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SUMMARY:“Technology\, Gender\, and History: The Case of Late Imperial China”
DESCRIPTION:Technologies played a dramatic role in birthing the modern industrial world\, so it is hardly surprising that classic and widely familiar histories of technology trace narratives of triumphant Western progress\, contrasted to backwardness or stagnation in other societies around the world. But in recent years historians of Western technology have become less interested in technology as a catalyst of human progress\, and more interested in how technical practices shape social identities\, symbolic systems and power relations. In the case of China\, historians of technology likewise spend less time now struggling to explain why China “failed to progress” after 1400\, asking instead what they can learn by mapping the technological landscapes of imperial China\, and by considering what social and symbolic as well as material work technologies performed in imperial society.\nDr. Francesca Bray is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh and President-elect of The Society for the History of Technology. Her research includes the history of science\, technology and medicine in China\, and the anthropology of technology in the contemporary world\, including the politics of everyday domestic technologies in California. Her most recent publication is The Warp and the Weft: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China (Brill\, 2007) and has 2 forthcoming works\, Rice: New Networks and Global Histories (Cambridge) and .Technology\, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered (Routledge\, expected May 2013). \nupdated hm 4/3/13
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/technology-gender-and-history-the-case-of-late-imperial-china/
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SUMMARY:Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making  of America's Vietnam
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Fredrik Logevall discusses his highly acclaimed new  book\, EMBERS OF WAR: THE FALL OF AN EMPIRE AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA’S  VIETNAM. Drawing on newly available documents from several nations\,  and making full use of the vast published literature\, Prof. Logevall  surveys the broad sweep of the Vietnam War. He begins with the 1919  Versailles Peace Conference\, where a young Ho Chi Minh attempted to  petition President Woodrow Wilson for Vietnamese independence\, and  ends with a 1959 Viet Cong ambush\, resulting in the first U.S. combat  deaths of the war. Along the way\,  Prof. Logevall helps us unravel the  mystery of how two great powers\, France and the United States\, could  have been drawn into such disastrous ventures.\nFredrik Logevall is John S. Knight Professor of International Studies  at Cornell University. He is the author of numerous books on the  Vietnam War and international relations\, including CHOOSING WAR: THE  LOST CHANCE FOR PEACE AND THE ESCALATION OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1999)\,  THE ORIGINS OF THE VIETNAM WAR (2001)\, EMBERS OF WAR: THE FALL OF AN  EMPIRE AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA’S VIETNAM (2012)\, and\, with Campbell  Craig\, AMERICA’S COLD WAR: THE POLITICS OF INSECURITY (2009). \nhm 4/5/13
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/embers-of-war-the-fall-of-an-empire-and-the-making-of-americas-vietnam/
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SUMMARY:The Universal Polytheism: Interpretatio Graeco-Romana
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk by Robert C.T. Parker (Wykeham Professor of Ancient History and Fellow of New College\, Oxford University) on Friday\, April 12th at 2:00 pm in HSSB 4080.  Dr. Parker is Visiting Sather Professor of Classical Literature for Spring 2013.\nSponsored by the departments of Classics\, History\, Religious Studies\, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/the-universal-polytheism-interpretatio-graeco-romana/
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