Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Career Diversity Speaker: Jim Newland, Program Manager for Strategic Planning and Recreation Services
2019-02-12 13:30 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 3208
Jim Newland, Program Manager for Strategic Planning & Recreation Services, California State Parks, will be speaking on Tuesday, February 12, 1:30-4pm, HSSB 3208, as part of our series on alternate careers for historians. In addition to talking about his own work as a historian within the California State Parks, he will be discussing upcoming opportunities within the park system. Within the next two years, California State Parks will be hiring eight to ten historians for full-time positions across the state. Jim will discuss the process of application and the kinds of work done by historians within the state park system. You can find more information about this here.
This Career Diversity event is part of an ongoing series to encourage graduate students and their mentors to think more broadly and creatively about the career opportunities available to people seeking PhDs in history and related fields.
If you are are a graduate student, or a mentor of a graduate students, please join us for this important and exciting talk. Delicious refreshments will be served!

Talk by Anya Zilberstein, Concordia University: "Vegetable Diets for People and other Animals in the 18th Century"
2019-02-12 15:30 - 17:30 | HSSB 6056
In her seminar paper, “’The Chief Supper of Hogs… and Peasants who are Not Too Nice’: Vegetable Diets for People and other Animals in the Long 18th Century,” Anya Zilberstein presents her new project. She will discuss the mutual influences and broader implications of 18th-century attempts to impose dietary shifts on animals and people, by situating them in transatlantic debates about poor relief as well as experiments in the emerging food and agricultural sciences in the period. She welcomes discussion not only about the interconnections she is tracing in the past, but also their continuities with later changes in the increasingly industrialized food system as well as debates about the legitimacy and scope of government food subsidies for the poor.
Anya Zilberstein is associate professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal. She received her PhD from MIT (2007). Her first book, A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America, published by Oxford University Press in 2016, demonstrates that debates about the politics and science of climate are nothing new. Indeed, they began as early as the settlement of English colonists in North America, well before the age of industrialization. Her new project examines the history of experiments in producing and distributing cheap, high-calorie food in non-perishable forms for working people and working animals after the unprecedented expansion of British colonial territory following the Seven Years’ War.
Sponsored by the Workshop in History of Science (HIST 295TS) and the Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Wine and Cheese Professional Workshop: Navigating the Academic Job Market
2019-02-13 17:30 - 18:30 | HSSB 4041
What comes next upon graduation? What resources does the History department provide for that challenge? How have other historians achieved their “dream job” as university professors?

If these questions have crossed your mind, join us for a night of wine and delicious treats as professors Carol Lansing, Cheryl Jimenez Frei and Utathya Chattopadhyaya tell us about their experiences in job placement, give input about the current state of the job market, and share their stories in getting tenure-track positions.
Hope to see you there!

History Club Weekly Meetings
2019-02-14 19:00 - 21:00 | HSSB 4020
UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions.

HYDRO SYMPOSIUM
2019-02-15 10:00 - 16:00 | SSMS 4513
Friday, February 15, 2019 | 10:00am – 4:00pm
UCSB | Annenberg Room (SSMS 4315)10:00: 10:00 Session 1: Valerie Hänsch,
R. Lane Clark, Stephan Miescher
Welcome: Stephan Miescher and
Janet Walker
Moderator: Bishnupriya Ghosh
Respondent: Javiera Barandiarán
12:15: Lunch
1:15: Session 2: Nick Estes,
Todd Darling
Moderator: Emily Roehl
Respondent: Mishuana Goeman
3:15: Closing Comments
Jéssica Malinalli Coyotecatl Contreras
Sage Gerson, Christopher McQuilkin
(Sawyer Seminar Grad Fellows)
Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective

Early North American History Job Talk
2019-02-15 15:30 - 17:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States

Colloquium: Celebrating the Work and Pedagogy of Sharon Farmer
2019-02-16 13:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Medieval Studies Program and the Department of History are proud to sponsor a colloquium on the work and pedagogy of Sharon Farmer. The event will include presentations by six of her students exploring Professor Farmer’s areas of expertise. The event will take place on February 16th in the McCune Conference Room, and the schedule will be as follows:
1:00-2:30 I. Gender
Nicole Archambeau (Colorado State University). “Granting Access: Revealing Women’s Networks through Miraculous Healing.”
Abigail P. Dowling (Mercer University). “`Grave Prejudice against Her Honor’: The Gendered Implications of Park Break during the Revolt of the Allies of Artois, 1314-1319.”
Nancy McLoughlin (University of California, Irvine). “Imagining Saracens and Women at the Court of Charles VI.”
2:45 -4:15 II. The Church
Jessica M. Elliott (Missouri State University). “Conversion and Reversion: Crossing Boundaries between Jews and Christians in Medieval Northern France.”
Andrew Miller (DePaul University). “Persuasive Bishops: Propaganda, Performance, and Episcopal Masculinity in the Medieval Dioceses of Exeter and Lincoln.”
Tanya Stabler (Loyola University, Chicago). “Down, But Not Out, in Thirteenth-Century Paris: The Pastoral Networks of Robert of Sorbon.”
4:30-5:30 III. Main Speaker
Amy G. Remensnyder (Brown University). “Island Histories, Sea Grammar and the Multiconfessional Mediterranean: The Case of Lampedusa.”
Professor Remensnyder is the author of two books, one that spans the Atlantic to place medieval Iberia in dialogue with colonial Mexico by exploring the Virgin Mary as a symbol of conquest and conversion (La Conquistadora: The Virgin Mary at War and Peace in the Old and New Worlds, 2014), and another that focuses on high medieval monasteries and collective memory in southern France (Remembering Kings Past: Monastic Foundation Legends in Medieval Southern France, 1995). She is a co-editor of Why the Middle Ages Matter: Medieval Light on Modern Injustice(2011) and is the director of the Brown History Education Prison Project. Her professional service includes terms as a councilor of the Medieval Academy of America and as a member of the editorial boards of Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean and of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies.
She is currently working on three new projects:

An Island of Interfaith Trust in a Sea at War (a study of the way that medieval and early modern Muslim and Christian sailors and captives made the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa into an interfaith refuge during centuries of warfare between the two faiths)
Neighbors: Life in a Medieval Borderland (a microhistory based on archival documents and focusing on the network of social, sexual, cultural, economic, and military relations that, in the fifteenth century, bound the Granada Muslim town of Vera together with its Christian neighbor immediately across the frontier in Castile, Lorca)
A Global History of Captivity (a synthetic overview of the history of captivity across the world)

Professor Remensnyder’s talk will be followed by an open reception at 5:30.
See the flyer for the event here
