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SUMMARY:Job Talk: Taylor M. Moore's "Amulet Tales: Political and Spiritual Economies of Healing in Egypt"
DESCRIPTION:The History Department invites all to a job talk by Dr. Taylor M. Moore on January 13\, 2021. \nDr. Moore is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at UC Santa Barbara. Her research lies at the intersections of critical race studies\, decolonial/postcolonial histories of science\, and decolonial materiality studies with a geographical focus on Egypt and the late Ottoman world. Her manuscript-in-preparation\, Superstitious Women: Race\, Magic\, and Medicine in Egypt\, uses modern Egyptian amulets as an archive to reconstruct the magical and vernacular medical life-worlds of peasant women healers\, and their critical role developing medico-anthropological expertise in Egypt from 1875-1950. \nUpper Egyptian and Black African women healers\, and the amulets they wielded\, shaped robust spiritual and political economies of healing in Egypt’s long nineteenth century. Known as “old wives\,” these women stood at the center of a contest over power\, expertise and scientific authority. Despite repeated and overlapping imperial\, colonial\, and nationalist efforts by government officials and doctors to discredit their knowledge\, wise women controlled a widespread market in occult objects and services that were crucial to everyday life. By the 1920s\, the production of occult knowledge became intimately entangled with the internationalization of the social sciences. Egyptologists and anthropologists designated women healers and their magico-medical practice as\n“survivals” of ancient Egypt. As such\, these women were both objects of scientific inquiry and critical producers of medical and anthropological knowledge. \nDr. Moore’s job talk will take place on Zoom at this link. To download the flyer for this event\, click here.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/job-talk-taylor-m-moores-amulet-tales-political-and-spiritual-economies-of-healing-in-egypt/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Job Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210110T160000
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SUMMARY:Miroslava Chávez-García\, "Migrant Longing"
DESCRIPTION:UCSB History Associates has partnered with the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation to present a public lecture by UCSB Professor of History Miroslava Chávez-García.  \nDrawing upon a personal collection of more than 300 letters exchanged between her parents and other family members across the U.S.-Mexico border\, Professor Chávez-García recreates and gives meaning to the hope\, fear\, and longing migrants experienced in their everyday lives both “here” and “there” (aqui y alla). As private sources of communication hidden from public consumption and historical research\, the letters provide a rare glimpse into the deeply emotional\, personal\, and social lives of ordinary Mexican men and women as recorded in their immediate\, firsthand accounts. Chávez-García demonstrates not only how migrants struggled to maintain their sense of humanity in el norte but also how those remaining at home made sense of their changing identities in response to the loss of loved ones who sometimes left for weeks\, months\, or years at a time\, or simply never returned. \nPlease register for this Zoom event in advance at this link. To download the event flyer\, click here.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/miroslava-chavez-garcia-migrant-longing/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:History Associates
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201210T093000
DTEND;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:20201204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201204T133000
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SUMMARY:Public History Colloquium Event–"Pride of Place: LGBTQ Public History in the United Kingdom"
DESCRIPTION:Join the History Department’s Colloquium in Public History on Friday\, December 4 at noon for a Zoom talk by UCSB alumnus Dr. Justin Bengry (Goldsmiths\, University of London). \nDr. Bengry will present a major crowdsourced public history project he helped develop. Pride of Place maps sites of LGBTQ history in the United Kingdom. Dr. Bengry set the project in context of the state of LGBTQ public history in the UK. He is a historian of sexuality and capitalism who chairs the first MA in Queer History at Goldsmiths\, University of London. \nTo view the Pride of Place online exhibition at the Historic England webpage\, click here. To view the crowdsourced map\, click here. \nPlease register in advance for this event at this link.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/public-history-colloquium-event-pride-of-place-lgbtq-public-history-in-the-united-kingdom/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201115T160000
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SUMMARY:Sheila Lodge\, "Santa Barbara: An UNcommonplace American Town"
DESCRIPTION:UCSB History Associates has partnered with the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation to present a public lecture by former mayor Sheila Lodge on the topic of Santa Barbara history.  \nLodge will discuss her book Santa Barbara: An UNcommonplace American Town about how Santa Barbara became the community that it is through planning. She will describe the many battles it sometimes took and the process that was developed to make the critical decisions. Because of her personal involvement in the struggles\, her book is partially a memoir. \nLodge was born at home on her parents’ dairy in Arcadia\, CA. She is a life-long Californian except for 2 1/2 years in Annapolis\, MD\, where she taught school and did social work. She returned to\nCalifornia in 1950 and came to Santa Barbara in 1952. She served on the Santa Barbara City Planning Commission from 1973-1975\, the City Council from 1975-1981\, and as Mayor from 1981-\n1993. An incurable public policy wonk\, since 2009 she’s been back on the Planning Commission where she started her civic life 45 years ago. \nPlease register in advance for this free event here. To download the event flyer\, click here.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/sheila-lodge-santa-barbara-an-uncommonplace-american-town/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:History Associates
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T123000
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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:20201106T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201106T133000
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SUMMARY:Public History Colloquium Event--"In the Spaciousness of Uncertainty is Room to Act": Public History’s Long Game
DESCRIPTION:Join the History Department’s Colloquium in Public History this Friday\, November 6 at noon for a Zoom talk by Professor Marla Miller (University of Massachusetts\, Amherst) about her recent article in The Public Historian\, “‘In the Spaciousness of Uncertainty is Room to Act’: Public History’s Long Game.” \nTaking her title from Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark\, an exploration of the long arc of historical change\, Miller engages with students and the public around the ideas\, questions and new directions posed in this address to the National Council for Public History\, public history’s major professional organization. Miller is a historian of US women’s work prior to the industrial revolution\, and is the NCPH’s immediate past president.  She is the author of many books\, including Betsy Ross and the Making of America and Entangled Lives: Labor\, Livelihood and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts. Her research\, teaching\, publications and consulting engage North American material culture\, museum and historic site interpretation\, historical interpretation in the National Park Service\, and the teaching of public history. \nEvent attendees are invited to read Professor Miller’s article in advance; it may be accessed here. \nPlease register to attend using this link.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/in-the-spaciousness-of-uncertainty-is-room-to-act-public-historys-long-game/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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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:20201017T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T160000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Case\, "The Woman Suffrage Movement: 'A Century of Struggle'"
DESCRIPTION:Join UCSB History Associates on Saturday\, October 17 on Zoom for their first public lecture of the academic year. Dr. Sarah Case will survey the woman suffrage movement for the hundred years or so before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. Her talk will consider why the idea of women voting was so controversial in the nineteenth\ncentury\, and examine how it became less so in the early twentieth century. Dr. Case will introduce some of the major activists and organizations in the women suffrage movement and highlight some of the turning points in the “century of struggle.” \nDr. Sarah Case earned her MA and PhD in history at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where she is a continuing lecturer in history\, teaching courses in public history\, women’s history\, and history of the South. She is also the managing editor of The Public Historian\, a journal focused on publicly engaged historical scholarship. She is the author of Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women in the New South (Illinois\, 2017) and articles on women and education\, reform\, and commemoration.\n \nThe Zoom link for this event is https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82201755393. All are welcome!
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/sarah-case-the-woman-suffrage-movement-a-century-of-struggle/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:History Associates
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201008T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201008T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200922T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200922T130000
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SUMMARY:Stuart Tyson Smith\, "Black Pharaohs? Egyptological Bias\, Racism\, and Egypt and Nubia as African Civilizations"
DESCRIPTION:Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research welcomes UCSB Professor of Anthropology (and History Department affiliate faculty member) Stuart Tyson Smith to the W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual Lecture Series. On Tuesday\, September 22 Professor Smith will present his Zoom lecture “Black Pharaohs? Egyptological Bias\, Racism\, and Egypt and Nubia as African Civilizations.” Register in advance for this free event here. Please note that the lecture begins at 4:00 Eastern/1:00 Pacific time. \nProfessor Smith’s research centers on the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Nubia with a theoretical focus on the social and ethnic dynamics of colonial encounters and the origins of the Napatan Kushite state\, whose rulers became Pharaohs of Egypt’s 25th Dynasty. He has published on the dynamics of Egyptian imperialism and royal ideology\, the use of sealings in administration\, death and burial in ancient Egypt and Nubia\, and the ethnic\, social and economic dynamics of intercultural interaction between ancient Egypt and Nubia.  He has also participated in and led archaeological expeditions to Egypt and since 1997 to Sudanese Nubia\, where he co-directs the UCSB-Purdue University Tombos expedition to the third cataract of the Nile. This research has been funded by multiple grants from the National Geographic Society and the National Science Foundation. In addition to fieldwork\, he is also engaged in a long-term study and write-up of the UCLA excavations conducted by the late Alexander Badawy at the fortress of Askut in Sudanese Nubia. In a new line of research\, Smith applies a postcolonial approach to modern scholarly and popular views of ancient Egypt as not truly African and Nubia as its subordinate\, confronting the intersection between racism and longstanding academic and political bias. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters\, Dr. Smith has published three books\, Askut in Nubia: The Economics and Ideology of Egyptian Imperialism in the Second Millennium BC\, Valley of the Kings (for children)\, and Wretched Kush: Ethnic Identities and Boundaries in Egypt’s Nubian Empire. In 1993\, he took a break from academia as Egyptological Consultant for the hit MGM movie Stargate\, commenting on the script and recreating spoken ancient Egyptian for the film. He returned to Hollywood consulting in 1998 and 2000 for the Universal remake of The Mummy and its sequel\, The Mummy Returns\, and most recently for 2018’s web production Stargate Origins: Catherine. Professor Smith holds a Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of California\, Los Angeles.
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/stuart-tyson-smith-black-pharaohs-egyptological-bias-racism-and-egypt-and-nubia-as-african-civilizations/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200614T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200614T180000
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SUMMARY:History Department Graduation
DESCRIPTION:Join the History Department in a virtual celebration of graduating undergraduates and graduates! Use this Zoom link to join: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/98074114836
URL:https://history.ucsb.edu/events/history-department-graduation/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
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