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: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:20090220T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090220T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042643 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001644-1235088000-1235088000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Wal-Mart's Long March to China: How a Mid-American Retailer Came to Stake its Future on the Chinese Economy DESCRIPTION:The Commodities and Markets research group will meet on Friday\, February 20\, from noon-1pm in HSSB 4041\, to discuss Nelson Lichtenstein’s paper\, entitled “Wal-Mart’s Long March to China: How a Mid-American Retailer Came to Stake its Future on the Chinese Economy.” Nelson will give a short introduction but we will spend most of the hour discussing the paper. All are welcome.\nYou can contact Lisa Jacobson\, jacobson@history.ucsb.edu\, for a copy of the paper. \nhm 2/19/09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/wal-marts-long-march-to-china-how-a-mid-american-retailer-came-to-stake-its-future-on-the-chinese-economy/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090220T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090220T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042643 CREATED:20150928T112801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112801Z UID:10001631-1235088000-1235088000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Social Movements\, Social Rights\, and the Courts in South Africa and the USA DESCRIPTION:This talk is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy and the Policy History Program. \njwil 13.ii.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/social-movements-social-rights-and-the-courts-in-south-africa-and-the-usa/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090223T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090223T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042643 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001646-1235347200-1235347200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Centennial Lecture of the UCSB Gevirtz Graduate School of Education DESCRIPTION:Marian Wright Edelman\, the founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund\, is the author of the bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours and eight other books. The first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar\, she worked as counsel for the Poor People’s Campaign begun by Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. She is the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award. She will discuss her newest work\, The Sea is So Wide and My Boat is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation.\nPresented by the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education\, UCSB Arts & Lectures and the Critical Issues Forum titled Economic Justice – Policy and the Political Imagination. \ntwa 02-19-2009\, jwil 19.ii.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/centennial-lecture-of-the-ucsb-gevirtz-graduate-school-of-education/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090223T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090223T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042643 CREATED:20150928T112801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112801Z UID:10001627-1235347200-1235347200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Power of Disengagement: The Idea of Hermit Life in Early China DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies\, the East Asia Center\, and the IHC East Asian Cultures Research Focus Group.\nFor more information call 805.893.3907. \njwil 10.ii.2009 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-power-of-disengagement-the-idea-of-hermit-life-in-early-china/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090223T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090223T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112801Z UID:10001628-1235347200-1235347200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Evolution of the Mediterranean Diet from the Middle Ages DESCRIPTION:The concept of the Mediterranean diet is a modern invention; the Middle Ages and Renaissance had some very different food values. This lecture presents a look at the recent construct and its relationship with overview of medieval and Renaissance diets. It ties the diets of the present and the past together.\nAllen J. Grieco is the Lila Acheson Wallace Assistant Director for Gardens and Grounds & Scholarly Programs at Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence)\, Director of the M. A. Program in Food Studies at the Universita` delle Scienze Gastronomiche\, and is presently a Visiting Professor in History at Harvard University. He has taught courses on the history of food at the universities of Bologna and Tours. \nThis lecture is sponsored by the UCSB Medieval Studies Program. For more information contact Ed English. \njwil 11.ii.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-evolution-of-the-mediterranean-diet-from-the-middle-ages/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090223T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090223T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112801Z UID:10001629-1235347200-1235347200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Confronting Antisemitism in the Twenty-first Century DESCRIPTION:Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSBTALK: Confronting Antisemitism in the Twenty-first Century\nRobert Wistrich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\nMonday\, February 23 / 7:30 PM\nCongregation B’nai B’rith\, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road \nWhat are the most salient and significant features of the current offensive directed against the State of Israel and Jewish communities around the world? Robert Wistrich\, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of antisemitism and modern Jewry\, will examine key facets of the challenge and danger that emanates from the new antisemitism\, including its connections with the global Jihad. His many publications include The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph\, Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred\, which became a major PBS documentary\, and Hitler and the Holocaust. His latest book\, A Lethal Obsession: Antisemitism\, From Antiquity to the Global Jihad\, will be published in the fall of 2009. Courtesy of Borders\, copies of his books will be available for purchase and signing at this event. For additional information\, call 893-2317. \nWebsite: www.ihc.ucsb.edu/events/endowed/taubman.html\nSponsored by The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, a program of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, is cosponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures\, Department of Religious Studies\, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\, Congregation B’nai B’rith\, and Santa Barbara Hillel. This event is also cosponsored by the Anti-Defamation League. \nhm 2/11/09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/confronting-antisemitism-in-the-twenty-first-century/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090225T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090225T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001642-1235520000-1235520000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Radical Legacy of Civil Rights & Feminist Movements for Contemporary Progressive Politics DESCRIPTION:Barbara Ransby is Associate Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ransby published the book Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision and founded the organization “Ella’s Daughters” to advance activism in the tradition of Ella Baker (1903-1986). Baker was a grassroots organizer in the black freedom struggle who worked in predominantly male political circles that included W.E.B. DuBois\, Thurgood Marshall\, and Martin Luther King Jr. Ella’s Daughters embraces Ms. Baker’s political philosophy of working on multiple fronts at once\, borrowing from various ideologies to make sense of the world and to fashion a transformative strategy.\nThis is the 2009 Hull Chair Lecture\, sponsored by UCSB Feminist Studies and the UCSB Women’s Center\, with co-sponsorship from the Departments of History and Black Studies\, and other UCSB offices and organizations. \njwil 19.ii.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-radical-legacy-of-civil-rights-feminist-movements-for-contemporary-progressive-politics/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090226T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090226T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001635-1235606400-1235606400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Triumph Over Time": Film and Discussion DESCRIPTION:“Triumph Over Time: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens in Post-War Greece” (1947\, 42 minutes)\nIn 1947\, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens commissioned a 42-minute color movie to accompany its fundraising campaign. Directed by archaeologist Oscar Broneer and produced by numismatist Margaret Thompson with the aid of staff from Fox Studios\, the documentary shows Greece rebounding from the horrors of World War II and the staff of the American School hard at work preparing archaeological sites for presentation to post-war tourists. The film contains footage of excavations at the Athenian Agora and ancient Corinth\, mixed with scenes of everyday Greek life\, and with shots of famous people\, including Greece’s King Paul and Queen Frederica (film description by Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan). \n“Triumph Over Time” was one of the earliest documentary films about the archaeology and ancient history of Greece. Produced during the time of the Greek Civil War (1944-1949)\, the film is a fascinating artifact of the early Cold War era\, as well as an invaluable visual record of traditional Greek village life and of the development of American archaeology in Greece. \nProfessors Erickson (UCSB Classics) and Lee (UCSB History) will introduce the film and lead a discussion afterwards. Refreshments will be available. For more information contact Phi Alpha Theta president Jason Smith. \njwil 16.ii.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/triumph-over-time-film-and-discussion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090226T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090226T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112801Z UID:10001625-1235606400-1235606400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Beyond Ethnicity and Polybius: Was the Decision of the Ptolemies to Integrate Egyptians in the Army a Good One? DESCRIPTION:This talk is sponsored by the IHC Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. John Lee (UCSB) will provide a response.\nFor more information contact Christine Thomas. \njwil 09.ii.2009 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/beyond-ethnicity-and-polybius-was-the-decision-of-the-ptolemies-to-integrate-egyptians-in-the-army-a-good-one/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090303T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090303T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001640-1236038400-1236038400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Staged Reading of Ida Fink's "The Table" DESCRIPTION:directed by WILLIAM SMITHERS\nIn Ida Fink’s “The Table\,” four witnesses testify to mass murder in a\nsmall Polish-Jewish town during World War II. But does their testimony\nmatter in a court of law? \nCast:\nProsecutor: William Smithers\nFirst Man: George Backman\nFirst Woman: Dianne Hull\nSecond Man: Ed Giron\nSecond Woman: Danielle Aubuchon \nIda Fink was born in Zbaraz\, Poland (now in the Ukraine) in 1921. She\nspent 1941-42 in the ghetto and escaped using forged identity papers. She\nhas lived in Israel since 1967. “A Scrap of Time and Other Stories”\n(which includes “The Table”) was published in Polish in 1983. Two years\nlater it received the first Anne Frank Prize for Literature. The English\ntranslation\, by Madeline Levine and Francine Prose\, appeared in 1987. Ms.\nFinks’ other works include “The Journey” (1990) and “Traces”(1996) \nThe George J. Wittenstein lecture series\, created to commemorate and\ncontinue the legacy of civic courage of Dr. George J. Wittenstein\, who\nparticipated in two resistance groups against Hitler’s dictatorship\,\nsponsors one to three lectures every year. \nIn 2008-2009\, the series is made possible by the generous co-sponsorships\nof the following campus agencies and departments: Office of the Chancellor\,\nComparative Literature\, Feminist Studies\, Film and Media Studies\, French\nand Italian\, History\, Law and Society\, Religious Studies\, Theater and Dance. \nFor more information\, please visit:\nhttp://www.gss.ucsb.edu/index.php/news-a-events \nhm 2/19/09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/staged-reading-of-ida-finks-the-table/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090303T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090303T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001648-1236038400-1236038400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:CCWS Film Series Presents "Good Bye Lenin!" DESCRIPTION:This German film directed by Wolfgang Becker comically portrays the collapse of communism. Suffering a heart attack and falling into a coma after seeing her son arrested during a protest\, Alex’s (Daniel Brühl) socialist mother Christiane (Katrin Sass)\, remains comatose through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the German Democratic Republic. Knowing that the slightest shock could prove fatal upon his mother’s awakening\, Alex strives to keep the fall of communism secret for as long as possible by reconstructing the GDR in the family’s flat. Alex’s scheme works for a while\, but it’s not long before his mother is feeling better and ready to get up and around again.\nProfessor Harold Marcuse (UCSB History) will give a scholarly introduction and lead the post-screening discussion. \nFor further information please visit CCWS. \ntt 24.02.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ccws-film-series-presents-good-bye-lenin/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090305T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090305T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001651-1236211200-1236211200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Anti-Poverty Policy in the Obama Administration DESCRIPTION:Peter B. Edelman is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and co-chair of the Task Force on Poverty for the Center for American Progress. In a career devoted to social thought\, social justice\, and public policy\, Professor Edelman has written extensively on poverty\, constitutional law\, and children and youth. He is the author of Searching for America’s Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope\, and an award-winning Atlantic Monthly article on 1996 welfare reform\, entitled “The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done.” He is currently chair of the District of Columbia Access to Justice Commission and is board chair of the Public Welfare Foundation at the National Center for Youth Law.\nThis lecture will be followed by a Panel Discussion with Belen Seara\, Executive Director of PUEBLO (People United for Economic Justice Building Leadership Through Organizing); Marcos Vargas\, Executive Director of CAUSE (The Central Coast Alliance United for A Sustainable Economy); and Clyde Woods\, UCSB Department of Black Studies. \nThe aim of the Critical Issues program is to stimulate public conversation about long-standing problems of economic and political inequality\, widening insecurity\, and the policies and politics that helped to bring them about\, but also about how we might imagine and shape a different economic future through an equally concerted politics of reform. We plan also to situate the current\, potentially transformational moment in politics and political economy within a longer historical tradition of progressive reform. \nCo-sponsored by the Department of History\, Department of Feminist Studies\, and the UCSB Women’s Center. For more information contact Alice O’Connor. \nhm 2/25/09; jwil 26.ii.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/anti-poverty-policy-in-the-obama-administration/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090306T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090306T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001638-1236297600-1236297600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The AFL-CIA's Cold War in Honduras-- And How Hondurans Felt About It DESCRIPTION:Professor Dana Frank is Co-Director of the UCSC Center for Labor Studies. Her books include Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2008)\, Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (2000)\, and Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing\, Gender\, and the Seattle Labor Movement\, 1919-1929 (1994). \nWorkshop participants are invited to read Dana Frank’s article “Where is the History of U.S. Labor and International Solidarity?” in Labor\, volume 1\, pages 95-119. \nSponsored by the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. \njwil 17.ii.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-afl-cias-cold-war-in-honduras-and-how-hondurans-felt-about-it/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090310T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090310T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001596-1236643200-1236643200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Star Power: Astral Theology\, Castorian Imagery\, and Dual Heirs in Imperial Rome DESCRIPTION:Today we speak of movie stars\, rock stars\, all-star athletes\, and even academic stars. The role of “stars” in the cult of personality has a long tradition. From the time of early Egyptian and Near Eastern civilizations\, man– or more precisely\, royalty– aspired to dwell among the stars in heaven for all eternity as the ultimate reward after death. Greece played a key role in the transmission of ideas of astral divinity\, especially in the Hellenistic period following the conquests of Alexander the Great. As Rome expanded eastward and conquered the Hellenistic kingdoms\, it absorbed many aspects of Hellenistic royal ideology and astral theology. In this lecture Professor Pollini explains how astral theology and the imagery of the Greek twin gods (the Dioscuri or Castores) were adopted by the emperor Augustus to promote a system of “dual heirs” that would ensure the orderly transmission of imperial power. The lecture focuses on the Imperial period from the time of Augustus (27 B.C.-A.D. 14) to the reign of Septimius Severus (A.D. 193-211).\nThis lecture is sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. For more information\, or for assistance in accommodating a disability\, please call (805) 682-4711. \njwil 25.ii.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/star-power-astral-theology-castorian-imagery-and-dual-heirs-in-imperial-rome/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090312T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090312T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112801Z UID:10001626-1236816000-1236816000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:A Liturgical Order of Thanksgiving in Ancient Rome 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/a-liturgical-order-of-thanksgiving-in-ancient-rome/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090313T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090313T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001650-1236902400-1236902400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Reading as a Social Technology DESCRIPTION:The History of Reading Group is hosting a one-day\, interdisciplinary conference that will provide a forum for sharing recent research findings in the history of reading\, with an eye toward investigating the technologies that shape reading as a social experience. The keynote speakers will be Adrian Johns (University of Chicago) and Elaine Treharne (Florida State University).\nFor more information\, visit the conference web site. \nThis conference is sponsored by the University of California Transliteracies Project and the IHC History of Material Texts Research Focus Group. \njwil 25.ii.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/reading-as-a-social-technology/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090318T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090318T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001653-1237334400-1237334400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Augustine and the History of Reading: from Post-Medieval to Prenaissance DESCRIPTION:Brian Cummings is Professor of English at the University of Sussex\, where he was Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies from 2004 to 2008. He is the author of The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace (Oxford University Press\, 2002)\, which was named a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year for 2003.\nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCSB Renaissance Studies program\, the Transliteracies History of Reading Group\, and the IHC History of Material Texts RFG. \njwil 03.i.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/augustine-and-the-history-of-reading-from-post-medieval-to-prenaissance/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090330T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090330T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112803Z UID:10001656-1238371200-1238371200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Spring Classes Start DESCRIPTION:Welcome back students\, faculty and staff–we hope you had an energizing spring break!The last day of instruction is June 5.\nFor a full schedule of this quarter\, follow the link below. \nhm 3/24/09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/spring-classes-start/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090402T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090402T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112803Z UID:10001528-1238630400-1238630400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Come Home America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of our Country DESCRIPTION:Legendary reporter and author William Greider has covered American politics for the last 40 years as a columnist and editor for the Washington Post\, Rolling Stone\, and as a national affairs correspondent for The Nation. In his recently released book Come Home America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country\, Greider examines the effects of current American economic policy-including our drive to remain “Number One” in the global arena – and its impact on our democratic ideals and values. \nGreider’s Nation profile.\nGreider’s book on amazon.com \nThis talk is co-presented with UCSB Department of History as part of the Critical Issues Forum titled Economic Justice: Policy and the Political Imagination and the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor and Democracy and the Policy History Program. \nhm 3/30/09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/come-home-america-the-rise-and-fall-and-redeeming-promise-of-our-country/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090403T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090403T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112803Z UID:10001530-1238716800-1238716800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Great Transformation (or Not?) DESCRIPTION:Legendary reporter and author William Greider has covered American politics for the last 40 years as a columnist and editor for the Washington Post\, Rolling Stone\, and as a national affairs correspondent for The Nation. In his recently released book Come Home America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country\, Greider examines the effects of current American economic policy-including our drive to remain “Number One” in the global arena – and its impact on our democratic ideals and values.\nGreider’s Nation profile.\nGreider’s book on amazon.com \nSeminar series hosted by the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor and Democracy. \nhm 3/30/09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-great-transformation-or-not/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090403T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090403T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001654-1238716800-1238716800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Medieval Perspectives on Environmental History DESCRIPTION:The speakers will be:\nPaolo Squatriti of the University of Michigan: “Storms Floods and Climate Change in the Dark Ages: An Italian Case” and D. Fairchild Ruggles of the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign: “Islamic Gardens in the Mediterranean (7th-15th Centuries): Environmental Perspectives on Water and Landscape” with a comment by David Cleveland of the UCSB Environmental Studies Program. \nFor more information contact Ed English. \njwil 11.iii.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/medieval-perspectives-on-environmental-history/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090404T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090404T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112803Z UID:10001541-1238803200-1238803200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Open House for Prospective Freshmen and Transfers DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, April 4\, 2009\, the History Department’s Table at the Academic Fair will offer friendly advice and information about the History major at UCSB.\nWhy study history at UCSB instead of at another UC campus? Besides the obvious advantages of our climate and location\, UCSB’s History program offers a broad array of courses from all eras and most geographical regions. Some of our special strengths are visible in the Affiliated Programs section at the bottom of our homepage: Borderlands\, Cold War and International Relations\, Gender Studies\, Labor Studies\, Medieval\, and Middle East. Public Policy\, in which we offer a separate major (requirements)\, and History of Science are also specialties. Click on the FIELDS tab in the menu bar above for a list of concentrations. \nThe course requirements for the major are listed on our Undergrad Program page. In short\, they are:\n1. Two 3-quarter sequence courses\, chosen from World\, Western Civilization\, and US History.\n2. Two lower division (freshman/sophomore level\, no prerequisites; numbered 1-99) elective courses\n3. Ten upper division (numbered 100-199) courses\, at least one of which is a seminar (P or DR in course number). \nIn the case of double majors with other programs or departments (Global Studies\, Political Science\, for example)\, up to two courses from one dept. can be used to fulfill requirements in the other. \nFor a History Minor 3 lower division and 5 upper division courses are the required minimum. \nA special feature of this website allows you to view course syllabi of current and past courses\, to find out the requirements (readings\, papers\, exams) and daily topics of most courses. Click here or go to the COURSES link in the menu bar at top. You can select additional quarters in a drop-down menu there. \nFor more information on the open house\, see the:\nSpring Insight homepage with schedule of events and maps. \nhm 4/3/09\, 4/4/09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/open-house-for-prospective-freshmen-and-transfers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090406T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090406T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112803Z UID:10001543-1238976000-1238976000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Gaza War and Its Aftermath DESCRIPTION:There is an exciting and timely series of events taking place this spring: The Shalom/Salam Conversations\, in which members of the UCSB faculty and community will address aspects of the Israel/Palestine dispute. There will be three events this spring\, all on Monday at 5 pm in the Multicultural Center. The series is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts and by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.\nThe first event will take place THIS MONDAY\, APRIL 6\, AT 5 PM IN THE MULTICULTURAL CENTER. The subject will be “The Gaza War and Its Aftermath.” The two panelists will be Walid Afifi\, Professor in the UCSB Department of Communications\, and Arthur Gross-Shaefer\, Rabbi and Professor at Loyola Marymount University. Professor R. Stephen Humphreys of the UCSB Department of History will moderate. \nFree Pizza and beverages will be served. Please join us for this important event! \nhm 4/6/09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-gaza-war-and-its-aftermath/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090406T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090406T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112803Z UID:10001536-1238976000-1238976000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:New Surveys in the Ancient Harbor District of Roman Ephesos DESCRIPTION:More than a century of archaeological work at Ephesos on the west coast of Turkey has unearthed impressive marble public buildings of the high Roman imperial period. But are these urban monuments the best representation of the overwhelming majority of the city’s ancient inhabitants?\nA new project has generated promising evidence about other districts of the city. Recent geomorphologic research has revealed the first detailed outline of the ancient coastline. Magnetometry imaging and ground-penetrating radar surveys\, along with excavations conducted within the framework of this project\, have indicated plentiful building activity of non-monumental structures in these areas. Together\, all of these provide a more complete picture of the urban landscape. \nAdmission is free. Presented by the Santa Barbara County Archaeological Society. \nFor more information contact the Museum of Natural History at 805.682.4711. \njwil 02.iv.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/new-surveys-in-the-ancient-harbor-district-of-roman-ephesos/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090408T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090408T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001652-1239148800-1239148800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:2nd Annual Ask a Vet Forum DESCRIPTION:Student Veterans at UCSB will be hosting the second annual “Ask A Vet Forum” on Wednesday\, April 8. The purpose of this event is to promote better understanding of student veterans’ issues and to increase awareness of veterans amongst the campus community. Student veterans will address their difficult transition from soldier to student and discuss topics of controversy regarding their military service. Audience members will be able to ask the veterans any questions they desire. Last year\, this event proved to be a huge success and students and veterans left having felt a better understanding of one another. \njwil 25.ii.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/2nd-annual-ask-a-vet-forum/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090409T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090409T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112803Z UID:10001534-1239235200-1239235200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Virgil's Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin: Latin Poetry and Ethnohistory in Colonial Mexico DESCRIPTION:Virgil’s epic on the fall of Troy and foundation of Rome came to Mexico in the wake of the Spanish conquest. The poem had a role in the earliest accounts of Aztec traditions compiled by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún and his native collaborators\, and in the transmission of classical learning that had begun to develop in New Spain in the 1520s. From the mid-1600s\, the reading and literary imitation of Virgil in Latin inspired poetic panegyrics of the ‘Dark Virgin’\, the Lady of Guadalupe\, who supposedly appeared to a native Mexican in 1531. Much of this lecture will focus on Villerías’ Guadalupe\, a remarkable epic from the early 1700s in order to show how Virgil (and some other classical authors) helped to inform creole constructions of identity and indigenous history during the colonial period\, and to highlight the richness and complexity of Latin culture in Mexico.\nThe speaker is Professor Andrew Laird\, University of Warwick and National Autonomous University of Mexico. \njwil 31.iii.2009 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/virgils-aeneid-from-the-aztecs-to-the-dark-virgin-latin-poetry-and-ethnohistory-in-colonial-mexico/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090410T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090410T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112804Z UID:10001659-1239321600-1239321600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Empire's Adversaries: Cold War Critics of Colonialism in the United States\, 1945-1960 DESCRIPTION:John Munro is a graduate student in the History Department at UCSB. His dissertation looks at anti-colonial discourse in the United States between World War II and the 1960s. A recipient of awards from the UC Labor and Employment Research Fund\, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada\, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations\, John has published on whiteness studies\, African-American anti-imperialism\, and US empire.\nSponsored by the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy and the Policy History Program. For more information contact Leah Fernandez. \njwil 07.iv.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/empires-adversaries-cold-war-critics-of-colonialism-in-the-united-states-1945-1960/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090413T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090413T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112803Z UID:10001537-1239580800-1239580800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Liminal Gates: Sacred and Civic Space in Ephesos DESCRIPTION:This talk is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.\nFor more information contact Christine Thomas. \njwil 03.iv.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/liminal-gates-sacred-and-civic-space-in-ephesos/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090414T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090414T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112804Z UID:10001661-1239667200-1239667200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Politics of Consumption in the Gold Coast/Ghana\, 1930-1975 DESCRIPTION:Bianca Murillo’s dissertation explores the politics of consumption in the Gold Coast/Ghana from 1930-75\, a period that encompassed British colonialism\, rapid urbanization\, political independence\, military rule\, and severe economic decline. Drawing upon both archival and oral research\, her project examines how shifting relationships between foreign capital\, colonial/postcolonial governments and groups of African retailers and consumers shaped these processes.\nThis talk is organized by the African Studies Research Focus Group and co-sponsored by the Department of Feminist Studies and the Department of History. \nFor more information contact Stephan Miescher. \njwil 09.iv.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-politics-of-consumption-in-the-gold-coastghana-1930-1975/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090419T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090419T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T042644 CREATED:20150928T112804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112804Z UID:10001658-1240099200-1240099200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Four Seasons Lodge DESCRIPTION:In Commemoration of Yom HaShoah\nThis event is made possible\, in part\, by a Program Grant from the Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara.\nIt is also cosponsored by Just Communities Central Coast. \nFrom the darkness of Europe’s death camps to the lush mountains of New York’s Catskills\, Four Seasons Lodge (Andrew Jacobs\, 2008\, 100 min.) captures the final season for a bungalow colony of Holocaust survivors who have gotten together each summer for twenty-five years to celebrate their lives. They come for the raucous poker games such poker games from poker-online.com\, the dancing that goes on till dawn\, and the long summer days spent with others who have lived through the unimaginable. They pursue friendships\, rivalries\, love affairs\, and even lawsuits as the fate of their community hangs in the balance. \nSkillfully directed by New York Times reporter Andrew Jacobs and beautifully photographed by the legendary Albert Maysles\, Four Seasons Lodge is a counterintuitive film about the Holocaust\, one that captures the Lodgers’ intoxicating passion for living\, in bracing contrast to lives harrowed by loss. It is a story of tightly bonded friendships that replace lost family and the quest for inner peace in the face of haunting memories. Heartrending\, spiritually uplifting\, and startlingly funny\, Four Seasons Lodge offers indelible lessons about the challenge of aging\, the comfort of old friends\, the power of memory\, and the importance of embracing joy even in the face of mortality. \nThe screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring local Holocaust survivors Stan and Edith Ostern\, and noted photographer Rick Nahmias\, moderated by Professor Richard Hecht (Department of Religious Studies\, UCSB and Chair\, Program Committee\, Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB). \nFour Seasons Lodge had its world premiere at the prestigious Silver Docs festival in June\, 2008\, where it was met with a “wildly enthusiastic reception.” The “undisputed hit” of the Hampton International Film Festival in October\, 2008\, it received three screenings at which “audiences stood up and cheered as the credits rolled.” At the Miami Jewish Film Festival in January\, 2009\, Four Seasons Lodge garnered the Audience Award for Best Documentary Film. First Run Features has acquired all rights to Four Seasons Lodgeand will announce the theatrical opening date shortly. \nhm 4/6/09\, 4/14/09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/four-seasons-lodge/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR