BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of History, UC Santa Barbara - ECPv6.15.12.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Department of History, UC Santa Barbara X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://history.ucsb.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Department of History, UC Santa Barbara REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170602T200000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20170522T194535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170522T194535Z UID:10002166-1496426400-1496433600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Other California: Land\, Identity\, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands by Verónica Castillo-Muñoz DESCRIPTION:Book Launch: \nThe Other California: Land\, Identity\, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands \nFeaturing: \nKelly Lytle Hernandez\, Associate Professor of History\, UCLA \nPaul Spickard\, Professor of History\, UCSB \nand: \nVeronica Castillo Munoz\, Assistant Professor of History\, UCSB URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/book-launch-the-other-california-land-identity-and-politics-on-the-mexican-borderlands-by-veronica-castillo-munoz/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/The-Other-California.jpg GEO:34.4139682;-119.8503034 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg:geo:-119.8503034,34.4139682 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191011T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191011T130000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20190925T200058Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190924T185815Z UID:10002800-1570798800-1570798800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Colin Gordon\, "Citizen Brown: Race\, Democracy\, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs" DESCRIPTION:As part of the The Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy‘s “The Political Economy of Racial Inequality” Fall Quarter speaker series\, Colin Gordon (History\, University of Iowa) will present “Citizen Brown: Race\, Democracy\, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs.” Gordon is an historian of US public policy\, political economy\, and urban history. He is the author of Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (2008)\, Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health in Twentieth Century America (2003)\, and New Deals: Business\, Labor\, and Politics\, 1920-1935 (1994). URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/colin-gordon-citizen-brown-race-democracy-and-inequality-in-the-st-louis-suburbs/ LOCATION:HSSB 4041 CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gordon-Colin-2018-edited.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T160000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20190925T200008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190924T192240Z UID:10002796-1571155200-1571155200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Nelson Lichtenstein\, "A Fabulous Failure: Bill Clinton\, American Capitalism\, and the Origin of Our Troubled Times" DESCRIPTION:As part of the The Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy’s “The Political Economy of Racial Inequality” Fall Quarter speaker series\, Nelson Lichtenstein (History\, UC Santa Barbara) will present “A Fabulous Failure: Bill Clinton\, American Capitalism\, and the Origin of Our Troubled Times.” Lichtenstein is the Academic Senate’s 2019 Faculty Research Lecturer. He is the author of Walter Geuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit (1996)\, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business (2009)\, and co-editor of Beyond the New Deal Order: From the Great Depression to the Great Recession (2019). URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/nelson-lichtenstein-a-fabulous-failure-bill-clinton-american-capitalism-and-the-origin-of-our-troubled-times/ LOCATION:Corwin Pavilion\, 494 UCEN Road\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Public Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Nelson-Lichtenstein-Web_t600__t479_0.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191018T140000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20191007T053635Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T053635Z UID:10002801-1571407200-1571407200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Book Talk and Launch: Eileen Boris's Making the Woman Worker DESCRIPTION:On October 18 at 2:00 in HSSB 4020\, Eileen Boris\, Hull Professor of Feminist Studies\, presents a book talk titled “How Did an Americanist Come to Write Transnational History?” in connection with the launch of her new book\, Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards\, 1919-2019. This event is hosted by the History Department’s Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster\, the Hull Chair\, and Feminist Futures. Refreshments will be served\, and books will be available to purchase courtesy of Chaucer’s Bookstore. \nClick here to download the flier for this event. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/book-talk-and-launch-eileen-boriss-making-the-woman-worker/ LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Making-the-Woman-Worker.png GEO:34.4139629;-119.848947 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California Santa Barbara:geo:-119.848947,34.4139629 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191024T160000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20191014T220639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191014T221022Z UID:10002805-1571932800-1571932800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Rosemarie Zagarri on "The Murky Past and Contested Future of the Electoral College" DESCRIPTION:On October 24 at 4:00pm in HSSB 4080\, Professor Rosemarie Zagarri of George Mason University will present a talk titled “The Murky Past and Contested Future of the Electoral College.” The event is free and open to the public. \nThis talk will examine the roots of the American system for electing its president and explore the possibility–as well as the feasibility–of changing the existing system. The origins of the Electoral College lay in a series of tumultuous conflicts at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. At stake was not only what the presidency should entail but how the new chief executive should be elected. Memories of George III’s abuses of power haunted delegates. Fears of mob rule competed with anxieties over lodging too much power in the hands of a single individual. Representatives jealously guarded their own states’ prerogatives. The solution–the Electoral College–was a jerry-built compromise that satisfied no one completely. \nAlmost as soon as it went into operation\, the flaws and defects of the Electoral College became evident. The emergence of a two-party political system intensified its structural weaknesses. Yet the system has endured. The question facing Americans today is: What can be done to remedy the inadequacies of the Electoral College? \nClick here to download the flyer for this event. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/rosemarie-zagarri-on-the-murky-past-and-contested-future-of-the-electoral-college/ LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Public Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Electoral-College-Flyer.jpg GEO:34.4139629;-119.848947 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara:geo:-119.848947,34.4139629 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191029T173000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20191019T173733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191021T045858Z UID:10002808-1572364800-1572370200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Steve Zipperstein\, "The Impeachment Wars: What Lies Ahead" DESCRIPTION:The Trump impeachment saga has gained startling momentum in recent days. As the proceedings accelerate\, fascinating legal and policy questions arise. Can the president pardon people who have committed crimes at his behest? Can he pardon himself? Does impeachment require proof of a federal crime? Is the Senate required to hold an actual trial? Can nonfederal legal authorities—like the New York State Attorney General or the Manhattan District Attorney—bring criminal charges against the president while he remains in office? Steve Zipperstein explores these and other issues as he contemplates legal and political prospects in the coming weeks and months.   \nSteve Zipperstein is the former Chief Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles\, where he served alongside current Congressman Adam Schiff. Zipperstein also served as Counselor to Attorney General Janet Reno\, and as Counselor to then-Assistant Attorney General Robert Mueller. Zipperstein reported directly to former and current Attorney General William Barr for more than a decade during their private sector careers. Following his tenure as a federal prosecutor\, Zipperstein served as the Chief Legal Officer of Verizon Wireless and of BlackBerry. Zipperstein currently teaches in the Global Studies and Public Policy departments at UCLA and is a Senior Fellow at UCLA’s Center for Middle East Development. He has also served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University. His forthcoming book\, Law and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Trials of Palestine\, will be published by Routledge in 2020. \nClick here to download the flyer for this event. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/steve-zipperstein-the-impeachment-wars-what-lies-ahead/ LOCATION:HSSB 6020 (McCune Room)\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Public Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Zipperstein-Impeachment-Flyer.jpg GEO:34.4142938;-119.8474306 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8474306,34.4142938 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191108T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191108T130000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20190925T200023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190924T192110Z UID:10002797-1573218000-1573218000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Eric Rauchway\, "A New Deal Voting Rights Case: A Strategy of the Roosevelt Justice Department\, 1939-1941" DESCRIPTION:As part of the The Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy‘s “The Political Economy of Racial Inequality” Fall Quarter speaker series\, Eric Rauchway (History\, University of California Davis) will present “A New Deal Voting Rights Case: A Strategy of the Roosevelt Justice Department\, 1939-1941.” Rauchway is the author of Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America (2003)\, The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression\, Defeated Fascism\, and Secured a Prosperous Peace (2015)\, and Winter War: Hoover\, Roosevelt\, and the First Clash over the New Deal (2018). URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/eric-rauchway-a-new-deal-voting-rights-case-a-strategy-of-the-roosevelt-justice-department-1939-1941/ LOCATION:HSSB 4041\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Eric-Rauchway.jpg GEO:34.4142953;-119.8474491 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8474491,34.4142953 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T130000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20190925T200042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190924T193540Z UID:10002799-1574427600-1574427600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:David Stein\, "Containing Keynesianism in an Age of Civil Rights: Jim Crow Monetary Policy and the Struggle for Guaranteed Jobs\, 1956-1979" DESCRIPTION:As part of the The Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy‘s “The Political Economy of Racial Inequality” Fall Quarter speaker series\, David Stein (African American Studies\, University of California Los Angeles) will present “Containing Keynesianism in an Age of Civil Rights: Jim Crow Monetary Policy and the Struggle for Guaranteed Jobs\, 1956-1979.” A UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow\, Stein is the author of the forthcoming book Fearing Inflation\, Inflating Fears: The Civil Rights Struggle for Full Employment and the Rise of the Carceral State\, 1929-1986. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/david-stein-containing-keynesianism-in-an-age-of-civil-rights-jim-crow-monetary-policy-and-the-struggle-for-guaranteed-jobs-1956-1979/ LOCATION:HSSB 4041\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/David-Stein.jpg GEO:34.4142953;-119.8474491 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8474491,34.4142953 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T150000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20191024T164733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191118T015902Z UID:10002809-1574434800-1574434800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Lisa Jacobson\, "A Taste of Success: Whiskey Drinking\, Masculine Identities\, and the Sensory Imagination in the Postwar US" DESCRIPTION:Join the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster for a paper workshop on Lisa Jacobson‘s “A Taste of Success: Whiskey Drinking\, Masculine Identities\, and the Sensory Imagination in the Postwar US.” The event will take place in HSSB 4020 on November 22 at 3:00. To obtain the paper in advance\, email Jarett Henderson at jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu. \nPlease note that this event was originally scheduled for an earlier date\, so you may have seen posters with an incorrect date and time. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lisa-jacobson-a-taste-of-success-whiskey-drinking-masculine-identities-and-the-sensory-imagination-in-the-postwar-us/ LOCATION:HSSB 4020\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Paper Workshop GEO:34.4139629;-119.848947 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California Santa Barbara:geo:-119.848947,34.4139629 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200109T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200109T173000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20200106T050203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200106T050203Z UID:10002812-1578591000-1578591000@history.ucsb.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=application/pdf:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/LedererFlyer-1.pdf GEO:34.4142938;-119.8474306 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8474306,34.4142938 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200124T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200124T130000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20200114T072443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200114T072443Z UID:10002286-1579870800-1579870800@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Andrew Hartman\, "Rethinking Karl Marx: American Liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War" DESCRIPTION:As part of the The Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series\, Andrew Hartman (History\, Illinois State University) will present “Rethinking Karl Marx: American Liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War.” Hartman is the author of Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School (2008) and the widely reviewed A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars (2015). Professor Hartman is currently at work on a third book\, Karl Marx in America\, to be published by the University of Chicago Press. The winner of two Fulbright Awards\, Hartman was the founding President of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History. He publishes in the Chronicle of Higher Education\, Salon\, The Washington Post\, Jacobin\, Baffler\, and In These Times\, as well as academic journals. Professor Hartman co-hosts a podcast dedicated to intellectual history\, “Trotsky and the Wild Orchids.” \nClick here to download the flyer for this event.. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/andrew-hartman-rethinking-karl-marx-american-liberalism-from-the-new-deal-to-the-cold-war/ LOCATION:HSSB 4041\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Public Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=application/pdf:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Andrew-Hartman-flyer.pdf GEO:34.4142953;-119.8474491 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8474491,34.4142953 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T150000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20200204T075108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200204T075108Z UID:10002814-1581080400-1581087600@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Jennifer Burns\, "The Last Conservative: The Life of Milton Friedman" DESCRIPTION:As part of the The Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series\, Jennifer Burns (History\, Stanford University) will present “The Last Conservative: The Life of Milton Friedman.” Professor Burns is the author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (2009)\, and is now at work on a biography of economist Milton Friedman. She publishes articles and interventions on conservatism\, libertarianism\, and liberalism in academic journals as well as The New York Times\, Dissent\, and The New Republic. Professor Burns is a co-founder of the Bay Area Consortium for the History of Ideas in America. \nClick here to download the flyer for this event. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/jennifer-burns-the-last-conservative-the-life-of-milton-friedman/ LOCATION:HSSB 4041\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=application/pdf:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Burns-Friedman-Flyer1.pdf GEO:34.4142953;-119.8474491 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8474491,34.4142953 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T173000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20200203T163754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T163754Z UID:10002813-1581436800-1581442200@history.ucsb.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=application/pdf:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Impeachment-in-Historical-Perspective.pdf GEO:34.4142938;-119.8474306 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 6020 (McCune Room) University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8474306,34.4142938 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200214T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200214T130000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20200207T071538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T072414Z UID:10002817-1581685200-1581685200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Ronny Regev\, "'We Want No More Economic Islands': The Mobilization of the Black Consumer Market in the Postwar US" DESCRIPTION:On February 14 Ronny Regev (History\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presents\, “‘We Want No More Economic Islands’: The Mobilization of the Black Consumer Market in the Postwar US.” \nWWII ushered in an era of economic growth in the United States\, which enshrined consumption as an integral part of liberal citizenship. African Americans were often excluded from the benefits of this “affluent society\,” due to the prevalence of segregation and discrimination in the name of white supremacy. Still\, throughout the 1940s and 1950s\, a network of black intellectuals and business leaders promoted their own vision of economic abundance. By emphasizing the power of the “black market\,” the Afro-American economic elite advocated for a black consumer society\, in which black shoppers used their buying power to promote racial uplift. Following the full contours of the African American consumer discourse reveals that the preoccupation with the black shopper turned this mundane identity into a political category and marked the commercial realm as a viable arena in the struggle for civil rights. \nDr. Regev is the author of Working in Hollywood: How the Studio System Turned Creativity into Modern Labor (2018)\, and is a scholar of modern popular culture and its intersection with mass media industries and US labor relations. \nStudents in any discipline may receive credit in History 294 for participating in this workshop. \nClick here to download the flyer for this event. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ronny-regev-we-want-no-more-economic-islands-the-mobilization-of-the-black-consumer-market-in-the-postwar-us/ LOCATION:HSSB 4041\, University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=application/pdf:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Regev-Flyer.pdf GEO:34.4142953;-119.8474491 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8474491,34.4142953 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201008T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201008T170000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20200914T201512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200914T201603Z UID:10002834-1602172800-1602176400@history.ucsb.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Majewski_Event-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="IHC":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T160000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20201014T222031Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201014T222031Z UID:10002841-1602950400-1602950400@history.ucsb.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Case-The-Woman-Suffrage-Movement.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T170000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20201010T012553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201010T012553Z UID:10002840-1603382400-1603386000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Lizabeth Cohen\, Struggling to Save America's Cities in the Suburban Age: Urban Renewal Revisited DESCRIPTION:Click here to download the flyer for this event. \nREGISTER NOW \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nUrban Renewal of the 1950s through 1970s has acquired a very poor reputation\, much of it deserved. But reducing it to an unchanging story of urban destruction misses some important legacies and genuinely progressive goals. Those include efforts to create more socially mixed communities\, to involve suburbs—not just cities—in solving metropolitan inequality\, and most importantly\, to hold the federal government responsible for funding more affordable housing and other urban investments\, rather than turn to the private sector. Cohen will revisit this history by following the long career of Edward J. Logue\, who worked to revitalize New Haven in the 1950s\, became the architect of the “New Boston” in the 1960s\, and later led innovative organizations in New York at the state level and in the South Bronx. She will analyze the evolution in Logue’s thinking and actions\, when and how he met resistance and accommodation by communities\, and what he and many others who cared about cities learned in facing the challenges of urban revitalization during the suburban boom of the second half of the 20th century. Amid substantial challenges today in the realms of racial injustice\, public health\, economic viability\, and urban resilience\, it is more important than ever that we reexamine the history of efforts—successful and failed—to keep American cities vital. Audience Q&A will follow. \nLizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History at Harvard. Her most recent book is Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age (October 2019)\, winner of the Bancroft Prize. It examines the benefits and costs of the shifting strategies for rebuilding American cities after World War II by following the career of urban redeveloper Edward J. Logue\, who oversaw major renewal projects in New Haven\, Boston\, and New York State from the 1950s through the 1980s. Cohen has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is also a former president of the Urban History Association. \nTo learn more about or purchase a copy of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age\, please visit Chaucer’s Books online. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series; the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment; the UCSB Blum Center on Poverty\, Inequality\, and Democracy; and the UCSB Department of History \nImage courtesy of Boston City Archives \nREGISTER NOW. ASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lizabeth-cohen-struggling-to-save-americas-cities-in-the-suburban-age-urban-renewal-revisited/ LOCATION:Zoom\, CA CATEGORIES:Public Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Cohen-Lizabeth-Struggling-to-Save-America-s-Cities-page-001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T130000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20201110T231010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201110T231010Z UID:10002313-1605182400-1605186000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Kendall Lovely\, "Dismembering Classicism: Contesting Colonial and Classical Legacies in the Southwest" DESCRIPTION:Classicization in U.S. heritage narratives often involves the imposition of classical elements\, derived from Greek and Roman civilization\, onto narratives of colonial conquest in Southwestern borderlands and frontier spaces. Ongoing controversies surrounding statues of the conquistador\, Juan de Oñate\, reflect the ways in which the classical legacy remains prominent in public spheres of historical narrative. In providing a visual narrative of conquest linked to classical imagery\, the Spanish history of the settling of the Southwest becomes implicated in broader U.S. historical narratives that valorize conquest as a civilizing force in the settling of the American West. While much of this classical imagery first appeared in Spanish sources\, this paper traces specifically how these classicized narratives of Spanish conquest became appropriated and implicated in Anglo-American/U.S. historical narratives\, as well as counter-narratives of Indigenous resistance. \nKendall Lovely\, a member of the Navajo Nation\, is from Albuquerque\, NM. She holds a double-major B.A. from the University of New Mexico in Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies and Anthropology\, an M.A. in Comparative Humanities from Brandeis University\, and a second M.A. in Museum Studies from UNM. Her recent thesis in Museum Studies explored Classical influence within early anthropology and museum discourses. Her examinations revealed how these models helped to construct colonial representations of gender\, especially in Southwest ethnology. As a Ph.D. student in Public History at the University of California Santa Barbara\, she continues these research inquiries toward decolonizing museum practices and the public interpretation of history in museum settings. \nPlease register in advance for this free presentation at this link. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/kendall-lovely-dismembering-classicism-contesting-colonial-and-classical-legacies-in-the-southwest/ LOCATION:Zoom\, CA CATEGORIES:Public Lecture ORGANIZER;CN="IHC":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210110T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210110T160000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20210107T070713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210107T070713Z UID:10002329-1610294400-1610294400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Miroslava Chávez-García\, "Migrant Longing" DESCRIPTION:UCSB History Associates has partnered with the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation to present a public lecture by UCSB Professor of History Miroslava Chávez-García.  \nDrawing upon a personal collection of more than 300 letters exchanged between her parents and other family members across the U.S.-Mexico border\, Professor Chávez-García recreates and gives meaning to the hope\, fear\, and longing migrants experienced in their everyday lives both “here” and “there” (aqui y alla). As private sources of communication hidden from public consumption and historical research\, the letters provide a rare glimpse into the deeply emotional\, personal\, and social lives of ordinary Mexican men and women as recorded in their immediate\, firsthand accounts. Chávez-García demonstrates not only how migrants struggled to maintain their sense of humanity in el norte but also how those remaining at home made sense of their changing identities in response to the loss of loved ones who sometimes left for weeks\, months\, or years at a time\, or simply never returned. \nPlease register for this Zoom event in advance at this link. To download the event flyer\, click here. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/miroslava-chavez-garcia-migrant-longing/ LOCATION:Zoom\, CA CATEGORIES:History Associates ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021-Migrant-Longing-flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210115T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210115T133000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20210111T040040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T203939Z UID:10002846-1610712000-1610717400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Public History Colloquium Event–"Public Lands\, Public History: Putting History to Work for the United States Forest Service" DESCRIPTION:Join the History Department’s Colloquium in Public History on Friday\, January 15 at noon for a Zoom talk by Leisl Carr Childers and Michael Childers (Colorado State University). \nChilders and Carr Childers will discuss their current project\, a new history of the USDA Forest Service from 1960-2020\, and the historical methodologies that undergird their work. In particular\, they will address what it means to work in applied history\, how applied history works (or does not work) with regard to public lands management agencies\, and how public history\, applied history\, and working as a public intellectual speaks to history taking a public turn. \nRegister in advance for this event here. You can download the event flyer at this link. \nRecommended Readings: \nBundyville\, Season ONE—podcast (applied history work by Leisl Carr Childers)\nhttps://longreads.com/bundyville/season-one/ \nImperiled Promise: The State of History in our National Parks\nhttps://www.oah.org/site/assets/files/10189/imperiled_promise.pdf \nPatricia Limerick\, “Applied History\, Knocked for a Loop but Neither Down Nor Out\,” and “Where Bipartisanship Finds a Refuge: A Rendezvous with the Western Governors’ Association\,” both in her “Not my first Rodeo” blog: \nhttps://www.centerwest.org/archives/23851 \nhttps://www.centerwest.org/archives/23429 \nAbout the speakers:\n• https://libarts.source.colostate.edu/csu-faculty-writing-history-of-the-modern-u-s-forest-service/\n• https://leislcarrchilders.org \n• https://michaelwchilders.com/author/michaelwchilders/ URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/public-history-colloquium-event-public-lands-public-history-putting-history-to-work-for-the-united-states-forest-service/ LOCATION:Zoom\, CA CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/USFS-History-Project.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210126T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210126T180000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20210107T065221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210126T180408Z UID:10002321-1611676800-1611684000@history.ucsb.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/1-Simmons.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210205T133000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20210111T044047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T203947Z UID:10002847-1612526400-1612531800@history.ucsb.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Green-Little-Round-House.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T193000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20210201T183928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T154954Z UID:10002852-1612893600-1612899000@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Capps Center Event: Speech\, White Supremacy\, and Insurrection DESCRIPTION:The January 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol brought to the fore the threat that white nationalist forces pose to our democracy. Join the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion\, and Public Life for a conversation about these forces\, their history\, and what can be done to resist them. Our guests will be UC Free Speech Fellows Ryan Coonerty (Santa Cruz County Supervisor) and Melissa Barthelemy (Public History doctoral candidate)\, and Dr. Katya Armistead (Assistant Vice Chancellor and Dean of Student Life). \nRegister via Zoom: https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-xSYflSySEGpGbop0ZfULg. URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/capps-center-event-speech-white-supremacy-and-insurrection/ LOCATION:Zoom\, CA CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Capps-Center-Speech-WhiteSupremacy-Insurrection-012821.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210223T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210223T180000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20210107T065221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T154939Z UID:10002325-1614096000-1614103200@history.ucsb.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/3-Rasul.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210227T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210227T160000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20210222T231101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T154912Z UID:10002858-1614434400-1614441600@history.ucsb.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/VietnamCWWG.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T160000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20210223T181956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T154901Z UID:10002859-1614873600-1614873600@history.ucsb.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/McCray_eventPage.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="IHC":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210314T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210314T160000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20210226T061631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T154814Z UID:10002861-1615737600-1615737600@history.ucsb.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Van-Gelderen-Coles.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T133000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20210429T065020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T204040Z UID:10002876-1620388800-1620394200@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Public History Colloquium Event–"The Queerness of Home: Public History and the Domestic Archive" DESCRIPTION:Join the History Department’s Colloquium in Public History on Friday\, May 7 at noon for a Zoom talk by Stephen Vider (History\, Cornell University). \nHistories of queer and trans politics and culture have centered almost exclusively on public activism and spaces. Stephen Vider will discuss how his forthcoming book\, The Queerness of Home: Gender\, Sexuality\, and the Politics of Domesticity After World War II (University of Chicago Press\, October 2021) retells LGBT history from the inside out\, revealing how LGBT people mobilized home spaces as crucial sites of intimate connection\, care\, and cultural inclusion. He’ll focus particularly on the challenges and possibilities of uncovering queer domestic life both in The Queerness of Home and in his 2017 exhibition\, AIDS at Home: Art and Everyday Activism (Museum of the City of New York)—and how a focus on the domestic archive can reshape methods in public history. \nRegister for this event at http://bit.ly/queerness-home \nRecommended links: \nA Place in the City: Three Stories about AIDS at Home\, dir. Nate Lavey and Stephen Vider (2017)\, documentary film which originally appeared in AIDS at Home: Art and Everyday Activism https://vimeo.com/303736782 \nStephen Vider\, “”Oh Hell\, May\, Why Don’t You People Have a Cookbook?”: Camp Humor and Gay Domesticity\,” American Quarterly 65\, no. 4 (2013): 877-904. [Open-access through JSTOR Daily: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43822994?mag=in-the-gay-cookbook-domestic-bliss-was-queer] URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/public-history-colloquium-event-the-queerness-of-home-public-history-and-the-domestic-archive/ LOCATION:Zoom\, CA CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Public-History-event-queerness.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210520T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210520T121500 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20210513T033419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T154634Z UID:10002352-1621508400-1621512900@history.ucsb.edu 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Nancy-Mitchell-talk-page-001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210604T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210604T133000 DTSTAMP:20260416T083514 CREATED:20210528T051334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230402T204048Z UID:10002362-1622808000-1622813400@history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Public History Colloquium Event–"Telling Diverse Stories: The National Park Service Women's History Initiative and Collaboration in Historic Preservation" DESCRIPTION:Join the History Department’s Colloquium in Public History on Friday\, June 4 at noon for a Zoom talk by Christopher E. Johnson (National Park Service)\, Anne Lindsay (Public History\, CSU Sacramento)\, and Jenni Sorkin (History of Art and Architecture\, UCSB). \nThis presentation describes collaborative work completed under the Women’s History Initiative\, one of three national initiatives authorized by the Secretary of the Interior in 2011 to foster greater representation in NPS programs. \nJohnson will discuss the NPS initiatives\, while Profs. Sorkin and Lindsay share their experiences as scholars with a recent NPS collaborative project at Pond Farm Pottery\, the home and studio of Bauhaus ceramicist Marguerite Wildenhain. In addition to recognizing a nationally significant site associated with women’s contributions to American arts\, the project also provided valuable hands-on experience to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing careers in public history. \nRegister for this event at https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QWJsZ22GQtiyk3Lgqn7-pw \nRecommended web links: \nHeritage and History Initiatives – National Historic Landmarks (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov) \nWomen’s History (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov) \ncrm-v20n3.pdf (npshistory.com) \nExplore Suffragist Stories and Connections (arcgis.com) \nhttps://stewardscr.org/pond-farm-pottery/ URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/public-history-colloquium-event-telling-diverse-stories-the-national-park-service-womens-history-initiative-and-collaboration-in-historic-preservation/ LOCATION:Zoom\, CA CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/NPS-Public-History-session-June-4-page-001.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR