Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism
2013-11-07 00:00 (America/Denver) | CA
You are invited to the annual Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. This year’s guest speaker will be Jacob Darwin Hamblin; his talk will be drawn from his new and acclaimed book Arming Mother Nature. A description of the talk and information about the speaker is below. The talk will be held November 7, 2013 7:00 PM at the Loma Pelona Conference Center on the UCSB campus. Parking is available in Parking Lot 23 near the UCSB Faculty Club.
When most Americans think of environmentalism, they think of the political left, of vegans dressed in organic-hemp fabric, lofting protest signs. In reality, the movement–and its dire predictions–owe more to the Pentagon than the counterculture. In his talk, Hamblin argues that military planning for World War III essentially created “catastrophic environmentalism”: the idea that human activity might cause global natural disasters. This awareness emerged out of dark ambitions, as governments poured funds into environmental science after World War II, searching for ways to harness natural processes–to kill millions of people. Hamblin explains the history of how the Cold War coincided with and catalyzed the birth of modern environmental science. Along the way, we see how Cold War scientists, driven initially by strategic imperatives, learned to think globally and to grasp humanity’s power to alter the environment.
About the Speaker:
The author of Arming Mother Nature and other books, Jacob Darwin Hamblin writes about the history and politics of science, technology, and environmental issues. He was born in Germany and grew up on or near American military bases, before going to college and graduate school in California, where he earned a Ph.D. in History at UC Santa Barbara. As an adult he has lived and worked in France, England, and several universities in the United States. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, and many publications devoted to the history of science, technology, and the natural world. He currently resides in the American Pacific Northwest, where he is an associate professor of history at Oregon State University.

Fifty Years After the March: Civil Rights in Historical Memory
2013-11-15 00:00
A panel discussion featuring Martin Berger, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz as well as UC Santa Barbara Professors Gaye Johnson, Black Studies; John S.W. Park, Asian American Studies; and Jeffrey Stewart, Black Studies. Moderated by Alice O’Connor, History.

So Rich, So Poor: Why it’s so Hard to End Poverty in America
2013-11-21 00:00
Peter Edelman is a Professor of Law at Georgetown Law Center. During President Clinton’s first term he was Counselor to HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and then Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Earlier in his career he was a Legislative Assistant to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Issues Director for Senator Edward Kennedy’s 1980 Presidential campaign. He will be talking about his book, So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America, published by The New Press in the spring of 2012. Edelman’s lecture is part of the 2013-14 Critical Issues in America The Great Society at Fifty: Democracy in America 1964/2014, and is co-sponsored by the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life.
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Mourning Tulli-a: The Shrine of Letters in ad Atticum 12 with Cicero and Lacan
2013-11-22 00:00
Sponsored by the Department of Classics.
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Robot Caregivers and Robo-therapy in Japan: Treating the "Trauma" of Aging
2013-11-26 00:00
After their own children, elderly Japanese apparently prefer robot caregivers and companions to foreign ones (in the increasingly likely event of a severe shortage of ethnic Japanese nurses and social workers). Robots are perceived by seniors, and by politicians too, of eliminating the socio-cultural anxieties provoked by foreign laborers and caregivers. (And for some right-wing conservatives, limiting the number of foreigners reinforces a tenacious ideology of ethnic homogeneity.) Already high-tech homes for senior citizens are part of a booming industry, and specialized robots are being developed to stabilize and even reverse the effects of aging-related dementia and depression. Moreover, those promoting the country’s robotization argue that US$21 billion of elderly insurance payments could be saved over the next decade by using robots instead of humans to monitor the health of senior citizens, who now comprise 25% of the population. Sociable, interactive robots have also become the primary subjects of a new field of study named “robot psychology” and “robo-therapy.” Robertson’s talk represents a shift in focus from the more usual association of trauma with the consequences of the experience or witnessing of graphic violence. In linking aging to trauma, she is drawing from Ann Kaplan’s feminist scholarship in which she makes the case for aging as traumatic in the sense of the elderly being as vulnerable to identity crises as are adolescents.
This talk is part of the IHC Value of Care series and is co-sponsored by the RFG Reinventing Japan, the East Asia Center, the Center for Nanotechnology in Society, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, the Department of History, the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Media Arts and Technology.
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Big Humanities Data
2013-11-26 00:00
Patrik Svensson is a professor in the Humanities and information technologyand director of HUMlab, Umeå University. His current research spans
information technology and learning, research infrastructure, screen
cultures and the digital humanities as an emerging field. Apart from having
main responsibility for HUMlab, he is currently heavily involved in Umeå
University’s new Arts Campus and the creation of a new platform for digital
media, culture and representation: HUMlab-X. Another prioritized area at
this point is strengthening strategic collaboration with selected national
and international partners.
http://patrik.humlab.umu.se/
This is an important talk for all those interested in the “digital humanities.”
UCSB student Anne Cong-Huyen visited at HUMlab last year; Lindsay Thomas will be going in December; former students Lisa Swanstrom and Mike Frangos have had postdocs there.
Hosted by the Transcriptions Project.
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El Capitan: The Story of the Capitan Grande Indians
2013-12-02 00:00
Professor Thorne’s new book, El Capitan tells the story of the seizure of El Capitan from theCapitan Grande Indians. Defining terms of their capitulation, the Capitan Grande people insisted
on being relocated as communities. Out of the geopolitical maelstrom of the Depression era
came the birth of two new reservations in San Diego County: Barona and Viejas.
Admission is free.
Presented by the Santa Barbara County Archaeological Society
hm 11/21/13

Darwin on the Cutting Room Floor: Evolutionary Biology and Film Censorship, 1930-1968
2013-12-03 00:00
Talk Description: Before 1968, censor boards in the US and UK dictated which aspects of science they considered appropriate for movies and which scientific subjects they considered indecent or immoral. This talk will explore how filmmakers between 1930 and 1968 crafted stories involving evolutionary biology and how religious groups attempted to control these evolutionary narratives through censorship. Often evolutionary themes fell victim to the “Hays Code” that was administered by Hollywood’s official censorship organization –the Production Code Administration (PCA). I will discuss how films, including Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932), Island of Lost Souls (1932) and Dr. Renault’s Secret (1942), were modified before production or edited after release to play down their inclusion of evolution and Darwinism in accordance with the PCA’s recommendations. I will also examine how the Catholic Legion of Decency’s censure of evolutionary themes in cinema changed after the 1950 Papal encyclical, Humani generis, acknowledged human evolution as consistent with Catholic Doctrine. The Legion’s censorship decisions for post-1950 films such as I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) and Planet of the Apes (1968) reveal how the Catholic Church continued to be conflicted about the moral implications of evolutionary narratives.
About the Speaker:
David A. Kirby was a practicing evolutionary geneticist before leaving bench science to become Senior Lecturer in Science Communication Studies at the University of Manchester. Several of his publications address the relationship between cinema, genetics and biotechnology. He has also studied how media professionals utilize, negotiate and transform science in order to tell stories about science in movies and on television. His book Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists and Cinema examines collaborations between scientists and the entertainment industry in the production of movies and demonstrates how these fictional texts affect real world science and technology. He recently received a prestigious Investigator Award from the Wellcome Trust to investigate the interactions among the biosciences, religion and entertainment. He is currently writing a book titled Indecent Science: Science and Film Censorship, 1930-1968 which will explore how movies served as a battleground over science’s role in influencing morality.

End of Fall 2013 instruction
2013-12-06 00:00
Last day of Fall classes on December 6, 2013.
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Start of Winter 2014 Instruction
2014-01-06 00:00
Classes start Monday, January 6.
Monday, January 20: Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.
Monday, February 17: Presidents’ Day holiday.
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Caring Democracy: The Paradigm Changes
2014-01-09 00:00
HULL LECTURE ON WOMEN AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
The feminist ethic of care grew out of a challenge to the traditional public/private split with its exclusion of women from the public sphere. In the past generation, though, neoliberal economic and political policies have reduced the prospects for collective life in a “public” sphere. This talk will discuss how care, beginning from different ontological, epistemological, ethical and political premises, can serve as an overarching critique of neoliberalism.
Joan Tronto is the author of Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality, and Justice and Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care. She is the co-editor, with Cathy Cohen and Kathy Jones, of Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader.
Sponsored by the Hull Lecture on Women and Social Justice, the IHC’s Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment, and the IHC’s Value of Care series.
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Junípero Serra's Dream and the Founding of California
2014-01-13 00:00
On Monday January 13 at 5:00 pm author Greg Orfalea will be speaking abouthis new book Journey to the Sun: Junípero Serra’s Dream and the Founding of
California. Afterward he will be signing copies of his book which will be
available for purchase at the event.
The event is free and will be held in the SBMAL Conference Room. For more
information contact Monica Orozco at director@sbmal.org or (805) 682-4713
ext. 152.

Kinet Höyük (Turkey) and the Archaeology of Eastern Mediterranean Seaports
2014-01-24 00:00
The twenty-year project (1992-2011) at Kinet Höyük, an ancient seaport near Iskenderun in Turkey, offers a long perspective on maritime life in the northeasternmost corner of the Mediterranean. Kinet can be identified with classical Issos, overlooking the plain where Alexander the Great defeated the Persians in 333 BCE; and earlier, with a Hittite harbor named Izziya (ca. 1500-1200 BCE). The site’s archaeological span is much longer, however. Excavations show that from prehistoric times to the Crusades, Kinet flourished within an economic network extending at least as far as Cyprus, and occasionally throughout the eastern Mediterranean.
The Kinet excavations also concluded that archaeological expectations for land-based settlements differ from maritime sites in fundamental ways. The norms for ancient Near Eastern sites would predict that Kinet’s remote location and small size entailed a modest, self-contained existence. This port instead enjoyed enduring prosperity based on well-connected enterprise. My lecture will present an overview of the project’s findings, and propose parameters for the archaeology of seaports, using Kinet Höyük as guide.
For more information visit the project web site.
Dr. Marie-Henriette Gates (Bilkent University, Turkey), received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Archaeology from Yale University.
Sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America with support from the UCSB Departments of History and Classics.
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From Evolution to Immunology: Nature’s Contributors and the Development of a Scientific Journal, 1869-1990"
2014-01-27 00:00
AbstractThe British scientific journal Nature, founded in 1869, is now one of the world’s most prestigious scientific publications. This talk examines the ways that contributor interests have influenced Nature’s, development using two episodes from different points in Nature’s history: a debate about evolutionary theory in the 1880s, and a controversy about a provocative immunology paper in the 1980s. A lively 1886 discussion about George J. Romanes’s theory of “physiological selection” illustrates Victorian naturalists’ attachment to Nature as a venue for scientific debates—an attachment that transformed Nature, from a publication aimed at laymen to one written by and for scientific researchers. In 1988, editor John Maddox sought to increase Nature’s, scope by personally visiting the laboratory of Jacques Benveniste, author of a controversial immunology paper, to evaluate the quality of Benveniste’s scientific work. Nature’s, contributors pushed back; they strongly criticized Maddox’s actions and these criticisms influenced Maddox’s future editorial conduct. These episodes illustrate that, far from being a passive or static feature of modern science, scientific journals such as Nature, are dynamic institutions whose development is influenced by the needs and goals of scientific practitioners.

Cancer, Viruses, and the Expanding American State 1946-1982
2014-01-29 00:00
AbstractIn 1964, the National Cancer Institute established the multi-million dollar Special Virus Leukemia Program, which sought to apply the methods of Cold War defense planning to the production of a cancer vaccine. It would, as Life magazine enthused, “do more than hand out money and wait for results…it would plan research and make results.” Remarkably, when the Program was established, no human cancer virus was known to exist! Indeed, from the 1950s through the early 1980s, few areas of biomedical research generated more excitement—or controversy—than the search for a human cancer virus.
In this talk, I examine the history research on the link between viruses and cancer as a unique site for understanding the relationship between the biomedical sciences and the Federal government and how it was redefined in the context of broader debates concerning the role of the state in American society. While the management of cancer research began as the cause of administrators within the National Cancer Institute, it soon provided a focus for a grassroots campaign demanding that the government wage a “War on Cancer” in the late 1960s. The success of this campaign resulted in the dramatic expansion of cancer virus research in the 1970s.
Yet despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars and mobilizing thousands of scientists to study cancer viruses, the National Cancer Institute failed to identify a human cancer virus. While the War on Cancer disappointed activists and administrators alike, it was a boon for academic biologists, who had been among its fiercest critics. Cancer virus research played a critical role in the expansion of molecular biology. Subsequently, the infrastructure created by the state played a critical role in the rise of biotechnology and mobilization against HIV/AIDS.
By following the arc of cancer virus research during these decades, we are able to reflect on the significance of state expansion (and contraction) in the sciences for defining specific regimes of knowledge production, citizenship, and political economy in society at large.

Who Cares About Those Who Care? An Argument and Interaction
2014-01-30 00:00
Prof. Eileen Boris; January 30 at 4 p.m.; McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

Organizing for Economic Democracy
2014-01-31 00:00
UCSB kicks off this year’s Critical Issues in America program with a symposium that looks back at – and forward from – the history of the grassroots War on Poverty to consider its enduring legacy for economic justice organizing today. Panels will bring together historians and activists building on 50 years of organizing for economic justice.
Background
Fifty years ago this month, President Lyndon B. Johnson used his State of the Union Address to ask Congress to join him in fighting an “unconditional war on poverty” through full employment growth, an all-out “assault” on discrimination andinvestments in education, job training, and health care. At the heart of the administration’s program was a bold plan for federal support of locally-organized programs of community action and social welfare provision developed with “maximum feasible participation” from the poor. By offering people a voice in creating local Head Start programs, community health centers, child nutrition, legal services and much more, the Community Action Program changed the dynamic of struggles for access to human services and job opportunities that had been going on for decades, and worked in concert with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to support movements for fair labor standards and workplace democracy.
Speakers include:
Annelise Orleck- Professor of History, Dartmouth College
Pete White- Founder & Co-Director, Los Angeles Community Action Network
Sophia Lee- Professor of Law and History, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Steven Pitts- Associate Chair, UC-Berkeley Labor Center Poverty Law/ Legal Services
Clare Pastore- Professor, USC Gould Law School
José Padilla- Executive Director, California Rural Legal Assistance
See also this UCSB press release about the Organizing for Economic Democracy event.

Following the Data: Environmental Archives between Geophysics and Biology
2014-02-03 00:00
AbstractIn this talk I will present my current project, which explores the practices and politics of large-scale data collection in the environmental sciences during the Cold War. One of the purposes of this project is to broaden the historical inquiry into how knowledge about the environment was produced, by exploring the practices of data collection in both physical and biological environmental sciences. I will illustrate my project by presenting two case-studies, one from the physical environmental sciences and another from biological environmental sciences. The first example draws on the history of the World Data Centers, organized to serve the International Geophysical Year (1957-8). I will take us through several moments that will serve as snapshots of the ways in which the practices of global data collection and data exchange in physical environmental sciences shaped and were shaped by the Cold War political economy in the 1950s and early 1960s. After establishing this background I will then turn to my second example and will trace the ways these practices were emulated in the biological environmental sciences, but also altered at the critical nexus of ecological science and environmental politics in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Taken together, these examples reveal a less familiar kind of narrative in the environmental history, illustrating how the focus on data practices, and “following the data” around, allows to re-think the history of environmental sciences and to broaden the inquiry into how the knowledge about the environment is produced within but also beyond its traditional relationship with ecology.

Battles of Cradles: Abandoned Babies in the Late Ottoman Empire
2014-02-10 00:00
AbstractThe nineteenth century developments on the issue of child abandonment and provisions for them reveal significant traits of the political
agenda, specifically regarding national identity, citizenship, and demographic politics. In the late Ottoman Empire, multi-lingual and multi-religious urban centers shared certain aspects of a cosmopolitan lifestyle. In addition, there was a rather politicized and sensitive concern for strengthening the solidarity and integrity of communities, which felt themselves under the threat of losing their members’ identity, language and religion. The sentiment of dissolution was triggered by reforms for the modernization and centralization of the state. These gave way to many tendencies of a nation-state and threatened the relative autonomy of the communities. Under these circumstances, religion, nationality, and citizenship of abandoned children became a contested terrain, over which arduous efforts were spent by local authorities, missionaries, non-Muslim communities, and the central state. In an unexpected manner, these infants occupied a major role in politics of demography, conversion and national rivalry.

Faculty Panel on the Big Burn
2014-02-12 00:00
A panel of UCSB faculty from multiple disciplines will discuss the UCSB Reads selection, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America. Panelists are Peter S. Alagona (History) Karen Lunsford (Writing Program); and Dar Roberts (Geography).

Bare Needs: Palestinian Capitalists and British Colonial Rule
2014-02-14 00:00
Abstract:
In British-ruled Palestine, Palestinian elites and British colonial officials attempted to define and regulate basic needs with varying consequences for economic thought and practices. In the 1930s, against the backdrop of armed rebellion and the Great Depression, Palestinian capitalists distinguished between needs and luxuries in order to shape a pan-Arab utopia as well as emerging forms of gendered subjectivities. As the decade wore on and World War II came to Palestine, these capitalists, with their emphasis on growth and capital accumulation, confronted a landscape of commercial paralysis and a crisis of supply. The scarcity of basic goods such as wheat, rice, and flour and the specter of political disorder also inspired the British colonial government to innovate new modes of economic management. Through institutions such as the Middle East Supply Center, British colonial rule shaped ideal territories. In Palestine, an ambitious rationing regime relied on new indices such as the “calorie” and the “cost of living” to determine each person’s “bare minimum,” assure “food for all,” and assess colonial rule. By tracing these instances of defining and regulating individual needs, this paper explores the commonalities and differences in Palestinian and British visions of progress, territory, and economic development. It reveals divergent but overlapping attempts to shape and develop the economy as an object of knowledge and a site of social management.

Life, Sovereignty, and the Political: Towards a Middle Eastern Global History
2014-02-19 00:00
AbstractWith one of the latest turns in historiography, it seems that documents as quintessentially national as the American Declaration of Independence can have a global history. This is indeed an exciting prospect, and the distinguished historian David Armitage encourages us all to become global historians if we are to remain relevant. In my first book, Working Out Egypt, I tried to do something to that effect before having
read Armitage, situating what I called effendi masculinity within a set of emerging global practices and discourses around gender, sexuality, the body, desire, and national identity. It seems to me that scholars of gender and sexuality were at the forefront of claiming a global canvas for their work. Of course one could also make a good case for scholars of Islam such as Marshall Hodgson and Richard Eaton. What animates my current project, of which I give an overview in this talk, is a certain anxiety about the kinds of themes deemed globally significant in the recent scholarship. Thus, I consider how some of the basic building blocks of our modern world—life, sovereignty, and the political—appeared through the lens of a nineteenth-century Sufi, Sayyid Fadl b. Alawi, as a step towards imagining a Middle Eastern global history.

“The Recovery of Nazi-Looted Art: The Bloch-Bauer Klimt Paintings”
2014-02-20 00:00
Los Angeles attorney specializing in recovery of property stolen by the Nazis responsible for the landmark Supreme Court case returning Gustav Klimt paintings–valued at $325 million–to their rightful heir.
The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara, a program
of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, is cosponsored by UCSB Arts and Lectures, Department of Religious Studies,
Congregation B’nai B’rith, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara Hillel.
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Urbanizing Masculinity: Workers, Weavers and Futuwat in Violent Alliances and Fluid Identities
2014-03-03 00:00
In this presentation, I employ urban violence to examine how men constructed, performed, and struggled for their masculine identity. I argue that gender identity, performing masculinity, and the construction of manhood were important sites of the adaptation to industrial urban life in crucial years of interwar Egypt. On the backdrop of rapid urbanization and industrialization, the town of al-Mahalla al-Kubra attracted thousands of poor peasants to become factory workers and urban dwellers. Violence broke out between townspeople, who called themselves Mahallawiyya, and the newly arrived peasant-workers whom people of al-Mahalla called Shirkawiyya, or people of the company. The competition among tough men (futuwwat) from both sides fed into that violence and communal division. Inflation, the high prices of food and housing, professional competition and cultural differences, anxiety over living with strangers and adapting to an alien place fueled and fed violence among workers and between newcomers and urbanites. In their competing and fluid communal loyalties, working class Mahallawiyya and Shirkawiyya developed their notion of the ideal masculine and created social locations for peer bonding and friendship.

“The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks in Historical Perspective”
2014-03-05 00:00
U.S. Ambassador Dennis Ross serves as Counselor, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Ghaith al-Omari is Executive Director, American Task Force on Palestine.
The event is free and open to the public.
Ambassador Ross, the Washington Institute’s Ziegler Distinguished fellow and counselor from 2001-2009, returned as its Counselor in December 2011 after serving two years as special assistant to President Obama as well as National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, and a year as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, focusing on Iran.
For more than twelve years, Ambassador Ross played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and dealing directly with the parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat, Ambassador Ross was U.S. point man on the peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. He was instrumental in assisting Israelis and Palestinians to reach the 1995 Interim Agreement; he also successfully brokered the 1997 Hebron Accord, facilitated the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty, and intensively worked to bring Israel and Syria together.
A scholar and diplomat with more than two decades of experience in Soviet and Middle East policy, Ambassador Ross worked closely with Secretaries of State James Baker, Warren Christopher, and Madeleine Albright. Prior to his service as special Middle East coordinator under President Clinton, Ambassador Ross served as director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in the first Bush administration. In that capacity, he played a prominent role in U.S. policy toward the former Soviet Union, the unification of Germany and its integration into NATO, arms control negotiations, and the 1991 Gulf War coalition.
During the Reagan administration, he served as director of Near East and South Asian affairs on the National Security Council staff and deputy director of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment. Ambassador Ross was awarded the Presidential Medal for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service by President Clinton, and Secretaries Baker and Albright presented him with the State Department’s highest award.
The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara, a program
of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, is cosponsored by UCSB Arts and Lectures, Department of Religious Studies,
Congregation B’nai B’rith, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara Hillel.
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The Russians are Coming (1966)
2014-03-05 00:00
The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will be showing the classic 1966 film, “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming.” Directed by Norman Jewison and starring Car Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Jonathan Winters, and Alan Arkin, the film is a hilarious spoof on the U.S.-Soviet confrontation. It stands as a relatively early (and still gentle) challenge to the Cold War consensus in U.S. popular culture.
The film is free and open to the public. Delicious refreshments, also free of charge, will be served. Don’t miss this exciting event!
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Marxism and Classics
2014-03-07 00:00
Sponsored by the Department of Classics.
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Public Lecture and Graduate Student Lunchtime Program; Dr. Ned Kaufman
2014-03-13 00:00
Dr. Ned Kaufman will do a lunchtime talk about his current research around historic conservation, social justice, intangible resources, sustainability and the economics of heritage. He will also discuss his career inside and outside of academia. As more Ph.D.’s are seeking alternative careers, by choice and by necessity, Dr. Kaufman’s academic and non-academic career offers an example of a path of intellectually challenging and worthwhile work as a consultant, a public historian and a professor. A light lunch will be served at the session.
Dr. Ned Kaufman is principal of Kaufman Heritage Conservation and Adjunct Professor of Historic Preservation at Pratt Institute. Previously, Dr. Kaufman served as director of historic preservation at the Municipal Art Society of New York, where he led campaigns to protect the African Burial Ground, Aubudon Ballroom, Ellis and Governors Islands, and other historic sites. He also founded and co-directed Place Matters as well as the international research and training program at Rafael Viñoly Architects. His books include Place, Race, and Story: Essays in the Past and Future of Historic Preservation (2009) and Pressures and Distortions: City Dwellers as Builders and Critics (2011), as well as histories of Sagamore Hill and Springfield Armory National Historic Sites. He has advised the National Trust on sustainability policy and is a U.S. voting member on the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Intangible Heritage.
Program Co-Sponsors
UCSB Grad Division Grant
UCSB Public History Graduate Student Association
UCSB AD&A Museum
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation
UCSB History Department
UCSB Art History and Architecture Department
UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC)

Extraordinary Prizes in Ordinary Places: How Preserving Everyday Things Can Save People and the Planet
2014-03-13 00:00
Evening Public Lecture at The Presidio at the Santa Barbara Trust forHistoric Preservation, 7pm. Dr. Ned Kaufman’s lecture is entitled
“Extraordinary Prizes in Ordinary Places: How Preserving Everyday Things
Can Save People and the Planet.” He will make a presentation around the
general themes of rethinking the economics of heritage and historic
preservation as a tool for achieving social justice, and how the field is
forging new interdisciplinary alliances with public history, folklore,
community planning and tourism promotion in places like Santa Barbara. Book
signing and reception to follow.
Dr. Ned Kaufman is principal of Kaufman Heritage Conservation and Adjunct
Professor of Historic Preservation at Pratt Institute. Previously, Dr.
Kaufman served as director of historic preservation at the Municipal Art
Society of New York, where he led campaigns to protect the African Burial
Ground, Aubudon Ballroom, Ellis and Governors Islands, and other historic
sites. He also founded and co-directed Place Matters as well as the
international research and training program at Rafael Viñoly Architects.
His books include Place, Race, and Story: Essays in the Past and Future of
Historic Preservation (2009) and Pressures and Distortions: City Dwellers
as Builders and Critics (2011), as well as histories of Sagamore Hill and
Springfield Armory National Historic Sites. He has advised the National
Trust on sustainability policy and is a U.S. voting member on the ICOMOS
International Scientific Committee on Intangible Heritage.

End of Winter 2014 instruction
2014-03-14 00:00
Classes end Friday March 14.
Final Exam Schedule
hm 1/4/13, 10/3/14
