Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

History TA Training:Fall 2008 Initial Meeting
2008-09-22 00:00 (America/Denver)
All new History Department Teaching Assistants must attend both morning and afternoon sessions of the Initial Training Meeting. All returning History TAs must attend the afternoon session.
For more information contact History Lead TAs Jessica Elliott and Rachel Winslow.
jwil 04.viii.2008

Fall instruction begins
2008-09-25 00:00
Fall instruction begins on Thursday, September 25, 2008.Note that some History syllabi are available for downloading from the History website Courses page prior to the start of the quarter.
Also, each instructor’s web page (click on their name to get there) has a section “announcements” in the left-hand column. Some instructors post information about waiting lists or changes in course venue there.
hm 9/18

Alex Lichtenstein, (History, Florida International):
2008-09-26 00:00
Lichtenstein is the author of Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (1995). His current research examines the interplay of the civil rights and labor movements in Florida during the 1940s.
hm 9/22

Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice
2008-10-10 00:00
Fletcher, a longtime labor and international activist, is executive editor of Black Commentator and founder of the Center for Labor Renewal. Gapasin is a Central Labor Council President and former professor of Industrial Relations and Chicana/o Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Fletcher is also the author of The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
hm 9/22

Black Masses, Poltergeists, and Ritual Sex: Reconstructing the Libertine Topography of West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK
2008-10-13 00:00
Jason Kelly is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University of Indiana.
Since its existence first became public knowledge in the 1760s, politicians, critics, and historians alike have represented the so-called Monks of Medmenham Abbey in a variety of ways. The 4th Earl of Sandwich, Francis Dashwood, and John Wilkes, all early members of the group, publicized their libertine behaviors — drunkenness and hyper-masculine sexuality in particular. They suggested that the grounds of West Wycombe manor, the parish church, and even the local chalk mines had been locations of the monks’ debauchery. Within a generation, locals were regaling tourists with stories of haunted churchyards and caves, leading unsuspecting tourists on muddy romps to see the ghosts of the Franciscan Friars. One hundred years later, the stories of the friars’ haunts had become infused with stories of black magic and satanic orgies. When the National Trust took over the West Wycombe estate and the associated grounds in the 1930s, the stories about the area had become such a part of the local history that it became central to drawing tourists to West Wycombe. By the 1950s, the oral histories of the Monks prompted the National Trust to introduce a Disney-esque array of wax figures into the re-opened chalk mines, promoting stories about eighteenth-century ritualized sex, ghostly tales, and black magic in the accompanying literature. The West Wycombe lore found a ready audience, andthe popularized version of black masses, poltergeists, and sex rituals found
repetition in late twentieth-century history writing, X-Men comics, and even a Japanese cartoon series.
Through a virtual walking tour through West Wycombe, this paper is, in part, an attempt to separate the factual from the mythological stories surrounding the eighteenth-century Monks of Medmenham Abbey. More importantly, however, it shows why the telling and retelling of the stories about the monks — in particular stories about their libertinism — have remained important to the construction of elite identity into the twenty-first century.
jwil 10.x.08

Malaria, Witchcraft, Infant Cemeteries and the Fall of Rome
2008-10-15 00:00
This lecture examines evidence from an ancient Roman infant cemetery recently discovered at Lugnano in Teverina (Umbria). The cemetery contained forty-eight bodies. DNA testing techniques recently developed by Robert Sallares of the University of Manchester have revealed that the bodies contain evidence of an epidemic of plasmodium falciparum malaria. The cemetery also offers evidence of witchcraft and puppy sacrifice ca. A.D. 450. Circumstantial and physical evidence suggest that the area of Umbria / Tuscany may have become a malarial zone contributing to the fall of Rome.
David Soren is Regents Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona, and Director of the Orvieto Institute in Umbria. He holds a B.A. in Greek & Roman Studies from Dartmouth, and an M.A. in Fine Arts and a Ph.D. in Archaeology from Harvard. He has done extensive field work in Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, and Tunisia, and has received numerous honors and awards for his work.
This is the annual Sandra Church Lecture. The Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America gratefully acknowledges the support of Sandra Church in making this lecture possible.
If you wish to attend this lecture and need special assistance due to a disability please call (805) 893-3556.
jwil 01.x.08

Working-Class Readers, Libraries and Networks of Self-Education in the Progressive Era
2008-10-17 00:00
Tobias Higbie, Associate Professor of History at UCLA, is the author of Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930 (2003), which won the Philip Taft Labor Prize in Labor History.
hm 9/22; jwil 08.x.08

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
2008-10-19 00:00
Diane Ackerman, author of the bestselling A Natural History of the Senses and An Alchemy of Mind, will discuss and sign copies of her latest book, The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, at 3 p.m. on Sunday, October 19 at UCSB Campbell Hall. This groundbreaking work of nonfiction recounts a story–as powerful as Schindler’s List–of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who capitalized on the Nazis’ obsession with pureblood animals in order to save over 300 doomed Jewish refugees and Polish resistance fighters by hiding them in the bombed-out cages at the Warsaw Zoo. This free, public event is presented by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara.
Listen to a Jan. 2008 interview with Diane Ackerman on NPR’s Science Friday.
hm 7/29; 9/18, 10/2

"The Middle East and the Shifting Global Balance,"
2008-10-22 00:00
For the past 35 years, the US has been unquestionably the dominant power in both the Middle East and the world. But now, the global balance is shifting rapidly; we are hurtling into a post-unipolar world. As during earlier periods of deep global change, developments in the Middle East have been intimately involved. (What comparisons are valid between the tripartite invasion of Egypt in 1956 and President Bush’s invasion of Iraq in 2003?). How might the present– and continuing– shift in global power affect the Middle East?
hm 10/22
Helena Cobban is an internationally known journalist and author, with a focus on the Middle-East. She has worked for several years as a Beirut-based correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, and The Sunday Times of London. She is the author of “Re-engage America and the World After Bush.” Ms. Cobban received her B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University.
Sponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies, the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, the MA Program in Global and International Studies, and the Department of History
For questions, please contact CMES at 805-893-4245

Ionian Topography and the Spartan Attack on Sardis, 395 B.C.
2008-10-22 00:00
This talk examines the literary and archaeological/topographical evidence for Agesilaos’ campaign against Sardis in 395 B.C. By reading the conflicting accounts of Xenophon, the Oxyrhynchus Historian, and Diodorus Siculus in combination with the ancient topography of the Kaystros Valley, a plausible case can be made that Agesilaos marched to Sardis via Hypaipa and over Mount Tmolus, rather than via the Karabel Pass.
This talk is sponsored by the interdisciplinary Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information please contact Professor Christine Thomas.
jwil 08.x.08

Conference "Domesticity, Affect, Intimacy, Power, and Justice"
2008-10-24 00:00
Friday, Saturday, & Sunday, October 24 – 26, 2008University of California, Santa Barbara
McCune Conference Room (6020 HSSB)
7:30pm Friday October 23
KEYNOTE: Intimate Justice
Tricia Rose, Africana Studies, Brown University
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9pm Friday October 24
Domesticity and Normativity
Lisa Duggan, Program in American Studies, New York University
Respondents:
Erin Ninh, UCSB Asian Ameri can Studies
Sohail Daulatzai, UCI African Ameri can Studies
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10am Saturday October 25
Genteel Apartheid: The Affect of Power
Daniel HoSang, Departments of Political Science and Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon
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11:30am Saturday October 25
Orphans of Modernism
Ondine Chavoya, Department of Latino/a Studies and Department of Art, Williams College
Respondents:
Paula Ioanide, Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, Ithaca College
David Garcia, UCSB Postdoctoral Fellow
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2PM Saturday October 25
Panel Discussion:
Art, Affect, and Activism
Rickey Kim, Evil Monito webzine
Melissa K. Nelson, Cultural Conservancy and American Indian Studies SFSU
Lisa Nevins, hip hop activist
Denise Pacheco, UCLA School of Education
Pepe Urquijo, Film Maker
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10am Sunday October 26
Planning Session for a UC-Wide
Race, Place, and Power Network
3635 South Hall
All Friday and Saturday sessions will be held in the McCune Conference Room
(6020 HSSB)
All sessions free and open to the public Sponsored by: University of California Humanities Research Institute; Center for Black Studies Research; Chicano Studies Institute; Asian American Studies Department; Chicano Studies Department; Hull Chair in Feminist Studies; Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Academic Policy; English Department; History Department; Black Studies Department
hm 10/22

Sir Thomas Browne, the Laudian Moment, and the Birth of Modernity
2008-10-28 00:00
UCSB Renaissance Studies presents the first talk in its new speaker series. There will be a light reception after the talk.
For more information contact Stefania Tutino or Jim Kearney.
hm 10/13/08

In Cod We Trust
2008-10-29 00:00
Was John Cabot the first European after the Norse to set foot in North America? Brian Fagan takes us on a fascinating 1,500-year archaeological and historical journey in search of the answer, which is closely linked to the importance of fish like cod to Christian doctrine. We begin with Christ’s 40-day fast in the wilderness, with the symbolism of fish in Christian belief, in a world of abstinence, atonement, fasting and penance. Within a few centuries, enormous numbers of (now vanished) fish farms appeared throughout Europe. Soon afterward, a huge international fish trade developed to satisfy an insatiable demand for fish on holy days and during Lent. This is a story of salt, herrings and cod, of busses, doggers, cogs, and caravels, of fishers sailing the North Atlantic in mid-February for Lenten catches. The journey culminates in the discovery of the Newfoundland cod fisheries and with the permanent settlement of New England well before the Pilgrims. This lecture is the opening event of the IHC’s “Food Matters” series.Sponsored by the IHC; part of the “Food Matters” series.
hm 10/22

FILM SCREENING: Food for the Ancestors
2008-10-30 00:00
Dias de los Muertos event
Thursday, October 30 / 5:30 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
As part of its Food Matters series, the IHC will celebrate the Days of the Dead with a screening of the PBS film Food for the Ancestors. Food for the Ancestors is a culinary-history exploration of Days of the Dead and Mexican traditions, set in the state of Puebla.
Sponsored by the IHC; part of the “Food Matters” series.
hm 10/22

FILM Seven Days In May
2008-10-30 00:00
Presented by the CCWS Cold War film series.
The president of United States has just signed a treaty with the Soviet Union requiring both countries to destroy their nuclear weapons. The polls show the treaty to be unpopular. The charismatic Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff believes that the Soviets will cheat and launch a nuclear surprise attack that would kill hundreds of millions and destroy the United States. To thwart the treaty, he and a cadre of like-minded officers plot to seize control of the U.S. government. A vigilant colonel, committed to the U.S. Constitution, uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time to derail a takeover? The clock is ticking.
Released the same year that ushered in Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove, this John Frankenheimer (Manchurian Candidate) film explored another nightmare scenario of the Cold War – a right-wing military coup in the United States. The book and film were inspired by the disarmament debate at the end of the Eisenhower years and start of the Kennedy years. President John F. Kennedy admired the novel so much that he allowed Frankenheimer to film outside the White House in late 1963, but the Department of Defense objected to the negative portrayal of the military and refused cooperation. Starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, the film is a fine example of Cold War psychological drama at its best.
Wikipedia Seven Daysfilm page
hm 10/26

Democracy and Knowledge in Classical Athens
2008-10-31 00:00
In this colloquium, Josiah Ober will draw on his recent book Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens (Princeton University Press, 2008) to discuss the institutional contexts of democratic knowledge management in classical Athens.
Josiah Ober is Professor of Classics and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, and holds the Constantine Mitsotaki Chair in the School of Humanities and Sciences.
jwil 23.x.08

Politics of the Living Dead: Lords, Adoption and Inheritance in Tokugawa Japan
2008-11-03 00:00
Monday, November 3 / 12:00 PMHSSB 2252
Luke Roberts will speak on keeping the deaths of daimyo officially secret for days or months at a time so as to engineer adoptions in the Tokugawa period. Almost everyone is in the know but pretends the lord is alive. This study helped Roberts figure out the why of the topic of his book, which is to understand Tokugawa politics through Tokugawa-era concepts of omote (ritual performance of submission to hierarchy) and naishu (inside group-forming identity, informal relations across groups). Factions within lords’ households frequently competed over inheritance. Therefore in Tokugawa law daimyo lords had to be alive to personally name their heir or the house was forfeit. Still daimyo frequently died suddenly and heirless. The performance of submission to this rule and the civility necessary to engineer the inheritance of an officially alive but really dead daimyo lord helped prevent intra-house strife and warfare and helped maintain the Tokugawa great peace.
Sponsored by the IHC’s East Asian Cultures RFG.
hm 10/22

Catolicos: Resistance and Affirmation in Chicano Catholic History
2008-11-05 00:00
Wednesday, November 5 / 4:00 PMMcCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
This book presentation and discussion will focus on Mario T. Garcia’s new book concerning the historic role that Chicano Catholicism has played in the resistance of Chicanos to cultural and identity repression and in affirming the cultural and identity integrity of Chicanos. In addition to Prof. Garcia’s presentation, analysis and reflections on the book will be offered by Rudy Busto and Jack Clark Robinson, O.F.M., from the Dept. of Religious Studies. Mario T. Garcia is the author of many texts on Chicano history, including Chicano religious history.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Chicano/Latino Research Focus Group, Catholic Studies, the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies; Chicano Studies Institute.
hm 10/22

An Evening with David Grossman
2008-11-05 00:00
Wednesday, November 5 / 7:30 PMUCSB Campbell Hall
Israeli writer David Grossman is the author of some of the most controversial books in his country’s history, including the award-winning The Yellow Wind, observations collected over three months in the West Bank. The recipient of 21 international literary awards, Grossman’s acclaimed body of works has been translated into more than 20 languages and often deals with Arab/Jewish relations (Death as a Way of Life) and Holocaust themes. Grossman will read and discuss work from his forthcoming collection of essays on literature and politics Writing in the Dark. Courtesy of Borders, copies of his books will be available for purchase and signing.
Website: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/events/endowed/taubman.html
Sponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB, a program of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, co-sponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures, the Department of Religious Studies, Congregation B’nai B’rith, the Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara Hillel. Assistance provided by the Anti-Defamation League.
hm 10/22

Of Life and Loss: A Commemoration of Kristallnacht
2008-11-09 00:00
5 – 6 pm at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State St.

Introductory remarks by Mara Vishniac Kohn and Jeffrey Gusky
On view: Of Life and Loss: The Polish Photographs of Roman Vishniac (1930s) and Jeffrey Gusky (1990s)
Student and survivor art work

6 pm: Candlelight Walk of Remembrance from the Museum to the Federation
6 – 8 pm at the Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center, 524 Chapala Street

Introductory remarks by Dr. Richard Ehrlich
On View: Portraits of Survival: Life Journeys During the Holocaust and Beyond, and
The Holocaust Archive Revealed, a companion show of photographs by Richard Ehrlich
A Tribute to Mara Kohn, for her inspiration in launching Portraits of Survival

Refreshments will be served
In addition, the Museum and Federation will participate jointly in a series of educational programs aimed at reaching youth from diverse backgrounds, offering inspiration to combat prejudice and creating positive alternatives.
Please join us for this community wide event!
For more information on the exhibits and events contact Dr. Elizabeth Wolfson, 805-957-1115 or info@sbjf.org
Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara
Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center
524 Chapala St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101
805-957-1115
Event web site
info@sbjf.org
hm 11/5/08

The Burden of Female Talent in Premodern China
2008-11-13 00:00
The Burden of Female Talent in Premodern China: Early Reactions to Li QingzhaoRonald Egan (EALCS, UCSB)
Thursday November 13 / 12:00 PM
HSSB 2252
The most celebrated woman poet in Chinese history, Li Qingzhao was already famous during her lifetime (1084-1150s). But while early critics and commentators universally acknowledged her literary talent, there was also an unmistakable undercurrent of resentment against her, since such talent was largely considered undesirable in a woman. This talk examines the ways that Li Qingzhao was praised and criticized by early critics, as well as the way her personal conduct and misfortune in a second marriage was used against her by her detractors. Rather than simply to read her as “China’s greatest woman poet,” the goal here is to reconstruct the mostly hostile cultural context in which she lived and wrote to better gauge the nature of her achievement.
Ronald Egan works on pre-modern Chinese poetry and literary culture of the Tang and Song dynasties. He teaches courses on Classical Chinese, poetry, and Chinese cultural history.
Sponsored by the IHC’s East Asian Cultures RFG
hm 11/5

Migration Patterns, Border Capitalism and the Bracero Program
2008-11-14 00:00
Gilbert Gonzalez is Professor of Social Sciences and Director of the Labor Studies Program at UC Irvine. He is the author of Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation (1990) and Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880-1930 (2004).
hm 9/22

Religious Fundamentalism: A Clash of Civilizations or a Convergence of Religiosities?
2008-11-14 00:00
TALK: Religious Fundamentalism: A Clash of Civilizations or a Convergence of Religiosities?Olivier Roy (CNRS)
Friday, November 14 / 12:30 PM
3824 Ellison Hall 1930 Buchanan
Olivier Roy is a research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a lecturer for both the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP). Since 1984, he has acted as a consultant to the French Foreign Ministry. In 1988, Roy served as a United Nations Office for Coordinating Relief in Afghanistan (UNOCA) consultant. Beginning in August 1993, Roy served as special OSCE representative to Tajikistan until February 1994, at which time he was selected as head of the OSCE mission to Tajikistan, a position he held until October 1994.
Roy is the author of numerous books on subjects including Iran, Islam, and Asian politics. These works include Globalized Islam, Today’s Turkey: A European State? and The Illusions of September 11. His best-known book, L’Echec de l’Islam politique (1992) (The Failure of Political Islam) (1994), is a standard text for students of political Islam. His most recent work is Secularism Confronts Islam (Columbia, 2007). The book offers a perspective on the place of Islam in secular society and looks at the diverse experiences of Muslim immigrants in the West. Roy examines how Muslim intellectuals have made it possible for Muslims to live in a secularized world while maintaining the identity of a “true believer.”
Sponsored by the IHC’s Identity RFG, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the departments of History and Political Science.
hm 11/5, 11/13

Roman Emperors and the Control of Laughter
2008-11-14 00:00
Mary Beard, distinguished Classicist and Roman cultural historian, is delivering this fall’s Sather Lectures at UC Berkeley. Their topic is “Roman Laughter: What made the Romans laugh?” Was Rome a world of practical jokes, Bakhtinian, carnival and hearty chuckles? Or (for the elite, at least) was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear — a world of wit, irony and knowing smiles? Prof. Beard comes to UCSB to deliver the third lecture in the series, which focuses on how laughter mediates power: Roman emperors and the control of laughter. Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College and Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, where she earned her doctorate in 1982. She is the author or co- author of over sixty articles and nine books on topics ranging from Greek and Roman religion, epigraphy, art history, social history, and literature, to the history of the museum and the reception of Classics in the modern world.
Sponsored by the Departments of Classics, History, and Religious Studies, and by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.
jwil 11.xi.2008

The Imperial Comanches: How the Rise and Fall of an Indigenous Empire Shaped the Course of American History
2008-11-16 00:00
UCSB History Associates Lecture and Reception
Sunday, 2:00 p.m.
at the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library Conference Room
2201 Laguna Street
Prof. Hämäläinen’s homepage
Cost: $10.00 for History Associates; $15.00 for non-members
Phone 893-4388 to reserve your place.
hm 11/6/08

Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam
2008-11-17 00:00
Monday, October 27 / 4:30 PM DATE CHANGE (10/23): rescheduled to November 17McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Mark LeVine: Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam
An eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves Black Sabbath. A twenty-two-year-old rapper from the Gaza Strip. A young Lebanese singer who quotes Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song.” They are as representative of the world of Islam today as the conservatives and extremists we see every night on the news. Why, despite governmental attempts to control and censor them, do these musicians and fans keep playing and listening? Partly, of course, for the joy of self-expression, but also because, in this region, everything is political.
In a talk based on his new book, Heavy Metal Islam, Professor Mark LeVine explores the influence of Western rock music on the Middle East through interviews with musicians and fans, introducing us to young Muslims struggling to reconcile their religion with a passion for music and a desire for change. Levine takes us on a surprising foray into a historically authoritarian region where music just might be the true democratizing force. Mark LeVine is professor of modern Middle Eastern history, culture, and Islamic studies at UC Irvine. He is the author of several books about the Middle East, including Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv and the Struggle for Palestine, 1880-1948, and Why They Don’t Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil.
Website: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/ccws/
Sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies, Center for Middle East Studies, and the Department of History.
hm 10/22; 10/23, 11/12

1968: A Year of Student Driven Change
2008-11-20 00:00
Marking the 40th anniversary of the Black Student takeover of North Hall, the Department of Black Studies is organizing a conference entitled, 1968: A Global Year of Student Driven Change, to take place, November 20-22, 2008. While recognizing the courage and insight of the 1968 student awakening, this conference places that Black activism in a comparative context and examines it in relation to at least two other movements, the Mexican student revolt on the eve of the ’68 Olympics and the Paris student uprising of May ’68.
The conference (website, program) will raise a series of questions about the process by which youth movements brought about fundamental change in the archaeology of power and knowledge in the West and transformed the calculus of hegemony and identity that dominated the United States, Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe in the 1960s.
(The photograph shows students occupying UCSB’s North Hall on Oct. 15, 1968.)
Students in 1968 aimed at nothing less than a democratic goal-the demand that those being educated be allowed to shape their educations and the quality of everyday life in the societies into which they were being educated. This conference maps the “new education” of the future by looking back to look forward, by recovering what is useful and dispensing with what is not, and fashioning a new pedagogy from the innovative ways of thinking, doing, and creating culture that students advanced on three continents in 1968.
Speakers and presenters include Drs. Haki R. Madhubuti, Nikhil Singh, and Monifa Love, plus Chuck D and the legendary Mars 22 leader, Jean-Pierre Duteuil, who will be flying in especially for this conference linking French, Mexican, and African American activism and struggle. A key feature of the conference will be student participation, as many of the presenters will be graduate students in Chicana/o, Black, Asian American Studies, who will share with us cutting-edge research on the history and efficacy of student initiated change in the educational and political situation. All are welcome, especially students interested in offering answers to the question: “Where do we go from here?”
hm 9/22, 11/6/08

1968 Conference Continues through Saturday 11/22
2008-11-21 00:00
See the 11/20 event link for more information, or go directly to the program.

Transitions from Medieval to Renaissance Philosophy
2008-11-21 00:00
“A Medieval Source for Renaissance Philosophy: Valla’s Metaphysics and the Logic of Peter of Spain.”Brian P. Copenhaver, Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA
“The Transition from Medieval to Renaissance Philosophy: Lorenzo Valla.”
Lodi Nauta, Professor in Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, University of Groningen
For copies of the readings to be discussed in this seminar, email Edward English or call x3167. A reception will follow the seminar.
Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program, the Renaissance Studies Program, the Departments of French & Italian, History, and Philosophy, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
jwil 16.xi.08

Did 1968 Change History?
2008-11-23 00:00
The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will hold the first workshop event of the 2008-2009 academic year. Professor Nelson Lichtenstein of the Department of History will join us to discuss his original essay, “Did 1968 Change History?”, a reflection on the political and cultural legacy of that momentous year, from both domestic and international perspectives.
To ensure a lively and engaged discussion, attendees of the workshop are encouraged to read Professor Lichtenstein’s essay in advance. The essay can be downloaded from the Web by going to http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/ccws/papers and entering a login/password that can be obtained by emailing Prof. Yaqub. Please also rsvp at that time (whether you can come or not).
Students and faculty alike are encouraged to take part in this workshop. We will conduct the conversation as intellectual peers. The workshop will take place at Prof. Yaqub’s home, 955 West Campus Lane, in Goleta. Driving, walking, and biking directions are available in the document posted on the Web.
Light refreshments will be served.
hm 11/13/08
