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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090413T000000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090414T000000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090419T000000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090420T000000
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SUMMARY:Hamas
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 second event will take place THIS MONDAY\, APRIL 20\, AT 5 PM IN THE MULTICULTURAL CENTER.  The subject will be “Hamas.”  The panelists will be Lisa Hajjar\, Professor in  the UCSB Law and Society Program\, and Richard Hecht\, Professor of Religious Studies.  Professor Randy Bergstrom 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/hamas/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090423T000000
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SUMMARY:"Keep on Saving": A Transnational History of How Other Nations Forged Cultures of Thrift When America Didn't
DESCRIPTION:Amidst the current financial meltdown\, it has become painfully clear that Americans spent too much\, saved too little\, and borrowed excessively. Although we like to believe the rest of the world behaves “like us\,” other capitalist nations have saved at much higher rates than Americans. Historically\, Europeans\, Japanese\, and other Asians systematically encouraged saving by means of campaigns and institutions such as savings banks\, postal savings\, and school savings programs. Beginning in 1800\, this lecture tells the global\, interconnected story of savings-promotion\, illustrated by savings campaign posters from around the world.\nSheldon Garon is the Dodge Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He explores relations between state and society in modern Japan\, while also examining the transnational flow of ideas and institutions among several European nations\, the U.S.\, Japan\, and other Asian nations. Publications include The State and Labor in Modern Japan (1987) for which he received the American Historical Association’s John K. Fairbank Prize in 1988\, and Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life (1997). His current transnational history\, “Keep on Saving”: How Other Nations Forged Cultures of Thrift When America Didn’t\, is under contract with Princeton University Press. With Patricia Maclachlan\, he co-edited The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West (2006). He recently served as advisor in the preparation of For a New Thrift: Confronting the Debt Culture: A Report to the Nation from the Commission on Thrift (2008).  \nCosponsored by the EAC\, the East Asian Cultures RFG\, IHC\, and the departments of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies\, History\, Political Science and Economics.  \nLOCATION CHANGED ON 4/21 TO THE MARINE SCIENCES BUILDING AUDITORIUM.\nIt is next to Bren Hall on the East side of campus (campus map).  \nhm 3/31/09\, 4/21.09
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/keep-on-saving-a-transnational-history-of-how-other-nations-forged-cultures-of-thrift-when-america-didnt/
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SUMMARY:Centering Central Asia: Gender\, State\, and Nation
DESCRIPTION:The UCSB Center for Middle East Studies Conference “Centering Central Asia: Gender\, State\, and Nation” will be held on Friday\, April 24 & Saturday\, April 25\, 2009.  A schedule of events appears below.\nFriday\, April 24 at the Multicultural Center Theater\n7:30-8:00 pm Nancy Gallagher\, Professor\, History Dept.\, UCSB.  Talk on NGOs in Afghanistan\n8:00-10:00pm Introduction of film by Director\, Meena Nanji. Film  “View from a Grain of Sand” \nSaturday\, April 25 in the McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\n8:45am-5:30 pm CONFERENCE \nPanel 1: Gender and Society in Iran and Central Asia\nAdrienne Edgar\, Associate Professor\, History\, UCSB. “Gender\, Nation\, and Modernity in Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia”\nAshraf Zahedi\, Resident Scholar\, Beatrice Bain Research Group\, University of California\, Berkeley. “Rethinking Gender Policies in  Afghanistan”\nNayereh Tohidi\, Chair & Professor\, Gender and Women’s Studies Dept.\,California State University\, Northridge. “Gender and Transition  in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan”\nMary Hegland\, Associate Professor\, Dept. of Anthropology and Women & Gender Studies\, Santa Clara University. “Gender\, Family\, Kin\,  Sexuality Transformation in Iran and Tajikistan”\nPlenary Speaker: Janet Afary\, Keddie-Balzan Fellow\, University of California\, Los Angeles.”The Sexual Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran” \nPanel 2: Central Asia\, Pakistan\, and Iran in Global Perspective\nAdeeb Khalid\, Professor\, Dept. of History\, Carleton College. “After the Soviets: Islam in Contemporary Central Asia”\nShahnaz Rouse\, Professor and Chair\, Sociology Faculty\, Sarah Lawrence College. “State Practices Versus Non-State/Civil Society Peace  Initiatives in Pakistan”\nMateo Mohammad Farzaneh\, Ph.D. Candidate\, UCSB. “A U.S.-Iran  Détente?: Views from Iran”\nMona Sheikh\, Visiting Research Scholar\, Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies\, UCSB. “Talking with Taliban Activists: Militant Jihad in Pakistan”\nPlenary Speaker: Olivier Roy\, Lecturer\, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.  “Imposing Emancipation: What is the West Doing There?” \n5:30-6:30pm Reception\, with music by members of the Middle East Ensemble \nThe conference is sponsored by the CMES and co-sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. All events are free and open to  the public. For additional information please contact Laura Pollick\, Center for Middle East Studies\, 805-893-4245. \njwil 15.iv.09
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/centering-central-asia-gender-state-and-nation/
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SUMMARY:Terror and Intercultural War in the Era of the American Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Peter Silver\, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University\, will discuss his recent book and current research.\nProfessor Silver (Rutgers homepage) is a renowned historian of Early America.  His first book\, Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America ($13 & viewable at amazon)\, received both the 2007 Bancroft Prize and the 2007 Mark Lynton History Prize. \nWelcome all!  Light refreshments will be served\, but feel free to bring a lunch. \nhm 4/16/09
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/terror-and-intercultural-war-in-the-era-of-the-american-revolution/
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SUMMARY:Ancient Fiction and the Politics of Genre
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/ancient-fiction-and-the-politics-of-genre/
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SUMMARY:Economic Crises and Lessons from the New Deal
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the UCSB Affiliates and the UCSB History Associates.\nThe First Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall is located at 21 E. Constance Ave. (at State Street). \nSee:\nDetailed description of talk\, and\nProf. Brownlee’s faculty homepage with list of publications. \n$8 for UCSB Affiliates\, History Associates or Chancellor’s Council members\n$10 for non-members \nE-MAIL Katie Houseknecht: katie.houseknecht@ia.ucsb.edu\nOR PHONE 893-4388\nTO MAKE YOUR RESERVATION \nhm 4/17/09\, 4/24/09 \n:
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/economic-crises-and-lessons-from-the-new-deal/
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SUMMARY:Drug Violence\, Public Security\, and the Rule of Law in Mexico
DESCRIPTION:David Shirk is Director of the Trans-Border Institute and Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California\, San Diego\, and was a fellow at the Center for U.S.- Mexican Studies from 1998-99 and 2001-2003. He conducts research on Mexican politics\, U.S.-Mexican relations\, and a variety of policy issues along the U.S.-Mexican border. He is the author of Mexico’s New Politics: The PAN and Democratic Change and co-editor of Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico.\nThis event is sponsored by the History Department and the Latin American and Iberian Studies program. \nFor more information contact Gabriela Soto Laveaga.  \njwil 22.iv.09
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/drug-violence-public-security-and-the-rule-of-law-in-mexico/
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SUMMARY:The Future of Planetary Governance and the Emergence of Global Action Networks
DESCRIPTION:THE GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PROGRAM\,in conjunction with the search for a chaired professorship in GLOBAL\nAUTHORITY AND GOVERNANCE sponsored by the DUNCAN AND SUZANNE MELLICHAMP INITIATIVE\, is pleased to invite you to a lecture by \nSANJEEV KHAGRAM\nWyss Visiting Scholar\, Harvard Business School \nThursday\, April 30\, 2009\n12 p.m.\nOrfalea Center Seminar Room\n1005 Rob Gym \nOver the past two decades\, multi-stakeholder and cross-sectoral global action networks (GANs: a critical subset of cross-sectoral action networks more generally or CANs) emerged as arguably the most innovative global governance arrangements with transcontinental and multi-scalar agendas and reach. GANs can now be found in virtually every field from well known initiatives like the Global Compact\, Global Fund\, Marine Stewardship Council and Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative\, to less well known ones like the Global Water Partnership\, Youth Employment Systems\, the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict\, and the Sustainable Biofuels Partnership. This seminar will explicate the theory and empirics of GANs. It will systemically analyze the emergence\, dynamics\, as well as current and potential role of GANs in global governance. \nProfessor Khagram is known worldwide for his interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral scholarship\, teaching\, and leadership in the areas of globalization and transnationalism\, global governance and international institutions\, nongovernmental organizations and civil society\, corporate citizenship and emerging regulatory forms\, sustainable development and human security. He was honored as a 2009 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. \nhm 4/28/09
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-future-of-planetary-governance-and-the-emergence-of-global-action-networks/
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SUMMARY:The Jetsons Fallacy: Science Fiction\, Biotechnology\, and the Future of the Human Species
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:Science fiction films and novels often present us with remarkably imaginative visions of the future.  In this talk I argue that all the most popular and influential versions of such sci-fi visions – movies like Star Wars\, Star Trek\, Blade Runner\, AI\, Spiderman\, and Iron Man – systematically mislead us in one important respect: they depict a future in which technology becomes very sophisticated\, but most humans remain basically the same as they are today.  This is unrealistic\, I argue\, because today’s major trends in biotechnology suggest that a very different kind of world actually awaits our children and grandchildren.  Over the next half century\, entire populations of humans will increasingly use pharmaceuticals\, bioelectronics\, and genetic interventions to enhance their physical and mental capabilities.  We are on the cusp of an era in which human beings will apply science and technology to the redesign of their own bodies and minds.  In this sense\, therefore\, the actual creations of technoscience today are already exceeding the imaginative reach of the “futuristic” stories we tell ourselves.  It is time for mainstream science fiction to take its head out of the sand and face up to the transmogrified future that probably awaits humankind.\n——\nMichael Bess\, Chancellor’s Professor of History\, is a specialist in twentieth-century Europe\, with a particular interest in the social and cultural impacts of technological change. Bess has received fellowships or grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, the National Institutes of Health / National Human Genome Research Institute\, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation\, the Fulbright research grants program\, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation\, and the University of California’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-jetsons-fallacy-science-fiction-biotechnology-and-the-future-of-the-human-species/
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SUMMARY:The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
DESCRIPTION:Steven Greenhouse of The New York Times is the nation’s most authoritative reporter on labor and employment issues.  For 15 years his investigative exposes have probed the way some of the nation’s largest corporations treat and mistreat their workers\, from the Brooklyn waterfront to the Piedmont South\, and from Toyota assembly lines to Wal-Mart check-out counters. His first book\, The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker\, is an eye-opening account of how the corporate clamp-down on wages\, benefits\, and job security has made efforts to climb out of the current economic crisis all the more difficult.\nGreenhouse comes to UCSB as the Regents’ Lecturer in History. \nSponsored by the Department of History\, the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy\, and UCSB Arts & Lectures. \njwil 07.iv.09
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-big-squeeze-tough-times-for-the-american-worker/
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