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SUMMARY:Susan Lederer\, "'Send My Body to the Medical College': Alternative Afterlives in Turn of the  Century America"
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Susan Lederer\, Professor of the History of Medicine\, University of Wisconsin Madison will be giving a talk on Thursday\, January 9 at 5:30 pm entitled “‘Send My Body to the Medical College’: Alternative Afterlives in Turn of the Century America.” \nIn 1876 American and English newspapers reported the extraordinary will made by an American woman living in London. Inspired by Bentham’s 1832 bequest of his body\, Susan Fletcher Smith approached the Royal College of Surgeons with the proposal that\, upon her death\, her body be “completely dissected in the most thorough manner known to science.” Moreover\, she stipulated that preference be given to persons of the female sex who wished to inspect the body in the various stages of dissection. The President of the College agreed to accept her proposal. Smith’s donation was one of some 450 reported in the press in the years between 1870 and 1940. This talk explores how donating one’s remains to a medical institution was transformed in this period from a bizarre and macabre eccentricity into an exemplar of enlightened corporeal philanthropy. \nClick here to download the flyer for this event.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/susan-lederer-send-my-body-to-the-medical-college-alternative-afterlives-in-turn-of-the-century-america/
LOCATION:HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Gender Studies Paper Workshop: Jarett Henderson's "The 'Turton Job' and the Sexual Politics of the Durham Administration in Britain and British North America"
DESCRIPTION:Join the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster for a paper workshop on Jarett Henderson‘s “The ‘Turton Job’ and the Sexual Politics of the Durham Administration in Britain and British North America.” The event will take place in HSSB 4065 on Thursday\, January 30 at 3:30. To obtain the paper in advance\, email Jarett Henderson at jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/gender-studies-paper-workshop-jarett-hendersons-the-turton-job-and-the-sexual-politics-of-the-durham-administration-in-briatin-and-british-north-america/
LOCATION:HSSB 4065\, 4065 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Paper Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T160000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion\, "Impeachment in Historical Perspective"
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, February 11\, from 4 to 5:30 pm in HSSB 6020 (McCune Center)\, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History and the Walter H. Capps Center will host a panel discussion titled\, “Impeachment in Historical Perspective.” \n\nThree UCSB historians will speak on the following topics: \n\nGiuliana Perrone on the Impeachment and Senate Trial of Andrew Johnson \n\nLaura Kalman on Richard Nixon’s Watergate Scandal and the Impeachment and Senate Trial of Bill Clinton\n\n \nSalim Yaqub on Presidential Impeachments and U.S. Foreign Policy\n\n\n\nAfter the presentations\, the speakers will engage the audience in discussion.\n\n \nThe panel discussion is free and open to the public. Delicious refreshments will be served!
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/panel-discussion-impeachment-in-historical-perspective/
LOCATION:HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Gender Studies Paper Workshop: Kristen Thomas-McGill’s "'Even His Lungs Were Affected': Aubrey Beardsley\, Earnestness\, and the Artistic Politics of Interiority"
DESCRIPTION:Join the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster for a paper workshop on Kristen Thomas-McGill‘s “‘Even His Lungs Were Affected’: Aubrey Beardsley\, Earnestness\, and the Artistic Politics of Interiority.” The event will take place in HSSB 4065 on Thursday\, February 20 at 3:30. To obtain the paper in advance\, email Jarett Henderson at jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/gender-studies-paper-workshop-kristen-thomas-mcgills-even-his-lungs-were-affected-aubrey-beardsley-earnestness-and-the-artistic-politics-of-interiority/
LOCATION:HSSB 4065\, 4065 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Paper Workshop
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SUMMARY:Van Gelderen Graduate Student Lecture: Sergey Saluschev\, "Reluctant Abolitionists: Slavery\, the Slave Trade and Abolition in the 19th-Century Caucasus"
DESCRIPTION:History Associates presents the seventh annual Van Gelderen Graduate Student Lecture\, this year given by Sergey Saluschev. He will present on his dissertation topic\, “Reluctant Abolitionists: Slavery\, the Slave Trade and Abolition in the 19th-Century Caucasus.” \nThis talk will focus on the slave trade in the Russian-ruled Caucasus between 1801 and 1917 and draws upon such primary sources as letters\, petitions\, slave sale deeds\, and official correspondence. Although the tsarist state sought–at least rhetorically–to stamp out slavery in the empire’s peripheral regions\, it paradoxically upheld serfdom. The Caucasus nevertheless remained a crucial hub for slave markets serving the Middle East. The speaker will describe the geographic scope of the trade\, its variegated institutions\, and the attempts by Russian imperial authorities to reform it. He will present previously unknown stories of a number of individual slaves which reveal hidden and often poignant dimensions of slavery in the region. His conclusion demonstrates how the legacies of slavery in the Caucasus left a clearly legible mark on the political discourse about the future of slavery in the United States and on the American popular entertainment industry. \nThis year’s Van Gelderen Lecture will take place as a Zoom webinar. Join us for this exciting event at https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/97047834257.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/van-gelderen-graduate-student-lecture-sergey-saluschev-reluctant-abolitionists-slavery-the-slave-trade-and-abolition-in-the-19th-century-caucasus/
LOCATION:CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Associates
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SUMMARY:John Majewski\, Living Democracy in Capitalism's Shadow: Creative Labor\, Black Abolitionists\, and the Struggle to End Slavery
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \n\nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nIn the two decades before the Civil War\, a new type of capitalism developed in the northern United States that stressed mass education\, widespread innovation\, and new markets for art and design. For Black abolitionists\, the changing northern economy presented new opportunities to highlight the evils of slavery. While continuing to attack slavery’s physical cruelty\, Black abolitionists in the 1840s and 1850s increasingly highlighted the “mental darkness” of slavery\, focusing on the systematic denial of literacy\, learning\, and creativity. Through their own creative labor\, Black abolitionists made a compelling case for racial equality. The fate of Black creative labor after the Civil War\, though\, demonstrated the limits of using creativity as a way of obtaining citizenship\, and raises important questions about how we in the 21st century “live democracy” in a society that valorizes creativity amidst growing inequality and systemic racism. Audience Q&A will follow. \nJohn Majewski is the Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts and Professor in the Department of History. His areas of specialization include American economic\, social\, and legal history; Southern history; and the U.S. Civil War. He is the author of A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War (Cambridge University Press\, 2000)\, Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Imagination of the Confederate Nation (UNC Press\, 2009)\, and numerous articles\, reviews\, and book chapters. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series \nREGISTER NOW. ASL and Spanish interpretation will be available. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/john-majewski-living-democracy-in-capitalisms-shadow-creative-labor-black-abolitionists-and-the-struggle-to-end-slavery/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Sarah Case\, "The Woman Suffrage Movement: 'A Century of Struggle'"
DESCRIPTION:Join UCSB History Associates on Saturday\, October 17 on Zoom for their first public lecture of the academic year. Dr. Sarah Case will survey the woman suffrage movement for the hundred years or so before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. Her talk will consider why the idea of women voting was so controversial in the nineteenth\ncentury\, and examine how it became less so in the early twentieth century. Dr. Case will introduce some of the major activists and organizations in the women suffrage movement and highlight some of the turning points in the “century of struggle.” \nDr. Sarah Case earned her MA and PhD in history at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where she is a continuing lecturer in history\, teaching courses in public history\, women’s history\, and history of the South. She is also the managing editor of The Public Historian\, a journal focused on publicly engaged historical scholarship. She is the author of Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women in the New South (Illinois\, 2017) and articles on women and education\, reform\, and commemoration.\n \nThe Zoom link for this event is https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82201755393. All are welcome!
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/sarah-case-the-woman-suffrage-movement-a-century-of-struggle/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:History Associates
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210113T113000
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SUMMARY:Job Talk: Taylor M. Moore's "Amulet Tales: Political and Spiritual Economies of Healing in Egypt"
DESCRIPTION:The History Department invites all to a job talk by Dr. Taylor M. Moore on January 13\, 2021. \nDr. Moore is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at UC Santa Barbara. Her research lies at the intersections of critical race studies\, decolonial/postcolonial histories of science\, and decolonial materiality studies with a geographical focus on Egypt and the late Ottoman world. Her manuscript-in-preparation\, Superstitious Women: Race\, Magic\, and Medicine in Egypt\, uses modern Egyptian amulets as an archive to reconstruct the magical and vernacular medical life-worlds of peasant women healers\, and their critical role developing medico-anthropological expertise in Egypt from 1875-1950. \nUpper Egyptian and Black African women healers\, and the amulets they wielded\, shaped robust spiritual and political economies of healing in Egypt’s long nineteenth century. Known as “old wives\,” these women stood at the center of a contest over power\, expertise and scientific authority. Despite repeated and overlapping imperial\, colonial\, and nationalist efforts by government officials and doctors to discredit their knowledge\, wise women controlled a widespread market in occult objects and services that were crucial to everyday life. By the 1920s\, the production of occult knowledge became intimately entangled with the internationalization of the social sciences. Egyptologists and anthropologists designated women healers and their magico-medical practice as\n“survivals” of ancient Egypt. As such\, these women were both objects of scientific inquiry and critical producers of medical and anthropological knowledge. \nDr. Moore’s job talk will take place on Zoom at this link. To download the flyer for this event\, click here.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/job-talk-taylor-m-moores-amulet-tales-political-and-spiritual-economies-of-healing-in-egypt/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Job Talk
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SUMMARY:Public History Colloquium Event–”Reinterpreting Slavery and the Emotional Labor of History”
DESCRIPTION:Join the History Department’s Colloquium in Public History on Friday\, February 5 at noon for a Zoom talk by Professor Hilary N. Green (University of Alabama). \nProfessor Green reflects on the powerful legacy of Jim Crow era efforts to erase the history of slavery from the landscape of her workplace\, the University of Alabama\, and shares a project she pursued to rewrite this historical narrative. She researched\, designed and implemented a campus tour to tell the actual history of slavery and enslaved workers in the University’s past. She collected oral tradition and pursued deep archival research\, to historicize “the experiences\, activism and collective memories of African American men\, women and children\,” and describes her efforts to get the campus community to rethink its understanding of the past\, even as an untenured member of the faculty. Her project exposed the racist structures undergirding the University Archives; it highlights the tenacity of older narratives and exposes some of the physical and psychological burdens of this sort of historical recuperation for the practitioner. All this unfolded in the larger social struggle over historical monuments and commemoration in recent months. As Green writes\, “when exploring the racial history of one’s employer\, the Jim Crow era archival project of white supremacy is no longer an abstract concept read about only in scholarship.” \nRegister for this Zoom event at https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yzLVlQ62QNGv7sZz1DenDA. \nTo download the flyer for this event\, click here. \nRecommended reading: \n• Hilary Green\, “The Hallowed Ground Tour: Revising and Reimagining Landscapes of Slavery at the University of Alabama\,” in-progress seminar paper.  \n• Hilary Green\, “The Burden of the University of Alabama’s Hallowed Grounds\,” The Public Historian 42: 4 (November 2020): 28-40.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/public-history-colloquium-event-reinterpreting-slavery-and-the-emotional-labor-of-history/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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SUMMARY:Public History Colloquium Event–”Abina and the Important Men: Graphic History as Public History”
DESCRIPTION:Join the History Department’s Colloquium in Public History on Friday\, March 5 at noon for a Zoom talk by Trevor R. Getz (San Francisco State University). \nAbina and the Important Men began as an attempt to address a classroom problem: how to teach students about the dual responsibilities of the historian to historical subjects and contemporary audiences.  These goals both drove its development as a graphic history.  Fortuitously\, its publication caught the leading edge of the rehabilitation of that medium as a serious scholarly mode of communication. This great graphic shift is part of a wider realignment of both the history discipline and popular culture\, and it provides both opportunities and pitfalls for the scholar who wishes to share their work with a broader public while retaining its authenticity and maintaining its accuracy.  This is a discussion by the author of Abina and the Important Men about what he has learned since its publication in first edition in 2012\, with some arguments about the future of the graphic history genre. The graphic novel can be obtained through the Oxford University Press website\, or the community-built 2-D animated video version can be watched here (Password: Independence). \nRegister for this Zoom event at http://bit.ly/abina-webinar. \nRecommended video/reading/short links: \n• “How to Design a Comix Page” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dQEfL2BfUM \n• Julia Alekseyeva\, “Form\, Function\, and Style in the Graphic Essay\,” Sequentials Journal\, 1.4 (May 2020).\nhttps://www.sequentialsjournal.net/issues/issue1.4/alekseyeva.html?fbclid=IwAR0_bxgktwVoNr6TEcWjSeVogcZjM_U36FhvB6GpHXs8mhSfMKSc9PgTz0k  \nRocky Cotard and Laurent Dubois\, “The Slave Revolution That Gave Birth to Haiti\,” The Nib (Feb. 5\, 2018).\nhttps://thenib.com/haitian-revolution/ \n• Nick Sousanis\, “No Sides\,” Spin\, Weave & Cut (blog)\, http://spinweaveandcut.com/no-sides/ \n• Charis Loke & Max Loh\, “The Word for World is Image\,” Singpowrimo\, 20.2:\nhttps://www.singpowrimo.com/features/wordimage?fbclid=IwAR2WSiuLQKWT3EkbJvtBPdC7UmLWquXuduKUGLibIi9sA5jby-sCf1cLqLg \nOther recommended readings:\n• Trevor R. Getz\, “Getting Serious about Comic Histories”\, American Historical Review\, 2018\, 123\, 1596-1597. \n• Barbara Tversky\, “Visualizing Thought”\, Topics in Cognitive Science\, 3 (2011)\, 499-535. \n• Neil Cohn\, “In defense of a ‘grammar’ in the visual language of comics”\, Journal of Pragmatics\, 127 (2018)\, 1-19.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/public-history-colloquium-event-abina-and-the-important-men-graphic-history-as-public-history/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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SUMMARY:History Associates: Luke Roberts\, "A Samurai Wife Divorces her Lout of a Husband"
DESCRIPTION:Join the History Associates for an engaging presentation from UCSB History Professor Luke Roberts on a specific case that influenced gender roles in 19th-century Japan. \nZoom link: ucsb.zoom.us/j/6855143149 \nMori Nao\, a young samurai wife in Japan\, desired a divorce from her abusive husband in 1824. Legally a man could divorce his wife but a wife could not divorce her husband. Nevertheless\, she persisted in the face of his adamant refusal to divorce her. Soon her relatives mobilized their social networks to convince his relatives to pressure him to give her a divorce\, but he still refused. Eventually most samurai in her lord’s domain in southwestern Japan were working to get her a divorce and even the lord became involved in supporting what she had no legal right to demand\, and threatened the well-being of the husband’s kin group. \nFinally\, the husband divorced her. His angry kin put him in a cage in his backyard where he was forced to live for some months. No formal record survives\, but a detailed diary of the process made by one relative of his house who played an important role in the negotiations reveals much about gender roles\, family networks and common disjunctures between law-as-written and law-as-it-operated.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-luke-roberts-a-samurai-wife-divorces-her-lout-of-a-husband/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:History Associates
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SUMMARY:IHC Talk: Utathya Chattopadhyaya\, "Cannabis and South Asia"
DESCRIPTION:The IHC‘s Asian/American Studies Collective welcomes UCSB History professor Utathya Chattopadhyaya for a talk on the role of cannabis in South Asian experiences of empire. \nHistorical scholarship now conceives empire as a webbed uneven field of power relations and a multispecies enterprise. In other words\, the anxious and breathless struggle of European imperialism to sustain itself subjected human\, plant\, animal\, and insect bodies to its ambition to govern through logics of colonial difference. This paper argues that the cannabis plant in South Asia\, in the nineteenth century\, while being a subject of British revenue systems transformed into a race-d and gendered mode of explaining anticolonial insurgency by South Asian rebels. The intoxicating substance of the plant\, in the discursive logic of empire\, was seen to vitiate Asian bodies against European power. Cannabis also animated other imperial operations like the delegitimization of Indian sovereignty. Using the expansive reach of imperial periodical culture in the nineteenth century\, this paper highlights the Asian and global contexts within which cannabis became an alibi for rebellion or violence against empire. \nUtathya Chattopadhyaya is Assistant Professor of History at the UC Santa Barbara. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and studies the history of modern South Asia\, British imperialism\, and agrarian commodities. His work has appeared in the South African Historical Journal\, Historical Reflections\, and Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for our Times. He is currently writing a monograph on cannabis and empire in British India. \nThis event will be held on Zoom at https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81976204749?pwd=ekZ2UUtFd0U0Znh6bFpIcXFXWUs5QT09.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ihc-talk-utathya-chattopadhyaya-cannabis-and-south-asia/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210314T160000
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SUMMARY:8th Annual Van Gelderen Lecture: Sasha Coles\, “The Great Silk Experiment: Silkworms\, Mulberry Trees\, and Women Workers in Mormon Country\, 1850s-1910s”
DESCRIPTION:UCSB History Associates presents the eighth annual Van Gelderen Graduate Student Lecture\, this year given by Dr. Sasha Coles. \nFrom the 1850s to the early 1900s\, Latter-Day Saint (or Mormon) women in both rural and urban Great Basin settlements planted mulberry trees\, raised silkworms\, and attempted to produce silk cocoons\, thread\, and cloth of a high-enough quality to use and sell. By most measurements\, they failed. Homegrown silk was time-consuming\, onerous\, and practically impossible to profit from\, primarily due to superior imported goods from Europe and Asia. Even so\, this talk will show how the homegrown silk industry provided Mormon women with a venue to make their own money\, shape transnational labor and commodity markets\, and understand ever-changing environmental conditions. In these and other ways\, Mormon women used silk production and consumption to resolve tensions between economic cooperation and competition\, market isolation and integration\, and religious exceptionalism and American citizenship. \nOur speaker\, Sasha Coles\, defended her UCSB Ph.D. dissertation successfully in February 2021. She received her M.A. from UCSB in 2015 and her B.A. from Arizona State University in 2013. Her publications include two articles in historical journals\, and she has developed a website on the Walt Disney theme parks. \nThe Zoom link for this year’s Van Gelderen Lecture is https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/6855143149.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/8th-annual-van-gelderen-lecture-sasha-coles-the-great-silk-experiment-silkworms-mulberry-trees-and-women-workers-in-mormon-country-1850s-1910s/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:History Associates
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