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SUMMARY:Interdisciplinary Conference on "Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster"
DESCRIPTION:The interdisciplinary virtual conference Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster will take place on Friday\, April 30\, 2021 at 9:00am-4:00pm (Pacific Time\, US & Canada)\, when an international slate of speakers representing a variety of disciplines will share their insights on the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. \n \nThe day before\, an associated Carsey-Wolf Center virtual discussion of the award-winning documentary “The Babushkas of Chernobyl\,” with Director Holly Morris\, will take place on Thursday\, April 29\, 2021 at 4:00pm (Pacific Time\, US & Canada)\, before which registered participants can pre-screen the film. Information on registering for both events and the conference website are below:\n \nConference Website\n \nRegister for the Virtual Conference at 9am-4pm Pacific Time (US & Canada) on Friday\, April 30\, 2021\n \nRegister for the Carsey-Wolf Center Virtual Discussion at 4pm Pacific Time (US & Canada) on Thursday\, April\, 29\, 2021\n \nThirty-five years after the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl\, the interdisciplinary virtual conference Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster considers its afterlife and reverberations in various disciplines\, including culture and the arts. Situated at a watershed moment during the Cold War\, Chernobyl has spawned an unprecedented quantity of global responses from scientists\, writers\, filmmakers\, and artists\, and it has become a key moment for the global environmental movement. This conference views the accident and its aftermath in the context of broader global ecologies of disaster and considers how catastrophe is coded and understood — or fails to be understood — through the prism of science\, art\, literature\, and film. How do all these disciplines and discourses confront the disaster\, and where do they converge to produce the fiction\, or the truth\, of what we call “Chernobyl”? The conference brings together scholars and experts in Comparative Literature\, History\, Anthropology\, Environmental Studies\, Nuclear Engineering\, Medicine\, Art\, Film\, and Germanic and Slavic Studies.\n \nSponsored by the Division of Arts and Letters and the T. A. Barron Environmental Fund. Event partners include the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, the\, and the Carsey-Wolf Center. Other sponsors include the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Global Studies\, Comparative Literature Program\, Environmental Studies\, Cold War Studies\, College of Creative Studies\, and History Department. (Rescheduled from April 2020 when it was postponed due to COVID-19.) 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/interdisciplinary-conference-on-fallout-chernobyl-and-the-ecology-of-disaster/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T160000
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SUMMARY:IHC Talk: Utathya Chattopadhyaya\, "Cannabis and South Asia"
DESCRIPTION:The IHC‘s Asian/American Studies Collective welcomes UCSB History professor Utathya Chattopadhyaya for a talk on the role of cannabis in South Asian experiences of empire. \nHistorical scholarship now conceives empire as a webbed uneven field of power relations and a multispecies enterprise. In other words\, the anxious and breathless struggle of European imperialism to sustain itself subjected human\, plant\, animal\, and insect bodies to its ambition to govern through logics of colonial difference. This paper argues that the cannabis plant in South Asia\, in the nineteenth century\, while being a subject of British revenue systems transformed into a race-d and gendered mode of explaining anticolonial insurgency by South Asian rebels. The intoxicating substance of the plant\, in the discursive logic of empire\, was seen to vitiate Asian bodies against European power. Cannabis also animated other imperial operations like the delegitimization of Indian sovereignty. Using the expansive reach of imperial periodical culture in the nineteenth century\, this paper highlights the Asian and global contexts within which cannabis became an alibi for rebellion or violence against empire. \nUtathya Chattopadhyaya is Assistant Professor of History at the UC Santa Barbara. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and studies the history of modern South Asia\, British imperialism\, and agrarian commodities. His work has appeared in the South African Historical Journal\, Historical Reflections\, and Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for our Times. He is currently writing a monograph on cannabis and empire in British India. \nThis event will be held on Zoom at https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81976204749?pwd=ekZ2UUtFd0U0Znh6bFpIcXFXWUs5QT09.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ihc-talk-utathya-chattopadhyaya-cannabis-and-south-asia/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T160000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted--W. Patrick McCray\, "Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture"
DESCRIPTION:The IHC‘s Humanities Decanted series invites all to a dialogue between Patrick McCray (History) and Alan Liu (English) about McCray’s new book\, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture (MIT Press\, 2020). Audience Q&A will follow. \nDespite C. P. Snow’s warning\, in 1959\, of an unbridgeable chasm between the humanities and the sciences\, engineers and scientists of that era enthusiastically collaborated with artists to create visually and sonically interesting multimedia works. This new artwork emerged from corporate laboratories\, artists’ studios\, publishing houses\, art galleries\, and university campuses and it involved some of the biggest stars of the art world. Less famous and often overlooked were the engineers and scientists who contributed time\, technical expertise\, and aesthetic input to these projects. These figures included the rocket engineer-turned-artist Frank J. Malina\, MIT’s Gyorgy Kepes\, and Billy Klüver\, a Swedish-born engineer at Bell Labs who helped establish the New York–based group Experiments in Art and Technology. This book restores the role of technologists to the foreground\, explores the era’s hybrid creative culture\, and recounts the many ways that artists\, engineers\, and curators have collaborated over the past fifty years. Making Art Work shows that the borders of art and technology over the past half century are anything but fixed. Just as striking is that the original ideals and ambitions that animated the 1960s-era art-and-technology movement have not faded. Today\, creativity\, collaborations\, and interdisciplinary research are promoted by academic and corporate leaders alike. What emerges is a long history of artists and technologists who have repeatedly built new creative communities in which they can exercise imagination\, invention\, and expertise. \nW. Patrick McCray is a professor in the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara where his research\, writing\, and teaching focus on the histories of technology and science. Originally trained as a scientist\, he is the author or editor of six books. McCray’s 2013 book\, The Visioneers: How an Elite Group of Scientists Pursued Space Colonies\, Nanotechnologies\, and a Limitless Future\, won the Watson Davis Prize in 2014 from the History of Science Society as the “best book written for a general audience.” \nRegistration is required in advance. Register at https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YAKxHjklSWqDzHO5Vs8Ngg. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/humanities-decanted-w-patrick-mccray-making-art-work-how-cold-war-engineers-and-artists-forged-a-new-creative-culture/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210226T160000
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SUMMARY:Mónica Michelena: "We Are Charrúa Women: From Negation to Re-Existence in Our Body-Territory"
DESCRIPTION:UCSB and UCSD have joined together to welcome Mónica Michelena\, Secretary of the Charrúa Nation’s Council and former Advisor on Indigenous Affairs for Uruguay’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2014-18). \nCharrúa women have gone through dispossession\, exclusion\, and negation that left marks on their collective memory and body-territory. This genocidal process did not end in 19th-century Uruguay\, but continues today and manifests itself every time that institutions or civil society denies their existence as an indigenous people. For fifteen years\, together with Charrúa sisters from Argentina\, Charrúa women from Uruguay have been working to demolish hegemonic narratives of the market and state. As subjects of legal right\, they are reconfiguring their existence and re-existence in their great ancestral-territory-body. This collective search has led Michelena to academic spaces. \nIn 2011\, Michelena began an investigation with rural Charrúa women in Uruguay’s interior to question the nation-state’s devices of invisibility and to expose counter-memories as part of an attempt to disarm the social and symbolic representation of their extinction. Through a methodological approach based on collaborative ethnography\, Michelena’s research aims to rearm the great quillapí of memory. The metaphor of quillapí – a leather cape made from patchwork – implies that each woman is the bearer of a small piece of memory and\, among all\, they are sewing together its scraps. Down this path\, Charrúa women began to slowly gain recognition from the Uruguayan feminist movement\, in a slow process of internal decolonization. \nZoom link: https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcscu2urjkpEtMCu4cVNRoiyQe_J-RtAr1Y \nPassword: uruguay \n\nThis event is part of the Feminismos desde abajo\, y hacia el sur/ Feminisms from Below\, and Toward the South series. This speaker series welcomes feminist militants from Latin America to share their perspectives and experiences on building popular power towards a mass feminist movement. Over the past decade\, Latin American feminists have identified manifestations of gender-based oppression under capitalism in everyday women’s conditions in order to successfully mobilize them as part of a political movement. Feminists produce analyses and subsequent strategies around reproductive rights\, resource extractivism\, housing\, debt\, and more. This mass feminism has grown to be arguably the most insurgent political force across the continent.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/monica-michelena-we-are-charrua-women-from-negation-to-re-existence-in-our-body-territory/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210208T160000
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SUMMARY:Lucía Cavallero: "Gendered Violence and Financialization of Social Reproduction: A Feminist Perspective On Debt"
DESCRIPTION:UCSB and UCSD have joined together to welcome Lucía Cavallero\, a doctoral candidate in Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. \nThe presentation will focus on the relationship between sexist violence and economic violence\, specifically the financialization of life and the increase in gender-based violence. It will highlight the Latin American feminist movement’s struggles against debt as articulated in the tactic of the March 8 International Women’s Day Strike and in Argentina’s Ni Una Menos (Not One Less) movement. \nSee Lucía’s articles “Debt and the Violence of Property” (Verso 2020) and “A feminist perspective on the battle over property” (Feminist Review 2020)\, both co-authored with Verónica Gago. \nZoom link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElduGopjorEtfsRKUqNx8CcKzu8_VhM43a \nPassword: argentina \n\nThis event is part of the Feminismos desde abajo\, y hacia el sur/ Feminisms from Below\, and Toward the South series. This speaker series welcomes feminist militants from Latin America to share their perspectives and experiences on building popular power towards a mass feminist movement. Over the past decade\, Latin American feminists have identified manifestations of gender-based oppression under capitalism in everyday women’s conditions in order to successfully mobilize them as part of a political movement. Feminists produce analyses and subsequent strategies around reproductive rights\, resource extractivism\, housing\, debt\, and more. This mass feminism has grown to be arguably the most insurgent political force across the continent.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lucia-cavallero-gendered-violence-and-financialization-of-social-reproduction-a-feminist-perspective-on-debt/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T160000
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SUMMARY:Mia Dragnic and Pierina Ferretti: "An Expansive Rebellion: Feminism and Social Revolt in Chile"
DESCRIPTION:UCSB and UCSD have joined together to welcome Pierina Ferretti and Mia Dragnic García\, sociologists and doctoral candidates in Latin American Studies at the University of Chile. \nIn October 2019\, Chile experienced its largest social revolt since the return to democracy in 1990. The mobilization\, which began as a spontaneous reaction to protest against a 0.30 USD rise in the Santiago transport fare\, soon after became a widespread outburst against the precarious and unjust conditions that affect the majority of the population after almost fifty years of life under a neoliberal regime. Throughout Chile\, high school and university students\, young precarious professionals\, residents of peripheral neighborhoods\, sectors of a fragile and unstable “middle class”\, soccer hooligans (a symbol of popular and stigmatized youth)\, qualified salaried workers and unqualified\, retirees and older adults\, office workers\, and app workers\, among others\, joined together in mass demonstrations. \nAs an immediate antecedent to this revolt in Chile\, there had been a recent emergence of a new wave of the feminist movement that has since caused a general awareness of sexist violence\, sexual abuse\, and the need for an abortion law\, issues that today they occupy the center of social debate. One can see the underground work that Chilean feminism has carried out for many years and that has gained symbolic capital – this is key to understanding how it has moved from private malaise to collective revolt today. Feminism has acted in Chile as an expansive rebellion\, starting with women and sexual dissidents and has advanced towards the politicization of broad social sectors\, preparing the conditions for mass revolt. \nZoom link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/89256077958?pwd=Mlp2MWFNVENGRTNmZXFIb2k0WE5rZz09 \nPassword: chile \n\nThis event is part of the Feminismos desde abajo\, y hacia el sur/ Feminisms from Below\, and Toward the South series. This speaker series welcomes feminist militants from Latin America to share their perspectives and experiences on building popular power towards a mass feminist movement. Over the past decade\, Latin American feminists have identified manifestations of gender-based oppression under capitalism in everyday women’s conditions in order to successfully mobilize them as part of a political movement. Feminists produce analyses and subsequent strategies around reproductive rights\, resource extractivism\, housing\, debt\, and more. This mass feminism has grown to be arguably the most insurgent political force across the continent.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/mia-dragnic-and-pierina-ferretti-an-expansive-rebellion-feminism-and-social-revolt-in-chile/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201210T093000
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SUMMARY:Nyasha Mboti\, "Closing the Loophole: Apartheid Studies"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Mhoze Chikowero invites all to attend a special guest lecture by Dr. Nyashi Mboti as part of UCSB’s African Studies Series. Dr. Mboti will discuss the new field he founded: Apartheid Studies. He will introduce his forthcoming 4-volume treatise on the subject\, Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto\, which will change how we think about enslavement\, colonialism\, neocolonialism\, impoverishment\, and the exploitation and carnage of humans that has defined global history for at least half a millennium.\n \nDr. Mboti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Science at the University of the Free State in South Africa. His keen interest in academia is to ask questions that people do not normally intend or think to ask. He has\, to date\, successfully supervised ten doctoral students\,\ndelivered seminal keynotes at international conferences\, and published over two dozen peer reviewed research articles.\n \nTo read an early copy of Volume 1 of Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto\, contact Professor Chikowero at chikowero@history.ucsb.edu or Claudia Ankrah at c_ankrah@ucsb.edu. To download the flyer for the lecture\, click here. To attend Dr. Mbughuni’s lecture on Zoom\, use this link.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/nyasha-mboti-closing-the-loophole-apartheid-studies/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T130000
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SUMMARY:Kendall Lovely\, "Dismembering Classicism: Contesting Colonial and Classical Legacies in the Southwest"
DESCRIPTION:Classicization in U.S. heritage narratives often involves the imposition of classical elements\, derived from Greek and Roman civilization\, onto narratives of colonial conquest in Southwestern borderlands and frontier spaces. Ongoing controversies surrounding statues of the conquistador\, Juan de Oñate\, reflect the ways in which the classical legacy remains prominent in public spheres of historical narrative. In providing a visual narrative of conquest linked to classical imagery\, the Spanish history of the settling of the Southwest becomes implicated in broader U.S. historical narratives that valorize conquest as a civilizing force in the settling of the American West. While much of this classical imagery first appeared in Spanish sources\, this paper traces specifically how these classicized narratives of Spanish conquest became appropriated and implicated in Anglo-American/U.S. historical narratives\, as well as counter-narratives of Indigenous resistance. \nKendall Lovely\, a member of the Navajo Nation\, is from Albuquerque\, NM. She holds a double-major B.A. from the University of New Mexico in Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies and Anthropology\, an M.A. in Comparative Humanities from Brandeis University\, and a second M.A. in Museum Studies from UNM. Her recent thesis in Museum Studies explored Classical influence within early anthropology and museum discourses. Her examinations revealed how these models helped to construct colonial representations of gender\, especially in Southwest ethnology. As a Ph.D. student in Public History at the University of California Santa Barbara\, she continues these research inquiries toward decolonizing museum practices and the public interpretation of history in museum settings. \nPlease register in advance for this free presentation at this link.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/kendall-lovely-dismembering-classicism-contesting-colonial-and-classical-legacies-in-the-southwest/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T113000
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SUMMARY:Azaria Mbughuni\, "Tanzania and the Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa"
DESCRIPTION:All are cordially invited to a special guest lecture by Dr. Azaria Mbughuni on the role of Tanzania in Southern Africa’s liberation struggles. Dr. Mbughuni’s guest lecture will build onto Professor Mhoze Chikowero‘s ongoing graduate seminar on African Self-Liberation. \nDr. Mbughuni is Assistant Professor of History at Lane College\, where he is also the Chair of the Division of Business\, Social and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Mbughuni was born in Dar es Salaam\, Tanzania. He earned his Ph.D. from Howard University. His research interests include the role of Tanzania and the Pan-African Diasporas in the struggles for African independence.  \nFor more information and to obtain relevant readings\, contact Professor Chikowero at chikowero@history.ucsb.edu. To download the flyer for this event\, click here. To attend Dr. Mbughuni’s lecture on Zoom\, use this link.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/azaria-mbughuni-tanzania-and-the-liberation-struggles-in-southern-africa/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T170000
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SUMMARY:Lizabeth Cohen\, Struggling to Save America's Cities in the Suburban Age: Urban Renewal Revisited
DESCRIPTION:Click here to download the flyer for this event. \nREGISTER NOW \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nUrban Renewal of the 1950s through 1970s has acquired a very poor reputation\, much of it deserved. But reducing it to an unchanging story of urban destruction misses some important legacies and genuinely progressive goals. Those include efforts to create more socially mixed communities\, to involve suburbs—not just cities—in solving metropolitan inequality\, and most importantly\, to hold the federal government responsible for funding more affordable housing and other urban investments\, rather than turn to the private sector. Cohen will revisit this history by following the long career of Edward J. Logue\, who worked to revitalize New Haven in the 1950s\, became the architect of the “New Boston” in the 1960s\, and later led innovative organizations in New York at the state level and in the South Bronx. She will analyze the evolution in Logue’s thinking and actions\, when and how he met resistance and accommodation by communities\, and what he and many others who cared about cities learned in facing the challenges of urban revitalization during the suburban boom of the second half of the 20th century. Amid substantial challenges today in the realms of racial injustice\, public health\, economic viability\, and urban resilience\, it is more important than ever that we reexamine the history of efforts—successful and failed—to keep American cities vital. Audience Q&A will follow. \nLizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History at Harvard. Her most recent book is Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age (October 2019)\, winner of the Bancroft Prize. It examines the benefits and costs of the shifting strategies for rebuilding American cities after World War II by following the career of urban redeveloper Edward J. Logue\, who oversaw major renewal projects in New Haven\, Boston\, and New York State from the 1950s through the 1980s. Cohen has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is also a former president of the Urban History Association. \nTo learn more about or purchase a copy of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age\, please visit Chaucer’s Books online. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series; the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment; the UCSB Blum Center on Poverty\, Inequality\, and Democracy; and the UCSB Department of History \nImage courtesy of Boston City Archives \nREGISTER NOW. ASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lizabeth-cohen-struggling-to-save-americas-cities-in-the-suburban-age-urban-renewal-revisited/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201008T160000
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SUMMARY:John Majewski\, Living Democracy in Capitalism's Shadow: Creative Labor\, Black Abolitionists\, and the Struggle to End Slavery
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \n\nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nIn the two decades before the Civil War\, a new type of capitalism developed in the northern United States that stressed mass education\, widespread innovation\, and new markets for art and design. For Black abolitionists\, the changing northern economy presented new opportunities to highlight the evils of slavery. While continuing to attack slavery’s physical cruelty\, Black abolitionists in the 1840s and 1850s increasingly highlighted the “mental darkness” of slavery\, focusing on the systematic denial of literacy\, learning\, and creativity. Through their own creative labor\, Black abolitionists made a compelling case for racial equality. The fate of Black creative labor after the Civil War\, though\, demonstrated the limits of using creativity as a way of obtaining citizenship\, and raises important questions about how we in the 21st century “live democracy” in a society that valorizes creativity amidst growing inequality and systemic racism. Audience Q&A will follow. \nJohn Majewski is the Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts and Professor in the Department of History. His areas of specialization include American economic\, social\, and legal history; Southern history; and the U.S. Civil War. He is the author of A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War (Cambridge University Press\, 2000)\, Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Imagination of the Confederate Nation (UNC Press\, 2009)\, and numerous articles\, reviews\, and book chapters. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series \nREGISTER NOW. ASL and Spanish interpretation will be available. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/john-majewski-living-democracy-in-capitalisms-shadow-creative-labor-black-abolitionists-and-the-struggle-to-end-slavery/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Conference: Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts
DESCRIPTION:Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts proposes new considerations of realism on stage. Since its association with 19th-century innovations in European and American drama\, theatrical realism has largely remained limited to Euro-American definitions. We explore conventions of realism in culturally-specific locations and times across East Asia\, articulating alternative histories of realism that extend from the premodern into the present. Through our individual inquiries\, we aim to broaden the term’s analytic power and shed collective light on the diversity and versatility of this important representational mode. The conference will end with a play reading performed by LAUNCH PAD\, UCSB. \nView the complete schedule and conference information at www.realismseastasia.com. You can download the informational flyer here: Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/conference-realisms-in-east-asian-performing-arts/
LOCATION:University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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