The Silk Road: A New History
2013-03-07 00:00 (America/Denver)
Whenever we speak of the Silk Road, the mind’s eye conjures up a single merchant traveling on a camel laden with goods, most likely on his way to Rome. The discovery of multiple artifacts and excavated documents in northwest China allows us to revise this image. In fact, few people moving along the Silk Road were long-distance merchants. Under tight government supervision, merchants usually stayed on circuits close to home and exchanged goods for other goods, often not using coins at all. Other Silk Road travelers included missionaries, refugees, artists, and envoys, who have left the clearest document footprint of all. The most active foreign community in China were Sogdians, migrants from Samarkand and the surrounding areas. They found new homes in the small oasis-states ringing the Taklamakan Desert whose rulers encouraged religious tolerance as they welcomed newcomers to their realms.
About Dr. Valerie Hansen
Valerie Hansen teaches Chinese and world history at Yale, where she is professor of history. Her main research goal is to draw on nontraditional sources to capture the experience of ordinary people. In particular she is interested in how sources buried in the ground, whether intentionally or unintentionally, supplement the detailed official record of China’s past. Her books include The Open Empire: A History of China to 1600, Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China, Voyages in World History (coauthor), and, just published in the summer of 2012, The Silk Road: A New History. In the past decade, she has spent three years in China: 2005-06 in Shanghai on a Fulbright grant; and 2008-09 and 2011-12, teaching at Yale’s joint undergraduate program with Peking University. She was the principal investigator, from 1995 to 1998, of The Silk Road Project: Reuniting Turfan’s Scattered Treasures. The project held three international conferences and compiled a bilingual Chinese-English finding guide to over 3,000 artifacts.
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program
The Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program makes available each year a dozen or so distinguished scholars who will visit colleges and universities with chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. They spend two days on each campus, meeting informally with students and faculty members, taking part in classroom discussions, and giving a public lecture open to the entire academic community. The purpose of the program is to contribute to the intellectual life of the institution by making possible an exchange of ideas between the Visiting Scholars and the resident faculty and students. Now entering its 57th year, the Visiting Scholar Program has sent 600 Scholars on 4,917 two-day visits since it was established in 1956. Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest academic honor society. It has chapters at 280 institutions and more than half a million members throughout the country. Its mission is to champion education in the liberal arts and sciences, to recognize academic excellence, and to foster freedom of thought and expression.
The History Department is co-sponsoring her talk with the campus chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, for whom she is a Visiting Scholar.
hm 2/20/13

The Making of Global Capitalism
2013-04-02 00:00
The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today, with global markets roiling and increasingly reliant on state intervention to stay afloat, it has become clear that markets and states aren’t straightforwardly opposing forces.
In this groundbreaking work, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin demonstrate the intimate relationship between modern capitalism and the American state, including its role as an “informal empire” promoting free trade and capital movements. Through a powerful historical survey, they show how the US has superintended the restructuring of other states in favor of competitive markets and coordinated the management of increasingly frequent financial crises.
The Making of Global Capitalism, through its highly original analysis of the first great economic crisis of the twenty-first century, identifies the centrality of the social conflicts that occur within states rather than between them. These emerging fault lines hold out the possibility of new political movements transforming nation states and transcending global markets.
Leo Panitch, Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, York University, has edited The Socialist Register since 1985. Sam Gindin, was for many years Research Director of the Canadian Auto Workers.
Sponsored by the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.

Of Time and Space
2013-04-05 00:00
At 4PM on April 5, Prof. Zorina Kahn (Bowdoin College) will discuss a paper entitled “Of Time and Space: Technological Spillovers among Patents and Unpatented Innovation in early U.S. Industrialization.”
Kahn is chair of Bowdoin’s economics department and the author of the award-winning The Democratization of Innovation . Her talk assesses the role of institutional mechanisms in generating technological knowledge spillovers. The estimation is over panel datasets of federal patent grants, and innovations that were granted prizes at annual industrial fairs of the American Institute of New York, between 1835 and 1870. One part of the talk tests the hypothesis of spatial autocorrelation in patenting and in the exhibited innovations. In keeping with the contract theory of patents, the procedure identifies high and statistically significant spatial autocorrelation, indicating the prevalence of geographical spillovers in the sample of inventions that were patented. The second part of the talk investigates whether per capita innovations/prizes in a county were affected by patenting in contiguous or adjacent counties. These results are consistent with the argument that patents enhance the diffusion of information for both patented and unpatented innovations, whereas inventions that garner prizes are less effective in generating external benefits from knowledge spillovers.

Of Human and Divine Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in Augustine
2013-04-05 00:00
A specialist on the later Roman Empire and its transformation into a Christian state,Professor Elm’s research bridges intellectual and social history and focuses on interactions
between Christians and “pagans” in late antiquity. In this talk, she asks how ideas of
bondage and practices of unfree labor influenced the formation of theological maxims in
the writings of Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE). By analyzing the complex language in
slavery in Augustine’s letters, Professor Elm situates his writings in the context of the major
social and economic changes that reshaped the Roman world in the fifth century and
explores how closely the metaphors of slavery that Augustine and his peers employed in
their writings related to social realities they encountered on a daily basis.
A reception with refreshments will immediately follow.
Sponsored by the California
Consortium for the Study of Late Antiquity.
hm 4/2/13

Orchestra of Exiles, A Documentary In Commemoration of Yom HaShoah
2013-04-07 00:00
Holocaust Remembrance Week Inaugural Event, admission free
Orchestra of Exiles recounts the dramatic story of Bronislaw Huberman, the
celebrated Polish violinist who rescued some of the world’s greatest
musicians from Nazi Germany and then created one of the world’s greatest
orchestras, the Palestine Philharmonic (which would become the Israeli
Philharmonic). This feature-length documentary mixes period photographs,
newsreels, and interviews with Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell and
Pinchas Zukerman to recreate a too-little-known and highly significant
piece of history. With courage, resourcefulness and an entourage of allies
including Arturo Toscanini and Albert Einstein, Huberman saved close to
1000 Jews – along with the musical heritage of Europe. “A nearly forgotten
figure has been resurrected, his humanitarian and professional achievements
given proper due. I defy you to leave with a dry eye.” — Allen Ellenzweig,
The Forward. The Santa Barbara premiere of Orchestra of Exiles will include
a personal appearance by its writer/director/producer, Josh Aronson, whose
film, Sound and Fury, was nominated for an Academy Award.
hm 4/4/13

“Technology, Gender, and History: The Case of Late Imperial China”
2013-04-09 00:00
Technologies played a dramatic role in birthing the modern industrial world, so it is hardly surprising that classic and widely familiar histories of technology trace narratives of triumphant Western progress, contrasted to backwardness or stagnation in other societies around the world. But in recent years historians of Western technology have become less interested in technology as a catalyst of human progress, and more interested in how technical practices shape social identities, symbolic systems and power relations. In the case of China, historians of technology likewise spend less time now struggling to explain why China “failed to progress” after 1400, asking instead what they can learn by mapping the technological landscapes of imperial China, and by considering what social and symbolic as well as material work technologies performed in imperial society.
Dr. Francesca Bray is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh and President-elect of The Society for the History of Technology. Her research includes the history of science, technology and medicine in China, and the anthropology of technology in the contemporary world, including the politics of everyday domestic technologies in California. Her most recent publication is The Warp and the Weft: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China (Brill, 2007) and has 2 forthcoming works, Rice: New Networks and Global Histories (Cambridge) and .Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered (Routledge, expected May 2013).
updated hm 4/3/13

Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
2013-04-10 00:00
In this talk, Fredrik Logevall discusses his highly acclaimed new book, EMBERS OF WAR: THE FALL OF AN EMPIRE AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA’S VIETNAM. Drawing on newly available documents from several nations, and making full use of the vast published literature, Prof. Logevall surveys the broad sweep of the Vietnam War. He begins with the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference, where a young Ho Chi Minh attempted to petition President Woodrow Wilson for Vietnamese independence, and ends with a 1959 Viet Cong ambush, resulting in the first U.S. combat deaths of the war. Along the way, Prof. Logevall helps us unravel the mystery of how two great powers, France and the United States, could have been drawn into such disastrous ventures.
Fredrik Logevall is John S. Knight Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of numerous books on the Vietnam War and international relations, including CHOOSING WAR: THE LOST CHANCE FOR PEACE AND THE ESCALATION OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1999), THE ORIGINS OF THE VIETNAM WAR (2001), EMBERS OF WAR: THE FALL OF AN EMPIRE AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA’S VIETNAM (2012), and, with Campbell Craig, AMERICA’S COLD WAR: THE POLITICS OF INSECURITY (2009).
hm 4/5/13

The Universal Polytheism: Interpretatio Graeco-Romana
2013-04-12 00:00
Join us for a talk by Robert C.T. Parker (Wykeham Professor of Ancient History and Fellow of New College, Oxford University) on Friday, April 12th at 2:00 pm in HSSB 4080. Dr. Parker is Visiting Sather Professor of Classical Literature for Spring 2013.
Sponsored by the departments of Classics, History, Religious Studies, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

American Coasts: Past and Future
2013-04-18 00:00
Before there were coasts there were shores. In this talk, John Gillis explores the emergence of modern coasts, which, beginning in the eighteenth century, displaced older notions of shore. The creation of coasts has been a global phenomenon, but in this talk Prof. Gillis focuses on the American experience. He examines the effects of coasts on America’s natural environment and on the human populations whose first home was the shore, revealing the predicaments we face today.
John Gillis is Professor Emeritus of History at Rutgers University. He received his PhD from Stanford University and has taught at Stanford, Princeton, and the University of California, Berkeley. He has written numerous books, including YOUTH AND HISTORY: TRADITION AND CHANGE IN EUROPEAN AGE RELATIONS, 1750-PRESENT (1974), A WORLD OF THEIR OWN MAKING: MYTH, RITUAL, AND THE QUEST FOR FAMILY VALUES (1996), ISLANDS OF THE MIND: HOW THE HUMAN IMAGINATION CREATED THE ATLANTIC WORLD (2004), and THE HUMAN SHORE: SEACOASTS IN HISTORY (2012)
The event is jointly sponsored by the UCSB Department of History and the Center for Cold War Studies and International History.
hm 4/10/13, 4/16

Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth Century America
2013-04-19 00:00
Michael Zakim offers a paper entitled “Paperwork,” a social and cultural exploration of antebellum clerkship and the relationship of that species of “nonproductive labor” to the emergence of modern American capitalism. His paper can be found here.
About our speaker:
Michael Zakim is Professor of History at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men’s Dress in the American Republic (2003); and editor of Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America (2012).

Dakota 38
2013-04-24 00:00
Native spiritual leader Jim Miller and a group of riders retraced the 330-mile route on horseback from Lower Brule, South Dakota to Mankato, Minnesota to arrive at the hanging site of 38 Dakota ancestors on the anniversary of their execution ordered by President Lincoln. This is the story of their journey- the blizzards they endure, the Native and Non-Native communities that house and feed them along the way as well as the dark history they wipe away. Smooth Feather Productions, 78 min., English, 2012, USA.
hm 4/6/13

The Desert Stones Speak: Women, Men, and Cycles of Evangelism in the SW Borderlands
2013-04-25 00:00
This event is co-sponsored by the History Associates and the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2013. The cost is $8 for HA members, $10 for non-members.
Four “big ideas” swept across the Southwest borderlands of North
American in the thousand years preceding the consolidation of the
Spanish colony of New Mexico. The Chaco Phenomenon, the Katsina
Religion, Franciscan Catholicism and Po’Pay’s Peublo Revolt used
evangelical methods to effect a dynamic reorganization of popular
religious, cultural, and political beliefs. In this illustrated lecture, Dr.
James Brooks explores how these “big ideas” continue to resonate in
regional memories and life ways.
About our speaker
Dr. James Brooks is president of the School for
Advanced Research in Santa Fe. A gifted scholar
and lecturer, Dr. Brooks is the recipient of more
than a dozen national awards. His 2002 book,
Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and
Community in the Southwest Borderlands
focused on the traffic in women and children
across the region as expressions of intercultural
violence and accomodation. Dr. Brooks served on
the UCSB History faculty from 2000 to 2003
and currently is teaching a graduate seminar here.
Museum of Natural History
2559 Puesta del Sol
The Museum is located off Mission St., just beyond
the Old Mission. We will meet in Farrand
Hall. There is ample free parking.
Coffee and cookies will be provided.
hm 4/10/13

Paradise Lost? Zahra's Paradise and the Future of Politics in Modern Iran
2013-04-25 00:00
Click the link below for full information on this talk.
jwil 22.iv.2013

The Modern Life of Roman Republicanism
2013-04-26 00:00
Joy Connolly works mainly on Roman ideas about communication, education, and governance, and their ongoing relevance for the modern world. Her first book, The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome, was published by Princeton in 2007; her second, a book about republicanism called Talk about Virtue, is under contract with Duckworth Press. She has written articles on Roman political theory, elegiac and pastoral poetry, rhetorical education, and the seventeenth century reception of classical literature and political thought, and her book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the Women’s Review of Books, Bookforum, and TLS. Her forthcoming work includes essays on the exemplarity of Rome in eighteenth century American education, the framing of ethical choice in Vergil’s Aeneid, and the relation of torture and justice in early imperial Roman rhetoric.
Friday, April 26, 2013
2:00 PM
HSSB 4080
A public reception will immediately follow in the Classics Reading Room (HSSB 4075)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics

Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts
2013-04-26 00:00
Dr. Daly Thompson will talk about her new book.
For fuller details, including abstract, please visit the URL below.
Chapter One of the book is available from Prof. Chikowero for reading before the talk.
hm 4/10/13

The Intellectual as Agent: Politics and Independence in the Lives of Ignazio Silone
2013-04-26 00:00
Professor Saccarelli offers insights on Silone’s role as a secret collaborator with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. His paper can be found here.
About our speaker:
Emmanuel Saccarelli an Associate Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University, and is the author of Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism (2008).
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.

Beyond Race, Gender, and Class: Understanding the Roots of Privilege
2013-04-30 00:00
Using the concept of privilege in race, gender, and class, this discussion will raise questions about systems and structures of power that can allow us to go beyond polite “diversity talk” to discuss what would be needed to transform our society and promote justice and sustainability. Any serious effort toward those goals must confront the structures of power in the contemporary United States that produce such profound inequality. Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the Universityof Texas at Austin and author of Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialogue (City Lights, 2013) and The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege (City Lights, 2005).
hm 4/3/13

Imagining House Churches in Light of Evidence for Cultic Activities in the Terrace Houses in Ephesus
2013-05-06 00:00
In addition to evidence for household cults in the terrace houses at Ephesus, three of the units contained installations for cultic activities that “blur” the traditional distinction between public and private space. The likely identification of Terrace House 2 as that of C. Vibius Salutaris offers additional commentary on important aspects of such “blurring” through details preserved in the 568 line inscription recording the terms of his bequest. Although it is extremely unlikely that any early Christians would have lived in houses as “rich” as the terrace houses excavated at Ephesus, they provide important comparative materials for imagining how religious activities within domestic space could welcome persons from outside the household while enhancing the status of the owner.
Professor Walters’ interests focus on Pauline studies and especially on the urban social context of Pauline communities in the Aegean basin (Greece and western Asia Minor). He is the author of one book, Ethnic Issues in Paul’s Letter to the Romans, and a number of scholarly essays.
Reception to follow.

Forty Years of Endangered Species: Conflict and Conservation in California and Beyond
2013-05-08 00:00
The landmark federal Endangered Species Act—the most powerful and comprehensive U.S. environmental law, and the most ambitious biodiversity conservation statute ever enacted by any country—turns forty in 2013. Is this anniversary cause for celebration or despair? What have we learned during the past four decades? Why is endangered species conservation so complicated? And why do efforts to preserve species often result in such bitter controversy? This year’s Plous lecture will address these questions, place them in a broader historical context, and discuss some of the challenges and opportunities for conservation in the twenty-first century.
Peter S. Alagona is an assistant professor of history and environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before joining the UCSB faculty, he was a Beagle Environmental Fellow in the Center for the Environment and Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a postdoctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford.
The Harold J. Plous Memorial Award was established in 1957 to honor Harold J. Plous,
Assistant Professor of Economics. The award is given annually to a faculty member of the rank of
Assistant Professor or Instructor who has demonstrated outstanding performance by creative action
or contribution to the intellectual life of the college community.
hm 5/6/13

The Making of "The Atomic Cafe"
2013-05-09 00:00
> Released in 1982, “The Atomic Cafe” was a masterful compilation of > U.S. government propaganda films that exposed the madness of the
> nuclear arms race. Jayne Loader, one of the film’s directors,
> screens excerpts of the documentary and engages the audience in a
> discussion of her work process. Also taking part in the
> conversation are Prof. Charles Wolfe (Film and Media Studies), Prof.
> Salim Yaqub (History), and Kenneth Hough, PhD candidate in history.
>
> Born in Weatherford, TX and educated at Reed College in Oregon,
> Jayne Loader is a filmmaker and writer. In 1982 she co-directed the
> cult classic, “The Atomic Cafe.” Loader is the author of a novel,
> BETWEEN PICTURES, and a short story collection, WILD AMERICA. In the
> 1990s she created WWWench, one of the first blogs. Ms. Loader lives
> in Cambridge, MA and Friendship, ME.
hm 5/8/13

Remembering War, Looking Forward
2013-05-09 00:00
This is the closing talk and reception as part of the IHC’s Fallout: In the Aftermath of War series, with series closing remarks by IHC director Susan Derwin.
Historian John Lee offers closing reflections on the year’s IHC program, Fallout. Using as a starting point the war memoirs of Xenophon (ca. 427-355 BC), Lee considers our changing visions of war, memory and trauma, war memoirs, and the relationship between war and the humanities.
Sponsored by the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.
hm 5/7/13

“The Widening Gyre: Colonial Labor, Guestworkers, and the End of Empire.”
2013-05-10 00:00
Professor Hahamovitch explores exploited labor systems in the colonial period and the guest worker programs in the United States during the post-war period.
About our speaker:
Cindy Hahamovitch is the author of The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 (1997). Her No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor (2012) won the Rawley and Curti Awards from the Organization of American Historians as well as the Philip Taft Labor History Prize. Her paper can be found here.

The Plague! Making Sense of Epidemics, Contagions, and Pestilence
2013-05-16 00:00
The Division of Humanities and Fine Arts is sponsoring this special event. UCSB History professors Stefania Tutino and John Majewski were involved in putting the program together. We hope this is an entertaining and informative way to present the humanities to the general public, so please come and bring along family and friends. The Natural History Museum charges for this event, but it is FREE to all members of the campus community, as well as alumni and friends of UC Santa Barbara. Reserve free tickets by contacting Justin Canty at jcanty@sbnature2.org or 805-682-4711, ext. 170.
For thousands of years, humans have faced devastating epidemics that suddenly kill millions. In this innovative program, three scholars analyze how humans respond to the massive disruption caused by these catastrophic events. These carefully crafted presentations explore different cultural and social responses to devastating epidemics, while highlighting our common humanity in response to unimaginable death and suffering. The program includes selected scenes from Tony Kushner’s award-winning play Angels in America performed by UCSB’s superb Department of Theater and Dance.
A copy of the flyer can be found at
http://www.hfa.ucsb.edu/news/372-050713
hm 5/11/13

You Say You Want a Revolution? Transition, Stability and Chaos in Post-Dictatorship Arab States
2013-05-16 00:00
In this talk, Hussein Ibish looks at the different ways post-dictatorship transition has unfolded in the three North African Arab states that experienced regime change during the “Arab Spring”: Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. Among the questions he addresses are: What are the new systems emerging in those countries? To what extent have old governance structures persisted despite the changes? How have Islamists fared in each of the three states, and what are the prospects for their long-term power? What about non-Islamist opposition movements and parties? Are these states on the road to stability or a period of protracted chaos? And what influence will their experiences have on the broader region and vice versa? Are we seeing the emergence of the consent of the governed, or the consolidation of power by new and/or old elites?
Hussein Ibish is Senior Fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine. He is a regular contributor on Middle East affairs in numerous publications and a weekly columnist at “Now Media” and “The Daily Beast.” His most recent book is WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE ONE-STATE AGENDA? Dr. Ibish has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the UMass, Amherst. And in case you thought he was a one-trick pony, he has a lengthy essay in the current issue of MIT’s quarterly THE BAFFLER on the cultural, political and intellectual legacy of the Marquis de Sade.
hm 5/11/13

"The 'Discovery of Writing' in the Qur'an: Tracing an Epistemic Revolution in Arab Late Antiquity
2013-05-21 00:00
Please join us for the R. Stephen Humphreys Distinuished Lecture:
The “Discovery of Writing” in the Qur’an: Tracing an Epistemic Revolution in Arab Late Antiquity”
Professor Angelika Neuwirth
Arabic Studies, Free University (Berlin)
Tuesday, May 21st at 4:00 pm
HSSB 4080
The Qur’an—being the first significant non-oral literary text in the Arabic language—induced an epistemic revolution in the Arabic-speaking world of Late Antiquity. This fundamental renewal of the Arab Late Antique world was achieved through the Qur’anic negotiation and re-interpretation not only of the neighboring Jewish and Christian traditions but no less through the re-working of the Ancient Arabic lexicon of concepts. The talk will discuss the emergence of a communal identity based on the newly discovered authority of writing and in particular the understanding of the prophetical proclamation, qur’an, as a “reading” from a celestial text. At the same time, the poetical concept of script as a frustratingly mute and unintelligible sign system (wahy) will be un-demonized: Qur’anic wahy is communication par excellence.
Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Stephen Huphreys Distinguished Lecture Series.

Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
2013-05-22 00:00
Revealing the direct connection between the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the current immigration crisis, this film based on Juan González’s book by the same title, provides a powerful glimpse into the sacrifices and triumphs of the growing Latino communities, putting a human face on issues that are often reduced to stereotyping. The film features immigrant stories as well as interviews with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchú, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Junot Díaz, and more. Peter Getzels and Eduardo Lopez, 90 min., English and Spanish with English subtitles, 2012.
hm 4/6/13

2013 History Senior Honors Colloquium
2013-05-24 00:00
Participants in the 2012-2013 Senior Honors Thesis seminar will present their research in this year’s colloquium. Eachstudent presenter will be followed by a faculty or advanced PhD student commentator.
This event is free and open to the public. The complete program of speakers is below.
9:00-9:30
Salina Cruz. Women of the Mills: The Lawrence, Massachusetts Strike of 1912
Commentator: Prof. Patricia Cohen
9:30-10:00
Jesse McCarthy, The Creation of English Arminianism: Richard Montagu, 1624-1629
Commentator: Tim Daniels
10:00-10:30
Heidi Graves, The Public Debate on Witchcraft in Colonial Ghana
Commentator: Prof. Mhoze Chikowero
10:30-11:00
Sean Garbutt, “Do you fellows ever talk to the Israelis?”: The United States and the War of Attrition, 1969-1970
Commentator: Paul Baltimore
11:00-11:30
Mickey Boxell, The Taciturn Revolutionary: William of Orange-Nassau and the Motivations of the Dutch Revolt
Commentator: Prof. Hilary Bernstein
11:30-12:30 LUNCH BREAK
12:30-1:00pm
Susan Reid, National Assimilation Through Racial Amalgamation: The Japanese-Brazilian Community, 1930-1970
Commentator: Prof. Kate McDonald
1:00-1:30pm
Alexa Cover, SB 813, the Hughes-Hart Education Reform Bill: California’s Expansive and Expensive Attempt at Education Equality
Commentator: Prof. Alice O’Connor
1:30-2:00pm
Morgan Stocks, Perusing the Papal Pantry: The Fasting Practices of Pope Boniface VIII, 1299-1303
Commentator: Prof. Debra Blumenthal
2:00-2:30pm
Molly Nugent, “Your tax dollars buy sex discrimination!”: The Fight for Equal Gender Representation in France and the United States
Commentator: Prof. Eileen Boris
2:30-2:50 BREAK
2:50-3:20
Elaine MacPherson, Relief Without A Roof: The Emergence of a Policy Discussion on American Homelessness 1980-1996
Commentator: Prof. Mary Furner
3:20-3:50
Jacob Owens, “A most inconvenient dilemma”: The British Motives Behind the Making of the Hoare-Laval Plan
Commentator: Prof. Toshi Hasegawa
3:50-4:20
Michael Schneider, Driving Defense: The Role of the Auto Industry in War Mobilization
Commentator: Prof. Nelson Lichtenstein
4:20-4:50
Ricardo Quezada, “Free the 13”: Contesting Legal Discrimination– The East Los Angeles Blowouts and the Chicana/o Community’s Agency, 1968-1970
Commentator: Prof. Paul Spickard

Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden
2013-05-29 00:00
Posing a challenge to the assumption that the western model of education improves lives wherever it is, this controversial film gives insight to the effects of western education as a panacea for world issues. “With a rare, philosophical sense for the truth, the documentary reflects on the alienating impact of schooling not just on children but also on adults in indigenous contexts such as Ladakh.” Dr. Nosheen Ali, UC Berkeley. Carol Black, 66 min., English, USA and India, 2010.
hm 4/6/13

Paper Newton/Digital Newton
2013-05-30 00:00
Abstract:Isaac Newton generated a huge amount of manuscript material during a long and active life. This rich and daunting archive includes millions of words of impassioned and heretical theological writings as well as evidence of thousands of hours spent on alchemical experimentation and research, alongside notes on natural philosophy and mathematics. The range, complexity and disorder of this material has challenged editors and scholars ever since his death. Our talks cover two aspects of Newton’s archive. Sarah Dry will discuss the complicated history of Newton’s papers, from his death in 1727 through two centuries of near (but not total) neglect to their dispersal by auction at Sotheby’s in 1936. Rob Iliffe, who heads the online Newton Project, will discuss pioneering and on-going efforts to digitize all of Newton’s vast manuscript holdings and the implications of this new resource for scholarship in the history of science and in the humanities more generally.
Sarah Dry is an independent scholar. She has a PhD in the history of science from the University of Cambridge and is the author of Curie: A Life (Haus) and the co-editor of Epidemics: Science, Health and Governance (Earthscan). She is writing a book on the history of the Newton papers for Oxford University Press.
Rob Iliffe is Professor of Intellectual History and the History of Science at the University of Sussex. He is editorial director of the online Newton Project and is finishing a monograph titled Priest of Nature: the religious lives of Isaac Newton (OUP). He has published a number of articles on early modern history and the history of science, and has written the Very Short Introduction to Newton (OUP). Prof. Iliffe’s main research interests include: the history of science 1550-1800; the theological and scientific work of Isaac Newton; and the implications for academic work posed by the increasing digitisation of the scholarly infrastructure.

History Department Awards Ceremony
2013-06-04 00:00
Please join History Department students and faculty as this year’s honors and awards are distributed.
hm 5/11/13
