Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

2013 History Senior Honors Colloquium
2013-05-24 00:00 (America/Denver) | CA
Participants in the 2012-2013 Senior Honors Thesis seminar will present their research in this year’s colloquium. Eachstudent presenter will be followed by a faculty or advanced PhD student commentator.
This event is free and open to the public. The complete program of speakers is below.
9:00-9:30
Salina Cruz. Women of the Mills: The Lawrence, Massachusetts Strike of 1912
Commentator: Prof. Patricia Cohen
9:30-10:00
Jesse McCarthy, The Creation of English Arminianism: Richard Montagu, 1624-1629
Commentator: Tim Daniels
10:00-10:30
Heidi Graves, The Public Debate on Witchcraft in Colonial Ghana
Commentator: Prof. Mhoze Chikowero
10:30-11:00
Sean Garbutt, “Do you fellows ever talk to the Israelis?”: The United States and the War of Attrition, 1969-1970
Commentator: Paul Baltimore
11:00-11:30
Mickey Boxell, The Taciturn Revolutionary: William of Orange-Nassau and the Motivations of the Dutch Revolt
Commentator: Prof. Hilary Bernstein
11:30-12:30 LUNCH BREAK
12:30-1:00pm
Susan Reid, National Assimilation Through Racial Amalgamation: The Japanese-Brazilian Community, 1930-1970
Commentator: Prof. Kate McDonald
1:00-1:30pm
Alexa Cover, SB 813, the Hughes-Hart Education Reform Bill: California’s Expansive and Expensive Attempt at Education Equality
Commentator: Prof. Alice O’Connor
1:30-2:00pm
Morgan Stocks, Perusing the Papal Pantry: The Fasting Practices of Pope Boniface VIII, 1299-1303
Commentator: Prof. Debra Blumenthal
2:00-2:30pm
Molly Nugent, “Your tax dollars buy sex discrimination!”: The Fight for Equal Gender Representation in France and the United States
Commentator: Prof. Eileen Boris
2:30-2:50 BREAK
2:50-3:20
Elaine MacPherson, Relief Without A Roof: The Emergence of a Policy Discussion on American Homelessness 1980-1996
Commentator: Prof. Mary Furner
3:20-3:50
Jacob Owens, “A most inconvenient dilemma”: The British Motives Behind the Making of the Hoare-Laval Plan
Commentator: Prof. Toshi Hasegawa
3:50-4:20
Michael Schneider, Driving Defense: The Role of the Auto Industry in War Mobilization
Commentator: Prof. Nelson Lichtenstein
4:20-4:50
Ricardo Quezada, “Free the 13”: Contesting Legal Discrimination– The East Los Angeles Blowouts and the Chicana/o Community’s Agency, 1968-1970
Commentator: Prof. Paul Spickard

Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden
2013-05-29 00:00
Posing a challenge to the assumption that the western model of education improves lives wherever it is, this controversial film gives insight to the effects of western education as a panacea for world issues. “With a rare, philosophical sense for the truth, the documentary reflects on the alienating impact of schooling not just on children but also on adults in indigenous contexts such as Ladakh.” Dr. Nosheen Ali, UC Berkeley. Carol Black, 66 min., English, USA and India, 2010.
hm 4/6/13

Paper Newton/Digital Newton
2013-05-30 00:00
Abstract:Isaac Newton generated a huge amount of manuscript material during a long and active life. This rich and daunting archive includes millions of words of impassioned and heretical theological writings as well as evidence of thousands of hours spent on alchemical experimentation and research, alongside notes on natural philosophy and mathematics. The range, complexity and disorder of this material has challenged editors and scholars ever since his death. Our talks cover two aspects of Newton’s archive. Sarah Dry will discuss the complicated history of Newton’s papers, from his death in 1727 through two centuries of near (but not total) neglect to their dispersal by auction at Sotheby’s in 1936. Rob Iliffe, who heads the online Newton Project, will discuss pioneering and on-going efforts to digitize all of Newton’s vast manuscript holdings and the implications of this new resource for scholarship in the history of science and in the humanities more generally.
Sarah Dry is an independent scholar. She has a PhD in the history of science from the University of Cambridge and is the author of Curie: A Life (Haus) and the co-editor of Epidemics: Science, Health and Governance (Earthscan). She is writing a book on the history of the Newton papers for Oxford University Press.
Rob Iliffe is Professor of Intellectual History and the History of Science at the University of Sussex. He is editorial director of the online Newton Project and is finishing a monograph titled Priest of Nature: the religious lives of Isaac Newton (OUP). He has published a number of articles on early modern history and the history of science, and has written the Very Short Introduction to Newton (OUP). Prof. Iliffe’s main research interests include: the history of science 1550-1800; the theological and scientific work of Isaac Newton; and the implications for academic work posed by the increasing digitisation of the scholarly infrastructure.

History Department Awards Ceremony
2013-06-04 00:00
Please join History Department students and faculty as this year’s honors and awards are distributed.
hm 5/11/13

Hacienda de Quimichis and the Bard Family, 1909-1935
2013-06-08 00:00
Professor Verónica Castillo-Muñoz will be the featured speaker at the Friends of the Bard Mansion Quarterly Dinner on the grounds of the Bard family’s historic home and gardens in Port Hueneme.
She will share the fruits of her research for her second book, about the people who worked on a 75,000 acre ranch, Hacienda de Quimichis, on the west coast of Mexico, that was owned by Bard and other Ventura County investors early in the twentieth century. Thanks to Professor Castillo-Muñoz’s efforts, the Mexican National Museum of Anthropology in Tepic will share an exhibition on the history of the Hacienda de Quimichis with the Ventura County Museum.
For more information, visit the Berylwood Historic Home and Gardens web site.
jwil 23.v.2013

Summer Session A classes end
2013-08-02 00:00
hm 7/15/13

Summer Session B classes begin
2013-08-05 00:00
First day of Summer Session B classes; last day of classes is Sept. 13.
hm 7/15/13

A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 Invasion of Mexico
2013-08-08 00:00
The U.S.· Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back·channel negotiations as it divided the nation and paved the way for the
Civil War a generation later. Penn State University Professor Amy
Greenberg provides skilled storytelling and rigorous scholarship as she
brings this American war to life with memorable characters, plotlines,
and legacies. In A Wicked War, Dr. Greenberg offers a view into the
world that the war made, a war that brought the United States more than
one·third of its territory, a new border and a Mexican American popula·
tion that would come to demand equal rights. It was a defining moment
in America’s past, and she reminds us of this with her gripping account.
In July Prof. Greenberg’s book on the Mexican War won the best book prize given by the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic in St. Louis. It was also one of five contenders for the Los Angeles Times history book award in April 2013. This book is a skillful blend of the arguments and deceptions that launched the U.S. into its first preemptive war told via a narrative focus on biography of 4 the or 5 key people on different ends of those arguments (including a young Abe Lincoln, and Mrs. Polk along with her husband).
Prof. Greenberg is a Santa Barbara native who studied at Berkeley and Harvard, and now holds an endowed chair at Penn State.
Presented by the Santa Barbara ‘Crust for Histor ic Preservation,
Co·sponsored by the UCSB History Associates.
Presidio Chapel, EI Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park
123 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, CA
Free for SBTHP Members, SI 0 Non-Members, $5 Students
For more information visit www.sbthp.org or call (805) 965-0093
hm 7/23/13

End of Summer Session B classes
2013-09-13 00:00
Friday is last day of Summer Session B.
hm 7/15/13

Fall quarter classes begin
2013-09-26 00:00
Instruction begins on Thursday; last day of Fall classes on Friday December 6, 2013.
hm 7/15/13

Fear Itself: the New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
2013-09-27 00:00
The author of ten books, Ira Katznelson is the Ruggles Professor of History and Political Science at Columbia University, former president of the American Political Science Association, and current president of the Social Science Research Council.
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.

Our Campus, Our Community: Advancing a New Politics for Social Change
2013-10-02 00:00
Speakers include Marcos Vargas, executive director of CAUSE and Manuel Pastor of USC’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity.

The Style is the – Empire. Caesar's Writing Reevaluated
2013-10-04 00:00
Caesar’s style has been admired for its stringency and simplicity–and to the detriment of a fuller appreciation of its complexities. His classic texts are worth a second glance. They reveal not only far greater debts to the administrative language of the Roman Empire than previously assumed (hence the title) but also a good number of extremely rare words, including hapax legomena, which may allow for a look into the smithery of the Latin Language of the 1st century BCE. Was Caesar himself a wordsmith?
Sponsored by the Classics Department with co-sponsorship from the History Department.
jwil 08.ix.2013

Beer: From Prohibition to America's Emblem of the Good Life?
2013-10-10 00:00
UC Santa Barbara Arts and Humanities “Nature and Culture” Series at the Wine Cask
Join UC Santa Barbara historian Lisa Jacobson for a spectacular Wine Cask artisan dinner and talk at the inaugural UCSB public humanities Culture and Nature Series event.
For more information about the series, please click here.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
6:00 p.m.
Wine Cask
813 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara
For tickets and menu inquiries, please contact Wine Cask at 805-966-9463 or www.WineCask.com
The beer-inspired menu features wild boar sausage and Shepherd’s Pie carefully paired with craft beers for each of the four courses.
The UC Santa Barbara Culture and Nature Series showcases the sustainable, local, and artisanal food of the Wine Cask, and the research of UC Santa Barbara scholars who are actively engaged in understanding the historical and cultural importance of food.
Cost for meal, including drinks, and lecture: $50
We gratefully acknowledge our co-sponsors for this event: Wine Cask and Telegraph Brewing Company.
hm 10/8/13

Namibia's Red Line: On the History of a Fence in Southern Africa
2013-10-11 00:00
A massive fence, more than two metres high, stretching over a thousand kilometres from East to West effectively separates the southwest African region into two parts. The fence, generally known as the Red Line, is a persistent legacy of South Africa’s colonial occupation of Namibia. Its construction in the 1960s marked the end of a long border building process, which had its beginning in the late 19th century and was linked to the establishment of colonial control in Namibia.
Through its long history this colonial border was always both, imagined and real and it was only with the erection of the fence that the border became a tangible physical reality. The study of the Red Line reveals that this internal border, conceived as a veterinarian medicine and settlement development, was far more determinative of the governmentality and socio-economic structure of the country than its external borders.
The Red Line was crucial for the establishment of a settler society in Namibia. As a pivotal device of the South African empire, the border functioned conceptually and ideologically as a ‘barbarian border’ drawn against the dangers of inner Africa, physically marking the limits of ‘white’ South Africa.
The presentation gives an introduction to the history of an internal African border. It will highlight some of the key-elements of the making of this border, point to the border’s inherent paradoxes between impermeability and vibrant border traffic, and sketch elements of its long-lasting legacy. The presentation will also address challenges in the work with various textual, visual, and oral sources, and critically reflect on the colonial archive’s narration of the Red Line.
Dr. Giorgio Miescher is Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland.
This talk is co-sponsored by the African Studies Research Focus Group and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information on these groups, visit the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center web site.
jwil 01.ix.2013

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall": Border Crossings and the Imperatives of American Border Control
2013-10-11 00:00
Patrick Ettinger, Professor of History and Director of the Capital Campus Public History Program at CSU Sacramento, will speak about the history of the US-Mexican border in the context of popular constructions of American immigration and current policy debates.
Sponsored by the UC Santa Barbara Public History Program. Lunch will be provided.
jdm/10/3/13

Bookscapes: Trading Knowledge in British Colonial India
2013-10-15 00:00
Professor Swati Chattopadhyay (Department Chair, History of Art & Architecture) and Mira Rai Waits (doctoral candidate) will offer a curators’ talk in conjunction with the exhibition “Conjuring India: British Views of the Subcontinent, 1780-1870,” on view in the UCSB Library’s Special Collections (third floor) through December 15, 2013. “Conjuring India” explores the divergent perspectives of the colonial experience of India through books from the collection of Sara Miller McCune and the UCSB Library.
The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
hm 10/4/13

Films of the Cold War: "Lady Bug, Lady Bug" (1963)
2013-10-16 00:00
The Center for Cold war Studies and International History (CCWS) will kick off the new year by showing the classic 1963 film “Lady Bug, Lady Bug,” about the impact of an urgent nuclear alert on a rural American school. (See description below). After the screening,
Kenneth Hough, a PhD student in history at UCSB, will lead a brief discussion of the film.
The film showing is free and open to the public; delicious refreshments will be served. Please join us for this exciting event!
In this classic 1963 film, a school’s civil defense warning system is activated, signaling the onset of nuclear war. The principal closes the school and instructs the teachers to escort the students to their homes. Amid mounting dread–made all the more haunting by the film’s quiet, rural setting–the children try to comprehend the looming catastrophe, and to make sense of a world that could unleash it.
hm 10/6/13

The Afterlife of Empire: The Origins and Work of the World Bank's Agricultural Development Service in Eastern and Central Africa, 1963-1989
2013-10-18 00:00
Joseph Hodge is Professor of History at West Virginia University, and author of Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism (2007).
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.

Cavafy at the Margins: Geography, History, Desire
2013-10-19 00:00
For more information on this lecture, click here or contact Prof. Helen Morales in the UCSB Department of Classics.
Sponsored by the UCSB Argyropoulos Endowment in Hellenic Studies.
jwil 16.viii.2013

"Do not forget to send the Negro": Elite ties, enslaved lives in colonial Massachusetts and New York, 1660-1720
2013-10-21 00:00
Dr. Maskiell is an expert on family and household relationships within slavery as well as on slave networks in both Dutch and English colonial Atlantic America. The author of “Elite Slave Networks in the Dutch Atlantic,” published in Shifting the Compass: Pluricontinental Connections in Dutch Colonial and Post Colonial Literature, (ed. Dewulf, Praamstra and van Kempen, forthcoming) she will talk to us about her current research.
This talk is made possible by support from the UCSB History Department, the UCSB Early Modern Studies Center, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, as well as additional funds provided by Prof. John Majewski for development of early American history and slavery studies.
hm 10/15/13

"The Story of Por-Por"
2013-10-23 00:00
This new film is located at the intersection of labor history and music history – about union drivers and the invention of honkhorn music in Accra, Ghana.
Steven Feld is an anthropologist/ethnomusicologist, who is currently Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of New Mexico.
hm 10/9/13

“Beer, Beer, Beer!”
2013-10-24 00:00
Beer has become a familiar presence in American life, but it was once an oft-despised commodity,banned as part of Prohibition. How did this remarkable transformation from banned commodity
to emblem of the good life occur? Join us at the UCSB Faculty Club for an evening of celebration
and enlightenment, as History Prof. Lisa Jacobson explores the role World War II played in
changing American attitudes toward the commodity that in many languages means “liquid bread”.
To facilitate appreciation, we will sample a selection of pub food appetizers and Firestone beers.
Prof. Lisa Jacobson is a specialist in U.S. cultural
history of the late 19th and 20th centuries. She
has written on the history of advertising and the
family and children. Her current project is a
study of “Alcohol’s Quest for Legitimacy following
Prohibition”.
The Faculty Club is located on the east side of
the campus, with convenient parking, for $3, in
Lot 23. For a map, go to http://www.tps.ucsb.edu/
mapFlash.aspx
$25 (members and guests) ; $30 (non-members)
Call (805) 893-4388 for reservations.
hm 10/10/13

Real Estate Politics and the Remaking of the Jim Crow South
2013-10-25 00:00
Nathan Connolly is Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, and author of By Eminent Domain: Race and Capital in the Building of An American South Florida (2011).
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.

Data Sharing: A Problem of Supply or of Demand?
2013-10-25 00:00
On October 25 at 2PM, Prof. Christine Borgman from UCLA will be speaking about how the sharing of research data affects scientific practice. Her talk is the Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Room 2135
Abstract
Knowledge sharing in science includes sharing research data. Research funding agencies have focused on increasing the supply of data by requiring data management plans and data sharing. Policy makers have paid surprisingly little attention to the demand for data. It stands to reason that if scholars actively sought data for reuse, then more data would be shared. The few studies that exist on the demand for extant data suggest that researchers rarely are asked for their data and rarely seek data from other investigators. Many investigators have difficulty imagining who might want their data or for what purposes they might be useful. The talk will explore the supply and demand for scientific data reuse, drawing on studies in astronomy and sensor networks, and will discuss implications for science policy.
About the Speaker
Christine L. Borgman is Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA. In 2012-13 she was on sabbatical at the University of Oxford where she was the Oliver Smithies Visiting Fellow and Lecturer at Balliol College, and also affiliated with the Oxford Internet Institute and the eResearch Centre. Prof. Borgman is the author of more than 200 publications in information studies, computer science, and communication. Her monographs, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (MIT Press, 2007) and From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2000), each won the Best Information Science Book of the Year award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology. She conducts data practices research with funding from the National Science Foundation, Sloan Foundation, and Microsoft Research. Current collaborations include Monitoring, Modeling, and Memory, The Transformation of Knowledge, Culture, and Practice in Data-Driven Science, and Empowering Long Tail Research. Her next book, Big Data, Little Data, No Data: Scholarship in the Networked World, is forthcoming from MIT Press in 2014.
This event is co-sponsored by the “Machines, People, and Politics” RFG and the Center for Information Technology and Society

Freedom Now! Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle
2013-10-25 00:00
Freedom Now! showcases photographs rarely seen in the mainstream media,which depict the power wielded by black men, women and children in
remaking U.S. society through their activism. This exhibition has been curated by
Martin Berger, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz.
The exhibition runs from October 19 to December 13, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, October 25, 5:30-7:30pm
Opening talk by Curator Martin Berger (UCSC), 4pm, Oct. 25.
On November 15th, there will be a panel discussion titiled
“Fifty Years after the March: Civil Rights in Historical Memory”
at the Museum as part of the Great Society at Fifty initiative.
1-3PM.
hm 10/22/13, 11/25

Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony
2013-10-28 00:00
Thomas Trezise will facilitate a conversation about his new book, Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony. Trezise will focus the discussion on chapter 1 of his book (“Frames of Reception”), which is available for downloading on the IHC website : www.ihc.ucsb.edu/witnessing.
Monday, October 28 / 2:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Sponsored by the IHC series The Value of Care and the History Department.
hm 9/13/13; 9/24, 10/26

Models, Idols, and Porn Stars: Selling and Consuming the Beautiful Man in Britain, 1950s-1970s
2013-10-28 00:00
This talk examines physique pictorial magazines, magazines intended for a female teenage audience, and gay pornographic magazines—to illustrate how celebrations of beautiful male faces and bodies functioned as important and ubiquitous sites of pleasure in post-war Britain. Men and women utilized images and textual descriptions of masculine facial and bodily attractiveness to articulate sexual desires and identities in the years after 1945. Through a close reading of a range of pictures and articles from several physique pictorials including Male Model Monthly, Man Alive, Boyfriend and Him Exclusive this paper illustrates the connections between understandings of masculine physical attractiveness, post-World War II consumer cultures, and the formation of British social identities.
Paul R. Deslandes received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Oxbridge Men: British Masculinity and the Undergraduate Experience, 1850-1920 (Bloomington, 2005) and a number of articles and essays on the history of British education, masculinity, and male sexuality. Deslandes is currently writing a cultural history of male beauty in Britain from the 1840s to the present.
Sponsored by the Dept. of History, the Dept. of Feminist Studies, The Center for Modern Literature, Materialism and Aesthetics, and the IHC’s New Sexualities RFG.
More Information from the IHC.
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Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in the Achaemenid Persian Empire
2013-11-01 00:00
The Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-330 BCE) stretched over thousands of miles and included many different cultures. Thanks to textual, visual, and archaeological materials, we can reconstruct some of the intricate and sophisticated ways this empire governed its diverse population and the ways those individuals and cultures responded to imperial presence. This talk examines government archives, palaces adorned with relief sculptures, eating and drinking practices, gender relations, mortuary remains, and communication systems — including the original “Pony Express” — to illuminate the complexity and vibrancy of Achaemenid Persia.
Elspeth Dusinberre is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Sponsored by the UCSB Departments of History and Anthropology in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
jwil 06.x.2013

History of the Present: The Middle East
2013-11-01 00:00
History of the Present: The Middle East
Syria’s civil war. Egypt’s political crisis. Iran’s nuclear program. Drone strikes. With the Middle East dominating today’s headlines, and with controversy swirling around the U.S. role in that region, the history department invites you to Professor Salim Yaqub’s short, informative lecture, “You Say You Want a Resolution? Presidents, Congress, and War in the Middle East.”
The reception afterward will give you the chance to meet Professor Yaqub and other UC Santa Barbara historians. Find out what doing history is all about and what it is “good for” in the wider world. Refreshments will be served.
hm 9/12/13
