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SUMMARY:Slaves\, Silver\, and Atlantic Empires (Alex Borucki\, UC Irvine)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the next meeting of the new Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Alex Borucki\, who will deliver a talk entitled “Slaves\, Silver\, and Atlantic Empires: The Slave Trade to Spanish South America\, 1700-1810”. \nThe talk will be held in HSSB 4020 at 5 pm on Wednesday\, November 1st\, and will be followed by a small reception. \nProf. Borucki has pre-circulated a paper. Please e-mail jcobo@history.ucsb.edu to obtain a copy. \nAbstract: This presentation examines the slave voyage conducted by the ship Ascension (1795-1797) connecting Rhode Island\, Mozambique\, and the Río de la Plata (The River of Silver\, today’s Argentina and Uruguay)\, as a window into the eighteenth-century slave trade to Spanish South America. In this era\, the slave trade became the key to accessing Spanish American consumers and silver for foreign traders. As a result\, Spanish American silver entered English\, Dutch\, and Portuguese commercial circuits beneficial to metropolitan merchants and public revenues. The story of the Ascension’s captives goes beyond Anglo-American conceptions of the Middle Passage born out of the triangular trade\, as the yearlong ordeal of these Africans involved Indian Ocean embarkation\, Atlantic crossing to Montevideo\, a journey on oxen-carts throughout the Pampas and on mule-trains across the Andes into Chile\, and their final reshipment in the Pacific to Lima. \nAbout the Speaker: Alex Borucki is Associate Professor of History at UC Irvine.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/slaves-silver-and-atlantic-empires-alex-borucki-uc-irvine/
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SUMMARY:The Chinese Typewriter: A History (Tom Mullaney\, Stanford)
DESCRIPTION:7 November at 4PM in the McCune Room (6th floor\, HSSB) \n \nAbstract: Chinese writing is character-based\, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Over the past two centuries\, Chinese script has encountered presumed alphabetic universalism at every turn\, whether in the form of Morse Code\, Braille\, stenography\, Linotype\, punch cards\, word processing\, or other systems developed with the Latin alphabet in mind. Today\, however\, after more than a century of resistance against the alphabetic\, not only have Chinese characters prevailed\, they form the linguistic substrate of the vibrant world of Chinese information technology. In this talk\, Stanford historian Tom Mullaney shows how this unlikely transformation happened\, by charting out a fascinating series of experiments\, prototypes\, failures\, and successes in the century-long struggle between Chinese characters and the QWERTY keyboard.   \nAbout the Speaker: Thomas S. Mullaney is Associate Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University\, and Curator of the international exhibition\, Radical Machines: Chinese in the Information Age. His talk comes from his 2017 book The Chinese Typewriter\,  (The MIT Press).  \n[This talk is sponsored jointly by the History Department\, the East Asia Center\, and the Machines\, People\, and Politics RFG]
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-chinese-typewriter-a-history-tom-mullaney-stanford/
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SUMMARY:James Delbourgo (Rutgers) on the Origins of the British Museum
DESCRIPTION:Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum \nIn 1759\, London’s British Museum opened its doors for the first time–the first free national public museum in the world. But how did it come into being? This talk recounts the overlooked yet colorful life of the museum’s founder: Sir Hans Sloane. Born in 1660\, Sloane amassed a fortune as a London society physician\, became president of the Royal Society and Royal College of Physicians\, and assembled an encyclopedic collection of specimens and objects–the most famous cabinet of curiosities of its time–which became the foundation of the British Museum. Slavery and empire played crucial roles in his career. Sloane worked in Jamaica as a plantation doctor and made collections throughout the island with help from planters and slaves. On his return to London\, he established a network of agents to supply him with objects of all kinds from Asia\, the Americas\, and beyond: plants and animals\, books and manuscripts\, a shoe made of human skin\, the head of an Arctic walrus\, slaves’ banjos\, magical amulets\, Buddhist shrines\, copies of the Qur’an\, and more. The little-known life of one of the Enlightenment’s most controversial luminaries provides a new story about the beginnings of public museums through their origins in encyclopedic universalism\, imperialism\, and slavery. \nThe lecture is based on James Delbourgo’s new biography of Sloane entitled Collecting the World\, published by Penguin in the UK and Belknap Press in the US\, which has been named Book of the Week in The Guardian\, The Times (London)\, the Daily Mail\, and The Week (UK). \n[this event is co-sponsored by the History Department and the UCSB Library]
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/james-delbourgo-rutgers-on-the-origins-of-the-british-museum/
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SUMMARY:History Associates and Arthur Miller’s View from the Bridge\, Nov. 19
DESCRIPTION:The UCSB History Associates are presenting a talk by Prof. Irwin Appel (Professor of Theater) on Arthur Miller’s play A View from the Bridge on 19 November 2017. \nHe will speak at a luncheon in HSSB 4020 at noon\, after which we will proceed to the theater to see the play (directed by Appel). Please see the attached flyer. 2107-View Flyer-pdf
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-and-arthur-millers-view-from-the-bridge-nov-19/
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