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:20140309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20141102T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20150308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20151101T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20160313T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20161106T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20150202T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20150202T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T184640 CREATED:20150928T112903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112903Z UID:10002301-1422835200-1422835200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Warriors & Dissenters: The War Within the War of 1914-1918 DESCRIPTION:As we mark the centenary of the First World War\, this epochal event is usually remembered as a bloody conflict between rival alliances of nations. But from 1914 to 1918 there was another struggle: between those who regarded the war as a noble and necessary crusade and a brave minority who felt it was tragic madness and refused to fight. In an illustrated talk\, the award-winning writer Adam Hochschild describes this battle between the Great War’s staunchest advocates and its most ardent critics—the latter of whom\, in some cases\, denounced the carnage from jail. Mr. Hochschild’s talk touches on all the countries where this domestic battle took place but focuses on Britain\, where it was most passionately fought. Following his presentation\, the author will answer questions from the audience and then sign copies of his recent book on this topic\, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion\, 1914-1918.\nAbout the Speaker \nAdam Hochschild is a highly acclaimed historian\, essayist\, and travel writer. His first book\, Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son\, was published in 1986. The New York Times called it “an extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love . . . firmly grounded in the specifics of a particular time and place\, conjuring them up with Proustian detail and affection.” It was followed by The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin. His 1997 collection\, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays\, Portraits\, Travels\, won the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed\, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa won a J. Anthony Lukas award in the United States and the Duff Cooper Prize in England. Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. His most recent book\, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion\, 1914-1918\, appeared in 2011. In addition to writing\, Mr. Hochschild lectures on journalism at the University of California\, Berkeley. \njwil 05.i.2015 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/warriors-dissenters-the-war-within-the-war-of-1914-1918/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20150202T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20150202T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T184640 CREATED:20150928T112903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112903Z UID:10002304-1422835200-1422835200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Geographies of the Holocaust DESCRIPTION:Anne Knowles and Alberto Giordano will present Geographies of the Holocaust. This book is the result of a multi-year collective project that has explored the geographies of the Holocaust at every scale of human experience\, from the European continent to the experiences of individual human bodies. Built on six innovative case studies utilizing Geographical Information System (GIS) science\, it brings together historians and geographers to interrogate the places and spaces of the genocide. The cases encompass the landscapes of particular places (the killing zones in the East\, deportations from sites in Italy\, the camps of Auschwitz\, the ghettos of Budapest) and the intimate spaces of bodies on evacuation marches. Geographies of the Holocaust puts forward models and a research agenda for different ways of visualizing and thinking about the Holocaust by examining the spaces and places where it was enacted and experienced.\nAnne Knowles is Professor of Geography at Middlebury College. She is one of the pioneers in developing historical GIS as an interdisciplinary method to infuse historical research and teaching with geographical awareness and spatial analysis. She edited the first books on historical GIS\, Past Time\, Past Place: GIS for History (2002); and Placing History: How Maps\, Spatial Data\, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship (2008). In her own research\, Knowles used GIS to build the empirical framework for her major study of the U.S. iron industry\, Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry 1800 – 1868 (University of Chicago Press\, 2012). She is Principal Investigator\, along with Tim Cole and Alberto Giordano\, on the first interdisciplinary project to explore the potential for using GIS and other geospatial methods to study the Holocaust. Knowles is lead editor of Geographies of the Holocaust (Indiana University Press\, 2014). \nAlberto Giordano is Professor and Chair in the Department of Geography at Texas State University. His current research interests are in the geography of genocide and the Holocaust\, Historical GIS\, and spatial forensics. His publications include a coauthored book (in Italian) on geographic data quality\, and several journal articles and book chapters. He is co-editor with Anne Knowles and Tim Cole of Geographies of the Holocaust. He has been Co-Chair of the Historical Geography Network for the Social Science History Association and a Member of the International Cartographic Association commissions on Maps and the Internet and on Spatial Data Quality. He is on the board of the newly established National Center for Research in Geography Education (NCRGE)\, a joint initiative of Texas State and the Association of American Geographers (AAG). \nThe presentation will be followed by a reception. \nCo-sponsored by the Departments of Geography\, French and Italian\, Jewish Studies\, and History\, as well as the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.\nhm 1/11/15 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/geographies-of-the-holocaust/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20150202T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20150202T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T184640 CREATED:20150928T112904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112904Z UID:10002307-1422835200-1422835200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Energy and Middle East History DESCRIPTION:From the Bronze Age to the era of petroleum\, the Middle East has experienced asuccession of energy profi les that helps to explain its political and cultural effl orescences\nand stagnations. This presentation will discuss the ways in which chariots\, camels\, and\ncrude oil have shaped the region and distinguished it from the surrounding lands of\nEurope\, India\, and Africa. \nRICHARD W. BULLIET is Professor of Middle Eastern History at Columbia University\nwhere he also directed the Middle East Institute of the School of International and\nPublic Affairs for twelve years. Born in Rockford\, Illinois\, in 1940\, he came to Columbia\nin 1976 after undergraduate and graduate work at Harvard and eight years as a\nfaculty member at Harvard and Berkeley. He is a specialist on Iran\, the social history\nof the Islamic Middle East\, the 20th century resurgence of Islam\, and the history of\ntransportation. \nHis most recent scholarly work is Wheels: A Book about Invention (forthcoming 2015).\nHis earlier books include Cotton\, Climate\, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran (2009)\,\nHunters\, Herders\, and Hamburgers (2005)\, The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization\n(2004)\, Islam: The View from the Edge (1994)\, Conversion to Islam in the Medieval\nPeriod (1979)\, The Camel and the Wheel (1975)\, and The Patricians of Nishapur\n(1972). He has also written six novels\, beginning with Kicked to Death by a Camel\n(1973) and ending with Chakra (2014)\, and is co-author of a world history textbook\nThe Earth and Its Peoples (6ed. 2014). \nSponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies\, R. Stephen Humphreys Distinguished Lecture Series \nhm 1/20/15 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/energy-and-middle-east-history/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20150211T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20150211T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T184640 CREATED:20150928T112904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112904Z UID:10002310-1423612800-1423612800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Death Ride of the Wehrmacht:" Russia 1941 DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, 22 June 1941\, was arguably the most significant day of the 20th century. For on that day Adolf Hitler’s armies stormed into the Soviet Union\, launching a surprise attack which\, despite ending in Germany’s defeat and the eradication of the Hitler’s Third Reich\, changed our world forever. By virtue of any yardstick\, the war between Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia was the largest\, and most costly\, the world has ever seen\, and its catastrophic effects still linger with us to this day – from the intractable conflicts in the Middle East to the more recent upheavals in Ukraine. Dr Luther’s lecture\, based on his exhaustive new study\, Barbarossa Unleashed\, recreates the advance of the German Army Group Center along the bloody road to Moscow in the summer/fall of 1941 – an advance that pushed 1000 kilometers from eastern Poland to the very gates of Moscow\, only to falter in the mud and snow outside the Soviet capital. His lecture provides a graphic and insightful account of this remarkable military campaign through the eyes of the German soldiers who experienced it.(Barbarossa Unleashed publisher’s webpage)\n(interview by Claremont-McKenna college alumni magazine) \nDr Craig Luther is a retired U.S. Air Force Historian and former Fulbright Scholar (Bonn\, West Germany\, 1979-80). He completed his B.A. in Modern European History and Music at Claremont McKenna College (1973); his M.A. in Modern European History at SJSU (1976)\, and his Ph.D. at UCSB in 1987 (Modern European History). He has written several books and articles on German military operations in the Second World War. His latest book (2014) – “Barbarossa Unleashed. The German Blitzkrieg through Central Russia to the Gates of Moscow. June-December 1941” – has been well-received by reviewers and nominated by his publisher for the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History. \nhm 1/29/15 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/death-ride-of-the-wehrmacht-russia-1941/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20150217T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20150217T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T184640 CREATED:20150928T112904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112904Z UID:10001994-1424131200-1424131200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Palestine\, Academic Freedom\, and the Demands of Civility DESCRIPTION:Professor Steven Salaita is at the center of an international protest against academic censorship and the silencing of dissent. During the summer of 2014\, he tweeted about Israel’s assault on Gaza. As a result\, he was “de-hired” from his position as tenured professor in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois on the basis of “civility” when wealthy donors objected to his statement. Dr. Salaita’s most recent books\, The Holy Land in Transit: Colonialism and the Quest for Canaan\, analyses the rhetoric and myths of settlement in both North America and Israel and “patterns that connect Indigenous writing in both locations.” Other books include Israel’s Dead Soul; Arab American Literary Fictions\, Cultures & Politics; and Anti-Arab Racism in the USA.\n*The UN estimates 1\,523 civilians including 519 children were among the 2\,192 dead in Gaza during the summer of 2014. Amnesty International condemned Israel for “displaying callous indifference” and flouting ‘laws of war” in their “disproportionate” attacks on Gaza.\nPalestine\, Academic Freedom\, and the Demands of Civility \nSponsored by the UCSB Departments of History and Anthropology\, The Center for New Racial Studies\, Center for Research on Women & Social Justice\, Hull Chair\, and Carsey-Wolf Center \nhm 2/9/15 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/palestine-academic-freedom-and-the-demands-of-civility/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20150218T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20150218T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T184640 CREATED:20150928T112904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112904Z UID:10001996-1424217600-1424217600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Sub Conscious" DESCRIPTION:“Sub Conscious” is a rather sardonic recounting of filmmaker Mel Halbach’s experiences aboard a nuclear missile submarine in the 1970s. Halbach himself will be present\, and he will engage in a brief colloquy with the audience after the film screening.\nDrawing on personal experience\, Halbach takes us on a journey through a Cold War underworld–aboard a nuclear-missile submarine prepared to fight World War III. Through interviews\, stock footage\, and animation\, Mr. Halbach recreates the extraordinary life he and his shipmates led as they prowled the ocean depths with their trigger fingers at the ready\, sometimes relieving their anxiety with recreational drug use. After the film screening\, Mr. Halbach will engage in a colloquy with the audience. \nMel Halbach’s curiosity about people sustains his 25-year career as an independent filmmaker. Frequent travels to Vietnam in the 1990s culminated in his award-winning film “The Long Haired Warriors\,” a documentary about Vietnamese women who were soldiers\, activists\, and prisoners of war. Halbach has filmed stories from the wartorn countries of Southeast Asia\, Central America\, and Eastern Europe and from the sandblasted desert of the Burning Man festival in Nevada. His last film\, “Sub Conscous\,” is about his experiences aboard a nuclear-missile submarine during the Cold War. \nThe film screening is free and open to the public; refreshments will be served. \nThe public is welcome to this disturbing but entertaining event!\nSponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies. \nhm 2/12/15 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/sub-conscious/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20150223T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20150223T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T184640 CREATED:20150928T112902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112902Z UID:10002289-1424649600-1424649600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Ayotzinapa Student Massacre and the Rural Teacher Training Schools in Mexico: A Historical Perspective DESCRIPTION:On September 26 and 27\, 2014\, municipal police agents opened fire on students of the teacher training school Isidro Burgos of Ayotzinapa. The students were traveling in buses they commandeered in the city of Iguala\, in the southern Mexican sate of Guerrero. The police assassinated six people\, three of them students. One student remained in vegetative state and forty-three students were disappeared. Nearly five months later\, their whereabouts are still unknown\, save for one student\, whose death was confirmed by the federal government and Argentinean forensic doctors. This massacre and disappearance of students\, many of them indigenous youth who were beginning their studies to become teachers in one of Mexico’s most impoverished regions\, stirred a strong social mobilization. The crimes exposed the links between drug trafficking and the government\, the growing violence and impunity\, and the increasing inequality sweeping Mexico\, with 20\,000 people so far reported disappeared. In this talk Professor Civera examines the history of the teacher training rural schools of Mexico\, focusing particularly on Ayotzinapa. From this historical framework\, she analyzes the disappearances of the students.\nRural teaching training schools\, or escuelas normales rurales\, were created by the federal government in the 1920s\, after the Revolution. While historical and education scholarship has widely addressed their inception\, scholars have overlooked their more recent trajectories. Conceived of as boarding schools for poor people in the countryside\, the escuelas normales rurales have had problems coping with modernizing policies in the teaching profession including the federal state’s attempts to limit matriculations. The students of the rural teaching training schools have maintained their political organization\, fighting against such polices. Starting in the 1980s\, local newspapers criticized the political attitude of the students\, charging them with being radical Marxists and with resorting to illegal fighting methods. One can conclude\, analyzing the relationship between the government and students over time\, that the disappearances and massacre of the Ayotzinapa students are\, among other things\, the result of years of abandonment and discrimination against rural sectors in Mexico. \nDr. ALICIA CIVERA CERECEDO is Principal Researcher at Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute\, CINVESTAV-IPN\, Mexico City and founding member and current Vice-President of the Mexican Society for the History of Education. She is the author of La Escuela como opción de vida: la formación de maestros normalistas rurales en Mexico\, 1921-1945 (2008)\, and editor of Culturas escolares\, sujetos y comunidades en America Latina\, among many other publications on the history of rural education in Mexico and Latin America. For more information see Dr. Civera’s faculty page. \nMore information about the massacre can be found on the Wikipedia page 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping. \nThis talk will be in Spanish with an English translation. \nOrganized by the Department of History with the co-sponsorship of the Departments of Anthropology\, Spanish and Portuguese\, the Programs in Latin American and Iberian Studies\, and in Global and International Studies\, as well as the Department of Education and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. \nFree and open to the public. \nhm 12/7/14\, 1/11/15\, 1/15\, 1/23\, 2/9\, 2/16 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-ayotzinapa-student-massacre-and-the-rural-teacher-training-schools-in-mexico-a-historical-perspective/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20150225T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20150225T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T184640 CREATED:20150928T112905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112905Z UID:10001997-1424822400-1424822400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Maidservants' Tales: Domestic and Comparative Histories of Women in Early Modern Japan DESCRIPTION:In 1839\, a twice-divorced temple daughter from a small village in Echigo ran away to Edo. In a letter home\, she wrote that she wanted to enter a daimyo’s service and learn “the conduct and manners of the upper class.” Her brothers\, scandalized\, demanded that she return immediately. Instead\, she made a life for herself in the capital\, working a series of temporary maidservant jobs and ultimately marrying a samurai in the service of the Edo city magistrate. This talk places her story of urban migration and service work in a global context. It considers how we might find a place for Japanese women in the history of global early modernity\, which tends to emphasize instances of travel and exchange at the expense of the stories of the majority of individuals (particularly women)\, who stayed within “national” boundaries.\nAmy Stanley specializes in the history of early modern and modern Japan\, with a particular interest in how common people contributed to Japan’s political\, economic\, and social transformation in the mid-nineteenth century. Her first book\, Selling Women: Prostitution\, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan was published by University of California Press in 2012. She is currently at work on a new project\, which investigates a Japanese woman’s experience of urban migration\, service work\, and social mobility in early modern Japan. \nThis talk is sponsored by the IHC’s Reinventing Japan RFG\, the East Asia Center\, the Hull Chair\, the IHC\, and the departments of History\, Global Studies\, and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies. \nhm 2/16/15 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/maidservants-tales-domestic-and-comparative-histories-of-women-in-early-modern-japan/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR