CCWS Events 2010-2011

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2010-2011 Calendar of Events

Past Events 2009-2010
Past Events 2008-2009


Saturday, May 21, 2011, 3PM	Henry Maar, "'A Force to be Reckoned With': Ronald Reagan and the Antinuclear Revolution, 1980-1984" CCWS presents its final workshop of the year with its own Henry Maar discussing his work, "'A Force to be Reckoned With': Ronald Reagan and the Antinuclear Revolution, 1980-1984." In what is sure to be an exciting and thought-provoking discussion, Henry Maar explores the impact of the antinuclear movement of the 1980s (broadly remembered as "the Nuclear Freeze movement" despite differences on the weapons "freeze" concept). Through extensive research in the Reagan Library archives and in other numerous primary source materials, Maar explores the antinuclear political phenomena as seen through local and national politics, in the political and popular culture, and in its reflection in religious communities discussions over the meaning of "pro-life." Maar argues that this domestic antinuclear resurgence forced the Reagan administration to take the movement and their ideas seriously or face a continued domestic backlash with potential electoral repercussions. Workshop attendees are encouraged to read the essay in advance. Attendees should also RSVP to Salim Yaqub at syaqub@history.ucsb.edu.
Monday, April 18, 2011, 1:00-2:30 pm, HSSB 2252	Arne Westad, "The Great Transformation: China in the Long 1970s" Professor Westad will make a brief presentation and then lead a discussion of some of his recent scholarship. Workshop attendees are encouraged to read in advance Professor Westad's essay, "The Great Transformation: China in the Long 1970s," which he contributed to Niall Ferguson et al., eds. The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective, along with Niall Ferguson's introduction to that volume. Attendees wishing to acquire the texts of these essays should write to Salim Yaqub at syaqub@history.ucsb.edu. Odd Arne Westad is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and an expert on the history of the Cold War era and on contemporary international affairs. He co-directs LSE IDEAS, a center for international affairs, diplomacy, and strategy, is an editor of the journal Cold War History, and is a general editor of the forthcoming three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War. Professor Westad lectures widely on China's foreign affairs, on Western interventions in Africa and Asia, and on foreign policy. Professor Westad's most recent book, The Global Cold War: Third world Interventions and the Making of Our Times, received the Bancroft Prize, the Michael Harrington Award, and the Akira Iriye International History Book Award. It has been translated into fourteen languages. He is now working on a history of Chinese foreign affairs since 1750.
Thursday, April 14, 2011, 12:30pm HSSB 4041 UCSB	Alexander Kubyshkin, Russia and Terrorism 12:30-2 PM April 14 HSSB 4041 Alexander Kubyshkin is Professor of the Department of North American Studies, School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, Russia, and currently a Fulbright Scholar at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He will speak about the historical roots of terrorism in Russian history, terrorist activities and Russia’s anti-terrorism measures in the Northern Caucasus, and Russia’s policy toward international terrorism. The talk is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History, the Ofalea Center for Global and International Studies, the Department of History, and the Department Political Science.
Wedesday, February 9, 2011, 5pm HSSB 4041	Hussein Ibish, Senior Fellow, American Task Force on Palestine (Washington, D.C.) *Arab- and Muslim-American Activism Since 9/11* Hussein Ibish discusses Arab- and Muslim-American activism after September 11, 2001. He addresses immediate reactions to the terrorist attacks, examining how the communities coped with the anti-Arab and anti–Muslim backlash and organized politically in response. He also considers the longer-term ramifications for Arab- and Muslim-Americans' political and community organizing, and the prospects for their empowerment and integration into the American social, cultural, and political scene.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 4:00 pm @ UCSB Corwin Pavilion - Free Event Presented by UCSB Department of Religious Studies, Center for Middle East Studies, Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies, and Center for Cold War Studies and International History.	The Manhattan Mosque and Burning Qur’ans: Placing an American Dilemma in Perspective America’s Muslims have become a flashpoint for public debate about freedom of religion, freedom of speech, civil rights, and U.S. relations with Muslim majority countries in the Middle East and Asia. Recently there has been an outcry about the propriety of building an Islamic center (called a mosque in the media) near the site of the World Trade Center in Manhattan. There also appears to be a rise in anti-Muslim rhetoric and incidents around the country, including threats to stage burnings of the Muslim holy book, the Qur’an. Four UCSB faculty experts from the departments of Religious Studies and History will discuss and assess these developments with an aim to enhance public understanding of the issues involved and their consequences. The panel features Juan E. Campo (Religious Studies) on the meaning and functions of mosques and the Qur’an in the eyes of Muslims and non-Muslims, Richard Hecht (Religious Studies) on Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism, Kathleen Moore (Religious Studies) on the Manhattan Islamic Center and the law, and Salim Yaqub (History) on the implications anti-Muslim incidents might hold for U.S. foreign policy. Wade Clark Roof (J.F. Rowny Professor of Religion and Society, Director of the Walter H. Capps Center) will be the panel convener and respondent.
Thursday, October 28, 2010, 12:30 pm @ McCune Room HSSB 6020	Hugh Wilford, The American Friends of the Middle East: The CIA, Arabism, and Anti-Zionism in Cold War America In 1967, it was revealed that the CIA had secretly funded the American Friends of the Middle East, an apparently private group of pro-Arab, anti-Zionist U.S. citizens. In this talk, Professor Wilford reveals the hitherto hidden history of the American Friends of the Middle East, relating it to the larger story of the rise and fall of Cold War American "Arabism." Hugh Wilford is Professor of U.S. history at California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of several books on Cold War American culture and politics, including The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America (Harvard, 2008). He is now writing a book on the American Friends of the Middle East.
September 22 2010 - March 21, 2011	Call for Papers: 2011 International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War The Center for Cold War Studies (CCWS) of the University of California at Santa Barbara, the George Washington University Cold War Group (GWCW), and the LSE IDEAS Cold War Studies Programme of the London School of Economics and Political Science (CWSP) are pleased to announce their 2011 International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, to take place at the University of California at Santa Barbara on April 14-16, 2011. Click on link above for more details.