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-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:20120311T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20121104T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20130310T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20131103T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20140309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20141102T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130205T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130205T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T005751 CREATED:20150928T112844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112844Z UID:10002122-1360022400-1360022400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Population Growth and Sociopolitical Change in late pre-Contact Hawaii: Insights from Household Archaeology in Leeward Kohala\, Hawaii Island DESCRIPTION:Captain Cook’s encounter with Hawaiian society in 1779 was the first to document a society of laborers\, craftsmen\, and a chiefly elite: a society that anthropologists of today classify as an archaic state. Research on the evolution of that state is ongoing in Hawaii\, and currently a multidisciplinary team including archaeologists\, ecologists\, soil scientists\, demographers\, and quantitative modelers is investigating the long-term human ecodynamics in the Hawaiian archipelago. This research investigates the dynamics of population growth\, agricultural intensification\, and sociopolitical change via the archaeological investigation of households in leeward Kohala\, on the island of Hawaii. Household chronology\, fission\, and subsistence patterns are explored and used to detect the formation of new socioeconomic units (ahupua‘a)\, which fueled the emergence of the early Hawaiian state.\nJulie Field is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Ohio State University. \nSponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America with support from the UCSB Department of Classics. \nShort bibliography: \n2011 Field\, J. S.\, T. N. Ladefoged\, P. V. Kirch. Household Expansion Linked to Agricultural Intensification during Emergence of Hawaiian Archaic States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (18):7327-7332. \n2012 Kirch\, P. V.\, Asner\, G.\, Chadwick\, O.A.\, Field\, J. S.\, Ladefoged\, T. N.\, Lee\, C.\, Puleston\, C.\, Tuljapurkar\, S.\, Vitousek\, P. M. Building and testing models of long-term agricultural intensification and population dynamics: A case study from the Leeward Kohala Field System\, Hawai’i. Ecological Modeling 227:18-28. \njwil 30.i.2013 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/population-growth-and-sociopolitical-change-in-late-pre-contact-hawaii-insights-from-household-archaeology-in-leeward-kohala-hawaii-island/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130207T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130207T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T005751 CREATED:20150928T112844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112844Z UID:10002120-1360195200-1360195200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Whose Cis-­‐Story Is This? Challenging Cis/Trans/Gender Oppositions in Feminist History DESCRIPTION:The last decade has seen the elaboration of histories of trans exclusion from feminist venues\, and also the institutionalization of the term “cis.” Both pose binary oppositions between transgender and not-trans that emphasize trans bodies as the critical signifier of gender identity. In this talk\, I first consider narrative tropes of 1970s feminist exclusion of trans people and question the investment in defining feminism as that which is not trans. I suggest alternative histories and ask whether we can analyze transphobic processes without ceding the history of feminism to its most trans-exclusive elements. Second\, I refer to the work that “cis” has done to consolidate a binary opposition between trans and not trans by reducing trans to its most medicalized and exceptional model. Both narratives–the historical and contemporary–produce the particularity of trans while erasing trans subjects. In contrast\, a transfeminist historical perspective encourages recognition of the centrality of transgender subjects to iconic feminist formations as well as the contemporary uncontainability of all bodies and transitions.\nA. Finn Enke is associate professor of History\, Gender and Women’s Studies\, and Director of LGBT Studies at University of Wisconsin\, Madison. Enke is currently working on a history of trans and feminist activism titled\, Gender Changes: Transfeminist Activism from the 1960s to the New Millennium\, and a graphic novel about the 1960’s and 1970s titled\, With Finn and Wing: Growing Up Amphibious in a Nuclear Age. Enke’s previous works include Finding the Movement: Sexuality\, Contested Space\, and Feminist Activism (Duke U. Press\, 2007)\, and (as editor) Transfeminist Perspectives: Within and Beyond Gender Studies (Temple University Press\, 2012). This is how trading binary options and forex works via binary options brokers as top10binary.com mentioned here \nCo-sponsored by the Hull Chair in Feminist Studies\, the Center for Research on Women and Social Justice\, the Research Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity\, the History Department\, and the Sociology Department. \nhm 1/30/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/whose-cis-%c2%adstory-is-this-challenging-cistransgender-oppositions-in-feminist-history/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130212T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T005751 CREATED:20150928T112844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112844Z UID:10002112-1360627200-1360627200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:“An Open Game”: DOOM\, Game Engines\, and the New Game Industry of the 1990s DESCRIPTION:AbstractShortly before the release of id Software’s computer game\, DOOM\, at the end of 1993\, id released a news release announcing the game and promising to “push back the boundaries of what was thought possible” on contemporary computers. The press release is a remarkable litany of innovations in technology\, gameplay\, distribution\, and content creation. It also introduces a term\, the “DOOM engine\,” to describe the technology under the hood of the game software. Building on the success of DOOM as a new kind of “open game” promised in the news release\, id established game engine technology as the motor of a re-imagined game industry\, the structure of which is still being worked out today. \nAbout the Speaker\nHenry Lowood received his B.S. in History (minor: Physics) from the University of California\, Riverside. He received Masters Degrees in Library and Information Science and History and a Ph.D. (History of Science & Technology) from the University of California\, Berkeley. At Stanford\, he has served as head of the Physics Library\, Curator for Germanic Collections\, and Head of the Humanities Resource Group. In addition\, he has been Curator for History of Science & Technology Collections since 1983. He is a lecturer in the Science\, Technology and Society Program and the Introduction to the Humanities program at Stanford\, and adjunct faculty at San Jose State University\, in the School for Library and Information Science. Since 2000\, he has been director of the How They Got Game Project in the Stanford Humanities Laboratory (SHL)\, a research project focused on the history of computer games and simulations; between 2004 and 2008 he was co-director of the SHL\, as well. Among the many initiatives undertaken by the How They Got Game Project\, he is curator of The Machinima Archive and the Archiving Virtual Worlds collection hosted by the Internet Archive and leads Stanford’s work on the Preserving Virtual Worlds project\, funded by the U.S. Library of Congress and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. He has published widely in history of science and technology\, library and archival studies\, and digital game studies. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Machines\, People and Politics RFG\, the Department of Media Arts and Technology\, and the Center for Information Technology and Society. \njwil 24.i.2013 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/an-open-game-doom-game-engines-and-the-new-game-industry-of-the-1990s/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130215T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130215T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T005751 CREATED:20150928T112845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112845Z UID:10002124-1360886400-1360886400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Saving Russian Patriotism: Dmitry Likhachev and the Struggle of Identity in Soviet Intelligentsia DESCRIPTION:Russian intelligentsia vanished during the Soviet times\, but not quite. It turned out that one of the last Mohicans of this vanishing tribe\, Dmitry Likhachev\, lived long enough to have an impact on Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Likhachev\, survivor of the first Soviet labor camp in the 1920s\, is the world’s best authority on old Russian literature and language\, often considered to be Russia’s conscience during the perestroika period. Professor Zubok is the author of A Failed Empire: the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (2007)\, and Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia (2009).\nThis lecture is sponsored by the Department of History\, the Department of Political Science\, and the Center of Cold War Studies and International History. \nhm 2/120/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/saving-russian-patriotism-dmitry-likhachev-and-the-struggle-of-identity-in-soviet-intelligentsia/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130221T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130221T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T005751 CREATED:20150928T112845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112845Z UID:10001861-1361404800-1361404800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:New Promise\, Old Premise: Workforce Education and Opportunity in American Nanomanufacturing DESCRIPTION:As once-thriving U.S. manufacturing sectors contract\, the idea that unemployed citizens will now find work in nano-scale manufacturing draws commitments of educational resources across the country. So-called nanotechnician curricula proliferate at two-year institutions and their enrollments climb steadily. Yet industrial forecasters and even some instructors see few jobs of this kind on the horizon. This is\, in essence\, a case of new technological knowledge reproducing old social patterns that have historically brought disadvantage to those groups of Americans most dependent on sub-baccalaureate education. The newness of nano as a field–one touted as both scientific and economic innovation–disguises long standing class\, race and gender-derived inequities in technical education and labor.\nDr. Amy E. Slaton is a professor of history at Drexel University. She holds a PhD in the History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book\, Race\, Rigor and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line (Harvard University Press\, 2010)\, follows racial ideologies in engineering higher education since the 1940s. She is currently writing on the challenges facing two-year colleges seeking to prepare high-tech workforces as automation\, outsourcing\, and other impediments to industrial employment gain momentum in American manufacturing. Prof. Slaton produces the blog\, STEMequity.com\, centered on equity in technical education and workforce issues. \nhm 2/19/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/new-promise-old-premise-workforce-education-and-opportunity-in-american-nanomanufacturing/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130221T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130221T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T005751 CREATED:20150928T112845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112845Z UID:10002128-1361404800-1361404800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans DESCRIPTION:To date\, more than 280\,000 women have served in Iraq\, Afghanistan and surrounding regions. Their jobs include working as convoy gunners\, searching homes\, and conducting IED sweeps. On February 21\, Laura Browder will discuss her book and exhibit (with photographs by Sascha Pflaeging) When Janey Comes Marching Home\, which gives a presence and a voice to American women returning from service in a war zone. Watching and listening to these women will unsettle our fixed ideas about Americans at war and add dimension to the often flawed or fragmentary pop culture depictions of women in the military: as novelties\, but not as real soldiers. It will also undermine stereotypes and preconceptions about women in war. These stories tell us things we never knew about the experiences of women in combat: not just what it’s like to be under fire\, but also how women deployed to Iraq cope with motherhood\, marriage\, duty\, and sexism. We hope that by seeing the faces of women who have deployed\, and hearing their stories\, we can begin to get a sense of all the ways women are experiencing this long war.\nSponsored by the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War. \nhm 2/14/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/when-janey-comes-marching-home-portraits-of-women-combat-veterans/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130222T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130222T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T005751 CREATED:20150928T112845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112845Z UID:10002130-1361491200-1361491200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Symposium on the Cold War DESCRIPTION:FRIDAY\, FEBRUARY 22HSSB 4020 \n9:00-10:00 AM–Meet-and-Greet Breakfast \n9:45-10:00 AM–Welcome and Introduction\nSalim Yaqub and Ken Hough \nSession 1 10:00-11:45 \nEric Fenrich\, UCSB\, Department of History\n“Nine Black Kids and a Silver Ball: Little Rock\, Sputnik\, and the American International Image”\nComment: Cody Stephens\, UCSB\, Department of History\nAudience Q & A \nHenry Maar\, UCSB\, Department of History\n“‘Three Megatons of ‘Peace'”: The MX Missile Controversy and the Meaning of Survival in the Atomic Age”\nComment: Jason Saltoun-Ebin\, UCSB\, Department of History\nAudience Q & A \nJason Saltoun-Ebin\, UCSB\, Department of History\n“Ronald Reagan\, Mikhail Gorbachev\, and the End of the Cold War”\nComment: Henry Maar\, UCSB\, Department of History\nAudience Q & A \n12:00-12:45–Lunch \n12:45-1:30–Keynote Address by Dimitri Akulov\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\n“Managing Allies and Adversaries at a Time of War: Soviet Foreign Policy During the Early Years of World War II” \n1:30-1:45 Audience Q & A \nSession 2 1:45-3:30 \nKristen Shedd\, UCSB\, Department of History\n“Tempest in a Teacup: Warping the Church-State Divide”\nComment: Kristy Slominski\, UCSB\, Department of Religious Studies\nAudience Q & A \nCody Stephens\, UCSB\, Department of History\n“The Liberal Origins of Dependency Theory.”\nComment: Chiting Peng\, UCSB\, Department of History\nAudience Q & A \nSteve Hu\, UCSB\, Department of Religious Studies\n“Words at War: the Far East Broadcasting Company and the\nEvangelicals’ War Against Communism”\nComment: Eric Fenrich\, UCSB\, Department of History\nAudience Q & A \n5:00 pm–Cold War Mixer at Storke Family Housing Community Center\nNote: the event ends with our annual CCWS mixer. \nAlthough the symposium is primarily intended for graduate students\, we invite faculty\, undergraduates\, and community members to attend as well. We look forward to seeing you at this important and exciting event! \nhm 2/17/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/graduate-symposium-on-the-cold-war/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130222T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130222T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T005751 CREATED:20150928T112845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112845Z UID:10002126-1361491200-1361491200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Ontologies of Aerial Observation: Panoramic Reconnaissance and the Pre-History of Air War DESCRIPTION:Before the advent of aviation\, industrializing nations sought to produce increasingly accurate surveys of territorial possessions\, drawing on new technologies and sciences to interpret and reproduce sights and images. Kaplan will argue that most analysis of the imagery of air power?reconnaissance analog and digital photography?situates this kind of visual data as universalized panopticism; total\, rational\, and complete. According to this approach\, reconnaissance imagery can reveal meanings which are always already there waiting to be read. Yet\, instances of aerial or elevated viewing before the invention of the airplane suggest a more ontological approach to perception; one that requires habits of observation over time to assemble things like “views.” The strange perspective of vertical views from balloons\, the dizzying “pirouette” of the oblique panorama\, and the triangulated precision of the ordnance survey?these diverse instances demonstrate the uneven nature of representations of terrain that required the development of new habits of visual expertise. In the effort to make sense\, to make “something\,” out of numerous sights\, sounds\, and sensations\, aerial observation offered neither rational panopticism nor irrational multiplicity. Instead\, these technologies of vision and representation were “put together” by viewers who sought to repeat the experiences of aerial and elevated observation for pleasure\, knowledge\, and also\, for war.\nCaren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies and affiliated faculty in Cultural Studies\, Science & Technology Studies\, and Cinema & Technocultural Studies at the University of California at Davis. She is the author of Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (Duke\, 1996) and the co-author and co-editor of Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World (McGraw-Hill 2001/2005)\, Between Woman and Nation: Transnational Feminisms and the State (Duke 1999)\, and Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices (Minnesota 1994) as well as two digital multi-media scholarly works\, Dead Reckoning and Precision Targets. Her current research focuses on aerial views and militarized visual culture. \nhm 2/14/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ontologies-of-aerial-observation-panoramic-reconnaissance-and-the-pre-history-of-air-war/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130225T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130225T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T005751 CREATED:20150928T112845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112845Z UID:10001868-1361750400-1361750400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:What We Know and How We Know It DESCRIPTION:“As an African American educator\, one of my main concerns is that we all need tobe liberated from schooling that perpetuates America’s myths\,” King has written.\n“One such myth that constrains our freedom of thought and our ability to pursue\nsocial justice concerns our national identity.” \nHer lecture will examine ways to break from these myths and imagine a\ntransformative curriculum of K-16 education that is not racially biased and that is\nculturally enabling of all students. \nKing\, currently the Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair of Teaching\, Learning and\nLeadership at Georgia State University\, has had a distinguished career in academia\,\nholding the titles of professor\, provost\, associate vice chancellor\, director of teacher\neducation\, and department head at esteemed institutions such as Spelman College\,\nthe Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York\, the University of\nNew Orleans\, Santa Clara University\, Stanford University\, and Mills College. \nShe has published three books: Preparing Teachers for Diversity (Teachers College\nPress\, 1997); Teaching Diverse Populations (SUNY Press\, 1994); and Black Mothers\nto Sons: Juxtaposing A frican-American Literature with Social Practice (Peter Lang\nPublishing\, 1995). \nThe Department of Black Studies Graduate Emphasis in conjunction with the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education presents Joyce King\, the Benjamin E. Mays Professor of Teaching\, Learning and Leadership at George State University as the Black History Month Distinguished Lecturer for 2013. \nDr. King is the author of the book\, Black Education: A Transformative Research & Action Agenda for the New Century\, published by the American Education Research Association\, the premier association of research in American education\, in 2005\, as part of a multiyear study of education in America. Her work draws heavily on methodologies and epistemologies of Black Studies\, particularly the work of our late Professor Clyde Woods on “blues epistemologies” in African American culture. \nPlease join us in the Pollock Theatre at 5 pm on Monday\, February 25\, 2013 to hear her lecture\, “What We Know and How We Know\,” a critical look at American education today. \nhm 2/21/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/what-we-know-and-how-we-know-it/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130227T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130227T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T005751 CREATED:20150928T112845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112845Z UID:10001870-1361923200-1361923200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Virginia's Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in the Early Republic DESCRIPTION:This talk will focus on Prof. Taylor’s new research project on African Americans during the War of 1812 and their dispersal throughout the Anglo-Atlantic world\, including Canada’s maritimes\, the Caribbean\, and Great Britain.\nTaylor is much admired by colonial and Early National period US historians\, and familiar to many of our grad students who have already encountered his works in HI 292A. He won the Bancroft (Best book in US history)\, Beveridge (AHA best book in Canadian\, US or Latin American history)\, and Pulitzer Prizes for the 1996 _William Cooper’s Town_\, about land speculators in upstate NY in the late 18th and early 19th c (Cooper was also father of James Fenimore Cooper). \nTaylor is a major force in 18th and 19th c. North American history in a global context\, and is a towering figure in borderlands/frontier history\, as well as in the history of the early republic and westward expansion. His latest work on the War of 1812 (a reappraisal of that conflict\, entitled _The Civil War of 1812: British Subjects\, Irish Rebels\, and Indian Allies_) has a foreign relations emphasis\, as do several of his earlier works\, which focus on relations across the border that would eventually be drawn between the US and Canada. \nhm 2/21/13 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/virginias-internal-enemy-slavery-and-war-in-the-early-republic/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130228T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130228T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T005751 CREATED:20150928T112845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112845Z UID:10001866-1362009600-1362009600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:John Heritage: An English Wool Merchant and his World\, 1495-1520 DESCRIPTION:The chance discovery of a unique wool merchant’s account book in the muniment room of Westminster Abbey gives us a detailed picture of the trading networks and business contacts of a wool monger who lived at Moreton-in-Marsh on the edge of the Cotswold Hills. Through him we gain an insight into a society of sheep farmers and traders and their involvement in the export trade in raw wool. The presentation will include some of the family history\, landscape history\, and social history of an important period\, which stands between the late middle ages and Tudor expansion.\nProfessor Dyer is an eminent historian of daily life\, economic history\, and local history. His numerous publications include Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages (1989); Everyday Life in Medieval England (2003); Making a Living in the Middle Ages (2003); An Age of Transition: Economy and Society in England in the Later Middle Ages (The Ford Lectures) (2007); ed. Social Relations and Ideas: Essay in Honour of R.H. Hilton (2009); William Dugdale\, Historian\, 1605-1689 (2009); and A Country Merchant\, 1495-1520: Trading and Farming at the End of the Middle Ages (2012). \nSponsored by the UCSB Medieval Studies Program. \njwil 21.ii.2013 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/john-heritage-an-english-wool-merchant-and-his-world-1495-1520/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR