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SUMMARY:UCSB History Department’s Annual Senior Honors Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Please join the History Department in celebrating the undergraduates at the Department’s Annual Senior Honors Colloquium 2023. The program can be downloaded here. \n  \n9:00 AM – Welcoming Remarks \n\nStephan Miescher\, Chair\, History Department\nDebra Blumenthal\, Director of 2022-23 Senior Honors Seminar\n\n  \n9:10-10:40 – Panel I – Women and Politics Across Time and Space \n\nCole Grissom\, “Severing the Old Order: The Involvement of Women in the Politics of Ancient Rome’s Severan Dynasty.” (Mentor: Beth Digeser\, History)\n\nComment: Misa Nguyen\, History\n\n\nMadeline Josa\, “Ladies’ Magazines: Women’s Fashion as Politics in Georgian England” (Mentor: Erika Rappaport\, History)\n\nComment: Lisa Jacobson\, History\n\n\nRaana Naghieh\, “Dudes\, Prudes\, and Statute Moralists Had Better Not Read This: PR\, Feminism\, and Nineteenth Century ‘Sex Radicalism’ (Mentor: Steve Zipperstein\, History)\n\nComment: Pat Cohen\, Professor Emerita\, History\n\n\n\n10:45 – 12:15 – Panel II – The Global Early Modern \n\nNichole Poblete\, “Treating the Body Politic: Epidemics and Spanish Colonial Rule in the Early Modern Philippines” (Mentor: Juan Cobo\, History)\n\nComment: Brad Bouley\, History\n\n\n\n\nSamuel Ricci\, “Mirror in the Maghrib.  Gender\, Sexuality\, and Identity in Early Modern European Captivity Narratives” (Mentor: Brad Bouley\, History)\n\nComment: Adam Sabra\, History\n\n\n\n\nWei Cui\, “Agents and Agency in Japanese Daimyo Foreign Trade: Kyushu in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century” (Mentor: Luke Roberts\, History)\n\nComment: Ya Zuo\, History\n\n\n\n  \n12:15 – 1:30 PM – LUNCH \n  \n1:30-2:30 – Panel III: The Immigrant Experience  \n\nKeren Zou\, “Obliterated People\, Chinese Gold: Chinese Immigrants\, Resistance and Resilience in Pacific Coast Fishery\, 1882-1930” (Mentor: Xiaojian Zhao\, Asian-American Studies) \n\nComment: Donna Anderson\, History\n\n\n\n\nGina Kim\, ““Twisted Tongues’ Take the Stand: Legal Advocacy and Education Reform for National Origin Minorities in California\, 1931-1997” (Mentor: Miroslava Chavez\, History)\n\nComment: Randy Bergstrom\, History\n\n\n\n  \n2:30-4:00   Panel IV: Building Community in the 20th Century US \n\nLogan Cimino\, “Del Webb\, Corporate Development and the Building of the Landscape of Mass Consumption in the Postwar American Southwest” (Mentor: Erika Rappaport)\n\nComment: Alice O’Connor\, History\n\n\n\n\nEmma Barrera\, “The Forgotten Crusader: Dr. Dorothy Ferebee and her career as a public health activist” (Mentor: Holly Roose\, History)\n\nComment: Sarah Case\, History\n\n\n\n\nMarisol Cruz\, “En La Vida: A Glimpse into the Life of Queer Latine Folks in Chicago during the 1990s” (Mentor: Jarett Henderson\, History)\n\nComment: Viviana Valle Gomez\, Feminist Studies\n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ucsb-history-departments-annual-senior-honors-colloquium/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Annual Gender + Sexualities Graduate Student Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:9:00 – 10:00 – SESSION A (Presenter will Zoom) \nGiulia Giamboni\, History\, UC Santa Barbara  \n“Pelegrina de Saladino: Mother\, Sister\, Patroness\, and Business Woman” \nThis is chapter 2 of my dissertation “Gender\, Charity\, and Empire in the Late Medieval Eastern Mediterranean.” By investigating the life of fourteenth-century Pelegrina de Saladinis\, the chapter explores the complex intersections between gender\, politics\, and empire in the cross-cultural context of late medieval Zadar (Croatia). A widow with a husband killed in a local uprising  and a brother exiled\, living in a city ravaged by two centuries of colonial dominion and by the Black death\, Pelegrina managed to construct a powerful network turning into a key figure in the social fabric of Zadar. She became a trusted testamentary executor for local powerful families\, she endowed and renovated a monastery for poor girls with lands and money\, she built a hospital for the poor\, and helped persecuted friars from Bosnia find a refuge in her city. Her foundations received the support of other Zaratin women revealing that these women identified with Pelegrina’s image. Pelegrina knew how to gain the trust of her fellow citizens and to navigate oppressive political regimes to provide concrete help to the need of her city. Pelegrina’s story of civic and political engagements in a colonized city challenges traditional narrative of women’s charitable giving. Her life demonstrates that women retooled pious practices of charitable giving to challenge the power of an outside political entity. Weaving close relationships with the local oligarchy\, granting lands and resources to religious institutions\, and caring for the poor and marginalized offered new and empowering opportunities to women to intervene in the daily life of the city and express their political standing. Pious practices did not constrain women’s individual and collective agency. Instead\, women’s charitable activities opened up spaces for performance of agency and emancipatory ends. \n  \n10:00 – 11:00 – SESSION B \nMakoto Hunter\, History\, UC Santa Barbara  \n“‘I Am Not a Criminal’: Mormon Women and the Federal Policing of Polygamous Wives in the Early Progressive Era” \nBy passing the 1882 Edmunds Antipolygamy Act and criminalizing the “unlawful cohabitation” of men and women not legally married\, the United States embarked on an unprecedented campaign of federal sexual reform targeting the nation’s most notorious “deviants”: the polygamous Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints\, or Mormons. On paper\, the Edmunds Act specifically targeted men as criminal polygamists\, implying women were victims. However\, as federal agents sought convictions\, their attention turned from polygamist men as defendants to plural wives as potential witnesses. Antipolygamy prosecutors considered the bodily presence of a plural wife—or\, better yet\, the visible evidence of her pregnancy—an ideal smoking gun to prove unlawful cohabitation. Federal marshals went out of their way to subpoena plural wives to testify against their husbands. Using diaries\, letters\, and other autobiographical material from plural wives\, this paper examines the state’s assertion of power over women’s bodies in the history of late-nineteenth-century antipolygamy. The paper also charts how these women responded\, whether by claiming a right to bodily privacy from the witness stand\, theorizing the disciplinary purpose of incarceration from prison\, or recognizing federal authorities’ surveillance of them in the professed privacy of their communities and homes. Looking back to antipolygamy reveals an unexpected predecessor to early-twentieth-century anti-prostitution legislation\, which followed a similar arc of ostensibly prosecuting men’s sexuality by policing women’s bodies—as well as to the contemporary crisis over a woman’s legal right to make choices about her own body and have sexual and reproductive autonomy. \n  \n11:00 – 11:15 – NUTRITION BREAK \n  \n11:15 – 12:15 – SESSION C \nAlice Fulmer\, English\, UC Santa Barbara  \n“The T4T Gift Economy and Antagonisms in the Middle English Romance of Sir Launfal” \nCurrent discourse and parlance around “t4t” (trans for trans relationships)\, involves speculation what such relationships mean in terms of compulsory heterosexuality\, conceptions of queerness\, ideas about passing\, and trans tenderness\, but also perceiving an unassuming pair of two things or people and tongue-in-cheek claiming they’re “t4t”. While contemporary queer theory and concepts like “t4t” are anachronistic to such canons such as the Middle English romance tradition\, a “t4t” framework may be helpful in uncovering instances of gender non-conformity relative to the 13th and 14th centuries. Romances such as Thomas Chestre’s translative Sir Launfal (a translation of 12thc. Marie de France) exhibit romantic and platonic relationships as central loci in their texts from which a certain ‘t4t’ affect is derived. Without trans language as one knows in the 21st century\, ‘t4t’ can be impressed onto the relationship and parasocial objects. While taking inspiration from the work of Sara Ahmed and her generation of affect theorists\, this paper carves a path between more traditional (re: heterosexual) medieval literary studies\, queer theory/terminology\, and the other aforementioned theories. Looking at central characters and their relationships’ dynamics from the Middle English romance tradition provides a means\, not a history\, from which ‘t4t’ can be understood as a framework to measure affect between individuals who exhibit gender non conformity and how this is impressed and interned into objects they interact or transfer personal affect into. In brief\,  these gender affirmations and antagonisms propel the narrative’s resolution to demonstrate how they embody the genre of Middle English romance in the late medieval period.  Consider this an inquiry into the bandwidth that a romance like Sir Launfal has exploring t4t discourse as present in contemporary transgender studies\, along with key excerpts from the fields of etymology\, literary history\, and whatever is left of philology. \n  \n12: 15 – 1:00 – LUNCH  \n  \n1:00 – 2:00 – SESSION D \nKristina Kelehan\, History\, UC Santa Barbara  \n“Spying Homosexuals: An Analysis of the Vassall Affair and Representations\, Ideas\, and the Politics of Gay Men in Britain during the Cold War \nWhile it is well known that some of the most famous British spies working for the Soviet Union during the Cold War were gay men\, much work on this history is written by journalists for popular audiences. My work focuses on a less sensational story but one that is no less important for what it reveals about the politics of queer history in twentieth-century Britain. I am studying the life of John Vassall\, a gay man who worked for the British Civil Service and was blackmailed by the Soviet Union starting in 1955. He passed key information to the Soviets until his arrest in 1962. A public scandal at the time\, my research examines how the British public reacted to the scandal but also how and why his story disappeared from the public eye and has not received historical attention. \n  \n2:00 – 3:00 – SESSION E \nKristen Thomas-McGill\, History\, UC Santa Barbara  \n“A Case Study of Celebrity\, Scottishness\, and Masculinity in the Victorian Empire” \nThis is Chapter 1 of a five-chapter dissertation\, “‘Now I am Going to Tell You about Sir Hector Macdonald’: A Cultural Biography of Memorialization and Child Sexual Abuse in the British Empire.” It traces Hector Macdonald’s extraordinary rise through the ranks from private to major-general\, attending to the events of Macdonald’s life and media depictions of him. I show how the late 19th-century print media fashioned Macdonald into a celebrity symbol of Scottish martial masculinity\, a particularly salient figure at a time when Britons worried about the fitness of their men in the face of imperial challenges. This chapter is both a biography and a critical analysis of biography as a historical source. Victorian media depictions of Macdonald’s life story are replete with inaccuracies\, offering opportunities to consider the tensions and concordances among biography\, mythmaking\, journalistic errors\, and plain lies. \n  \n3:00 – 3:15 – NUTRITION BREAK  \n  \n3:15 – 4:15 – SESSION F (Presenter will Zoom) \nKelsey Wight\, History\, UC Santa Barbara  \nViolets & Roses\, Betony\, & Borage: Italian Women as Apothecaries  \nIn this paper\, I will argue that gender played a crucial and oftentimes restricting role in women’s apothecarial practice in early modern Italy\, but that it also produced “zones of sociability” and new opportunities for women such as becoming a public figurehead\, an author of natural science\, or even a saint. The history of science has often marginalized the contributions of women to early modern science and excluded them from discourse concerning natural philosophy. I seek to center the contributions of early modern women and place them\, as active participants\, within early modern natural philosophy. My central research questions include: How widespread was apothecarial practice within cloistered Italian convents and in the lay public marketplace? How does the Inquisition/Counter-Reformation in Italy factor into how women practiced the apothecarial arts? And how do the apothecary practices of nuns differ from lay women in early modern Italy? I will use the concepts investigated in this research paper to develop my MA thesis and eventual dissertation. \n  \n4:15 – 6:00 – KEYNOTE & HAPPY HOUR \nDr. Candice Lyons\,  2022-2023 Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow  \nDepartment of Black Studies\, UC Santa Barbara  \n“Queering Slavery: Staging Queer Re-Examinations of the Archive” 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/annual-gender-sexualities-graduate-student-colloquium/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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SUMMARY:UCSB History Department’s Annual Senior Honors Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Please join the History Department in celebrating the undergraduates at the Department’s Annual Senior Honors Colloquium 2024. \nThe program can be downloaded here. \n  \nDepartment of History Senior Honors Colloquium \nFriday\, 17 May 2024 \nHSSB 4020 \n  \nCoffee: 8:45 am \nFirst Panel\, 9-10:30 a.m.: To Get Us Started… \nRoselind Zeng\, “Chinese Protein PR: Selling Soymilk to Build a Nation\, 2010-Present” (Jacobson) \n            Comment: Professor Xiaowei Zheng \nDaira Chavez\, “Coal Oil Point: Ranching\, Restoration\, and their Effects” (Alagona) \n            Comment: Dr. Sarah Case \nHarry Pardoe\, “The Ever-Changing Dynamics of Control\, Power\, and Black Agency in Georgetown County\, South Carolina from 1860 to 1900” (Majewski) \n            Comment: Professor Giuliana Perrone \n  \nSecond Panel\, 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Gender\, Memory\, and Cultural Construction \nMadison Dunkle\, “‘Learn How to Mend Your Lives:’ Repentance and Restraint in Early Modern English Broadside Ballads\, 1570-1630” (Bouley) \n            Comment: Dr. Jessica Zisa\, Writing Program \nEmilio Perez Williams\, “A Blood Stained Brush: Societal Reaction to Female Military Command in Medieval Europe” (Lansing) \n            Comment: Professor Debra Blumenthal \nStephanie Gerson\, “Triumphing Comprehensive Content Over Moral Messaging: Exhibiting the Holocaust at the Reagan Library” (Marcuse) \n            Comment: Professor Erika Rappaport \n  \nThird Panel\, 1:15-2:15 p.m.: Contesting Boundaries in Early America \nNicole Knox\, “Frontiers of Reciprocity: The Dynamics of Exchange\, Diplomacy\, and Power in the Dawnland” (K. Moore) \n            Comment: Professor Juan Cobo \nHanna Kawamoto\, “‘Spiritually Unsexed’: Believers\, Critics\, and Early Histories of the Publick Universal Friend\, 1776-1835” (Henderson) \n            Comment: Professor Katie Moore \n  \nFourth Panel\, 2:30-4 p.m.: Labor\, Policy\, and Power  \nNikita Srinivas\, “American Psychopharmacology and its Discontents: Tracing the Historical Underpinnings of the 2004 Regulatory Intervention in Antidepressant Use\, 1950s-2004” (O’Connor) \n            Comment: Professor Lisa Jacobson \nJake Taylor\, “‘Telesis: Progress Intelligently Planned’ for Whom? Deciding Who Counts in the Telecommunications Industry” (Stein) \n            Comment: Professor Nelson Lichtenstein \nMatthew Mucha\, “Singapore’s Labor Relations Reveal that People’s Action Party Pragmatism is Political (1958-1985)” (McDonald) \n            Comment: Professor Alice O’Connor
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ucsb-history-departments-annual-senior-honors-colloquium-2024/
LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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SUMMARY:CMES Grad Fellows Panel III    |    Statecraft\, Memory\, Belonging: From Abkhazia to Palestine
DESCRIPTION:On Monday January 26 at 9 am  CMES Spotlight Series is hosting its third iteration of the 2025-2026 academic year. \nThis will feature a graduate student panel on the topic “Statecraft\, Memory\, Belonging: From Abkhazia to Palestine” and features the work of Graduate Fellows Gehad Abaza (Anthropology)\, Farah Hammouda (Sociology)\, and Amin Mahini (History).  Professor Mona Damluji (Film and Media) will be the discussant. \nTo register please visit this link.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/cmes-grad-fellows-panel-iii-statecraft-memory-belonging-from-abkhazia-to-palestine/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion,Student Presentations,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Van Gelderen Lecture by Alexandra Noi   |   “The Other Side of Eugenics: Socialist Experiments with Nurture over Nature”
DESCRIPTION:Our Graduate Student\, Alexandra Noi will present this year’s Van Gelderen Lecture. \nHer talk is titled : “The Other Side of Eugenics: Socialist Experiments with Nurture over Nature” \nOn Wednesday\, May 6\, 2026 at 5:00pm. \nIn the McCune Room\, HSSB 6020.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/van-gelderen-lecture-by-alexandra-noi-the-other-side-of-eugenics-socialist-experiments-with-nurture-over-nature/
LOCATION:HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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