Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Dead Kings and National Myths: Why myths of founding and martyrdom are important
2011-03-02 00:00 (America/Denver)
Prof. Sabrina Ramet. Professor of Political Science, The Norwegian University of Science &Technology Visiting Scholar, Northwestern University, 1 Sept 2010–31 March 2011
Location: Lane Rm, 3rd fl, Ellison Hall
Sponsored by RFG Identity.
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Communities, Development and the Cold War: The Peace Corps in South America during the 1960s.
2011-03-02 00:00
This presentation will examine the work and experiences of United States Peace Corps volunteers who served in South America during the 1960s. Paying particular attention to the interaction of volunteers with South American people, their multiple interests and contradictions and to their motivations for becoming volunteers, the talk will evaluate the way in which the global Cold War was experienced at a community level. This is part of an ongoing research project that combines both a diplomatic as well as a socio-cultural approach and incorporates non-state actors to understand the global Cold War in South America.
This is a UCSB(LAIS) and CSU-Los Angeles collaborative talk event.
It is free and open to the public.
hm 2/23/11

An Ax Falling under the Candle Light: A Royal Murder Mystery, History Writing, & the Political Culture of Song China
2011-03-02 00:00
The Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE) is known for its remarkable political stability. Yet, its very first royal succession was shrouded in mystery– murder mystery. Why did the founding emperor, Taizu, pass over his grown sons to designate his younger brother Taizong to be his heir? Or did he? Did Taizong kill his older brother Taizu, possibly with poison or an ax? This paper will discuss how the memory of the murder mystery was simultaneously hushed up and preserved during the Song, and what the subtle influence of this memory can tell us about history writing and the political culture of the Song period. And of course, the murder mystery itself will also be discussed.
Dr. Xiao-bin Ji teaches in the Department of History at UCSB.
This lecture is sponsored by the UCSB East Asia Center.
jwil 01.iii.2011

The Crisis and the Global Economy
2011-03-04 00:00
Please join us for a talk by BARRY EICHENGREEN, Economics and Political Science, UC Berkeley. “The Crisis and the Global Economy.” A former advisor to the International Monetary Fund, Eichengreen is the author of Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (2008) and Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods (2006).
The talk, and subsequent discussion, is part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work, Labor, and Political Economy, 2010-2011 lecture series.
The Winter Quarter topic is “The Financial Crisis and its Origins.”
The Colloquium meets on Friday, March 4 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building.
jmj 01/03/2011

The Jewish Odyssey: An Illustrated History
2011-03-06 00:00
Marek Halter is an international best-selling novelist, filmmaker and human rights activist.
Sponsored by the Harman P. and Sophia Taubman Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies, cosponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures, Dept. of Religious Studies, Congregation B’nai B’rith, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Hillel
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Early Hellenistic Corinth Between Antigonid Macedon and the Achaian League
2011-03-07 00:00
Corinth, like many Greek poleis (”city-states”), did not enjoy full autonomy and freedom during the Hellenistic period. Between the battles of Chaironeia (338 BC) and Cynoscephalae (197 BC), Corinth was almost continuously under the control of Antigonid Macedon, except for a brief time (243-224 BC) when it belonged to the Achaian League. This talk focuses on Corinth’s experience as a member state of the Achaian League. It scrutinizes the widely-held perception that the Corinthians enjoyed greater freedom and autonomy under the Achaian League than they had under the Macedonians.
Michael Dixon is Professor of History at the University of Southern Indiana.
This event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.
jwil 05.I.2011

Changing Values in Egyptian Burial at the End of the Late Bronze Age
2011-03-07 00:00
Egyptian 20th and 21st Dynasty (1190-945 BCE) funerary arts from Thebes find their origins within the social unrest of the Late Bronze Age. In Thebes, funerary preparations were challenged with limited burial space, scarce material resources, tomb robbery, and re-use. Surviving funerary materials reflect a variety of defensive innovations while at the same time preserving the ability of elite families to shore up social power by means of funerary displays.
The mummy is perhaps our best evidence for these defensive burial adaptations, as it was the only part of the Egyptian burial that could not be re-used by someone else and returned to the sphere of the commodity. Investments in mummification probably provided psychological security for Theban elites, with the heightened intent of perfectly preserving the flesh and bone of the deceased for eternity.
Kathlyn (Kara) Cooney is Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA.
This talk is sponsored by the Archaeology Research Focus Group, with cooperation from the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program.
jwil 23.ii.2011

