End of Summer Session B
2015-09-12 00:00 (America/Denver) | CA
Classes start Monday, August 3, 2015.
Sept 7: Labor Day Holiday
Sept. 12: End of Summer Session B
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Department of History 2015-2016 New Undergraduate Majors Meeting
2015-09-23 00:00 (America/Denver) | CA
This is a great opportunity for the 2015-2016 new undergraduate majors and those interested in the History, Medieval Studies, and the History of Public Policy majors and the History and Labor Studies minors to meet some of the Department of History faculty. Students will make connections with faculty and with other students and learn about the Department of History. Students will learn about the national History honors society Phi Alpha Theta, the History of Public Policy major and meet the faculty advisor for this major, meet the Chair of the Department of History, meet the Director of Undergraduate Studies and other faculty members who will speak about their areas of specialty. This is an opportune time for new majors and all students interested in the Department of History to interact with faculty on a personal basis.
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Fall 2014 Instruction Begins
2015-09-24 00:00 (America/Denver) | CA
Classes begin on Thursday, September 24, and end on Friday, December 4, 2015.
Wednesday, November 11 Veterans’ Day holiday.
November 26-27 Thanksgiving holidays
November 30 – December 4
Examinations are strongly discouraged and mandatory non-instructional activities require advance approval from the Office of Student Life.
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Beyond the New Deal Order Conference
2015-09-24 09:00 - 2015-09-26 17:00 (America/Denver) | McCune Conference Room, Humanities & Social Sciences Building, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Conference Description:
When Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle edited The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order in 1989, they made the concept of a political and social “order” central to an interpretative framework that reperiodized U.S. history, from the election of Franklin Roosevelt, through Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and on to the Ronald Reagan’s victory in 1980. The New Deal was not just a presidential moment, but a far larger construction – a combination of ideas, policies, institutions, cultural norms and electoral dynamics – that spanned several decades and sustained a hegemonic governing regime. The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order offered a unique way to conceptualize the history of social reform and political conflict in the 20th century, and it quickly emerged as the dominant narrative within and against which a new generation of scholars have sought to investigate the foundation, evolution, limits and decline of the New Deal. More than a quarter century after the book’s appearance, the concept of a multi-decade, political-social New Deal order still pervades our historical understanding of 20th century America.

Our conference, “Beyond the New Deal Order,” draws upon the new ways of thinking about politics, ideas, economy, gender, race and ethnicity, and the U.S. role in the world that have emerged in recent historical scholarship to interrogate the foundational suppositions put forward by Fraser, Gerstle and their co-authors more than a quarter century ago. Is the concept of a New Deal order still a viable way of framing the reform impulses unleashed in the Depression decade and continuing through the 1960s and even after? How does the New Deal order fit into the larger sweep of American history, including what historian Richard Hofstader once called “the American political tradition?” And finally, did the New Deal order actually fall, or, given the demographic reconfiguration of the American electorate and the emergence of movements and coalitions organized outside or in opposition to the New Deal framework, would “transformation” rather than “fall” be a better word to describe how such an order continues to function in the 21st century?

Conference Details:

The registration fees are $20 for students and part-time workers, and $60 for those employed full time. The registration fee will cover all of the food for the conference. Please make checks payable to the Regents of the University of California and mail to: Kristoffer Smemo, Department of History, Humanities and Social Sciences Building 4000, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA, 93106-9410. Those not presenting at the conference are welcome to attend. They should register as well.

Those presenting papers should e-mail Kit Smemo (ksmemo@gmail.com) a draft by September 1. We will post them, with a password, on the Conference web page.

A block of rooms have been reserved at the Best Western Plus South Coast Inn, 5620 Calle Real, Goleta, CA 93117; phone (805) 967-3200. Please make a reservation and mention to them that you will be participating in the New Deal conference sponsored by the Department of History/Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy at UCSB. If you plan on flying, we recommend you book a flight as soon is practicable. Use the airport at Santa Barbara (SBA), which is right next to the campus. We will help coordinate transportation to and from the airport.

Conference Website:
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/new-deal/

Conference Program:
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/new-deal/wp-content/uploads/conference_schedule-revised-9-22-2015withcover.pdf

American History & Institutions Exam
2015-09-29 00:00 (America/Denver) | Unnamed Venue, CA, United States
Well in advance of the exam date for information regarding the exam to satisfy the American History and Institutions general education requirement and to obtain the required reading list, please contact:
Monica I. Garcia, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Advisor, History
HSSB 4036
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/advisingcalendar.php
Email: migarcia@hfa.ucsb.edu

EXAM DATE AND TIME:
TUESDAY September 29, 2015
8:00-11:00am HSSB 3038

The exam is administered once per quarter during the first week.

Exploring the Assyrian Empire (9th-7th c. BC) in Iraqi Kurdistan
2015-10-05 00:00 (America/Denver) | CA
Details forthcoming.
Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program, and the History Department.
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Gendered Borderlands
2015-10-10 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Denver) | Huntington Library, Seaver 3 Classroom, CA, United States
Join ICW and leading scholars in the field of borderlands studies for a roundtable on the ways in which borders are shaping gender identities and opening opportunities for the renegotiation of femininity, masculinity, and family dynamics along the U.S.-Mexico Border.
Often focused on the history of capital, labor, and immigration, borderlands historians are also calling attention to the gendered dimensions of border crossing. Recent work by scholars in the field are raising and addressing questions of state power and gender and sexuality in border regions as well as the ways in which border relationships reshape gender identities or open opportunities for the renegotiation of femininity, masculinity, and family dynamics.
For more information, contact Jessica Kim at jessica.kim@csun.edu

Laura Nenzi, Researching the Margins: Challenges and Consequences of Embarking on a Microhistory Project
2015-10-13 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Denver) | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Speaker:
Laura Nenzi (Ph.D. History, UC Santa Barbara, 2004)
Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Event Description:
Laura Nenzi, one of our very own (2004 PhD) is returning to UCSB to give a lecture about her recent (2015) second book The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko. The talk will focus on the process of researching, writing and then selling to a publisher a micro-history of an itinerant saleswoman of needles and later school teacher of nineteenth-century Japan.
“Researching the margins presents not one but two challenges. First, and perhaps most obvious, how do we do it? Second, how do we sell it? It is to this second challenge that I wish to turn. The dreaded “so what?” question is one every historian must be prepared to answer, but it seems especially relevant when writing about unrepresentative, irrelevant individuals–the extras on the historical stage. Based on my recent book on the rural teacher and oracle Kurosawa Tokiko (1806-1890), a self-described “base-born nobody” who attempted to change the course of late-Tokugawa history and failed, this presentation offers reflections on the bumpy process of writing, and selling, a work of microhistory in the age of the global.”
Cosponsored by the departments of History and East Asian Language and Cultural Studies, as well as the RE-inventing Japan RFG (IHC) and the East Asia Center.

Susan Levine, "The Moral Challenge of Abundance": Humanitarianism and the Rise of the Food Aid Complex after World War II
2015-10-16 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Speaker:
Susan Levine
Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago

Event Description:
The Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy inaugurates the fall workshop series with a talk on October 16 by Susan Levine, Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She offers a paper, “‘The Moral Challenge of Abundance’: Humanitarianism and the Rise of the Food Aid Complex after World War II.” Her most recent book is School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America’s Favorite Welfare Program (2010). Her presentation takes place on Friday, October 16 at 1 p.m. in Humanities and Social Science Building Room 4041 on the UCSB campus.

A copy of Professor Levine’s paper can be found at her talk announcement here: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/labor/news/event/412
A light lunch will be served.

Current Immigration Crises in Historical Perspective
2015-10-16 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Denver) | McCune Conference Room, Humanities & Social Sciences Building, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
The History Department will be hosting a panel for this year’s annual Parents’ and Family Weekend titled “Current Immigration Crises in Historical Perspective.” The panelists will be Adam Sabra, Salim Yaqub, Harold Marcuse, and Verónica Castillo-Muñoz. See below for additional information.

Carol Lansing, Did a Woman Rule the Vatican? The Scandalous History of Pope Joan
2015-10-18 16:00 - 19:00 (America/Denver) | Trinity Episcopal Church, Guild Hall, 1500 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Speaker:
Carol Lansing is a professor of medieval European history at UCSB. A specialist in the society, politics and culture of medieval Italy, she is the author of Power and Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy and, most recently, Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes. She is co-editor of A Companion to the Medieval World and the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim fellowship and the Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Catholic Historical Association.

Event Description:
A longstanding story has it that a woman disguised asa man became pope in 854. Accounts of her demise vary, but involve her falling off her horse during apapal procession and either dying in childbirth on the spot or being dragged off by an enraged Roman mob.The story probably dates from around 1150, when papal processions started avoiding the traditional site of her fall. In this first lecture of the new academic year, History Prof. Carol Lansing will explain the joke in these stories, exploring changes in papal ceremonial and anti-papal satire to understand Pope Joan in the context of attitudes about gender and the clergy. A wine-and-cheese reception will follow.

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Dr. Masuda Hajimu, Purity and Order: Toward Social-Cultural Understandings of the Cold War World, 1950-1953
2015-10-20 16:00 - 17:15 (America/Denver) | HSSB 4020, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Speaker:
Masuda Hajimu (family name Masuda) received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2012 and currently is Assistant Professor of history at the National University of Singapore, where he specializes in the history of Japan, student movements in Asia, decolonization, and the Cold War. He is the author of Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World (Harvard University Press, 2015) and has published articles in Diplomatic History, The Journal of Contemporary History, The Journal of Cold War Studies, and The Journal of American-East Asian Relations.

Event Description:
What was the Cold War? Professor Masuda Hajimu argues that it was more than an international confrontation between West and East blocs. It was also a social mechanism of purity and ordering at home, in the chaotic post-WWII world. The suppression of counterrevolutionaries in China, the White Terror in Taiwan, the Red Purge in Japan, McCarthyism in the United States–these were not merely end results of the Cold War, but forces that brought the Cold War into being, as ordinary people throughout the world strove to silence disagreements and restore social order under the mantle of an imagined global confrontation.

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Stephanie Dalley, The Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced
2015-10-22 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Speaker:
Stephanie Dalley
Oxford University
Archaeological Institute of America Norton Lecturer

Event Description:
Babylon’s Hanging Garden is the only one of the original seven wonders to have been dismissed as imaginary. Neither archaeologists nor Assyriologists could find evidence for it, and the Greek sources describing it are centuries later than its supposed existence. An ingenious and detailed solution to the problem has been found at last, allowing a fact-based reconstruction of the garden, and an appreciation of the system of water management that qualified it as a world wonder.

Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the UCSB Classics and History Departments.

Thomas Maloutas, Athens in Crisis: Segregation and Social Distance
2015-10-25 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Denver) | Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 W. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Speaker:
Thomas Maloutas
Harokopio University, Athens

Event Description:
Thomas Maloutas, Professor of Social Geography at Harokopio University in Athens, is a leading expert in cities and society. His lecture will be on social and ethnic segregation in Athens today. He will address the impact of the ongoing economic and political crisis on the city’s social geography.
A discussion will follow the lecture.
This lecture was made possible through the generosity of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and the UCSB Argyropoulos Endowment in the Hellenic Studies. For more information please contact Professor Helen Morales: hmorales@classics.ucsb.edu.

Political Theologies of Medieval and Early Modern Islam: A Workshop
2015-10-30 - 2015-10-31 | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The workshop is open to interested faculty and graduate students. If you would like to join us at lunch, please contact Adam Morrison at cmes@cmes.ucsb.edu so that we can get an accurate head count.

October 30, 2015:
9:45 AM Greetings and Introduction
10:00 – 10:50 Bilal Orfali (American University of Beirut), “Mystical Poetics: Courtly Themes in Early Sufi Akhbār” (via Skype)
11:00- 11:50 Adam Sabra (University of California, Santa Barbara), “The Cosmic State: Ibn al-‘Arabi’s Political Theology”
12:00 – 12:50 Richard J. McGregor (Vanderbilt University), “Sufi Apocalypse and the Limits of Language”
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 2:50 Manuela Ceballos (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), “Speaking for Others: Sufism and the Politics of Representation in Early Modern Morocco”
3:00 – 3:50 Cornell Fleischer (University of Chicago), “The Mystic and Lettrist ‘Abd al-rahman al-Bistami (d. 1454) and the Origins of Ottoman Historical Consciousness”
4:00 – 4:50 İlker Evrim Binbaş (Royal Holloway, University of London), “The Problem of Sovereignty in the Fifteenth Century Islamic World: The View from Ethics”
7:00 Dinner for presenters and invited guests

October 31, 2015:
10:00 – 10:50 Matthew Melvin-Koushki (University of South Carolina), “Starlord, Letterlord: Astrology and Lettrism in the Construction of Post-Mongol Persianate Imperial Ideologies”
11:00 – 11:50 A. Azfar Moin (University of Texas, Austin), “Saint Shrines as Objects of Imperial Veneration and Desecration in the Post-Mongol Empires”
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:50 Daniel Sheffield (University of Washington), “Political Theurgy: Stars and Sovereignty in the Safavid-Mughal World”
2:00 – 2:50 Kathryn Babayan (University of Michigan), “Sovereignty and Amity: Masculinity at the Safavi Court in Isfahan”
3:00 – 4:00 Concluding discussion

Sponsors:
King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
College of Letters and Sciences
Program in Medieval Studies
UCSB Department of History

Barry Eidlin, Class vs. Special Interest: Labor, Power, and Politics in the United States and Canada in the Twentieth Century
2015-10-30 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | CA
Professor Barry Eidlin, a sociologist, is the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press). A copy of the paper he will be presenting can be found here.

This event is one of many included in the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s “Power and Policy across National Borders” series.

Magna Carta Lecture
2015-11-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | HSSB 4080, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Speaker:
Joshua C. Tate
SMU Dedman School of Law

Event Description:
Please join us in HSSB 4080 at noon on Monday, November 2 to hear Josh Tate lecture on the Magna Carta. Josh is a professor at SMU Dedman School of Law and is the author of many articles on medieval legal history. Light refreshments will be served.

David Engerman, How to Lose by Winning: Soviet Economic Aid to India in the 1960s
2015-11-06 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | CA
Professor Engerman’s most recent book is Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts (Oxford University Press, 2009).

This event is one of many included in the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s “Power and Policy across National Borders” series.

John McK. Camp, The Archaeology of Democracy
2015-11-09 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Speaker:
Dr. John McK. Camp
Director of the Athenian Agora Excavations

Event Description:
Ancient Athens is generally regarded as the birthplace of the world’s first democracy. The administrative center of Athenian democracy was the Agora, the main square of the city, which has been under excavation for the past eighty-five years. Here have been found the buildings which housed the government (magistrates’ offices, law courts, and assembly places), along with the objects used every day to make sure the system worked as it should (laws and regulations inscribed on stone, allotment machines, water clocks, and ballots). A visitor to the agora in antiquity would have occasion to see all three branches of the government in action: executive, legislative, and judicial. This lecture will illuminate the archaeological material that sheds light on the development and practice of this political phenomenon.

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Film Showing: Run Boy Run
2015-11-09 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Denver) | Campbell Hall, Building 538, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Kristallnacht Commemoration and Santa Barbara Premiere
Winner of 10 Film Festival Audience Awards

A superlative saga of courage and compassion, Run Boy Run tells the extraordinary true story of a Polish boy who seeks the kindness of others in his solitary struggle to outlast the Nazi occupation and keep alive his Jewish faith.
Escaping the Warsaw ghetto at the behest of his father, nine-year old Srulik (movingly portrayed by twin child actors Andrzej and Kamil Tkacz) flees to the woods. There, he learns to hide from SS patrols and scour for food, until loneliness and the harsh onset of winter drive him back to civilization. Taken in by a kindhearted farmer’s wife (Elisabeth Duda), he is given shelter and a new identity. Passing himself off as Jurek, a Christian war orphan, the intrepid boy traverses the countryside from village to village, working as a farmhand under an ever-present threat of persecution. Some will help him survive and others will betray him. Just when it seems his childhood memories and identity could be lost forever, Jurek’s harrowing journey culminates in a powerhouse conclusion and postscript.
An unforgettable cinematic experience featuring exceptional performances, arresting cinematography and transcendent musical score, Run Boy Run is directed by Academy Award-winner Pepe Danquart and based on the bestselling Holocaust novel by Israeli author Uri Orlev. Newcomer Andy Tkacz plays Jurek together with a cast that includes Katarzyna Bargielowska (The Pianist), Rainer Bock (The White Ribbon), Jeanette Hain (Poll) and Itay Tiran (Lebanon).

Contemporary Iraq: Walls and Circuits
2015-11-12 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Denver) | SSMS 2135, 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Global Studies and the Center for Middle East Studies will be hosting an event titled, “CONTEMPORARY IRAQ: WALLS AND CIRCUITS.”
Mona Damluji, Stanford University: “Baghdad’s Deep Dilemma: Urban Segregation Under Occupation”
Paulo Hilu Pinto, Fluminense Federal University (Brazil): “Remaking Transnational Shiism in Contemporary Iraq: Economic and Religious Geographies on the Pilgrim’s Road to Karbala”
Paul Amar, Global Studies: Moderator

Film Showing: Valentino's Ghost
2015-11-18 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Hailed by the Village Voice as “both sobering and illuminating,” Michael Singh’s documentary exposes how America’s foreign policy agenda in the Middle East drives U.S. media portrayals of Arabs and Muslims. It reveals truths behind taboo subjects often avoided or treated as sound bites and challenges the media barrage of misinformation about our complex relationship with the Middle East. Sherene Seikaly, Assistant Professor of History, will lead a post-film discussion. (93 min, English, 2012).

Watch the Trailer:
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Orit Bashkin, From Palestinian Village to an Iraqi Transit Camp
2015-11-18 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Event Description:
Over 130,000 Iraqi Jews arrived in Israel during the 1950s; they were forced to settle in transit camps where they lived in horrendous poverty. Previous scholarship on this migration focused on the state and its actions towards, and representations of, these newcomers. Later generations of scholars highlighted the resistance of Mizrahi men to the state, in the form of mass demonstrations, urban riots, and the construction of political parties. This talk, in contrast, examines the Iraqi individuals in the camps: how family life took shape when families lived in crowded tents and wooden shacks; how Iraqi women raised children in the most dreadful conditions; and how children struggled to survive cold winters and loss of any sense of security. The focus on daily lives in the transit camps, I argue, changes the ways in which we understand resistance. I focus in particular on Iraqis forced to settle in transit camps built on the ruins of the Palestinian villages, Kafar ‘Ana, Khayriyya and Sakiyya and analyze the relationships between the native population displaced, the Palestinians, and the new population, forced to settle there, the Iraqi Jews.

About the Speaker:
Orit Bashkin got her Ph.D. from Princeton University (2004) and her BA (1995) and MA (1999) from Tel Aviv University. She is now a professor of modern Arab history in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her publications include 25 book chapters and articles on the history of Arab-Jews in Iraq, on Iraqi history and on Arabic literature. She has also edited a book Sculpturing Culture in Egypt [le-fasel tarbut be-mitzrayim] with Israel Gershoni and Liat Kozma, which included translations into Hebrew of seminal works by Egyptian intellectuals. She is the author of the following books: The Other Iraq – Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq (Stanford University Press, 2009 and Paperback, 2010), New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq (Stanford University Press, 2012).

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Hussein Ibish, Anxious Allies: The Arab Gulf States and the Iran Nuclear Deal
2015-11-19 13:30 - 14:30 (America/Denver) | HSSB 6056, UCSB, CA, United States
Event Description:
Israel’s opposition to the Iran nuclear deal is well-known. But how are other U.S. allies in the Middle East, especially Arab Gulf states like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait, reacting to the agreement? Are the Sunni Arab countries on a collision course with Iran and its allies, or is some degree of accommodation possible? Dr. Hussein Ibish examines these and similar questions, and considers policy options facing the United States.

Hussein Ibish is a Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. He is a regular contributor to The National (UAE), The International New York Times, and many other U.S. and Middle Eastern publications. He is the author What’s Wrong With the One-State Agenda? Why Ending the Occupation and Peace with Israel is Still the Palestinian National Goal (American Task Force on Palestine, 2009). From 2001 to 2008 Dr. Ibish was the editor and principal author of three major studies of hate crimes and discrimination against Arab Americans, commissioned by the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. He co-authored (with Ali Abunimah) The Palestinian Right of Return (ADC, 2001) and co-edited (with Saliba Sarsar) Principles and Pragamatism (Verso, 2006). Ibish previously served as a senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine, as executive director of the Hala Salaam Maksoud Foundation for Arab-American Leadership from 2004 to 2009, and as communications director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

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Maria Fedorova, Radical Relief: American Food Aid to the Soviet Union, 1921-1923
2015-11-20 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Ms. Fedorova is completing a dissertation on American food aid and agricultural development in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and early 1930s.

This event is one of many included in the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s “Power and Policy across National Borders” series.

End of Fall Quarter Classes
2015-12-04 00:00 (America/Denver) | CA
Classes end on Friday, December 4, 2015; Winter Quarter begins Monday, Jan. 4, 2016.
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Ken Lipartito, Reassembling the Economic: New Departures in Historical Materialism
2015-12-04 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | CA
Ken Lipartito is the co-author of Corporate Responsibility: The American Experience (2012) and of Baker & Botts in the Development of Modern Houston (2011 paperback).

This event is one of many included in the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s “Power and Policy across National Borders” series.

Jason M. Kelly: The Anthropocene's Great Divergence
2015-12-10 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Denver) | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
In the early years of this century, the Nobel Prize winning chemist Paul Crutzen popularized the idea that humans had entered a new geological age, the “Anthropocene.” This concept, he argued, captured the fact that over the past 250 years humans and their technologies had reshaped the planet, permanently transforming its complex biophysical systems. His idea caught fire across the disciplines, and in 2015, entire academic journals are devoted to the Anthropocene.

Jason M. Kelly’s talk, “The Anthropocene’s Great Divergence,” will examine the development of multiple, competing cultures of knowledge about the Anthropocene over the last several decades. Focusing on disciplinary orientations and theoretical models in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts, it argues that underlying discussions about the Anthropocene are conflicting historical narratives. The historical narratives that scientists and policy makers ultimately integrate into their models may have profound global socio-political implications, especially given the centrality of the Anthropocene to contemporary discussions about environmental policy.

For information on Dr. Kelly’s collaborative project, Rivers of the Anthropocene, please visit the following URL: http://rivers.iupui.edu/cms/

Winter Quarter Instruction Begins
2016-01-04 00:00 (America/Denver) | CA
Monday, January 4: Classes begin
Monday, January 19: Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.
Monday, February 15: Presidents’ Day holiday.

Phi Alpha Theta's "Welcome Back!" Meeting
2016-01-12 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Phi Alpha Theta will be hosting its annual “Welcome Back!” meeting and providing an overview of its goals and events for the Winter 2016 quarter.
This meeting is very important, so please consider attending!
A quick peek into what PAT is doing this quarter includes a research workshop, a club trip to the Huntington Library, and a talk by UCSB History alumnus, and the first Hispanic Municipal Court Judge in California, Judge Frank J. Ochoa.
As always, PAT will provide complimentary pizza and great company with fellow History majors!
For any questions or requests, please contact PAT’s current President Grant Stanton: grantestanton@umail.ucsb.edu
