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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20150308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20151101T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140408T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140408T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112856Z UID:10002230-1396915200-1396915200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Dean Baker on "The Importance of Full Employment and the Routes for Getting There." DESCRIPTION:Dean Baker\, “The Importance of Full Employment and the Routes for Getting There.” Baker is co-Founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research\, and author of several books on American political economy\, including Getting Back to Full Employment (with Jared Bernstein)\, and The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive (2011)\, and frequent contributor to The Guardian\, The Huffington Post\, and MSNBC.\nAJ 3/24/14 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/dean-baker-on-the-importance-of-full-employment-and-the-routes-for-getting-there/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140410T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140410T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112855Z UID:10001940-1397088000-1397088000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Reason\, Rationality\, and Rules: A Short History of the Way We Think Now DESCRIPTION:This talk will be held at Alumni Hall\, Mosher Alumni House\, 2nd floor on Thursday April 10 at 4:00 p.m.\nAbout the Speaker\nLorraine Daston is Executive Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She has published on a wide range of topics in the history of science\, including the history of probability and statistics\, wonders in early modern science\, the emergence of the scientific fact\, scientific models\, objects of scientific inquiry\, the moral authority of nature\, and the history of scientific objectivity. She has taught at Harvard\, Princeton\, Brandeis\, and Göttingen Universities\, as well as at the University of Chicago\, where she is Visiting Professor of Social Thought and History. She has also held visiting positions in Paris and Vienna and given the Isaiah Berlin Lectures at the University of Oxford (1999)\, the Tanner Lectures at Harvard University (2002)\, the West Lectures at Stanford University (2005)\, and the Humanitas Lecture at the University of Oxford (2013). She has twice won the Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society and was awarded the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society and the Schelling Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 2012. Dr. Daston is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, a Corresponding Member of the British Academy\, as well as a Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Leopoldina. Dr. Daston was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2010. She is currently completing a book on moral and natural orders. Histories of Scientific Observation\, co-edited with Elizabeth Lunbeck\, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2011. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/reason-rationality-and-rules-a-short-history-of-the-way-we-think-now/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140414T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140414T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112856Z UID:10002233-1397433600-1397433600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Shifting Centers of Maritime Activity in the Eastern Mediterranean: A View from Burgaz or "Old Knidos" DESCRIPTION:Excavation at the settlement of Burgaz on Turkey’s Datça peninsula—at the junction of the Aegean and Mediterranean seas—has revealed uninterrupted occupation from the Archaic period through Late Antiquity. With its proximity to fertile land and the sea\, Burgaz is generally considered to be the early settlement of the Knidians\, long famed for their nude cult statue of the goddess Aphrodite. While settlement at “New Knidos” on the tip of the peninsula flourishes from the late fourth century BCE\, earlier remains at the site are scarce. Seeking information about the earlier settlement’s economic success and subsequent demise\, our project undertakes comprehensive survey and excavation in the four harbors of Burgaz in tandem with a broader project of underwater cultural heritage advocacy in Turkey and beyond.\nThe project investigates the question of “wandering cities” or “portable ports” in antiquity\, collecting archaeological evidence for the curious phenomenon of settlements which—through catastrophe or gradual environmental or economic decline—shift their population core from one locale to another. By combining excavation with surface survey and geophysical prospection both on land and underwater\, we seek answers about the long-term development of the town\, its military and commercial ports\, and its integration within a broader maritime cultural and economic landscape. Through analysis of architectural structures and cultural artifacts we ask why the early city of the Knidians flourished and how it adapted to changing patterns of regional and international connectivity in the Mediterranean world. \nElizabeth S. Greene is Associate Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology at Brock University (St. Catharines\, Ontario\, Canada). \nSponsored by the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program\, Borderlands Research Focus Group\, and Archaeology Research Focus Group. \njwil 28.iii.2014 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/shifting-centers-of-maritime-activity-in-the-eastern-mediterranean-a-view-from-burgaz-or-old-knidos/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140418T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140418T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112856Z UID:10002232-1397779200-1397779200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Paul Starr on "America's Peculiar Struggle over Health Care\, Then and Now." DESCRIPTION:Paul Starr\, “America’s Peculiar Struggle over Health Care\, Then and Now.” Starr is co-Founder of The American Prospect\, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University\, author of Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health-Care Reform as well as the Pulitzer Prize winning: The Social Transformation of American Medicine (1982). He has served as a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton on healthcare policy. His talk will be followed by a symposium on “Healthcare Rights and Healthcare Reform from Medicare to Obamacare\,” featuring reports from the front lines of state and local\, official and grassroots efforts to implement the Affordable Care Act.\nAJ 3/24/14 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/paul-starr-on-americas-peculiar-struggle-over-health-care-then-and-now/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140424T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140424T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112856Z UID:10002235-1398297600-1398297600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:William P. Jones Reflects on the Role of Labor in the Civil Rights Movement DESCRIPTION:“The March on Washington: Jobs\, Freedom\, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights”\nWilliam P. Jones\, History Professor at the University of Wisconsin- Madison\, is a leading historian of the 20th Century United States\, with a particular interest in race\, class and work. He has written books on African American industrial workers in the Jim Crow South and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. At UCSB\, he will lecture on his newest book\, The March on Washington: Jobs\, Freedom\, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights. This event is co-sponsored by the Great Society at Fifty\, the Center for Black Studies\, and the Department of Black Studies. \nThe March on Washington will be available courtesy of Granada Books for sale and signing after the lecture. \nAdded by: AJ 4/23/14 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/william-p-jones-reflects-on-the-role-of-labor-in-the-civil-rights-movement/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140425T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140425T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112851Z UID:10001897-1398384000-1398384000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Lost Eagle: The Untold Story of the Legionary Eagle on Rome's Most Famous Statue DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.\njwil 16.viii.2013 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-lost-eagle-the-untold-story-of-the-legionary-eagle-on-romes-most-famous-statue/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140428T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140428T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112854Z UID:10002209-1398643200-1398643200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Aftermath" DESCRIPTION:Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB present\,in commemoration of Yom Hashoah and as Holocaust Remembrance Week Inaugural Event: \nThe Santa Barbara premiere screening of Aftermath\, winner of the Yad Vashem Chairman’s Award at this year’s Jerusalem Film Festival\, will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Monday\, April 28\, 2014 at UCSB. The riveting story of two Polish brothers who try to come to terms with their village’s long hidden role in the Holocaust\, Aftermath offers “a highly unsettling look at lingering prejudice and collective guilt” (New York Daily News). “A bombshell disguised as a thriller” (Los Angeles Times Film Critic Kenneth Turan)\, the film brilliantly “succeeds in bringing the past into the present” (J. Hoberman\, The New York Times). This free\, public event will serve to commemorate Yom HaShoah and to inaugurate Holocaust Remembrance Week at UCSB. \nFranek and Jozek Kalina\, sons of a poor farmer\, are brothers from a small village in central Poland. Franek immigrated to the United States in the 80s and cut all ties with his family. Only when Jozek’s wife arrives in the US\, without explanation\, does Franek finally return to his homeland. Franek discovers that Jozek has been ostracized from the community and constantly receives threats. As Franek and Jozek struggle to rebuild their relationship\, they are drawn into a gothic tale of intrigue. The two brothers eventually uncover a dark secret that forces them to confront the history of their family and their village. \nUpon its release in Poland\, Aftermath reignited the intense controversy that surrounded the publication\, in 2000\, of Neighbors by historian Jan T. Gross\, a searing account of the covered-up slaughter in Jedwabne\, a once half-Jewish village in northeastern Poland where hundreds of Jews\, including children\, were murdered in a savage pogrom in 1941. Polish nationals accused the film of being anti-Polish propaganda\, as well as a distortion of a sensitive piece of Polish history\, leading the film to be banned in some Polish cinemas. \nThe Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, a program of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, is cosponsored by UCSB Arts and Lectures\, Department of Religious Studies\, Congregation B’nai B’rith\, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\, and Santa Barbara Hillel. \nhm 12/7/13; 4/15/14 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/aftermath/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140501T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140501T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112856Z UID:10002234-1398902400-1398902400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America DESCRIPTION:In the early 1960s\, young bohemians swayed together under the swirling lights of psychedelic slide shows\, surrounded by walls of amplified sound\, in dance halls and art galleries from Greenwich Village to San Francisco. For a generation of historians\, their tribal rites have long represented a sharp break with a vastly more conservative early cold war media culture. This talk makes a very different case. It first returns to World War II\, to explore the widespread fear that mass media technologies might turn Americans into authoritarians. It then recounts how\, as the fighting began\, American social scientists and Bauhaus refugees collaborated to produce new multimedia environments with which to turn the senses of their fellow citizens in explicitly democratic directions. The talk shows that this turn became the basis of both two decades of cold war American propaganda and the multimedia utopianism of the 1960s. As it traces this history\, the presentation reconnects the immersive\, multi-mediated environments of the 1960s to those of the decades that preceded them.\nFred Turner is Associate Professor of Communication and Director of the Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society at Stanford University. His books include the widely acclaimed From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand\, the Whole Earth Network\, and The Rise of Digital Utopianism; and most recently\, The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties. \nThis talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Information Technology and Society and the Machines\, People\, and Politics RFG. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-democratic-surround-multimedia-and-the-politics-of-attention-in-cold-war-america/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140501T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140501T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112856Z UID:10002236-1398902400-1398902400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:“The Racial Politics of American Philanthropy.” DESCRIPTION:For over a century the largest American philanthropies\, from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Gates Foundation\, have promised no less than to promote the well-being of all mankind. Acting on this grandiose mission\, these powerful private institutions have had great influence globally and at home in areas such as education\, public health\, and economic development. However\, the often ambiguous results and outright failures of these efforts have exposed the contradictions and conflicts inherent in a program of universal well being\, as well as the boundaries of philanthropists’ putatively limitless circle of care. At home\, these limits are most apparent in the racial politics of American philanthropy. Since the late eighteenth century\, African Americans and the American “race problem” have been at the very center of American philanthropy’s domestic agenda. Yet white American philanthropy’s record in promoting black people’s well-being has been decidedly mixed. In her talk\, Karen Ferguson will interrogate the nature of white philanthropists’ care when it comes to addressing the racial inequality in the United States. Who of what\, exactly have they cared about? \nSponsored by the Critical Issues in American series “The Great Society at Fifty: Democracy in America\, 1964/2014\,” the IHC sries The Value of Care and the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment. \nAdded by: AJ 4/23/14 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-racial-politics-of-american-philanthropy/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140502T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140502T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112856Z UID:10002237-1398988800-1398988800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:“Beyond the Global Great Society: Critical Perspectives on the Decade of Development as Lessons for Today.” DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, May 2\, at 1 p.m. a symposium composed of leading scholars explores the historical connections between the domestic “war” against poverty and the 20th-century development project as led by policymakers and foundations in the United States. It is entitled “Beyond the Global Great Society: Critical Perspectives from the Decade of Development as Lessons for Today.”\nAmong the participants: Amy Offner\, Department of History\, University of Pennsylvania; Alyosha Goldstein\, Department of American Studies\, University of New Mexico; Karen Ferguson\, Department of History\, Simon Fraser University; and from UCSB\, Javiera Barandiaran\, Department of Global Studies; Gabriela Soto-Lavega\, Department of History; and Kum-Kum Bhavnani\, Department of Sociology. More information on the symposium and its participants can be found here: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/greatsociety/news/event/183-032614 \nThese events are sponsored by the 2013-14 Critical Issues in America Series: The Great Society at Fifty: Democracy in America 1964/2014\, the Department of History\, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, and the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. \nAdded by: AJ 4/29/14 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/beyond-the-global-great-society-critical-perspectives-on-the-decade-of-development-as-lessons-for-today/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140507T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140507T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112857Z UID:10002238-1399420800-1399420800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Palestinian and African American Coalition Politics DESCRIPTION:Professor Alex Lubin (Director of the Center for American Studies and Research at the American University of Beirut) on Wednesday May 7th at 4:00pm in the MCC. Professor Lubin will be discussing the parallels between Palestinian and African American coalition politics. This event is co-sponsored by The Department of Black Studies\, the Black Studies Graduate Colloquium\, and the Multicultural Center. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/palestinian-and-african-american-coalition-politics/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140507T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140507T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112857Z UID:10002239-1399420800-1399420800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Chinese Bluegrass and Beyond: Abigail Washburn in Dialogue with Jeff Wasserstrom (UC\, Irvine) and Michael Berry DESCRIPTION:Abigail Washburn is a critically acclaimed singer\, composer and banjo player known for her collaborations with the Sparrow Quartet\, the Wu Force\,and her duet performances with Bela Fleck. Her albums include Sparrow Quartet\, City of Refuge\, Song of the Traveling Daughter\, Afterquake by Abigail Washburn and Shanghai Restoration Project and Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet. She has performed extensively in China and collaborated with many leading Chinese musicians. For more see her website: http://www.abigailwashburn.com/ URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/chinese-bluegrass-and-beyond-abigail-washburn-in-dialogue-with-jeff-wasserstrom-uc-irvine-and-michael-berry/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140508T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140508T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112857Z UID:10002240-1399507200-1399507200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Chinese Boxer Crisis of 1900: Facts\, Fictions\, and Fantasies DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Wasserstrom is the author of four books on China and the editor or co-editor of several more\, including most recently Chinese Characters:Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land\, which contains chapters by both fellow academics and such acclaimed journalists as Peter Hessler\, Leslie T. Chang\, Evan Osnos\, and Ian Johnson. Wasserstrom is a Professor of History at the University of California\, Irvine and the Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. He is also the Asia editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books\, an Associate Fellow of the Asia Society\, and a co-founder of the “China Beat” blog. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-chinese-boxer-crisis-of-1900-facts-fictions-and-fantasies/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140516T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140516T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112857Z UID:10002243-1400198400-1400198400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium DESCRIPTION:Panel I: War and International Relations8:45 Andrew Haney\, The Cossack and the Elephant: The Court-Martial of John Basil Turchin and Military Necessity in the American Civil War (Majewski)\nCommentator: Prof. JohnTalbott \n9:15 Dominic Moretto\, There Are Few Heroes Here: Understanding the Devastation of the Paraguayan War (Méndez)\n Commentator: Prof. David Rock \n9:45 Paul Pham\, Assured Commitment: Ngo Dinh Diem’s Official State Visit\, 1957 (Kalman)\n Commentator: Prof. Salim Yaqub \n10:15 Break \nPanel II: Identities and Religious Reform\n10:30 Roxanne Houman\, “Sorry\, Mom”: A History of Jewish Intermarriage in the United States since 1880 (Spickard)\n Commentator: Prof. Laura Kalman \n11:00 Emily Rebecca Megan Stierwalt\, Crossing a Bridge over Troubled Water: The Effects of the Holocaust on the Children of Survivors (Marcuse)\nCommentator: Prof. Paul Spickard \n11:30 Chelsea Simpson\, The Hidden Work of the “Bloody” Queen: Innovation and Reform during England’s Counter-Reformation (McGee)\nCommentator: Prof. Hilary Bernstein \n12:00 Lunch \nPanel III: Empires\n1:00 Katherine Thompson\, Cultural Autonomy and Provincial Rebellion in the Achaemenid Empire (Lee)\nCommentator: Prof. Beth DePalma Digeser \n1:30 Meredith Inman\, “And What a Place for a Shopman!” Liberty’s\, Regent Street\, and the Intersection of Empire and Commercialism\, 1875 – 1927 (Rappaport)\n Commentator: Prof. Kate McDonald \n2:00 Rehan Bholat\, “An Entertainment in Imperialism”: The Uganda Railway and the East African Interior\, 1896 – 1903 (Miescher)\n Commentator: Prof. Mary Hancock \nedits hm 5/15/14 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-senior-honors-thesis-colloquium/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140519T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140519T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112857Z UID:10002242-1400457600-1400457600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Historian Robert Gross Visits Campus DESCRIPTION:Robert A. Gross\, the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History\,University of Connecticut\, Storrs\, will present two exciting lectures at UCSB. \n1) History Seminar: “Outsiders in Concord\, Massachusetts: Suicides\, Drop-Outs\, and Marginal Men and Women of Color”;\n4-5:30\, Monday May 19\, in HSSB 4020\nNB: A chapter of Dr. Gross’s current book in progress is available as a pre-circulated paper.\nPlease email Ann Plane in history to obtain a copy: plane@history.ucsb.edu \n2) Public Lecture: “Conversations at the Lyceum: Emerson and His Neighbors”\nTuesday the 20th of May at 3:30PM in South Hall 2635 \nProfessor Gross is a distinguished professor of American Studies and American History\, who has worked in public humanities throughout his career. He specializes in the social and cultural history of the U.S.\, from the colonial era through the nineteenth century. His first book on the American Revolution\, _The Minutemen and Their World_ (1976)\, won the Bancroft Prize in American History; it was issued in a 25th anniversary edition in 2001. He has continued studies of the Revolutionary era in such works as _In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion_ (1993). For two decades he has been deeply involved in the interdisciplinary field known as the history of the book\, serving on the editorial board for the multi-volume History of the Book in America published by the University of North Carolina Press and co-editing with Mary Kelley the second volume of the series\, “An Extensive Republic: Print\, Culture\, and Society in the New Nation\, 1790-1840\,” (2010). His other recent work examines New England writers — notably\, Ralph Waldo Emerson\, Henry David Thoreau\, and Emily Dickinson — in historical context. From that project has come _The Transcendentalists and Their World_\, to be published by Hill & Wang. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/historian-robert-gross-visits-campus/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140529T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140529T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112857Z UID:10002244-1401321600-1401321600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" DESCRIPTION:Because of the events in Isla Vista last weekend\, this event has been rescheduled to Fall quarter.\nThe Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will be showing the 1965 film “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold\,” based on the classic novel of the same name by John Le Carre. The movie depicts a British agent sent on a secret mission into East Germany\, only to find himself a pawn in a wholly different operation. The film stars Richard Burton\, Claire Bloom\, and Oskar Werner. \nThe screening is free and open to the public. Delicious refreshments will be served. Please join us for this exciting end-of-year event! \nhm 5/28/14 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140604T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140604T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112857Z UID:10002246-1401840000-1401840000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind DESCRIPTION:Come join the Black Studies Graduate Colloquium this Wednesday at 4pm in South Hall 3711 for a talk by Dr. Osagie Obasogie (UC Hastings Professor of Law) from his new book\, Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race through the Eyes of the Blind. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/sight-seeing-race-through-the-eyes-of-the-blind/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140605T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140605T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112857Z UID:10002245-1401926400-1401926400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History Student Award Ceremony DESCRIPTION:The UCSB History Associates and the Department of History will honor the the recipients of this year’s student awards. Please let Bob Ortega (bortega@hfa.ucsb.edu) know if you plan to attend this event. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-student-award-ceremony/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140615T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140615T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112857Z UID:10002241-1402790400-1402790400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History Graduation Reception 2014 DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to invite you to the Annual UC Santa Barbara History Department Graduation Reception. Please join the History faculty and your fellow students for a reception: \nSunday June 15\, 2014\n10:00am-12:00pm\nHSSB 4020\nPlease R.S.V.P by Friday June 6\, 2014 \nThis celebration will be for all graduates of the 2013-2014 Bachelors of Arts (B.A.) programs in History\, History of Public Policy and Medieval Studies and their families. This event is not a commencement ceremony\, but an opportunity for faculty and graduates to celebrate their achievements together. A light breakfast will be served. \nR.S.V.P. Here URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-graduation-reception-2014/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140802T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140802T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112858Z UID:10002250-1406937600-1406937600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:End of Summer Session A Instruction DESCRIPTION:see summer sessions calendar at: URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/end-of-summer-session-a-instruction/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140913T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140913T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112858Z UID:10002255-1410566400-1410566400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:End of Summer Session B Classes DESCRIPTION:See the calendar at: URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/end-of-summer-session-b-classes-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140918T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140918T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112858Z UID:10002257-1410998400-1410998400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Hotel Mariachi: Urban Space and Cultural Heritage in Los Angeles (FREE!) DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 18\, 2014Mariachi 5:00 p.m.\nLecture 5:30 p.m.\nPresidio Chapel\, El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park\n123 East Canon Perdido Street\, Santa Barbara\nFor more information: 805-965-0093 or www.sbthp.org \nJoin the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation as Catherine Kurland and Evangeline Ordaz-Molina discuss Hotel Mariachi\, their book which depicts the mariachi musicians of Boyle Heights\, Los Angeles\, and the eighty-year-old mariachi culture centered in the 1889 hotel on Mariachi Plaza. It is a story of valiant efforts by the community to preserve the cultural heritage of the mariachis and the historic hotel\, built by great-grandparents of author Catherine Kurland\, who traces her Latino family history back to the birth of Los Angeles. Documentary art photographer Miguel Gandert “joyously and heartbreakingly captures this dichotomy of a regal band at play and the harsh reality of the struggle for work.” Enrique Lamadrid offers an in-depth study of mariachi music\, the lives of the musicians\, and the role of southern California in the evolution of this musical form. \nEnjoy a special guest appearance by Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéllar\nco-presented with ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! \nAdded by: AJ 9/10/2014 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/hotel-mariachi-urban-space-and-cultural-heritage-in-los-angeles-free/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140930T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140930T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112858Z UID:10002259-1412035200-1412035200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:2014-2015 New Majors Meeting DESCRIPTION:Please join faculty members from the Department of History for a New Majors MeetingTuesday September 30th from 1-2pm in HSSB 4020\nThis a great opportunity for all new majors to meet members of the History faculty\, the Department Chair\, and Faculty Advisors URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/2014-2015-new-majors-meeting/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20141014T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20141014T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112859Z UID:10002269-1413244800-1413244800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:UCEAP Meeting Just for HISTORY Majors DESCRIPTION:There is a UC EAP meeting ONLY for HIST\, HISPP and MDVST majors on Tuesday October 14th from 4-5pm in HSSB 4020! URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/uceap-meeting-just-for-history-majors/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20141014T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20141014T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112900Z UID:10001959-1413244800-1413244800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Geneologies of Chimurenga (Self-Liberation) Music: Re-writing Zimbabwean Nationalism Through Song DESCRIPTION:This is the first lecture of the year sponsored by the Research Focus Group on identity. Our very own Mhoze Chikowero\, who is spending the year in southern Africa on an ACLS fellowship\, has agreed to speak to the RFG during a brief visit to Santa Barbara next week. \nhm 10/10/14 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/geneologies-of-chimurenga-self-liberation-music-re-writing-zimbabwean-nationalism-through-song/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20141015T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20141015T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112858Z UID:10002261-1413331200-1413331200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:A Garden History DESCRIPTION:Presented by Goleta Valley Historical Society and co-hosted by Fairview Gardens\nHistory Education Center\nat Rancho La Patera & Stow House (click for map) \nWith interest in home hardens at the highest it’s been in decade\, this lecture will take us back to another time when national interest was focused on household agriculture — the victory gardens of the first and second World Wars. Dr. Rose Hayden-Smith will talk about current national policy and models\, as well as the way that the local food-systems movement is addressing a wide range of challenge facing Americans today. She will also discuss her new book Sowing the Seeds of Victory: American Gardening Programs of World War 1. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr. Hayden-Smith has been an academic with the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Cooperative Extension (UC ANR) since 1992. She has worked in the area of youth development and food systems-agriculture and also with 4-H and Master Gardener programs. For more info\, visit rosehayden-smith.com. \nReservations Recommended!\nAdmission is Complimentary.\ndacia@goletahistory.org\n(805) 681-7216\, ext. 2 \nhm 9/30/14 – aj 10/1/14 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/a-garden-history/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20141017T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20141017T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021215 CREATED:20150928T112858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112858Z UID:10002266-1413504000-1413504000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Chair's Welcome Reception for History Faculty\, Affiliates\, Lecturers DESCRIPTION:This event is by invitation only; wine and cheese will be served. \nhm 10/4/14 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/chairs-welcome-reception-for-history-faculty-affiliates-lecturers/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20141021T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20141021T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021216 CREATED:20150928T112900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112900Z UID:10001963-1413849600-1413849600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Winter 2015 Scheduling Meeting for Majors DESCRIPTION:All HISTORY Majors and Minors are encouraged to attend the Winter 2015 Scheduling Meeting Tuesday October 21st 3:30-4:30 in HSSB 4020\nCome learn about new classes\, course descriptions\, and courses that fulfill GEs!\nAll first year and transfer students are strongly encouraged to attend. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/winter-2015-scheduling-meeting-for-majors/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20141022T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20141022T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021216 CREATED:20150928T112901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112901Z UID:10001968-1413936000-1413936000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Modernist Worlds at War: Wells\, Welles\, Spielberg\, and Anglo-American Paranoia" DESCRIPTION:Jed Esty is the author of Unseasonable Youth: Modernism\,Colonialism\, and the Fiction of Development (Oxford 2012) and A\nShrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England\n(Princeton 2004)\, and is currently at work on a new project entitled\nAges of Innocence: Culture and Literature from Pax Britannica to\nthe American Century. \nJed Esty will be discussing his work-in-progress on\nThe War of the Worlds across media\, from H.G. Wells to\nOrson Welles to Steven Spielberg. \nAll welcome!\nReception to follow \nhm 10/19/14 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/modernist-worlds-at-war-wells-welles-spielberg-and-anglo-american-paranoia/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20141023T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20141023T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T021216 CREATED:20150928T112858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112858Z UID:10002263-1414022400-1414022400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Single Puritan Girls in Tudor England DESCRIPTION:It was reportedly H.L. Mencken who defined a Puritan as a person who was “haunted by the fear that someone\, somewhere might be happy.” But if the 17th century Puritan Simonds D’Ewes was any example\, Shakespeare might have been closer to the truth in his comedy about The Merry Wives of Windsor. UCSB History Prof. J. Sears McGee will sort through the complicated—and sometimes hilarious—negotiations Sir Simonds undertook in his serial marriages to two teenaged Puritan heiresses. His talk will be based on some 70 volumes of Sir Simonds’ personal papers in the British Library that have never been published\, including more than 1400 letters to and from a wide range of correspondents in England and abroad.\nAbout Our Speaker\nA senior member of the History faculty and one of its most popular lecturers\, Prof. McGee specializes in the history of early modern Britain. His talk will be based on his forthcoming book\, “An Industrious Mind”: the Worlds of Sir Simonds D’Ewes\, being published by Stanford University Press. \nThe event will begin with light refreshments at 5:30 p.m. In gratitude for your loyalty and support\, the History Associates Board is sponsoring this as a free event\, but reservations are recommended because of limited seating.\nYou can make a reservation online by writing drake@history.ucsb.edu\,\nor phone (805) 893-4388 \nhm 10/4/14\, 10/10 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/single-puritan-girls-in-tudor-england/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR