BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of History, UC Santa Barbara - ECPv6.15.12.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Department of History, UC Santa Barbara X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://history.ucsb.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Department of History, UC Santa Barbara REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20120311T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20121104T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20130310T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20131103T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20140309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20141102T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130225T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130225T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112845Z UID:10001868-1361750400-1361750400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:What We Know and How We Know It DESCRIPTION:“As an African American educator\, one of my main concerns is that we all need tobe liberated from schooling that perpetuates America’s myths\,” King has written.\n“One such myth that constrains our freedom of thought and our ability to pursue\nsocial justice concerns our national identity.” \nHer lecture will examine ways to break from these myths and imagine a\ntransformative curriculum of K-16 education that is not racially biased and that is\nculturally enabling of all students. \nKing\, currently the Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair of Teaching\, Learning and\nLeadership at Georgia State University\, has had a distinguished career in academia\,\nholding the titles of professor\, provost\, associate vice chancellor\, director of teacher\neducation\, and department head at esteemed institutions such as Spelman College\,\nthe Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York\, the University of\nNew Orleans\, Santa Clara University\, Stanford University\, and Mills College. \nShe has published three books: Preparing Teachers for Diversity (Teachers College\nPress\, 1997); Teaching Diverse Populations (SUNY Press\, 1994); and Black Mothers\nto Sons: Juxtaposing A frican-American Literature with Social Practice (Peter Lang\nPublishing\, 1995). \nThe Department of Black Studies Graduate Emphasis in conjunction with the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education presents Joyce King\, the Benjamin E. Mays Professor of Teaching\, Learning and Leadership at George State University as the Black History Month Distinguished Lecturer for 2013. \nDr. King is the author of the book\, Black Education: A Transformative Research & Action Agenda for the New Century\, published by the American Education Research Association\, the premier association of research in American education\, in 2005\, as part of a multiyear study of education in America. Her work draws heavily on methodologies and epistemologies of Black Studies\, particularly the work of our late Professor Clyde Woods on “blues epistemologies” in African American culture. \nPlease join us in the Pollock Theatre at 5 pm on Monday\, February 25\, 2013 to hear her lecture\, “What We Know and How We Know\,” a critical look at American education today. \nhm 2/21/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/what-we-know-and-how-we-know-it/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130227T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130227T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112845Z UID:10001870-1361923200-1361923200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Virginia's Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in the Early Republic DESCRIPTION:This talk will focus on Prof. Taylor’s new research project on African Americans during the War of 1812 and their dispersal throughout the Anglo-Atlantic world\, including Canada’s maritimes\, the Caribbean\, and Great Britain.\nTaylor is much admired by colonial and Early National period US historians\, and familiar to many of our grad students who have already encountered his works in HI 292A. He won the Bancroft (Best book in US history)\, Beveridge (AHA best book in Canadian\, US or Latin American history)\, and Pulitzer Prizes for the 1996 _William Cooper’s Town_\, about land speculators in upstate NY in the late 18th and early 19th c (Cooper was also father of James Fenimore Cooper). \nTaylor is a major force in 18th and 19th c. North American history in a global context\, and is a towering figure in borderlands/frontier history\, as well as in the history of the early republic and westward expansion. His latest work on the War of 1812 (a reappraisal of that conflict\, entitled _The Civil War of 1812: British Subjects\, Irish Rebels\, and Indian Allies_) has a foreign relations emphasis\, as do several of his earlier works\, which focus on relations across the border that would eventually be drawn between the US and Canada. \nhm 2/21/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/virginias-internal-enemy-slavery-and-war-in-the-early-republic/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130228T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130228T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112845Z UID:10001866-1362009600-1362009600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:John Heritage: An English Wool Merchant and his World\, 1495-1520 DESCRIPTION:The chance discovery of a unique wool merchant’s account book in the muniment room of Westminster Abbey gives us a detailed picture of the trading networks and business contacts of a wool monger who lived at Moreton-in-Marsh on the edge of the Cotswold Hills. Through him we gain an insight into a society of sheep farmers and traders and their involvement in the export trade in raw wool. The presentation will include some of the family history\, landscape history\, and social history of an important period\, which stands between the late middle ages and Tudor expansion.\nProfessor Dyer is an eminent historian of daily life\, economic history\, and local history. His numerous publications include Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages (1989); Everyday Life in Medieval England (2003); Making a Living in the Middle Ages (2003); An Age of Transition: Economy and Society in England in the Later Middle Ages (The Ford Lectures) (2007); ed. Social Relations and Ideas: Essay in Honour of R.H. Hilton (2009); William Dugdale\, Historian\, 1605-1689 (2009); and A Country Merchant\, 1495-1520: Trading and Farming at the End of the Middle Ages (2012). \nSponsored by the UCSB Medieval Studies Program. \njwil 21.ii.2013 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/john-heritage-an-english-wool-merchant-and-his-world-1495-1520/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130305T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130305T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112845Z UID:10001865-1362441600-1362441600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:When Popes Resign: What Will Happen When There Are Two Living Popes? DESCRIPTION:The UCSB History Associates cordially invite you to attend a panel discussion of Pope Benedict XVI’s surprise decision to retire at the end of this month. The event will be held at the University Club\, 1332 Santa Barbara St.\, on March 5 at 7:30 p.m. See flyer at left for details.\nPlease note the rsvp cut-off slip at bottom. \nhm 2/21/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/when-popes-resign-what-will-happen-when-there-are-two-living-popes/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130307T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130307T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112845Z UID:10001863-1362614400-1362614400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Silk Road: A New History DESCRIPTION:Whenever we speak of the Silk Road\, the mind’s eye conjures up a single merchant traveling on a camel laden with goods\, most likely on his way to Rome. The discovery of multiple artifacts and excavated documents in northwest China allows us to revise this image. In fact\, few people moving along the Silk Road were long-distance merchants. Under tight government supervision\, merchants usually stayed on circuits close to home and exchanged goods for other goods\, often not using coins at all. Other Silk Road travelers included missionaries\, refugees\, artists\, and envoys\, who have left the clearest document footprint of all. The most active foreign community in China were Sogdians\, migrants from Samarkand and the surrounding areas. They found new homes in the small oasis-states ringing the Taklamakan Desert whose rulers encouraged religious tolerance as they welcomed newcomers to their realms.\nAbout Dr. Valerie Hansen\nValerie Hansen teaches Chinese and world history at Yale\, where she is professor of history. Her main research goal is to draw on nontraditional sources to capture the experience of ordinary people. In particular she is interested in how sources buried in the ground\, whether intentionally or unintentionally\, supplement the detailed official record of China’s past. Her books include The Open Empire: A History of China to 1600\, Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China\, Voyages in World History (coauthor)\, and\, just published in the summer of 2012\, The Silk Road: A New History. In the past decade\, she has spent three years in China: 2005-06 in Shanghai on a Fulbright grant; and 2008-09 and 2011-12\, teaching at Yale’s joint undergraduate program with Peking University. She was the principal investigator\, from 1995 to 1998\, of The Silk Road Project: Reuniting Turfan’s Scattered Treasures. The project held three international conferences and compiled a bilingual Chinese-English finding guide to over 3\,000 artifacts. \nPhi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program\nThe Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program makes available each year a dozen or so distinguished scholars who will visit colleges and universities with chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. They spend two days on each campus\, meeting informally with students and faculty members\, taking part in classroom discussions\, and giving a public lecture open to the entire academic community. The purpose of the program is to contribute to the intellectual life of the institution by making possible an exchange of ideas between the Visiting Scholars and the resident faculty and students. Now entering its 57th year\, the Visiting Scholar Program has sent 600 Scholars on 4\,917 two-day visits since it was established in 1956. Founded in 1776\, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest academic honor society. It has chapters at 280 institutions and more than half a million members throughout the country. Its mission is to champion education in the liberal arts and sciences\, to recognize academic excellence\, and to foster freedom of thought and expression. \nThe History Department is co-sponsoring her talk with the campus chapter of Phi Beta Kappa\, for whom she is a Visiting Scholar. \nhm 2/20/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-silk-road-a-new-history/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130402T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130402T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10001872-1364860800-1364860800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Making of Global Capitalism DESCRIPTION:The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today\, with global markets roiling and increasingly reliant on state intervention to stay afloat\, it has become clear that markets and states aren’t straightforwardly opposing forces.\nIn this groundbreaking work\, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin demonstrate the intimate relationship between modern capitalism and the American state\, including its role as an “informal empire” promoting free trade and capital movements. Through a powerful historical survey\, they show how the US has superintended the restructuring of other states in favor of competitive markets and coordinated the management of increasingly frequent financial crises. \nThe Making of Global Capitalism\, through its highly original analysis of the first great economic crisis of the twenty-first century\, identifies the centrality of the social conflicts that occur within states rather than between them. These emerging fault lines hold out the possibility of new political movements transforming nation states and transcending global markets. \nLeo Panitch\, Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science\, York University\, has edited The Socialist Register since 1985. Sam Gindin\, was for many years Research Director of the Canadian Auto Workers. \nSponsored by the The Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-making-of-global-capitalism/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130405T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130405T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10001874-1365120000-1365120000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Of Time and Space DESCRIPTION:At 4PM on April 5\, Prof. Zorina Kahn (Bowdoin College) will discuss a paper entitled “Of Time and Space: Technological Spillovers among Patents and Unpatented Innovation in early U.S. Industrialization.”\nKahn is chair of Bowdoin’s economics department and the author of the award-winning The Democratization of Innovation . Her talk assesses the role of institutional mechanisms in generating technological knowledge spillovers. The estimation is over panel datasets of federal patent grants\, and innovations that were granted prizes at annual industrial fairs of the American Institute of New York\, between 1835 and 1870. One part of the talk tests the hypothesis of spatial autocorrelation in patenting and in the exhibited innovations. In keeping with the contract theory of patents\, the procedure identifies high and statistically significant spatial autocorrelation\, indicating the prevalence of geographical spillovers in the sample of inventions that were patented. The second part of the talk investigates whether per capita innovations/prizes in a county were affected by patenting in contiguous or adjacent counties. These results are consistent with the argument that patents enhance the diffusion of information for both patented and unpatented innovations\, whereas inventions that garner prizes are less effective in generating external benefits from knowledge spillovers. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/of-time-and-space/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130405T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130405T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10001878-1365120000-1365120000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Of Human and Divine Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in Augustine DESCRIPTION:A specialist on the later Roman Empire and its transformation into a Christian state\,Professor Elm’s research bridges intellectual and social history and focuses on interactions\nbetween Christians and “pagans” in late antiquity. In this talk\, she asks how ideas of\nbondage and practices of unfree labor influenced the formation of theological maxims in\nthe writings of Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE). By analyzing the complex language in\nslavery in Augustine’s letters\, Professor Elm situates his writings in the context of the major\nsocial and economic changes that reshaped the Roman world in the fifth century and\nexplores how closely the metaphors of slavery that Augustine and his peers employed in\ntheir writings related to social realities they encountered on a daily basis. \nA reception with refreshments will immediately follow. \nSponsored by the California\nConsortium for the Study of Late Antiquity. \nhm 4/2/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/of-human-and-divine-bondage-slavery-and-freedom-in-augustine/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130407T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130407T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10002135-1365292800-1365292800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Orchestra of Exiles\, A Documentary In Commemoration of Yom HaShoah DESCRIPTION:Holocaust Remembrance Week Inaugural Event\, admission free\nOrchestra of Exiles recounts the dramatic story of Bronislaw Huberman\, the\ncelebrated Polish violinist who rescued some of the world’s greatest\nmusicians from Nazi Germany and then created one of the world’s greatest\norchestras\, the Palestine Philharmonic (which would become the Israeli\nPhilharmonic). This feature-length documentary mixes period photographs\,\nnewsreels\, and interviews with Zubin Mehta\, Itzhak Perlman\, Joshua Bell and\nPinchas Zukerman to recreate a too-little-known and highly significant\npiece of history. With courage\, resourcefulness and an entourage of allies\nincluding Arturo Toscanini and Albert Einstein\, Huberman saved close to\n1000 Jews – along with the musical heritage of Europe. “A nearly forgotten\nfigure has been resurrected\, his humanitarian and professional achievements\ngiven proper due. I defy you to leave with a dry eye.” — Allen Ellenzweig\,\nThe Forward. The Santa Barbara premiere of Orchestra of Exiles will include\na personal appearance by its writer/director/producer\, Josh Aronson\, whose\nfilm\, Sound and Fury\, was nominated for an Academy Award. \nhm 4/4/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/orchestra-of-exiles-a-documentary-in-commemoration-of-yom-hashoah/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130409T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130409T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10001876-1365465600-1365465600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:“Technology\, Gender\, and History: The Case of Late Imperial China” DESCRIPTION:Technologies played a dramatic role in birthing the modern industrial world\, so it is hardly surprising that classic and widely familiar histories of technology trace narratives of triumphant Western progress\, contrasted to backwardness or stagnation in other societies around the world. But in recent years historians of Western technology have become less interested in technology as a catalyst of human progress\, and more interested in how technical practices shape social identities\, symbolic systems and power relations. In the case of China\, historians of technology likewise spend less time now struggling to explain why China “failed to progress” after 1400\, asking instead what they can learn by mapping the technological landscapes of imperial China\, and by considering what social and symbolic as well as material work technologies performed in imperial society.\nDr. Francesca Bray is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh and President-elect of The Society for the History of Technology. Her research includes the history of science\, technology and medicine in China\, and the anthropology of technology in the contemporary world\, including the politics of everyday domestic technologies in California. Her most recent publication is The Warp and the Weft: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China (Brill\, 2007) and has 2 forthcoming works\, Rice: New Networks and Global Histories (Cambridge) and .Technology\, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered (Routledge\, expected May 2013). \nupdated hm 4/3/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/technology-gender-and-history-the-case-of-late-imperial-china/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130410T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130410T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10002136-1365552000-1365552000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Fredrik Logevall discusses his highly acclaimed new book\, EMBERS OF WAR: THE FALL OF AN EMPIRE AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA’S VIETNAM. Drawing on newly available documents from several nations\, and making full use of the vast published literature\, Prof. Logevall surveys the broad sweep of the Vietnam War. He begins with the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference\, where a young Ho Chi Minh attempted to petition President Woodrow Wilson for Vietnamese independence\, and ends with a 1959 Viet Cong ambush\, resulting in the first U.S. combat deaths of the war. Along the way\, Prof. Logevall helps us unravel the mystery of how two great powers\, France and the United States\, could have been drawn into such disastrous ventures.\nFredrik Logevall is John S. Knight Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of numerous books on the Vietnam War and international relations\, including CHOOSING WAR: THE LOST CHANCE FOR PEACE AND THE ESCALATION OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1999)\, THE ORIGINS OF THE VIETNAM WAR (2001)\, EMBERS OF WAR: THE FALL OF AN EMPIRE AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA’S VIETNAM (2012)\, and\, with Campbell Craig\, AMERICA’S COLD WAR: THE POLITICS OF INSECURITY (2009). \nhm 4/5/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/embers-of-war-the-fall-of-an-empire-and-the-making-of-americas-vietnam/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130412T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130412T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10002140-1365724800-1365724800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Universal Polytheism: Interpretatio Graeco-Romana DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk by Robert C.T. Parker (Wykeham Professor of Ancient History and Fellow of New College\, Oxford University) on Friday\, April 12th at 2:00 pm in HSSB 4080. Dr. Parker is Visiting Sather Professor of Classical Literature for Spring 2013.\nSponsored by the departments of Classics\, History\, Religious Studies\, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-universal-polytheism-interpretatio-graeco-romana/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130418T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130418T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112847Z UID:10002143-1366243200-1366243200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:American Coasts: Past and Future DESCRIPTION:Before there were coasts there were shores. In this talk\, John Gillis explores the emergence of modern coasts\, which\, beginning in the eighteenth century\, displaced older notions of shore. The creation of coasts has been a global phenomenon\, but in this talk Prof. Gillis focuses on the American experience. He examines the effects of coasts on America’s natural environment and on the human populations whose first home was the shore\, revealing the predicaments we face today. \nJohn Gillis is Professor Emeritus of History at Rutgers University. He received his PhD from Stanford University and has taught at Stanford\, Princeton\, and the University of California\, Berkeley. He has written numerous books\, including YOUTH AND HISTORY: TRADITION AND CHANGE IN EUROPEAN AGE RELATIONS\, 1750-PRESENT (1974)\, A WORLD OF THEIR OWN MAKING: MYTH\, RITUAL\, AND THE QUEST FOR FAMILY VALUES (1996)\, ISLANDS OF THE MIND: HOW THE HUMAN IMAGINATION CREATED THE ATLANTIC WORLD (2004)\, and THE HUMAN SHORE: SEACOASTS IN HISTORY (2012) \nThe event is jointly sponsored by the UCSB Department of History and the Center for Cold War Studies and International History. \nhm 4/10/13\, 4/16 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/american-coasts-past-and-future/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130419T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130419T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112847Z UID:10002146-1366329600-1366329600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth Century America DESCRIPTION:Michael Zakim offers a paper entitled “Paperwork\,” a social and cultural exploration of antebellum clerkship and the relationship of that species of “nonproductive labor” to the emergence of modern American capitalism. His paper can be found here.\nAbout our speaker: \nMichael Zakim is Professor of History at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men’s Dress in the American Republic (2003); and editor of Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America (2012). URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/capitalism-takes-command-the-social-transformation-of-nineteenth-century-america/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130424T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130424T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10002139-1366761600-1366761600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Dakota 38 DESCRIPTION:Native spiritual leader Jim Miller and a group of riders retraced the 330-mile route on horseback from Lower Brule\, South Dakota to Mankato\, Minnesota to arrive at the hanging site of 38 Dakota ancestors on the anniversary of their execution ordered by President Lincoln. This is the story of their journey- the blizzards they endure\, the Native and Non-Native communities that house and feed them along the way as well as the dark history they wipe away. Smooth Feather Productions\, 78 min.\, English\, 2012\, USA. \nhm 4/6/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/dakota-38/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130425T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130425T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112847Z UID:10002148-1366848000-1366848000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Paradise Lost? Zahra's Paradise and the Future of Politics in Modern Iran DESCRIPTION:Click the link below for full information on this talk.\njwil 22.iv.2013 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/paradise-lost-zahras-paradise-and-the-future-of-politics-in-modern-iran/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130425T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130425T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112847Z UID:10002144-1366848000-1366848000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Desert Stones Speak: Women\, Men\, and Cycles of Evangelism in the SW Borderlands DESCRIPTION:This event is co-sponsored by the History Associates and the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation\, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2013. The cost is $8 for HA members\, $10 for non-members.\nFour “big ideas” swept across the Southwest borderlands of North\nAmerican in the thousand years preceding the consolidation of the\nSpanish colony of New Mexico. The Chaco Phenomenon\, the Katsina\nReligion\, Franciscan Catholicism and Po’Pay’s Peublo Revolt used\nevangelical methods to effect a dynamic reorganization of popular\nreligious\, cultural\, and political beliefs. In this illustrated lecture\, Dr.\nJames Brooks explores how these “big ideas” continue to resonate in\nregional memories and life ways. \nAbout our speaker \nDr. James Brooks is president of the School for\nAdvanced Research in Santa Fe. A gifted scholar\nand lecturer\, Dr. Brooks is the recipient of more\nthan a dozen national awards. His 2002 book\,\nCaptives & Cousins: Slavery\, Kinship and\nCommunity in the Southwest Borderlands\nfocused on the traffic in women and children\nacross the region as expressions of intercultural\nviolence and accomodation. Dr. Brooks served on\nthe UCSB History faculty from 2000 to 2003\nand currently is teaching a graduate seminar here. \nMuseum of Natural History\n2559 Puesta del Sol\nThe Museum is located off Mission St.\, just beyond\nthe Old Mission. We will meet in Farrand\nHall. There is ample free parking.\nCoffee and cookies will be provided. \nhm 4/10/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-desert-stones-speak-women-men-and-cycles-of-evangelism-in-the-sw-borderlands/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130426T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130426T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112847Z UID:10002147-1366934400-1366934400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Modern Life of Roman Republicanism DESCRIPTION:Joy Connolly works mainly on Roman ideas about communication\, education\, and governance\, and their ongoing relevance for the modern world. Her first book\, The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome\, was published by Princeton in 2007; her second\, a book about republicanism called Talk about Virtue\, is under contract with Duckworth Press. She has written articles on Roman political theory\, elegiac and pastoral poetry\, rhetorical education\, and the seventeenth century reception of classical literature and political thought\, and her book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review\, the Women’s Review of Books\, Bookforum\, and TLS. Her forthcoming work includes essays on the exemplarity of Rome in eighteenth century American education\, the framing of ethical choice in Vergil’s Aeneid\, and the relation of torture and justice in early imperial Roman rhetoric.\nFriday\, April 26\, 2013\n2:00 PM\nHSSB 4080 \nA public reception will immediately follow in the Classics Reading Room (HSSB 4075) \nSponsored by the Department of Classics URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-modern-life-of-roman-republicanism/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130426T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130426T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112847Z UID:10002142-1366934400-1366934400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts DESCRIPTION:Dr. Daly Thompson will talk about her new book.\nFor fuller details\, including abstract\, please visit the URL below. \nChapter One of the book is available from Prof. Chikowero for reading before the talk. \nhm 4/10/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/zimbabwes-cinematic-arts/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130426T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130426T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112847Z UID:10002150-1366934400-1366934400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Intellectual as Agent: Politics and Independence in the Lives of Ignazio Silone DESCRIPTION:Professor Saccarelli offers insights on Silone’s role as a secret collaborator with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. His paper can be found here.\nAbout our speaker: \nEmmanuel Saccarelli an Associate Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University\, and is the author of Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism (2008). \nSponsored by the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-intellectual-as-agent-politics-and-independence-in-the-lives-of-ignazio-silone/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130430T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130430T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10002132-1367280000-1367280000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Beyond Race\, Gender\, and Class: Understanding the Roots of Privilege DESCRIPTION:Using the concept of privilege in race\, gender\, and class\, this discussion will raise questions about systems and structures of power that can allow us to go beyond polite “diversity talk” to discuss what would be needed to transform our society and promote justice and sustainability. Any serious effort toward those goals must confront the structures of power in the contemporary United States that produce such profound inequality. Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the Universityof Texas at Austin and author of Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialogue (City Lights\, 2013) and The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race\, Racism and White Privilege (City Lights\, 2005).\nhm 4/3/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/beyond-race-gender-and-class-understanding-the-roots-of-privilege/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130506T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130506T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112847Z UID:10002141-1367798400-1367798400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Imagining House Churches in Light of Evidence for Cultic Activities in the Terrace Houses in Ephesus DESCRIPTION:In addition to evidence for household cults in the terrace houses at Ephesus\, three of the units contained installations for cultic activities that “blur” the traditional distinction between public and private space. The likely identification of Terrace House 2 as that of C. Vibius Salutaris offers additional commentary on important aspects of such “blurring” through details preserved in the 568 line inscription recording the terms of his bequest. Although it is extremely unlikely that any early Christians would have lived in houses as “rich” as the terrace houses excavated at Ephesus\, they provide important comparative materials for imagining how religious activities within domestic space could welcome persons from outside the household while enhancing the status of the owner.\nProfessor Walters’ interests focus on Pauline studies and especially on the urban social context of Pauline communities in the Aegean basin (Greece and western Asia Minor). He is the author of one book\, Ethnic Issues in Paul’s Letter to the Romans\, and a number of scholarly essays. \nReception to follow. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/imagining-house-churches-in-light-of-evidence-for-cultic-activities-in-the-terrace-houses-in-ephesus/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130508T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130508T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112849Z UID:10002154-1367971200-1367971200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Forty Years of Endangered Species: Conflict and Conservation in California and Beyond DESCRIPTION:The landmark federal Endangered Species Act—the most powerful and comprehensive U.S. environmental law\, and the most ambitious biodiversity conservation statute ever enacted by any country—turns forty in 2013. Is this anniversary cause for celebration or despair? What have we learned during the past four decades? Why is endangered species conservation so complicated? And why do efforts to preserve species often result in such bitter controversy? This year’s Plous lecture will address these questions\, place them in a broader historical context\, and discuss some of the challenges and opportunities for conservation in the twenty-first century.\nPeter S. Alagona is an assistant professor of history and environmental studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Before joining the UCSB faculty\, he was a Beagle Environmental Fellow in the Center for the Environment and Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a postdoctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford. \nThe Harold J. Plous Memorial Award was established in 1957 to honor Harold J. Plous\,\nAssistant Professor of Economics. The award is given annually to a faculty member of the rank of\nAssistant Professor or Instructor who has demonstrated outstanding performance by creative action\nor contribution to the intellectual life of the college community. \nhm 5/6/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/forty-years-of-endangered-species-conflict-and-conservation-in-california-and-beyond/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130509T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130509T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112849Z UID:10002161-1368057600-1368057600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Making of "The Atomic Cafe" DESCRIPTION:> Released in 1982\, “The Atomic Cafe” was a masterful compilation of > U.S. government propaganda films that exposed the madness of the\n> nuclear arms race. Jayne Loader\, one of the film’s directors\,\n> screens excerpts of the documentary and engages the audience in a\n> discussion of her work process. Also taking part in the\n> conversation are Prof. Charles Wolfe (Film and Media Studies)\, Prof.\n> Salim Yaqub (History)\, and Kenneth Hough\, PhD candidate in history.\n>\n> Born in Weatherford\, TX and educated at Reed College in Oregon\,\n> Jayne Loader is a filmmaker and writer. In 1982 she co-directed the\n> cult classic\, “The Atomic Cafe.” Loader is the author of a novel\,\n> BETWEEN PICTURES\, and a short story collection\, WILD AMERICA. In the\n> 1990s she created WWWench\, one of the first blogs. Ms. Loader lives\n> in Cambridge\, MA and Friendship\, ME. \nhm 5/8/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-making-of-the-atomic-cafe/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130509T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130509T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112849Z UID:10002156-1368057600-1368057600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Remembering War\, Looking Forward DESCRIPTION:This is the closing talk and reception as part of the IHC’s Fallout: In the Aftermath of War series\, with series closing remarks by IHC director Susan Derwin.\nHistorian John Lee offers closing reflections on the year’s IHC program\, Fallout. Using as a starting point the war memoirs of Xenophon (ca. 427-355 BC)\, Lee considers our changing visions of war\, memory and trauma\, war memoirs\, and the relationship between war and the humanities.\nSponsored by the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War. \nhm 5/7/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/remembering-war-looking-forward/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130510T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130510T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112849Z UID:10002152-1368144000-1368144000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:“The Widening Gyre: Colonial Labor\, Guestworkers\, and the End of Empire.” DESCRIPTION:Professor Hahamovitch explores exploited labor systems in the colonial period and the guest worker programs in the United States during the post-war period.\nAbout our speaker: \nCindy Hahamovitch is the author of The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty\, 1870-1945 (1997). Her No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor (2012) won the Rawley and Curti Awards from the Organization of American Historians as well as the Philip Taft Labor History Prize. Her paper can be found here. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-widening-gyre-colonial-labor-guestworkers-and-the-end-of-empire/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130516T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130516T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112849Z UID:10002165-1368662400-1368662400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:You Say You Want a Revolution? Transition\, Stability and Chaos in Post-Dictatorship Arab States DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Hussein Ibish looks at the different ways post-dictatorship transition has unfolded in the three North African Arab states that experienced regime change during the “Arab Spring”: Egypt\, Tunisia and Libya. Among the questions he addresses are: What are the new systems emerging in those countries? To what extent have old governance structures persisted despite the changes? How have Islamists fared in each of the three states\, and what are the prospects for their long-term power? What about non-Islamist opposition movements and parties? Are these states on the road to stability or a period of protracted chaos? And what influence will their experiences have on the broader region and vice versa? Are we seeing the emergence of the consent of the governed\, or the consolidation of power by new and/or old elites?\nHussein Ibish is Senior Fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine. He is a regular contributor on Middle East affairs in numerous publications and a weekly columnist at “Now Media” and “The Daily Beast.” His most recent book is WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE ONE-STATE AGENDA? Dr. Ibish has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the UMass\, Amherst. And in case you thought he was a one-trick pony\, he has a lengthy essay in the current issue of MIT’s quarterly THE BAFFLER on the cultural\, political and intellectual legacy of the Marquis de Sade. \nhm 5/11/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/you-say-you-want-a-revolution-transition-stability-and-chaos-in-post-dictatorship-arab-states/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130516T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130516T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112849Z UID:10002167-1368662400-1368662400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Plague! Making Sense of Epidemics\, Contagions\, and Pestilence DESCRIPTION:The Division of Humanities and Fine Arts is sponsoring this special event. UCSB History professors Stefania Tutino and John Majewski were involved in putting the program together. We hope this is an entertaining and informative way to present the humanities to the general public\, so please come and bring along family and friends. The Natural History Museum charges for this event\, but it is FREE to all members of the campus community\, as well as alumni and friends of UC Santa Barbara. Reserve free tickets by contacting Justin Canty at jcanty@sbnature2.org or 805-682-4711\, ext. 170.\nFor thousands of years\, humans have faced devastating epidemics that suddenly kill millions. In this innovative program\, three scholars analyze how humans respond to the massive disruption caused by these catastrophic events. These carefully crafted presentations explore different cultural and social responses to devastating epidemics\, while highlighting our common humanity in response to unimaginable death and suffering. The program includes selected scenes from Tony Kushner’s award-winning play Angels in America performed by UCSB’s superb Department of Theater and Dance. \nA copy of the flyer can be found at\nhttp://www.hfa.ucsb.edu/news/372-050713 \nhm 5/11/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-plague-making-sense-of-epidemics-contagions-and-pestilence/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130521T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130521T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112849Z UID:10002158-1369094400-1369094400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"The 'Discovery of Writing' in the Qur'an: Tracing an Epistemic Revolution in Arab Late Antiquity DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the R. Stephen Humphreys Distinuished Lecture:\nThe “Discovery of Writing” in the Qur’an: Tracing an Epistemic Revolution in Arab Late Antiquity” \nProfessor Angelika Neuwirth\nArabic Studies\, Free University (Berlin) \nTuesday\, May 21st at 4:00 pm\nHSSB 4080 \nThe Qur’an—being the first significant non-oral literary text in the Arabic language—induced an epistemic revolution in the Arabic-speaking world of Late Antiquity. This fundamental renewal of the Arab Late Antique world was achieved through the Qur’anic negotiation and re-interpretation not only of the neighboring Jewish and Christian traditions but no less through the re-working of the Ancient Arabic lexicon of concepts. The talk will discuss the emergence of a communal identity based on the newly discovered authority of writing and in particular the understanding of the prophetical proclamation\, qur’an\, as a “reading” from a celestial text. At the same time\, the poetical concept of script as a frustratingly mute and unintelligible sign system (wahy) will be un-demonized: Qur’anic wahy is communication par excellence. \nSponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Stephen Huphreys Distinguished Lecture Series. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-discovery-of-writing-in-the-quran-tracing-an-epistemic-revolution-in-arab-late-antiquity/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130522T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130522T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T004556 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10002137-1369180800-1369180800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America DESCRIPTION:Revealing the direct connection between the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the current immigration crisis\, this film based on Juan González’s book by the same title\, provides a powerful glimpse into the sacrifices and triumphs of the growing Latino communities\, putting a human face on issues that are often reduced to stereotyping. The film features immigrant stories as well as interviews with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchú\, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Junot Díaz\, and more. Peter Getzels and Eduardo Lopez\, 90 min.\, English and Spanish with English subtitles\, 2012.\nhm 4/6/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/harvest-of-empire-a-history-of-latinos-in-america/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR