Karpeles Manuscript Library
2018-05-07 11:27 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA

Trinity Episcopal Church, Guild Hall
2018-05-07 11:27 | CA

Unnamed Venue
2018-05-07 11:27 | CA

HSSB 4020
2018-05-07 11:27 | CA

Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture – Alex Wellerstein on “Truman's Bomb”
2018-05-09 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
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.
When 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.

Alex 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.
The 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.
A flyer for this event is here.

Kelly Shannon, Florida Atlantic University. Book talk: "U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights"
2018-05-09 16:30 - 18:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
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.
The 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.

Kathryn Sklar, History, SUNY Binghampton. “Florence Kelley and the Improbable Origins of Minimum Wage Legislation in the United States, 1887-1899.”
2018-05-11 13:00 - 15:00 | hssb 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
Kathryn Kish Sklar is Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, SUNY Binghamton. After graduating from Harvard and the University of Michigan, she taught for several years at UCLA and was Harmsworth Professor of U.S. History at Oxford University. Her books include Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work: the Rise of Women’s Political Culture, 1830-1900, (1995), Women’s Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement (2000), and Catherine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity(1973). Sklar’s paper will be available here two weeks before her talk.

"Lawyers and Legal Consciousness in Early Modern Europe: A Cultural History," a Talk by Michael P. Breen, Reed College
2018-05-17 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 4080, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
“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.”

Michael 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.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of History and French and Italian, the Early Modern Center, and the IHC.

LAIS Graduate Student Conference: Violence, Memory, and History
2018-05-18 - 2018-05-19 | UCen
With the generous support of the History Department, UCSB will hold its first international Latin American and Iberian Studies Graduate Student Conference on May 18th and 19th, with the theme “Violence, Memory, and History”.
This interdisciplinary conference will bring together twenty-four graduate students from universities in the US and Europe, including several graduate students in the Department of History at UCSB.
The conference will take place at the UCen, at the Santa Barbara Harbor Room on Friday and the Lobero Room on Saturday.
You can download a full conference schedule and list of panels and participants by clicking here (updated).
This event is sponsored by the Graduate Division; the  College of Letters and Science; the History Department; the  Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor; and the Office of the  Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy.

Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium
2018-05-18 09:30 - 15:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Honors Student and Mentor with Thesis Poster
This 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!
Program:
Panel 1, 9:30-11am: Public Policies’ Effects on People’s Lives

Halley Thiel, “’There is Power in the Blood:’ The Growth of the California Oil Industry and Its Resistance to Standard Oil”
Mentor: Dr. Graves; comment by Dr. Martin
Penelope Fergison, “Head for the Hills: Race and Property Value in Oakland”
Mentor: Prof. Perrone; comment by Prof Lichtenstein
Sasha Bates, “Ignoring Atrocities: The Reagan Administration Funding the Salvadoran Government, 1981-1984”
Mentor: Prof. Yaqub; comment by Prof. Bergstrom

Panel 2, 11:15-12:45: Individual Agency in Policy Formation

Milo Schaberg, “Nuclear Semiotics: Thomas Sebeok and the ‘Atomic Priesthood’”
Mentor: Prof. Aronova; comment by Prof. McCray
Avery Barboza, “A Sixteenth Century Cold War: England, Spain, and John Hawkins”
Mentor: Prof. McGee; comment by Prof. Covo
Amanda Krstic, “Age of Quarrel: Slavery and Diplomacy in Maryland in the
Age of Atlantic Revolutions”
Mentor: Prof. Covo; comment by Prof. Perrone

Lunch break, 12:45-1:15 (will be provided for all participants)
Panel 3, 1:15-2:45: Culture’s Effects on Life and Politics

Megan Lucas, “Bluestockings on Campus: Women at Smith College and Vassar College in the Nineteenth Century”
Mentor: Dr. Case; comment by Prof. Chavez-Garcia
Jessica Kanter, “Historiographies of Colonial Rule: Italian Fascists in Libya and the British in Zimbabwe”
Mentor: Prof. Chikowero; comment by Ross Melczer
Zingha Foma, “The Origin of Dutch African Prints: Tracing African Culture, Politics and History through Textile and Dress Practices”
Mentor: Prof. Spickard; comment by Prof. Miescher

Studies in Late Antiquity, Editorial Board Meeting
2018-05-18 13:00 - 2018-05-19 15:00 | HSSB 6056
1PM: Introductions/Welcome
1:30PM: Journal Related Info (30 Minutes)- Jeff Hester (Skype)
2PM: Presentations (15 mins each)

1) Blossom Stefaniw, “A Narrative History of the Tura Papyri: Creative Nonfiction and Christianity as a History of Reading”
2) Emily Albu, “The Roman Heritage of Medieval World Maps: Late Antique Transmission of Greco-Roman Geographical Knowledge”
3) Diliana Angelova, “Witnesses to Christ: Churches, Images and Relics in Early Christianity”

3-3:30 PM—Coffee Break
3:30PM: Presentations (15 mins each)

4) Kristina Sessa, “Refugees, the Church, and the New ‘Fall of Rome’ Narrative”
5) Nick Tackett, “Political Elites and Marriage Networks in Tang China (7th-9th c.)”
6) Ra’anan Boustan, “Contested Places”
7) Michele Salzman, “EliteCompetitioninFifth-CenturyRome”

6PM-8PM: Dinner

SLA Editorial Board Meeting Agenda UCSB May 18-19, 2018
Saturday May 19, 2018 IHC McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6056)
9AM: Presentations (15 mins each)

1) Susanna Elm (Skype)
a) “New Romans: Masculinity, Ethnicity and Display in late Antiquity”
2) Joel Walker, “The Diver’s Quest: Pearl Imagery and Asceticism in the East Syrian Tradition”

3) Ann Marie Yasin, “Architectural Ghosts: Rebuilding and Ekphrases of the Invisible”
4) Beth DePalma Digeser, “Constantine in Gaul” 10:30AM- Coffee Break

10:30AM – Coffee Break
11AM: Editorial Team Issues/Concerns
1) Editor in Chief
2) Exhibit Review Editor
12:00PM– Lunch
1:30PM: Final Remarks 1) Going Forward

Histories of Economy in the Middle East: A Workshop
2018-05-18 13:30 - 2018-05-19 17:00 | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Histories of Economy Flyer2
MAY 18
1:30-1:45: Introduction
Adam Sabra, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sherene Seikaly, University of California, Santa Barbara
1:45-3:15: Commerce and Capital
Adam Hanieh, “Space, Scale, and the Middle East’s Contemporary
Political Economy”
Jessica Goldberg, “Sea Change in Medieval Ifriqiyya”
Ziad Abu-Rish, “Complicating the Post-Colonial Narrative”
3:15-3:30: Break
3:30-5:00: Money and Finance
Warren Shultz, “Numismatics and Islamic Economic History”
Aaron Jakes, “Colonial Economism”
Munther al-Sabbagh, “Measuring Interest Rates in the Ottoman
Periphery”
MAY 19
11:00-12:30: Rural Economies and Communities
Astrid Meier, “Rural Societies in an ‘Economy of Rights’”
Ahmad Shokr, “Nationalism, Rural Governmentality, and the
Origins of Agrarian Statism in Egypt, 1919-1965”
Bethany Walker, “Locating Economic Behavior in Rural Communities”
12:30-2:00: Lunch
2:00-3:00: The Environment
Jennifer Derr, “Parasites of Political Economy”
Alan Mikhail, “The Nature of the Ottoman Economy”
3:00- 3:15: Break
3:15-4:45: Roundtable Summary
Sponsored by the King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies and the Center for Middle East Studies at UCSB

Talk by History Associates Board Member Sheila Lodge on the "History of Planning in Santa Barbara"
2018-05-20 14:00 - 17:00 | Alhecama Theatre, 215 A E. Canon Perdido St, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101, United States
In this talk, Sheila Lodge will show how Santa Barbara became the community that it is through planning. She will describe the many battles it sometimes took and the process that was developed to make the critical decisions. Because of her personal involvement in the struggles, her talk is partially a memoir.
Sheila Lodge is a former Santa Barbara mayor and is currently a board member for the History Associates. This talk is co-sponsored by the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation.

Critical Issues in America: Hanink on Citizenship
2018-05-22 10:00 - 23:50 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Prof. Johanna Hanink (Brown University), “Modern Citizenship Tests and Classical Funeral Orations.”

Film Screening & Discussion: Ghana's Electric Dreams
2018-05-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Multicultural Center (MCC) Theater, Multicultural Center, Isla Vista, CA, 93117, United States
Ghana’s Electric Dreams presents a history of the roots and wide-ranging impact of the famed hydroelectric Akosombo Dam, Ghana’s most ambitious development project. R. Lane Clark (Independent Film Maker) and Stephan Miescher (History, UCSB) will respond to comments from Boatema Boateng (Communication, UC San Diego). Mona Damluji (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) will moderate.
Ghana’s Electric Dreams was directed and edited by R. Lane Clark; produced by R. Lane Clark, Stephan F. Miescher, and France Winddance Twine.
Sponsored by the Blum Center for Global Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development. Co-sponsored by the departments of History, Film and Media Studies, and the IHC African Studies Research Focus Group.
Download flyer: GhanasElectricDreams2018May22

Jin Hee Kim, American Studies, Kyung Hee Cyber University. “The Republic of Samsung: Labor, Governance, and the Crisis of Korean Democracy.”
2018-05-25 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Currently a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of the Work, Labor, and Democracy, Kim is the author of Labor Law and Labor Policy in New York State, 1920s-1930s (2006) and translator into Korean of John Dewey’s Liberalism and Social Action (2011). The editor and author of numerous books and articles on U.S. and Korean labor, Kim serves on the steering committee of the Seoul Labor Center. Her paper will be available here two weeks before her talk.
A light lunch will be served.

Annual History Department Awards Ceremony
2018-06-06 14:00 - 17:00 | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us in recognizing the achievements of both the undergraduate and graduate students of the department.

The University of Kansas Press publishes Charles Delgadillo's Crusader for Democracy: The Political Life of William Allen White
2018-06-07 08:00 - 17:00 | CA
Charles Delgadillo, who took his Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara in 2010, is a lecturer at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His biography of William Allen White, the influential Republican journalist, reformer, and internationalist, recaptures an era when the phrase “liberal Republican” was not a self-evident contradiction.

Serge Ferrari, History, UC Santa Barbara. "General Electric versus the Market: the Road from Industrial to Financial Capitalism."
2018-06-08 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
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.
A light lunch will be served.

Skid Row Marathon Film & Panel Discussion on Homelessness
2018-08-25 11:45 - 2018-08-26 15:00 | CA
Two screenings of SKID ROW MARATHON, an acclaimed independent film about an innovative running club formed by a judge for the court that oversees the Skid Row district in LA. An avid runner, he started a running club for clients which had some remarkable transformative effects.

Two showings:
Saturday August 25, 11:45am at Metro 4
Sunday, August 26, 3 pm at the MCC Theater UCSB
(UCSB SHOWING FREE TO UCSB STUDENTS W/ID)

Saturday’s showing is $25/per ticket, a benefit for New Beginnings Counseling Center and its many outreach programs to those struggling with housing insecurity and homelessness in our community.

The Sunday showing at UCSB is FREE to UCSB students WITH ID (others, suggested donation, $25), and is sponsored by:
The Division of Humanities and Fine Arts of the College of L&S;
Department of History;
Department of Sociology;
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center;
Multi-Cultural Center;
UCSB Alcohol and Drug Program;
The Blum Center for Global Poverty Alleviation.

Thank you to our UCSB co-sponsors!!

The quickest way to get info and reserve seats is:
https://sbnbcc.org/skid-row-marathon/

For the trailer, see http://skidrowmarathon.com

New Major's Meeting
2018-09-26 11:00 - 12:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Come meet your peers in the department and hear an impressive faculty panel speak about the departmental honors program, the history majors’ club, and many other exciting opportunities UCSB history has to offer. hope to see you all there!

"Censorship, Politics, and the Making of a Literary Classic", a talk by Carlos Aguirre at the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History
2018-10-05 17:00 - 18:30 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
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“.
The talk will be held at 5pm on Friday, October 5th in HSSB 4020, and will be followed by a small reception.
This 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.
Abstract
Mario 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.
About the speaker
Carlos 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
We hope to see many of you there!

The Topography of Citizenship
2018-10-11 03:00 - 16:30 | HSSB 4080
October 11 (Thursday) 3 pm, HSSB 4080 : Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge), The Topography of Citizenship (co-sponsored by Critical Issues: Changing Faces of US Citizenship).
Citizenship is most often discussed as a question of legal status within a framework of rights and occasionally duties. Goldhill will be looking at the physical infrastructure of citizenship and how this is changing. How are cities constructed to create different sites of engagement for
citizenship and different forms of exclusion? What sort of cities do we wish to make to create civic life? The focus will be on the modern city, but with an instructive comparison with past models, physical and theoretical.

Book Launch: Professor Xiaowei Zheng's "The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China"
2018-10-17 17:00 - 19:00 | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join the Department of History to celebrate the publication of Professor Xiaowei Zheng’s new book, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China (Stanford University Press, 2018). Professor Matthew Sommer (History, Stanford) and Professor Anthony Barbieri-Low (History, UCSB) will speak about the significance of Professor Zheng’s book for the field of modern Chinese history. The event is cosponsored by the department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies and the Confucius Institute. A reception will follow.

Talk by Dr. Charles Delgadillo: "Crusading for Democracy: William Allen White's Liberal Republican Internationalism"
2018-10-23 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 4080, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Delgadillo flyer
The question of America’s role in the world has been fiercely contested for more than a century in the Republican Party. The “isolationists” have argued that American interests were better served by remaining free of foreign entanglements, while the “internationalists” have countered that American peace and prosperity demanded that it play a role in shaping the international order. It is only in recent days, under the leadership of Donald Trump, that Republican isolationists have prevailed over their internationalist opponents in the party.
Charles Delgadillo traces William Allen White’s (1868-1944) trajectory as one of the founding fathers of liberal Republican internationalism. White achieved national fame with his conservative Emporia Gazette editorial “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” but he quickly evolved into a progressive Republican and later into a New Deal liberal. White fought for an active American role in the world, from his early explorations with the global progressive movement during the 1900s to his efforts to generate public support for the Allies during World War II. The final battle of White’s life was fought to cement the supremacy of internationalism over isolationism in the Republican Party. White’s role in advancing liberal Republican internationalism, his perception of the isolationist threat, and his colorful life make him a fascinating case study in the age of “America First.”
The event is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History and cosponsored by the Department of History.
Charles Delgadillo is an Instructor in History at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He earned his PhD in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2010, and his dissertation examined a cohort of four liberals who grappled with America’s rise as a world power between the World Wars. The work yielded two journal articles and Crusader for Democracy: The Political Life of William Allen White, which is Delgadillo’s first book.
