Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Caring Democracy: The Paradigm Changes
2014-01-09 00:00 (America/Denver)
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

Japan Under Empire: A Guided Tour
2014-03-19 00:00
In 1912, Japanese government railways embarked on a mission to remake how Europeans and Americans thought about Japan—through tourism. In this talk, historian Kate McDonald will explore how Japanese tourist organizations fought to transform the image of Japan from a looming threat to European and American interests in East Asia into a peaceful, industrial nation with a sophisticated culture and a progressive empire. World War II brought an abrupt end to this mission, but the Japanese did eventually succeed—with the support of the U.S. Occupation.
Join us on a journey through Japan as Professor McDonald discusses the turbulent history of tourist politics, and what this means for how we travel today. A wine-and-cheese reception will precede the talk.
About the Speaker
Prof. Kate McDonald teaches modern Japanese History at UCSB. Her research focuses on the cultural and technological history of mobility, especially the way transportation technologies and networks affect the way we see our world. Her current project examines how the Japanese transportation network shaped what travelers saw and learned about the Japanese empire in the 1910s-1930s.

Spring classes begin
2014-03-31 00:00
Instruction begins on Monday March 31.
Monday, May 26: Memorial Day holiday
Friday, June 6: Last day of instruction.
June 7-13: Final exams.
final Exam Schedule
hm 1/4/13, 10/3/13

Sasha Abramsky Speaks on Poverty in American
2014-04-03 00:00
Sasha Abramsky, author of The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives (2013) and contributor to The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, and other publications. Co-sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Value of Care Series.
News article featured on The Current
AJ 3/24/14

Graduate Student Conference: Innovation in Borderlands Regions
2014-04-06 00:00
BORDERLANDS, broadly defined, are spaces where disparate ethnicities, cultures, religions, political systems, or linguistic traditions come into close contact and require both individuals and societies to adapt culturally, politically, economically, or technologically to encounters with other ways of life. The Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference will showcase new research on the ways that interactions in borderlands inspire innovation and adaptation from a range of geographic and chronological contexts.
Friday, April 4, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Opening Remarks
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Dr. Samuel Truett, Professor of History at the University of New Mexico
Saturday, April 5, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Panel 1: State-Society Conflicts over Identification and Migration
Panel 2: Interchange and Imagination in Late Antiquity
Panel 3: Reifying Life through the Celebration of Death
Panel 4: Crafting Identity through Object and Image
Sunday, April 6, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Panel 5: Communal Adjustment to Shifting Boundaries
Closing Comments
All events held in McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6th Floor)
Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Ancient Borderlands MRG, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Classics, the Department of History, the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, the Department of Religious Studies, the Department of Sociology, and the Late Antique MRG.
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Dean Baker on "The Importance of Full Employment and the Routes for Getting There."
2014-04-08 00:00
Dean Baker, “The Importance of Full Employment and the Routes for Getting There.” Baker is co-Founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and author of several books on American political economy, including Getting Back to Full Employment (with Jared Bernstein), and The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive (2011), and frequent contributor to The Guardian, The Huffington Post, and MSNBC.
AJ 3/24/14

Reason, Rationality, and Rules: A Short History of the Way We Think Now
2014-04-10 00:00
This talk will be held at Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni House, 2nd floor on Thursday April 10 at 4:00 p.m.
About the Speaker
Lorraine Daston is Executive Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She has published on a wide range of topics in the history of science, including the history of probability and statistics, wonders in early modern science, the emergence of the scientific fact, scientific models, objects of scientific inquiry, the moral authority of nature, and the history of scientific objectivity. She has taught at Harvard, Princeton, Brandeis, and Göttingen Universities, as well as at the University of Chicago, where she is Visiting Professor of Social Thought and History. She has also held visiting positions in Paris and Vienna and given the Isaiah Berlin Lectures at the University of Oxford (1999), the Tanner Lectures at Harvard University (2002), the West Lectures at Stanford University (2005), and the Humanitas Lecture at the University of Oxford (2013). She has twice won the Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society and was awarded the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society and the Schelling Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 2012. Dr. Daston is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Corresponding Member of the British Academy, as well as a Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Leopoldina. Dr. Daston was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2010. She is currently completing a book on moral and natural orders. Histories of Scientific Observation, co-edited with Elizabeth Lunbeck, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2011.

Shifting Centers of Maritime Activity in the Eastern Mediterranean: A View from Burgaz or "Old Knidos"
2014-04-14 00:00
Excavation at the settlement of Burgaz on Turkey’s Datça peninsula—at the junction of the Aegean and Mediterranean seas—has revealed uninterrupted occupation from the Archaic period through Late Antiquity. With its proximity to fertile land and the sea, Burgaz is generally considered to be the early settlement of the Knidians, long famed for their nude cult statue of the goddess Aphrodite. While settlement at “New Knidos” on the tip of the peninsula flourishes from the late fourth century BCE, earlier remains at the site are scarce. Seeking information about the earlier settlement’s economic success and subsequent demise, our project undertakes comprehensive survey and excavation in the four harbors of Burgaz in tandem with a broader project of underwater cultural heritage advocacy in Turkey and beyond.
The project investigates the question of “wandering cities” or “portable ports” in antiquity, collecting archaeological evidence for the curious phenomenon of settlements which—through catastrophe or gradual environmental or economic decline—shift their population core from one locale to another. By combining excavation with surface survey and geophysical prospection both on land and underwater, we seek answers about the long-term development of the town, its military and commercial ports, and its integration within a broader maritime cultural and economic landscape. Through analysis of architectural structures and cultural artifacts we ask why the early city of the Knidians flourished and how it adapted to changing patterns of regional and international connectivity in the Mediterranean world.
Elizabeth S. Greene is Associate Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology at Brock University (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada).
Sponsored by the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program, Borderlands Research Focus Group, and Archaeology Research Focus Group.
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Paul Starr on "America's Peculiar Struggle over Health Care, Then and Now."
2014-04-18 00:00
Paul Starr, “America’s Peculiar Struggle over Health Care, Then and Now.” Starr is co-Founder of The American Prospect, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, author of Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health-Care Reform as well as the Pulitzer Prize winning: The Social Transformation of American Medicine (1982). He has served as a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton on healthcare policy. His talk will be followed by a symposium on “Healthcare Rights and Healthcare Reform from Medicare to Obamacare,” featuring reports from the front lines of state and local, official and grassroots efforts to implement the Affordable Care Act.
AJ 3/24/14

William P. Jones Reflects on the Role of Labor in the Civil Rights Movement
2014-04-24 00:00
“The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights”
William P. Jones, History Professor at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, is a leading historian of the 20th Century United States, with a particular interest in race, class and work. He has written books on African American industrial workers in the Jim Crow South and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. At UCSB, he will lecture on his newest book, The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights. This event is co-sponsored by the Great Society at Fifty, the Center for Black Studies, and the Department of Black Studies.
The March on Washington will be available courtesy of Granada Books for sale and signing after the lecture.
Added by: AJ 4/23/14

The Lost Eagle: The Untold Story of the Legionary Eagle on Rome's Most Famous Statue
2014-04-25 00:00
Sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
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