BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of History, UC Santa Barbara - ECPv6.15.12.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Department of History, UC Santa Barbara X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Department of History, UC Santa Barbara REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20080309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20081102T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20090308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20091101T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20100314T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20101107T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20110313T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20111106T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091109T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091109T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112811Z UID:10001604-1257724800-1257724800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:A Nuclear Winter's Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s DESCRIPTION:The Center for Science in Society and the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) are jointly hosting this event in the Lawrence\nBadash Distinguished Lecture Series. \nLawrence Badash\, professor emeritus of the history of science at UCSB\, will talk about his new book\, A NUCLEAR WINTER’S TALE: SCIENCE AND POLITICS IN THE 1980s\, published by MIT Press. Fuller descriptions of the book and the author are appended below. \nAfter making his presentation\, Prof. Badash will lead a discussion.\nFor this purpose he has kindly made available the first chapter of the\nbook\, which all attendees are invited to read in advance. The chapter\nhas been uploaded to the Web and is available via the following url: \nhttp://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/ccws/papers/\nPlease contact the CCWS for the\nLogin:\nPassword: \nAbout the Book: \nThe nuclear winter phenomenon burst upon the public’s consciousness in\n1983. Added to the horror of a nuclear war’s immediate effects was the\nfear that the smoke from fires ignited by the explosions would block\nthe sun\, creating an extended “winter” that might kill more people\nworldwide than the initial nuclear strikes. In A NUCLEAR WINTER’S\nTALE\, Lawrence Badash maps the rise and fall of the science of nuclear\nwinter\, examining research activity\, the popularization of the\nconcept\, and the Reagan-era politics that combined to influence policy\nand public opinion. \nBadash traces the several sciences (including studies of volcanic\neruptions\, ozone depletion\, and dinosaur extinction) that merged to\nallow computer modeling of nuclear winter and its development as a\nscientific specialty. He places this in the political context of the\nReagan years\, discussing congressional interest\, media attention\, the\nadministration’s plans for a research program\, and the Defense\nDepartment’s claims that the arms buildup underway would prevent\nnuclear war\, and thus nuclear winter. \nA NUCLEAR WINTER’S TALE tells an important story but also provides a\nuseful illustration of the complex relationship between science and\nsociety. It examines the behavior of scientists in the public arena\nand in the scientific community\, and raises questions about the\nproblems faced by scientific Cassandras\, the implications when\nscientists go public with worst-case scenarios\, and the timing of\ngovernment reaction to startling scientific findings. \nAbout the Author: \nLawrence Badash is Professor Emeritus of History of Science at the\nUniversity of California\, Santa Barbara. He is author and co-author of\nnumerous books and articles on the history of science and technology\,\nincluding KAPITZA\, RUTHERFORD\, AND THE KREMLIN (1985) and SCIENTISTS\nAND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS: FROM FISSION TO THE LIMITED\nTEST BAN TREATY\, 1939-1963 (1995). \nhm 11/3/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/a-nuclear-winters-tale-science-and-politics-in-the-1980s/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091109T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091109T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112811Z UID:10001606-1257724800-1257724800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Taste of the Enemy: Food and Warfare in Asia\, 1937-1953 DESCRIPTION:Dr. Katarzyna Cwiertka is Europe’s premier expert on food culture in modern Japan. She is the author of three books\, including Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food\, Power and National Identity\, Kaiseki Recipes: Secrets of Japanese Cuisine\, and Asian Food: the Global and the Local. Along with the landscape\, climate and language\, food constitutes the most immediate articulation of the unfamiliar for soldiers fighting on a foreign soil. By tracing subsistence channels of the Japanese\, American and Korean forces\, this talk seeks to identify the relationships that developed during the 1940s and early 1950s between the military and the civilian populations.\nSponsored by the IHC’s Food Studies RFG\, the IHC’s East Asian Cultures RFG\, the East Asia Center\, the Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies\, the History Dept. and the IHC. \njwil 03.xi.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-taste-of-the-enemy-food-and-warfare-in-asia-1937-1953/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091110T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091110T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112810Z UID:10001736-1257811200-1257811200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Learning the Lessons of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill DESCRIPTION:The 2009-10 Critical Issues in American topic is “Forty Years after the Big Spill – Looking Back\, Looking Ahead: 21st Century Environmental Challenges\nin a Global Context.” Led by Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studies\nWilliam Freudenberg and supported by Water Policy Program Director Robert\nWilkinson\, the program references an historical benchmark – for the campus\nas well as the nation – and addresses a breadth of environmental challenges\nfor the 21st century with a strong\, interdisciplinary group of core faculty\nand key collaborators. \nRiki Ott is the author of:\nNot One Drop – Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill\nThis book illustrates in stirring fashion the oil industry’s 20-year trail of pollution and deception that lead to the tragic 1989 spill and delves deep into the disruption to the fishing community for the next 10 years. \nSound Truth & Corporate Myth$ – The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill\nThis book exposes oil as a human and environmental health hazard\, based on stories of key witnesses and participants in the environmental tragedy that struck Prince William Sound in 1989. 2005 finalist for the Benjamin Franklin Book Award in Science and Environment. \nhm 10/4/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/learning-the-lessons-of-the-exxon-valdez-oil-spill/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091111T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091111T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112810Z UID:10001750-1257897600-1257897600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Film screening "The Promise" (1995) DESCRIPTION:East Berlin\, 1961: shortly after the Berlin Wall goes up\, four friends make a daring escape while one remains behind. For the next 28 years (until 1989) they try to meet …\nDirected by Margarethe von Trotta\, 115 mins. \nhm 10/27/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/film-screening-the-promise-1995/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091112T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091112T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112811Z UID:10001599-1257984000-1257984000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:‘Galileo\, the Universe\, and God': UCSB Science and Humanities Faculty to Discuss Legacy of Galileo and his Astronomical Discoveries DESCRIPTION:The intersection between religion and science and Galileo’s scientific and intellectual legacies will be the subject of “Galileo\, the Universe\, and God\,” an interdisciplinary event organized by a group of UC Santa Barbara science and humanities faculty that will take place on Thursday\, November 12\, at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. The event\, which is open to the public\, also celebrates the International Year of Astronomy\, designated by the United Nations and the International Astronomical Union to commemorate Galileo’s first telescopic discoveries in 1609. It will feature a theatrical performance and presentations on history\, art\, and the future of astronomy\, including current developments in telescopes connected to the University of California and UCSB.\n“Galileo\, the Universe\, and God” was conceived by Tommaso Treu\, associate professor of physics and an astronomer\, and Stefania Tutino\, associate professor of religious studies and of history\, in collaboration with Jon Snyder\, professor of Italian studies. \nTo put the contemporary telescopes in historical perspective\, history professor Patrick McCray will discuss the history of the telescope. Complementing the presentations on history and astronomy will be discussions of Renaissance art\, by Robert Williams; and the literary value of Galileo’s writing\, by Snyder. One of the highlights of the evening will be a performance of scenes from Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo” by Irwin Appel\, actor\, director\, and professor of theater. \nTickets to the event\, which begins at 7 p.m.\, are $8 for museum members and $10 for non-members\, and are on sale at the museum\, 2559 Puesta del Sol\, Santa Barbara\, or online at www.sbnature.org. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/galileo-the-universe-and-god-ucsb-science-and-humanities-faculty-to-discuss-legacy-of-galileo-and-his-astronomical-discoveries/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091113T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091113T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112808Z UID:10001716-1258070400-1258070400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Festschrift presentation in honor of Prof. Humphreys DESCRIPTION:On October 13\, 2007\, thirteen of Professor R. Stephen Humphreys’ former graduate students at the University of Chicago\, the University of Wisconsin\, Madison\, and the University of California\, Santa Barbara delivered papers at a Festschrift conference in his honor at the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph\, Minnesota.\nThe papers from the conference have been edited by Jim Lindsay (Wisconsin\, 1994) and Jon Armajani (UCSB\, 1998)\, and will be published in Historical Dimensions of Islam: Essays in Honor of R. Stephen Humphreys (Princeton: Darwin Press\, Fall 2009). (publisher’s book page). \nAfter opening comments from the editors\, the Festschrift participants and members of Steve’s family who are in attendance will be invited to speak. After those remarks\, Prof. Humphreys will offer some concluding comments. \nThe 6 contributors who have indicated they will be coming are: \n1. Jon Armajani (College of St. Benedict) \n2. Anna Bigelow (North Carolina State) \n3. Linda Darling (University of Arizona) \n4. Rachel Howes (California State-Northridge) \n5. Jim Lindsay (Colorado State) \n6. Nancy Stockdale (University of North Texas) \nWe will conclude with a formal presentation of the Festschrift to Prof. Humphreys. \nWe hope to see many of you at the Festschrift presentation ceremony! \nJames E. Lindsay\nAssociate Professor of Middle East History\nDepartment of History\nColorado State University\nFort Collins\, CO 80523-1776 \nhm 8/30/09\, 10/14/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/festschrift-presentation-in-honor-of-prof-humphreys/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091115T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091115T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112809Z UID:10001725-1258243200-1258243200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Artisans of Ancient China DESCRIPTION:In viewing objects like those found at Mawangdui\, their anonymous creators generally remain in obscurity. This lecture focuses on these oft forgotten individuals\, the men and women who crafted objects in private workshops and government factories during the Han Dynasty of China (202 BCE-220 CE). Among the topics to be discussed are artisan training\, societal perception\, tools and techniques\, and marketing. Special attention will be given to lacquer workshops and artisans\, like those that produced the beautiful pieces in the current exhibition.\nLecturer Anthony Barbieri-Low is Associate Professor of Ancient China\, Chinese Archaeology\, and Epigraphy in the Department of History at UCSB. \nThis event description is excerpted from the web page of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s special exhibition web page on The Noble Tombs at Mawandui. For more information visit the Santa Barbara Museum of Art web site\, or call the Museum at 805.963.4364. \njwil 29.ix.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/artisans-of-ancient-china/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091116T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091116T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112811Z UID:10001612-1258329600-1258329600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:From Cooperative Wineries to Fair-Trade Wine: Small Wine Producers in Twentieth Century Chile DESCRIPTION:This talk explores the history of cooperative wineries in Chile\, from their foundation in 1929 to the beginning of the process of AgrarianReform in 1964. While the Chilean state envisioned rural cooperatives as a mechanism to modernize the countryside and help impoverished\nsmall landowners\, the project’s implementation had major flaws. The cooperative project did not attempt to transform social and economic\nstructures in the countryside or to challenge the unequal relation between large-scale and small producers. In the long run\, traditional\nand large-scale wineries and not cooperatives became the engine of the modernization of the Chilean countryside. \njwil 13.xi.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/from-cooperative-wineries-to-fair-trade-wine-small-wine-producers-in-twentieth-century-chile/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091117T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091117T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112811Z UID:10001614-1258416000-1258416000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Colossus: The Forbin Project DESCRIPTION:“Colossus: The Forbin Project”\nAt the height of the Cold War\, the United States develops an enormous\ncomputer system in a top secret underground facility. The machine’s\nsingle purpose is to keep America (and the planet) safe from nuclear\nwar. The country’s entire arsenal is placed at its disposal. As soon\nas the machine\, known as Colossus\, is brought online\, it learns that\nRussia might also be developing a large computer installation.\nColossus demands a network link to establish contact with this other\nartificial intelligence\, and gets it by threatening the humans with\ntheir own arsenal. \nOnce connected\, the two machines use the universal language of\nmathematics to establish a means of communicating with one another.\nThey quickly surpass human understanding and arrive at a conclusion:\nin order for the world to be a safe and peaceful place\, the humans\ncannot control it. The machines then systematically revoke control of\neverything from the humans\, placing the entire planet under a new form\nof military dictatorship. \nhm11/17/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/colossus-the-forbin-project/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091119T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091119T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112810Z UID:10001751-1258588800-1258588800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Film screening "Goodbye Lenin!" (2003) DESCRIPTION:East Germany\, 1989: While a young man goes to the Oct. 3 40th anniversary ceremonies to protest\, his mother suffers a heart attack and falls into coma as she watches the police arrest him. The mother awakens months later\, when East Germany no longer exists. To avoid unduly exciting her\, her son tries to set up the GDR in her apartment. Ostalgie with a twist.\nDirected by Wolfgang Becker\, 121 mins. \nhm 10/27/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/film-screening-goodbye-lenin-2003/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091120T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091120T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112809Z UID:10001729-1258675200-1258675200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"New Capitalism:" Rights\, Expectations\, and Fairness in the New Era Economy DESCRIPTION:Mark Hendrickson’s research focuses on labor\, public policy\, capitalism and political economy in early twentieth century U.S. History. He has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council\, Aspen Institute\, and the Institute for Labor and Employment Studies. He took his PhD in History at UCSB in 2004.\nThis talk is sponsored by the Center for Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. For more information contact Leah Fernandez. \njwil 01.x.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/new-capitalism-rights-expectations-and-fairness-in-the-new-era-economy/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091123T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091123T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112811Z UID:10001608-1258934400-1258934400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Mawangdui as a Pictorial Site of Transition DESCRIPTION:No archaeological discoveries have provided more striking examples that demonstrate the excellence of early Chinese pictorial art than those at Mawangdui\, dated to the second century B.C.E. However\, scholars have exclusively focused on the famous T-banner from Tomb No. 1\, ignoring the pictorial context in which it was situated. To amend the imbalanced scholarship\, Professor Tseng will consider precisely the pictorial context for the deceased at Mawangdui in her talk\, including the T-banner and three decorated coffins. Based on the analysis of overlapping motifs\, Professor Tseng will discuss how the presence of images turned the containers of the corpse into a site of transition\,                                                                                                           facilitating the celestial ascent of the deceased.\nProfessor Lillian Lan-ying Tseng is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art\, Yale University. \nThis lecture is part of the “Thinking through Media” lecture series organized by the Department of the History of Art and Architecture\, UCSB\, and is co-sponsored by the Departments of History\, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies\, the East Asian Center\, the IHC\, and the WTF fund. \njwil 09.xi.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/mawangdui-as-a-pictorial-site-of-transition/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091123T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091123T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112811Z UID:10001610-1258934400-1258934400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Kill Happy"?: Understanding Military Amphetamine Use by the Allies in the Second World War DESCRIPTION:That amphetamine was used on all sides in the Second World War is widely acknowledged but little discussed by historians. Drawing on a range of primary sources Professor Rasmussen describes the ways British and American authorities evaluated amphetamine\, and ultimately approved and issued the drug for use in combat despite a failure to obtain the scientific justification that had originally been sought. He argues that it is necessary to consider this adoption of amphetamine in the context of wartime psychiatric thinking about ‘combat fatigue’ and morale\, and that viewed in this broader context\, the drug was approved and tacitly employed by the Allies mainly because of its mood-altering rather than its waking effects. Much more work on the common soldier’s experience of the drug needs to be done through the study of wartime diaries and letters.\nNicolas Rasmussen is Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of New South Wales (Sydney\, Australia). \njwil 11.xi.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/kill-happy-understanding-military-amphetamine-use-by-the-allies-in-the-second-world-war/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091201T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091201T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112811Z UID:10001602-1259625600-1259625600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:After the Grizzly: A Century of Endangered Species in California and Beyond DESCRIPTION:In 1911 Monarch\, “the last of the California grizzlies\,” died in San Francisco after 22 years of captivity in Golden Gate Park. Within a year\, conservationists launched the first campaign to protect California’s native wildlife. California has since become the site of some of the country’s most infamous battles over the protection of endangered species and their habitats. This talk will trace the turbulent political history of endangered species in California from the Progressive Era to the present. As we will see\, debates about endangered species are also debates about who should have access to and control over lands and natural resources.\nPeter Alagona is an environmental historian and historian of science with a joint appointment in the Department of History and Environmental Studies Program. His research focuses on the histories of land use\, natural resource management\, environmental politics\, and ecological science in the North American West and beyond. Peter received his doctorate from UCLA in 2006 and worked as an Environmental Fellow at Harvard University from 2006 to 2008\, and as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University from 2008 to 2009. Peter arrived at UCSB in September\, and will be teaching his first courses in the winter of 2010. \nThe cost of the buffet luncheon is $20 (members) and $23 (non-members). \nAttendees must make reservations by Nov. 30 by returning the bottom part of the flyer or phoning Sheila Lodge at the UCSB History Associates message center. The number is (805) 617-0998. \nhm 11/1/09; 11/2 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/after-the-grizzly-a-century-of-endangered-species-in-california-and-beyond/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091203T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091203T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112811Z UID:10001753-1259798400-1259798400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:From Space Colonies to Nanobots to Xanadu: California's Technological Enthusiasts\, 1970-1990. DESCRIPTION:The idea that America and other industrialized societies faced limits to their power and future economic growth helped define the 1970s. While scientists and free-market economists criticized this perspective\, these Malthusian views stimulated fierce debate about the need to adopt a steady-state lifestyle. “Limits” – to resources\, energy\, wealth\, even life itself – became a staple theme for movies\, television shows and fiction. This motif of impending doomsday\, however\, was only one possible vision of the future that emerged in the late 1970s. McCray’s talk explores alternative and competing visions of the technological future – much of it originating from California – that was just as widely debated in the 1970s and 1980s. During this time\, futuristic technologies such as space colonization\, nanotechnology\, and early internet-based commerce captured the public’s imagination. These California-based\, pro-technology movements also stimulated the creation of privately funded research institutes and investment from high-tech entrepreneurs. Whereas utopian crusaders of the nineteenth century were inspired by a broad wish to perfect society\, the technological visionaries his talk examines were also motivated by a desire to make a fortune and overcome inherent biological limits. By examining the political and social context of several exploratory technologies and the communities of the scientists\, technologists\, and futurists who advocated them\, a clearer understanding of how we view modern technological utopias emerges.\njwil 01.xii.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/from-space-colonies-to-nanobots-to-xanadu-californias-technological-enthusiasts-1970-1990/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100104T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100104T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112811Z UID:10001754-1262563200-1262563200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Classes start today DESCRIPTION:Classes begin today. Visit the link below for the academic calendar of your choice.\nHistory students who have a section meeting time before the lecture meets should attend their section anyway. \nPlease see our News announcement about waitlists for instructions on how to sign up on an electronic waiting list for full classes.\nhttps://waitlist.ucsb.edu/ \nhm 12/18/09; 12/29 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/classes-start-today-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100111T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100111T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001759-1263168000-1263168000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Discussion of the Publishing Process DESCRIPTION:Susan Ferber\, the executive editor of Oxford University Press\, will talk on the nuts and bolts of the publishing process\, with plenty of time for questions. Light refreshments will be served.\nPlease note that the time was changed (originally 12 noon). \nhm 1/3/10; 1/4 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/discussion-of-the-publishing-process/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100111T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100111T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001760-1263168000-1263168000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Letters\, Bodies\, and Crimes: Love Letters and the Anatomy of Sentiment in Northern Mexico\, 1876-1929 DESCRIPTION:As perhaps no other field of inquiry\, the history of emotion\, especially romantic love\, seems dominated\, almost premised upon\, a search for attributes experiencing some sort of prolonged “rise” (and never “fall”). Romantic love has been the scale used to chart\, variously\, the rise of the civilizing process (as in the work of Norbert Elias); the rise of emotional self-control (as in the work of Peter and Carol Stearns); the rise of sentimentality; the rise of “American individualism” (as in Karen Lystra’s book\, Searching the Heart); and the rise and/or spread of intimacy (as in Stephanie Coontz’s work\, Marriage\, A History). Yet another rise\, this time of introspection and the quest for self\, is the dominant concern of Volume IV of A History of Private Life\, where Alain Corbin’s emphasis on the increasing need for self-scrutiny and for the development of techniques of self-comprehension\, leads him to stress the importance of writing (as in private diaries and letters\, a point to which I want to return).\nInstead of contributing to such teleologies (or adding another of my own)\, I’d like to begin with a different premise\, one that stresses the historicity of romantic love (and emotion more generally). Many of the contributors to Cuidado con el corazón: Los usos amorosos en el México moderno (INAH\, 1995)\, published more than ten years ago\, for example\, insist on the importance of studying what they refer to as the norms of romantic morality in specific regional and temporal contexts. In common with more recent anthropological work concerned with the relationship between love and social and cultural change in places like Nepal and rural China\, the goal becomes understanding how emotions accrue meanings only through specific interactions\, in particular places\, and at given moments of time\, creating dominant (and not so dominant) “structures of feeling”that come to characterize any given era (making periodization of such eras a problem for investigation rather than assumed to follow divisions based on traditional political criteria). What I’d like to do in my talk is to look briefly at love letters\, one of the means by which a history of emotion\, especially romantic love\, might be undertaken. \nWilliam E. French is associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia. He is the past director of the Latin American Studies Programme at that institution. He is the author of A Peaceful and Working People: Manners\, Morals\, and Class Formation in Northern Mexico (1996) and coeditor of Rituals of Rule\, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico (1994) and Gender\, Sexuality\, and Power in Latin America since Independence (2007). He has published articles in the Hispanic American Historical Review and the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and contributed to the Oxford History of Mexico. He is currently completing a book on love letters\, diaries\, and courtship in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico. \nhm 1/4/10; 1/5 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/letters-bodies-and-crimes-love-letters-and-the-anatomy-of-sentiment-in-northern-mexico-1876-1929/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100111T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100111T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001770-1263168000-1263168000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:On the Look and Logos of Zen Art DESCRIPTION:“Everyone’s looking for something.” Some of us have found it\, or part of it\, in Zen Art\, though the types of things we look at\, the way we talk about them\, and the sorts of Zen we draw from them may be dramatically different. Indeed\, the easily joined words “Zen” and “Art” exist in dynamic tension\, grammatically as well as conceptually\, and bring to mind other intersections: “East” and “West\,” practitioner and scholar\, past and present. This paper explores some of the tensions\, or perhaps currents and cross-currents\, that accompany modern looking at and explaining Zen Art. It offers an episodic history of the formation and reception of Zen Art in modern era and reconsiders\, somewhat insistently\, figures such as Arthur Waley\, Hisamatsu Shin’ichi\, and\, even\, Murakami Takashi. \nCosponsored by he East Asian RFG \, Art History (as part of its “Thinking Through Media” series)\, History\, and the East Asia Center \nhm 1/5/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/on-the-look-and-logos-of-zen-art/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100112T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100112T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112813Z UID:10001775-1263254400-1263254400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Up the Yangtze DESCRIPTION:A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze\, navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as “The River.” The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. At the river’s edge\, a young woman says goodbye to her family as the floodwaters rise towards their small homestead. The Three Gorges Dam — contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle — provides the epic backdrop for Up the Yangtze\, a dramatic feature documentary on life inside modern China.\nSponsored by the IHC?s Oil + Water Series and the Community Environmental Council. \nhm 1/8/09/ 1/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/up-the-yangtze/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100115T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100115T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001755-1263513600-1263513600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age DESCRIPTION:Bartels is the author of Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice (1988) and Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (2008). He will also deliver a public lecture Thursday\, January 14 at 4 PM in Lane Room\, 3824 Ellison Hall.\nSponsored by the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science. \njwil 28.xii.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/unequal-democracy-the-political-economy-of-the-new-gilded-age/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100121T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100121T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001761-1264032000-1264032000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century DESCRIPTION:Wired for War – The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century\n“[P.W. Singer] has written what is likely to be the definitive work on this subject for some time to come.” Financial Times \nSenior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution\, P.W. Singer reveals how science fiction is fast becoming a reality on the battlefield in his new book Wired for War. Singer argues that a massive shift in military technology and the advent of robotic warfare is changing not just how wars are fought\, but also the politics\, economics\, laws\, and ethics that surround war itself. The author of the eerily prescient award-winning books Corporate Warriors\, about private military contractors\, and Children at War\, about child soldiers\, Singer will discuss his recent work. \nAdmission is free for UCSB students with valid UCSB ID. \nCo-presented with the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies and USCB Center for Nanotechnology in Society. \nBooks will be available for purchase and signing. \njwil 04.i.2010\, hm 1/6/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/wired-for-war-the-robotics-revolution-and-conflict-in-the-21st-century/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100121T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100121T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001764-1264032000-1264032000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:ROUNDTABLE: The Future of the University: Equity and Access DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion treating the futures of racial\, ethnic\, and economic diversity in the UC system in an era of budget crisis and fee “deregulation.” Will the University of California still serve all the people of California\, and which students or prospective students stand to be most affected as the UC system moves toward greater privatization?\nPanelists include Professors Julie Carlson (English\, UCSB and Academic Director\, Project Excel)\, Marisela Ramos (History\, Latino/a Studies\, University of the Pacific)\, Claudia Martinez (Director of Academic Preparation\, UCSB)\, and Jeffrey Stewart (Chair\, Black Studies\, UCSB). Student activists will be invited to attend and participate in post-panel discussion. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Future of the University series and the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center. \nhm 1/4/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/roundtable-the-future-of-the-university-equity-and-access/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100128T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100128T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112813Z UID:10001786-1264636800-1264636800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Methodological Challenges of Researching Postcolonial African Histories DESCRIPTION:Within the field of African history\, scholars have just begun to historicize Africa’s postcolonial era\, roughly marked by the independence of Ghana in 1957 to the present. This new endeavor presents significant methodological challenges\, since African states have not always had the means nor the political will to maintain state archives. This scenario has prompted scholars to ask whether a history of postcolonial Africa needs to explore alternative archives located outside of official state institutions\, such as non-government agencies\, popular culture productions\, and orality.\nStephan Miescher will lead a discussion about these issues in the context of the African Studies RFG’s 2009-10 theme of “Performance\, Orality\, and the Postcolonial State.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s African Studies RFG. \nhm 1/20/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-methodological-challenges-of-researching-postcolonial-african-histories/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100129T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100129T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001756-1264723200-1264723200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Importance of Hubert Harrison (1883-1927): The Voice of Harlem Radicalism and an Intellectual/Activist Ahead of His Time DESCRIPTION:Perry is a long-time union activist and editor for the National Postal Mail Handlers Union. He is the author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism\, 1883-1918 (2008). He edited Theodore W. Allen’s Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race (2006).\nSponsored by the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. \njwil 28.xii.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-importance-of-hubert-harrison-1883-1927-the-voice-of-harlem-radicalism-and-an-intellectualactivist-ahead-of-his-time/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100201T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100201T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001762-1264982400-1264982400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Ancient City DESCRIPTION:Participants in Professor Digeser’s 213AB research seminar (Spring 2009-Fall 2009) will make individual presentations on their research.\nSponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and the Ancient Mediterranean Studies Ph.D. Emphasis. \njwil 04.i.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-ancient-city/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100203T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100203T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112813Z UID:10001787-1265155200-1265155200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Iranian Presidential Election and the Emergence of the Green Movement DESCRIPTION:Mohammad Amjad has just returned from Iran where he was an activist in the protest movement following the Iranian elections. An expert in Iranian nuclear diplomacy and foreign policy\, he received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California\, Riverside\, in 1986/.\nSponsored by the IHC\, Center for Middle East Studies\, the Department of History\, and the Mellichamp Chair-Religious Studies Dept. For additional information call 893-4245\, or email cmes@cmes.ucsb.edu \nhm 1/30/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-iranian-presidential-election-and-the-emergence-of-the-green-movement/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100204T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100204T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001758-1265241600-1265241600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Women Sweatshop Workers: Victims of Exploitation or Agents of Change? DESCRIPTION:Quan is Associate Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center and this year’s Hull Lecturer.\nShe also speaks on Friday at 1pm in the History dept. \nCo-sponsored by the Feminist Studies\, Asian American Studies\, and the Multicultural Center. \nhm 12/30/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/women-sweatshop-workers-victims-of-exploitation-or-agents-of-change/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100205T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100205T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001757-1265328000-1265328000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Missing Link: China and Global Struggles Against Walmart DESCRIPTION:Quan is Associate Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center and this year’s Hull Lecturer.\nShe also speaks on “Women Sweatshop Workers: Victims of Exploitation or Agents of Change?” Thursday\,February 4\, 4 PM\,Multicultural Center. Co-sponsored by the Feminist Studies\, Asian American Studies\, and the Multicultural Center. \nhm 12/30/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/missing-link-china-and-global-struggles-against-walmart/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100208T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100208T000000 DTSTAMP:20260606T162247 CREATED:20150928T112813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112813Z UID:10001788-1265587200-1265587200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Stalin's Great Terror: Historic Photo Documents and Memorial Culture Today DESCRIPTION:Tomasz Kizny will present his documentary photo project that gives faces and voices to the victims of The Great Terror in the USSR (1936-38).\nFirst\, historic prison portraits of the victims with biographical notes accompanied by excerpts from diaries and private documents are shown. \nNext\, Kizny presents his recent photographs of the Soviet killing fields and the heirs of the victims in Russia to reveal the immense topography of terror and to bear witness to the atrocities of the past remaining in the present. \nTomasz Kizny is a Polish photojournalist who was a founding member of the clandestine association Dementi and author of Gulag: Life and Death inside Soviet Concentration Camps (2004). \nSponsored by the departments of Comparative Literature\, Germanic Slavic & Semitic Studies\, History\, Political Science and the IHC. \nhm 2/3/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/stalins-great-terror-historic-photo-documents-and-memorial-culture-today/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR