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SUMMARY:Talk: Erin Trumble\, "Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Graduate Student Erin Trumble\n \n\n \n\nTitle: “Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan”\n \nDescription: The talk will focus on retirement as a life stage and examine how it represented a time when women had both more freedom after being liberated from daily tasks and more authority due to their age. I will examine prescriptive literature and its silences around responsibilities for retired women\, as well as use examples from the lives of Nakako\, Ieko\, Shigako\, and Aijo to show how women engaged with travel\, literature\, and religion in new ways as a result of this freedom and authority.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/talk-erin-trumble-rebirth-after-retirement-how-elderly-women-reinvented-femininity-in-edo-japan/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lisa Jacobson\, "Intoxicating Pleasures\," Humanities Decanted Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Professors Lisa Jacobson and Erika Rappaport will discuss Jacobson’s new book Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine\, Beer\, and Whiskey after Prohibition (University of California Press\, 2024).
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lisa-jacobson-intoxicating-pleasures-humanities-decanted-dialogue/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Juan Cobo Betancourt\, "The Coming of the Kingdom: The Muisca\, Catholic Reform\, and Spanish Colonialism in the New Kingdom of Granada
DESCRIPTION:Book Presentation: “The Coming of the Kingdom: The Muisca\, Catholic Reform\, and Spanish Colonialism in the New Kingdom of Granada” \nJuan Cobo Betancourt UC Santa Barbara | Associate Professor of History  \nCommentator: Yanna Yannakakis Emory University | Professor of History \nThe Coming of the Kingdom explores the experiences of the Indigenous Muisca peoples of the New Kingdom of Granada (Colombia) during the first century of Spanish colonial rule. Focusing on colonialism\, religious reform\, law\, language\, and historical writing\, Juan F. Cobo Betancourt examines the introduction and development of Christianity among the Muisca\, who from the 1530s found themselves at the center of the invaders’ efforts to transform them into tribute-paying Catholic subjects of the Spanish crown. The book explores how successive generations of missionaries and administrators approached the task of drawing the Muisca peoples to Catholicism at a time when it was undergoing profound changes\, and how successive generations of the Muisca interacted with the practices and ideas that the invaders attempted to impose\, variously rejecting or adopting them\, transforming and translating them\, and ultimately making them their own.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/juan-cobo-betancourt-the-coming-of-the-kingdom-the-muisca-catholic-reform-and-spanish-colonialism-in-the-new-kingdom-of-granada/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Victor Seow\, "The Human Factor: Work as Science in Twentieth-Century China"
DESCRIPTION:In 1935\, the Commercial Press in Shanghai published a modest-sized volume on a subject most of its readers likely never heard of. Titled An Overview of Industrial Psychology (工業心理學概觀)\, this text was written by a young psychologist who was trained in and recently returned from Britain. It was the first in Chinese on the titular subject\, which promised to (amid other things) “restore the rightful place of human beings in processes of production.” What was industrial psychology\, and why did those who promoted or practiced it across multiple political and productive regimes choose to do so? In this talk\, Victor Seow will trace the history of industrial psychology in China from the 1930s to the 1990s\, focusing on how this science of work reflected shifts in the meaning and value of labor over those decades. \nVictor Seow is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. He is a historian of technology\, science\, and industry\, specializing in China and Japan in their global contexts and in histories of energy and work. \nEvent cosponsored by the Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture Fund\, the IHC’s Machines\, People\, and Politics Research Focus Group\, and the Department of History’s History of Science field.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/victor-seow-the-human-factor-work-as-science-in-twentieth-century-china/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,The Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint Méry's Intellectual World
DESCRIPTION:Sara Johnson is professor of literature of the Americas at the University of California\, San Diego. Her book\, Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World (Omohundro Institute/UNC Press\, 2023)\, documents the work of Moreau de Saint-Méry\, a late eighteenth-century Caribbean intellectual. The book combines traditional academic chapters and experimental forms in its use of archival fragments and visual culture to tell the stories of the free people of color and enslaved women and men who enabled Moreau’s work. \nPlease read the provided chapters in advance of the event. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Slavery\, Captivity and the Meaning of Freedom RFG\, Department of Black Studies\, and Department of History
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/encyclopedie-noire-the-making-of-moreau-de-saint-merys-intellectual-world/
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Patrick Hunt (Stanford University) on "Hannibal's Secret Weapon" in HSSB Room 6020
DESCRIPTION:Hannibal’s success as a military commander in the Second Punic War (218-202 BCE) – surprising and severely defeating Rome after crossing the Alps at the Trebbia\, Trasimene and Cannae battles and trickery against Fabius Maximus and others – is usually not focused on his brilliant weaponization of nature and his important use of Iberian silver to secure excellent military intelligence and pay his allied mercenaries as well as his schooling of Rome to reinvent its military. When Scipio – Hannibal’s best pupil – took New Carthage (Cartago Nova or Cartagena) in 209 BCE\, he effectively cut off Hannibal’s access to further Iberian silver and Hannibal’s successes dried up\, which is no coincidence. Scipio learned well from Hannibal’s craftiness\, as documented in Polybius and Frontinus’ Strategemata\, by turning the tables on Hannibal at Zama in 202 BCE. As a result of Hannibal’s genius\, every strategist since Hannibal\, including Machiavelli and military commanders up to the present\, emulates Hannibal’s program for adding nature to his arsenal and his use of military intelligence and topography\, which is why Hannibal’s tactics are still taught as relevant spycraft. The irony that Hannibal never aimed to destroy Carthage but only to preserve Carthage is all the more tragic in that Rome sought to and succeeded in destroying Carthage’s empire and impose their own empire and remake the Mediterranean as “Mare Nostrum.” \nPatrick Hunt is with the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Stanford University\, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA\, the School of Cultural Diplomacy in London\, the Fromm Institute in San Francisco\, and the Institute for EthnoMedicine.  He holds his Ph.D. from the Institute of Archaeology\, University of London\, and has also studied at the University of California at Berkeley\, and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.  His research interests are Alpine archaeology\, archaeological science\, archaeometry\, geoarchaeology\, forensic archaeology\, Roman archaeology\, Celtic archaeology\, and Hannibal studies.  His main publications include Alpine Archaeology (2007)\, and Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History (2007)\, as well as numerous articles and encyclopedia entries\, and his most recent book is Hannibal. Prof. Hunt is one of the AIA’s 2022/2023 Norton Lecturers. \nFor additional information or for assistance in accommodating a disability\, please contact Prof. John Lee in the UC Santa Barbara History Department.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lecture-patrick-hunt-stanford-university-on-hannibals-secret-weapon/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191031T120000
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SUMMARY:Brad Bouley\, "To Catch a Witch: Gender\, Politics\, and Persecution in the European Past"
DESCRIPTION:As a special Halloween event\, Professor Brad Bouley will present “To Catch a Witch: Gender\, Politics\, and Persecution in the European Past.” Join us at noon on October 31 in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) for knowledge\, pizza\, and drinks. Undergraduates are especially welcome.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/brad-bouley-to-catch-a-witch-gender-politics-and-persecution-in-the-european-past/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181017T170000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Professor Xiaowei Zheng's "The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China"
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Department of History to celebrate the publication of Professor Xiaowei Zheng’s new book\, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China (Stanford University Press\, 2018). Professor Matthew Sommer (History\, Stanford) and Professor Anthony Barbieri-Low (History\, UCSB) will speak about the significance of Professor Zheng’s book for the field of modern Chinese history. The event is cosponsored by the department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies and the Confucius Institute. A reception will follow. \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/book-launch-professor-xiaowei-zhengs-the-politics-of-rights-and-the-1911-revolution-in-china/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180606T140000
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SUMMARY:Annual History Department Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in recognizing the achievements of both the undergraduate and graduate students of the department.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/annual-history-department-awards-ceremony/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180518T133000
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SUMMARY:Histories of Economy in the Middle East: A Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Histories of Economy Flyer2 \nMAY 18\n1:30-1:45: Introduction\nAdam Sabra\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\nSherene Seikaly\, University of California\, Santa Barbara \n1:45-3:15: Commerce and Capital\nAdam Hanieh\, “Space\, Scale\, and the Middle East’s Contemporary\nPolitical Economy”\nJessica Goldberg\, “Sea Change in Medieval Ifriqiyya”\nZiad Abu-Rish\, “Complicating the Post-Colonial Narrative” \n3:15-3:30: Break \n3:30-5:00: Money and Finance\nWarren Shultz\, “Numismatics and Islamic Economic History”\nAaron Jakes\, “Colonial Economism”\nMunther al-Sabbagh\, “Measuring Interest Rates in the Ottoman\nPeriphery” \nMAY 19\n11:00-12:30: Rural Economies and Communities\nAstrid Meier\, “Rural Societies in an ‘Economy of Rights’”\nAhmad Shokr\, “Nationalism\, Rural Governmentality\, and the\nOrigins of Agrarian Statism in Egypt\, 1919-1965”\nBethany Walker\, “Locating Economic Behavior in Rural Communities” \n12:30-2:00: Lunch \n2:00-3:00: The Environment\nJennifer Derr\, “Parasites of Political Economy”\nAlan Mikhail\, “The Nature of the Ottoman Economy” \n3:00- 3:15: Break \n3:15-4:45: Roundtable Summary \nSponsored by the King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies and the Center for Middle East Studies at UCSB
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/histories-of-economy-in-the-middle-east-a-workshop/
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SUMMARY:Robert Mugabe-Vladimir Putin: The End of One Era-Continuation of Another
DESCRIPTION:Mhoze Chikowero\, Professor of History\, UCSB\, “The End of an Era in Zimbabwe?” \nElena Aronova\, Professor of History\, UCSB\, “Trolls\, Bots\, Cyberwarfare and the Cold War Origins of Putin’s Information Wars” \nMonday\, December 4\, 5-6:30\, UCSB McCune Conference Room \nPoster here: Mugabe poster
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/robert-mugabe-vladimir-putin-the-end-of-one-era-continuation-of-another/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170605T160000
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SUMMARY:Magic in Ancient Egypt
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URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/magic-in-ancient-egypt/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Other California: Land\, Identity\, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands by Verónica Castillo-Muñoz
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch: \nThe Other California: Land\, Identity\, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands \nFeaturing: \nKelly Lytle Hernandez\, Associate Professor of History\, UCLA \nPaul Spickard\, Professor of History\, UCSB \nand: \nVeronica Castillo Munoz\, Assistant Professor of History\, UCSB
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/book-launch-the-other-california-land-identity-and-politics-on-the-mexican-borderlands-by-veronica-castillo-munoz/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T173000
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture - Erika Milam on "Creatures of Cain"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on May 10\, 4PM\, in the McCune Conference Room for the Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. Our guest speaker will be Erika Lorraine Milam (Princeton University) who will be giving a lecture titled Creatures of Cain: Human Nature and the Politics of Violence During the Cold War.  \nHuman nature contains the seeds of humanity’s destruction. Or so it seemed to popular consumers of evolutionary theory in the late 1960s who maintained that the essential quality distinguishing the human animal from its simian kin lay in our capacity for murder. This startlingly pessimistic view enjoyed particular currency in the United States between 1966 and 1975. Even ten years earlier\, this vision of humanity would have struck many scientists as odd. After the Second World War\, liberal American biologists and anthropologists had crafted an account of humanity’s past that emphasized a common evolutionary heritage bonded through continued inter-breeding into a universal family of man. Her talk tells the story of how definitions of human nature came to grip public science with such force and why purported insights shifted\, so dramatically and in such a short time\, from seeing humanity as characterized by our unique capacity for reasoned cooperation to emphasizing\, even lauding\, our proficiency with violence. \n \nErika Milam is an Associate Professor of History at Princeton University where she specializes in the history of evolutionary theory. Her research explores how scientists have used animals as models for understanding human behavior\, from sex to aggression. She is author of Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2010) and coeditor\, with Robert Nye\, of Scientific Masculinities (Chicago: University of Chicago Press\, 2015).   \nThe Badash Lecture honors the late Prof. Lawrence Badash\, a long-time professor in the history of science at UCSB. The lecture is made possible with generous donations from Larry’s partner Nancy Hofbauer\, his former student Peter Neushel\, and numerous other donors who have contributed their support to the series. \nA flyer for this event is here. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/lawrence-badash-memorial-lecture-erika-milam-on-creatures-of-cain/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Salim Yaqub\, History\, "Imperfect strangers: Americans\, Arabs\, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s"
DESCRIPTION:Salim Yaqub will be giving a talk on his new book\, Imperfect Strangers: Americans\, Arabs\, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s\, which was published by Cornell University Press in September 2016. In this book Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade in U.S.-Arab relations—a time when Americans and Arabs became an inescapable presence in each other’s lives and perceptions\, and when each society came to feel profoundly vulnerable to the political\, economic\, cultural\, and even physical encroachments of the other. Throughout the seventies\, these impressions aroused striking antagonism between the United States and the Arab world. Over the same period\, however\, elements of the U.S. intelligentsia grew more respectful of Arab perspectives\, and a newly assertive Arab American community emerged into political life. These patterns left a contradictory legacy of estrangement and accommodation that continued in later decades and remains with us today. \nYaqub is Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, and Director of UCSB’s Center for Cold War Studies and International History. He is the author of Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East (University of North Carolina\, 2004) and of several articles and book chapters on the history of U.S. foreign relations\, the international politics of the Middle East\, and Arab American political activism.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/salim-yaqub-history-imperfect-strangers-americans-arabs-u-s-middle-east-relations-1970s/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161104T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161104T173000
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SUMMARY:History Department Panel - UCSB Parents' Weekend - Protest and Politics in Historical Perspective
DESCRIPTION:“Protest and Politics in Historical Perspective\,” Panelists: \nProfessor Giuliana Perrone\, PhD UC Berkeley\, “Black Lives Matter in Context: The Long HIstory of Black Activism in America” \nProfessor Nelson Lichtenstein\, PhD UC Berkeley\, “$15 an Hour: Is it a Social Movement?” \nProfessor Alice O’Connor\, PhD Johns Hopkins University\, “By the People: Self-Governance and the Isla Vista Ballot Initiatives” \nQ&A and Reception to follow the presentations
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/__trashed-3/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161010T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161010T183000
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SUMMARY:Outlaws and Scofflaws: Pirates and the Making of the Mediterranean - Judith Tucker (Georgetown University)
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, October 10th\, 5:00 pm\nIHC McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) \nHow did the Mediterranean emerge as a coherent and recognizable place in the early modern period? By looking to the semi-licit world of piracy and to the development of its laws and practices in particular\, we can trace a convergence of understandings and agreements across Mediterranean space. Ironically enough\, these outlaws and scofflaws of the time played major roles in forging the critical connections that drew the shores of the Mediterranean closer in a time of turmoil on the seas. Should we give pirates significant credit for the making of the modern Mediterranean? \nJudith E. Tucker (PhD\, History and Middle Eastern Studies\, Harvard University\, 1981) is Professor of History at Georgetown University and former Editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (2004-2009). She is the author of many publications on the history of women and gender in the Arab world\, including Women in 19th Century Egypt (Cambridge University Press\, 1985)\, In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (California University Press\, 1998)\, Women\, Family\, and Gender in Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press\, 2008)\, and co-author of Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Restoring Women to History (Indiana University Press\, 1999). She has authored numerous articles for professional journals\, edited volumes\, and encyclopedias. Her research interests focus on the Arab world in the Ottoman period\, women and gender in Middle East history\, Islamic law\, women\, and gender\, and most recently the Arab World\, the Mediterranean\, and global connections in the eighteenth century.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/outlaws-scofflaws-pirates-making-mediterranean-judith-tucker-georgetown-university/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160520T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160522T123000
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SUMMARY:2016 Islamic Studies Graduate Student Conference - Identity\, Memory\, & Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:Please join the History Department for its 6th annual Islamic Studies Graduate Student Conference\, beginning on May 20th and concluding on the 22nd in HSSB’s McCune Conference Room. For additional information\, including the schedule of speakers\, please review the conference program which is provided below. \nDownload the Conference Program
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/2016-islamic-studies-graduate-student-conference-identity-memory-diaspora/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160507T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160507T160000
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SUMMARY:2016 Annual Medieval Studies Program Conference: "Gender & Religious Practice in the Middle Ages"
DESCRIPTION:Keynote talk:\n“Men in Women’s Monasteries: Nuns’ Priests in the Central Middle Ages”\n by Fiona Griffiths\,\nProfessor of History at Stanford University \nThe Medieval Studies Program would like to invite you to join us for our annual conference\, May 7\, 2016. \nThe theme of this year’s conference is “Gender and Religious Practice in the Middle Ages.” There will be a keynote talk from Fiona Griffiths\, Associate Professor of History at Stanford University\, entitled “Men in Women’s Religious Spaces in the Central Middle Ages.” \nAdditionally\, a number of students from the department will be presenting at or moderating panels. Attached please find a flyer advertising the event\, along with a schedule of speakers. Please also note that there will also be a reception following the conference. \nDownload flyer
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/gender-religious-practice-middle-ages/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160502T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160502T183000
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SUMMARY:"Was the Rise of Islam a Black Swan Event?" Michael Cook\, 2016 R. Stephen Humphreys Distinguished Visiting Scholar
DESCRIPTION:A Black Swan Event is by definition a highly improbable happening with a massive impact. No one questions the impact of rise of Islam\, but just how improbable was it? Two of its central features look very unlikely against the background of earlier history: the appearance among the Arabs of a new\nmonotheistic religion\, and the formation of a powerful state in Arabia. Does that add up to two Black Swans\, or do they cancel out? \nMichael Cook is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought and A Brief History of the Human Race\, among other books\, and he is also the general editor of The New Cambridge History of Islam. \nSponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies\, R. Stephen Humphreys Distinguished\nLecture Series \nDownload flyer
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/rise-islam-black-swan-event-michael-cook-2016-r-stephen-humphreys-distinguished-visiting-scholar/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160414T153000
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SUMMARY:Robin and Robert Jones present "Refugees on the Greek Island of Lesbos"
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, April 14th at 2pm in HSSB 6020\, Robin and Robert Jones will speak about their experiences working with refugees landing on the Greek island of Lesbos. \nTheir presentation is co-sponsored by the History Department\, the Center for Middle East Studies\, and the Argyropoulos Hellenic Studies Endowment. \nRobin and Robert Jones live part of their year on the Greek island of Lesbos\, which is a major landing area for desperate refugees from war-torn Syria\, Afghanistan\, and Iraq. The refugees arrive in rubber rafts\, crossing the strait from Turkey\, under harrowing conditions; many die en route. \nRobin (center) greets a family waiting at a transit station. Women and children composed 50 percent of all refugees who fled to Europe by sea in 2015.\nThe Jones’ have put together a photographic exhibit of the refugees – their arrival and living conditions – and the children’s drawings\, along with a PowerPoint presentation documenting this world event. They were intimately involved in providing assistance and support and now they want to tell the refugees’ stories. \nIt is a story that needs to be told\, and puts a very human face on what otherwise is\, for most people\, a five minute clip on the news. It also provides an important counterpoint to the “immigrant as terrorist” narrative that dominates the news these days. \n  \nYou can read more about Robin and Robert in the Independent: http://www.independent.com/news/2016/mar/10/horror-and-hope-lesbos/
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/presentation-refugees-greek-island-lesbos/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160122T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160122T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch and Signing: Sherene Seikaly\, "Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine"
DESCRIPTION:Event Description:\nThe Department of History and the Center for Middle East Studies are delighted to sponsor a book launch and signing for Sherene Seikaly’s new book with Stanford University Press\, Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine. \n  \nComments By:\n\nJoel Beinin\, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East Studies\, Stanford University\nErika Rappaport\, Professor of Modern British History\, UCSB\nResponse by Professor Sherene Seikaly\n\n  \nEvent Flyer
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/book-launch-and-signing-sherene-seikaly-men-of-capital-scarcity-and-economy-in-mandate-palestine/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160122T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160126T113000
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SUMMARY:After Tahrir: Egyptian Revolutionary Experiences and Future Visions
DESCRIPTION:This four-day research collaboration workshop will take place at UC Santa Barbara on the five-year anniversary of the Tahrir Square Uprisings in 2011 that toppled Egypt’s long-term dictator Hosni Mubarak. These uprisings in Egypt accelerated waves of anti-crony-capitalist demonstrations\, worker organizing\, youth revolts\, media insurgencies\, and police brutality protests that overthrew governments\, mobilized populations throughout the Middle East\, and inspired the world. These Tahrir uprisings are called the 25 January Revolution in Egypt and the Arab world. It was on that day that millions of protesters first descended on downtown Cairo to reclaim history and power for the people. \n  \nFor additional information\, including a program schedule\, please visit the following URL: http://www.aftertahrir.net. \n  \nAnd be sure to follow After Tahrir on social media via the following hashtag: #aftertahrir
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/after-tahrir-egyptian-revolutionary-experiences-and-future-visions/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20151210T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20151210T180000
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SUMMARY:Jason M. Kelly: The Anthropocene's Great Divergence
DESCRIPTION:In the early years of this century\, the Nobel Prize winning chemist Paul Crutzen popularized the idea that humans had entered a new geological age\, the “Anthropocene.” This concept\, he argued\, captured the fact that over the past 250 years humans and their technologies had reshaped the planet\, permanently transforming its complex biophysical systems. His idea caught fire across the disciplines\, and in 2015\, entire academic journals are devoted to the Anthropocene. \n\nJason M. Kelly’s talk\, “The Anthropocene’s Great Divergence\,” will examine the development of multiple\, competing cultures of knowledge about the Anthropocene over the last several decades. Focusing on disciplinary orientations and theoretical models in the sciences\, social sciences\, humanities\, and arts\, it argues that underlying discussions about the Anthropocene are conflicting historical narratives. The historical narratives that scientists and policy makers ultimately integrate into their models may have profound global socio-political implications\, especially given the centrality of the Anthropocene to contemporary discussions about environmental policy. \n\nFor information on Dr. Kelly’s collaborative project\, Rivers of the Anthropocene\, please visit the following URL: http://rivers.iupui.edu/cms/
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/jason-m-kelly-the-anthropocenes-great-divergence/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151030
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151101
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SUMMARY:Political Theologies of Medieval and Early Modern Islam: A Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The workshop is open to interested faculty and graduate students. If you would like to join us at lunch\, please contact Adam Morrison at cmes@cmes.ucsb.edu so that we can get an accurate head count. \n  \nOctober 30\, 2015:\n9:45 AM Greetings and Introduction\n10:00 – 10:50 Bilal Orfali (American University of Beirut)\, “Mystical Poetics: Courtly Themes in Early Sufi Akhbār” (via Skype)\n11:00- 11:50 Adam Sabra (University of California\, Santa Barbara)\, “The Cosmic State: Ibn al-‘Arabi’s Political Theology”\n12:00 – 12:50 Richard J. McGregor (Vanderbilt University)\, “Sufi Apocalypse and the Limits of Language”\n1:00 – 2:00 Lunch\n2:00 – 2:50 Manuela Ceballos (University of Tennessee\, Knoxville)\, “Speaking for Others: Sufism and the Politics of Representation in Early Modern Morocco”\n3:00 – 3:50 Cornell Fleischer (University of Chicago)\, “The Mystic and Lettrist ‘Abd al-rahman al-Bistami (d. 1454) and the Origins of Ottoman Historical Consciousness”\n4:00 – 4:50 İlker Evrim Binbaş (Royal Holloway\, University of London)\, “The Problem of Sovereignty in the Fifteenth Century Islamic World: The View from Ethics”\n7:00 Dinner for presenters and invited guests \n  \nOctober 31\, 2015:\n10:00 – 10:50 Matthew Melvin-Koushki (University of South Carolina)\, “Starlord\, Letterlord: Astrology and Lettrism in the Construction of Post-Mongol Persianate Imperial Ideologies”\n11:00 – 11:50 A. Azfar Moin (University of Texas\, Austin)\, “Saint Shrines as Objects of Imperial Veneration and Desecration in the Post-Mongol Empires”\n12:00 – 1:00 Lunch\n1:00 – 1:50 Daniel Sheffield (University of Washington)\, “Political Theurgy: Stars and Sovereignty in the Safavid-Mughal World”\n2:00 – 2:50 Kathryn Babayan (University of Michigan)\, “Sovereignty and Amity: Masculinity at the Safavi Court in Isfahan”\n3:00 – 4:00 Concluding discussion \n  \nSponsors:\nKing Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies\nCenter for Middle Eastern Studies\nCollege of Letters and Sciences\nProgram in Medieval Studies\nUCSB Department of History
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/political-theologies-of-medieval-and-early-modern-islam-a-workshop/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20151013T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20151013T173000
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SUMMARY:Laura Nenzi\, Researching the Margins: Challenges and Consequences of Embarking on a Microhistory Project
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: \nLaura Nenzi  (Ph.D. History\, UC Santa Barbara\, 2004)\nAssociate Professor\, University of Tennessee\, Knoxville \n\n  \nEvent Description: \nLaura Nenzi\, one of our very own (2004 PhD) is returning to UCSB to give a lecture about her recent (2015) second book The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko. The talk will focus on the process of researching\, writing and then selling to a publisher a micro-history of an itinerant saleswoman of needles and later school teacher of nineteenth-century Japan. \n“Researching the margins presents not one but two challenges. First\, and perhaps most obvious\, how do we do it? Second\, how do we sell it? It is to this second challenge that I wish to turn. The dreaded “so what?” question is one every historian must be prepared to answer\, but it seems especially relevant when writing about unrepresentative\, irrelevant individuals–the extras on the historical stage.  Based on my recent book on the rural teacher and oracle Kurosawa Tokiko (1806-1890)\, a self-described “base-born nobody” who attempted to change the course of late-Tokugawa history and failed\, this presentation offers reflections on the bumpy process of writing\, and selling\, a work of microhistory in the age of the global.” \nCosponsored by the departments of History and East Asian Language and Cultural Studies\, as well as the RE-inventing Japan RFG (IHC) and the East Asia Center.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/laura-nenzi-researching-the-margins-challenges-and-consequences-of-embarking-on-a-microhistory-project/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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