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SUMMARY:Labor and Capitalism in Modern Egypt: Wages in a Sugar Factory\, 1847-1904
DESCRIPTION:This paper contributes to the global history of capitalism in rural contexts\, examining the impact of agro-industrial mechanization on wages in African rural communities through a case study of a sugar factory in 19th-century Egypt. Utilizing approximately fifty wage registers from the Rawda factory in Middle Egypt\, dating from 1849 to 1903 and now preserved in the Egyptian National Archives\, the study offers a detailed analysis of wage trends over this fifty-year period. By focusing on the monthly wages of various labor categories—ranging from European and local engineers to factory supervisors and\, notably\, accountants involved in sugar production—this research traces shifts in the value of skilled labor. Preliminary findings suggest a decline in the relative value of skill over time\, with technological innovation or labor shortages serving as key factors in any subsequent increases in skill valuation. \n  \nAdam Mestyan is a historian of the modern Middle East and the Ford Foundation Professor of Middle Eastern Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His research and teaching focus on how globalization and war have shaped Arab societies and cultures—especially Egypt\, Syria\, and the Red Sea region—from the late Ottoman Empire to today. He is the author of Modern Arab Kingship – Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East (Princeton\, 2023); Primordial History\, Print Capitalism\, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo (Ifao\, 2021); and Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt (Princeton\, 2017). Currently he is writing a history of economic life in Egypt through the story of its sugar industry. \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/labor-and-capitalism-in-modern-egypt-wages-in-a-sugar-factory-1847-1904/
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SUMMARY:Ambition on the Road: Getting Ahead in Arabic Travel Writing
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, Feb 2\, 2026 | 04:00 PM\n\nLocation\n\nHSSB 4080 \n\n\n\nA Syrian merchant known as the ʿAṭṭār set out on a new road in 1765. When he began to write about his journey\, he did so with specific aim and purpose: success\, prestige\, and merit. A few years earlier\, in 1758\, a Maronite Christian by the name of Shukrallāh had put together a literary compendium. The inclusion of a travel-based topography arguably sought to promote an embattled community’s position vis-a-vis the sacred landscapes of the homeland. In both cases\, as in many others\, making literature was an aspirational act with tangible goals. The talk by Björn Bentlage will investigate the ambitious side of culture with a focus on Arabic narrations of travel and movement from the early modern period onwards. \nBjörn Bentlage is a lecturer and researcher of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the universities of Bern (Switzerland) and Munich (Germany). His interests range from contemporary legal debates over the connected history of the modern Middle East to literature and media since the Ottoman period. \n\n \n\n  \nFeb. 2 CMES Flyer
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/ambition-on-the-road-getting-ahead-in-arabic-travel-writing/
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SUMMARY:History and Political Economy Colloquium
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URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-and-political-economy-colloquium-3/
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SUMMARY:Experiencing Disaster in Late Antiquity: From the Extraordinary to the Everyday
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Kristina Sessa\, Department of History\, The Ohio State University \nThursday\, 18 April 2024 at 4:00pm in HSSB 4080
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/experiencing-disaster-in-late-antiquity-from-the-extraordinary-to-the-everyday/
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SUMMARY:History and Political Economy
DESCRIPTION:The colloquium offers a forum for open\, substantive discussions on how to approach political economy from a historical perspective; how to grapple with and benefit from the epistemological diversity surrounding political economy; and how a historical take on political economy can help contextualize and address urgent contemporary issues– at UCSB\, in Santa Barbara/Southern California\, in the U.S.\, and around the world – ranging from rent\, inflation\, and student debt to deepening\, racialized inequality. \n \nIn this session\, we will discuss the history and the present of Palestinian political economy with Professor Seikaly. \nPlease RSVP here. \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-and-political-economy/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gender + Sexualities Cluster Colloquium with Dr. Luke Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the first Gender and Sexualities Research Colloquium to discuss Dr. Luke Robert’s paper\, “Mori Nao Divorces Her Samurai Husband  and His Family Puts Him in a Cage.”  The paper is an introduction to a forthcoming book that explores marriage and gender roles in the samurai class in early nineteenth century Japan.  A copy of the paper is available here: Roberts Paper .
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/gender-sexualities-cluster-workshop/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,workshop/brown bag/practicum
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SUMMARY:Pizza The Past
DESCRIPTION:HISTORY MAJORS: \nProfessors Erika Rappaport\, Utathya Chattopadhyaya\, and Jarett Henderson are members of a History Department Committee that is examining the experience of our undergraduate students in the History Major at UCSB. \n \nAs a first step\, they would like to invite you to join us on Wednesday\, 24 May 2023\, between 11 AM and 1 PM in HSSB 4080\, to eat some pizza\, chat\, and answer some initial (short) survey questions about the History program and your time as a student. \n \nYou can stop by anytime between 11 AM and 1 PM (and stay as long as you like). They hope you will join them!\n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/pizza-the-past/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Undergraduate Program
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: ENTREPÔT OF REVOLUTIONS by Manuel Covo
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce the launch of Manuel Covo’s recently published\, prize-winning monograph\, Entrepôt of Revolutions: Saint-Domingue\, Commercial Sovereignty\, and the French-American Alliance\, which will take place on Friday\, April 14th\, from 5-7 pm in HSSB 4080. 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/book-launch-entrepot-of-revolutions-by-manuel-covo/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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SUMMARY:History and Political Economy Colloquium with Dr. Utathya Chattopadhyaya | "Intoxication and Political Economy"
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce the fourth session of the History Department’s colloquium on history and political economy. The colloquium offers a forum for open\, substantive discussions on how to approach political economy from a historical perspective; how to grapple with and benefit from the epistemological diversity surrounding political economy; and how a historical take on political economy can help contextualize and address urgent contemporary issues– at UCSB\, in Santa Barbara/Southern California\, in the U.S.\, and around the world – ranging from rent\, inflation\, and student debt to deepening\, racialized inequality. For that purpose\, we will center our own research and put our work into conversation across geographical\, chronological\, and field boundaries.  \nAt our fourth meeting\, we will discuss “Intoxication and Political Economy” with Professor Utathya Chattopadhyaya (flyer attached). \nPlease note that this session will take place in week 1 of the spring quarter. \nIn preparation for the meeting\, please contact Manuel Covo to obtain a copy of the readings to be discussed. Everyone is welcome. Light refreshments will be served.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/intoxication-and-political-economy/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program,Panel Discussion,Roundtable
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SUMMARY:History and Political Economy Colloquium with Dr. Giuliana Perrone | "Abolition and Capitalism" |  Feb 24\, 12 PM | HSSB 4080
DESCRIPTION:The colloquium offers a forum for open\, substantive discussions on how to approach political economy from a historical perspective; how to grapple with and benefit from the epistemological diversity surrounding political economy; and how a historical take on political economy can help contextualize and address urgent contemporary issues– at UCSB\, in Santa Barbara/Southern California\, in the U.S.\, and around the world – ranging from rent\, inflation\, and student debt to deepening\, racialized inequality. For that purpose\, we will center our own research and put our work into conversation across geographical\, chronological\, and field boundaries.  \nAt our third meeting\, we will discuss “abolition and capitalism” with Professor Giuliana Perrone\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History\, UCSB. \nRequired Readings: Sinha – The Problem of Abolition in the Age of Capitalism (1) Perrone Chapter
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-and-political-economy-colloquium-with-dr-giuliana-perrone-abolition-and-capitalism-feb-24-12-pm-hssb-4080/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program,Panel Discussion,Roundtable
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SUMMARY:Genders & Sexualities Cluster | Annual Graduate Student Colloquium 2022
DESCRIPTION:The full program can be downloaded here in May: GSRC Graduate Student Colloquium 2022 \nAll sessions will take place at the University of California\, Santa Barbara campus\, located on the traditional and unceded territories of the Chumash people. We offer our respect to Chumash Elders past\, present\, and future as the custodians of this area’s memories\, traditions\, and cultures. \nSession A – 9:00 AM\nJulia Crisler\, History\, UC Santa Barbara \nThe Hunstwomen: Kennel Mistresses? Medieval Female Kennel Masters and Leaders in Artois  \n  \nSession B – 10:00 AM\nElizabeth Schmidt\, History\, UC Santa Barbara  \n“Subverting Gendered and Raced Expectations: Unacknowledged Labor and Consumers in Military Provisioning” \n  \nNUTRITION BREAK 11:00- 11:15 AM \nSession C (hybrid) – 11:15 AM \nNora Kassner\, History\, UC Santa Barbara \n“A New and Informal Experiment” \nhttps://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87526376038 \n  \nLUNCH 12:15 – 1:00 PM \nSession D – 1:00 PM\nKristen Thomas-McGill\, History\, UC Santa Barbara \nGender\, Gossip\, and Unspeakability on “A Spicy Little Isle where Ladies are Few” \n  \nSession E – 2:00 PM\nSarah Dunne\, History\, UC Santa Barbara \nThe Migrating Queer Bookshelf: Queer Books\, Bookstores\, and Communities in the United States \n  \nNUTRITION BREAK 3:00- 3:15 PM\nSession F – 3:15 PM \nNicole de Silva\, History\, UC Santa Barbara \n“Setting the World House to Right”: Consumer Politics and the Figure of the U.S. Housewife in Postwar Planning\, 1942-1945 \n  \nHistory Department Picnic 4:30 – 7 PM \nStow Grove Park\, Goleta  \nThank you for sharing your ideas and time.  \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/genders-sexualities-annual-graduate-student-colloquium-department-of-history-uc-santa-barbara/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Focal Point Dialogues | Winter 2022: Sovereignty\, statehood\, anti-slavery\, and the law | Ada Ferrer's Freedom's Mirror
DESCRIPTION:Focal Point Dialogues was an initiative born in 2020 as a Department commitment to educate ourselves in the history of anti-Blackness. The idea was conceived in the aftermath of  the killing of George Floyd and the national and international uprising it triggered. This education starts by understanding when did “blackness” become a thing\, to begin with\, and it requires from all of us leaving the “zone of comfort”  of our specializations\, and dare to explore…as we learn from each other\, and from this year’s guest\, Ada Ferrer. After an engaging dive into Herman Bennet’s African Kings and Black Slaves : Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (UPenn Press\, 2018) in the first iteration of Focal Point Dialogues in 2020-21\, this academic year we focus on Ada Ferrer’s Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (Cambridge U. Press\, 2014). \nThe book can be downloaded here (You will need to have logged into your UCSB library account) \nWhen : March 4th\, 1-3 PM \nWhere: HSSB 4080 | Zoom link : https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/89886674499  \nThe discussants for this session are: \nBrad Bouley \nGiuliana Perrone \nClaudia Ankrah \nLuke Roberts 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/winter-session-focal-point-dialogues-in-history-discusses-ada-ferrers-freedoms-mirror-sovereignty-statehood-anti-slavery-and-the-law/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,Colloquium Event,Roundtable
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SUMMARY:Sara Beam\, "Missing Babies and Tacit Tolerance of Infanticide in Early Modern Europe"
DESCRIPTION:Aggressive criminal prosecution of unwed mothers who killed their newborns in early modern Europe (1550-1750) has led historians to assume that Europe was less tolerant of illegitimacy and infanticide than other pre-modern societies\, including China and Japan. New research throws this assumption into question. In early modern Geneva\, authorities often turned a blind eye to the untimely deaths and abandonment of unwanted bastards. These findings suggest that Europeans took a more practical approach to managing fertility than we had thought. \nSara Beam\, Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria (Canada)\, is the author of numerous works on judicial violence\, including torture\, in early modern Europe\, with a special expertise on the city of Geneva. She is especially interested in the definition and prosecution of early modern “women’s” crimes\, including infanticide and adultery. She is completing a book manuscript on the decline of judicial torture in Europe from 1550-1750 and an edition and translation of a seventeenth-century infanticide trial. Her first book\, Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France (2007)\, won the Roland H. Bainton Prize for History. \nThis lecture is funded by the Department of History\, the Department of French and Italian\, the Early Modern Center\, the Hull Chair in Women’s Studies\, and the I.H.C. \nDownload the flyer: Beam flyer
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/sara-beam-missing-babies-and-tacit-tolerance-of-infanticide-in-early-modern-europe/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T160000
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SUMMARY:Barbara Walker\, "Fathers and Sons and the Origins of Cold War ‘Area Studies’ in the United States"
DESCRIPTION:Barbara Walker is Professor of Russian history at the University of Nevada\, Reno. She has published on a broad range of historical topics in the area of Russian and Soviet intellectual life and its economic foundations\, social organization and culture. \nMore recently\, she has branched out to explore the nature of expertise\, specifically “information expertise\,” in her current book project\, A War of Experts: Soviet and American Knowledge Networks in Cold War Competition and Collaboration. Her book will present the intertwined stories of a variety of lively and committed “information experts” in the Cold War United States and Soviet Union\, including early electronic computer designers\, U.S.-Soviet research exchange scholars\, journalists and Soviet dissidents. Information professionals in the area of intelligence make their appearance too. The book focuses on the efforts of these ambitious\, often passionate “experts” to multiply their numbers and to expand the influence of their expertise in this period. To accomplish these goals\, they built on networks and traditions reaching back into the 19th century\, in which lay the origins of the professionalization of expertise in many areas. \nClick here to download the flyer for this event.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/barbara-walker-fathers-and-sons-and-the-origins-of-cold-war-area-studies-in-the-united-states/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Colloquium Event,Graduate Program
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SUMMARY:Rosemarie Zagarri on "The Murky Past and Contested Future of the Electoral College"
DESCRIPTION:On October 24 at 4:00pm in HSSB 4080\, Professor Rosemarie Zagarri of George Mason University will present a talk titled “The Murky Past and Contested Future of the Electoral College.” The event is free and open to the public. \nThis talk will examine the roots of the American system for electing its president and explore the possibility–as well as the feasibility–of changing the existing system. The origins of the Electoral College lay in a series of tumultuous conflicts at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. At stake was not only what the presidency should entail but how the new chief executive should be elected. Memories of George III’s abuses of power haunted delegates. Fears of mob rule competed with anxieties over lodging too much power in the hands of a single individual. Representatives jealously guarded their own states’ prerogatives. The solution–the Electoral College–was a jerry-built compromise that satisfied no one completely. \nAlmost as soon as it went into operation\, the flaws and defects of the Electoral College became evident. The emergence of a two-party political system intensified its structural weaknesses. Yet the system has endured. The question facing Americans today is: What can be done to remedy the inadequacies of the Electoral College? \nClick here to download the flyer for this event.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/rosemarie-zagarri-on-the-murky-past-and-contested-future-of-the-electoral-college/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181207T160000
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SUMMARY:Talk by Stuart McManus\, Chinese University of Hong Kong: "Agency\, Intersectionality\, and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Hispanic World
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/talk-stuart-mcmanus-chinese-university-of-hong-kong-agency-intersectionality-and-the-classical-tradition-in-the-early-modern-hispanic-world/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181023T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181023T173000
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SUMMARY:Talk by Dr. Charles Delgadillo: "Crusading for Democracy: William Allen White's Liberal Republican Internationalism"
DESCRIPTION:Delgadillo flyer \nThe question of America’s role in the world has been fiercely contested for more than a century in the Republican Party. The “isolationists” have argued that American interests were better served by remaining free of foreign entanglements\, while the “internationalists” have countered that American peace and prosperity demanded that it play a role in shaping the international order. It is only in recent days\, under the leadership of Donald Trump\, that Republican isolationists have prevailed over their internationalist opponents in the party. \nCharles Delgadillo traces William Allen White’s (1868-1944) trajectory as one of the founding fathers of liberal Republican internationalism.  White achieved national fame with his conservative Emporia Gazette editorial “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” but he quickly evolved into a progressive Republican and later into a New Deal liberal. White fought for an active American role in the world\, from his early explorations with the global progressive movement during the 1900s to his efforts to generate public support for the Allies during World War II. The final battle of White’s life was fought to cement the supremacy of internationalism over isolationism in the Republican Party.  White’s role in advancing liberal Republican internationalism\, his perception of the isolationist threat\, and his colorful life make him a fascinating case study in the age of “America First.” \nThe event is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History and cosponsored by the Department of History. \nCharles Delgadillo is an Instructor in History at the California State Polytechnic University\, Pomona. He earned his PhD in History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, in 2010\, and his dissertation examined a cohort of four liberals who grappled with America’s rise as a world power between the World Wars. The work yielded two journal articles and Crusader for Democracy: The Political Life of William Allen White\, which is Delgadillo’s first book. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/talk-by-dr-charles-delgadillo-crusading-for-democracy-william-allen-whites-liberal-republican-internationalism/
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SUMMARY:"Lawyers and Legal Consciousness in Early Modern Europe: A Cultural History\," a Talk by Michael P. Breen\, Reed College
DESCRIPTION:“Historians have long believed that lawyers played a central role in the dissemination of legal knowledge and the ideal of the ‘rule of law’ in early modern Europe. Recent scholarship\, however\, has called this view into question\, emphasizing instead the ways ordinary men and women appropriated the law and its institutions for their own ends. This talk will reconsider the ways legal professionals helped mediate the development of early modern legal consciousness by examining their activities beyond the courtroom and the identities they fashioned for themselves not as legal experts\, but as intellectuals\, literary figures\, and political actors.” \n  \nMichael P. Breen is Professor of History and Humanities and Chair of the Division of History and Social Sciences at Reed College. He is the author of Law\, City\, and King: Legal Culture\, Municipal Politics and State Formation inEarly Modern Dijon (2007) and numerous articles on lawyers and legal culture in early modern France. \nCo-sponsored by the Departments of History and French and Italian\, the Early Modern Center\, and the IHC. \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lawyers-and-legal-consciousness-in-early-modern-europe-a-cultural-history-a-talk-by-michael-p-breen-reed-college/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T193000
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SUMMARY:Royal Manuscripts of the Moroccan Royal Library: An Introduction and Overview
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dr. Khalid Zahri\, Royal Library\, Rabat\, Morocco. \nSponsored by the UCSB Center for Middle East Studies.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/royal-manuscripts-of-the-moroccan-royal-library-an-introduction-and-overview/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170302T160000
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SUMMARY:"The Beach Boys: Classified Research with a Southern California Vibe" - Bill Leslie; The Johns Hopkins University
DESCRIPTION:Long before companies such as Apple and Google learned how to attract and indulge their high tech workforces with espresso bars\, climbing walls\, flextime\, and other perks\, laboratories likeRAND in Santa Monica\, Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu\, and Nortronics in Palos Verdes perfected the art of concierge science.  These were venues designed to recruit\, retain\, and inspire researchers with bold architecture\, scenic views\, challenging problems\, brilliant colleagues and a lifestyle best described as “cold war avant-garde”.  Whether through curated contemporary art collections\, guest lecture series by recent Nobel prize winners\, or simply the opportunity to live and play in some of the area’s best beachfront resorts\, these companies reimagined the scientific life as a aesthetic choice for members of an emerging ‘creative class\,’ with a distinctly regional flair. Southern California promised a new style of doing science where researchers themselves called the shots\, where the bottom line did not constrain blue sky thinking\, and where youthful exuberance had the chance to prove itself. \n \n  \nAbout the Speaker: Bill Leslie has taught the history of science and technology at Johns Hopkins University since 1981.  He has written on industrial research\, Cold War science\, corporate architecture\, and most recently the architecture of science.  Much of his recent work looks at science and technology in the developing world—Iran\, India\, and Pakistan—and at the aerospace industry in Southern California.  He is currently writing a history of Johns Hopkins University. \nA flyer for the talk is here.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/beach-boys-classified-research-southern-california-vibe-bill-leslie-johns-hopkins-university/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Hail the Maintainers! or - How to Give Up the Innovation Fetish (Prof. Lee Vinsel)
DESCRIPTION:Hail the Maintainers! or – How to Give Up the Innovation Fetish \nJoin us for a talk by Prof. Lee Vinsel\, Stevens Institute of Technology – 16 February 2017 in HSSB 4080 at 4PM \nOur culture is obsessed with innovation. Innovation is thought to be the goal of business\, policy-making\, philanthropy\, education\, even play. Yet\, the vast majority of human activity aims not at creating or adopting innovative things but in maintaining old ones. While our society celebrates Innovators\, the simple truth is that most of us are Maintainers. This talk first traces the rise of innovation-speak in the USA. The Cult of Invention that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries laid the foundation\, but rise of the word “innovation” itself was a distinctly post-World War II phenomenon. Ironically\, the term was used more and more after 1970—and particularly after 1990—when the United States experienced low economic growth and fewer meaningful innovations than in the previous hundred years. \nInnovation-speak was a reaction to and antidote for economic malaise\, and all institutions\, including universities\, were to be reformed in its name. After laying out this history\, I will put forward an alternative view of human life with technology\, drawing on a tradition of thought\, including historians like Ruth Schwartz Cowan and David Edgerton. I will conclude by exploring the consequences of this more grounded view of technology and society for both the future of historical and social scientific technology studies and for policy-making. \nThis talk is co-sponsored with the Machines\, People\, and Politics RFG \nA flyer for Lee’s talk is here.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/hail-maintainers-give-innovation-fetish-prof-lee-vinsel/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Professor Ann Little (Colorado State University) - The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands.
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk by Prof. Ann Little who will be speaking about her new book\, The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands. \n \nEsther Wheelwright (1696-1780) embodies the imperial conquest of North America like no other eighteenth-century figure\, yet she has been largely written out of the story of American history. Born and raised to age seven in a New England garrison town\, she was taken in wartime by the Wabanaki in 1703 and taught to pray as a Catholic and to live like a Native girl. At age twelve\, she was enrolled in the Ursuline convent school as a student\, where she would remain for the rest of her life as a choir nun\, eventually becoming the first and only foreign-born Mother Superior of the order. Learn why she has been forgotten\, and what remembering her can teach us. \n\nThis talk is sponsored by the Slavery\, Captivity\, and Meaning of Freedom Research Focus Group
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/professor-ann-little-colorado-state-university-many-captivities-esther-wheelwright-communities-women-northeast-borderlands/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Talk by Prof Rui Kohiyama on American Women Missionaries and Romantic Love in Meiji Japan
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in welcoming Professor Rui Kohiyama (American and Gender Studies\, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University) to UCSB. Professor Kohiyama will give a talk on “American Woman Missionaries\, Christian Homes\, and Romantic Love in Meiji Japan.” American women missionaries are well known for their educational and reformatory intervention in various mission fields in Asia. Although their initiatives in criticizing child marriage and widowhood in india and foot-binding in China are famous\, those in Japan are vague: all we have been told is that they introduced “modern education for women” in Japan. This presentation will clarify the relationship between “modern education for women” and the missionary aim of creating Christian homes\, and point out the unexpected outcome of  missionary education: nurturing “romantic love” in mission schools. \nProfessor Rui Kohiyama is author of As Our god Along Will Lead Us: The Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Foreign Missionary Enterprise and its Encounter with Meiji Japan (in Japanese\, 1992) and co-editor/co-author of Introduction to the History of Gender in the United States (in Japanese\, 2010).
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/talk-prof-rui-kohiyama-american-women-missionaries-romantic-love-meiji-japan/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Mariel Aquino\, "'A unique case in the world of football": Athletic Club de Bilbao\, Nationalism\, and Basque Exceptionalism.”
DESCRIPTION:The Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster invites all to attend a paper workshop by Mariel Aquino.  The paper explores the construction of masculinity and Basque nationalism through an examination of football (soccer)\, specifically the Athletic Club de Bilbao.  This is a paper workshop so please try to read the paper in advance. \nMariel Aquino is graduate student in the history department\, writing a dissertation on Basque immigration and national identities in the American West in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. \nClick Here to Download Paper: Aquino
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/mariel-aquino-unique-case-world-football-athletic-club-de-bilbao-nationalism-basque-exceptionalism/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Paper Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161107T170000
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SUMMARY:Five Centuries of Mortality: The Second Plague Pandemic in Comparative Perspective\, Egypt\, 1347 - 1844 CE  Stuart Borsch (Assumption College)
DESCRIPTION:This talk will analyze the impact of the Second plague pandemic in Egypt (1347-1844 CE). The Second plague pandemic refers to the long series of epidemics that struck the Middle East and Europe\, starting with the Black Death\, 1347-1351 CE. This pandemic generally lasted until the early 1700s in Europe\, but longer in the Middle East. Why was this? Professor Borsch explores this question and the possible connection to the economic and technological divergence between Europe and the Middle East between the 1300s and 1800s. Borsch also takes a comparative perspective\, looking at the dynamics of this long-term catastrophe by studying the mortality of the urban (Cairo\, Alexandria\, Qus\, Asyut) and rural plague outbreaks in the Mamluk and Ottoman periods and into the modern period\, 1347-1844. His talk will include some comparative perspectives with Syrian population losses. \nCo-sponsored by the King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies and the Center for Middle East Studies
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/five-centuries-mortality-second-plague-pandemic-comparative-perspective-egypt-1347-1844-ce-stuart-borsch-assumption-college/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161028T120000
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SUMMARY:Prof. Cavan Concannon (USC): "An Assemblage Approach to Early Christianity\, Deleuze\, Latour\, and the Letters of Dionysios of Corinth"
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/prof-cavan-concannon-usc-assemblage-approach-early-christianity-deluze-latour-letters-dionysios-corinth/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:U.S. Senate Historian on Career Opportunities in Public History
DESCRIPTION:Betty K. Koed is the U.S. Senate Historian and Director of the Senate Historical office. Koed earned her Ph.D. in political and public history at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where she also taught history and provided editorial assistance to The Public Historian. A Senate Historian\, Koed supervises all historical and archival projects\, provides talks and presentations to senators\, staff\, and the public on wide-ranging topics of Senate history\, and conducts oral history interviews with former senators and staff. She oversees more than 10\,000 pages of historical material on the Senate website\, is senior editor of the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress\, and provides research and reference assistance to the Senate community and the media. Her current Senate projects include online documentary histories of Senate impeachment trials and a series of oral history interviews to explore the decision-making process during the 2008-2009 financial crisis. \nSome Questions Dr. Koed Will Address: \n\nHow and why did you pursue a career in public history?\nWhat does the Senate Historian do?\nWhat do you like the most\, and the least\, about your job?\nAs a professional public historian\, how do you interact with those working in the broader historical profession?\nWhat are the unique challenges of being a Senate historian?\nWhat are your thoughts on the state of public history and how well that field is served by academic departments and professional organizations?\nAs the Senate historian\, how do you define professional success?\n\nA reception follows the session: light refreshments and libations included.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/u-s-senate-historian-career-opportunities-public-history/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20151102T120000
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SUMMARY:Magna Carta Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:\nJoshua C. Tate\nSMU Dedman School of Law \n  \nEvent Description: \nPlease join us in HSSB 4080 at noon on Monday\, November 2 to hear Josh Tate lecture on the Magna Carta. Josh is a professor at SMU Dedman School of Law and is the author of many articles on medieval legal history. Light refreshments will be served.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/magna-carta-lecture/
LOCATION:HSSB 4080\, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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