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SUMMARY:Barbara Walker\, "Fathers and Sons and the Origins of Cold War ‘Area Studies’ in the United States"
DESCRIPTION:Barbara Walker is Professor of Russian history at the University of Nevada\, Reno. She has published on a broad range of historical topics in the area of Russian and Soviet intellectual life and its economic foundations\, social organization and culture. \nMore recently\, she has branched out to explore the nature of expertise\, specifically “information expertise\,” in her current book project\, A War of Experts: Soviet and American Knowledge Networks in Cold War Competition and Collaboration. Her book will present the intertwined stories of a variety of lively and committed “information experts” in the Cold War United States and Soviet Union\, including early electronic computer designers\, U.S.-Soviet research exchange scholars\, journalists and Soviet dissidents. Information professionals in the area of intelligence make their appearance too. The book focuses on the efforts of these ambitious\, often passionate “experts” to multiply their numbers and to expand the influence of their expertise in this period. To accomplish these goals\, they built on networks and traditions reaching back into the 19th century\, in which lay the origins of the professionalization of expertise in many areas. \nClick here to download the flyer for this event.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/barbara-walker-fathers-and-sons-and-the-origins-of-cold-war-area-studies-in-the-united-states/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Colloquium Event,Graduate Program
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SUMMARY:CWWG Workshop--Addison Jensen\, "WITCHIEs\, Chickies\, and Donut Dollies: The Women’s Rights Movement and American GIs"
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, February 27\, 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\, “WITCHIEs\, Chickies\, and Donut Dollies: The Women’s Rights Movement and American GIs\,” by Addie Jensen\, 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. We strongly encourage other UCSB graduate students and faculty members to consider submitting their own work for discussion in future workshops. \nIf you wish to participate in the February 27 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 the password to access her dissertation chapter\, along with a Zoom address. \nPlease join us for this exciting event!
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/cwwg-workshop-addison-jensen-witchies-chickies-and-donut-dollies-the-womens-rights-movement-and-american-gis/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:workshop/brown bag/practicum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T160000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted--W. Patrick McCray\, "Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture"
DESCRIPTION:The IHC‘s Humanities Decanted series invites all to a dialogue between Patrick McCray (History) and Alan Liu (English) about McCray’s new book\, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture (MIT Press\, 2020). Audience Q&A will follow. \nDespite C. P. Snow’s warning\, in 1959\, of an unbridgeable chasm between the humanities and the sciences\, engineers and scientists of that era enthusiastically collaborated with artists to create visually and sonically interesting multimedia works. This new artwork emerged from corporate laboratories\, artists’ studios\, publishing houses\, art galleries\, and university campuses and it involved some of the biggest stars of the art world. Less famous and often overlooked were the engineers and scientists who contributed time\, technical expertise\, and aesthetic input to these projects. These figures included the rocket engineer-turned-artist Frank J. Malina\, MIT’s Gyorgy Kepes\, and Billy Klüver\, a Swedish-born engineer at Bell Labs who helped establish the New York–based group Experiments in Art and Technology. This book restores the role of technologists to the foreground\, explores the era’s hybrid creative culture\, and recounts the many ways that artists\, engineers\, and curators have collaborated over the past fifty years. Making Art Work shows that the borders of art and technology over the past half century are anything but fixed. Just as striking is that the original ideals and ambitions that animated the 1960s-era art-and-technology movement have not faded. Today\, creativity\, collaborations\, and interdisciplinary research are promoted by academic and corporate leaders alike. What emerges is a long history of artists and technologists who have repeatedly built new creative communities in which they can exercise imagination\, invention\, and expertise. \nW. Patrick McCray is a professor in the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara where his research\, writing\, and teaching focus on the histories of technology and science. Originally trained as a scientist\, he is the author or editor of six books. McCray’s 2013 book\, The Visioneers: How an Elite Group of Scientists Pursued Space Colonies\, Nanotechnologies\, and a Limitless Future\, won the Watson Davis Prize in 2014 from the History of Science Society as the “best book written for a general audience.” \nRegistration is required in advance. Register at https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YAKxHjklSWqDzHO5Vs8Ngg. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/humanities-decanted-w-patrick-mccray-making-art-work-how-cold-war-engineers-and-artists-forged-a-new-creative-culture/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Public Lecture
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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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SUMMARY:Interdisciplinary Conference on "Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster"
DESCRIPTION:The interdisciplinary virtual conference Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster will take place on Friday\, April 30\, 2021 at 9:00am-4:00pm (Pacific Time\, US & Canada)\, when an international slate of speakers representing a variety of disciplines will share their insights on the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. \n \nThe day before\, an associated Carsey-Wolf Center virtual discussion of the award-winning documentary “The Babushkas of Chernobyl\,” with Director Holly Morris\, will take place on Thursday\, April 29\, 2021 at 4:00pm (Pacific Time\, US & Canada)\, before which registered participants can pre-screen the film. Information on registering for both events and the conference website are below:\n \nConference Website\n \nRegister for the Virtual Conference at 9am-4pm Pacific Time (US & Canada) on Friday\, April 30\, 2021\n \nRegister for the Carsey-Wolf Center Virtual Discussion at 4pm Pacific Time (US & Canada) on Thursday\, April\, 29\, 2021\n \nThirty-five years after the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl\, the interdisciplinary virtual conference Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster considers its afterlife and reverberations in various disciplines\, including culture and the arts. Situated at a watershed moment during the Cold War\, Chernobyl has spawned an unprecedented quantity of global responses from scientists\, writers\, filmmakers\, and artists\, and it has become a key moment for the global environmental movement. This conference views the accident and its aftermath in the context of broader global ecologies of disaster and considers how catastrophe is coded and understood — or fails to be understood — through the prism of science\, art\, literature\, and film. How do all these disciplines and discourses confront the disaster\, and where do they converge to produce the fiction\, or the truth\, of what we call “Chernobyl”? The conference brings together scholars and experts in Comparative Literature\, History\, Anthropology\, Environmental Studies\, Nuclear Engineering\, Medicine\, Art\, Film\, and Germanic and Slavic Studies.\n \nSponsored by the Division of Arts and Letters and the T. A. Barron Environmental Fund. Event partners include the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, the\, and the Carsey-Wolf Center. Other sponsors include the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Global Studies\, Comparative Literature Program\, Environmental Studies\, Cold War Studies\, College of Creative Studies\, and History Department. (Rescheduled from April 2020 when it was postponed due to COVID-19.) 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/interdisciplinary-conference-on-fallout-chernobyl-and-the-ecology-of-disaster/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Center for Cold War Studies Talk: Nancy Mitchell\, "Andrew Young: Challenging Anglo-Saxon Foreign Policy?"
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Young\, one of Martin Luther King’s top aides and a former member of Congress\, served as Jimmy Carter’s ambassador to the United Nations. Outspoken and controversial\, Young questioned prevailing Cold War assumptions. “Communism has never been a threat to me\,” he said. “Racism has always been a threat—and that has been the enemy of all of my life.” \nNancy Mitchell is Professor of History at North Carolina State University. She is the author of Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War (2016)\, which received the Douglas Dillon Award from the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Robert Ferrell Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Professor Mitchell’s first book was The Danger of Dreams: German and American Imperialism in Latin America\, 1895-1914 (1999). She contributed the chapter on “The Cold War and Jimmy Carter” to The Cambridge History of the Cold War (2010)\, and her articles have appeared in Cold War History\, International History Review\, Diplomatic History\, American Historical Review\, Journal of American History\, Prologue\, H-Diplo\, and H-Pol. \nClick here to join the Zoom for this event.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/center-for-cold-war-studies-talk-nancy-mitchell-andrew-young-challenging-anglo-saxon-foreign-policy/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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