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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20100314T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20101107T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081028T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081028T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001605-1225152000-1225152000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Sir Thomas Browne\, the Laudian Moment\, and the Birth of Modernity DESCRIPTION:UCSB Renaissance Studies presents the first talk in its new speaker series. There will be a light reception after the talk.\nFor more information contact Stefania Tutino or Jim Kearney. \nhm 10/13/08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/sir-thomas-browne-the-laudian-moment-and-the-birth-of-modernity/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081029T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081029T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001609-1225238400-1225238400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:In Cod We Trust DESCRIPTION:Was John Cabot the first European after the Norse to set foot in North America? Brian Fagan takes us on a fascinating 1\,500-year archaeological and historical journey in search of the answer\, which is closely linked to the importance of fish like cod to Christian doctrine. We begin with Christ’s 40-day fast in the wilderness\, with the symbolism of fish in Christian belief\, in a world of abstinence\, atonement\, fasting and penance. Within a few centuries\, enormous numbers of (now vanished) fish farms appeared throughout Europe. Soon afterward\, a huge international fish trade developed to satisfy an insatiable demand for fish on holy days and during Lent. This is a story of salt\, herrings and cod\, of busses\, doggers\, cogs\, and caravels\, of fishers sailing the North Atlantic in mid-February for Lenten catches. The journey culminates in the discovery of the Newfoundland cod fisheries and with the permanent settlement of New England well before the Pilgrims. This lecture is the opening event of the IHC’s “Food Matters” series.Sponsored by the IHC; part of the “Food Matters” series. \nhm 10/22 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/in-cod-we-trust/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081030T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081030T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112758Z UID:10001499-1225324800-1225324800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:FILM Seven Days In May DESCRIPTION:Presented by the CCWS Cold War film series.\nThe president of United States has just signed a treaty with the Soviet Union requiring both countries to destroy their nuclear weapons. The polls show the treaty to be unpopular. The charismatic Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff believes that the Soviets will cheat and launch a nuclear surprise attack that would kill hundreds of millions and destroy the United States. To thwart the treaty\, he and a cadre of like-minded officers plot to seize control of the U.S. government. A vigilant colonel\, committed to the U.S. Constitution\, uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time to derail a takeover? The clock is ticking. \nReleased the same year that ushered in Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove\, this John Frankenheimer (Manchurian Candidate) film explored another nightmare scenario of the Cold War – a right-wing military coup in the United States. The book and film were inspired by the disarmament debate at the end of the Eisenhower years and start of the Kennedy years. President John F. Kennedy admired the novel so much that he allowed Frankenheimer to film outside the White House in late 1963\, but the Department of Defense objected to the negative portrayal of the military and refused cooperation. Starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas\, the film is a fine example of Cold War psychological drama at its best. \nWikipedia Seven Daysfilm page \nhm 10/26 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/film-seven-days-in-may/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081030T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081030T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001493-1225324800-1225324800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:FILM SCREENING: Food for the Ancestors DESCRIPTION:Dias de los Muertos event\nThursday\, October 30 / 5:30 PM\nMcCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\nAs part of its Food Matters series\, the IHC will celebrate the Days of the Dead with a screening of the PBS film Food for the Ancestors. Food for the Ancestors is a culinary-history exploration of Days of the Dead and Mexican traditions\, set in the state of Puebla. \nSponsored by the IHC; part of the “Food Matters” series. \nhm 10/22 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/film-screening-food-for-the-ancestors/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081031T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081031T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001494-1225411200-1225411200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Democracy and Knowledge in Classical Athens DESCRIPTION:In this colloquium\, Josiah Ober will draw on his recent book Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens (Princeton University Press\, 2008) to discuss the institutional contexts of democratic knowledge management in classical Athens.\nJosiah Ober is Professor of Classics and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University\, and holds the Constantine Mitsotaki Chair in the School of Humanities and Sciences. \njwil 23.x.08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/democracy-and-knowledge-in-classical-athens/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081103T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081103T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001495-1225670400-1225670400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Politics of the Living Dead: Lords\, Adoption and Inheritance in Tokugawa Japan DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November 3 / 12:00 PMHSSB 2252\nLuke Roberts will speak on keeping the deaths of daimyo officially secret for days or months at a time so as to engineer adoptions in the Tokugawa period. Almost everyone is in the know but pretends the lord is alive. This study helped Roberts figure out the why of the topic of his book\, which is to understand Tokugawa politics through Tokugawa-era concepts of omote (ritual performance of submission to hierarchy) and naishu (inside group-forming identity\, informal relations across groups). Factions within lords’ households frequently competed over inheritance. Therefore in Tokugawa law daimyo lords had to be alive to personally name their heir or the house was forfeit. Still daimyo frequently died suddenly and heirless. The performance of submission to this rule and the civility necessary to engineer the inheritance of an officially alive but really dead daimyo lord helped prevent intra-house strife and warfare and helped maintain the Tokugawa great peace.\nSponsored by the IHC’s East Asian Cultures RFG. \nhm 10/22 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/politics-of-the-living-dead-lords-adoption-and-inheritance-in-tokugawa-japan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081105T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081105T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112758Z UID:10001496-1225843200-1225843200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Catolicos: Resistance and Affirmation in Chicano Catholic History DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 5 / 4:00 PMMcCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB \nThis book presentation and discussion will focus on Mario T. Garcia’s new book concerning the historic role that Chicano Catholicism has played in the resistance of Chicanos to cultural and identity repression and in affirming the cultural and identity integrity of Chicanos. In addition to Prof. Garcia’s presentation\, analysis and reflections on the book will be offered by Rudy Busto and Jack Clark Robinson\, O.F.M.\, from the Dept. of Religious Studies. Mario T. Garcia is the author of many texts on Chicano history\, including Chicano religious history. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Chicano/Latino Research Focus Group\, Catholic Studies\, the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies; Chicano Studies Institute. \nhm 10/22 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/catolicos-resistance-and-affirmation-in-chicano-catholic-history/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081105T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081105T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112758Z UID:10001497-1225843200-1225843200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:An Evening with David Grossman DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 5 / 7:30 PMUCSB Campbell Hall\nIsraeli writer David Grossman is the author of some of the most controversial books in his country’s history\, including the award-winning The Yellow Wind\, observations collected over three months in the West Bank. The recipient of 21 international literary awards\, Grossman’s acclaimed body of works has been translated into more than 20 languages and often deals with Arab/Jewish relations (Death as a Way of Life) and Holocaust themes. Grossman will read and discuss work from his forthcoming collection of essays on literature and politics Writing in the Dark. Courtesy of Borders\, copies of his books will be available for purchase and signing.\nWebsite: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/events/endowed/taubman.html\nSponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB\, a program of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, co-sponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures\, the Department of Religious Studies\, Congregation B’nai B’rith\, the Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\, and Santa Barbara Hillel. Assistance provided by the Anti-Defamation League. \nhm 10/22 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/an-evening-with-david-grossman/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081109T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081109T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112758Z UID:10001502-1226188800-1226188800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Of Life and Loss: A Commemoration of Kristallnacht DESCRIPTION:5 – 6 pm at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art\, 1130 State St. \n\nIntroductory remarks by Mara Vishniac Kohn and Jeffrey Gusky\nOn view: Of Life and Loss: The Polish Photographs of Roman Vishniac (1930s) and Jeffrey Gusky (1990s)\nStudent and survivor art work\n\n6 pm: Candlelight Walk of Remembrance from the Museum to the Federation \n6 – 8 pm at the Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center\, 524 Chapala Street \n\nIntroductory remarks by Dr. Richard Ehrlich\nOn View: Portraits of Survival: Life Journeys During the Holocaust and Beyond\, and\nThe Holocaust Archive Revealed\, a companion show of photographs by Richard Ehrlich\nA Tribute to Mara Kohn\, for her inspiration in launching Portraits of Survival\n\nRefreshments will be served \nIn addition\, the Museum and Federation will participate jointly in a series of educational programs aimed at reaching youth from diverse backgrounds\, offering inspiration to combat prejudice and creating positive alternatives. \nPlease join us for this community wide event! \nFor more information on the exhibits and events contact Dr. Elizabeth Wolfson\, 805-957-1115 or info@sbjf.org \nJewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\nBronfman Family Jewish Community Center\n 524 Chapala St. Santa Barbara\, CA 93101\n 805-957-1115\nEvent web site\ninfo@sbjf.org \nhm 11/5/08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/of-life-and-loss-a-commemoration-of-kristallnacht/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081113T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081113T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112758Z UID:10001500-1226534400-1226534400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Burden of Female Talent in Premodern China DESCRIPTION:The Burden of Female Talent in Premodern China: Early Reactions to Li QingzhaoRonald Egan (EALCS\, UCSB) \nThursday November 13 / 12:00 PM\nHSSB 2252 \nThe most celebrated woman poet in Chinese history\, Li Qingzhao was already famous during her lifetime (1084-1150s). But while early critics and commentators universally acknowledged her literary talent\, there was also an unmistakable undercurrent of resentment against her\, since such talent was largely considered undesirable in a woman. This talk examines the ways that Li Qingzhao was praised and criticized by early critics\, as well as the way her personal conduct and misfortune in a second marriage was used against her by her detractors. Rather than simply to read her as “China’s greatest woman poet\,” the goal here is to reconstruct the mostly hostile cultural context in which she lived and wrote to better gauge the nature of her achievement. \nRonald Egan works on pre-modern Chinese poetry and literary culture of the Tang and Song dynasties. He teaches courses on Classical Chinese\, poetry\, and Chinese cultural history. \nSponsored by the IHC’s East Asian Cultures RFG \nhm 11/5 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-burden-of-female-talent-in-premodern-china/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081114T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081114T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112758Z UID:10001501-1226620800-1226620800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Religious Fundamentalism: A Clash of Civilizations or a Convergence of Religiosities? DESCRIPTION:TALK: Religious Fundamentalism: A Clash of Civilizations or a Convergence of Religiosities?Olivier Roy (CNRS)\nFriday\, November 14 / 12:30 PM\n3824 Ellison Hall 1930 Buchanan \nOlivier Roy is a research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a lecturer for both the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (IEP). Since 1984\, he has acted as a consultant to the French Foreign Ministry. In 1988\, Roy served as a United Nations Office for Coordinating Relief in Afghanistan (UNOCA) consultant. Beginning in August 1993\, Roy served as special OSCE representative to Tajikistan until February 1994\, at which time he was selected as head of the OSCE mission to Tajikistan\, a position he held until October 1994. \nRoy is the author of numerous books on subjects including Iran\, Islam\, and Asian politics. These works include Globalized Islam\, Today’s Turkey: A European State? and The Illusions of September 11. His best-known book\, L’Echec de l’Islam politique (1992) (The Failure of Political Islam) (1994)\, is a standard text for students of political Islam. His most recent work is Secularism Confronts Islam (Columbia\, 2007). The book offers a perspective on the place of Islam in secular society and looks at the diverse experiences of Muslim immigrants in the West. Roy examines how Muslim intellectuals have made it possible for Muslims to live in a secularized world while maintaining the identity of a “true believer.”\nSponsored by the IHC’s Identity RFG\, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, and the departments of History and Political Science. \nhm 11/5\, 11/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/religious-fundamentalism-a-clash-of-civilizations-or-a-convergence-of-religiosities/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081114T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081114T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112758Z UID:10001613-1226620800-1226620800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Roman Emperors and the Control of Laughter DESCRIPTION:Mary Beard\, distinguished Classicist and Roman cultural historian\, is delivering this fall’s Sather Lectures at UC Berkeley. Their topic is “Roman Laughter: What made the Romans laugh?” Was Rome a world of practical jokes\, Bakhtinian\, carnival and hearty chuckles? Or (for the elite\, at least) was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear — a world of wit\, irony and knowing smiles? Prof. Beard comes to UCSB to deliver the third lecture in the series\, which focuses on how laughter mediates power: Roman emperors and the control of laughter. Mary Beard is a fellow of Newnham College and Professor of Classics at Cambridge University\, where she earned her doctorate in 1982. She is the author or co- author of over sixty articles and nine books on topics ranging from Greek and Roman religion\, epigraphy\, art history\, social history\, and literature\, to the history of the museum and the reception of Classics in the modern world.\nSponsored by the Departments of Classics\, History\, and Religious Studies\, and by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 11.xi.2008 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/roman-emperors-and-the-control-of-laughter/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081114T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081114T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112756Z UID:10001491-1226620800-1226620800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Migration Patterns\, Border Capitalism and the Bracero Program DESCRIPTION:Gilbert Gonzalez is Professor of Social Sciences and Director of the Labor Studies Program at UC Irvine. He is the author of Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation (1990) and Culture of Empire: American Writers\, Mexico\, and Mexican Immigrants\, 1880-1930 (2004). \nhm 9/22 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/migration-patterns-border-capitalism-and-the-bracero-program/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081116T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081116T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112758Z UID:10001611-1226793600-1226793600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Imperial Comanches: How the Rise and Fall of an Indigenous Empire Shaped the Course of American History DESCRIPTION:UCSB History Associates Lecture and Reception\nSunday\, 2:00 p.m.\nat the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library Conference Room\n2201 Laguna Street \nProf. Hämäläinen’s homepage \nCost: $10.00 for History Associates; $15.00 for non-members \nPhone 893-4388 to reserve your place. \nhm 11/6/08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-imperial-comanches-how-the-rise-and-fall-of-an-indigenous-empire-shaped-the-course-of-american-history/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081117T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081117T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112758Z UID:10001498-1226880000-1226880000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Heavy Metal Islam: Rock\, Resistance\, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam DESCRIPTION:Monday\, October 27 / 4:30 PM DATE CHANGE (10/23): rescheduled to November 17McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB \nMark LeVine: Heavy Metal Islam: Rock\, Resistance\, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam \nAn eighteen-year-old Moroccan who loves Black Sabbath. A twenty-two-year-old rapper from the Gaza Strip. A young Lebanese singer who quotes Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song.” They are as representative of the world of Islam today as the conservatives and extremists we see every night on the news. Why\, despite governmental attempts to control and censor them\, do these musicians and fans keep playing and listening? Partly\, of course\, for the joy of self-expression\, but also because\, in this region\, everything is political. \nIn a talk based on his new book\, Heavy Metal Islam\, Professor Mark LeVine explores the influence of Western rock music on the Middle East through interviews with musicians and fans\, introducing us to young Muslims struggling to reconcile their religion with a passion for music and a desire for change. Levine takes us on a surprising foray into a historically authoritarian region where music just might be the true democratizing force. Mark LeVine is professor of modern Middle Eastern history\, culture\, and Islamic studies at UC Irvine. He is the author of several books about the Middle East\, including Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa\, Tel Aviv and the Struggle for Palestine\, 1880-1948\, and Why They Don’t Hate Us: Lifting the Veil on the Axis of Evil. \nWebsite: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/ccws/\nSponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies\, Center for Middle East Studies\, and the Department of History. \nhm 10/22; 10/23\, 11/12 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/heavy-metal-islam-rock-resistance-and-the-struggle-for-the-soul-of-islam/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081120T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081120T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112756Z UID:10001492-1227139200-1227139200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:1968: A Year of Student Driven Change DESCRIPTION:Marking the 40th anniversary of the Black Student takeover of North Hall\, the Department of Black Studies is organizing a conference entitled\, 1968: A Global Year of Student Driven Change\, to take place\, November 20-22\, 2008. While recognizing the courage and insight of the 1968 student awakening\, this conference places that Black activism in a comparative context and examines it in relation to at least two other movements\, the Mexican student revolt on the eve of the ’68 Olympics and the Paris student uprising of May ’68.\nThe conference (website\, program) will raise a series of questions about the process by which youth movements brought about fundamental change in the archaeology of power and knowledge in the West and transformed the calculus of hegemony and identity that dominated the United States\, Latin America\, Western and Eastern Europe in the 1960s. \n(The photograph shows students occupying UCSB’s North Hall on Oct. 15\, 1968.) \nStudents in 1968 aimed at nothing less than a democratic goal-the demand that those being educated be allowed to shape their educations and the quality of everyday life in the societies into which they were being educated. This conference maps the “new education” of the future by looking back to look forward\, by recovering what is useful and dispensing with what is not\, and fashioning a new pedagogy from the innovative ways of thinking\, doing\, and creating culture that students advanced on three continents in 1968. \nSpeakers and presenters include Drs. Haki R. Madhubuti\, Nikhil Singh\, and Monifa Love\, plus Chuck D and the legendary Mars 22 leader\, Jean-Pierre Duteuil\, who will be flying in especially for this conference linking French\, Mexican\, and African American activism and struggle. A key feature of the conference will be student participation\, as many of the presenters will be graduate students in Chicana/o\, Black\, Asian American Studies\, who will share with us cutting-edge research on the history and efficacy of student initiated change in the educational and political situation. All are welcome\, especially students interested in offering answers to the question: “Where do we go from here?” \nhm 9/22\, 11/6/08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/1968-a-year-of-student-driven-change/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081121T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081121T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001617-1227225600-1227225600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:1968 Conference Continues through Saturday 11/22 DESCRIPTION:See the 11/20 event link for more information\, or go directly to the program. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/1968-conference-continues-through-saturday-1122/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081121T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081121T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001618-1227225600-1227225600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Transitions from Medieval to Renaissance Philosophy DESCRIPTION:“A Medieval Source for Renaissance Philosophy: Valla’s Metaphysics and the Logic of Peter of Spain.”Brian P. Copenhaver\, Director\, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies\, UCLA \n“The Transition from Medieval to Renaissance Philosophy: Lorenzo Valla.”\nLodi Nauta\, Professor in Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy\, University of Groningen \nFor copies of the readings to be discussed in this seminar\, email Edward English or call x3167. A reception will follow the seminar. \nSponsored by the Medieval Studies Program\, the Renaissance Studies Program\, the Departments of French & Italian\, History\, and Philosophy\, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. \njwil 16.xi.08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/transitions-from-medieval-to-renaissance-philosophy/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081123T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081123T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001616-1227398400-1227398400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Did 1968 Change History? DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will hold the first workshop event of the 2008-2009 academic year. Professor Nelson Lichtenstein of the Department of History will join us to discuss his original essay\, “Did 1968 Change History?”\, a reflection on the political and cultural legacy of that momentous year\, from both domestic and international perspectives.\nTo ensure a lively and engaged discussion\, attendees of the workshop are encouraged to read Professor Lichtenstein’s essay in advance. The essay can be downloaded from the Web by going to http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/ccws/papers and entering a login/password that can be obtained by emailing Prof. Yaqub. Please also rsvp at that time (whether you can come or not). \nStudents and faculty alike are encouraged to take part in this workshop. We will conduct the conversation as intellectual peers. The workshop will take place at Prof. Yaqub’s home\, 955 West Campus Lane\, in Goleta. Driving\, walking\, and biking directions are available in the document posted on the Web. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nhm 11/13/08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/did-1968-change-history/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081125T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081125T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112758Z UID:10001615-1227571200-1227571200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:3D Reconstruction of Archaeological Sites: A Case Study of the Han Dynasty Site at Wuzhaishan DESCRIPTION:Wuzhaishan\, a second-century family cemetery site in Shandong Province\, was the first site in China to be excavated by amateur antiquarian archaeologists in 1786\, a few decades after similar excavations began at Pompeii. Excavations continued in the twentieth century by European\, Japanese\, and Chinese archaeologists. My approach has been to analyze finds from these excavations in the light of comparative research on similar sites elsewhere in China\, to create an interactive 3D reconstruction of the entire cemetery complex.\nAnthony Barbieri-Low is currently Assistant Professor of History at UCSB (faculty webpage\, personal research website). He received an M.A. in Regional Studies from Harvard University in 1997\, and a Ph.D. in Chinese Art and Archaeology from Princeton in 2001. His most recent book is a study of the social and economic conditions of artisans in early China\, Artisans in Early Imperial China. He is currently researching early law and society of ancient China\, based on excavated legal texts. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Archaeology RFG. \nhm 11/12/08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/3d-reconstruction-of-archaeological-sites-a-case-study-of-the-han-dynasty-site-at-wuzhaishan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081205T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081205T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001619-1228435200-1228435200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Last Day of Instruction DESCRIPTION:Good luck with your final exams! \nhm 11/26 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/last-day-of-instruction/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090105T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090105T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001621-1231113600-1231113600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Classes start today DESCRIPTION:Classes start Monday\, January 5. You can check the dept’s course listings for any changes in room or schedule information\, and for possible links to syllabi.\nThe link below leads to a full calendar with all Winter 2009 dates and deadlines. \nhm 12/20/08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/classes-start-today/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090108T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090108T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001503-1231372800-1231372800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Archaeological Perspectives on the Qin Unification of China DESCRIPTION:Click here for more information.\njwil 05.i.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/archaeological-perspectives-on-the-qin-unification-of-china/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090116T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090116T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001593-1232064000-1232064000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Right and Labor: Politics\, Ideology and Imagination DESCRIPTION:This conference explores the hostility of the political right to American trade unionism\, both in terms of management-labor conflict and in the world of politics\, ideas\, and cultural imaginings. All sessions will take place in HSSB 6020.\nVisit the conference home page for more information. \nThis conference is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. \nhm 9/22 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-right-and-labor-politics-ideology-and-imagination/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090123T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090123T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001506-1232668800-1232668800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Race\, Unions and the New Inequality in Los Angeles DESCRIPTION:William P. Jones is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. Jones is author of The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South\, and is currently writing a book titled The New Color of Class: Race and Inequality in the Service Economy. He is the author of the widely noted Nation essay\, “The Labor Movement Origins of the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday.”\njwil 23.i.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/race-unions-and-the-new-inequality-in-los-angeles/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090123T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090123T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001507-1232668800-1232668800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Infrastructure of South-Central Los Angeles: Race\, Unions and the "New Inequality" DESCRIPTION:Jones is author of The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South (2005). His new book project is The New Color of Class: Race and Inequality in the Service Economy.\njwil 23.i.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-infrastructure-of-south-central-los-angeles-race-unions-and-the-new-inequality/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090123T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090123T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001622-1232668800-1232668800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Pre-Modern Perspectives on Torture DESCRIPTION:This colloquium will be held from 3:00-6:00 p.m. at the Marine Sciences Institute Auditorium (Room 1302).\nSpeakers:\nAlison Frazier\, University of Texas: “Machiavelli\, Trauma\, and the Scandal of the Prince.” \nKenneth Pennington\, The Catholic University of America: “Women on the Rack: Three Trials.” \nComment: Lisa Hajjar\, Law and Society\, UCSB \nFor more information contact Ed English. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/pre-modern-perspectives-on-torture/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090125T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090125T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001504-1232841600-1232841600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:From "Get Oil Out" to "Drill Baby Drill": Offshore Oil since the 1969 Disaster DESCRIPTION:This History Associates event will feature Josh Ashenmiller (PhD Furner\, 2004)\, speaking on 40th anniversary of the Santa Barbara oil spill that triggered the modern environmental movement. He will speak in the McCune room at 2 p.m. on Sunday\, Jan. 25.The event is free. \nCo-sponsored by History and Environmental Studies. \nhm 1/7/09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/from-get-oil-out-to-drill-baby-drill-offshore-oil-since-the-1969-disaster/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090126T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090126T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112800Z UID:10001508-1232928000-1232928000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Crisis in Gaza DESCRIPTION:THE CRISIS IN GAZA IN REGIONAL & GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE\nSpeakers: \nRichard Falk\, Visiting Professor\, Global and International Studies\, UC Santa Barbara and Emeritus Professor\, Princeton University UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights; Author of Achieving Human Rights (2009); Costs of War: the UN\, International Law and World Order After Iraq (2008).\n“Did the UN Fail in Gaza? Yes and No” \nJuan Campo\, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies\, the History of Religions\, Dept. of Religious Studies & Global Studies affiliate\, Editor and chief author of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Islam (February\, Facts on File)\n“Hamas\, the Arab States\, and Popular Reaction” \nSalim Yaqub\, Associate Professor of History at UCSB\, specializing in U.S. involvement in the Middle East. Author of Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East (2004).\n“The United States\, Gaza\, and Collective Punishment” \nNancy Gallagher\, Moderator\nProfessor\, History Dept.\, UCSB\, Chair Middle Eastern Studies Program\, Author of Quakers in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Dilemmas of NGO Humanitarian Activism (2007).\n“A (Brief) Background to the Conflict” \nMonday\, January 26\, 2009\n4:00 PM\nMulticultural Center Theater \nSponsored by the UCSB Department of History \nThis program is free and open to the public.\nFor more information\, please contact:\n (805) 893-2991 \nhm 1/22/09\, jwil 23.i.09 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-crisis-in-gaza/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090128T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090128T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T034418 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001595-1233100800-1233100800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Reassessing the Pantheon in Rome DESCRIPTION:The Pantheon in Rome has a far more interesting and complex history than we give it credit for. Admired as a creation of almost mystical perfection\, it is in reality full of interesting quirks and compromises. We know very little about the Pantheon’s history from independent sources (indeed\, even its attested attribution to the emperor Hadrian is now being seriously challenged)\, so we must rely on the building itself to document its own past. The lecture discusses the results of an informal survey of the building’s eight-column-wide porch. This overlies the remains of a wider\, ten-column porch\, whose date and attribution remain very much in question. The existing pediment is full of rarely noticed eccentricities; they suggest not only unusual haste in the building’s completion\, but the evident use of ill-matching components\, some of which may have been intended for the abandoned (?) larger porch. Many of these eccentricities can be confirmed by a recent digital laser survey of the building undertaken by the Karman Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Bern. The Bern project offers a new tool for close analysis of the building\, particularly those parts that cannot be reached physically without scaffolding.\nThis lecture is sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. \njwil 01.x.08 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/reassessing-the-pantheon-in-rome/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR