Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Lecture by Dr. Lella Gandini on Early Childhood Education
2016-10-24 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
“Early Childhood Education and Society in Post-War Italy:
The Case of Reggio Emilia”
In Northern Italy in the late 1960’s, within the context of the emerging Italian feminist movement and of social protests advocating for better social services, child care, and schools for young children, the city of Reggio Emilia developed an innovative system for the education of young children. Parents, citizens and new immigrants alike, were included as owners and participants. Teachers, moreover, collaborated with school psychologist Loris Malaguzzi in developing a system of documentation for their innovative work in the preschool setting.
Dr. Gandini, the U.S. liaison for the Reggio Emilia Program, is the co-author of The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach-Advanced Reflections; Bambini: The Italian Approach to Infant/Toddler Care; In the Spirit of the Studio: Learning from the Atelier of Reggio Emilia; and Loris Malaguzzi and the Teachers: Dialogues on Collaboration and Conflict Among Children.

"The Forgotten Wine Porters of Northern Italy and their Forgotten Saint, 1200-1900" a talk by Lester K. Little (Smith College)
2016-10-24 16:00 - 17:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us for Professor Lester K. Little’s lecture, “The Forgotten Wine Porters of Northern Italy and their Forgotten Saint, 1200-1900.”
Little is Professor Emeritus at Smith College and the author of Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe; Benedictine Maledictions; and Indispensable Immigrants: The Wine Porters of Northern Italy and their Saint, 1200-1800 (Manchester Univ. Press, 2015).

"Diplomacy as a Means of Political Survival: The Cities and Duchies of the Northern Holy Roman Empire in relation to France, 1650–1730," a talk by Indravati Félicité
2016-10-27 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
“Diplomacy as a Means of Political Survival: The Cities and Duchies of the Northern Holy Roman Empire in relation to France, 1650–1730”
Talk by Indravati Félicité, Maîtresse de conférences, Université Paris-Diderot (Paris VII)
October 27 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm in HSSB 4020
Indravati Félicité is the author of Négocier pour exister. Les villes et duchés du nord de l’Empire face à la France 1650–1730 (Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2016). This talk analyzes France’s impact on the politics of the Hanseatic cities of Lübeck, Bremen, and Hamburg and the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp and Mecklenburg-Schwerin at the time of King Louis XIV. This was a period of change in the constitutional premises of the Holy Roman Empire. For these German “states” as well as for the diplomats and statesmen involved in these relations, negotiation and diplomacy became a matter of life and death, essential for safeguarding the existence of their governments. The place held by the diplomats in this process underlines the importance of their networks and reveals their contribution to the genesis of the early modern State.

Prof. Cavan Concannon (USC): "An Assemblage Approach to Early Christianity, Deleuze, Latour, and the Letters of Dionysios of Corinth"
2016-10-28 12:00 - 14:00 | HSSB 4080, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Modern historians map the diversity of early Christianity in a variety of ways, from declines into heresy to competition among “varieties” of early Christianities. Drawing particularly on the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze and Bruno Latour, Concannon argues that we might better map the remains of second-century Christianity by focusing on networks of people, ideas, and letters that moved along broader patterns of trade and communication in the eastern Mediterranean. Focusing on the costs, velocities, and viscosities of movement and commerce, he examines the network associated with Dionysios of Corinth, whose writings come to us only as fragments and summaries in Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History. Concannon shows how non-human actants such as geography, economic activity, and trade routes shape the interactions within Dionysios’ network, allowing us to think more broadly about second-century Christianity as a series of emergent networks that form, coalesce, and dissolve in the flow of movement and connectivity that characterized the Roman Mediterranean. Sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands RFG.

Democracy and Its Opponents in the 2016 Elections
2016-10-28 13:00 - 15:00 | CA
Beyond the horse race, UCSB faculty from a variety of disciplines and viewpoints consider the larger meaning of the campaign and its implications for U.S. society and politics. Participants in this special panel include Paul Amar, Global Studies; Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, Chicano/a Studies; Hahrie Han, Political Science; and Alice O’Connor, History.

David Laitin speaks on Muslim integration
2016-10-28 13:00 - 17:00 | CA
Stanford political scientist David Laitin will speak about his new book (with Claire L. Adida and Marie-Anne Valfort), Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies (Harvard, 2016). The lecture will take place on October 28 at 1 p.m., in Buchanan 1930. Sponsored by the IHC Research Focus Group on Identity and the Center for Middle East Studies.
