descent; moreover\, like many of its continental neighbors Britain too attracted migrants from other European countries. How did common responses to newcomers from outside Europe resemble or differ from attitudes towards foreign Europeans\, particularly those from within the European Economic Community/European Union? This paper will sketch out general issues and discuss changes over time\, not least by comparing earlier decades to developments occurring after EU’s eastward enlargement since 2004 that have culminated in Brexit. \nClick here to download the flyer for this event.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/elizabeth-buettner-postcolonial-migration-meets-european-integration-britain-in-comparative-perspective/
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:20191024T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T160000
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SUMMARY:Rosemarie Zagarri on "The Murky Past and Contested Future of the Electoral College"
DESCRIPTION:On October 24 at 4:00pm in HSSB 4080\, Professor Rosemarie Zagarri of George Mason University will present a talk titled “The Murky Past and Contested Future of the Electoral College.” The event is free and open to the public. \nThis talk will examine the roots of the American system for electing its president and explore the possibility–as well as the feasibility–of changing the existing system. The origins of the Electoral College lay in a series of tumultuous conflicts at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. At stake was not only what the presidency should entail but how the new chief executive should be elected. Memories of George III’s abuses of power haunted delegates. Fears of mob rule competed with anxieties over lodging too much power in the hands of a single individual. Representatives jealously guarded their own states’ prerogatives. The solution–the Electoral College–was a jerry-built compromise that satisfied no one completely. \nAlmost as soon as it went into operation\, the flaws and defects of the Electoral College became evident. The emergence of a two-party political system intensified its structural weaknesses. Yet the system has endured. The question facing Americans today is: What can be done to remedy the inadequacies of the Electoral College? \nClick here to download the flyer for this event.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/rosemarie-zagarri-on-the-murky-past-and-contested-future-of-the-electoral-college/
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:20191029T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T173000
DTSTAMP:20260608T053744
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SUMMARY:Steve Zipperstein\, "The Impeachment Wars: What Lies Ahead"
DESCRIPTION:The Trump impeachment saga has gained startling momentum in recent days. As the proceedings accelerate\, fascinating legal and policy questions arise. Can the president pardon people who have committed crimes at his behest? Can he pardon himself? Does impeachment require proof of a federal crime? Is the Senate required to hold an actual trial? Can nonfederal legal authorities—like the New York State Attorney General or the Manhattan District Attorney—bring criminal charges against the president while he remains in office? Steve Zipperstein explores these and other issues as he contemplates legal and political prospects in the coming weeks and months.   \nSteve Zipperstein is the former Chief Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles\, where he served alongside current Congressman Adam Schiff. Zipperstein also served as Counselor to Attorney General Janet Reno\, and as Counselor to then-Assistant Attorney General Robert Mueller. Zipperstein reported directly to former and current Attorney General William Barr for more than a decade during their private sector careers. Following his tenure as a federal prosecutor\, Zipperstein served as the Chief Legal Officer of Verizon Wireless and of BlackBerry. Zipperstein currently teaches in the Global Studies and Public Policy departments at UCLA and is a Senior Fellow at UCLA’s Center for Middle East Development. He has also served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University. His forthcoming book\, Law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Trials of Palestine\, will be published by Routledge in 2020. \nClick here to download the flyer for this event.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/steve-zipperstein-the-impeachment-wars-what-lies-ahead/
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:20191031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191031T120000
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SUMMARY:Brad Bouley\, "To Catch a Witch: Gender\, Politics\, and Persecution in the European Past"
DESCRIPTION:As a special Halloween event\, Professor Brad Bouley will present “To Catch a Witch: Gender\, Politics\, and Persecution in the European Past.” Join us at noon on October 31 in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) for knowledge\, pizza\, and drinks. Undergraduates are especially welcome.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/brad-bouley-to-catch-a-witch-gender-politics-and-persecution-in-the-european-past/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T173000
DTSTAMP:20260608T053744
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SUMMARY:Einstein’s War: How World War I Made Relativity (Matt Stanley\, NYU)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the next Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture…13 November 2019 at 4PM  \nAbout the talk: Einstein’s ascent to worldwide celebrity was\, in large part\, not his own doing. The 1919 confirmation of the German Einstein’s theory of general relativity by British astronomers soon after the end of the First World War made him an emblem of how science could rise above nationalism and petty patriotism.  But in fact international science – and relativity with it – was nearly shattered by the war. It was only the dedicated efforts of pacifist scientists\, chiefly A.S. Eddington\, that pulled both Einstein and his theory from behind the trenches and onto the front pages of newspapers\naround the globe. \n \nAbout the Speaker: Matthew Stanley teaches and researches the history and philosophy of science. He holds degrees in astronomy\, religion\, physics\, and the history of science and is interested in the connections between science and the wider culture. He is the author of Einstein’s War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I (Dutton\, 2019)\, the story of how pacifism and friendship led to scientific revolution.  He has also written Practical Mystic: Religion\, Science\, and A. S. Eddington (Chicago 2007) and Huxley’s Church and Maxwell’s Demon (Chicago 2014)\, which explore the complex relationships between science and religion in history. \nA flyer describing the talk can be found here…
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/einsteins-war-how-world-war-i-made-relativity/
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:20191207T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191207T153000
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SUMMARY:Queen Victoria and the Making of the Modern Monarchy
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Erika Rappaport\, Professor and Chair of the Department of History at UCSB and historian of British consumer culture\, explores how Queen Victoria became the first media monarch. Queen Victoria was unmatched in bringing the monarchy into the modern age\, becoming the subject of intense media attention\, criticism and adoration. In her reign we can see the first hints of what has become the modern role of the monarchy as cultural icon and celebrity. \nErika Rappaport is Professor of History and Department Chair at the University of California\, Santa Barbara.  She is the author of A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World (Princeton 2017); Shopping For Pleasure: Women and the Making of London’s West End (Princeton 2000); and is co-editor of Consuming Behaviours: Identity\, Politics and Pleasure in Twentieth Century Britain (Bloomsbury 2015)\, and is the editor of the forthcoming A Cultural History of Shopping in the Age of Empire (Bloomsbury 2020). \nOriginal Manuscripts related to British Royalty will be on display. \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/queen-victoria-and-the-making-of-the-modern-monarchy/
LOCATION:Karpeles Manuscript Library\, 21 West Anapamu Street\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Susan Lederer\, "'Send My Body to the Medical College': Alternative Afterlives in Turn of the  Century America"
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Susan Lederer\, Professor of the History of Medicine\, University of Wisconsin Madison will be giving a talk on Thursday\, January 9 at 5:30 pm entitled “‘Send My Body to the Medical College’: Alternative Afterlives in Turn of the Century America.” \nIn 1876 American and English newspapers reported the extraordinary will made by an American woman living in London. Inspired by Bentham’s 1832 bequest of his body\, Susan Fletcher Smith approached the Royal College of Surgeons with the proposal that\, upon her death\, her body be “completely dissected in the most thorough manner known to science.” Moreover\, she stipulated that preference be given to persons of the female sex who wished to inspect the body in the various stages of dissection. The President of the College agreed to accept her proposal. Smith’s donation was one of some 450 reported in the press in the years between 1870 and 1940. This talk explores how donating one’s remains to a medical institution was transformed in this period from a bizarre and macabre eccentricity into an exemplar of enlightened corporeal philanthropy. \nClick here to download the flyer for this event.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/susan-lederer-send-my-body-to-the-medical-college-alternative-afterlives-in-turn-of-the-century-america/
LOCATION:HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Andrew Hartman\, "Rethinking Karl Marx: American Liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War"
DESCRIPTION:As part of the The Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series\, Andrew Hartman (History\, Illinois State University) will present “Rethinking Karl Marx: American Liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War.” Hartman is the author of Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School (2008) and the widely reviewed A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars (2015). Professor Hartman is currently at work on a third book\, Karl Marx in America\, to be published by the University of Chicago Press. The winner of two Fulbright Awards\, Hartman was the founding President of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History. He publishes in the Chronicle of Higher Education\, Salon\, The Washington Post\, Jacobin\, Baffler\, and In These Times\, as well as academic journals. Professor Hartman co-hosts a podcast dedicated to intellectual history\, “Trotsky and the Wild Orchids.” \nClick here to download the flyer for this event..
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/andrew-hartman-rethinking-karl-marx-american-liberalism-from-the-new-deal-to-the-cold-war/
LOCATION:HSSB 4041\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:lecture by Jon Meacham\, "America Then and Now"
DESCRIPTION:Jon Meacham will be speaking on “American Then and Now: What History Tells Us About the Future” at the Granada Theater as part of Arts and Lectures “History Matters” series \nMeacham_Jon_2020_flyer \n  \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lecture-by-jon-meacham-america-then-and-now/
LOCATION:Granada Theater\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Anna Rudolph\, "Queen Radegund and the Monarchy in Medieval Europe"
DESCRIPTION:Come hear Anna Rudolph‘s presentation on Queen Radegund (520AD – 587AD) – a royal sainted lady of Thuringia. Radegund was a princess and a war captive who became the unwilling queen of the Frankish Kingdom and one of the most beloved Saints of France. Radegund\, an extreme ascetic\, was widely believed to have the gift of healing. Venerated for centuries\, she has given us insights into the changing conventions of elite and royal women’s spirituality. Radegund is the patron saint of many churches in France and England\, with one priory dedicated to her memory\nbeing converted into the world-renowned Jesus College\, near Cambridge. \n\nJoin us for an afternoon of miracles\, warfare and intrigue as we illuminate the life of one of history’s most remarkable women. \nOriginal Medieval manuscripts will be on display. \nClick here to download the flyer for this event.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/anna-rudolph-queen-radegund-and-the-monarchy-in-medieval-europe/
LOCATION:Karpeles Manuscript Library\, 21 West Anapamu Street\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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