Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Senior Honors Seminar Presentations
2015-05-15 00:00 (America/Denver)
Everyone is invited to this event, at which some of our best students present the fruits of two quarters of intensive research. Please attend as many presentations or panels as you would like.
Refreshments will be available.
The event will be run in a conference panel-type format, with the following schedule:
Panel I: Contemporary Issues Around the World
9:15 Zachary Alpert, “The Failure of the United States to Render Usama Bin Laden to Justice through Diplomatic and Covert Action during his Residency in Afghanistan Prior to 9/11” (Mentor: Prof. Salim Yaqub)
Commentator: Prof. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
9:45 Andrew Farkash, “If Not Now, When?: The Histories and Legacies of Jewish Dissent from Zionism” (Mentor: Prof. Paul Spickard)
Commentator: Prof. Sherene Seikaly
10:15 Alan Chuang, ” The Rise of the Chinese Economy: Policy, Innovation and Technology” (Mentor: Prof. Richard Appelbaum)
Commentator: Prof. Lijuan Zhang
10:45 Break
Panel II: Ideas about Slavery in the 19th Century United States
11:00 Grant E. Stanton, “The Doctrine of the Declaration: Lincoln, Douglass, and The Battle Rhetorical” (Mentor: Prof. John Majewski)
Commentator: Prof. Mary Furner
11:30 Anne Kidder Osborn, “De Bow’s South: How One Periodical Reflected Education Reform in the Antebellum South” (Mentor: Prof. John Majewski)
Commentator: Jason Zeledon
12:00 Lunch (a catered buffet will be available)
Panel III: Media and Policy
12:45 Geneva Douma, “The Gendered History of Informed Consent: The Lunacy Commission and the “Treatment” of Female Mental Illness in Mid-Victorian England” (Mentor: Prof. Erika Rappoport)
Commentator: Prof. Laury Oaks
1:15 Evan Liddle, “A ‘Media Campaign’? The German Press and the Early Yugoslav Crisis (1989-1992): A Comparative Case Study of Neues Deutschland, Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Der Spiegel, and Die Süddeutsche Zeitung” (Mentor: Prof. Adrienne Edgar)
Commentator: Prof. Salim Yaqub
1:45 Adela Contreras, “The Salvadoran Revolution in the U.S.: Rufina Amaya’s Testimonies, January 1982” (Mentor: Prof. Miroslava Chavez-Garcia)
Commentator: Prof. Cecilia Méndez
2:15 Break
Panel IV: Ancient and Early Modern Borderlands
2:30 Brittany White, “Late Roman Alexandria: A Hot Mess of Identity From the Emperor to the Common Alexandrian” (Mentor: Prof. Elizabeth DePalma Digeser)
Commentator: Prof. Rose MacLean
3:00 Richard Ibarra, “Magnates, Monks and Shepherds: Power and Land in Medieval Extremadura, Spain” (Mentor: Prof. Debra Blumenthal)
Commentator: Prof. Carol Lansing
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Island of the Blue Dolphins Revisited: The Search for the True Story
2015-05-17 00:00
Recently retired, Steve was the Navy’s senior archaeologist on San Nicolas for the past 25 years. Due to this uniqueposition, he has become one of the leading experts on the Lone Woman story, the true story behind ‘Island of the Blue
Dolphins’.
During his time with the Navy, Steve oversaw the excavation of dozens of archaeological sites spanning several
thousand years of island occupation. He also has a keen interest in the history of the island and has conducted studies of
the various historic themes from sheep ranching through the Cold War. He continues to research the story of the Lone
Woman and publish his findings.
Steve’s talk will recap what is known of the true story behind the
beloved children’s novel ‘Island of the Blue Dolphins’, and will present
the latest archival and archaeological findings. Much new information
has come to light in the last few years; recently discovered Russian documents
add to our understanding of the circumstances of Lone Woman’s
abandonment, the tragic start of the story; on-going archival research into
church and census records document the history of the rest of the tribe’s
removed in 1835; and new historical research adds to our understanding
of her life in Santa Barbara, the tragic end of the story. Also highlighted
are exciting new archaeological finds that add details about her isolated
life on the island: the search to find the cave where she lived, and the
amazing discovery of a cache of artifacts that show how she lived and
survived.
Steve has walked where she walked, is one of the leading experts
on the story, and has many insights from his 25 years of experience on the
island.
Admission is $15.00 for non-members, $10.00 for SBMAL members, OMSB Docents, and students with valid ID.
All proceeds benefit the Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library and Old Mission Santa Barbara.
For more information call (805) 682-4713 or email director@sbmal.org
Reservation Form available on our website, below.
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An Industrious Mind, The Worlds of Sir Simonds D’Ewes
2015-05-18 00:00
In Promotion of Professor J. Sears McGee’s new book An Industrious Mind, The Worlds of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (Stanford University Press, 2015).With guest speaker Prof. Chris R. Kyle, Associate Professor of History, Syracuse University.
Reception to follow with light refreshments.
This is the first biography of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1602–1650), a member of England’s Long Parliament, a Puritan, historian and antiquarian. D’Ewes took the Puritan side against the supporters of King Charles I in the English Civil War. His extensive journal of the Long Parliament, together with his autobiography and correspondence, offer a uniquely comprehensive view of the life of a seventeenth-century English gentleman, his opinions, thoughts and prejudices during this tumultuous time.
D’Ewes left the most extensive archive of personal papers of any individual in early modern Europe. His life and thought before the Long Parliament are carefully analyzed, so that the mind of one of the Parliamentary opponents of King Charles I’s policies can be understood more fully than that of any other Member of Parliament. Although conservative in social and political terms, D’Ewes’s Puritanism prevented him from joining his Royalist younger brother Richard during the civil war that began in 1642.
D’Ewes collected one of the largest private libraries of books and manuscripts in England in his era and used them to pursue historical and antiquarian research. He followed news of national and international events voraciously and conveyed his opinions of them to his friends in many hundreds of letters. McGee’s biography is the first thorough exploration of the life and ideas of this extraordinary observer, offering fresh insight into this pivotal time in European history.
Copies will be available for signing and purchase. (Cash or check only)
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Stanley Kubrick's classic World War I film "Paths of Glory" (1957), starring Kirk Douglas.
2015-05-19 00:00
The UCSB History Department and the Center for Cold War Studies and International History will show Stanley Kubrick’s classic World War I film “Paths of Glory” (1957), about the court-martialing of French soldiers who refuse to continue a suicidal assault.
In addition to watching the movie, we will hear expert commentary by Prof. Ross Melnick of the UCSB Department of Film & Media Studies and Prof. Jack Talbott of the UCSB Department of History. They will briefly discuss the significance of the film and the historical events on which it is loosely based.
Everyone is invited to attend.
hm 5/14/15

The Form and Content of Suffering: Humanitarian Knowledge and Genocide in the Early 20th Century Middle East
2015-05-26 00:00
Debates about the intertwined nature of humanity, human rights and humanitarianism have brought historians into new fields bridging social, international, legal and colonial history. Keith David Watenpaugh’s book Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism (University of California, 2015) contributes to this debate from the unique perspective of the First World War and its aftermath in the Middle East. In this talk, he argues that international and local efforts to address mass violence against the Ottoman Empire’s ethnic minorities gave rise to a new form of conceptualizing and writing about human suffering and human need ?humanitarian knowledge. Humanitarian knowledge was not only necessary to the design and implementation of humanitarian programs for rehabilitation and relief, but was a critical element in the process of naming genocide and comprehending its vast, multigenerational consequences for humanity.
Keith David Watenpaugh is a historian and director of the UC Davis Human Rights Initiative. He is author of Being Modern in the Middle East (Princeton, 2006), and his articles have appeared in the American Historical Review, Social History, the Journal of Human Rights, Humanity, as well as Perspectives on History, the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Huffington Post.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies, the Department of History, and the Department of Global Studies
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Un(rely)able: The Technological Health Crisis of Toxic Shock Syndrome & Rely Tampons
2015-05-27 00:00
This lecture series on the biopolitics of reproduction in the US and globally is hosted by the Black Studies Colloquium, with the co-sponsorship of the department of Feminist Studies, Chicana and Chicano Studies, the History of Science Program, and the New Health, Medicine, and Care Working Group.
Speakers will explore how cultural and political commitments shape and constrain the conditions under which women and people of color control their reproductive lives and experience ownership over their own biology. This lecture series approaches these issues from a historical and ethnographic perspective, exploring the eugenics movement, progressive era public health reform, cultural politics of abortion, and the science of women’s reproductive systems.
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NEW PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MIDEAST
2015-05-27 00:00
Gershon Shafir, UCSD: “Minority Rights and Second-Class Citizenship in Israel”
Keith Watenpaugh, UC Davis: “Syrian Refugees: A Lost Generation”

with comments by UCSB faculty: Sherene Seikaly (History)
Sponsored by Prof. Alison Brysk
for the Mellichamp Chairs in 21st Century Global Dynamics
and the Orfalea Center Hub in Global Governance
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Taking Stock of the Anthropocene: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable
2015-05-28 00:00
Peter Alagona (History and Environmental Studies, UCSB)Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook (English and Comparative Literature, UCSB)
John Foran (Sociology, UCSB)
Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies, UCSB)
Jeff Hoelle (Anthropology, UCSB)
David Lea (Geology, USCB)
Christopher Walker (English, UCSB)
Faculty and graduate students will consider key issues and themes that have emerged over the course of the IHC’s year-long events series “The Anthropocene: Views from the Humanities,” Speakers will reflect upon anthropocentric concerns of their individual disciplines, and they will offer insight into the cross-disciplinary implications of the lectures, films, and debates that have taken place.
Sponsored by the IHC series The Anthropocene: Views from the Humanities.
More Information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/taking-stock-of-the-anthropocene/
hm 5/19/15

Anti-Stalinist Left Intellectuals in Chile and Argentina, 1940-1970
2015-05-29 00:00
Cody Stephens is completing a dissertation on the rise and fall of “dependency theory” in the era of the long 1960s.
Sponsored by Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy
More Information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/anti-stalinist-left/
hm 5/19/15

History Awards Ceremony
2015-06-01 00:00
The UCSB History Associates and the Department of History will honor the the recipients of this year’s student awards.
Please let Bob Ortega (bortega@hfa.ucsb.edu) know if you plan to attend this event.A reception follows this event.
A reception in HSSB 4020 follows the awards presentations.
hm 5/27/15

Egypt after the Revolution
2015-06-03 00:00
In mid-May Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, was sentenced to death, along with several other citizens. Two history faculty members with extensive experience in and knowledge of Egypt will discuss the situation.
They recently held a similar event for the International Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS) and the UCSB History Club, as reported in the 5/21/15 Daily Nexus: “UCSB Professors Discuss Historical View on ISIL .”
sponsored by the History Department’s Public History and Theory Cluster
hm 5/21/15

History Graduation Reception 2015 for all graduating history majors and their families
2015-06-14 00:00
All graduating History majors and their families are invited:
The UCSB Department of History is pleased to invite you to the annual UC Santa Barbara History Department Graduation Reception.
Please join History faculty members and your fellow students for a buffet breakfast and mingling.
This celebration is for all graduates of the 2014-2015 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) programs in History, History of Public Policy and Medieval Studies, and their families. This event prior to the commencement ceremony is an opportunity for faculty and graduates to celebrate their achievements together, and for families to meet the professors who taught their newly minted graduates. A light buffet breakfast will be provided.
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We Remember Them: Acts of Love and Compassion in Isla Vista
2015-07-19 00:00 | Unnamed Venue, CA, United States
Opening hours: Monday – Thursday 11am-4pm, until August 13 only!
Location: Building 479 (The Red Barn/Old Gym), near the bus loop by South Hall on the UCSB campus.
A space for healing and reflection, this exhibition honors the acts of love and compassion that emerged in Isla Vista and on campus after the tragedy on May 23, 2014. Through photographs of planned and unplanned memorials, artifacts and messages left at spontaneous memorial sites, and documentation of support from around the globe, the exhibition remembers those who died and were injured, and tells the story of a community empowered by its own humanity in reacting to a collective loss.
More information, including directions and flickr gallery, available at the UCSB Library We Remember Them website, as well as on the We Remember Them facebook event page.
If you want a preview, 805Productions has created a Google 360 Tour.
June 14, 2015 feature article from Noozhawk: “Exhibit Helps Isla Vista Grieve for Victims of 2014 Massacre.”
Please note that counseling is available on campus, and that you can speak with a counselor 24 hours a day, year-round at (805) 893-4411. More information is available at: UCSB Counseling Services.
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End of Summer Session A
2015-08-01 00:00
Summer Session B Classes start Monday, August 3, 2015.
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Start of Summer Session B Instruction
2015-08-03 00:00
Classes start Monday, August 3, 2015.
Sept 7: Labor Day Holiday
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End of Summer Session B
2015-09-12 00:00
Classes start Monday, August 3, 2015.
Sept 7: Labor Day Holiday
Sept. 12: End of Summer Session B
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Department of History 2015-2016 New Undergraduate Majors Meeting
2015-09-23 00:00
This is a great opportunity for the 2015-2016 new undergraduate majors and those interested in the History, Medieval Studies, and the History of Public Policy majors and the History and Labor Studies minors to meet some of the Department of History faculty. Students will make connections with faculty and with other students and learn about the Department of History. Students will learn about the national History honors society Phi Alpha Theta, the History of Public Policy major and meet the faculty advisor for this major, meet the Chair of the Department of History, meet the Director of Undergraduate Studies and other faculty members who will speak about their areas of specialty. This is an opportune time for new majors and all students interested in the Department of History to interact with faculty on a personal basis.
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Fall 2014 Instruction Begins
2015-09-24 00:00
Classes begin on Thursday, September 24, and end on Friday, December 4, 2015.
Wednesday, November 11 Veterans’ Day holiday.
November 26-27 Thanksgiving holidays
November 30 – December 4
Examinations are strongly discouraged and mandatory non-instructional activities require advance approval from the Office of Student Life.
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Beyond the New Deal Order Conference
2015-09-24 09:00 - 2015-09-26 17:00 | McCune Conference Room, Humanities & Social Sciences Building, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Conference Description:
When Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle edited The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order in 1989, they made the concept of a political and social “order” central to an interpretative framework that reperiodized U.S. history, from the election of Franklin Roosevelt, through Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and on to the Ronald Reagan’s victory in 1980. The New Deal was not just a presidential moment, but a far larger construction – a combination of ideas, policies, institutions, cultural norms and electoral dynamics – that spanned several decades and sustained a hegemonic governing regime. The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order offered a unique way to conceptualize the history of social reform and political conflict in the 20th century, and it quickly emerged as the dominant narrative within and against which a new generation of scholars have sought to investigate the foundation, evolution, limits and decline of the New Deal. More than a quarter century after the book’s appearance, the concept of a multi-decade, political-social New Deal order still pervades our historical understanding of 20th century America.

Our conference, “Beyond the New Deal Order,” draws upon the new ways of thinking about politics, ideas, economy, gender, race and ethnicity, and the U.S. role in the world that have emerged in recent historical scholarship to interrogate the foundational suppositions put forward by Fraser, Gerstle and their co-authors more than a quarter century ago. Is the concept of a New Deal order still a viable way of framing the reform impulses unleashed in the Depression decade and continuing through the 1960s and even after? How does the New Deal order fit into the larger sweep of American history, including what historian Richard Hofstader once called “the American political tradition?” And finally, did the New Deal order actually fall, or, given the demographic reconfiguration of the American electorate and the emergence of movements and coalitions organized outside or in opposition to the New Deal framework, would “transformation” rather than “fall” be a better word to describe how such an order continues to function in the 21st century?

Conference Details:

The registration fees are $20 for students and part-time workers, and $60 for those employed full time. The registration fee will cover all of the food for the conference. Please make checks payable to the Regents of the University of California and mail to: Kristoffer Smemo, Department of History, Humanities and Social Sciences Building 4000, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA, 93106-9410. Those not presenting at the conference are welcome to attend. They should register as well.

Those presenting papers should e-mail Kit Smemo (ksmemo@gmail.com) a draft by September 1. We will post them, with a password, on the Conference web page.

A block of rooms have been reserved at the Best Western Plus South Coast Inn, 5620 Calle Real, Goleta, CA 93117; phone (805) 967-3200. Please make a reservation and mention to them that you will be participating in the New Deal conference sponsored by the Department of History/Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy at UCSB. If you plan on flying, we recommend you book a flight as soon is practicable. Use the airport at Santa Barbara (SBA), which is right next to the campus. We will help coordinate transportation to and from the airport.

Conference Website:
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/new-deal/

Conference Program:
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/new-deal/wp-content/uploads/conference_schedule-revised-9-22-2015withcover.pdf

American History & Institutions Exam
2015-09-29 00:00 | Unnamed Venue, CA, United States
Well in advance of the exam date for information regarding the exam to satisfy the American History and Institutions general education requirement and to obtain the required reading list, please contact:
Monica I. Garcia, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Advisor, History
HSSB 4036
http://www.history.ucsb.edu/advisingcalendar.php
Email: migarcia@hfa.ucsb.edu

EXAM DATE AND TIME:
TUESDAY September 29, 2015
8:00-11:00am HSSB 3038

The exam is administered once per quarter during the first week.

Exploring the Assyrian Empire (9th-7th c. BC) in Iraqi Kurdistan
2015-10-05 00:00
Details forthcoming.
Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program, and the History Department.
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Gendered Borderlands
2015-10-10 10:00 - 12:00 | Huntington Library, Seaver 3 Classroom, CA, United States
Join ICW and leading scholars in the field of borderlands studies for a roundtable on the ways in which borders are shaping gender identities and opening opportunities for the renegotiation of femininity, masculinity, and family dynamics along the U.S.-Mexico Border.
Often focused on the history of capital, labor, and immigration, borderlands historians are also calling attention to the gendered dimensions of border crossing. Recent work by scholars in the field are raising and addressing questions of state power and gender and sexuality in border regions as well as the ways in which border relationships reshape gender identities or open opportunities for the renegotiation of femininity, masculinity, and family dynamics.
For more information, contact Jessica Kim at jessica.kim@csun.edu

Laura Nenzi, Researching the Margins: Challenges and Consequences of Embarking on a Microhistory Project
2015-10-13 16:00 - 17:30 | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Speaker:
Laura Nenzi (Ph.D. History, UC Santa Barbara, 2004)
Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Event Description:
Laura 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.
“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.”
Cosponsored 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.

Susan Levine, "The Moral Challenge of Abundance": Humanitarianism and the Rise of the Food Aid Complex after World War II
2015-10-16 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Speaker:
Susan Levine
Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago

Event Description:
The Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy inaugurates the fall workshop series with a talk on October 16 by Susan Levine, Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She offers a paper, “‘The Moral Challenge of Abundance’: Humanitarianism and the Rise of the Food Aid Complex after World War II.” Her most recent book is School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America’s Favorite Welfare Program (2010). Her presentation takes place on Friday, October 16 at 1 p.m. in Humanities and Social Science Building Room 4041 on the UCSB campus.

A copy of Professor Levine’s paper can be found at her talk announcement here: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/labor/news/event/412
A light lunch will be served.

Current Immigration Crises in Historical Perspective
2015-10-16 16:30 - 18:00 | McCune Conference Room, Humanities & Social Sciences Building, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
The History Department will be hosting a panel for this year’s annual Parents’ and Family Weekend titled “Current Immigration Crises in Historical Perspective.” The panelists will be Adam Sabra, Salim Yaqub, Harold Marcuse, and Verónica Castillo-Muñoz. See below for additional information.

Carol Lansing, Did a Woman Rule the Vatican? The Scandalous History of Pope Joan
2015-10-18 16:00 - 19:00 | Trinity Episcopal Church, Guild Hall, 1500 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Speaker:
Carol Lansing is a professor of medieval European history at UCSB. A specialist in the society, politics and culture of medieval Italy, she is the author of Power and Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy and, most recently, Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes. She is co-editor of A Companion to the Medieval World and the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim fellowship and the Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Catholic Historical Association.

Event Description:
A longstanding story has it that a woman disguised asa man became pope in 854. Accounts of her demise vary, but involve her falling off her horse during apapal procession and either dying in childbirth on the spot or being dragged off by an enraged Roman mob.The story probably dates from around 1150, when papal processions started avoiding the traditional site of her fall. In this first lecture of the new academic year, History Prof. Carol Lansing will explain the joke in these stories, exploring changes in papal ceremonial and anti-papal satire to understand Pope Joan in the context of attitudes about gender and the clergy. A wine-and-cheese reception will follow.

Event Flyer:

Dr. Masuda Hajimu, Purity and Order: Toward Social-Cultural Understandings of the Cold War World, 1950-1953
2015-10-20 16:00 - 17:15 | HSSB 4020, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Speaker:
Masuda Hajimu (family name Masuda) received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2012 and currently is Assistant Professor of history at the National University of Singapore, where he specializes in the history of Japan, student movements in Asia, decolonization, and the Cold War. He is the author of Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World (Harvard University Press, 2015) and has published articles in Diplomatic History, The Journal of Contemporary History, The Journal of Cold War Studies, and The Journal of American-East Asian Relations.

Event Description:
What was the Cold War? Professor Masuda Hajimu argues that it was more than an international confrontation between West and East blocs. It was also a social mechanism of purity and ordering at home, in the chaotic post-WWII world. The suppression of counterrevolutionaries in China, the White Terror in Taiwan, the Red Purge in Japan, McCarthyism in the United States–these were not merely end results of the Cold War, but forces that brought the Cold War into being, as ordinary people throughout the world strove to silence disagreements and restore social order under the mantle of an imagined global confrontation.

Event Flyer:

Stephanie Dalley, The Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced
2015-10-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Speaker:
Stephanie Dalley
Oxford University
Archaeological Institute of America Norton Lecturer

Event Description:
Babylon’s Hanging Garden is the only one of the original seven wonders to have been dismissed as imaginary. Neither archaeologists nor Assyriologists could find evidence for it, and the Greek sources describing it are centuries later than its supposed existence. An ingenious and detailed solution to the problem has been found at last, allowing a fact-based reconstruction of the garden, and an appreciation of the system of water management that qualified it as a world wonder.

Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the UCSB Classics and History Departments.

Thomas Maloutas, Athens in Crisis: Segregation and Social Distance
2015-10-25 14:00 - 16:00 | Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 W. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Speaker:
Thomas Maloutas
Harokopio University, Athens

Event Description:
Thomas Maloutas, Professor of Social Geography at Harokopio University in Athens, is a leading expert in cities and society. His lecture will be on social and ethnic segregation in Athens today. He will address the impact of the ongoing economic and political crisis on the city’s social geography.
A discussion will follow the lecture.
This lecture was made possible through the generosity of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and the UCSB Argyropoulos Endowment in the Hellenic Studies. For more information please contact Professor Helen Morales: hmorales@classics.ucsb.edu.

Political Theologies of Medieval and Early Modern Islam: A Workshop
2015-10-30 - 2015-10-31 | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
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.

October 30, 2015:
9:45 AM Greetings and Introduction
10:00 – 10:50 Bilal Orfali (American University of Beirut), “Mystical Poetics: Courtly Themes in Early Sufi Akhbār” (via Skype)
11:00- 11:50 Adam Sabra (University of California, Santa Barbara), “The Cosmic State: Ibn al-‘Arabi’s Political Theology”
12:00 – 12:50 Richard J. McGregor (Vanderbilt University), “Sufi Apocalypse and the Limits of Language”
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 2:50 Manuela Ceballos (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), “Speaking for Others: Sufism and the Politics of Representation in Early Modern Morocco”
3:00 – 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”
4:00 – 4:50 İlker Evrim Binbaş (Royal Holloway, University of London), “The Problem of Sovereignty in the Fifteenth Century Islamic World: The View from Ethics”
7:00 Dinner for presenters and invited guests

October 31, 2015:
10:00 – 10:50 Matthew Melvin-Koushki (University of South Carolina), “Starlord, Letterlord: Astrology and Lettrism in the Construction of Post-Mongol Persianate Imperial Ideologies”
11:00 – 11:50 A. Azfar Moin (University of Texas, Austin), “Saint Shrines as Objects of Imperial Veneration and Desecration in the Post-Mongol Empires”
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:50 Daniel Sheffield (University of Washington), “Political Theurgy: Stars and Sovereignty in the Safavid-Mughal World”
2:00 – 2:50 Kathryn Babayan (University of Michigan), “Sovereignty and Amity: Masculinity at the Safavi Court in Isfahan”
3:00 – 4:00 Concluding discussion

Sponsors:
King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
College of Letters and Sciences
Program in Medieval Studies
UCSB Department of History
