3D Reconstruction of Archaeological Sites: A Case Study of the Han Dynasty Site at Wuzhaishan
2008-11-25 00:00 (America/Denver)
Wuzhaishan, a second-century family cemetery site in Shandong Province, was the first site in China to be excavated by amateur antiquarian archaeologists in 1786, a few decades after similar excavations began at Pompeii. Excavations continued in the twentieth century by European, Japanese, and Chinese archaeologists. My approach has been to analyze finds from these excavations in the light of comparative research on similar sites elsewhere in China, to create an interactive 3D reconstruction of the entire cemetery complex.
Anthony Barbieri-Low is currently Assistant Professor of History at UCSB (faculty webpage, personal research website). He received an M.A. in Regional Studies from Harvard University in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Chinese Art and Archaeology from Princeton in 2001. His most recent book is a study of the social and economic conditions of artisans in early China, Artisans in Early Imperial China. He is currently researching early law and society of ancient China, based on excavated legal texts.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Archaeology RFG.
hm 11/12/08

Last Day of Instruction
2008-12-05 00:00
Good luck with your final exams!
hm 11/26

Classes start today
2009-01-05 00:00
Classes start Monday, January 5. You can check the dept’s course listings for any changes in room or schedule information, and for possible links to syllabi.
The link below leads to a full calendar with all Winter 2009 dates and deadlines.
hm 12/20/08

Archaeological Perspectives on the Qin Unification of China
2009-01-08 00:00
Click here for more information.
jwil 05.i.09

The Right and Labor: Politics, Ideology and Imagination
2009-01-16 00:00
This conference explores the hostility of the political right to American trade unionism, both in terms of management-labor conflict and in the world of politics, ideas, and cultural imaginings. All sessions will take place in HSSB 6020.
Visit the conference home page for more information.
This conference is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.
hm 9/22

Race, Unions and the New Inequality in Los Angeles
2009-01-23 00:00
William P. Jones is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Jones is author of The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South, and is currently writing a book titled The New Color of Class: Race and Inequality in the Service Economy. He is the author of the widely noted Nation essay, “The Labor Movement Origins of the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday.”
jwil 23.i.09

Pre-Modern Perspectives on Torture
2009-01-23 00:00
This colloquium will be held from 3:00-6:00 p.m. at the Marine Sciences Institute Auditorium (Room 1302).
Speakers:
Alison Frazier, University of Texas: “Machiavelli, Trauma, and the Scandal of the Prince.”
Kenneth Pennington, The Catholic University of America: “Women on the Rack: Three Trials.”
Comment: Lisa Hajjar, Law and Society, UCSB
For more information contact Ed English.

The Infrastructure of South-Central Los Angeles: Race, Unions and the "New Inequality"
2009-01-23 00:00
Jones is author of The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South (2005). His new book project is The New Color of Class: Race and Inequality in the Service Economy.
jwil 23.i.09

From "Get Oil Out" to "Drill Baby Drill": Offshore Oil since the 1969 Disaster
2009-01-25 00:00
This History Associates event will feature Josh Ashenmiller (PhD Furner, 2004), speaking on 40th anniversary of the Santa Barbara oil spill that triggered the modern environmental movement. He will speak in the McCune room at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 25.The event is free.
Co-sponsored by History and Environmental Studies.
hm 1/7/09

The Crisis in Gaza
2009-01-26 00:00
THE CRISIS IN GAZA IN REGIONAL & GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Speakers:
Richard Falk, Visiting Professor, Global and International Studies, UC Santa Barbara and Emeritus Professor, Princeton University UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights; Author of Achieving Human Rights (2009); Costs of War: the UN, International Law and World Order After Iraq (2008).
“Did the UN Fail in Gaza? Yes and No”
Juan Campo, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, the History of Religions, Dept. of Religious Studies & Global Studies affiliate, Editor and chief author of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Islam (February, Facts on File)
“Hamas, the Arab States, and Popular Reaction”
Salim Yaqub, Associate Professor of History at UCSB, specializing in U.S. involvement in the Middle East. Author of Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East (2004).
“The United States, Gaza, and Collective Punishment”
Nancy Gallagher, Moderator
Professor, History Dept., UCSB, Chair Middle Eastern Studies Program, Author of Quakers in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Dilemmas of NGO Humanitarian Activism (2007).
“A (Brief) Background to the Conflict”
Monday, January 26, 2009
4:00 PM
Multicultural Center Theater
Sponsored by the UCSB Department of History
This program is free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact:
(805) 893-2991
hm 1/22/09, jwil 23.i.09

Reassessing the Pantheon in Rome
2009-01-28 00:00
The Pantheon in Rome has a far more interesting and complex history than we give it credit for. Admired as a creation of almost mystical perfection, it is in reality full of interesting quirks and compromises. We know very little about the Pantheon’s history from independent sources (indeed, even its attested attribution to the emperor Hadrian is now being seriously challenged), so we must rely on the building itself to document its own past. The lecture discusses the results of an informal survey of the building’s eight-column-wide porch. This overlies the remains of a wider, ten-column porch, whose date and attribution remain very much in question. The existing pediment is full of rarely noticed eccentricities; they suggest not only unusual haste in the building’s completion, but the evident use of ill-matching components, some of which may have been intended for the abandoned (?) larger porch. Many of these eccentricities can be confirmed by a recent digital laser survey of the building undertaken by the Karman Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Bern. The Bern project offers a new tool for close analysis of the building, particularly those parts that cannot be reached physically without scaffolding.
This lecture is sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
jwil 01.x.08

1989 and the Architecture of Order
2009-01-29 00:00
Mary Sarotte, “1989 and the Architecture of Order: International Relations, German Unification, and the Competition to Lead the Post-Cold War World”
In this talk, Professor of History Mary Sarotte (University of Southern California) vividly recounts the dramatic events of 1989. Drawing on newly released documents from Washington, Moscow, Warsaw, East Berlin, Bonn, and London, Professor Sarotte shows how U.S., Soviet, British, French, West German, and East German leaders competed to advance their visions for post-Cold War Europe. The decisions they made had far-reaching consequences and helped to shape the era we inhabit today.
Mary Elise Sarotte is associate professor at the University of Southern California in the School of International Relations. She specializes in international relations in the 20th century. She is the author of Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Detente, and Ostpolitik (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) and German Military Reform and European Security (Oxford University Press, 2001). Professor Sarotte is currently working on a monograph on the history of the late Cold War.
Cosponsored by CCWS, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, and the Department of History
hm 1/15/09; 1/21; tt 1/21; jwil 23.i.09

Phi Alpha Theta
2009-01-29 00:00
Phi Alpha Theta meetings for Winter quarter 2009 are going to be Thursdays, every other week, at 5 pm in HSSB 4020. After this meeting on Thurs Jan 29, the next will be Thurs Feb 12.
hm 1/28/09

The Presidio of Santa Barbara
2009-01-31 00:00
Phi Alpha Theta (the UCSB History club) is sponsoring a free field trip to the Presidio of Santa Barbara, Saturday, January 31 at 10 am. Anne Petersen, Curator of the Presidio (and UCSB Ph.D. in history), will conduct a guided tour that includes the history of the surrounding neighborhoods. Assemble at 10 am at the Presidio Main Entrance on Canon Perdido Street, between Anacapa and Santa Barbara Streets, downtown Santa Barbara.
For directions or if you need a ride, contact Prof. Plane at plane@history.ucsb.edu.
hm 1/28/09

The Wolf and the Dragon: Empire in Ancient Rome and China
2009-02-05 00:00
Anthony Barbieri-Low (UCSB) will provide a response to Professor Scheidel’s talk.
This event is part of the core seminar of the UCSB Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information, visit the web page of the RFG.
jwil 23.i.09

Taking Games Seriously
2009-02-05 00:00
Historians documenting the expanding influences of ʻsystems thinkingʼ in the UnitedStates during the Cold War period have emphasized the role of computers in spreading the
gospel of systems to professional audiences while neglecting another simulation technology in
broader use. This presentation will examine efforts to teach systems analysis to the
communities served by the federally-organized Model Cities program of the 1960s and 1970s
using that overlooked innovation: operational games. The story of the Model Cities games
suggests new directions for the history and historiography of systems analysis and simulation.
Jennifer S. Light is Associate Professor of Communication Studies, History, and Sociology, and
Director of the Media, Technology and Society PhD program at Northwestern University. She is
the author of two books: From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems
in Cold War America (2003) and The Nature of Cities: Ecological Visions and the American
Urban Professions,1920-1960 (2009), both with Johns Hopkins University Press.
This event is made possible with support from the History of Science, Technology,
Medicine, and Environment Program (Badash Fund) and the Center for Spatial Studies.
jwil 05.i.09

The Social Life of Muslim Women's Human Rights
2009-02-11 00:00
The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies Distinguished Lecture
The concept of “Muslim women’s rights” has an extraordinarily active social life these days. It circulates across continents. It travels in and out of classrooms and government policy offices; UN forums in New York and Geneva and local women’s organizations in places like Egypt, Malaysia, and Palestine; racy television soap operas and sober mosque study groups; popular novels recognizable by the veiled women stamped on their covers and innovative model marriage contracts developed by Muslim feminists seeking equity within the religious tradition. What do we make of this intense concern with “Muslim women’s rights” and what do we make of its promiscuous travels? “Women’s rights” mean different things to women living complicated lives in villages and urban lawyers drawing seamlessly on the authority of CEDAW. What can we learn from tracking “rights talk,” as an anthropologist would, into everyday lives?
Lila Abu-Lughod is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University.
The event is sponsored by the Journal for Middle East Women’s Studies, the UCSB Center for Middle East Studies, UCSB Department of Feminist Studies, UCSB Department of History, the UCSB Divisions of Social Sciences and Humanities, the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, the UCLA Department of Women’s Studies, and the UCLA Dean of Social Sciences.
For more information contact Laura Pollick (telephone 893-4245).
jwil 08.ii.2009

The Theory of the State in Machiavelli's Political Philosophy
2009-02-12 00:00
This event is sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Program.
jwil 11.ii.09

The Seal of the Vision is Sealed from You: Esotericism and Identity in the Dead Sea Scrolls
2009-02-12 00:00
This talk is sponsored by the IHC Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.
For more information, contact Christine Thomas.
jwil 09.ii.2009

Affective Communities: The Construction of State and Nations in the Russian Empire
2009-02-17 00:00
Sponsored by the IHC research focus group on Identity Studies.
jwil 06.ii.09

"Gladiator": Film and Discussion
2009-02-18 00:00
Following the film, Professor Drake will lead a discussion about Roman history. Refreshments will be available.
For more information contact Phi Alpha Theta president Jason Smith.
jwil 16.ii.09

Social Movements, Social Rights, and the Courts in South Africa and the USA
2009-02-20 00:00
This talk is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy and the Policy History Program.
jwil 13.ii.09

Wal-Mart's Long March to China: How a Mid-American Retailer Came to Stake its Future on the Chinese Economy
2009-02-20 00:00
The Commodities and Markets research group will meet on Friday, February 20, from noon-1pm in HSSB 4041, to discuss Nelson Lichtenstein’s paper, entitled “Wal-Mart’s Long March to China: How a Mid-American Retailer Came to Stake its Future on the Chinese Economy.” Nelson will give a short introduction but we will spend most of the hour discussing the paper. All are welcome.
You can contact Lisa Jacobson, jacobson@history.ucsb.edu, for a copy of the paper.
hm 2/19/09

The Power of Disengagement: The Idea of Hermit Life in Early China
2009-02-23 00:00
Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, the East Asia Center, and the IHC East Asian Cultures Research Focus Group.
For more information call 805.893.3907.
jwil 10.ii.2009

The Evolution of the Mediterranean Diet from the Middle Ages
2009-02-23 00:00
The concept of the Mediterranean diet is a modern invention; the Middle Ages and Renaissance had some very different food values. This lecture presents a look at the recent construct and its relationship with overview of medieval and Renaissance diets. It ties the diets of the present and the past together.
Allen J. Grieco is the Lila Acheson Wallace Assistant Director for Gardens and Grounds & Scholarly Programs at Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence), Director of the M. A. Program in Food Studies at the Universita` delle Scienze Gastronomiche, and is presently a Visiting Professor in History at Harvard University. He has taught courses on the history of food at the universities of Bologna and Tours.
This lecture is sponsored by the UCSB Medieval Studies Program. For more information contact Ed English.
jwil 11.ii.09

Confronting Antisemitism in the Twenty-first Century
2009-02-23 00:00
Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSBTALK: Confronting Antisemitism in the Twenty-first Century
Robert Wistrich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Monday, February 23 / 7:30 PM
Congregation B’nai B’rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road
What are the most salient and significant features of the current offensive directed against the State of Israel and Jewish communities around the world? Robert Wistrich, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of antisemitism and modern Jewry, will examine key facets of the challenge and danger that emanates from the new antisemitism, including its connections with the global Jihad. His many publications include The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph, Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred, which became a major PBS documentary, and Hitler and the Holocaust. His latest book, A Lethal Obsession: Antisemitism, From Antiquity to the Global Jihad, will be published in the fall of 2009. Courtesy of Borders, copies of his books will be available for purchase and signing at this event. For additional information, call 893-2317.
Website: www.ihc.ucsb.edu/events/endowed/taubman.html
Sponsored by 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, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara, Congregation B’nai B’rith, and Santa Barbara Hillel. This event is also cosponsored by the Anti-Defamation League.
hm 2/11/09

Centennial Lecture of the UCSB Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
2009-02-23 00:00
Marian Wright Edelman, the founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, is the author of the bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours and eight other books. The first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she worked as counsel for the Poor People’s Campaign begun by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She is the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award. She will discuss her newest work, The Sea is So Wide and My Boat is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation.
Presented by the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, UCSB Arts & Lectures and the Critical Issues Forum titled Economic Justice – Policy and the Political Imagination.
twa 02-19-2009, jwil 19.ii.09

The Radical Legacy of Civil Rights & Feminist Movements for Contemporary Progressive Politics
2009-02-25 00:00
Barbara Ransby is Associate Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ransby published the book Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision and founded the organization “Ella’s Daughters” to advance activism in the tradition of Ella Baker (1903-1986). Baker was a grassroots organizer in the black freedom struggle who worked in predominantly male political circles that included W.E.B. DuBois, Thurgood Marshall, and Martin Luther King Jr. Ella’s Daughters embraces Ms. Baker’s political philosophy of working on multiple fronts at once, borrowing from various ideologies to make sense of the world and to fashion a transformative strategy.
This is the 2009 Hull Chair Lecture, sponsored by UCSB Feminist Studies and the UCSB Women’s Center, with co-sponsorship from the Departments of History and Black Studies, and other UCSB offices and organizations.
jwil 19.ii.09

Beyond Ethnicity and Polybius: Was the Decision of the Ptolemies to Integrate Egyptians in the Army a Good One?
2009-02-26 00:00
This talk is sponsored by the IHC Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. John Lee (UCSB) will provide a response.
For more information contact Christine Thomas.
jwil 09.ii.2009

"Triumph Over Time": Film and Discussion
2009-02-26 00:00
“Triumph Over Time: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens in Post-War Greece” (1947, 42 minutes)
In 1947, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens commissioned a 42-minute color movie to accompany its fundraising campaign. Directed by archaeologist Oscar Broneer and produced by numismatist Margaret Thompson with the aid of staff from Fox Studios, the documentary shows Greece rebounding from the horrors of World War II and the staff of the American School hard at work preparing archaeological sites for presentation to post-war tourists. The film contains footage of excavations at the Athenian Agora and ancient Corinth, mixed with scenes of everyday Greek life, and with shots of famous people, including Greece’s King Paul and Queen Frederica (film description by Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan).
“Triumph Over Time” was one of the earliest documentary films about the archaeology and ancient history of Greece. Produced during the time of the Greek Civil War (1944-1949), the film is a fascinating artifact of the early Cold War era, as well as an invaluable visual record of traditional Greek village life and of the development of American archaeology in Greece.
Professors Erickson (UCSB Classics) and Lee (UCSB History) will introduce the film and lead a discussion afterwards. Refreshments will be available. For more information contact Phi Alpha Theta president Jason Smith.
jwil 16.ii.09
