Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Talk by Leon Fink, Georgetown: "Neoliberalism Before Its Time? Labor and the Free Trade Ideal in the Era of the 'Great Compression.'"
2018-12-07 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | hssb 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
Fink, the editor of LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History, is the author or editor of a dozen books. These include The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order (2014); Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World’s First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present (2011); The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South (2003); and Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment (1997).

Talk by Stuart McManus, Chinese University of Hong Kong: "Agency, Intersectionality, and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Hispanic World
2018-12-07 16:00 - 18:00 | HSSB 4080, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
How did Mediterranean culture shape life in the multiethnic global empires of Spain and Portugal? To answer this question, this talk will explore the role of the classical tradition in structuring and disseminating early modern Hispanic discourses on empire, slavery, and Christian missions with a particular focus on the ways ancient literary forms and civic practices (from the epigram to Ciceronian public speaking) were then appropriated by ethnically Iberian, indigenous, and African students of antiquity to carve out a place for themselves within this hierarchical global space. By taking a global and intersectional approach to classical reception studies, this talk makes the case that the global impact of Greece and Rome cannot be understood without reference to historically-specific constructions of race, gender, and class.
