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/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T173000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230124T222405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T221758Z UID:10002914-1675267200-1675272600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Anthologizing the City of Isfahan: Family Archives and Urban Knowledge\, lecture by Professor Kathryn Babayan DESCRIPTION:Seventeenth century Isfahan witnessed a craze in the composition of a new kind of book\, the majmuʿa\, or anthology. Curated and written in the domestic sphere of the household\, anthologies archive city-writings once in circulation; they illustrate the practices of urban knowledge and their valorization by communities who took possession of them. The imaginations that anthologizing generated\, and the choices behind the gathering\, excerpting\, recording\, and ordering of texts bound in a manuscript\, represent different techniques of interpreting the city: they reveal a place where\, among other things\, the refined self was crafted on paper and performed in public.Anthologizing the City of Isfahan Family Archives and Urban Knowledge (1) URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/anthologizing-the-city-of-isfahan-family-archives-and-urban-knowledge/ LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, 93106\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T170000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230124T222629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T221754Z UID:10002915-1675350000-1675357200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Seminar with Professor Kathryn Babayan: Archival Practices Beyond the State: Microhistories of Households in early modern Isfahan DESCRIPTION:In recent scholarship\, family archives in the form of a manuscript have been posited as sites for more broadly rethinking archives in the pre-modern Islamicate world.In the context of Isfahan\, household anthologies provide a particularly rich ground for theorizing and reassessing pre-modern archival mechanisms and spaces. The anthology referred to in Persian as the majmuʿa (from the Arabic root j.m.ʿ)\, literally “gathered together\,” was a codex which assembled professional and urban texts. Generated and then collected and assembled in the interior spaces Archival Practices Beyond the State Microhistories of Households in early modern Isfahan (2)of the house\, such anthologies were also objects fashioned with the precise purpose of traversing the spaces between households—as letters\, paintings\, and gifts\, bringing the city and its many forms of urbane dialogue into focus. \n  \nMultiple practices of collecting\, copying\, and authoring anthologies are preserved in the thousands of majmu’a produced in seventeenth century Isfahan. We will focus on two family archives\, microhistories of two households\, one religious (Khwansari) and the other bureaucratic (Urdubadi). Although Safavi “state” archives have not survived the trials of time\, these archives provide us important clues as to what knowledge circulated in the city and what would have been included in notarial and imperial archives. \n  \n  URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/graduate-seminar-with-professor-kathryn-babayan-archival-practices-beyond-the-state-microhistories-of-households-in-early-modern-isfahan/ LOCATION:Girvetz 2320 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T183000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20221201T171235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230116T191744Z UID:10002909-1675877400-1675881000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History Associates Talk | "Plant Life and Imperialism" | Utathya Chattopadhyaya DESCRIPTION: \nPlant Life and Imperialism: Histories of Cannabis in British India\n \nAre histories of social structures\, imperial systems\, and the subjecthood of peoples not also histories of plant life? Taking one plant genus\, that modern botany labels cannabis\, this talk explores how and why we should embrace the contiguity between human and nonhuman life as a basic condition for narrating history itself. In British India\, across the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries\, different forms of cannabis substances animated the history of working classes\, gender\, race\, rural communities\, and state formation in heterogeneous ways that also echoed the complex biochemistry and psychoactive variability of cannabis intoxicants. To understand the unfolding of modern British imperialism\, the ways in which cannabis straddled its statuses as plant\, commodity\, substance\, form\, and matter can be crucial as it sheds important light on histories that have so far either remained out of focus or simply segregated from one another because of how colonial administrations produced categories to govern colonized spaces. This talk will introduce such histories and why and how they matter before suggesting what they contribute to the ongoing efforts of scholars to attend to the ways in which the supposed boundaries between humans\, other species\, and their environments have in fact remained thoroughly porous and vulnerable. \nUtathya Chattopadhyaya is Assistant Professor in the UCSB History Department. \nClick here for the poster URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-talk-plant-life-and-imperialism-utathya-chattopadhyaya/ LOCATION:Santa Barbara Eastside Branch Library\, 1102 E Montecito St\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93103\, United States CATEGORIES:History Associates END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230212T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230212T150000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230206T181745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T221750Z UID:10002922-1676210400-1676214000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Lecture: Prof. John W.I. Lee (UCSB History) on "Women in Ancient Persia" at the Goleta Valley Library DESCRIPTION:Western stereotypes of Ancient Persia often focus on images of exotic harems\, scheming queens\, and decadent court life. Prof. Lee explains what the ancient textual and archaeological sources actually reveal about women’s lives in the empire of Achaemenid Persia (550-330 BC).  The lecture examines the economic\, political\, and social power of women across the Achaemenid Empire\, from the Aegean Sea region in the west to the highlands of Iran in the east. \nJohn W.I. Lee is Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara.  He grew up in Asia and Hawai’i\, studied history at the University of Washington (Seattle)\, and received his PhD in History from Cornell University.  His publications include A Greek Army on the March: Soldiers and Survival in Xenophon’s Anabasis (Cambridge University Press 2007)\, The Persian Empire (The Great Courses 2012)\, and The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert (Oxford University Press 2022).  He is a member of the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lecture-prof-john-w-i-lee-ucsb-history-on-women-in-ancient-persia-at-the-goleta-valley-library/ LOCATION:Goleta Valley Library\, 500 North Fairview Avenue\, Goleta\, 93117 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230213T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230213T173000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230202T192950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T221746Z UID:10002916-1676304000-1676309400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Prof. Adrienne Edgar\, "Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples: Ethnic Mixing in Soviet Central Asia" DESCRIPTION:Adrienne Edgar‘s new monograph\, Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples\, is the first book to examine ethnic and racial mixing in the Soviet Union. In marked contrast to its Cold War rivals\, the Soviet Union celebrated mixed marriages among its diverse ethnic groups as a sign of the unbreakable friendship of peoples and the imminent emergence of a supra-ethnic “Soviet people.” Yet the official view of ethnic nationality became increasingly primordial and even racialized in the final Soviet decades. In this context\, mixed families and individuals found it impossible to transcend ethnicity\, fully embrace their complex identities\, and become simply “Soviet.”  \nThis event is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History. Delicious refreshments will be served! URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/prof-adrienne-edgar-intermarriage-and-the-friendship-of-peoples-ethnic-mixing-in-soviet-central-asia/ LOCATION:HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States GEO:34.4142938;-119.8474306 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8474306,34.4142938 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230216T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230216T153000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230213T231842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240417T184031Z UID:10002927-1676556000-1676561400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Reputation and Habitual Misbehavior on a 'Spicy Little Isle Where Ladies were Few' (Paper Workshop) DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our second Gender + Sexualities Paper Workshop of the Winter Quarter on Thursday\, 16 February\, at 2 PM.  \nWe will meet in HSSB 4041 to discuss Kristen Thomas-McGill’s paper\, “Reputation and Habitual Misbehavior on a ‘Spicy Little Isle Where Ladies were Few.’” \nYou can find a copy of Kristen’s paper here. Please read the paper in advance and be prepared to share your observations and insights with the group. All are welcome. \nABSTRACT: In 1903\, the Governor of Ceylon learned that a 16-year-old British boy had accused Hector Macdonald\, the colony’s highest-ranking military official\, of sexual abuse. As further allegations of Macdonald’s “habitual crime of misbehavior” arose\, imperial officials in the metropole and the colonies wrestled with how to address the growing scandal. At stake was not only Macdonald’s reputation but also that of British governance across the globe. In this paper\, I consider the ways in which the archive has variously replicated or resisted the reputational politics that guided the government’s response 120 years ago and argue that these archival practices have fostered widespread misunderstanding of the Macdonald scandal among historians and the public. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/reputation-and-habitual-misbehavior-on-a-spicy-little-isle-where-ladies-were-few-paper-workshop/ LOCATION:HSSB 4041\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States GEO:34.4142953;-119.8474491 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8474491,34.4142953 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230224T140000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230213T185414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T202820Z UID:10002923-1677240000-1677247200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History and Political Economy Colloquium with Dr. Giuliana Perrone | "Abolition and Capitalism" | Feb 24\, 12 PM | HSSB 4080 DESCRIPTION:The colloquium offers a forum for open\, substantive discussions on how to approach political economy from a historical perspective; how to grapple with and benefit from the epistemological diversity surrounding political economy; and how a historical take on political economy can help contextualize and address urgent contemporary issues– at UCSB\, in Santa Barbara/Southern California\, in the U.S.\, and around the world – ranging from rent\, inflation\, and student debt to deepening\, racialized inequality. For that purpose\, we will center our own research and put our work into conversation across geographical\, chronological\, and field boundaries.  \nAt our third meeting\, we will discuss “abolition and capitalism” with Professor Giuliana Perrone\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History\, UCSB. \nRequired Readings: Sinha – The Problem of Abolition in the Age of Capitalism (1) Perrone Chapter URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-and-political-economy-colloquium-with-dr-giuliana-perrone-abolition-and-capitalism-feb-24-12-pm-hssb-4080/ LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program,Panel Discussion,Roundtable GEO:34.4139629;-119.848947 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara:geo:-119.848947,34.4139629 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230225T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230225T180000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230217T204909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230218T205459Z UID:10002930-1677315600-1677348000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Healing Communities Conference DESCRIPTION:Pandemics have exposed the interconnections between environmental degradation\, disease\, and social inequalities calling for a broader conception and understanding of trauma and healing. The “Healing Communities” conference features scholars from diverse backgrounds who will explore the complex and varied ways in which communities across the world have been and are actively engaged in processes of healing from capitalism\, colonialism\, and environmental degradation.\n \nFULL SCHEDULE HERE. \n \nKeynote Speakers\nDr. ann-elise lewallen\nProfessor of Pacific and Asian Studies\nUniversity of Victoria\n \nDr. Jane E. Warjri\nLead Research Coordinator for the Khasi Biodiversity Forest Health Project\nUniversity of Victoria and University of Arizona\n \nDr. Jan Nederveen Pieterse\nDistinguished Professor and Mellichamp Chair in Globalization\nUniversity of California\, Santa Barbara\n \n\n\nThe conference is open to all graduate students\, organizations\, as well as to the public\, with no registration fees. Co sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center of UC Santa Barbara\, the History Department\, Medieval Studies\, the Graduate Student Association\, the Queer & Trans Graduate Student Union\, and the Asian Pacific Islander Graduate Student Association. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/healing-communities-conference/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\, UCSB\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230226T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230226T153000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230215T222126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T222126Z UID:10002929-1677420000-1677425400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History Associates Talk | Patricia Cline Cohen | "What the Dobbs decision got wrong about the history of 19th-century abortion." DESCRIPTION: URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-talk-patricia-cline-cohen-what-the-dobbs-decision-got-wrong-about-the-history-of-19th-century-abortion/ LOCATION:Santa Barbara Public Library\, Faulkner Gallery\, 40 E. Anapamu Street\, Santa Barbara.\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,History Associates,Public Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230227T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230227T170000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230206T180925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T221736Z UID:10002921-1677513600-1677517200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Lecture: Patrick Hunt (Stanford University) on "Hannibal's Secret Weapon" in HSSB Room 6020 DESCRIPTION:Hannibal’s success as a military commander in the Second Punic War (218-202 BCE) – surprising and severely defeating Rome after crossing the Alps at the Trebbia\, Trasimene and Cannae battles and trickery against Fabius Maximus and others – is usually not focused on his brilliant weaponization of nature and his important use of Iberian silver to secure excellent military intelligence and pay his allied mercenaries as well as his schooling of Rome to reinvent its military. When Scipio – Hannibal’s best pupil – took New Carthage (Cartago Nova or Cartagena) in 209 BCE\, he effectively cut off Hannibal’s access to further Iberian silver and Hannibal’s successes dried up\, which is no coincidence. Scipio learned well from Hannibal’s craftiness\, as documented in Polybius and Frontinus’ Strategemata\, by turning the tables on Hannibal at Zama in 202 BCE. As a result of Hannibal’s genius\, every strategist since Hannibal\, including Machiavelli and military commanders up to the present\, emulates Hannibal’s program for adding nature to his arsenal and his use of military intelligence and topography\, which is why Hannibal’s tactics are still taught as relevant spycraft. The irony that Hannibal never aimed to destroy Carthage but only to preserve Carthage is all the more tragic in that Rome sought to and succeeded in destroying Carthage’s empire and impose their own empire and remake the Mediterranean as “Mare Nostrum.” \nPatrick Hunt is with the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Stanford University\, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA\, the School of Cultural Diplomacy in London\, the Fromm Institute in San Francisco\, and the Institute for EthnoMedicine.  He holds his Ph.D. from the Institute of Archaeology\, University of London\, and has also studied at the University of California at Berkeley\, and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.  His research interests are Alpine archaeology\, archaeological science\, archaeometry\, geoarchaeology\, forensic archaeology\, Roman archaeology\, Celtic archaeology\, and Hannibal studies.  His main publications include Alpine Archaeology (2007)\, and Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History (2007)\, as well as numerous articles and encyclopedia entries\, and his most recent book is Hannibal. Prof. Hunt is one of the AIA’s 2022/2023 Norton Lecturers. \nFor additional information or for assistance in accommodating a disability\, please contact Prof. John Lee in the UC Santa Barbara History Department. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lecture-patrick-hunt-stanford-university-on-hannibals-secret-weapon/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States GEO:34.4139682;-119.8503034 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg:geo:-119.8503034,34.4139682 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230227T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230227T173000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230203T152727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230209T190243Z UID:10002919-1677513600-1677519000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:IHC RFG Talk | Lee Vinsel | US Policymaking and the Promises of Technology in the 1990S’ “New Economy” DESCRIPTION:On April 5th\, 2000\, President William Clinton stepped to the microphone at the White House Conference on the New Economy and told those gathered that the United States was experiencing “an economic transformation as profound as that that led us into the industrial revolution.” The 1990s was a heady moment for chatter about technological change\, especially around personal computers and the Internet. Microsoft CEO Bill Gates predicted Business @ the Speed of Thought\, as one of his book titles put it\, and Wired writer Kevin Kelly argued that the Internet would lead to the dematerialization of the economy. This “irrational exuberance” would eventually end in the dot com bust\, but not before members of the Clinton administration used projections around “the New Economy” to justify a number of decisions that would have far-reaching ramifications\, including policies around telecommunications\, labor and trade\, education and training\, student loans\, and economic\, racial\, and gender inequality. \nIn this talk\, Lee Vinsel will build on recent work on the history of the Clinton White House and political economy\, including Margaret O’Mara’s The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America and Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein’s forthcoming\, A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism. Vinsel will ask what can be gained for this literature by focusing on technology\, both the actual material change taking place in the 1990s and\, perhaps most importantly\, the ideas and fantasies surrounding the concept “technology\,” which greatly outpaced reality. \nLee Vinsel is Associate Professor of Science\, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Machines\, People\, and Politics Research Focus Group URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ihc-rfg-talk-lee-vinsel-us-policymaking-and-the-promises-of-technology-in-the-1990s-new-economy/ LOCATION:HSSB 4041 CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Colloquium Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T173000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230223T061012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230223T061012Z UID:10002931-1677686400-1677691800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History and East Asia Center presents Aaron Skabelund's talk "Inglorious\, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force During the Cold War" | Mar 1 | 4PM | HSSB 4020 DESCRIPTION: The Self-Defense Force— Japan’s post-World War II military—and specifically the Ground Self Defense Force (GSDF)\, struggled for legitimacy in a society at best indifferent to them and often hostile to their very existence. This talk focuses on the GSDF and its efforts\, in the form of natural disaster relief operations\, civil engineering projects\, and support for the events such as the Sapporo Snow Festival\, for greater acceptance during the Cold War.  \nEAC Inglorious\, Illegal Bastards Japan_s Self-Defense Force During the Cold War URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-and-east-asia-center-presents-aaron-skabelunds-talk-inglorious-illegal-bastards-japans-self-defense-force-during-the-cold-war-mar-1-4pm-hssb-4020/ LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Public Lecture GEO:34.4139629;-119.848947 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California Santa Barbara:geo:-119.848947,34.4139629 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230301T180000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230213T230225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230425T195856Z UID:10002924-1677686400-1677693600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:“LGBT Direct Action Bibliography\, Chronology\, and Inventory\, 1965-73” (Marc Stein\, SFSU) DESCRIPTION:The Gender + Sexualities Cluster is pleased to welcome Professor Marc Stein to campus. Marc is a historian of U.S. law\, politics\, and society\, with research and teaching interests in constitutional law\, social movements\, gender\, race and sexuality. His books and articles have focused on twentieth-century urban gay and lesbian history; U.S. Supreme Court decisions on sex\, marriage and reproduction; queer political activism; and sexual politics in the discipline of history. \nMarc will speak about – “LGBT Direct Action Bibliography\, Chronology\, and Inventory\, 1965-73” – a forthcoming database/inventory/chronology on US LGBT history that he is curating. \nReception to follow.  URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lgbt-direct-action-bibliography-chronology-and-inventory-1965-73-marc-stein-sfsu/ LOCATION:CITRAL Seminar Room\, Library\, UCSB Library\, 525 UCEN Rd\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Public Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230302T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230213T230556Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230425T195757Z UID:10002925-1677767400-1677772800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Queer Public History: A Conversation with Marc Stein" DESCRIPTION:The Gender + Sexualities Cluster is pleased to welcome Professor Marc Stein to campus. Marc is a historian of U.S. law\, politics\, and society\, with research and teaching interests in constitutional law\, social movements\, gender\, race and sexuality. His books and articles have focused on twentieth-century urban gay and lesbian history; U.S. Supreme Court decisions on sex\, marriage and reproduction; queer political activism; and sexual politics in the discipline of history. \n“Queer Public History: A Conversation with Marc Stein” will revolve around his recently published edited collection of the same name that considers queer public history and scholarly activism within the same frame. \nAll are welcome.  URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/queer-public-history-a-conversation-with-marc-stein/ LOCATION:HSSB 4041\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Public Lecture GEO:34.4142953;-119.8474491 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8474491,34.4142953 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230303 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230305 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230203T180117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240417T183834Z UID:10002920-1677801600-1677974399@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:From Table to Text: Borders and Boundaries in Food History DESCRIPTION:  From Table to Text: Borders and Boundaries in Food History \nMarch 3rd and 4th\, 2023 \nA Virtual Conference Hosted by the History Department\,  \nUniversity of California at Santa Barbara \nOrganizers: Erika Rappaport and Elizabeth Schmidt \nAll paper panels will take place via Zoom. If you need assistance setting up a Zoom account\, please let us know.  \nFor questions please contact: Erika Rappaport\, rappaport@ucsb.edu or Elizabeth Schmidt e_schmidt@ucsb.edu \nPlease see here for the draft program \n  URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/from-table-to-text-borders-and-boundaries-in-food-history/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Book Talk,Colloquium Event,Roundtable ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Screenshot-2023-02-03-at-9.58.08-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230303T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230303T170000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230202T193533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230228T180112Z UID:10002917-1677834000-1677862800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Recruitment Day DESCRIPTION:Admitted graduate students are invited to visit the Department of History and get to know its faculty and current graduate students.  Panels\, roundtables and social events will introduce prospective grad students to our department. \nDownload the program and schedule here: \n2023 Recruitment Day Schedule URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/graduate-recruitment-day/ LOCATION:HSSB 4020 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230303T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230303T110000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230213T231246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230425T195821Z UID:10002926-1677837600-1677841200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Coffee on Campus (with Marc Stein) DESCRIPTION:The Gender + Sexualities Cluster is pleased to welcome Professor Marc Stein to campus. Marc is a historian of U.S. law\, politics\, and society\, with research and teaching interests in constitutional law\, social movement \ns\, gender\, race and sexuality. His books and articles have focused on twentieth-century urban gay and lesbian history; U.S. Supreme Court decisions on sex\, marriage and reproduction; queer political activism; and sexual politics in the discipline of history. \nCoffee on Campus with Marc Stein. This causal event is exclusively for our undergrad students and will be co-hosted by the History Club and the Undergraduate Journal. Come learn about Marc’s career and work as a historian of sexuality. \nCaffeine and snacks will be served. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/coffee-on-campus-with-marc-stein/ LOCATION:HSSB 3041\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States GEO:34.4139629;-119.848947 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 3041 University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California Santa Barbara:geo:-119.848947,34.4139629 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230304T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230304T123000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230303T073650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230303T073906Z UID:10002934-1677927600-1677933000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Cold War Working Group Workshop | Nick Cohen "Forging an International Backstop: Commercial Banking\, Foreign Policy\, and the Empowerment of the IMF\, 1973-1981" | Mar 4\, 11 AM DESCRIPTION:When: Saturday\, March 4\, 11 AM to 12:30 PM \nWhere: West Campus Point Faculty Housing Community’s Outdoor Plaza \nThe Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) and the Cold War Working Group (CWWG) will host an in-person workshop at the West Campus Point faculty housing community’s outdoor plaza. We will be reading and discussing a paper\, “Forging an International Backstop: Commercial Banking\, Foreign Policy\, and the Empowerment of the IMF\, 1973-1981\,” by Nick Cohen\, a doctoral candidate in the UCSB history department.  \nAbstract: How were the practice and image of commercial banking reinvented alongside the expansion and empowerment of the International Monetary Fund in the decade preceding the global debt crisis of the 1980s? Historians of both business and foreign relations in the 1970s have rightly emphasized the instrumental role played by the Oil Shocks in facilitating the resurgence of global finance and remaking the global balance of power in an era of interdependence. Examining the history of US commercial banking alongside the rise of the IMF\, this paper argues that global financialization was also contingent upon a sort of Polanyian double-movement\, in which the explosion in the size and power of private international capital markets relied on the concurrent empowerment of the international institution meant to backstop such lending. In the wake of the first oil shock\, commercial banks doubled down on the lucrative new business of lending to developing nations in the global south and eastern bloc eager for funds to cope with ballooning balance-of-payments deficits. In response to this same balance-of-payments problem\, the IMF began to increase in size and capability through the introduction and gradual expansion of the so-called “Witteveen Facility.” By examining political debates in the United States concerning the regulation of international finance this paper demonstrates that for US policymakers questions over US contributions to the IMF and the role of private American banks overseas were often one in the same. By the end of the 1970s\, moreover\, commercial bankers had become some of the most vocal advocates for expanding IMF resources. By examining archival material from the Carter administration and the IMF\, the papers of notorious Citibank chief Walter Wriston\, and congressional records\, this paper straddles the line between political economy and diplomatic history. \n  \nThe CWWG is a collaborative\, graduate student-led group designed to provide a supportive\, welcoming environment for graduate students working on or around the Cold War and international history. CWWG workshops provide an occasion for graduate students\, faculty\, and others to join together as peers to read and provide feedback on scholarly work in progress (dissertation chapters\, journal articles\, conference papers\, etc.) by members of our community. We strongly encourage other UCSB graduate students and faculty members to consider submitting their own work for discussion in future workshops. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/cold-war-working-group-workshop-nick-cohen-forging-an-international-backstop-commercial-banking-foreign-policy-and-the-empowerment-of-the-imf-1973-1981-mar-4-11-am/ LOCATION:West Campus Point Faculty Housing Community’s outdoor plaza\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Colloquium Event,Public Lecture,Student Presentations END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T153000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230213T232537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240417T184105Z UID:10002928-1678975200-1678980600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Deadly Curves: Dissection and Desire in Japan\, 1879-1930 (Paper Workshop) DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our final Gender + Sexualities Paper Workshop of the Winter Quarter on Thursday\, 16 March\, at 2 PM.  \n \nWe will meet in HSSB 4041 to discuss Kandra Polantis\, “Deadly Curves: Dissection and Desire in Japan\, 1879-1930.” \nYou can find a copy of Kandra’s paper here. Please read the paper in advance and be prepared to share your observations and insights with the group. All are welcome. \nABSTRACT: \nWomen appear as phantasmagoric figures during great societal change. As scholars have noted\, figures such as the Modern Girl and the “Good wife\, wise mother” served as cultural constructs to alleviate or contain concerns about shifting gender roles in Meiji and Taishō Japan. At the same time\, stories of monstrous women that circulated during this time demonstrate the inability of these figures to contain gendered anxieties. My presentation examines a different cultural construct – namely\, the figure of the beautiful woman on the dissection table – that horrified and enchanted journalists\, novelists\, and anatomists alike. \nI follow the figure of the lovely corpse through newspaper articles that detail the “poison woman” Takahashi Oden’s execution and dissection in 1879. She also guides me through the fictional pages of Mishima Sōsen’s 1907 short story “Dissection Room” and Harumi Ryō’s 1930 horror novel Dissection of a Virgin. While the practice of dissection was coded as masculine and rational\, I argue that the idea of women cadavers both allured and confused the public. Indeed\, women’s corpses served as repositories for apprehensions about shifting scientific frameworks\, changing gender roles\, and the state’s increasing control over the body. The discourse surrounding women’s corpses on the dissection table – whether depicting them as objects of desire\, anxiety\, and/or scientific proof – demonstrates that the impact of dissection stretched far beyond the laboratory and into the public imagination. \nAll are welcome. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/deadly-curves-dissection-and-desire-in-japan-1879-1930-paper-workshop/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230316T173000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230228T070353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230405T215504Z UID:10002932-1678982400-1678987800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Talk by Joshua Conrad Jackson: The History of Our Minds: Evidence for Co-Evolution of Cultural and Psychological Processes DESCRIPTION:Dr. Joshua Conrad Jackson\, a DRRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Northwestern University and an incoming professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago\, is going to deliver a talk titled “The History of Our Minds: Evidence for Co-Evolution of Cultural and Psychological Processes\,” on Thursday\, March 16\, 2023 at 4-5:30PM (PST). Please click this link to attend. Everyone is welcome!  \nBiologically modern humans are more than 200\,000 years old. Many scientists have devoted their lives to understanding how architecture\, social structure\, and language have changed over this history. Yet we know almost nothing about the history of human minds. Behavioral science research has instead focused nearly exclusively on contemporary people\, and psychological theories often draw from taxonomies that assume a culturally and historically stable structure to emotion\, personality\, morality\, and other psychological processes. In this talk\, Joshua Conrad Jackson surveys new insights into how psychological processes may have changed over human history in ways that challenge these taxonomical models. \nThis talk is part of a long-term initiative\, a Research Focus Group called “Emotions in History” organized by Professors Ya Zuo (History) and Hongbo Yu (Psychological and Brain Sciences). Led by a historian and a psychologist\, our group aims to promote interdisciplinary dialogue between psychologists and humanists and to foster genuine collaboration among scholars who study emotions from different traditions of inquiry.  \n\n\n\n  URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/talk-by-joshua-conrad-jackson-the-history-of-our-minds-evidence-for-co-evolution-of-cultural-and-psychological-processes/ LOCATION:Zoom\, CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230317T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230318T170000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230202T195310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230216T192446Z UID:10002918-1679058000-1679158800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:2023 Desert Russian History Workshop DESCRIPTION:The Desert Russian History Workshop meets annually and brings together historians of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union from universities throughout the western United States.  Previous venues have included the University of Nevada at Reno\, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas\, Arizona State University\, and U.C. Riverside. \nThe Desert Workshop offers a unique format in which papers on a variety of topics in Russian/Soviet history receive intensive reading and discussion by the entire group of 30-35 faculty and graduate students. Each year we select around ten papers\, which are made available to participants one month before the workshop. \nFor more information on attending the workshop or for access to the papers on the password-protected web page\, please contact Prof. Adrienne Edgar at edgar@ucsb.edu \nClick this link for access to the workshop web page: \nhttps://www.history.ucsb.edu/2023-desert-russ…history-workshop/ ‎ \nThis event is sponsored by the UCSB Department of History\, the UCSB Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, and the UCSB College of Letters and Science. \n  \n  URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/2023-desert-russian-history-workshop/ LOCATION:HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Tatar-woman-1.jpg GEO:34.4142938;-119.8474306 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8474306,34.4142938 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230406T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230406T190000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230301T191406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T203705Z UID:10002933-1680802200-1680807600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History Associates Talk | Lisa Jacobson "The Potent Politics of Weak Brews: How 3.2% Beer Helped End Prohibition" | Apr 6\, 5:30 PM | Draughtsmen Aleworks DESCRIPTION: \nTo commemorate the 90th anniversary of beer’s re-legalization in the United States\, Lisa Jacobson will explain how a coalition of brewers\, scientists\, and labor leaders persuaded Congress that a beer capable of producing a mild euphoria could be legalized without violating the 18th Amendment’s ban on intoxicating beverages. Insisting that alcohol potency alone did not determine intoxication\, this anti-prohibitionist coalition promoted new understandings of pleasure and risk that have long since influenced how alcohol is regulated and sold in the United States.\nLisa Jacobson is an Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara. She hopes that her book Fashioning New Cultures of Drink: The Reinvention of Wine\, Beer\, and Whiskey after Prohibition will be available for pre-order by the 91st anniversary of beer’s re-legalization.\n \nDownload the flyer here: Potent Politics of Weak Brews_2.24 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-potent-politics/ LOCATION:Draughstmen Aleworks\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Book Talk,History Associates,Public Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Potent-Politics-of-Weak-Brews_draft_2.24-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230407T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230407T140000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230402T202554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T182902Z UID:10002938-1680868800-1680876000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History and Political Economy Colloquium with Dr. Utathya Chattopadhyaya | "Intoxication and Political Economy" DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce the fourth session of the History Department’s colloquium on history and political economy. The colloquium offers a forum for open\, substantive discussions on how to approach political economy from a historical perspective; how to grapple with and benefit from the epistemological diversity surrounding political economy; and how a historical take on political economy can help contextualize and address urgent contemporary issues– at UCSB\, in Santa Barbara/Southern California\, in the U.S.\, and around the world – ranging from rent\, inflation\, and student debt to deepening\, racialized inequality. For that purpose\, we will center our own research and put our work into conversation across geographical\, chronological\, and field boundaries.  \nAt our fourth meeting\, we will discuss “Intoxication and Political Economy” with Professor Utathya Chattopadhyaya (flyer attached). \nPlease note that this session will take place in week 1 of the spring quarter. \nIn preparation for the meeting\, please contact Manuel Covo to obtain a copy of the readings to be discussed. Everyone is welcome. Light refreshments will be served. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/intoxication-and-political-economy/ LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program,Panel Discussion,Roundtable ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Flyer-History-and-Political-Economy-Chattopadhyaya-1.png GEO:34.4139629;-119.848947 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara:geo:-119.848947,34.4139629 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230412T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230412T150000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230402T205413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T205413Z UID:10002939-1681304400-1681311600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Focal Point Dialogues in History: Conversations on Black life\, race\, and antiblackness in history with Prof. Nyasha Mboti and Prof. Steve Zipperstein DESCRIPTION:The History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend this year’s FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series. Inspired by the History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary history within it\, the series brings together History faculty and graduate students to engage in a dialogue on Black life\, race\, and antiblackness in history. \nFor our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series this year\, the Colloquium Committee\, after careful discussion\, has decided to invite both Professor Steve Zipperstein and Professor Nyasha Mboti (Professor of Communication at the University of the Free State) to join us and have a dialogue with us on April 12 1-3PM at the McCune Conference Room. \nProfessor Zipperstein will talk about the important Waco/Branch Davidian standoff on its 30th anniversary. This talk will discuss how Waco (and a prior episode at Ruby Ridge\, Idaho) laid the groundwork for the dangerous rise of anti-government white nationalism in the United States\, leading to the January 2021 Trump-inspired attack on the U.S. Capitol. \nProfessor Mboti will talk about his new book\, Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto\, Vol. 1 (2023). The book utilizes the notion of “apartheid” as a paradigm and theoretical framework. It argues that apartheid is not quite what we were told or what we thought. Instead\, seen from the experience and point of view of the oppressed\, apartheid has astonishing virulence\, prevalence\, persistence\, and undetectability. Apartheid Studies\, in a word\, is an interdisciplinary invitation to study how oppression\, inequality\, injustice\, and harm persist\, and what to do about it. \nSteve and Nyasha will each talk for 30 minutes\, and they will then engage in a conversation with each other and comment on each other’s talk for 15-20 minutes. Steve and Nyasha address antiblackness from different perspectives and positionalities\, which will also greatly deepen our understanding of this issue. We will then open the floor and invite questions and comments from the audience. \nOur department has purchased 34 PDF copies of Apartheid Studies\, which have been made available on a Box folder. Graduate students: please contact Prof. Zheng if you want a copy of the book. Africa World Press has graciously agreed to share this book with interested graduate students. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-in-history-conversations-on-black-life-race-and-antiblackness-in-history-with-prof-nyasha-mboti-and-prof-steve-zipperstein/ LOCATION:HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Public Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/FocalPointZippersteinMbotiUpdated.png GEO:34.4142938;-119.8474306 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8474306,34.4142938 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230412T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230412T173000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230402T201525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T201525Z UID:10002937-1681315200-1681320600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Deccani Trails of the St Andrews Qur'an Manuscript - Lecture by Dr. Keelan Overton DESCRIPTION:Shortly after its production in Safavid Tabriz or Herat\, the single-volume Quran manuscript known as the “St Andrews Quran” traveled east to the Deccan region of southern India and circulated between four courtly contexts over the next two hundred years. The evidence for this dynamic life history is found in the codex itself\, and this talk summarizes the findings of a multi-year interdisciplinary archaeological excavation of the manuscript. Weaving between the object\, archive\, and political realities of the Deccan sultanates\, Mughal court\, and Tipu Sultan\, I consider how the St Andrews Quran inspires the writing of ground-based art histories that challenge prevailing taxonomies. \nThis event is organized by the King Abdul Aziz In Saud Chair in Islamic Studies. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-deccani-trails-of-the-st-andrews-quran-manuscript-lecture-by-dr-keelan-overton/ LOCATION:HSSB 3001E\, 3001E Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Public Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/The-Deccani-Trails-of-the-St-Andrews-Quran-Manuscript.jpg GEO:34.4139629;-119.848947 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 3001E 3001E Humanities and Social Sciences Building UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=3001E Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara:geo:-119.848947,34.4139629 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230413 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230415 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230412T162129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240417T184336Z UID:10002948-1681344000-1681516799@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:GIVE DAY 2023 DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 13th\, 2023 is UCSB’s annual Give Day\, a 36-hour online fundraising event. Last year\, with the help of the community\, more people donated to the History Department than any other department in the entire division of Humanities and Fine Arts. We are proud and honored to enjoy that distinction\, and hope to repeat the achievement!\n\n \nThis year\, the History Department is partnering with the History Associates to raise funds for student support. Since 1987\, the History Associates has built a thriving\, collaborative community of esteemed scholars and passionate history buffs. Among the ranks are emeriti and current faculty\, staff\, graduate students\, alumni\, and local community members. (If you’re not a member already\, join today!) For decades\, History Associates has been hosting free public lectures\, arranging special events\, and supporting graduate students.\n \nThis Give Day\, we hope you’ll consider joining in those efforts by donating to the History Associates Graduate Fellowship. This fund helps students cover the cost of everything from travel to archives and conferences and research expenses\, to laptop repair and book purchases. In short\, our students succeed because of the generosity of the History Associates and donors like you.\n \nFor more information about GIVE DAY\, click here. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/give-day-2023/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:History Associates ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Give-day-2023.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230414T190000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230407T000926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230407T001324Z UID:10002944-1681491600-1681498800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Book Launch: ENTREPÔT OF REVOLUTIONS by Manuel Covo DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce the launch of Manuel Covo’s recently published\, prize-winning monograph\, Entrepôt of Revolutions: Saint-Domingue\, Commercial Sovereignty\, and the French-American Alliance\, which will take place on Friday\, April 14th\, from 5-7 pm in HSSB 4080.  URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/book-launch-entrepot-of-revolutions-by-manuel-covo/ LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/BookLaunch_ManuelCovo.jpg GEO:34.4139629;-119.848947 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara:geo:-119.848947,34.4139629 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230416T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230416T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171916 CREATED:20230410T191828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T191828Z UID:10002947-1681653600-1681660800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History Associates talk by Elizabeth Depalma Digeser | "Constantine the Crusader: The Roman Emperor as Christian Soldier" DESCRIPTION:Constantine I (306-37) was the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity. Almost two millennia later\, we may not be surprised that Constantine promoted an image of himself as a Christian military commandant. Nevertheless\, this image is strikingly opposed to the previous conception of the Christian hero\, that of the martyr\, a person known for enduring—not promoting—violence. This talk will explore why\, despite its novelty\, this new image of the emperor became one reason for Constantine’s long and ultimately stable reign. The longevity of this image\, in fact\, is testimony to its success\, as European monarchs from Charlemagne to Elizabeth I all strove to be the “new Constantine.” \nElizabeth DePalma Digeser is a professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara and a leading authority on early Christian thought. Her focus is on the intersection of religion and philosophy with Roman politics and the process of religious conversion in late antiquity. Digeser is the author of The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome (2000) and A Threat to Public Piety: Christians\, Platonists\, and the Great Persecution (2012)\, which explores the interactions of Platonist philosophers and Christian theologians leading up to the Great Persecution of 303-311 CE. \nDate: Sunday\, April 16\, 2023 \nTime:  2:00 PM \nVenue: Goleta Valley Library\, Multipurpose Room 500 N. Fairview Avenue\, Goleta \nHistory Associates talks are free and open to the public. Light refreshments provided. Please RSVP to historyassociates@ia.ucsb.edu URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-talk-by-elizabeth-depalma-digeser-constantine-the-crusader-the-roman-emperor-as-christian-soldier/ LOCATION:Goleta Valley Library\, Multipurpose Room 500 N. Fairview Avenue\, Goleta\, Goleta Valley Library\, Goleta\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:History Associates ATTACH;FMTTYPE=application/pdf:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Constantine-the-Crusader_HA-Talk-Poster_FINAL.pdf END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230417T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230417T180000 DTSTAMP:20260417T171917 CREATED:20230313T215649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T201302Z UID:10002935-1681747200-1681754400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Pasha's New Clothes: The History Section of an 18th-Century Library from Acre - Lecture by Prof. Dana Sajdi (Boston College) DESCRIPTION:This is an exploration of the history booklist found in a recently discovered ‘library catalogue’ from a college in 18th-century Acre. Endowed by the notorious Ottoman governor of the region Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar (d. 1804)\, the library seems to have been one of the largest in the Ottoman Levant. In addition to introducing the larger ‘al-Jazzar Library Project’\, I will argue that the eclectic nature of the history collection exceeds the purposes of a college curriculum or the needs of local readers. Despite their variety\, the books were carefully chosen and cUrated to reflect the colorful career of the patron himself and to construct a heroic and royal image of him resembling that of imperial rulers. This is a vanity collection that the Pasha used to display his new clothes. \nThis event is organized by the King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-pashas-new-clothes-the-history-section-of-an-18th-century-library-from-acre-a-lecture-by-professor-dana-sajdi-boston-college/ LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Public Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Dana-Sajdi-Flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230503T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230503T171500 DTSTAMP:20260417T171917 CREATED:20230427T191619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230427T191849Z UID:10002950-1683129600-1683134100@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Book talk by Salim Yaqub: Winds of Hope\, Storms of Discord\, Wed\, May 3\, 4–5:15 pm\, HSSB 6020 DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, May 3\, from 4 pm to 5:15 pm in the McCune Room (HSSB 6020)\, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History will host a talk by Salim Yaqub. I’ll be talking about my new book\, Winds of Hope\, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945. \n \n\nProfessor Salim Yaqub discusses his new book\, Winds of Hope\, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945\, which traverses the broad sweep of postwar U.S. history. It explores how Americans of all walks of life—political leaders\, businesspeople\, public intellectuals\, workers\, students\, activists\, migrants\, and others—struggled to define the nation’s political\, economic\, geopolitical\, demographic\, and social character. The book chronicles the nation’s ceaseless ferment\, from the rocky conversion to peacetime in the early aftermath of World War II; to the frightening emergence of the Cold War and repeated U.S. military adventures abroad; to the struggles of African Americans and other minorities to claim a share of the American Dream; to the striking transformations in social attitudes catalyzed by the women’s movement and struggles for gay and lesbian liberation; to the dynamic force of political\, economic\, and social conservatism. Carrying the story to the spring of 2022\, Winds of Hope also shows how dizzying technological changes at times threatened to upend the nation’s civic and political life. \nSalim Yaqub received his Ph.D. in U.S. history from Yale University in 1999. He is now Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, and Director of UCSB’s Center for Cold War Studies and International History. He is the author of three books: Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East (University of North Carolina Press\, 2004)\, Imperfect Strangers: Americans\, Arabs\, and U.S.–Middle East Relations in the 1970s (Cornell University Press\, 2016)\, and Winds of Hope\, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945 (Cambridge University Press\, 2023). Professor Yaqub has also written several articles and book chapters on the history of U.S. foreign relations\, the international politics of the Middle East\, and Arab American political activism. \n\n \nThe talk is free and open to the public\, and delicious refreshments will be served. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/book-talk-by-salim-yaqub-winds-of-hope-storms-of-discord-wed-may-3-4-515-pm-hssb-6020/ LOCATION:HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=application/pdf:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Yaqub-book-talk-flyer.pdf GEO:34.4142938;-119.8474306 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8474306,34.4142938 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR