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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080302T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080302T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112751Z UID:10001518-1204416000-1204416000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History Associates and "Idiot's Delight" DESCRIPTION:History Conference Room (HSSB 4020)\nThe Robert Sherwood play\, which won him the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1936\, tells the story of a song and dance man traveling through Europe with a troupe of blonde beauties on the eve of World War II. It was later made into a movie starring Clark Gable and Norma Shearer. After a light lunch and talk by the play’s innovative set designer\, Tal Sanders\, History Associates and guests will adjourn to the nearby Hatlen Theater for a 2 p.m. matinee\, then have an opportunity to participated in a post-play discussion with the cast. Price of lunch and play is $22 for members\, $25 for non-members. Please make reservations by Wednesday\, Feb. 27 through the UCSB Office of Community Relations\, (805) 893-4388. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-and-idiots-delight/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080305T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080305T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112751Z UID:10001520-1204675200-1204675200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:In Poseidon's Realm: Underwater Archaeology in the Mediterranean DESCRIPTION:About this LectureThe annual Church Lecture is sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America\, and made possible by the generosity of Sandra Church. \nDirections to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art may be found here. \nFor more information about the Archaeological Institute of America\, click here. \nAbout the Speaker\nJohn R. Hale is the Director of Liberal Studies at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. He earned his B.A. at Yale University and his Ph.D. at Cambridge University in England. Dr. Hale teaches introductory courses on archaeology\, as well as more specialized courses on the Bronze Age\, the ancient Greeks\, the Roman world\, Celtic cultures\, Vikings\, and on nautical and underwater archaeology. Dr. Hale’s writing has been published in the journal Antiquity\, The Classical Bulletin\, the Journal of Roman Archaeology\, and Scientific American. He is also the author of Lords of the Sea\, a book about the ancient Athenian navy. Dr. Hale has received many awards for distinguished teaching\, including the Panhellenic Teacher of the Year Award and the Delphi Center Award. An accomplished instructor\, Dr. Hale is also an archaeologist with more than 30 years of fieldwork experience. He has excavated at a Romano-British town in Lincolnshire\, England\, and at the Roman Villa of Torre de Palma in Portugal. He has also carried out interdisciplinary studies of ancient oracle sites in Greece and Turkey\, including the famous Delphic Oracle\, and participated in an undersea search in Greek waters for lost fleets from the time of the Persian Wars. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/in-poseidons-realm-underwater-archaeology-in-the-mediterranean/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080306T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080306T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001560-1204761600-1204761600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Recruitment Day is Friday\, March 7 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. DESCRIPTION:The History Department’s annual graduate recruitment day runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday\, March 7.\nHighlights include: 10 a.m. bagel breakfast in HSSB 4208\, informational sessions for admitted applicants (11 a.m.-5 p.m.\, with a break for lunch)\, and a 5 p.m. reception in HSSB 4020. \nA full schedule is now available. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/graduate-recruitment-day-is-friday-march-7-from-10-a-m-to-5-p-m/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080307T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080307T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001556-1204848000-1204848000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Saving the Hero: Or\, Why Virgil Was No Plagiarist DESCRIPTION:The fundamental role that imitation played in Latin literature lies beyond any doubt. Ancient readers\, however\, did not deem every act of textual adaptation acceptable\, and in fact relegated some to the category of plagiarism. In addition\, disagreements recurrently arose in Latin literary history regarding whether an author had licitly imitated a source or had illicitly stolen from it. One writer whose reuse of models occasioned such controversy was the poet Virgil. This paper examines an ancient defense of Virgil against plagiarism charges that appears in Macrobius’ Sat. 6.1.1-7. My aims are to explore how the speaker\, Furius Albinus\, understands both plagiarism and its legitimate counterpart\, imitation; to use Albinus’ apology as a springboard for investigating approaches to plagiarism elsewhere in Latin antiquity; and to examine what was at stake in the debate\, so that insights might emerge into how plagiarism was stigmatized and punished in an age before copyright.\nScott McGill is an assistant professor of Classics at Rice University in Houston\, Texas. His book\, Virgil Recomposed: The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity (APA Monograph Series\, Oxford University Press) was published in 2005. His current book project is entitled Plagiarism in Classical Latin Literature. Professor McGill is also co-editing a volume of essays entitled The Roman Empire from the Tetrachy to Theodosius II: Politics\,Society\, Culture\, Religion for Cambridge University Press\, with Cristiana Sogno and Edward Watts. \nThis talk is sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/saving-the-hero-or-why-virgil-was-no-plagiarist/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080307T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080307T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001557-1204848000-1204848000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Figurational Sociology: The Critical Potential of a European Approach to American Studies DESCRIPTION:Do scholars in Europe approach American Studies differently than their colleagues in the US? Looking at the history and culture of the United States from a distance\, they indeed show a tendency to ask uncommon questions. European perspectives onto America may also derive from intellectual traditions rooted in specific national schools of thought. A typical European approach\, e.g. French structuralism\, may travel swiftly across the Atlantic and become an integral part of American academia. In other cases\, there is notable resistance to certain ideas or methods. The talk will present a socio-historical approach well-known in Europe and widely neglected in the United States: the method of figurative or processual sociology\, as derived from the theories of the German-Jewish cultural historian Norbert Elias and the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Professor Buschendorf will discuss key concepts of this approach – such as “(de)civilizing processes\,” “habitus\,” “established and outsiders\,” or “(symbolic) power” –with regard to their implied notions of the relationship between individuals and society. Jesse Hill Ford’s almost forgotten novel The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones (1965)\, which highlighted violent eruptions of racial tensions in a small town in Tennessee in the early sixties\, will provide a concrete example of both the conceptual advantages of the figurational approach and the reasons for its neglect. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/figurational-sociology-the-critical-potential-of-a-european-approach-to-american-studies/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080307T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080307T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001559-1204848000-1204848000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Current State of Cold War Studies DESCRIPTION:Professor Odd Arne Westad (London School of Economics and Political Science) will discuss the current state of Cold War studies.\nProfessor Westad is the author of The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Time (Cambridge University Press\, 2005)\, which won the Bancroft Prize in 2006. He is currently editing a multi-volume series\, The Cambridge History of the Cold War. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-current-state-of-cold-war-studies/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080313T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080313T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001562-1205366400-1205366400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Cold War Legacies and Contemporary Dilemmas DESCRIPTION:Did the Cold War truly end in 1991? In Part III of The Unfinished Cold War Lecture Series\, Professor Melvyn Leffler provides some surprising answers to this question while discussing the Cold War roots of today’s international conflicts. \nMelvyn P. Leffler is a world-renowned expert on the Cold War and serves as the Edward R. Stettinius Professor in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. \nHe is author most recently of an analysis of the Cold War\, For the Soul of Mankind: The United States\, the Soviet Union\, and the Cold War\, which draws on extensive research in American and Soviet archives and offers an account of the forces that constrained Soviet and American leaders in the second half of the 20th century. \nLeffler is also author and editor of many other books and articles on U.S. foreign relations. His volume on the national security policy of the Truman administration\, A Preponderance of Power\, won the prestigious Bancroft Prize and many other awards. Leffler has also written on U.S.-European relations in the inter-war years and on the policies of the George W. Bush administration. He is now co-editing\, with Odd Arne Westad\, the three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War. \nLeffler has served as the President of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations and has been the recipient of senior fellowships from the Norwegian Nobel Peace Institute\, Woodrow Wilson International Center\, United States Institute of Peace\, Kluge Center of the Library of Congress\, and Lehrman Institute. In 2002-03\, he was the Harmsworth Professor at the University of Oxford\, and\, this past fall\, he was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Christ College\, Cambridge. \nThis lecture is sponsored by the UCSB Center for Cold War Studies and International History and by the Global & International Studies Program. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/cold-war-legacies-and-contemporary-dilemmas/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080314T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080314T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001558-1205452800-1205452800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Globalism\, Islam\, and Democracy in Iran DESCRIPTION:Professor Janet Afary will look at the impact of globalization on Islamic discourses of Iran and the region\, from Pan-Islamism of the late nineteenth century to today’s debates on Reformist Islam.\nJanet Afary has a Ph.D. in Modern Middle East History from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, where she received the Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award. Her dissertation also received the annual award for Best Dissertation of the Year from the Foundation for Iranian Studies. She is an Associate Professor of History and Women’s Studies (Joint Appointment)\, and an affiliate Associate Professor of Political Science\, at Purdue University. In 2006 Professor Afary was appointed University Faculty Scholar. This five year appointment is made by Purdue’s President. \nProfessor Afary’s latest book is Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press\, 2008). Her previous publications include The Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Grassroots Democracy\, Social Democracy\, and the Origins of Feminism (Columbia University Press\, 1996)\, which was also translated and published in Iran (Bisotoun\, 2000); and (with Kevin B. Anderson) Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (University of Chicago Press\, 2005). This book received the Latifeh Yarshater Award for Best Book in Iranian Women’s Studies and was a first runner-up for the book award from the Association for Humanist Sociology. Professor Afary has also received year-long fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS). She has served as president of the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS-MESA\, 2004-2006); the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS-MESA\, 2004-2005)\, and the Coordinating Council for Women in History of the American Historical Association (CCWH-AHA\, 2001-2003). URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/globalism-islam-and-democracy-in-iran/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080314T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080314T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001561-1205452800-1205452800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Early Modern Center Conference: Science and Technology\, 1500-1800 DESCRIPTION:The Early Modern Center of the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, in collaboration with the Transcriptions Project\, invites scholars to attend a conference on the Center’s 2007-2008 theme\, “Science & Technology\, 1500-1800.”\nThis one-day interdisciplinary conference will be a forum to explore the interrelated fields of science and technology in the early modern period. We conceive of science and technology as a broad range of social and cultural practices\, cultural and historical formations\, and epistemological perspectives. How and why were systems of knowledge created and proliferated? What particular scientific developments participated in the exploration of the body\, the mind\, time\, and space? How were individuals\, communities\, and nations affected by new systems of knowledge\, particular objects or hardware\, or advanced procedures to accomplish tasks? \nThe program (available online here) will consist of ten panelists representing a variety of disciplines\, as well as the following keynote talks: \nAnn Jensen Adams (History of Art and Architecture\, University of California\, Santa Barbara)\, “The Technology of Time and\nSeventeenth-Century Dutch Painting”\nKevis Goodman (English\, University of California\, Berkeley)\, “Medics and Aesthetics: On the Disease Formerly Known as Nostalgia”\nWilliam R. Newman (History and Philosophy of Science\, Indiana University)\, “Art\, Nature\, Alchemy\, and Newton: The Art-Nature Dichotomy in the Chymistry of Isaac Newton”\nOnline registration for the conference is available here. \nFor more information about the conference\, the Early Modern Center\, and the Transcriptions Project at UCSB\, please visit the conference website. \nThe conference is sponsored by the Early Modern Center; the College of Letters & Sciences (Division of Humanities and Fine Arts); UCSB Graduate Division; the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center; the Department of Theater & Dance; the Department of History of Art and Architecture; the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; the Department of Germanic\, Slavic & Semitic Studies; the Comparative Literature Program; the Department of History; and the Women’s Studies Program. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/early-modern-center-conference-science-and-technology-1500-1800/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080317T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080317T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001564-1205712000-1205712000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Red Cross Threads of History DESCRIPTION:The Santa Barbara Historical Museum presents “Red Cross Threads of History: A Santa Barbara County Retrospective.”\nCelebrate the American Red Cross’s 116-year-long presence in our county by visiting this exhibit of vintage Red Cross clothing\, photos\, pins\, and posters. \nThe exhibit is at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum\, Covarrubias Adobe\, 136 East De la Guerra Street. Opening hours are 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.\, and admission is free. For more information on this exhibit\, please contact Stephanie Boumediene at (805) 403-1477. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/red-cross-threads-of-history/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080321T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080321T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001553-1206057600-1206057600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference DESCRIPTION:The first Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference\, organized by the graduate students of the UCSB Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group\, will be held on Friday\, March 21 and Saturday\, March 22\, 2008.\nConference sessions begin at 1 p.m. on Friday the 21st\, and at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday the 22nd. All sessions will be held in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, on the UCSB Main Campus. To see the full list of panels\, paper titles\, and participants\, download the conference schedule. \nThe conference seeks to build on the foundation laid by contemporary scholars working with borderlands (frontier zones lying along given boundaries\, limits beyond which something– a discipline\, an ethnic group\, a ‘nation’– transforms into something else) by applying borderlands theories and concepts to the ancient world. The articulation\, maintenance\, and even transgression of such boundaries is a vibrant activity that can be observed not only within material culture\, but also in the rhetorical strategies adopted by ancient authors\, in the political and military tactics pursued by those seeking or maintaining power\, or in the establishment of ideological perimeters by believers looking to define or defend their faith. \nGraduate students from various backgrounds and disciplines will present papers\, and they will explore topics\, methods and theoretical concepts including borders both physical and ideological\, methodological approaches from archaeology to literature\, and conceptual tools such as identity and space. \nThe keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr. James F. Brooks\, the President and CEO of the School of American Research and the author of Captives and Cousins: Slavery\, Kinship\, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (2002) as well as the forthcoming Mesa of Sorrows: Archaeology\, Prophecy\, and the Ghosts of the Awat’ovi Pueblo. \nFor directions and parking information\, click here. \nIf you need any additional information about the conference\, please contact Wyatt Rounds (awr@umail.ucsb.edu)\, with “Borderlands Conference” in the subject line. \nThis conference is sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, the Multi-Campus Research Group for Late Antiquity\, the Graduate Division\, and the departments of History\, Religious Studies\, Classics\, Art History\, Anthropology\, and English at UCSB. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ancient-borderlands-international-graduate-student-conference/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080404T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080404T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112754Z UID:10001578-1207267200-1207267200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Consumerism and the End of the Cold War DESCRIPTION:Professor Emily Rosenberg delivers this year’s keynote address at the 2008 annual International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War\, taking place this year at UCSB.\nEmily Rosenberg’s research and teaching interests focus on the history of U.S. economic and cultural expansion from the late nineteenth century to the present. Her fields of interest include U.S. International Relations as well as Gender and International Relations. She explores how U.S. foreign policy assisted the remarkable cultural and economic expansionism that turned the United States into a global superpower. Two of her numerous books\, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion\, 1890-1945 and Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy\, 1900-1930\, deal with such cultural and economic concerns. Within the broad area that includes the history of U.S. international policies and Americans’ various relationships to people and countries in the rest of the world\, her research is especially attentive to issues of cultural construction and contestation. \nAmong her many professional activities\, Prof. Rosenberg has served as president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)\, been a Board member of the Organization of American Historians\, and co-edited\, with Gilbert Joseph\, the American Encounters\, Global Interactions book series for Duke University Press. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/consumerism-and-the-end-of-the-cold-war/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080404T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080404T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112754Z UID:10001572-1207267200-1207267200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Flight of Fancy: Whiteness\, Suburbanization\, and Identity in San Juan\, Puerto Rico since 1940 DESCRIPTION:Prof. Figueroa is the author of Sugar\, Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico (University of North Carolina Press\, 2005. His scholarly interests include slavery\, post-emancipation\, and racial discourses and practices in the Caribbean\, historical film (both fiction and documentary)\, and the history of Latinos/Latinas in the USA. His new research project focuses on urbanism\, suburbanization\, and colonialism in San Juan\, Puerto Rico since 1930. He is also coproducing a documentary film on Hartford in the 1960s as part of Trinity’s Hartford Studies Project.\nSponsored by the History Department’s Program on Work\, Labor\, and Democracy and the Policy History Program. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/flight-of-fancy-whiteness-suburbanization-and-identity-in-san-juan-puerto-rico-since-1940/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080404T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080404T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112754Z UID:10001576-1207267200-1207267200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War DESCRIPTION:Here at UCSB\, this Friday and Saturday\, April 4-5\, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History is hosting the 2008 annual International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War. You are welcome to attend the academic presentations! The full conference schedule is below.\nThe annual International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War provides a forum for the presentation and dicsussion of exciting new scholarship on the Cold War era by an international contingent of graduate student presenters and faculty specialists. A graduate student conference on the Cold War has been a UCSB tradition since 1996. This year\, we celebrate twelve successful years of helping show-case and guide cutting-edge graduate research on the Cold War. In 2003\, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) of the University of California at Santa Barbara\, the George Washington University Cold War Group (GWCW)\, first joined their separate spring conferences\, and two years later\, the Cold War Studies Centre (CWSC) of the London School of Economics and Political Science became a co-sponsor. The annual conference is now sponsored by and rotates among CCWS\, the GWCW\, and the CWSC. It is an honor for CCWS to once again host the annual International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War here at UCSB. \nCONFERENCE SCHEDULE \nFriday\, April 4\, 2008 \n1:00 – 1:15 pm: Opening Remarks\nSalim Yaqub (UCSB)\nHope M. Harrison (George Washington University)\nN. Piers Ludlow (London School of Economics and Political Science) \n1:15 – 2:45 pm: Cold War Crisis and Response\nChair: John E. Talbott (UCSB) \nPeng (Claire) Bai (George Washington University):\n“Statesmen\, Society\, and Post-Conflict Reconciliation during the Cold War in Europe and East Asia”\nCommentator: David Wolff (Hokkaido University) \nNathan Bennett Jones (George Washington University):\n“Operation RYAN\, Able Archer 83\, and Miscalculation: The War Scare of 1983”\nCommentator: Robert Rauchhaus (UCSB) \nTanvi Madan (UT-Austin):\n“From ‘Get Behind a Log’ to the ‘Tilt’: U.S. Policymakers’ Responses to the 1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan Crises”\nCommentator: Jason Parker (Texas A&M University) \n3:00 – 4:30 pm: Policy Initiatives from the Nixon White House\nChair: Salim Yaqub (UCSB) \nJohn Laprise (Northwestern University):\n“Tales of Urgency and Desperation: The Cold War’s Influence on White House ICT Adoption 1968-80”\nCommentator: W. Patrick McCray (UCSB) \nDavid Fitzgerald (University College Cork\, Ireland):\n“A Better War? U.S. Perceptions of Counterinsurgency Warfare in Vietnam\, 1968-73”\nCommentator: Chester Pach (Ohio University) \nSarah Thelen (American University):\n“‘Will You Help our Nation Win the Peace?’ Americans for Winning the Peace and the Nixon Administration\, 1969-1971”\nCommentator: Hugh Wilford (California State University\, Long Beach) \n4:45 pm: Keynote Address by Emily Rosenberg (UC Irvine)\n“Consumerism and the End of the Cold War” \nSaturday\, April 5\, 2008 \n8:00 – 9:00 am: Continental Breakfast for conference participants \n9:00 – 10:30 am: Labor\, Culture\, and Religion\nChair: John Sbardellati (UCSB/University of Waterloo\, Canada) \nJill Jensen (UCSB):\n“Negotiating Labor’s Role in the Postwar World: Labor Diplomacy and the International Labor Organization\, 1944-1950”\nCommentator: N. Piers Ludlow (London School of Economics & Political Science) \nChristopher Wiley (Georgetown University):\n“Ausländerstudium und Legitimität: The Politics of Educating Foreigners in the GDR\, 1949-1961”\nCommentator: Hope M. Harrison (George Washington University) \nKristen A. Shedd (UCSB):\n“Cleaning the Unitarian House of ‘Reds’: The Post World War II Purging of Editor Stephen H. Fritchman”\nCommentator: Andrew Johns (Brigham Young University) \n10:45 am – 12:15 pm: Decolonization and Its Contexts\nChair: Jessica Chapman (UCSB/Williams College) \nJovan Cavoski (London School of Economics and Political Science/Peking University):\n“Arming Nonalignment: Yugoslav Arms Shipments to Burma and the Cold War in Asia (New Evidence from Yugoslav\, Chinese\, and Indian Archives)”\nCommentator: Gregory Domber (Stanford University) \nToby Glyn\, (London School of Economics and Political Science/University of London):\n“The Impact of the Franco-Algerian War on Anglo-French Relations between 1958-1959”\nCommentator: John E. Talbott (UCSB) \nRyan Irwin (Ohio State University):\n“In the Halls of Justice: South West Africa and the Politics of Post-Colonialism\, 1960-1966”\nCommentator: Leo Lovelace (California State University\, Long Beach) \n12:15 – 1:15 pm: LUNCH for conference participants \n1:15 – 2:00 pm: Faculty Roundtable:\n“Turning Your Paper into a Journal Article”\nHope M. Harrison\, Andrew Johns\, Chester Pach\, Jason Parker \n2:15 – 3:45 pm: The Kremlin’s Cold War\nChair: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (UCSB) \nDimitri Akulov (UCSB):\n“Soviet Foreign Policy and Politics of the Grand Alliance\, 1941-1943: A Missed Chance to Avoid the Cold War?”\nCommentator: Hope M. Harrison (George Washington University) \nOscar Sanchez (University of Chicago):\n“The Useful Soviet Union”\nCommentator: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (UCSB) \nKyung Deok (Ken) Roh (University of Chicago):\n“Headquarters for the Old\, Foreign\, and Jewish: Rethinking the Varga Controversy and the End of the Institute of World Economy and World Politics\, 1941-1953”\nCommentator: David Wolff (Hokkaido University) \n4:00 – 5:30pm: The Middle East\nChair: Nancy Gallagher (UCSB) \nArcher A. Montague (North Carolina State University):\n“The United States\, Saudi Arabia\, and the Outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War: A Reappraisal”\nCommentator: Salim Yaqub (UCSB) \nRaabia Shafi (George Washington University):\n“‘Like water dissolving in sand’: The Role of Islam in the Context of Soviet and American Foreign Policy towards Afghanistan\, 1979-1989”\nCommentator: Juan E. Campo (UCSB) \nVictor McFarland (Yale University):\n“‘This Little Crisis’: The Kennedy Administration and the Yemeni Civil War\, 1962-1963”\nCommentator: Salim Yaqub (UCSB) \n5:45 – 6:00pm: Concluding Remarks\nTsuyoshi Hasegawa (UCSB) URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/international-graduate-student-conference-on-the-cold-war/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080407T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080407T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112751Z UID:10001521-1207526400-1207526400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Food fit for Pharaohs: Food and Drink in Ancient Egypt DESCRIPTION:About this LectureThe annual Kress Lecture is sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. \nDirections to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art may be found here. \nFor more information about the Archaeological Institute of America\, click here. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr. Salima Ikram\, a well known Egyptologist\, is an associate professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo\, a participant in many Egyptian archaeological projects\, the author of several books on Egyptian archaeology\, a contributor to various magazines\, and a frequent guest on television shows on the topic. Dr. Ikram studied Egyptology and archaeology at Bryn Mawr College\, Pennsylvania\, earning an A.B. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology and History. Continuing her studies at Cambridge University\, she earned her M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Egyptology and museum studies. While working for her Ph.D. she also trained in faunal analysis. Dr. Ikram now lives in Cairo and teaches Egyptology and archaeology at the American University in Cairo. She is the correspondent for KMT\, a popular Egyptological journal\, and a frequent contributor to Egypt Today. She is the co-director of the Animal Mummy Project at the Egyptian Museum. Since 2001\, Ikram has directed\, with Corinna Rossi\, the North Kharga Oasis Survey. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/food-fit-for-pharaohs-food-and-drink-in-ancient-egypt/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080410T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080410T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112754Z UID:10001475-1207785600-1207785600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Conspiracy: The 1942 Wannsee Conference DESCRIPTION:On January 20\, 1942\, 15 high ranking German officers gathered in a villa on the outskirts of Berlin for a clandestine meeting that would ultimately seal the fate of the European Jewish population. Ninety minutes later\, the blueprint for Hitler’s Final Solution was in place. The Wannsee Protocol\, found in the files of the Reich’s Foreign Office\, is the only document where the details of Hitler’s maniacal plan were actually codified\, and serves as the basis for this intriguing film. Starring Kenneth Branagh\, Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci. (2001\, 112 min.)\nDirector Frank Pierson\, former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\, will introduce the film and answer audience questions following the screening. Pierson’s long list of distinguished credits includes co-authoring the screenplays for the Academy Award-nominated film Cool Hand Luke and the Academy Award-winning film Dog Day Afternoon; as well as directing the rock music film A Star is Born. \nAfterwards Pierson will discuss the film with Profs. Marcuse (History)\, Holt (Film & Media Studies)\, and Hecht (Religious Studies). URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/conspiracy-the-1942-wannsee-conference/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080410T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080410T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112754Z UID:10001574-1207785600-1207785600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Hegel\, Haiti and Universal History DESCRIPTION:Professor Buck-Morss’ lecture entitled “Hegel\, Haiti and Universal History” connects Haiti’s revolution to political universality\, questioning the adequacy of multiculturalism and alternative modernities as approaches to historical scholarship today.\nSusan Buck-Morss is Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory in the Department of Government\, Cornell University\, and member of the graduate fields of Comparative Literature\, German Studies\, History of Art and Visual Studies\, and the School of Art\, Architecture and City and Regional Planning. Her books include Hegel\, Haiti\, and Universal History (Pittsburgh University Press\, 2008)\, Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (Verso\, 2003); Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (MIT Press\, 2000); The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (MIT Press\, 1989); and The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno\, Walter Benjamin\, and the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School (Free Press\, 1977; 2nd ed.\, 2002). \nSponsored by the Series in Contemporary Literature\, the InterdisciplinaryHumanities Center\, the Center for Black Studies\, the College of Creative Studies\, the Comparative Literature Program\, the Departments of French and Italian\, Germanic\, Slavic\, and Semitic Studies\, and History. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/hegel-haiti-and-universal-history/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080411T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080411T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112754Z UID:10001476-1207872000-1207872000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Writing History and Lyric in Trilingual England DESCRIPTION:Ralph Hanna\, Professor of Paleography and Fellow of Keble College\, Oxford University “The Matter of Fulk: Romance and History in Fourteenth-Century Shropshire” \nFouke le Fitz Waryn\, an Anglo-Norman prose text of c. 1325-30\, is the only surviving full rendition of a narrative retold at least three times\, in English and French\, during the period c.1260-c.1400. Most of the text is devoted to Fulk III’s quite historical revolt against King John in 1201-3. But the text has always appeared problematic\, since the tale of Fulk’s disobedience has acquired a patina of ‘romance’ materials very far from plausible\, let alone historical. The lecture examines aspects of this presentation\, far from limited to this text but ubiquitous in insular historical writing and romance. \nSeth Lerer\, Avalon Foundation Professor in Humanities\, Stanford University\n“The English Lyric in a Trilingual World” \nThrough looking at the lyrics of the famous Harley MS collection\, the paper explores the ways in which English\, French\, and Latin interact to challenge our modern notions of vernacularity and our historical sense of the vernacular short poem. The paper argues that the study of the English lyric has gone on in a radically de-historicized manner\, as we encounter them in anthologies and collections that efface the original manuscript contexts of the works. Restoring these poems to their original contexts helps us understand how English\, French\, and Latin constituted strata\, in effect\, of vernacular expression in lyric forms. It also helps us understand the ways in which these poems may be less the personal articulations of an emotive voice and more the literate performances or ventriloquisms of learned tropes and conventions. Finally\, the paper realigns the study of the medieval lyric away from the formalist appreciations of the Dronke tradition and towards a method that stresses distinctive histories of language\, manuscript production and reception\, and genre. \nFor more information\, contact Carol Pasternack. \nSponsored by Medieval Studies\, the Department of History\, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/writing-history-and-lyric-in-trilingual-england/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080414T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080414T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112754Z UID:10001580-1208131200-1208131200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Topography and the Inscriptions of Ephesos: What Findspots Reveal about Socio-Cultural History DESCRIPTION:Since the beginnings of archaeological research in Ephesos\, inscriptions have played a central role as an essential source for the analysis of its socio-historical milieu. Their archaeological context\, however\, has never been presented systematially\, since the inscriptions have been published piecemeal in the service of specific topical interests. Since the majority of the Ephesian inscriptions were not found in situ\, their findspots reveal a great deal about secondary use and about the broader patterns of destruction and change in the use of large urban areas.\nAlexander Sokolicek is director of the Magnesian gate project under the aegis of the Ephesos excavations of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. He holds an M.A. (1997) and Ph.D. (2003) from the University of Vienna\, in the combined course of Classical Archaeology\, Ancient History\, Epigraphy\, Papyrology and Ancient Numismatics. His research interests concern fortifications and urban studies in the ancient Mediterranean. \nThis talk is sponsored by the Archaeology Research Focus Group of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/topography-and-the-inscriptions-of-ephesos-what-findspots-reveal-about-socio-cultural-history/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080415T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080415T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112754Z UID:10001473-1208217600-1208217600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Counting Slaves in the Early Modern Mediterranean DESCRIPTION:Prof. Robert Davis (Ohio State University) will present a chapter of his new research project entitled “Counting slaves in the Early Modern Mediterranean.” The chapter will be distributed in advance to those who request it\, and a cold lunch will be served. Please contact Claudio Fogu in the Department of French and Italian (cfogu@french-ital.ucsb.edu) for a copy of the chapter and to reserve your spot for lunch.\nRobert Davis is professor of Italian Renaissance and Early-modern Mediterranean history. He has researched and published on Italian and especially Venetian – society and popular culture during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. He is the author of Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP\, 1991)\, The War of the Fists (New York: Oxford UP\, 1994)\, and Christian Slaves\, Muslim Masters (London: Palgrave UP\, 2003); and co-author of Venice\, Tourist Maze (Berkeley: University of California Press\, 2004). He has also contributed to and co-edited two collected volumes on Italian Renaissance topics: (with Judith C. Brown) Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy (Harlow\, UK: Longman\, 1998); and (with Benjamin Ravid) The Jews of Early Modern Venice (Baltimore\, Johns Hopkins UP\, 2001). URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/counting-slaves-in-the-early-modern-mediterranean/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080415T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080415T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112754Z UID:10001474-1208217600-1208217600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Celebration of Slavery in the Christian-Muslim World DESCRIPTION:Following his 12-2 p.m. seminar\, Prof. Davis will give a talk on “The Celebration of Slavery in the Christian-Muslim World.” Refreshments will be served around 5:30.\nRobert Davis is professor of Italian Renaissance and Early-modern Mediterranean history. He has researched and published on Italian and especially Venetian – society and popular culture during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. He is the author of Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP\, 1991)\, The War of the Fists (New York: Oxford UP\, 1994)\, and Christian Slaves\, Muslim Masters (London: Palgrave UP\, 2003); and co-author of Venice\, Tourist Maze (Berkeley: University of California Press\, 2004). He has also contributed to and co-edited two collected volumes on Italian Renaissance topics: (with Judith C. Brown) Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy (Harlow\, UK: Longman\, 1998); and (with Benjamin Ravid) The Jews of Early Modern Venice (Baltimore\, Johns Hopkins UP\, 2001). URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-celebration-of-slavery-in-the-christian-muslim-world/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080416T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080416T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112755Z UID:10001478-1208304000-1208304000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Magnesian Gate in Ephesos: New Research on the Main City Gate DESCRIPTION:The so-called Magnesian Gate is a component of the oldest city walls of Ephesos\, which date to the Hellenistic period and served as the main entry into the city until late antiquity. This presentation will examine the chronology of the architecture and the various functions of this location\, first as a waystation on the sacred processional route in the Hellenistic and Roman periods\, then as a cemetery in late antiquity.\nAlexander Sokolicek is director of the Magnesian gate project under the aegis of the Ephesos excavations of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. He holds an M.A. (1997) and Ph.D. (2003) from the University of Vienna\, in the combined course of Classical Archaeology\, Ancient History\, Epigraphy\, Papyrology and Ancient Numismatics. His research interests concern fortifications and urban studies in the ancient Mediterranean. \nA reception will follow the talk. For more information\, please contact Elizabeth Digeser in the History Department. \nThis event is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-magnesian-gate-in-ephesos-new-research-on-the-main-city-gate/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080418T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080418T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001568-1208476800-1208476800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Aeschylus' Persians and the Greek-Persian Wars DESCRIPTION:The Athenian playwright Aeschylus (?525-456 BC)\, author of more than seventy plays\, was also a veteran of the Greek-Persian Wars of 490-479 BC. Aeschylus fought at both the land battle of Marathon (490 BC)\, and at the naval battle of Salamis (480 BC). His brother Cynegirus was killed at Marathon.\nThe Persians is one of only seven of Aeschylus’ plays to have survived intact since antiquity. It is also the earliest extant Greek tragedy. The play was produced in 472 BC\, just eight years after the battle of Salamis which it describes. \nUCSB historian URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/aeschylus-persians-and-the-greek-persian-wars/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080418T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080418T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112751Z UID:10001529-1208476800-1208476800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Building Successful Regions DESCRIPTION:Margaret Weir is the author of Politics and Jobs: The Boundaries of Employment Policy in the United States (1992)\, and The Social Divide (1998). She is now working on a study of metropolitan inequalities in the United States\, with a particular focus on the politics of coalition-building in Chicago and Los Angeles. Sponsored by the Program in Work\, Labor and Political Economy and the Policy History Program. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/building-successful-regions/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080419T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080419T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112752Z UID:10001540-1208563200-1208563200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Constructing Sectarianism in the Middle East and South Asia DESCRIPTION:The CMES 10th Annual Middle East Studies Conference\nScholars will present papers offering in-depth analyses of sectarianism in the Middle East and South Asia. The theme of the 10th Annual Middle East Studies Conference is to examine critically the concept and evolution of sectarianism. Special focus is placed on the role played by foreign powers\, such as the United States\, in prompting sectarian conflict or in other ways making sectarian identity fundamental to contemporary political\, social\, and economic systems. \n” General media coverage of recent conflict in Iraq\, Afghanistan\, Pakistan\n” Gender\, class\, and ethnicity\n” The role of piety and pilgrimage\n” War and refugees \nLocation: Mosher Alumni House\, UC Santa Barbara \nTentative Schedule \nSaturday\, April 19th \n9:00-11:05 a.m. Iran\, Iraqi refuees in Jordan\, and Turkey \n11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m India\, Pakistan\, and media coverage \n12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch \n2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Plenary panel:\n “The ‘New’ Middle East and its Social Categories: Producing Knowledge\, Space and Identities\,” Prof. Julie Peteet (Anthropology\, University of Louisville)\n “Five Years and Counting: An Assessment of the Iraq War\,” Dahr Jamail (Independent Media Reporter) \n4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Free concert\, UCSB Middle East Ensemble \nThe USCB Center for Middle East Studies thanks the conference supporters: The UC Humanities Research Institute\, and the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/constructing-sectarianism-in-the-middle-east-and-south-asia/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080423T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080423T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112754Z UID:10001582-1208908800-1208908800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Massacre at Nueva Linda DESCRIPTION:The documentary film “Massacre at Nueva Linda” documents the 2004 massacre of a community protesting in Guatemala. Over two hundred families were violently evicted by over 1\,000 police and armed military reserves. The film investigate the massacre and the ways in which counterinsurgency methods developed during the civil war of the 1970s and 1980s have persisted. At the time\, the massacre at Nueva Linda was the greatest human rights violation since the peace accords were signed in 1996. Since then\, there have been many more more violent evictions. Directed by Filiberto Nolasco Gomez\, 40 min\, 2008\, USA.\nDirector Filiberto Nolasco Gomez is a UCSB History Ph.D. student. He will lead a question and answer session after the screening. For more information\, visit the Multicultural Center web site. \njwil 14.iv.08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/massacre-at-nueva-linda/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080425T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080425T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112755Z UID:10001583-1209081600-1209081600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Race\, Labor and Power: the Career of Jack O'Dell DESCRIPTION:Professor Singh teaches history at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author of Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy; When This Time is Named: Jack O’Dell and the Black Freedom Movement\, and The Afterlife of Fascism: A Post-World War II History (work in progress).\nSingh’s talk is sponsored by the New Racial Studies Initiative and the Center for the Study of Work Labor and Democracy. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/race-labor-and-power-the-career-of-jack-odell/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080426T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080426T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001566-1209168000-1209168000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"The Pill Comes from Mexico?" Wild Yams\, Steroids\, and the Global Quest for Pharmaceuticals DESCRIPTION:UCSB History Associates Presents a special event for All-Gaucho Reunion Weekend.\nProfessor Gabriela Soto Laveaga will talk about the wild Mexican yam called barbasco that transformed modern pharmaceuticals\, and tell the story of the peasant farmers who learned how to deal with the world’s biggest drug companies. \nIn the 1940s\, rheumatoid arthritis afflicted more Americans than cancer\, polio\, and tuberculosis combined. What seemed more troubling\, however\, was that there was no apparent cure. Though research with steroid hormones had yielded some remarkable results\, it was nearly impossible to synthesize steroids in commercial qualities. But research taking place in Mexico\, using wild Mexican yams\, transformed patent medication and chemical research in the 20th century. It also laid the groundwork for the creation of the first active oral contraceptive\, made in Mexico but patented in the U.S. \nAlthough Mexico and Mexicans do not feature prominently in most accounts of scientific discovery during the 20th century\, this talk hopes to encourage thought about the social consequences of the global search for medicinal plants by focusing on the thousands of Mexicans hired to dig up the wondrous\, steroid-producing yam. \nThe talk will be in Room 4020 of the Humanities & Social Sciences Building (HSSB)\, on the UCSB campus.\nAdmission is FREE and parking is also FREE (courtesy of the UCSB Alumni Association). \nFor more information\, or to make arrangements to accommodate a disability\, call UCSB Community Relations at 893-4388. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-pill-comes-from-mexico-wild-yams-steroids-and-the-global-quest-for-pharmaceuticals/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080430T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080430T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112755Z UID:10001480-1209513600-1209513600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges DESCRIPTION:The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are an historic opportunity for China to show the world it has theconfidence to make progress in ensuring basic human rights for its 1.3 billion citizens. With a few months until the opening ceremonies however\, the Chinese government is more worried about political stability\, and is tightening its grip on domestic human rights defenders\, grassroots activists\, and the media to choke off any possible expressions of dissent ahead of the Games. Minky Worden will discuss the crackdown on press freedom\, forced evictions\, house arrests\, and the exploitation of migrant workers in preparation for the Olympics. \nAs Media Director of Human Rights Watch\, Minky Worden works with the world’s journalists to help them cover crises\, wars\, human rights abuses and political developments in more than 70 countries worldwide. From 1992-1998\, Ms. Worden lived and worked in Hong Kong as the chief of staff for Democratic Party chairman Martin Lee. Ms. Worden is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, speaks Cantonese and German\, and is an elected member of the Overseas Press Club’s Board of Governors. She is the editor of China’s Great Leap: The Beijing Gamesand Olympian Human Rights Challenges\, to be published by Seven Stories in May 2008. \nSponsored by the Santa Barbara Chapter of Human Rights Watch\, Global & International Studies Program\, and the Law and Society Program. \nhm 4/23; jwil 4/28 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/chinas-great-leap-the-beijing-games-and-olympian-human-rights-challenges/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080501T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080501T000000 DTSTAMP:20260408T012304 CREATED:20150928T112755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112755Z UID:10001481-1209600000-1209600000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Sophie Scholl: The Last Days" DESCRIPTION:Directed by Marc Rothemund\, 2005\, 120 mins.2005 Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film\, “Sophie Scholl – The Final Days.” is the true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to thrilling dramatic life. Sophie Scholl stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group\, The White Rose. Armed with long-buried historical records of her incarceration\, director Marc Rothemund expertly re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl’s life: a heart-stopping journey from arrest to interrogation\, trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades\, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless.\nSponsored by the German Film Series. Admission is free.\nhm4/23;jwil 4/28 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/sophie-scholl-the-last-days/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR