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: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:20150402T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20150402T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T182451 CREATED:20150928T112905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112905Z UID:10002312-1427932800-1427932800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The New (Old) Image Wars: Rethinking Image and Violence after Paris DESCRIPTION:The tragic events at Charlie Hebdo are a reminder of the continuing force of images incontemporary culture. Far from an isolated incident\, tensions surrounding portrayals of\nthe Prophet Muhammad continue to resonate and escalate\, threatening further polarization\nand violence. Media responses to the crisis have framed this as a clash between “Western”\nand “Islamic” values – freedom of speech versus religious extremism – with the assumption\nof an arcane view of pictorial representation at its basis. This lecture aims to shift the terms\nof the debate by giving a longer view of the relation of images to violence. Drawing upon\nhistoric examples\, ontologies and anthropologies of the image\, I engage the image wars of\nthe past as a means to leverage a more nuanced understanding of their operation in the\npresent\, articulating confluences between East and West to open a space for dialogue. \nWith a response by Fabio Rambell (UCSB). \nOrganized by the ISF Endowed Chair in Shinto Studies\, and co-sponsored by the Department of Art History\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies\, Department of History\, Department of Religious Studies\, and Department of Film and Media Studies. \nhm 3/15/15 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-new-old-image-wars-rethinking-image-and-violence-after-paris/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20150406T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20150406T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T182451 CREATED:20150928T112905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112905Z UID:10001999-1428278400-1428278400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Abd al-Ḥamīd al-Kātib’s Use of the Qurʾān in His Religious Letters: Surprises and Explanations DESCRIPTION:Wadad Kadi is the Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor of Islamic Studies\, University of Chicago.\nSponsored by the King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, UCSB \nhm 2/16/15 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/abd-al-amd-al-ktibs-use-of-the-qurn-in-his-religious-letters-surprises-and-explanations/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20150414T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20150414T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T182451 CREATED:20150928T112905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112905Z UID:10002314-1428969600-1428969600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Racial and Reproductive Injustice: The Long History of Eugenic Sterilization in California DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Stern is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology\, American Culture\, and History at the University of Michigan.\nThis lecture series on the biopolitics of reproduction in the US and globally is hosted by the Black Studies Colloquium\, with the co-sponsorship of the department of Feminist Studies\, Chicana and Chicano Studies\, the History of Science Program\, and the New Health\, Medicine\, and Care Working Group. \nSpeakers will explore how cultural and political commitments shape and constrain the conditions under which women and people of color control their reproductive lives and experience ownership over their own biology. This lecture series approaches these issues from a historical and ethnographic perspective\, exploring the eugenics movement\, progressive era public health reform\, cultural politics of abortion\, and the science of women’s reproductive systems. \nhm 4/1/15 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/racial-and-reproductive-injustice-the-long-history-of-eugenic-sterilization-in-california/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20150416T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20150416T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T182451 CREATED:20150928T112906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112906Z UID:10002324-1429142400-1429142400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film" DESCRIPTION:Painstakingly assembled from interviews\, photographs\, documents\, andartifacts\, Three Minutes in Poland tells the rich\, funny\, harrowing\, and\nsurprisingly intertwined stories of these seven survivors and their Polish\nhometown. Originally a travel souvenir\, this home movie became the sole\nremaining record of a vibrant town on the brink of catastrophe. Pursuing\nthe significance of this brief film became a riveting exploration of\nmemory\, loss\, and improbable survival. \nCourtesy of The Book Den\, copies of Three Minutes in Poland will be\navailable for purchase and signing at this event. \nSpeaker Profile: \nGlenn Kurtz is the author of Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost\nWorld in a 1938 Family Film\, which was named a “Best Book of 2014” by The\nNew Yorker\, The Boston Globe\, and NPR. The Wall Street Journal praised it\nas “captivating” and The Los Angeles Times described it as “breathtaking.”\nHis essays have appeared in The New York Times\, Salon\, Southwest Review\,\nand elsewhere. \nReviews of Three Minutes in Poland: \n“In the pages of Glenn Kurtz’s marvelous book\, the ghosts from those three\nminutes are breathtakingly brought to life.”\n–Louise Steinman\, Los Angeles Times\, November 20\, 2014. \n“Both a memoir and an impressive feat of historical research\, Three Minutes\nin Poland documents Kurtz’s four-year search for surviving Nasielskers\, who\nhe hopes can piece together a narrative from the fragments of film…. In a\ngenre so often preoccupied with the recitation of horrors\, Three Minutes in\nPoland is the rare work that seems more about people than about ghosts.”\n?Sarah Kaplan\, The Washington Post\, January 16\, 2015. \n“… a haunting web of contingency.”\n–The New Yorker\, February 16\, 2015. \n“…in this captivating book\, Mr. Kurtz tries to reconstruct Jewish\nNasielsk\, knowing he will fail?not only because he arrives too late but\nbecause memory is by nature incomplete.”\n–Dara Horn\, The Wall Street Journal\, December 29\, 2014. \nSponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia\nin Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, a program of the Interdisciplinary\nHumanities Center. Cosponsored by UCSB Department of Religious\nStudies\, Congregation B’nai B’rith\, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa\nBarbara\, and Santa Barbara Hillel. \nhm 4/9/15 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/three-minutes-in-poland-discovering-a-lost-world-in-a-1938-family-film/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20150417T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20150417T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T182451 CREATED:20150928T112906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112906Z UID:10002320-1429228800-1429228800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Magnetic Insights into Cultural Heritage DESCRIPTION:Magnetic resonance is best known for its unique capabilities of imaging in diagnostic medicine and molecular structure determination in analytical chemistry. In the past two decades\, the instrumentation has been shrunk to tabletop and even shoebox size. One example is the NMR-MOUSE\, a portable sensor for nondestructive materials testing. This sensor has been developed and tested within three successive collaborative research projects of the European Community on the analysis of Cultural Heritage. It provides novel insights into a wide range of objects in the treasure of our cultural heritage such as master paintings\, the craftsmanship behind the paint layer of frescoes in Herculaneum\, and the bones of Ötzi the Iceman and Charlemagne. These and other magnetic insights will be reported.\nhm 4/1/15 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/magnetic-insights-into-cultural-heritage/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20150422T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20150422T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T182451 CREATED:20150928T112906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112906Z UID:10002326-1429660800-1429660800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Dream Island and Sea Forest: The Afterlife of Tokyo's Landfills DESCRIPTION:Japan has one of the most sophisticated waste managementsystems in the world and its household waste generation\nhas been steadily declining since 2003. However\, before\nthe first national recycling Law was passed in 1991\, the\ncountry stood on the verge of a ‘garbage crisis’ with landfill\nspace around Tokyo quickly reaching the point of absolute\nsaturation. The bulk of the capital’s garbage was landfilled\nin sea\, using special technology. Within a few decades those\nclosed Landfills merged into a cluster of artificial islands in\nthe Tokyo Bay. This talk examines the afterlife of Tokyo’s\nlandfills\, which constitute a tangible reminder of bubble\neconomy\, conspicuous consumption\, and new initiatives\nfor the capital’s revitalization. Yume no shima (The Isle of\nDreams)\, which features in Keiso Hino’s novel with the same\ntitle\, is the oldest among the garbage islands. Umi no Mori\n(The Sea Forest! is one of the youngest\, and a cornerstone\nof Japan’s ambitious green initiative that is part of its ‘Tokyo\nVision 2020’ program. Both islands will serve as the venue of\nthe 2020 Olympic games. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Reinventing Japan RFG\,the East Asia\nCenter\, the Dept. of History\, the Dept. of Anthropology\, and\nthe Dept. of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies. \nAn anthropologist and historian\, Professor Cwiertka has pioneered the study of food in Japan and Korea of the twentieth century. She is now pursuing a new project on waste management in Asia. The talk draws from this new project. \nFor more information on Prof. Katarzyna Cwiertka\, click the link below. \nhm 4/17/15 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/dream-island-and-sea-forest-the-afterlife-of-tokyos-landfills/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20150424T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20150424T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T182451 CREATED:20150928T112906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112906Z UID:10002330-1429833600-1429833600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Global Governance Symposium DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this public event!\nThe symposium features:\n       \nMadeline Baer\, SDSU: “Water Politics\, Rights\, and Governance”\n       \nJennifer Ramos\, Loyola Marymount: “Global Security Issues in International Institutions”\n       \nPaula Tavrow\, UCLA: “Global Health Governance and Local Results in East Africa” \nwith comments by UCSB faculty: Mark Buntaine\, Bren School\n                                                     Bridget Coggins\, Political  Science\n                                                     Javiera Barandarian\, Global Studies \nSponsored by Prof. Alison Brysk for the Mellichamp Chairs in 21st Century Global Dynamics and the Orfalea Center Hub in Global Governance \nhm 4/18/15 URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/global-governance-symposium/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR