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:20070311T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20071104T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20080309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20081102T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20090308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20091101T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20100314T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20101107T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081114T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081114T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112758Z UID:10001501-1226620800-1226620800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Religious Fundamentalism: A Clash of Civilizations or a Convergence of Religiosities? DESCRIPTION:TALK: Religious Fundamentalism: A Clash of Civilizations or a Convergence of Religiosities?Olivier Roy (CNRS)\nFriday\, November 14 / 12:30 PM\n3824 Ellison Hall 1930 Buchanan \nOlivier Roy is a research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a lecturer for both the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP). Since 1984\, he has acted as a consultant to the French Foreign Ministry. In 1988\, Roy served as a United Nations Office for Coordinating Relief in Afghanistan (UNOCA) consultant. Beginning in August 1993\, Roy served as special OSCE representative to Tajikistan until February 1994\, at which time he was selected as head of the OSCE mission to Tajikistan\, a position he held until October 1994. \nRoy is the author of numerous books on subjects including Iran\, Islam\, and Asian politics. These works include Globalized Islam\, Today’s Turkey: A European State? and The Illusions of September 11. His best-known book\, L’Echec de l’Islam politique (1992) (The Failure of Political Islam) (1994)\, is a standard text for students of political Islam. His most recent work is Secularism Confronts Islam (Columbia\, 2007). The book offers a perspective on the place of Islam in secular society and looks at the diverse experiences of Muslim immigrants in the West. Roy examines how Muslim intellectuals have made it possible for Muslims to live in a secularized world while maintaining the identity of a “true believer.”\nSponsored by the IHC’s Identity RFG\, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, and the departments of History and Political Science. \nhm 11/5\, 11/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/religious-fundamentalism-a-clash-of-civilizations-or-a-convergence-of-religiosities/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081114T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081114T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112758Z UID:10001613-1226620800-1226620800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Roman Emperors and the Control of Laughter DESCRIPTION:Mary Beard\, distinguished Classicist and Roman cultural historian\, is delivering this fall’s Sather Lectures at UC Berkeley. Their topic is “Roman Laughter: What made the Romans laugh?” Was Rome a world of practical jokes\, Bakhtinian\, carnival and hearty chuckles? Or (for the elite\, at least) was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear — a world of wit\, irony and knowing smiles? Prof. Beard comes to UCSB to deliver the third lecture in the series\, which focuses on how laughter mediates power: Roman emperors and the control of laughter. Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College and Professor of Classics at Cambridge University\, where she earned her doctorate in 1982. She is the author or co- author of over sixty articles and nine books on topics ranging from Greek and Roman religion\, epigraphy\, art history\, social history\, and literature\, to the history of the museum and the reception of Classics in the modern world.\nSponsored by the Departments of Classics\, History\, and Religious Studies\, and by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 11.xi.2008 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/roman-emperors-and-the-control-of-laughter/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081114T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081114T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112756Z UID:10001491-1226620800-1226620800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Migration Patterns\, Border Capitalism and the Bracero Program DESCRIPTION:Gilbert Gonzalez is Professor of Social Sciences and Director of the Labor Studies Program at UC Irvine. He is the author of Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation (1990) and Culture of Empire: American Writers\, Mexico\, and Mexican Immigrants\, 1880-1930 (2004). \nhm 9/22 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/migration-patterns-border-capitalism-and-the-bracero-program/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081116T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081116T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112758Z UID:10001611-1226793600-1226793600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Imperial Comanches: How the Rise and Fall of an Indigenous Empire Shaped the Course of American History DESCRIPTION:UCSB History Associates Lecture and Reception\nSunday\, 2:00 p.m.\nat the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library Conference Room\n2201 Laguna Street \nProf. Hämäläinen’s homepage \nCost: $10.00 for History Associates; $15.00 for non-members \nPhone 893-4388 to reserve your place. \nhm 11/6/08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-imperial-comanches-how-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-indigenous-empire-shaped-the-course-of-american-history/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081117T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081117T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112758Z UID:10001498-1226880000-1226880000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Heavy Metal Islam: Rock\, Resistance\, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam DESCRIPTION:Monday\, October 27 / 4:30 PM DATE CHANGE (10/23): rescheduled to November 17McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB \nMark LeVine: Heavy Metal Islam: Rock\, Resistance\, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam \nAn eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves Black Sabbath. A twenty-two-year-old rapper from the Gaza Strip. A young Lebanese singer who quotes Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song.” They are as representative of the world of Islam today as the conservatives and extremists we see every night on the news. Why\, despite governmental attempts to control and censor them\, do these musicians and fans keep playing and listening? Partly\, of course\, for the joy of self-expression\, but also because\, in this region\, everything is political. \nIn a talk based on his new book\, Heavy Metal Islam\, Professor Mark LeVine explores the influence of Western rock music on the Middle East through interviews with musicians and fans\, introducing us to young Muslims struggling to reconcile their religion with a passion for music and a desire for change. Levine takes us on a surprising foray into a historically authoritarian region where music just might be the true democratizing force. Mark LeVine is professor of modern Middle Eastern history\, culture\, and Islamic studies at UC Irvine. He is the author of several books about the Middle East\, including Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa\, Tel Aviv and the Struggle for Palestine\, 1880-1948\, and Why They Don’t Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil. \nWebsite: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/ccws/\nSponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies\, Center for Middle East Studies\, and the Department of History. \nhm 10/22; 10/23\, 11/12 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/heavy-metal-islam-rock-resistance-and-the-struggle-for-the-soul-of-islam/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081120T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081120T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112756Z UID:10001492-1227139200-1227139200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:1968: A Year of Student Driven Change DESCRIPTION:Marking the 40th anniversary of the Black Student takeover of North Hall\, the Department of Black Studies is organizing a conference entitled\, 1968: A Global Year of Student Driven Change\, to take place\, November 20-22\, 2008. While recognizing the courage and insight of the 1968 student awakening\, this conference places that Black activism in a comparative context and examines it in relation to at least two other movements\, the Mexican student revolt on the eve of the ’68 Olympics and the Paris student uprising of May ’68.\nThe conference (website\, program) will raise a series of questions about the process by which youth movements brought about fundamental change in the archaeology of power and knowledge in the West and transformed the calculus of hegemony and identity that dominated the United States\, Latin America\, Western and Eastern Europe in the 1960s. \n(The photograph shows students occupying UCSB’s North Hall on Oct. 15\, 1968.) \nStudents in 1968 aimed at nothing less than a democratic goal-the demand that those being educated be allowed to shape their educations and the quality of everyday life in the societies into which they were being educated. This conference maps the “new education” of the future by looking back to look forward\, by recovering what is useful and dispensing with what is not\, and fashioning a new pedagogy from the innovative ways of thinking\, doing\, and creating culture that students advanced on three continents in 1968. \nSpeakers and presenters include Drs. Haki R. Madhubuti\, Nikhil Singh\, and Monifa Love\, plus Chuck D and the legendary Mars 22 leader\, Jean-Pierre Duteuil\, who will be flying in especially for this conference linking French\, Mexican\, and African American activism and struggle. A key feature of the conference will be student participation\, as many of the presenters will be graduate students in Chicana/o\, Black\, Asian American Studies\, who will share with us cutting-edge research on the history and efficacy of student initiated change in the educational and political situation. All are welcome\, especially students interested in offering answers to the question: “Where do we go from here?” \nhm 9/22\, 11/6/08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/1968-a-year-of-student-driven-change/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081121T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081121T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001617-1227225600-1227225600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:1968 Conference Continues through Saturday 11/22 DESCRIPTION:See the 11/20 event link for more information\, or go directly to the program. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/1968-conference-continues-through-saturday-1122/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081121T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081121T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001618-1227225600-1227225600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Transitions from Medieval to Renaissance Philosophy DESCRIPTION:“A Medieval Source for Renaissance Philosophy: Valla’s Metaphysics and the Logic of Peter of Spain.”Brian P. Copenhaver\, Director\, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, UCLA \n“The Transition from Medieval to Renaissance Philosophy: Lorenzo Valla.”\nLodi Nauta\, Professor in Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy\, University of Groningen \nFor copies of the readings to be discussed in this seminar\, email Edward English or call x3167. A reception will follow the seminar. \nSponsored by the Medieval Studies Program\, the Renaissance Studies Program\, the Departments of French & Italian\, History\, and Philosophy\, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. \njwil 16.xi.08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/transitions-from-medieval-to-renaissance-philosophy/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081123T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081123T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001616-1227398400-1227398400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Did 1968 Change History? DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will hold the first workshop event of the 2008-2009 academic year. Professor Nelson Lichtenstein of the Department of History will join us to discuss his original essay\, “Did 1968 Change History?”\, a reflection on the political and cultural legacy of that momentous year\, from both domestic and international perspectives.\nTo ensure a lively and engaged discussion\, attendees of the workshop are encouraged to read Professor Lichtenstein’s essay in advance. The essay can be downloaded from the Web by going to http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/ccws/papers and entering a login/password that can be obtained by emailing Prof. Yaqub. Please also rsvp at that time (whether you can come or not). \nStudents and faculty alike are encouraged to take part in this workshop. We will conduct the conversation as intellectual peers. The workshop will take place at Prof. Yaqub’s home\, 955 West Campus Lane\, in Goleta. Driving\, walking\, and biking directions are available in the document posted on the Web. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nhm 11/13/08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/did-1968-change-history/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081125T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081125T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112758Z UID:10001615-1227571200-1227571200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:3D Reconstruction of Archaeological Sites: A Case Study of the Han Dynasty Site at Wuzhaishan DESCRIPTION:Wuzhaishan\, a second-century family cemetery site in Shandong Province\, was the first site in China to be excavated by amateur antiquarian archaeologists in 1786\, a few decades after similar excavations began at Pompeii. Excavations continued in the twentieth century by European\, Japanese\, and Chinese archaeologists. My approach has been to analyze finds from these excavations in the light of comparative research on similar sites elsewhere in China\, to create an interactive 3D reconstruction of the entire cemetery complex.\nAnthony Barbieri-Low is currently Assistant Professor of History at UCSB (faculty webpage\, personal research website). He received an M.A. in Regional Studies from Harvard University in 1997\, and a Ph.D. in Chinese Art and Archaeology from Princeton in 2001. His most recent book is a study of the social and economic conditions of artisans in early China\, Artisans in Early Imperial China. He is currently researching early law and society of ancient China\, based on excavated legal texts. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Archaeology RFG. \nhm 11/12/08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/3d-reconstruction-of-archaeological-sites-a-case-study-of-the-han-dynasty-site-at-wuzhaishan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081205T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081205T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001619-1228435200-1228435200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Last Day of Instruction DESCRIPTION:Good luck with your final exams! \nhm 11/26 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/last-day-of-instruction/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090105T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090105T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001621-1231113600-1231113600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Classes start today DESCRIPTION:Classes start Monday\, January 5. You can check the dept’s course listings for any changes in room or schedule information\, and for possible links to syllabi.\nThe link below leads to a full calendar with all Winter 2009 dates and deadlines. \nhm 12/20/08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/classes-start-today/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090108T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090108T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001503-1231372800-1231372800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Archaeological Perspectives on the Qin Unification of China DESCRIPTION:Click here for more information.\njwil 05.i.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/archaeological-perspectives-on-the-qin-unification-of-china/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090116T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090116T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001593-1232064000-1232064000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Right and Labor: Politics\, Ideology and Imagination DESCRIPTION:This conference explores the hostility of the political right to American trade unionism\, both in terms of management-labor conflict and in the world of politics\, ideas\, and cultural imaginings. All sessions will take place in HSSB 6020.\nVisit the conference home page for more information. \nThis conference is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. \nhm 9/22 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-right-and-labor-politics-ideology-and-imagination/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090123T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090123T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001507-1232668800-1232668800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Infrastructure of South-Central Los Angeles: Race\, Unions and the "New Inequality" DESCRIPTION:Jones is author of The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South (2005). His new book project is The New Color of Class: Race and Inequality in the Service Economy.\njwil 23.i.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-infrastructure-of-south-central-los-angeles-race-unions-and-the-new-inequality/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090123T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090123T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001622-1232668800-1232668800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Pre-Modern Perspectives on Torture DESCRIPTION:This colloquium will be held from 3:00-6:00 p.m. at the Marine Sciences Institute Auditorium (Room 1302).\nSpeakers:\nAlison Frazier\, University of Texas: “Machiavelli\, Trauma\, and the Scandal of the Prince.” \nKenneth Pennington\, The Catholic University of America: “Women on the Rack: Three Trials.” \nComment: Lisa Hajjar\, Law and Society\, UCSB \nFor more information contact Ed English. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/pre-modern-perspectives-on-torture/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090123T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090123T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001506-1232668800-1232668800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Race\, Unions and the New Inequality in Los Angeles DESCRIPTION:William P. Jones is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. Jones is author of The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South\, and is currently writing a book titled The New Color of Class: Race and Inequality in the Service Economy. He is the author of the widely noted Nation essay\, “The Labor Movement Origins of the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday.”\njwil 23.i.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/race-unions-and-the-new-inequality-in-los-angeles/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090125T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090125T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001504-1232841600-1232841600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:From "Get Oil Out" to "Drill Baby Drill": Offshore Oil since the 1969 Disaster DESCRIPTION:This History Associates event will feature Josh Ashenmiller (PhD Furner\, 2004)\, speaking on 40th anniversary of the Santa Barbara oil spill that triggered the modern environmental movement. He will speak in the McCune room at 2 p.m. on Sunday\, Jan. 25.The event is free. \nCo-sponsored by History and Environmental Studies. \nhm 1/7/09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/from-get-oil-out-to-drill-baby-drill-offshore-oil-since-the-1969-disaster/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090126T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090126T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001508-1232928000-1232928000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Crisis in Gaza DESCRIPTION:THE CRISIS IN GAZA IN REGIONAL & GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE\nSpeakers: \nRichard Falk\, Visiting Professor\, Global and International Studies\, UC Santa Barbara and Emeritus Professor\, Princeton University UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights; Author of Achieving Human Rights (2009); Costs of War: the UN\, International Law and World Order After Iraq (2008).\n“Did the UN Fail in Gaza? Yes and No” \nJuan Campo\, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies\, the History of Religions\, Dept. of Religious Studies & Global Studies affiliate\, Editor and chief author of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Islam (February\, Facts on File)\n“Hamas\, the Arab States\, and Popular Reaction” \nSalim Yaqub\, Associate Professor of History at UCSB\, specializing in U.S. involvement in the Middle East. Author of Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East (2004).\n“The United States\, Gaza\, and Collective Punishment” \nNancy Gallagher\, Moderator\nProfessor\, History Dept.\, UCSB\, Chair Middle Eastern Studies Program\, Author of Quakers in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Dilemmas of NGO Humanitarian Activism (2007).\n“A (Brief) Background to the Conflict” \nMonday\, January 26\, 2009\n4:00 PM\nMulticultural Center Theater \nSponsored by the UCSB Department of History \nThis program is free and open to the public.\nFor more information\, please contact:\n (805) 893-2991 \nhm 1/22/09\, jwil 23.i.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-crisis-in-gaza/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090128T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090128T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001595-1233100800-1233100800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Reassessing the Pantheon in Rome DESCRIPTION:The Pantheon in Rome has a far more interesting and complex history than we give it credit for. Admired as a creation of almost mystical perfection\, it is in reality full of interesting quirks and compromises. We know very little about the Pantheon’s history from independent sources (indeed\, even its attested attribution to the emperor Hadrian is now being seriously challenged)\, so we must rely on the building itself to document its own past. The lecture discusses the results of an informal survey of the building’s eight-column-wide porch. This overlies the remains of a wider\, ten-column porch\, whose date and attribution remain very much in question. The existing pediment is full of rarely noticed eccentricities; they suggest not only unusual haste in the building’s completion\, but the evident use of ill-matching components\, some of which may have been intended for the abandoned (?) larger porch. Many of these eccentricities can be confirmed by a recent digital laser survey of the building undertaken by the Karman Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Bern. The Bern project offers a new tool for close analysis of the building\, particularly those parts that cannot be reached physically without scaffolding.\nThis lecture is sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. \njwil 01.x.08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/reassessing-the-pantheon-in-rome/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090129T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090129T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112801Z UID:10001510-1233187200-1233187200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Phi Alpha Theta DESCRIPTION:Phi Alpha Theta meetings for Winter quarter 2009 are going to be Thursdays\, every other week\, at 5 pm in HSSB 4020. After this meeting on Thurs Jan 29\, the next will be Thurs Feb 12. \nhm 1/28/09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/phi-alpha-theta/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090129T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090129T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001505-1233187200-1233187200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:1989 and the Architecture of Order DESCRIPTION:Mary Sarotte\, “1989 and the Architecture of Order: International Relations\, German Unification\, and the Competition to Lead the Post-Cold War World”\nIn this talk\, Professor of History Mary Sarotte (University of Southern California) vividly recounts the dramatic events of 1989. Drawing on newly released documents from Washington\, Moscow\, Warsaw\, East Berlin\, Bonn\, and London\, Professor Sarotte shows how U.S.\, Soviet\, British\, French\, West German\, and East German leaders competed to advance their visions for post-Cold War Europe. The decisions they made had far-reaching consequences and helped to shape the era we inhabit today. \nMary Elise Sarotte is associate professor at the University of Southern California in the School of International Relations. She specializes in international relations in the 20th century. She is the author of Dealing with the Devil: East Germany\, Detente\, and Ostpolitik (University of North Carolina Press\, 2001) and German Military Reform and European Security (Oxford University Press\, 2001). Professor Sarotte is currently working on a monograph on the history of the late Cold War. \nCosponsored by CCWS\, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies\, and the Department of History \nhm 1/15/09; 1/21; tt 1/21; jwil 23.i.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/1989-and-the-architecture-of-order/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090131T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090131T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112801Z UID:10001511-1233360000-1233360000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Presidio of Santa Barbara DESCRIPTION:Phi Alpha Theta (the UCSB History club) is sponsoring a free field trip to the Presidio of Santa Barbara\, Saturday\, January 31 at 10 am. Anne Petersen\, Curator of the Presidio (and UCSB Ph.D. in history)\, will conduct a guided tour that includes the history of the surrounding neighborhoods. Assemble at 10 am at the Presidio Main Entrance on Canon Perdido Street\, between Anacapa and Santa Barbara Streets\, downtown Santa Barbara.\nFor directions or if you need a ride\, contact Prof. Plane at plane@history.ucsb.edu. \nhm 1/28/09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-presidio-of-santa-barbara/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090205T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090205T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001509-1233792000-1233792000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Wolf and the Dragon: Empire in Ancient Rome and China DESCRIPTION:Anthony Barbieri-Low (UCSB) will provide a response to Professor Scheidel’s talk.\nThis event is part of the core seminar of the UCSB Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information\, visit the web page of the RFG. \njwil 23.i.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-wolf-and-the-dragon-empire-in-ancient-rome-and-china/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090205T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090205T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001620-1233792000-1233792000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Taking Games Seriously DESCRIPTION:Historians documenting the expanding influences of ʻsystems thinkingʼ in the UnitedStates during the Cold War period have emphasized the role of computers in spreading the\ngospel of systems to professional audiences while neglecting another simulation technology in\nbroader use. This presentation will examine efforts to teach systems analysis to the\ncommunities served by the federally-organized Model Cities program of the 1960s and 1970s\nusing that overlooked innovation: operational games. The story of the Model Cities games\nsuggests new directions for the history and historiography of systems analysis and simulation. \nJennifer S. Light is Associate Professor of Communication Studies\, History\, and Sociology\, and\nDirector of the Media\, Technology and Society PhD program at Northwestern University. She is\nthe author of two books: From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems\nin Cold War America (2003) and The Nature of Cities: Ecological Visions and the American\nUrban Professions\,1920-1960 (2009)\, both with Johns Hopkins University Press. \nThis event is made possible with support from the History of Science\, Technology\,\nMedicine\, and Environment Program (Badash Fund) and the Center for Spatial Studies. \njwil 05.i.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/taking-games-seriously/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090211T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090211T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112801Z UID:10001623-1234310400-1234310400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Social Life of Muslim Women's Human Rights DESCRIPTION:The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies Distinguished Lecture\nThe concept of “Muslim women’s rights” has an extraordinarily active social life these days. It circulates across continents. It travels in and out of classrooms and government policy offices; UN forums in New York and Geneva and local women’s organizations in places like Egypt\, Malaysia\, and Palestine; racy television soap operas and sober mosque study groups; popular novels recognizable by the veiled women stamped on their covers and innovative model marriage contracts developed by Muslim feminists seeking equity within the religious tradition. What do we make of this intense concern with “Muslim women’s rights” and what do we make of its promiscuous travels? “Women’s rights” mean different things to women living complicated lives in villages and urban lawyers drawing seamlessly on the authority of CEDAW. What can we learn from tracking “rights talk\,” as an anthropologist would\, into everyday lives? \nLila Abu-Lughod is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. \nThe event is sponsored by the Journal for Middle East Women’s Studies\, the UCSB Center for Middle East Studies\, UCSB Department of Feminist Studies\, UCSB Department of History\, the UCSB Divisions of Social Sciences and Humanities\, the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women\, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies\, the UCLA Department of Women’s Studies\, and the UCLA Dean of Social Sciences. \nFor more information contact Laura Pollick (telephone 893-4245). \njwil 08.ii.2009 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-social-life-of-muslim-womens-human-rights/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090212T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112801Z UID:10001630-1234396800-1234396800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Theory of the State in Machiavelli's Political Philosophy DESCRIPTION:This event is sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Program.\njwil 11.ii.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-theory-of-the-state-in-machiavellis-political-philosophy/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090212T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112801Z UID:10001624-1234396800-1234396800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Seal of the Vision is Sealed from You: Esotericism and Identity in the Dead Sea Scrolls DESCRIPTION:This talk is sponsored by the IHC Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.\nFor more information\, contact Christine Thomas. \njwil 09.ii.2009 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-seal-of-the-vision-is-sealed-from-you-esotericism-and-identity-in-the-dead-sea-scrolls/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090217T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090217T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112801Z UID:10001512-1234828800-1234828800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Affective Communities: The Construction of State and Nations in the Russian Empire DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the IHC research focus group on Identity Studies.\njwil 06.ii.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/affective-communities-the-construction-of-state-and-nations-in-the-russian-empire/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090218T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090218T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151955 CREATED:20150928T112801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112801Z UID:10001633-1234915200-1234915200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Gladiator": Film and Discussion DESCRIPTION:Following the film\, Professor Drake will lead a discussion about Roman history. Refreshments will be available.\nFor more information contact Phi Alpha Theta president Jason Smith. \njwil 16.ii.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/gladiator-film-and-discussion/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR