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SUMMARY:History Associates Talk | "Plant Life and Imperialism" | Utathya Chattopadhyaya
DESCRIPTION: \nPlant Life and Imperialism: Histories of Cannabis in British India\n \nAre histories of social structures\, imperial systems\, and the subjecthood of peoples not also histories of plant life? Taking one plant genus\, that modern botany labels cannabis\, this talk explores how and why we should embrace the contiguity between human and nonhuman life as a basic condition for narrating history itself. In British India\, across the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries\, different forms of cannabis substances animated the history of working classes\, gender\, race\, rural communities\, and state formation in heterogeneous ways that also echoed the complex biochemistry and psychoactive variability of cannabis intoxicants. To understand the unfolding of modern British imperialism\, the ways in which cannabis straddled its statuses as plant\, commodity\, substance\, form\, and matter can be crucial as it sheds important light on histories that have so far either remained out of focus or simply segregated from one another because of how colonial administrations produced categories to govern colonized spaces. This talk will introduce such histories and why and how they matter before suggesting what they contribute to the ongoing efforts of scholars to attend to the ways in which the supposed boundaries between humans\, other species\, and their environments have in fact remained thoroughly porous and vulnerable. \nUtathya Chattopadhyaya is Assistant Professor in the UCSB History Department. \nClick here for the poster
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-talk-plant-life-and-imperialism-utathya-chattopadhyaya/
LOCATION:Santa Barbara Eastside Branch Library\, 1102 E Montecito St\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Focal Point Dialogues in History: Conversations on Black life\, race\, and antiblackness in history with Prof. Nyasha Mboti and Prof. Steve Zipperstein
DESCRIPTION:The History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend this year’s 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 History faculty and graduate students to engage in a dialogue on Black life\, race\, and antiblackness in history. \nFor our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series this year\, the Colloquium Committee\, after careful discussion\, has decided to invite both Professor Steve Zipperstein and Professor Nyasha Mboti (Professor of Communication at the University of the Free State) to join us and have a dialogue with us on April 12 1-3PM at the McCune Conference Room. \nProfessor Zipperstein will talk about the important Waco/Branch Davidian standoff on its 30th anniversary. This talk will discuss how Waco (and a prior episode at Ruby Ridge\, Idaho) laid the groundwork for the dangerous rise of anti-government white nationalism in the United States\, leading to the January 2021 Trump-inspired attack on the U.S. Capitol. \nProfessor Mboti will talk about his new book\, Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto\, Vol. 1 (2023). The book utilizes the notion of “apartheid” as a paradigm and theoretical framework. It argues that apartheid is not quite what we were told or what we thought. Instead\, seen from the experience and point of view of the oppressed\, apartheid has astonishing virulence\, prevalence\, persistence\, and undetectability. Apartheid Studies\, in a word\, is an interdisciplinary invitation to study how oppression\, inequality\, injustice\, and harm persist\, and what to do about it. \nSteve and Nyasha will each talk for 30 minutes\, and they will then engage in a conversation with each other and comment on each other’s talk for 15-20 minutes. Steve and Nyasha address antiblackness from different perspectives and positionalities\, which will also greatly deepen our understanding of this issue. We will then open the floor and invite questions and comments from the audience. \nOur department has purchased 34 PDF copies of Apartheid Studies\, which have been made available on a Box folder. Graduate students: please contact Prof. Zheng if you want a copy of the book. Africa World Press has graciously agreed to share this book with interested graduate students.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-in-history-conversations-on-black-life-race-and-antiblackness-in-history-with-prof-nyasha-mboti-and-prof-steve-zipperstein/
LOCATION:HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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