Gender Studies in Kazakhstan
2011-03-07 00:00
Prof. Nazym Shedenova Dept. of Sociology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Prof. Shedenova is a founder of Gender Studies in Kazakhstan and an expert on the role of women in the Kazakhstan labor force. She has participated in a wide array of programs focused on gender in Germany, Ukraine, Hungary, United Kingdom, and India. Professor Shedenova is currently a visiting scholar at the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Sponsored by IHC RFG on Identity, Feminist Studies, and Political Science.
hm 2/28/11

Rationing Food in Wartime: Doomed to Fail?
2011-03-10 00:00
Food shortages in Occupied Europe offer a marked contrast to the experience with food rationing in the United States and Britain during World War II. Adding the French experience with rationing to comparative work on Britain and the United States offers a broader perspective on what was really important in wartime food rationing and its relative successes and failures.
Kenneth Mouré is Professor and Chair of the Department of History, University of Alberta.
This event is sponsored by the IHC Food Studies Research Focus Group.
jwil 03.iii.2011

From the Valley of the Kings to Philae: Ancient and Modern Pilgrimages
2011-03-28 00:00
Dr Cruz-Uribe will examine the role of pilgrimage in ancient Egypt, especially during Roman and Byzantine times. Using both newly-discovered and well-known Coptic and Demotic texts, he will compare the pilgrimage practices of the traditional Egyptian and Nubian populations with the practices of the contemporary Christians, investigating why the Egyptians went on pilgrimages, how the Christians began to emulate “pagan” pilgrimage practices, and the conflicts that arose between the groups over control of pilgrimage destination points.
This talk is sponsored by the Archaeology Research Focus Group with cooperation from the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program.
jwil 07.iii.2011

Spring Quarter Classes Begin
2011-03-28 00:00
Spring Quarter 2011 classes begin on Monday, March 28.
If you are enrolled in a discussion section that meets before the main lecture meets, you should still attend section that week.
See calendar link below for details.
Spring 2011 final examination schedule
hm 3/16/11

Next Generation Nano? Narratives of Synthetic Biology
2011-03-30 00:00
This talk will explore how narratives of novelty and familiarity have been routinely deployed by practitioners, analysts, and policymakers alike in synthetic biology, and what this may mean for a consideration of synthetic biology as “the new new thing” for studies of emerging technoscience.
Luis Campos is a graduate of Harvard’s History of Science Department and is now an assistant professor, focusing on the history of biology, at Drew University.

Whiskey Goes to War: American Distillers and the Politics of Food and Alcohol during WWII
2011-04-05 00:00
The invasion of Normandy, the creation of an industrial war machine, and the falling reputation of rum—how does whiskey tie them all together? Lisa Jacobson answers this question by exploring the political and cultural ramifications of domestic whiskey shortages during World War II. Contrary to the common assumption that the federal government steered clear of alcohol questions after Prohibition’s repeal, her paper shows how large distillers emerged from the war both more powerful and more distrusted thanks to delayed federal intervention on their behalf. Distillers might have scored a much-needed public relations victory when they converted their entire production to industrial alcohol to aid in the manufacture of smokeless gun powder and synthetic rubber. Their substantial reserves of aging whiskey, however, could not keep pace with rising wartime demand and the resulting liquor shortages gave way to price gouging and black markets. The distillers campaigned for (and eventually won) “liquor holidays” from war production to replenish dwindling whiskey inventories, but the state’s ambivalent response to liquor shortages and the liquor trade’s own eagerness to profit from them damaged whiskey makers’ reputation.
This paper workshop is designed to provide the author with feedback on work-in-progress. Please contact Ali Hendley at ahendley@umail.ucsb.edu to obtain a copy of the paper to read beforehand.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Food Studies RFG and the Dept. of History.
hm 3/30/11

