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SUMMARY:Stuart Tyson Smith\, "Black Pharaohs? Egyptological Bias\, Racism\, and Egypt and Nubia as African Civilizations"
DESCRIPTION:Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research welcomes UCSB Professor of Anthropology (and History Department affiliate faculty member) Stuart Tyson Smith to the W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual Lecture Series. On Tuesday\, September 22 Professor Smith will present his Zoom lecture “Black Pharaohs? Egyptological Bias\, Racism\, and Egypt and Nubia as African Civilizations.” Register in advance for this free event here. Please note that the lecture begins at 4:00 Eastern/1:00 Pacific time. \nProfessor Smith’s research centers on the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Nubia with a theoretical focus on the social and ethnic dynamics of colonial encounters and the origins of the Napatan Kushite state\, whose rulers became Pharaohs of Egypt’s 25th Dynasty. He has published on the dynamics of Egyptian imperialism and royal ideology\, the use of sealings in administration\, death and burial in ancient Egypt and Nubia\, and the ethnic\, social and economic dynamics of intercultural interaction between ancient Egypt and Nubia.  He has also participated in and led archaeological expeditions to Egypt and since 1997 to Sudanese Nubia\, where he co-directs the UCSB-Purdue University Tombos expedition to the third cataract of the Nile. This research has been funded by multiple grants from the National Geographic Society and the National Science Foundation. In addition to fieldwork\, he is also engaged in a long-term study and write-up of the UCLA excavations conducted by the late Alexander Badawy at the fortress of Askut in Sudanese Nubia. In a new line of research\, Smith applies a postcolonial approach to modern scholarly and popular views of ancient Egypt as not truly African and Nubia as its subordinate\, confronting the intersection between racism and longstanding academic and political bias. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters\, Dr. Smith has published three books\, Askut in Nubia: The Economics and Ideology of Egyptian Imperialism in the Second Millennium BC\, Valley of the Kings (for children)\, and Wretched Kush: Ethnic Identities and Boundaries in Egypt’s Nubian Empire. In 1993\, he took a break from academia as Egyptological Consultant for the hit MGM movie Stargate\, commenting on the script and recreating spoken ancient Egyptian for the film. He returned to Hollywood consulting in 1998 and 2000 for the Universal remake of The Mummy and its sequel\, The Mummy Returns\, and most recently for 2018’s web production Stargate Origins: Catherine. Professor Smith holds a Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of California\, Los Angeles.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/stuart-tyson-smith-black-pharaohs-egyptological-bias-racism-and-egypt-and-nubia-as-african-civilizations/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Azaria Mbughuni\, "Tanzania and the Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa"
DESCRIPTION:All are cordially invited to a special guest lecture by Dr. Azaria Mbughuni on the role of Tanzania in Southern Africa’s liberation struggles. Dr. Mbughuni’s guest lecture will build onto Professor Mhoze Chikowero‘s ongoing graduate seminar on African Self-Liberation. \nDr. Mbughuni is Assistant Professor of History at Lane College\, where he is also the Chair of the Division of Business\, Social and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Mbughuni was born in Dar es Salaam\, Tanzania. He earned his Ph.D. from Howard University. His research interests include the role of Tanzania and the Pan-African Diasporas in the struggles for African independence.  \nFor more information and to obtain relevant readings\, contact Professor Chikowero at chikowero@history.ucsb.edu. To download the flyer for this event\, click here. To attend Dr. Mbughuni’s lecture on Zoom\, use this link.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/azaria-mbughuni-tanzania-and-the-liberation-struggles-in-southern-africa/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201210T093000
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SUMMARY:Nyasha Mboti\, "Closing the Loophole: Apartheid Studies"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Mhoze Chikowero invites all to attend a special guest lecture by Dr. Nyashi Mboti as part of UCSB’s African Studies Series. Dr. Mboti will discuss the new field he founded: Apartheid Studies. He will introduce his forthcoming 4-volume treatise on the subject\, Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto\, which will change how we think about enslavement\, colonialism\, neocolonialism\, impoverishment\, and the exploitation and carnage of humans that has defined global history for at least half a millennium.\n \nDr. Mboti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Science at the University of the Free State in South Africa. His keen interest in academia is to ask questions that people do not normally intend or think to ask. He has\, to date\, successfully supervised ten doctoral students\,\ndelivered seminal keynotes at international conferences\, and published over two dozen peer reviewed research articles.\n \nTo read an early copy of Volume 1 of Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto\, contact Professor Chikowero at chikowero@history.ucsb.edu or Claudia Ankrah at c_ankrah@ucsb.edu. To download the flyer for the lecture\, click here. To attend Dr. Mbughuni’s lecture on Zoom\, use this link.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/nyasha-mboti-closing-the-loophole-apartheid-studies/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210112T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210112T180000
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SUMMARY:The Initiative for the Study of Race\, Religion\, and Revolution's Winter 2021 Schedule
DESCRIPTION:Professor Butch Ware and the ISRRAR announce the Winter Quarter schedule for HIST 210RA: Race\, Faith\, Revolution. Graduate students are invited to register for this 2-unit seminar and to sign up for the listserv at http://tinyurl.com/ISRRARListServ. \nHow have Black metaphysics articulated with racial politics in order to advance efforts of justice\, liberation\, and self-actualization? In this very special year of 2021\, our seminar will take on manifestations of anti-black racism and imperialism\, as well as African and African Diasporic efforts to mediate between the seen and unseen worlds in struggles for justice. \nThis graduate seminar is part of a broader collaborative process meant to engage graduate students and faculty alike. The Initiative for the Study of Race\, Religion\, and Revolution (ISRRAR) seeks to foster a conversation on intersections of spirituality and social change wherein works on (and by) formerly colonized peoples are central\, rather than peripheral. \nThis approach is driven by an axial critique of the ways in which modernity’s core contradictions shape our shared pasts and presents. An era of revolutionary enlightenment\, we are told\, brought humanity out of the ‘dark ages.’ Freedom dawned. But this ‘age of lights’ brought the darkest of racial taxonomies\, and scales of slavery and human suffering unknown to ancient and medieval worlds. Reason proclaimed its mission: liberate humanity from the bondage of irrational religion. Yet rational political economies brought global empires\, world wars\, and ethnic genocides. Moreover\, new nationalisms have drawn on older religious repertories to define citizens and subject them to moral authority. Self-congratulatory Western tropes\, however\, tend to overlook the ubiquity of race and the persistence of faith\, portraying them as incidental rather than fundamental. \nColonized peoples in Africa and the Americas\, tell different tales. A generation of emergent scholarship has brought these forward. Scholars (many trained in interdisciplinary fields) have recovered ‘native’ narratives and ontologies of the oppressed\, often dislodging dominant meta-narratives in the study of the global West. In History 210 we engage live presentations of the works of scholars\, activists\, and artists whose conceptualization and execution of their research breaks new ground in these domains.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-initiative-for-the-study-of-race-religion-and-revolutions-winter-2021-schedule/2021-01-12/
LOCATION:University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210126T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210126T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T032805
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210126T180408Z
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SUMMARY:ISRRAR Event--Dr. LaKisha Simmons\, "The Ancestors and the Womb are One: Black Motherhood and Histories of Black Infant Loss"
DESCRIPTION:Throughout the twentieth century\, Black women in the United States experienced at least double the rates of infant mortality experienced by white women. Through an analysis of oral histories collected in the US South in the 1930s\, Dr. LaKisha Simmons (University of Michigan) details what Patricia Hill Collins terms a “Black women’s standpoint on mothering.” From interviewees’ discussions of infant and child loss emerge twin concepts of generation and Black relationality\, which enable a theory of Black motherhood as connected to survival and remembrance. The concept of generation reveals how Black women in the 1930s defined themselves as mothering their children after Emancipation and yet as inheriting the ever-present enslaved past through their own mothers and grandmothers. Black women articulated a sense of self and well-being that was in conversation with the ancestors and unborn. \nJoin this Zoom event here: https://bit.ly/3hVdvP4. \n\nThis event is part of the ISRRAR Winter Quarter series. \nProfessor Butch Ware and the ISRRAR announce the Winter Quarter schedule for HIST 210RA: Race\, Faith\, Revolution. Graduate students are invited to register for this 2-unit seminar and to sign up for the listserv at http://tinyurl.com/ISRRARListServ. \nHow have Black metaphysics articulated with racial politics in order to advance efforts of justice\, liberation\, and self-actualization? In this very special year of 2021\, our seminar will take on manifestations of anti-black racism and imperialism\, as well as African and African Diasporic efforts to mediate between the seen and unseen worlds in struggles for justice. \nThis graduate seminar is part of a broader collaborative process meant to engage graduate students and faculty alike. The Initiative for the Study of Race\, Religion\, and Revolution (ISRRAR) seeks to foster a conversation on intersections of spirituality and social change wherein works on (and by) formerly colonized peoples are central\, rather than peripheral. \nThis approach is driven by an axial critique of the ways in which modernity’s core contradictions shape our shared pasts and presents. An era of revolutionary enlightenment\, we are told\, brought humanity out of the ‘dark ages.’ Freedom dawned. But this ‘age of lights’ brought the darkest of racial taxonomies\, and scales of slavery and human suffering unknown to ancient and medieval worlds. Reason proclaimed its mission: liberate humanity from the bondage of irrational religion. Yet rational political economies brought global empires\, world wars\, and ethnic genocides. Moreover\, new nationalisms have drawn on older religious repertories to define citizens and subject them to moral authority. Self-congratulatory Western tropes\, however\, tend to overlook the ubiquity of race and the persistence of faith\, portraying them as incidental rather than fundamental. \nColonized peoples in Africa and the Americas\, tell different tales. A generation of emergent scholarship has brought these forward. Scholars (many trained in interdisciplinary fields) have recovered ‘native’ narratives and ontologies of the oppressed\, often dislodging dominant meta-narratives in the study of the global West. In History 210 we engage live presentations of the works of scholars\, activists\, and artists whose conceptualization and execution of their research breaks new ground in these domains.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-initiative-for-the-study-of-race-religion-and-revolutions-winter-2021-schedule-2021-01-26/
LOCATION:University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program
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SUMMARY:ISRRAR Event--Dr. Jason Young\, "Look for Me in the Whirlwind: Toward an Ecology of Afro-Futurism"
DESCRIPTION:Speaking before a rapt audience\, famed black nationalist leader\, Marcus Garvey\, vowed to support the cause of African liberation not only in life\, but also in death\, insisting that he would return as an “earthquake\, or a cyclone\, or plague\, or pestilence” to aid in the fight for freedom. He implored his followers: “Look for me in the whirlwind.” Using Garvey’s promise as a starting point\, Dr. Jason Young (University of Michigan) reconsiders the history of slavery with an eye trained on the transformative role that torrential rains\, gale force winds and raging fires played in both opening and closing paths to freedom and resistance. And in view of the current climate crisis\, COVID-19\, and yet another national reckoning on racial injustice\, Young imagines the role that rising sea levels\, receding coastlines\, and global fugitivity might play in the Afro-futures to come. \nJoin this Zoom event here: bit.ly/3hVdvP4  \n\nThis event is part of the ISRRAR Winter Quarter series. \nProfessor Butch Ware and the ISRRAR announce the Winter Quarter schedule for HIST 210RA: Race\, Faith\, Revolution. Graduate students are invited to register for this 2-unit seminar and to sign up for the listserv at http://tinyurl.com/ISRRARListServ. \nHow have Black metaphysics articulated with racial politics in order to advance efforts of justice\, liberation\, and self-actualization? In this very special year of 2021\, our seminar will take on manifestations of anti-black racism and imperialism\, as well as African and African Diasporic efforts to mediate between the seen and unseen worlds in struggles for justice. \nThis graduate seminar is part of a broader collaborative process meant to engage graduate students and faculty alike. The Initiative for the Study of Race\, Religion\, and Revolution (ISRRAR) seeks to foster a conversation on intersections of spirituality and social change wherein works on (and by) formerly colonized peoples are central\, rather than peripheral. \nThis approach is driven by an axial critique of the ways in which modernity’s core contradictions shape our shared pasts and presents. An era of revolutionary enlightenment\, we are told\, brought humanity out of the ‘dark ages.’ Freedom dawned. But this ‘age of lights’ brought the darkest of racial taxonomies\, and scales of slavery and human suffering unknown to ancient and medieval worlds. Reason proclaimed its mission: liberate humanity from the bondage of irrational religion. Yet rational political economies brought global empires\, world wars\, and ethnic genocides. Moreover\, new nationalisms have drawn on older religious repertories to define citizens and subject them to moral authority. Self-congratulatory Western tropes\, however\, tend to overlook the ubiquity of race and the persistence of faith\, portraying them as incidental rather than fundamental. \nColonized peoples in Africa and the Americas\, tell different tales. A generation of emergent scholarship has brought these forward. Scholars (many trained in interdisciplinary fields) have recovered ‘native’ narratives and ontologies of the oppressed\, often dislodging dominant meta-narratives in the study of the global West. In History 210 we engage live presentations of the works of scholars\, activists\, and artists whose conceptualization and execution of their research breaks new ground in these domains.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-initiative-for-the-study-of-race-religion-and-revolutions-winter-2021-schedule-2021-02-09/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210219T130000
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SUMMARY:FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar I: Sovereignty and the Political
DESCRIPTION:The History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the inaugural session of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series.  Inspired by the History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary history within it\, the series brings together UCSB History faculty and graduate students who have volunteered to lead a dialogue on Black life\, race\, and antiblackness in history. The conversations will engage Herman Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves as a focal point to discuss themes like sovereignty\, empire\, and racial capitalism from different historical angles of vision. \nOur inaugural webinar will engage Prof. Herman Bennett’s emphasis on sovereignty and the importance of the political in understanding the history of race in the world. Registration for the webinar is required. Please click on the link below to register. \nDate: 19th February 2021 \nTime: 1:00 PM \nWebinar I: Sovereignty and the Political \nZoom registration: Please register in advance for this webinar using the link below.\nhttps://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_31FRU_q0QYiZ46ABcHCvkw \nFeaturing presentations by Juan Cobo Betancourt\, Elizabeth Digeser\, Adam Sabra and Sergey Saluschev.  \nComment by Hilary Bernstein. \n\n  \nJuan Cobo Betancourt is a historian of race\, language\, religion\, and law in colonial Latin America\, co-founder of Neogranadina\, and the author of Mestizos Heraldos de Dios (2012). \nElizabeth Digeser is a historian of religion\, philosophy\, Roman politics\, and conversion in Late Antiquity\, and the author of A Threat to Public Piety: Christians\, Platonists\, and the Great Persecution (2012). \nAdam Sabra is a historian of poverty\, charity\, aristocracy\, and Islam in medieval and early modern Egypt\, and the author of Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam: Mamluk Egypt 1250-1517 (2000). \nSergey Salushchev is a historian of slavery and abolition in the nineteenth century Caucasus under Russian imperialism. His dissertation analyzes the region as a permanent borderland\, a site of cultural exchanges\, translational commercial networks\, contested memory\, and imperial rivalries. \nHilary Bernstein is a historian of urban culture and history in early modern France\, and the author of Historical Communities: Cities\, Erudition\, and National Identity in Early Modern France (2020).
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-in-history-webinar-i-sovereignty-and-the-political/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210223T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T032805
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SUMMARY:ISRRAR Event–Dr. Rasul Miller\, "Black Internationalism and Black Sunni Muslims in America"
DESCRIPTION:During the interwar period\, the historic neighborhood of Harlem was home to a thriving Black political scene that included Garveyites\, Communists\, labor organizers\, anticolonial activists\, and politicized adherents of various new Black religious congregations. Shaykh Daoud Faisal and Mother Khadijah Faisal\, the architects of New York City’s first lasting Black Sunni Muslim community worked as artists\, organizers\, and propagators of Islam for over a decade in 1920s and 1930s Harlem\, and were deeply impacted by its Black internationalist political and cultural character. Upon moving to Brooklyn Heights in 1930 they built one of the twentieth century’s most influential Muslim religious communities in the US. In this talk\, Dr. Rasul Miller (History\, UC Irvine) explores the impact of Black internationalism on this formative Black Sunni religious institution\, and the broader Black Sunni religious and cultural orientations it helped to foster. \nJoin this Zoom event here: https://bit.ly/3hVdvP4  \n\nThis event is part of the ISRRAR Winter Quarter series. \nProfessor Butch Ware and the ISRRAR announce the Winter Quarter schedule for HIST 210RA: Race\, Faith\, Revolution. Graduate students are invited to register for this 2-unit seminar and to sign up for the listserv at http://tinyurl.com/ISRRARListServ. \nHow have Black metaphysics articulated with racial politics in order to advance efforts of justice\, liberation\, and self-actualization? In this very special year of 2021\, our seminar will take on manifestations of anti-black racism and imperialism\, as well as African and African Diasporic efforts to mediate between the seen and unseen worlds in struggles for justice. \nThis graduate seminar is part of a broader collaborative process meant to engage graduate students and faculty alike. The Initiative for the Study of Race\, Religion\, and Revolution (ISRRAR) seeks to foster a conversation on intersections of spirituality and social change wherein works on (and by) formerly colonized peoples are central\, rather than peripheral. \nThis approach is driven by an axial critique of the ways in which modernity’s core contradictions shape our shared pasts and presents. An era of revolutionary enlightenment\, we are told\, brought humanity out of the ‘dark ages.’ Freedom dawned. But this ‘age of lights’ brought the darkest of racial taxonomies\, and scales of slavery and human suffering unknown to ancient and medieval worlds. Reason proclaimed its mission: liberate humanity from the bondage of irrational religion. Yet rational political economies brought global empires\, world wars\, and ethnic genocides. Moreover\, new nationalisms have drawn on older religious repertories to define citizens and subject them to moral authority. Self-congratulatory Western tropes\, however\, tend to overlook the ubiquity of race and the persistence of faith\, portraying them as incidental rather than fundamental. \nColonized peoples in Africa and the Americas\, tell different tales. A generation of emergent scholarship has brought these forward. Scholars (many trained in interdisciplinary fields) have recovered ‘native’ narratives and ontologies of the oppressed\, often dislodging dominant meta-narratives in the study of the global West. In History 210 we engage live presentations of the works of scholars\, activists\, and artists whose conceptualization and execution of their research breaks new ground in these domains.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-initiative-for-the-study-of-race-religion-and-revolutions-winter-2021-schedule-2021-02-23/
LOCATION:University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T133000
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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:ISRRAR Event–Dr. Samiha Rahman\, "Redefining Black Excellence: Ihsan\, Islamic Education\, and the Tijani Sufi Order"
DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, hundreds of predominantly working-class African American Muslim youth have migrated to the West African Tijani Sufi town of Medina Baye\, Senegal. They hope to circumvent the antiblackness\, Islamophobia\, and economic inequality they face in the U.S. in search of a transformative educational encounter in a society where Blackness and Islam constitute the dominant norms. This talk chronicles these young people’s everyday experiences pursuing Islamic education in Medina Baye. Complicating popular notions that link Black excellence to individualistic material gain and Black capitalism\, Dr. Samiha Rahman (CSU Long Beach) argues that Black Muslim excellence (ihsan) provides an alternative paradigm rooted in the pursuit of human excellence through spiritual and social practice. Grounded in a transatlantic Black Muslim tradition\, Black Muslim ihsan offers African American Muslims pathways to individual and collective liberation. \nJoin this Zoom event here: bit.ly/3hVdvP4  \n\nThis event is part of the ISRRAR Winter Quarter series. \nProfessor Butch Ware and the ISRRAR announce the Winter Quarter schedule for HIST 210RA: Race\, Faith\, Revolution. Graduate students are invited to register for this 2-unit seminar and to sign up for the listserv at http://tinyurl.com/ISRRARListServ. \nHow have Black metaphysics articulated with racial politics in order to advance efforts of justice\, liberation\, and self-actualization? In this very special year of 2021\, our seminar will take on manifestations of anti-black racism and imperialism\, as well as African and African Diasporic efforts to mediate between the seen and unseen worlds in struggles for justice. \nThis graduate seminar is part of a broader collaborative process meant to engage graduate students and faculty alike. The Initiative for the Study of Race\, Religion\, and Revolution (ISRRAR) seeks to foster a conversation on intersections of spirituality and social change wherein works on (and by) formerly colonized peoples are central\, rather than peripheral. \nThis approach is driven by an axial critique of the ways in which modernity’s core contradictions shape our shared pasts and presents. An era of revolutionary enlightenment\, we are told\, brought humanity out of the ‘dark ages.’ Freedom dawned. But this ‘age of lights’ brought the darkest of racial taxonomies\, and scales of slavery and human suffering unknown to ancient and medieval worlds. Reason proclaimed its mission: liberate humanity from the bondage of irrational religion. Yet rational political economies brought global empires\, world wars\, and ethnic genocides. Moreover\, new nationalisms have drawn on older religious repertories to define citizens and subject them to moral authority. Self-congratulatory Western tropes\, however\, tend to overlook the ubiquity of race and the persistence of faith\, portraying them as incidental rather than fundamental. \nColonized peoples in Africa and the Americas\, tell different tales. A generation of emergent scholarship has brought these forward. Scholars (many trained in interdisciplinary fields) have recovered ‘native’ narratives and ontologies of the oppressed\, often dislodging dominant meta-narratives in the study of the global West. In History 210 we engage live presentations of the works of scholars\, activists\, and artists whose conceptualization and execution of their research breaks new ground in these domains.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-initiative-for-the-study-of-race-religion-and-revolutions-winter-2021-schedule-2021-03-09/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210312T130000
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SUMMARY:FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar II: Empire and Liberation
DESCRIPTION:Building on the collective knowledge shared in our first webinar\, the History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the second session of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series.  Inspired by the History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary history within it\, the series brings together UCSB History faculty and graduate students who have volunteered to lead a dialogue on Black life\, race\, and antiblackness in history. The conversations will engage Herman Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves\, as a focal point to discuss themes like sovereignty\, empire\, and racial capitalism from different historical angles of vision. \nOur second webinar will engage Prof. Herman Bennett’s emphasis on empire and colonialism in understanding Atlantic history and the politics of liberation from a wide diversity of scholarly standpoints. Registration for the webinar is required. Please click on the link below to register. \nDate: Mar 12\, 2021 \nTime: 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nWebinar II: Empire and Liberation \nZoom registration: Please register in advance for this webinar using the link below. \nhttps://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kI2R6miRRO2blZUh_62shQ \nFeaturing presentations by Anthony Greco\, Katie Moore\, Stephan Miescher\, and Ya Zuo \nComment by Evelyne Laurent-Perrault \n\nAnthony Greco is a historian of engineering and technology\, colonialism\, and science in the modern Middle East. His dissertation research examines Egypt’s long tradition of scientific knowledge and pedagogy. Before this\, he worked as a diesel mechanic\, plumber\, and carpenter which inspired his interest in builders and maintainers of public works. \nKatie Moore is a historian of early American political economy\, money\, debt\, and the Atlantic World\, and the author of the forthcoming A Revolutionary Currency. \nStephan Miescher is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth century Ghana\, masculinities\, and environmental history\, and the author of Making Men in Ghana (2005) and coeditor of Gender\, Imperialism\, and Global Exchanges (2015). \nYa Zuo is a historian of middle and late imperial China\, epistemology\, political philosophy\, ethics\, and emotions\, and the author of Shen Gua’s Empiricism (2018). \nEvelyne Laurent-Perrault is a historian of the African diaspora in colonial Latin America and the Caribbean\, the political imagination of enslaved women\, and the author of the forthcoming Claims of Dignity. 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-in-history-webinar-ii-empire-and-liberation/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T130000
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SUMMARY:FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar III: Racial Capitalism and Liberalism
DESCRIPTION:Building on the collective knowledge shared in the two previous webinars\, the History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the third and final session of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series.  Inspired by the History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary history within it\, the series brings together UCSB History faculty and graduate students who have volunteered to lead a dialogue on Black life\, race\, and antiblackness in history. The final webinar will engage Herman Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves\, as a focal point to discuss themes like racial capitalism and liberalism from different historical angles of vision. \nOur final webinar will transition into a Zoom meeting room format. Registration for the Zoom meeting is required. Please click on the link below to register\, after which you will receive a passcode and meeting link. You will need the passcode to enter the meeting. \nDate: April 16\, 2021 \nTime: 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nWebinar III: Racial Capitalism and Liberalism \nZoom registration: Please register in advance for this webinar using the link below. \nhttps://ucsb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcud-yvrj4iE9O-rnuoC1Vo4oW2d61R6HzW \nFeaturing presentations by Alice O’Connor\, Manuel Covo\, Mattie Webb\, and Sherene Seikaly \nComment by Mhoze Chikowero \n\nAlice O’Connor is a historian of poverty\, capitalism\, inequality\, social science\, and public policy in the U.S. and the author of Poverty Knowledge (2001) and Social Science for What? (2007). \nManuel Covo is a historian of French imperialism\, the Atlantic World\, and the Haitian Revolution and the author of the forthcoming The Entrepot of Atlantic Revolutions. \nMattie Webb is a historian of U.S. foreign policy\, African History\, and comparative race and ethnicity. Mattie’s archival and oral-historical research combines social and diplomatic history to study the impact and awareness of the Sullivan Principles in South Africa during the apartheid era.  \nSherene Seikaly is a historian of political economy\, capitalism\, development\, race\, and dispossession in the modern Middle East and the author of Men of Capital (2016) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa (2021). \nMhoze Chikowero is a historian of music\, colonialism\, technology\, and urban space in Zimbabwe and southern Africa and the author of African Music\, Power\, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe (2015).
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-in-history-webinar-iii-racial-capitalism-and-liberalism/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210420T160000
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SUMMARY:ISRRAR Event–Dr. Vincent Brown\, "Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War"
DESCRIPTION:Warfare migrates. This has never been more apparent than in the era when the violence of imperial expansion and enslavement transformed Europe\, Africa\, and the Americas\, as they interacted across the Atlantic Ocean. European imperial conflicts extended the dominion of capitalist agriculture. African battles fed captives to the transatlantic trade in slaves. Masters and their human property struggled with one another continuously. These clashes amounted to a borderless slave war: war to enslave\, war to expand slavery\, and war against slaves\, precipitating wars waged by the enslaved against slaveholders. In this sense\, Dr. Vincent Brown argues\, Tacky’s revolt was but a war within other wars\, which had diverging and overlapping provocations\, combat zones\, political alliances\, and enemy combatants. \nJoin this Zoom event at tinyurl.com/isrrarTalk \nThis event is part of the ISRRAR Spring Quarter series.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/isrrar-event-dr-vincent-brown-tackys-revolt-the-story-of-an-atlantic-slave-war/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T160000
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SUMMARY:CWWG Workshop–Mattie Webb\, "Beyond Desegregation: Waging a Battle Against Apartheid in the South African Workplace"
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, April 24\, from 2 to 4 pm\, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will host a workshop. They will read and discuss a dissertation chapter\, “Beyond Desegregation: Waging a Battle Against Apartheid in the South African Workplace\,” by Mattie Webb\, a doctoral candidate in the UCSB history department. \nThis workshop is part of a new CCWS initiative\, the Cold War Working Group (CWWG)\, a collaborative\, graduate student-led group designed to provide a supportive\, welcoming environment for graduate students working on or around the Cold War and international history. The workshops provide an occasion for graduate students\, faculty\, and others to join together as peers to read\, and provide feedback on\, scholarly work in progress (dissertation chapters\, journal articles\, etc.) by members of our community. \nIf you wish to participate in the April 24 workshop\, please email Addie (who is also serving this year as the CCWS Graduate Fellow) at addisonmjensen@ucsb.edu\, and she will provide you with a copy of Mattie’s dissertation chapter\, along with a Zoom address. \nPlease join us for this exciting event!
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/cwwg-workshop-mattie-webb-beyond-desegregation-waging-a-battle-against-apartheid-in-the-south-african-workplace/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:workshop/brown bag/practicum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T130000
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SUMMARY:FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Keynote Lecture with Prof. Herman Bennett: "Body\, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic"
DESCRIPTION:The History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the keynote lecture of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series. The lecture\, “Body\, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic\,” will be delivered by Prof. Herman L. Bennett. \nHerman L. Bennett is Professor at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. A scholar of Latin American history and the African Diaspora\, Prof. Bennett’s previous books include Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism\, Christianity\, and Afro-Creole Consciousness (2003)\, Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico (2009)\, and the forthcoming The African Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction. His notable essays include “The Subject in the Plot: National Boundaries and the ‘History’ of the Black Atlantic\,” in African Studies Review (2000) and “Writing into a Void: Slavery\, History\, and Representing Blackness in Latin America” in Social Text (2007). He has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for Humanities\, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University\, and the American Council of Learned Societies. The American Historical Association recognized his mentorship of racially and ethnically underrepresented students in the historical discipline through the AHA Equity Award in 2012. Prof. Bennett has served on the editorial boards of the Hispanic American Historical Review\, Social Text\, The Americas\, the Blacks in the Diaspora series at Indiana University Press\, and the American Historical Review. \nProf. Bennett’s most recent book\, African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (2018) invites our attention to politics of sovereignty\, enslavement\, and power in the earliest Iberian and African interactions as a point of inquiry to critically rethink the ways in which liberalism has subsequently shaped analyses of culture\, economy\, and history. \nThe inaugural FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series is inspired by the UCSB History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary history within it. Following three webinars led by History Department faculty and graduate students on topics like sovereignty\, the political\, liberation\, racial capitalism\, liberalism\, and empire\, from their own scholarly angles of vision\, the keynote lecture brings the series to a close and invites more conversations to be continued in the future. \nThe keynote lecture will use the Zoom webinar format. Prior registration is required. \nDate: Friday 21 May\, 2021 \nTime: 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nKeynote Lecture: “Body\, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic” \nZoom registration: Please register in advance for this webinar using the link below: \nhttps://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RbHCtjyoS8S-l6vbTiFEzw
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-in-history-keynote-lecture-with-prof-herman-bennett-body-soul-subject-a-history-of-difference-in-the-early-modern-african-atlantic/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210604T110000
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SUMMARY:UCSB Africa Center Inaugural Lecture: Dr. Zoé Samudzi's "Rewriting the Concentration Camp"
DESCRIPTION:The UCSB Africa Center cordially invites you to a special guest lecture on June 4 by Dr. Zoé Samudzi on indigenous demands for restitution\, long-contested histories of colonial dispossession and property ownership in the aftermath of the German genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples in Namibia. Her talk will interrogate the trajectories of colonial ideology and practice from the scientific racism-inflected racial geographies and regimes of property ownership during German colonization and the still shrouded story of post-colonial western institutions’ imperial skull-collecting and refusal to adequately acknowledge the genocide.\n \nFor a copy of Dr. Samudzi’s paper\, please email Claudia Ankrah (c_ankrah@ucsb.edu) or Dr. Mhoze Chikowero (chikowero@history.ucsb.edu). \n \nDr. Samudzi  is a highly accomplished author and scholar. Her research interests include German colonialism\, the Herero and Nama genocide and its afterlife\, and the role of colonnial science in the production of indigenous/Black/African identity. She has published for a variety of critical publications\, including Africa is Not a Country\, New Life Quarterly and a monograph As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation. She earned her Ph.D. from UC San Francisco. \n \nZoom URL: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84107544681
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ucsb-africa-center-inaugural-lecture-dr-zoe-samudzis-rewriting-the-concentration-camp/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220203T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220203T190000
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SUMMARY:History Associates Talk and Performance: Mhoze Chikowero and Dr. Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa on Musics of State-making in Zimbabwe
DESCRIPTION:History Associates presents\, in collaboration with UCSB Multicultural Center\, a special online performance from opera-singer and scholar\, Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa. Tawengwa is a close collaborator of UCSB Associate Professor of History\, Mhoze Chikowero\, who will be moderating the post performance Q&A. \nTawengwa and Chikowero worked together to adapt her senior thesis from Princeton\, “Dawn of the Rooster\,” into an abridged one-hour performance which tells the story of Tawengwa’s family during the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle of 1965-1980. They performed this work on campus in early 2020 and spoke with KCSB about the importance of music in telling African histories. We are delighted to welcome her back to UCSB this year! \n\nMWEDZI\nMwedzi means moon\, menstrual cycle\, and month in Chivanhu. Mwedzi tells the story of a rite of passage into Womanhood. The twelve-year journey began in 2008\, when the artist left Zimbabwe for the United States. As a Zimbabwean woman living in the United States\, staying grounded in ancestral wisdom has been vital for survival. Mwedzi shares this wisdom and honors the healing power of ancestors\, the Divine Feminine\, and self-love. Post performance screening Q&A with Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa\, and special artist appearances with Etienne Charles and Gerson Lazo-Quiroga. Moderated by Dr. Mhoze Chikowero. \nTawengwa is a Zimbabwean gwenyambira\, scholar\, and community organizer\, composer\, and singer whose storytelling serves to bridge Zimbabwe’s past and present\, in order to inform a self-crafted future. Her craft lives at the intersection of music and healing\, drawing from the generations of Svikiro (spirit mediums) and N’anga (healers) in her bloodline. Read more \nThursday\, Feb 3rd\, 6pm\nONLINE PERFORMANCE SCREENING \nZOOM: HTTPS://UCSB.ZOOM.US/J/83279445270
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-talk-and-performance-mhoze-chikowera-and-dr-tanyaradzwa-tawengwa-on-musics-of-state-making-in-zimbabwe/
LOCATION:HTTPS://UCSB.ZOOM.US/J/83279445270\, Multicultural Center\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93117\, United States
CATEGORIES:History Associates,Public Lecture
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