Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Beer: From Prohibition to America's Emblem of the Good Life?
2013-10-10 00:00 (America/Denver) | CA
UC Santa Barbara Arts and Humanities “Nature and Culture” Series at the Wine Cask
Join UC Santa Barbara historian Lisa Jacobson for a spectacular Wine Cask artisan dinner and talk at the inaugural UCSB public humanities Culture and Nature Series event.
For more information about the series, please click here.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
6:00 p.m.
Wine Cask
813 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara
For tickets and menu inquiries, please contact Wine Cask at 805-966-9463 or www.WineCask.com
The beer-inspired menu features wild boar sausage and Shepherd’s Pie carefully paired with craft beers for each of the four courses.
The UC Santa Barbara Culture and Nature Series showcases the sustainable, local, and artisanal food of the Wine Cask, and the research of UC Santa Barbara scholars who are actively engaged in understanding the historical and cultural importance of food.
Cost for meal, including drinks, and lecture: $50
We gratefully acknowledge our co-sponsors for this event: Wine Cask and Telegraph Brewing Company.
hm 10/8/13

Namibia's Red Line: On the History of a Fence in Southern Africa
2013-10-11 00:00
A massive fence, more than two metres high, stretching over a thousand kilometres from East to West effectively separates the southwest African region into two parts. The fence, generally known as the Red Line, is a persistent legacy of South Africa’s colonial occupation of Namibia. Its construction in the 1960s marked the end of a long border building process, which had its beginning in the late 19th century and was linked to the establishment of colonial control in Namibia.
Through its long history this colonial border was always both, imagined and real and it was only with the erection of the fence that the border became a tangible physical reality. The study of the Red Line reveals that this internal border, conceived as a veterinarian medicine and settlement development, was far more determinative of the governmentality and socio-economic structure of the country than its external borders.
The Red Line was crucial for the establishment of a settler society in Namibia. As a pivotal device of the South African empire, the border functioned conceptually and ideologically as a ‘barbarian border’ drawn against the dangers of inner Africa, physically marking the limits of ‘white’ South Africa.
The presentation gives an introduction to the history of an internal African border. It will highlight some of the key-elements of the making of this border, point to the border’s inherent paradoxes between impermeability and vibrant border traffic, and sketch elements of its long-lasting legacy. The presentation will also address challenges in the work with various textual, visual, and oral sources, and critically reflect on the colonial archive’s narration of the Red Line.
Dr. Giorgio Miescher is Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland.
This talk is co-sponsored by the African Studies Research Focus Group and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information on these groups, visit the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center web site.
jwil 01.ix.2013

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall": Border Crossings and the Imperatives of American Border Control
2013-10-11 00:00
Patrick Ettinger, Professor of History and Director of the Capital Campus Public History Program at CSU Sacramento, will speak about the history of the US-Mexican border in the context of popular constructions of American immigration and current policy debates.
Sponsored by the UC Santa Barbara Public History Program. Lunch will be provided.
jdm/10/3/13