Teach-In against Corporate Greed
2011-04-05 00:00
Faculty are invited to bring their classes.
From 1100AM to 1230PM the national teach-in will be streaming live on the
big screen. From 1230 to 200PM we will have local speakers and discussion
about the current assault on unions, students, the poor and elderly, women,
people of color, and gays. There will be a lot to talk about, but at this
point some of the key issues are these:
Corporate and particularly Wall St fraud and looting of the public via
regressive redistribution of taxation and social provision of all types: in
education, health care, public transport etc.
Efforts to rescind hard-won rights: workers’ rights to organize and bargain
collectives, women’s rights to abortion, contraception, and a variety of
health services, students’, poor people’s, and people of color’s right to
vote, gay people’s rights to marry and domestic partnership, a variety of
civil rights and liberties, and others….
In respect to these rollback efforts it is most notable that few of them
have any relationship to the US fiscal crisis, which was the supposed big
issue in the 2010 elections; where there is a significant relationship, it
usually involves worsening and deepening that crisis, for example by
cutting corporate taxes and further reducing the already limited tax burden
of the wealthy.
Although there was no advance indication that newly elected leaders were
planning this on either the federal, state, or local levels, a coordinated
national initiative is underway to undermine the Democratic Party in
advance of the 2012 elections, both by restricting its access to funds and
by curtailing the voting rights of its main constituency bases: unionized
workers, people of color, young voters, and women. None of these groups
have any significant relationship to the fiscal crisis of the state at any
level, although propaganda efforts are underway to suggest that public
sector workers, abortion rights, and such programs as HeadStart are the
sources of the problem. We are talking largely about Republican strategy
here, but it is notable that at thus far there has been little Democratic
effort to counter these assaults.
The purpose of this Teach-in is to raise consciousness on campuses across
the country about the present political crisis, and to help mobilize
students in their own (and the public) interest.
hm 3/24/11

The Anatolian Past and the Roman Beholder
2011-04-06 00:00
In Roman antiquity as much as now, the landscapes of Asia Minor were strewn with the traces of prior human habitation, from Hittite rock-cut reliefs to abandoned Urartian fortifications. Anatolian authors writing under Roman rule—notably during the second and third centuries CE—had a keen interest in exploring mythological and pseudo-historical narratives about the local past; echoing these literary concerns, the sculptural and numismatic production of cities throughout Roman Asia Minor celebrated remote foundation myths and kinship ties. But was anyone interested in manipulating material remains to imagine the Anatolian past? And were the traces of prior human habitation used to substantiate a preferred one version of local history over others? Who cared about Anatolian realia and why?
Felipe Rojas received his Ph.D. in Classics from UC Berkeley. He is a 2010-2011 postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Villa.
This event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.
jwil 09.iii.2011

The Racial Politics of Bernstein's On the Town (1944)
2011-04-07 00:00
Lecture I: An Integrated Cast in a Segregated AmericaThursday, April 7, 4 p.m., Karl Geiringer Hall (Music 1250)
On the Town (1944) was the first Broadway show of Leonard Bernstein (music), Betty Comden and Adolph Green (book and lyrics), and Jerome Robbins (choreography). It featured three sailors enjoying a one-day leave in New York City, and it did so in the midst of WWII, when the U.S. military remained firmly but contentiously segregated. A number of African Americans performed in the show’s otherwise all-white cast. Black male dancers donned sailor uniforms, and black women danced hand-in-hand with white men. This lecture explores the transgressive message and silent-but-powerful political back-story of this now-forgotten racial landmark.
Lecture II: A Japanese-American Star on Broadway during WWII
Friday, April 8, 4 p.m., Karl Geiringer Hall (Music 1250)
At the same time as On the Town contributed a chapter to the Long Civil Rights movement, it also challenged the virtual exclusion of Asians from Broadway by hiring the dancer Sono Osato as the show’s star. On the day after Pearl Harbor, Osato’s father had been arrested as an “alien enemy” and he remained on parole in Chicago when the show opened. This lecture explores the cultural complexities of Osato’s presence in On the Town .
Carol J. Oja is William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard and on the faculty of its Program in the History of American Civilization. Her Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Other titles include Copland and his World (co-edited with Judith Tick) and Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds . She is past-president of the Society for American Music, and she is completing a book tentatively titled Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War .
These lectures are sponsored by the UCSB Department of Music.
jwil 28.iii.2011

East and West: Encounters along the Silk Road
2011-04-11 00:00
Ronald Mellor is Professor of History at UCLA.
This event is sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa in cooperation with the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.
jwil 24.iii.2011

From Victory Gardens to Urban Agriculture
2011-04-13 00:00
TALK: From Victory Gardens to Urban Agriculture: Join the Garden RevolutionRose Hayden-Smith (IHC Research Fellow)
Wednesday, April 13 / 12:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Hayden-Smith will present an in-depth look at the past and present of the Victory Garden movement. This paper will review historical case studies and discuss current national policies and models as well as future work needed to sustain the Victory Garden model as part of the overall local food movement. Hayden-Smith will also discuss urban agriculture and how the local food-systems movement is addressing a wide range of challenges facing Americans today. A graduate of UCSB, Hayden-Smith is the Strategic Initiative Leader for Sustainable Food Systems for UC’s Agriculture and Natural Resources Division.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Research Fellows Program.
Website: www.victorygrower.com
More Information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/?p=4412
hm 4/6/11

International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War
2011-04-14 00:00
The GWU/UCSB/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War will be taking place here at UCSB April 14-16, 2011, in the Harbor Room, on the lower level of UCen. The conference is an annual event jointly sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History, along with affiliated Cold War centers at George Washington University and the London School of Economics. The conference rotates among the three university campuses, and this year is UCSB’s turn. Twenty-two graduate students from all over the world are taking part in the conference, presenting papers covering a wide array of topics relating to the Cold War. (See attached schedule.) It’s shaping up to be a great event, and we cordially invite you to attend.
The students’ papers have been submitted and uploaded onto a password-protected web site, and conference attendees are encouraged to read as widely in the papers as possible prior to the event. Anyone interested in attending the conference can contact me at this email address, and I will provide him or her with the url and password.
Please join us for this exciting event! The schedule is as follows:
THURSDAY, APRIL 14
5:00-8:00 pm—Orientation, Reception, and Dinner
(Including presentation by Tsuoyoshi Hasegawa on his new edited volume, The Cold War in East Asia, 1945-1989, and comment by Arne Westad, London School of Economics)
FRIDAY, APRIL 15
8:15-9:00—Breakfast
Session 1: 9:00-10:30—Nuclear Weapons
Chair: Jason Parker, Texas A & M
Mary McPartland, George Washington University
“Captured Colleagues: British Scientists’ Advice about Their German Colleagues Detained at Farm Hall, 1945-46”
Comment: Peter Westwick, University of Southern California
Anthony Crain, Ohio State University
“Neutron Diplomacy”
Comment: Hope M. Harrison, George Washington University
Jason Saltoun-Ebin, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Ronald Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative”
Comment: Peter Westwick, University of Southern California
Session 2: 10:40-12:10—Europe
Chair: Salim Yaqub, University of California, Santa Barbara
Weston Ullrich, London School of Economics
“Same as the Old Boss? U.S. Policy and the Malenkov Interregnum, 1953-1955”
Comment: Donal O’Sullivan, California State University, Northridge
Bernhard Blumenau, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
“The Other Battleground of the Cold War: The UN, West Germany, and the Struggle Against International Terrorism in the 1970s”
Comment: Hope M. Harrison, George Washington University
Una Bergmane, Institute d’Etude Politique Paris
“French, American, and German Foreign Policy Toward the Lithuanian Crisis of 1990”
Comment: Mary Sarotte, University of Southern California
12:10-1:10—Lunch
1:10-2:15 Keynote Address
Mary Sarotte, University of Southern California
“The International Legacy of 1989”
2:15-3:00—Plenary discussion on subject TBA, led by Hope M. Harrison, George Washington University
Session 3: Africa—3:15-4:45
Chair: Mhoze Chikowero, University of California, Santa Barbara
Alessandro Iandolo, Oxford University
“The Rise and Fall of the ‘Socialist Model of Development’ in West Africa, 1957-1964”
Comment: Arne Westad, London School of Economics
Jamie Miller, Cambridge University
“‘This Bastion Against Communism’: South Africa and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire, 1973-74”
Comment: Jennifer De Maio, California State University, Northridge
Nathaniel Powell, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
“Saving Mobutu: The International History of Africa’s First Peacekeeping Force”
Comment: Jennifer De Maio, California State University, Northridge
6:00 pm—Dinner at the home of Salim Yaqub
SATURDAY, APRIL 16
9:00-9:20 Breakfast
Session 4: The Arab and Muslim Worlds—9:20-10:50
Chair: Donal O’Sullivan, California State University, Northridge
Paul Baltimore, University of California, Santa Barbara
“From the Camel to the Cadillac: American Perceptions of Saudi Arabian Modernization and Consumption in the Early Cold War”
Comment: Christopher Endy, California State University, Los Angeles
Brian Lawatch, George Washington University
“American Foreign Policy in France and the Maghreb: The 1958 Sakiet Crisis and the Anglo-American Good Offices Mission”
Comment: Salim Yaqub, University of California, Santa Barbara
Hanna Jansen, University of Amsterdam
“Gorbachev’s Multipolarity: A Clash of Civilizations?”
Comment: Arne Westad, London School of Economics
Session 5: U.S. Domestic Affairs—11:00-12:30
Chair: Darlene Rivas
Amanda Schlumpberger, University of Kansas
“‘Like Landing on the Moon: African Students, the Cold War, and Civil Rights in the United States in the 1960s”
Comment: Sara Pugach, California State University, Los Angeles
Eric Fenrich, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Guns, Butter, or Rockets: The Evolution of the American Impetus during the Race to the Moon”
Comment: Tom Devine, California State University, Northridge
Rachel Winslow, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Preserving the Black Family: Transnational Adoption, Social Policy, and Race during the Vietnam War”
Comment: Christopher Endy, California State University, Los Angeles
12:30-1:15 Lunch
Session 6: East Asia—1:15-3:05
Chair: Xiaowei Zheng
Lyong Choi, London School of Economics
“The Peaceful ‘War’: The Nixon Doctrine and South Korea’s Northern policy, 1969-1971”
Comment: Toshi Hasegawa, University of California, Santa Barbara
Helen Pho, University of Texas, Austin
“The Johnson Administration, the NLF, and the Kidnapping of Gustav Hertz during the Vietnam War, 1965-1967”
Comment: Thomas Devine, California State University, Northridge
Brian Hilton, Texas A & M University
“‘A Tolerable State of Order’: The United States, Taiwan, and the Recognition of the People’s Republic of China, 1948-1979”
Comment: Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge
Anna Armentrout, University of California, Berkeley
“Containing the Cold War: The Fulbright Hearings, Veteran Experience, and Ending the War in Vietnam”
Comment: Thomas Maddux, California State University, Northridge
Session 7: Latin America and the Caribbean—3:15-4:45
Chair: Sara Pugach, California State University, Los Angeles
Jorge Rivera Marin, Cornell University
“Breaking the Covenant: The United States, Cienfuegos, and the Collapse of U.S.-Cuban Relations, 1957-1958”
Comment: Darlene Rivas, Pepperdine University
Aragorn Storm Miller, University of Texas, Austin
“Caribbean Crisis: The U.S. Struggle with Venezuela, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, 1958-1961”
Comment: Jason Parker, Texas A & M University
Ivan McLaughlin, University College Cork, Ireland
“Sheriff No More: The Vietnam Legacy in US-Nicaraguan Relations during the Carter Era”
Comment: Brian O’Neil, California State University, Long Beach
4:45-5:00—Closing Comments
hm 4/110/11

Russia and Terrorism
2011-04-14 00:00
This talk is about Russia’s historical experiences with and responses to terrorist activities.
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.
The talk is free and open to the public. Please join us for this important event!
hm 4/7/11

Government Lawyers and Bureaucratic Autonomy in the New Deal
2011-04-15 00:00
Please join us for a talk by Daniel Ernst, Georgetown University Law Center.
Earnst will speak on “Government Lawyers and Bureaucratic Autonomy in the New Deal.” He is the author of the prize-winning Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (1995) and Total War and the Law: the American Home Front in World War II. (2003)
The talk, and subsequent discussion, is part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work, Labor, and Political Economy, 2010-2011 lecture series.
The Spring Quarter series is on Worker Rights and the Law 20th Century America.
The Colloquium meets on Friday, April 15 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building.
jmj 04/09/2011

The Mountains: Representations of Italic Landscapes in the Aeneid
2011-04-15 00:00
Alessandro Barchiesi, Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Siena at Arezzo and G. and H. Spogli Professor of Italian Studies at Stanford University, holds the 2011-2012 Sather Lectureship at UC Berkeley.
Professor Barchiesi’s talk will examine representations of Italic landscapes in the Aeneid, especially wilderness, as seen in mountains and woods, and (super)natural phenomena, volcanic and sulphurous. He will discuss these images in a double perspective: on the one side ‘wild Italy’ anticipates ideas of Roman control over nature, on the other it allows the poem to be read not only as a meditation on the Italic past, but as a foundational text for Roman imperial expansion, colonial and diasporic.
This event is sponsored by the Department of Classics in cooperation with the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.
jwil 30.iii.2011

Global Politics in the 1970s: The Transformation of China
2011-04-18 00:00
This workshop is about global politics in the 1970s, focusing primarily on the transformation of China in and around that decade.
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. Both pieces are contained in the pdf file attached to this message.
Professor Westad is a highly acclaimed scholar and a dynamic and engaging teacher. Please join us for this rare opportunity to work with him up close!
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.
hm 4/10/11

Art Markets and Cultural Exchanges: New Perspectives on the Renaissance
2011-04-19 00:00
Michael North is Professor of History at the University of Greifswald in Germany. He is the 2010-2011 Fulbright Chair in German Studies at UCSB.
Professor North’s research and teaching interests include the Holy Roman Empire, the growth of consumer culture in early modern Europe, the development of German nationalism, and the conceptualization of the Baltic region as a borderland. He is the author of Material Delight and the Joy of Living: Cultural Consumption in the Age of Enlightenment in Germany (Ashgate, 2008) and Artistic and Cultural Exchanges between Europe and Asia, 1400-1900 (Ashgate, 2010).
A light lunch will be served.
Sponsored by The Medieval Studies Program, Renaissance Studies, and the Department of History. For more information contact Ed English (english(at)history.ucsb.edu).
jwil 03.iv.2011

From Victory Gardens to Urban Agriculture: Join the Garden Revolution
2011-04-20 00:00
Hayden-Smith will present an in-depth look at the past and present of theVictory Garden movement. This paper will review historical case studies and
discuss current national policies and models as well as future work needed
to sustain the Victory Garden model as part of the overall local food
movement. Hayden-Smith will also discuss urban agriculture and how the
local food-systems movement is addressing a wide range of challenges facing
Americans today. A graduate of UCSB, Hayden-Smith is the Strategic
Initiative Leader for Sustainable Food Systems for UC’s Agriculture and
Natural Resources Division.
Sponsored by the IHCâ€™s Research Fellows Program.
hm 4/18/11

Native to the Republic: Citizenship, Slum Clearance and Social Welfare in 1950s Marseille
2011-04-20 00:00
During the post-World War Two economic boom, France implemented a comprehensive urbanism program intended to modernize and rationalize the nation by putting the city, the home, and the citizen in order. During this period, France was also working out the repercussions of decolonization as families from former French colonies in Africa and Asia migrated to the metropole. Municipal technocrats and central state planners had to decide how migrant families fit into an emerging national vision for a modern France. An important feature of this vision was developing a welfare state which included the mass construction of modern housing. In the late 1950s, many migrant families began to move into these large, concrete, Le Corbusier influenced housing projects on the fringes of French cities such as Marseille. This talk will situate recent debates about the “immigrant question” in the context of the developing post-1945 welfare state. In particular, the talk will explore the broader contours of the debate through a discussion of slum clearance and re-housing practices in 1950s Marseille.
hm 4/7/11

The Language of Hip Hop
2011-04-21 00:00
A Zimbabwean born academic and musician, Dr. Farai Berefocuses on what he calls Black performativity, the performance of
Blackness as a political force and how Black performance can be
said to embody Blackness. He looks at the context of Black
performance in Africa, the United States, and the rest of the
African Diaspora. Bere received his PhD from New York University
in Performance Studies with an emphasis on African and
Afro-Diasporic music, theater, and orature. Fafi will perform
briefly after his lecture.
CO-SPONSORED BY THE AFRICAN STUDIES RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP-INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES CENTER, FRIENDS OF AFRICA, PROFESSORS PETER BLOOM, MHOZE CHIKOWERO, AND STEPHAN MIESCHER, AND THEATER AND DANCE.
hm 4/12/11

The Writing of John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676
2011-04-26 00:00
Walter Woodward, the Connecticut State Historian and Assoc. Prof. of History at the Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, will be giving this talk via Skype hookup on Tuesday, April 26, 1-2:15, in HSSB 3001E (the seminar room located in the old Religious Studies Dept office) as part of the history department colloquium series and my History 201AM seminar on Colonial America.
Woodward’s talk will touch on colonial history, history of science, and public history, as well as offer a narrative of his own development as a scholar and public history professional. Ever wondered what it would be like to be a state historian? Walter can tell you: it keeps you on your toes.
Woodward will address the process of conceiving, researching, writing, and publishing his book, Prospero’s America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676 (Omohundro Institute, UNC Press 2010). This is a study of John Winthrop Jr, the founder of New London Colony, governor of Connecticut, and a leading alchemical and medical practitioner in seventeenth-century New England.
The book itself is available at:
Amazon.com.
Or you can find a description and review of it at:
philobiblios blog.
Hope to see you there!
This program co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Program in Public Historical Studies.
hm 4/19/11

Globalization and Flexibilization: The Remaking of the Employee Relationship in the 21st Century
2011-04-29 00:00
Please join us for a talk by Katherine Stone, UCLA School of Law.
Stone will talk on “Globalization and Flexibilization: The Remaking of the Employee Relationship in the 21st Century.” She is the author of the prize-winning From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace (2004), as well as dozens of path-breaking law review essays on work and employment.
The talk, and subsequent discussion, is part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work, Labor, and Political Economy, 2010-2011 lecture series.
The Spring Quarter series is on Worker Rights and the Law 20th Century America.
The Colloquium meets on Friday, April 29 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building.
jmj 04/09/2011

The Eichmann Trial
2011-05-01 00:00
Prof. Lipstadt will present her new book The Eichmann Trial .
Reviews
“Having covered the Eichmann trial myself, I can warmly recommend Deborah Lipstadt’s important analysis of its fascinating perspectives.”
–Elie Wiesel
“A penetrating and authoritative dissection of a landmark case and its after effects.”
–Publishers Weekly
“Just in time for its fiftieth anniversary, renowned historian Deborah Lipstadt has reworked the Eichmann trial. This book is a powerfully written testimony to our ongoing fascination with the proceedings, the resonance of survivor tales, and how both changed our understanding of justice after atrocity.”
–David Gergen, professor, Harvard Kennedy School
“An excellent work of historical and political analysis by an accomplished writer. Compellingly written, it grips the reader from its opening pages. With this book, Deborah Lipstadt consolidates her standing as one of the major figures in the Jewish world today.”
–Anthony Julius, author of Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England
Book Description
Award-winning historian Deborah Lipstadt gives us a compelling reassessment of the groundbreaking trial that has become a touchstone for judicial proceedings throughout the world in which victims of genocide confront its perpetrators.
The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Tel Aviv by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on where, how, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought to justice, and the international media coverage of the trial itself, is recognized as a watershed moment in how the civilized world in general and Holocaust survivors in particular found the means to deal with the legacy of genocide on a scale that had never been seen before.
In The Eichmann Trial, award-winning historian Deborah Lipstadt gives us an overview of the trial and analyzes the dramatic effect that the testimony of survivors in a court of law–which was itself not without controversy–had on a world that had until then regularly commemorated the Holocaust but never fully understood the millions who died and the hundreds of thousands who managed to survive.
As the world continues to confront the ongoing reality of genocide and ponder the fate of those who survive it, this “trial of the century” offers a legal, moral, and political framework for coming to terms with unfathomable evil and with those who perpetrate it. In The Eichmann Trial, Lipstadt infuses a gripping narrative with historical perspective and contemporary urgency.
Description:
Award-winning historian Deborah E. Lipstadt offers a compelling reassessment of the groundbreaking trial that has become a touchstone for judicial proceedings throughout the world in which victims of genocide confront its perpetrators.
The capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Tel Aviv by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on where, how, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought to justice, and the international media coverage of the trial itself, is recognized as a watershed moment in how the civilized world in general and Holocaust survivors in particular found the means to deal with the legacy of genocide on a scale that had never been seen before.
In The Eichmann Trial, Lipstadt provides an overview of the trial and analyzes the dramatic effect that the testimony of survivors in a court of law– which was itself not without controversy– had on a world that had until then regularly commemorated the Holocaust but never fully understood the millions who died and the hundreds of thousands who managed to survive. As the world continues to confront the ongoing reality of genocide and ponder the fate of those who survive it, this “trial of the century” offers a legal, moral, and political framework for coming to terms with unfathomable evil and with those who perpetrate it. In The Eichmann Trial, Lipstadt infuses a gripping narrative with historical perspective and contemporary urgency.
Profile of Speaker:
Deborah E. Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University. Her book History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving (2005) is the story of her libel trial in London against David Irving, who sued her for calling him a Holocaust denier and right wing extremist. The book has been described as a “fascinating and meritorious work of legal–and moral–history” (Kirkus). It won the National Jewish Book Award and was a finalist for the Koret Book Award. It was ranked by the editors at Amazon.com as number four on its list of top ten history books of 2005.
The Daily Telegraph (London) declared that Lipstadt’s trial had “done for the new century what the Nuremberg tribunals or the Eichmann trial did for earlier generations.” The Times (London) described it as “history has had its day in court and scored a crushing victory.” The judge found David Irving to be a Holocaust denier, a falsifier of history, a racist, an antisemite, and a liar. Her legal battle with Irving lasted approximately six years. According to The New York Times, the trial “put an end to the pretense that Mr. Irving is anything but a self-promoting apologist for Hitler.” In July 2001 the Court of Appeal resoundingly rejected Irving’s attempt to appeal the judgment against him.
As an historical consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Lipstadt helped design the section of the Museum dedicated to the American Response to the Holocaust.
Lipstadt has been called upon by both President Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to represent the United States in several capacities. President Bush asked her to represent the White House at the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. In June 2007 President Bush appointed her to the American delegation to the OSCE (the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) conference on combating intolerance and antisemitism. President Clinton appointed her to two consecutive terms on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. She accompanied President and Mrs. Clinton on an official visit to Warsaw. President Clinton also appointed her to the United States State Department Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad. In this capacity she, together with a small group of leaders and scholars, advised Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on matters of religious persecution abroad.
Dr. Lipstadt has also written Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (1993), the first full length study of those who deny the Holocaust. The book has been translated into German and Japanese. She has also written Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust (1986). The book, an examination of how the American press covered the news of the persecution of European Jewry between the years 1933 and 1945, addresses the question “what did the American public know and when did they know it?”
She has taught at University of Washington, UCLA and Occidental College in Los Angeles. In Spring 2006 she was a Visiting Professor at the Gregorian Pontifical University in Rome. She received her B.A. from City College of New York and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University.
Lipstadt has appeared on BBC, CNN, CBS’s Sixty Minutes, NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Good Morning America, National Public Radio’s Fresh Air, PBS’s Charlie Rose Show, and the O’Reilly Factor. She is a frequent contributor to and is widely quoted in a variety of newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Times, and Chicago Tribune.
She has received numerous teaching awards including Emory’s student government association’s award for being the teacher most likely to motivate students to learn about new and unfamiliar topics and the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching award, for her courses on modern Jewish and Holocaust studies. Given to Emory’s outstanding teachers, the award is based on nominations by alumni of the professor who has had the greatest impact on them. She has received Honorary Doctorates from Yeshiva University, Bar Ilan University, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Hebrew Union College.
Sponsors:
The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara,a program of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, is cosponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures, Department of Religious Studies, Congregation B’nai B’rith, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara, and Santa Barbara Hillel. This event is also cosponsored by the Department of History at UCSB.
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