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:20080415T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080415T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 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:20260418T111123 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:20260418T111123 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:20260418T111123 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:20260418T111123 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:20260418T111123 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:20260418T111123 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:20260418T111123 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:20260418T111123 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:20260418T111123 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080501T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080501T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112752Z UID:10001535-1209600000-1209600000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story DESCRIPTION:RESCHEDULED to Fall \nIn her latest book\, The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story\, bestselling author Diane Ackerman recounts a true tale–as powerful as Schindler’s List–in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland\, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw–and the city’s zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead\, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen “guests” hid inside the Zabinskis’ villa\, emerging after dark for dinner\, socializing\, and\, during rare moments of calm\, piano concerts. Jan\, active in the Polish resistance\, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile\, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat\, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants–otters\, a badger\, hyena pups\, lynxes. \nWith her exuberant prose and exquisite sensitivity to the natural world\, Ackerman engages us viscerally in the lives of the zoo animals\, their keepers\, and their hidden visitors. She shows us how Antonina refused to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery\, keeping alive an atmosphere of play and innocence even as Europe crumbled around her. Courtesy of Borders\, copies of The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story will be available for purchase and signing at this event. \nAdvance Reviews \nDava Sobel\, author of The Planets and Galileo’s Daughter\nStunning….Rarely does one read a book in which the author and the heroine are so magically matched. \nJared Diamond\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns\, Germs\, and Steel\nDiane Ackerman has surpassed even herself in her latest book\, which is alternatingly funny\, moving\, and terrifying. \nJonathan Safran Foer\, author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Everything is Illuminated\nI can’t imagine a better story or storyteller. The Zookeeper’s Wife will touch every nerve you have. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-zookeepers-wife-a-war-story/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080502T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080502T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112752Z UID:10001531-1209686400-1209686400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Fire the Hell Out of Them:" Sanitation Workers' Struggles and the Normalization of the Striker Replacement Strategy in the 1970s DESCRIPTION:McCartin is the author of Labor’s Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations\, 1912-21 (1997) . He is now working on a book that traces the decline of organized labor in the U.S. since the 1960s\, using the 1981 PATCO strike of air traffic controllers as its narrative focus. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/fire-the-hell-out-of-them-sanitation-workers-struggles-and-the-normalization-of-the-striker-replacement-strategy-in-the-1970s/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080503T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080503T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112755Z UID:10001479-1209772800-1209772800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference DESCRIPTION:The 2008 Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference will be held on Saturday\, May 3rd from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the UCSB Marine Sciences Institute Auditorium. The conference theme is Emotion and Environment. A complete schedule is below.\nConference Schedule \n9:30-10:00: Breakfast\n10:00-10:15: Opening Remarks (Jennifer Hammerschmidt\, History of Art and Architecture\, Chair\, Emotion and Environment) \n 10:15- 11:15 Panel 1: Space and Spectacle\n10:15-10:20: Introduction: Jeroen Vandommele\, Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, University of Groningen \n10:20-10:40: Speaker 1: Valerie Cullen\, English\, UCLA “Eve’s Starry Nightmare: Temptation in Paradise Lost\n10:40-11:00: Speaker 2: Noa Turel\, History of Art and Architecture\, UCSB “Tracing Spectacle? The Prints of Master WA and the 1468 Wedding of Charles the Bold and Margaret of York”\n11:00-11:15: Response and Discussion \n11:15-11:30: Break \n11:30-12:30 Panel 2: Violence and Faith\n11:30-11:35: Introduction: Megan Palmer\, English\, UCSB \n11:35-11:55: Speaker 3: Nicole Archambeau\, History\, UCSB\, “Resisting Revenge in Fourteenth-Century Provence”\n11:55-12:15: Speaker 4: Catherine Zusky\, English\, UCSB\, “Hybrid Spirituality in The Dream of the Rood” \n12:15-12:30: Response and Discussion \n12:30-1:30: Lunch \n1:30-2:30: Keynote Lecture\nProfessor Jacqueline Jung\, Yale University\n“From Motion to Emotion: The Wise and Foolish Virgins in the Urban Environments of Gothic Germany” \nIntroduction: Professor C. Edson Armi\, History of Art and Architecture\, UCSB\nRespondent: Professor Richard Wittman\, History of Art and Architecture\, UCSB \n2:30-2:50: Discussion \n2:50-3:05: Break \n3:05-4:05 Panel 3: Architecture and Emotion\n3:05-3:10: Introduction: Christine Bolli\, History of Art and Architecture\, UCSB \n3:10-3:30: Speaker 5: Brigit Ferguson\, History of Art and Architecture\, UCSB\, “The Viewer in the Screen: Emotion and Identification in the West Choirscreen at Naumburg Cathedral”\n3:30-3:50: Speaker 6: Shannon Meyer\, English\, UCSB\, “‘ye wote wele that I haue ben affrayd there’: Reading Gender in Margaret Paston’s Architectural Environment”\n3:50-4:05: Response and Discussion \n4:05-4:15: Break \n4:15-4:50: Theatre Performance\nThe Farce of the Fart\nAnonymous\nTranslated by Jody Enders\, French and Theatre\nDirected by Andrew Henkes\, Theatre and Dance\, UCSB \n4:50-5:00: Closing Remarks (Professor Carol Pasternack\, 2007-2008 Director\, UCSB Medieval Studies Program) URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/medieval-studies-graduate-student-conference/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080506T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080506T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112754Z UID:10001570-1210032000-1210032000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Thing-Makers\, Tool Freaks\, and Prototypers: The Whole Earth Catalog and the Roots of Sustainability DESCRIPTION:Professor Andy Kirk is the author of Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism (2007). His talk will explore how today’s tremendous interest in sustainability and green technologies has its roots in the American counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. Prof. Kirk will also discuss the interplay between pragmatic enviro-friendly solutions and the current enthusiasm for sustainable design and green technology. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/thing-makers-tool-freaks-and-prototypers-the-whole-earth-catalog-and-the-roots-of-sustainability/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080507T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080507T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112755Z UID:10001482-1210118400-1210118400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Iron Curtain Polyphonies: European Cold War History in the Global Memory Matrix DESCRIPTION:UCSB’s Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS)\, in conjunction with the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies\, encourages you to attend its last lecture of the 2007-2008 academic year.\nDr. Berthold Molden of Vienna\, Austria will speak on Cold War history and identity politics in Europe\, through a global perspective on cosmopolitan memory. \nDr. Molden is a contemporary historian with a strong affinity to Global History. His main research interests are the construction of memory and the politics of history\, as well as the history of the Cold War\, particularly in Latin America\, Europe and the USA. The function of subcultures in critical (e.g. post conflict) periods constitutes a subject of particular investigative passion. His 2007 book on the politics of history and democratization in post-war Guatemala\, entitled Geschichtspolitik und Demokratisierung in Guatemala. Historiographie\, Nachkriegsjustiz und Entschädigung 1996-2005\, was awarded the Michael Mitteraurer Prize for Social\, Cultural and Economic History. \nDr. Molden was a researcher for the Austrian Historical Commission. Later he held the DOC-grant of the Austrian Academy of Sciences\, was a Junior Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna) and served as a visiting fellow at the Asociación para el Avance de las Ciencias Sociales (Guatemala). Currently\, he directs an international research project about European memories of the Cold War\, based at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres (Vienna). He teaches at the University of Vienna where he belongs to the Global History working group. During his stay as a Visiting Scholar at UCSB’s Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies he is working on his research project “Towards a Global History of the Politics of History.” \nFor more information please contact: Roger Eardley-Pryor\, Administrative Assistant\, Center for Cold War Studies & International History. \njwil 28.iv.08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/iron-curtain-polyphonies-european-cold-war-history-in-the-global-memory-matrix/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080509T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080509T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112752Z UID:10001538-1210291200-1210291200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Objects of speculation to the curious": Salvage ethnography\, survivalism & folklore in late Victorian Britain DESCRIPTION:This paper will examine material ethnographies undertaken by folklorists in the British Isles during the 1890s. Rather than being viewed as antiquarian curiosities the objects collected reflect a number of themes that were explicit in an emergent anthropology. The formulation of racial typologies\, formalization of fieldwork techniques\, development of anthropological materialism\, as well as economic\, social and technological progress. Amateur folklorist Robert Craig Maclagan described such collections as comprising “objects of speculation to the curious. This paper will address two significant elements of this intellectual rhetoric– salvage ethnography and the theory of survivals– and show how fringe participants played a formative role in determining the types of object being gathered\, even if they did not influence the ways in which such objects were ultimately interpreted.\nOliver Douglas is a graduate of the University of Oxford. He hold a Masters in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester and worked for five years in the Pitt Rivers Museum. He is currently based in the Institute of Archaeology\, University of Oxford\, writing a dissertation on “The material culture of folklore: British ethnographic collections between 1890 and 1900”. He is also an affiliated researcher on the Pitt Rivers Museum’s current project “The Other Within: An Anthropology of Englishness.” \nSponsored by the ad hoc research group on Commodities\, Consumers\, and Markets. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/objects-of-speculation-to-the-curious-salvage-ethnography-survivalism-folklore-in-late-victorian-britain/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080512T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080512T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112755Z UID:10001584-1210550400-1210550400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Re-claiming the Ruins of "Japan's" Imperial Antiquity: Colonial Archaeological Surveys and Heritage Tourism in the Korean Peninsula (1900-1943) DESCRIPTION:This lecture addresses the politics of Japanese tourism and how imperialistic and nationalistic cultural policies have influenced archaeological heritage management practices\, preservations and ranking of monuments\, and classifications of museum objects in East Asia.\nHyung Il Pai was born and raised in Seoul\, South Korea. After graduating from Sogang University with a BA in history\, she entered the Ph.D. program in Anthropology at Harvard University. Professor Pai has conducted research at the Seoul National Museum\, participated in excavations by Seoul National University throughout the Korean peninsula and studied at East Asian archives at Tokyo University\, the Toyo Bunko (Oriental Library) and the International Center for Japanese Studies. Her work focuses on how the politics of nationalism\, colonialism and identity formation have affected the fields of archaeology\, ethnography\, and cultural heritage management in Korea and Japan. \nSponsored by the Archaeology Research Focus Group of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/re-claiming-the-ruins-of-japans-imperial-antiquity-colonial-archaeological-surveys-and-heritage-tourism-in-the-korean-peninsula-1900-1943/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080514T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080514T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112755Z UID:10001586-1210723200-1210723200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Speaking Truth to Power: Black Women in Post-Katrina New Orleans DESCRIPTION:Shana Griffin is Interim Executive Director of the New Orleans Women’s Health Clinic and Project Coordinator of the Sexual & Reproductive Health Advocacy Project. She is also co-founder of the New Orleans Women?s Health & Justice Initiative. Ms. Griffin serves on the board of several organizations\, including the national advisory collective of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence\, and Critical Resistance New Orleans\, part of a national movement against the prison industrial complex. She will speak on post-Katrina New Orleans and the effort to build the New Orleans Women of Color Resource and Organizing Center.\nClick here for a flier with directions and information. \njwil 08.v.2008 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/speaking-truth-to-power-black-women-in-post-katrina-new-orleans/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080516T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080516T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112755Z UID:10001588-1210896000-1210896000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Prophets\, Peace-Makers\, and the Civilizing Process in Ancient Native North America DESCRIPTION:Tim Pauketat is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign.\nReligion\, violence\, and political centralization are all entangled in larger fields of human experience\, perception\, and agency. The latest archaeological evidence from Poverty Point in Louisiana and Hopewell in Ohio to Cahokia in Illinois indicates that complex regional orders in ancient eastern North America arose as political-religious movements\, probably based around prophets not unlike those known from historic accounts across North America. Such views hinge on understanding agency as a dispersed phenomenon and history as a physical experience. And they lead us to elevate singular events or encounters as historic phenomena that afford prophetic movements in the first place. \nProfessor Pauketat’s talk will be followed by a reception in HSSB 2024. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/prophets-peace-makers-and-the-civilizing-process-in-ancient-native-north-america/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080519T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080519T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112755Z UID:10001587-1211155200-1211155200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:For Blacks Only?: Reconsidering Racialized Space in Post-Civil Rights DESCRIPTION:Ingrid Banks\, Professor of Black Studies at UCSB\, will discuss her multi-city\, fourteen-month ethnographic study that examines black beauty salon culture.\nThese events are part of Race\, Place\, and Power\, a series of classes\, forums\, presentations\, and discussions aimed at evaluating emerging concepts\, theories\, and policies about race and space. This series is coordinated by the Critical Issues Race\, Place\, and Power Advisory Board\, and co-sponsored by the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education and the Black Studies Department\, with support from the Critical Issues in America endowment in the College of Letters & Science at UC Santa Barbara. \nClick here for more information. \njwil 08.v.2008 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/for-blacks-only-reconsidering-racialized-space-in-post-civil-rights/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080519T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080519T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112754Z UID:10001477-1211155200-1211155200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Worlds Together\, Worlds Apart DESCRIPTION:Dear Faculty and Graduate Student Colleagues\,\nYou are cordially invited to a discussion with Stephen Aron (UCLA)\, a co-author of a new world history textbook. The event will be on Monday\, May 19\, in HSSB 4041\, noon-1 or 2 p.m. \nThe background: For 2c I am using one of the most recent world history textbooks\, which has just come out in a second edition. It was originally created by a team at Princeton\, and has now expanded the collaboration for a much expanded second edition. Unique is that the collaborative work was interactive\, not additive\, namely the chapters were drafted by multiple people and discussed by all (or most). \nThe book is: Worlds Together\, Worlds Apart (W.W. Norton\, 2002\, 2008)\, by Tignor\, Adelman\, Aron\, Brown\, Elman\, Kotkin\, Liu\, Marchand\, Pittman\, Prakash\, Shaw\, Tsin.\nYou can find out more about it at (menu items down the left side–esp. authors and contents are informative):\nhttp://www.wwnorton.com/college/titles/history/wtwa2/\nThe first edition site also gives overviews of what are now chaps. 10-21:\nhttp://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/worlds/index/welcome.htm \nThe publisher is sponsoring co-author Steve Aron from UCLA to come to UCSB to discuss with me and my Hist 2c TAs what we like and dislike about the book\, and answer our questions about some of the decisions they made in putting the book together. Since there is a large group of us in this department with an interest in World History\, as well as a number of textbook authors\, I’d like to invite anyone interested to attend as well. I’m thinking of it as an informal brown-bag type event\, and I’ll organize some snacks. \ncontact Harold Marcuse if you have any questions. \njwil 28.iv.08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/worlds-together-worlds-apart/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080520T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080520T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112755Z UID:10001585-1211241600-1211241600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Postwar German Literature and the Quest for the Past DESCRIPTION:This George Wittenstein lecture will be given by Amir Eshel\, Stanford University: \n“History as a Gift: Postwar German Literature and the Quest for the Past” \nTuesday\, May 20\, at 5 pm\, in HSSB 6020. \nDr. Eshel will explore prevalent approaches to the literary and cultural engagement with National Socialism in Germany from the 1950s to the present while arguing for the need to develop new paradigms. Referring to the work of such eminent writers as Guenter Grass and Alexander Kluge\, the lecture will also introduce the innovative prose of younger writers such as Hans Ulrich Treichel\, Norbert Gstrein and Katharina Hacker. \nBorn in Haifa\, Israel\, Amir Eshel completed his PhD at the University of Hamburg\, Germany before arriving at Stanford in 1998. He is a Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature as well as the Director of the\nForum on Contemporary Europe at Stanford University. Amir Eshel’s work focuses on the German-Jewish literary and philosophical tradition\, on postwar German literature\, on contemporary Hebrew prose as well as on\ntheoretical approaches to the study of memory and history. His first book\, Zeit der Zaesur: Juedische Lyriker im Angesicht der Shoah\, offered a study of temporal forms in the work of Paul Celan\, Nelly Sachs\, Rose Auslaender\,\nYehuda Amichai\, Dan Pagis\, Tuvia Ruebner and Jacob Glatstein. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the literary engagement with the past in the contemporary German\, Israeli and Anglo-American novel. \nDr. Wittenstein will be presented with the first volume of the Library’s Oral History Project; the Chancellor will attend. \nhm5/6 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/postwar-german-literature-and-the-quest-for-the-past/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080523T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080523T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112752Z UID:10001533-1211500800-1211500800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Wal-Mart in Black\, White and Urban Grey DESCRIPTION:Dorian Warren (Department of Political Science/School of International Affairs\, Columbia University) specializes in the study of inequality and American politics\, focusing on the political organization of marginalized groups. His latest project is an examination of the contrasting fates of community/labor mobilizations against Wal-Mart in Chicago and Los Angeles.\nThis talk is sponsored by the Program in Work\, Labor and Political Economy and the Policy History Program. \nFor further information\, contact Professor Nelson Lichtenstein. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/wal-mart-in-black-white-and-urban-grey/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080530T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080530T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112756Z UID:10001483-1212105600-1212105600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Gauging the West African Mind": Advertising\, Market Research and Imagining Consumers in Colonial Ghana\, 1930-1960 DESCRIPTION:The research group on Consumers\, Commodities and Markets will be discussing Bianca Murillo’s paper on colonial Ghana this Friday at 1 p.m. in HSSB 4020. Bianca Murillo will give a short introduction but please read the paper in advance if you can. For a copy of the paper please contact Erika Rappaport.\njwil 27.v.08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/gauging-the-west-african-mind-advertising-market-research-and-imagining-consumers-in-colonial-ghana-1930-1960/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080530T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080530T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112755Z UID:10001589-1212105600-1212105600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Modern Myths of Muslim Anti-Semitism DESCRIPTION:The lecture will be from 4:00-5:30 p.m.\, with a reception afterwards.\nMark R. Cohen is the author of Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt; Al-mujtama` al-yahudi fi Misr al-islamiyya fi al-`usur al-wusta (Jewish Life in Medieval Egypt 641-1382); The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena’s Life of Judah; Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages; Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt; and The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages: An Anthology of Documents from the Cairo Geniza. \nThis lecture is sponsored by Medieval Studies\, Middle Eastern Studies\, Religious Studies\, and the Dean’s Jewish Studies Initiative URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/modern-myths-of-muslim-anti-semitism/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080603T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080603T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112756Z UID:10001591-1212451200-1212451200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Writers in Our Midst: Santa Barbara Literature\, Past and Present DESCRIPTION:Ever since Henry Dana wrote about Santa Barbara in Two Years Before the Mast\, authors have been drawn to Santa Barbara. The distinguished writers on our panel will discuss the city’s rich literary tradition over the past 150 years.\nThe event will be held from 5:30-7:00 p.m. in the Founder’s Room at the Granada Theater\, 1214 State Street. \nThe panelists:\n—Fred Klein\, former Vice-President of Marketing for Bantam books\, and author of The Film Encyclopedia.\n—Marcia Meier\, director of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference\, and former editorial editor of the Santa Barbara News-Press.\n—Steve Gilbar\, editor of Tales of Santa Barbara\, of Red Tiles\, Blue Skies: More Tales of Santa Barbara\, and of Santa Barbara Stories\, as well as founder of Speaking of Stories. \nThe panel’s moderator will be Susan Gulbransen\, a writer\, civic activist\, and History Associates Board member. \nCall UCSB Community Relations at (805) 893-4388 to reserve a space. The cost of $15 per person includes a reception following the event. Advance reservations are strongly suggested. For questions\, or to make arrangements to accommodate a disability\, please call UCSB Community Relations at (805) 893-4388. \nThis event is co-sponsored by History Associates and the UCSB Affiliates. \njwilee 22.v.08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/writers-in-our-midst-santa-barbara-literature-past-and-present/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080604T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080604T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112755Z UID:10001590-1212537600-1212537600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History Department and History Associates Awards DESCRIPTION:The UCSB History Associates and the Department of History will hold the annual awards ceremony and reception on Wednesday\, June 4\, starting at 4:00 p.m. The event will be held in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020). URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-department-and-history-associates-awards/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080615T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080615T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112756Z UID:10001592-1213488000-1213488000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Senior Reception for Graduating History Majors DESCRIPTION:Graduating History Majors and their families are cordially invited to attend a reception on commencement Sunday\, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in HSSB 4020. The commencement ceremony will begin at 1 p.m.\, on the Faculty Club Green.\njwil 24.v.08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/senior-reception-for-graduating-history-majors/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080623T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080623T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112756Z UID:10001484-1214179200-1214179200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Summer Sessions run from June 23 to September 12 DESCRIPTION:Summer Session A runs from June 23 to August 1.Summer Session B runs from August 4 to September 12. \nFor History courses taught during Sessions A and B\, see our summer 2008 course schedule. \nFor more information visit UCSB Summer Sessions. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/summer-sessions-run-from-june-23-to-september-12/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080922T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080922T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T111123 CREATED:20150928T112756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112756Z UID:10001486-1222041600-1222041600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History TA Training:Fall 2008 Initial Meeting DESCRIPTION:All new History Department Teaching Assistants must attend both morning and afternoon sessions of the Initial Training Meeting. All returning History TAs must attend the afternoon session.\nFor more information contact History Lead TAs Jessica Elliott and Rachel Winslow. \njwil 04.viii.2008 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-ta-trainingfall-2008-initial-meeting/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR