Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium
2018-05-18 09:30 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Honors Student and Mentor with Thesis Poster
This Friday from 9:30am to 2:45pm nine students from the 2017-18 History Senior Honors Seminar will present the results of their research in a conference-panel format, with professors commenting afterwards. Everyone is invited!
Program:
Panel 1, 9:30-11am: Public Policies’ Effects on People’s Lives

Halley Thiel, “’There is Power in the Blood:’ The Growth of the California Oil Industry and Its Resistance to Standard Oil”
Mentor: Dr. Graves; comment by Dr. Martin
Penelope Fergison, “Head for the Hills: Race and Property Value in Oakland”
Mentor: Prof. Perrone; comment by Prof Lichtenstein
Sasha Bates, “Ignoring Atrocities: The Reagan Administration Funding the Salvadoran Government, 1981-1984”
Mentor: Prof. Yaqub; comment by Prof. Bergstrom

Panel 2, 11:15-12:45: Individual Agency in Policy Formation

Milo Schaberg, “Nuclear Semiotics: Thomas Sebeok and the ‘Atomic Priesthood’”
Mentor: Prof. Aronova; comment by Prof. McCray
Avery Barboza, “A Sixteenth Century Cold War: England, Spain, and John Hawkins”
Mentor: Prof. McGee; comment by Prof. Covo
Amanda Krstic, “Age of Quarrel: Slavery and Diplomacy in Maryland in the
Age of Atlantic Revolutions”
Mentor: Prof. Covo; comment by Prof. Perrone

Lunch break, 12:45-1:15 (will be provided for all participants)
Panel 3, 1:15-2:45: Culture’s Effects on Life and Politics

Megan Lucas, “Bluestockings on Campus: Women at Smith College and Vassar College in the Nineteenth Century”
Mentor: Dr. Case; comment by Prof. Chavez-Garcia
Jessica Kanter, “Historiographies of Colonial Rule: Italian Fascists in Libya and the British in Zimbabwe”
Mentor: Prof. Chikowero; comment by Ross Melczer
Zingha Foma, “The Origin of Dutch African Prints: Tracing African Culture, Politics and History through Textile and Dress Practices”
Mentor: Prof. Spickard; comment by Prof. Miescher

LAIS Graduate Student Conference: Violence, Memory, and History
2018-05-18 - 2018-05-19 | UCen
With the generous support of the History Department, UCSB will hold its first international Latin American and Iberian Studies Graduate Student Conference on May 18th and 19th, with the theme “Violence, Memory, and History”.
This interdisciplinary conference will bring together twenty-four graduate students from universities in the US and Europe, including several graduate students in the Department of History at UCSB.
The conference will take place at the UCen, at the Santa Barbara Harbor Room on Friday and the Lobero Room on Saturday.
You can download a full conference schedule and list of panels and participants by clicking here (updated).
This event is sponsored by the Graduate Division; the  College of Letters and Science; the History Department; the  Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor; and the Office of the  Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy.

"Lawyers and Legal Consciousness in Early Modern Europe: A Cultural History," a Talk by Michael P. Breen, Reed College
2018-05-17 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 4080, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
“Historians have long believed that lawyers played a central role in the dissemination of legal knowledge and the ideal of the ‘rule of law’ in early modern Europe. Recent scholarship, however, has called this view into question, emphasizing instead the ways ordinary men and women appropriated the law and its institutions for their own ends. This talk will reconsider the ways legal professionals helped mediate the development of early modern legal consciousness by examining their activities beyond the courtroom and the identities they fashioned for themselves not as legal experts, but as intellectuals, literary figures, and political actors.”

Michael P. Breen is Professor of History and Humanities and Chair of the Division of History and Social Sciences at Reed College. He is the author of Law, City, and King: Legal Culture, Municipal Politics and State Formation inEarly Modern Dijon (2007) and numerous articles on lawyers and legal culture in early modern France.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of History and French and Italian, the Early Modern Center, and the IHC.

Kathryn Sklar, History, SUNY Binghampton. “Florence Kelley and the Improbable Origins of Minimum Wage Legislation in the United States, 1887-1899.”
2018-05-11 13:00 - 15:00 | hssb 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
Kathryn Kish Sklar is Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, SUNY Binghamton. After graduating from Harvard and the University of Michigan, she taught for several years at UCLA and was Harmsworth Professor of U.S. History at Oxford University. Her books include Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work: the Rise of Women’s Political Culture, 1830-1900, (1995), Women’s Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement (2000), and Catherine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity(1973). Sklar’s paper will be available here two weeks before her talk.

Kelly Shannon, Florida Atlantic University. Book talk: "U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights"
2018-05-09 16:30 - 18:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Professor Kelly Shannon of Florida Atlantic University will speak about her new book, U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women’s Human Rights. She argues that since the late 1970s, the issue of women’s human rights in Islamic societies has become increasingly important to U.S. foreign policy. Her analysis sheds new light on U.S. identity and policy creation and alters the standard narratives of the U.S. relationship with the Muslim world.The talk is free and open to the public; delicious refreshments will be served.
The event is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Walter H. Capps Center, and the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies.

Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture – Alex Wellerstein on “Truman's Bomb”
2018-05-09 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us on May 9, 4PM, in the McCune Conference Room for the 2018 Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. Our guest speaker will be Alex Wellerstein who will be giving a lecture titled Truman’s Bomb and the Making of the Atomic Presidency.
When we think of the importance of the atomic bomb to the Truman presidency, we think of Truman’s weighty decision regarding the use of the weapon on Japan. But historians have known for decades that the narrative of “the decision to use the bomb” is largely mythical, and his actual role was mostly peripheral. But despite this, Truman did make several decisions during the war that would have vast consequences for the future of nuclear weapons, decisions that still resonate today. This talk will look at the making of the “Atomic Presidency” during the Truman administration: the regulations, norms, and procedures that invest in a single person the power to destroy the world, a power that has extraordinary relevance for us today.

Alex Wellerstein is an Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies (STS) in the College of Arts and Letters at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. He received his PhD from the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University in 2010, and has BA in History from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of “Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog,” the creator of the heavily-used nuclear weapons effects simulator website NUKEMAP, and is a regular contributor to the New Yorker’s Elements web site, among other outlets for his more popular writing.
The Badash Lecture honors the late Prof. Lawrence Badash, a long-time professor in the history of science at UCSB. The lecture is made possible with generous donations from Larry’s partner Nancy Hofbauer, his former student Peter Neushel, and numerous other donors who have contributed their support to the series.
A flyer for this event is here.

HSSB 4020
2018-05-07 11:27 | CA

Unnamed Venue
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Trinity Episcopal Church, Guild Hall
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Karpeles Manuscript Library
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