Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Early North American History Job Talk
2019-02-19 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4080, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States

Colloquium: Celebrating the Work and Pedagogy of Sharon Farmer
2019-02-16 13:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Medieval Studies Program and the Department of History are proud to sponsor a colloquium on the work and pedagogy of Sharon Farmer. The event will include presentations by six of her students exploring Professor Farmer’s areas of expertise. The event will take place on February 16th in the McCune Conference Room, and the schedule will be as follows:
1:00-2:30 I. Gender
Nicole Archambeau (Colorado State University). “Granting Access: Revealing Women’s Networks through Miraculous Healing.”
Abigail P. Dowling (Mercer University). “`Grave Prejudice against Her Honor’: The Gendered Implications of Park Break during the Revolt of the Allies of Artois, 1314-1319.”
Nancy McLoughlin (University of California, Irvine). “Imagining Saracens and Women at the Court of Charles VI.”
2:45 -4:15 II. The Church
Jessica M. Elliott (Missouri State University). “Conversion and Reversion: Crossing Boundaries between Jews and Christians in Medieval Northern France.”
Andrew Miller (DePaul University). “Persuasive Bishops: Propaganda, Performance, and Episcopal Masculinity in the Medieval Dioceses of Exeter and Lincoln.”
Tanya Stabler (Loyola University, Chicago). “Down, But Not Out, in Thirteenth-Century Paris: The Pastoral Networks of Robert of Sorbon.”
4:30-5:30 III. Main Speaker
Amy G. Remensnyder (Brown University). “Island Histories, Sea Grammar and the Multiconfessional Mediterranean: The Case of Lampedusa.”
Professor Remensnyder is the author of two books, one that spans the Atlantic to place medieval Iberia in dialogue with colonial Mexico by exploring the Virgin Mary as a symbol of conquest and conversion (La Conquistadora: The Virgin Mary at War and Peace in the Old and New Worlds, 2014), and another that focuses on high medieval monasteries and collective memory in southern France (Remembering Kings Past: Monastic Foundation Legends in Medieval Southern France, 1995). She is a co-editor of Why the Middle Ages Matter: Medieval Light on Modern Injustice(2011) and is the director of the Brown History Education Prison Project. Her professional service includes terms as a councilor of the Medieval Academy of America and as a member of the editorial boards of Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean and of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies.
She is currently working on three new projects:

An Island of Interfaith Trust in a Sea at War (a study of the way that medieval and early modern Muslim and Christian sailors and captives made the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa into an interfaith refuge during centuries of warfare between the two faiths)
Neighbors: Life in a Medieval Borderland (a microhistory based on archival documents and focusing on the network of social, sexual, cultural, economic, and military relations that, in the fifteenth century, bound the Granada Muslim town of Vera together with its Christian neighbor immediately across the frontier in Castile, Lorca)
A Global History of Captivity (a synthetic overview of the history of captivity across the world)

Professor Remensnyder’s talk will be followed by an open reception at 5:30.
See the flyer for the event here

Early North American History Job Talk
2019-02-15 15:30 - 17:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States

HYDRO SYMPOSIUM
2019-02-15 10:00 - 16:00 | SSMS 4513
Friday, February 15, 2019 | 10:00am – 4:00pm
UCSB | Annenberg Room (SSMS 4315)10:00: 10:00 Session 1: Valerie Hänsch,
R. Lane Clark, Stephan Miescher
Welcome: Stephan Miescher and
Janet Walker
Moderator: Bishnupriya Ghosh
Respondent: Javiera Barandiarán
12:15: Lunch
1:15: Session 2: Nick Estes,
Todd Darling
Moderator: Emily Roehl
Respondent: Mishuana Goeman
3:15: Closing Comments
Jéssica Malinalli Coyotecatl Contreras
Sage Gerson, Christopher McQuilkin
(Sawyer Seminar Grad Fellows)
Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective

History Club Weekly Meetings
2019-02-14 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-02-07 19:00 - 21:00 | HSSB 4020
UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions.

Wine and Cheese Professional Workshop: Navigating the Academic Job Market
2019-02-13 17:30 - 18:30 | HSSB 4041
What comes next upon graduation? What resources does the History department provide for that challenge? How have other historians achieved their “dream job” as university professors?

If these questions have crossed your mind, join us for a night of wine and delicious treats as professors Carol Lansing, Cheryl Jimenez Frei and Utathya Chattopadhyaya tell us about their experiences in job placement, give input about the current state of the job market, and share their stories in getting tenure-track positions.
Hope to see you there!

Talk by Anya Zilberstein, Concordia University: "Vegetable Diets for People and other Animals in the 18th Century"
2019-02-12 15:30 - 17:30 | HSSB 6056
In her seminar paper, “’The Chief Supper of Hogs… and Peasants who are Not Too Nice’: Vegetable Diets for People and other Animals in the Long 18th Century,” Anya Zilberstein presents her new project. She will discuss the mutual influences and broader implications of 18th-century attempts to impose dietary shifts on animals and people, by situating them in transatlantic debates about poor relief as well as experiments in the emerging food and agricultural sciences in the period. She welcomes discussion not only about the interconnections she is tracing in the past, but also their continuities with later changes in the increasingly industrialized food system as well as debates about the legitimacy and scope of government food subsidies for the poor.
Anya Zilberstein is associate professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal. She received her PhD from MIT (2007). Her first book, A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America, published by Oxford University Press in 2016, demonstrates that debates about the politics and science of climate are nothing new. Indeed, they began as early as the settlement of English colonists in North America, well before the age of industrialization. Her new project examines the history of experiments in producing and distributing cheap, high-calorie food in non-perishable forms for working people and working animals after the unprecedented expansion of British colonial territory following the Seven Years’ War.
Sponsored by the Workshop in History of Science (HIST 295TS) and the Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Career Diversity Speaker: Jim Newland, Program Manager for Strategic Planning and Recreation Services
2019-02-12 13:30 - 16:00 | HSSB 3208
Jim Newland, Program Manager for Strategic Planning & Recreation Services, California State Parks, will be speaking on Tuesday, February 12, 1:30-4pm, HSSB 3208, as part of our series on alternate careers for historians. In addition to talking about his own work as a historian within the California State Parks, he will be discussing upcoming opportunities within the park system. Within the next two years, California State Parks will be hiring eight to ten historians for full-time positions across the state. Jim will discuss the process of application and the kinds of work done by historians within the state park system. You can find more information about this here.
This Career Diversity event is part of an ongoing series to encourage graduate students and their mentors to think more broadly and creatively about the career opportunities available to people seeking PhDs in history and related fields.
If you are are a graduate student, or a mentor of a graduate students, please join us for this important and exciting talk. Delicious refreshments will be served!

Edgardo Pérez, USC: "Slavery, irreverence, and sovereignty in the revolutionary Caribbean"
2019-02-06 17:00 - 18:30 | HSSB 4020
Please join us for the next meeting of the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Edgardo Pérez, who will deliver a talk entitled “Slavery, irreverence, and sovereignty in the revolutionary Caribbean”.
The talk will be held in HSSB 4020 at 5 pm on Wednesday, February 6th, and will be followed by a small reception.
Abstract: Cartagena de Indias, on the north coast of today’s Colombia, declared independence from Spain and extended citizenship to free men of color between 1812 and 1815. Hundreds of Afro-Caribbean sailors flocked to this port town, where they obtained nominal citizenship and jobs as privateers—pirates with a license to attack Spanish shipping out at sea. Because Cartagena leaders saw their privateering policy as an “act of sovereignty,” this talk asks how exactly common sailors—the main protagonists of this story—embodied political sovereignty at sea and on land. Cartagena’s privateers throw into relief the history of sovereignty as practice; these maritime workers used irreverent talk, ambivalent political belonging, and dynamic connections with the Republic of Haiti to build the first Spanish American experiment in maritime republicanism. This untold story may thus reveal the origins of multi-ethnic, plurilingual and border-crossing citizenship.
About the Speaker: Edgardo Pérez Morales is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern California.

Book Launch and Signing by David Treuer, University of Southern California: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 to the Present
2019-02-04 17:00 - 18:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Almost from the moment it occurred, the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota was cast in the popular imagination as a point of no return, at which not only did hundreds of Lakota men, women and children perish but so, in a sense, did Native American life itself. Now David Treuer–the critically acclaimed writer, anthropologist, and journalist, himself Ojibwe from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota–brings to that mythology its long-overdue reckoning. In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer traces the rich, resilient and multi-dimensional story that Native people have been living over the past century, and adds new chapters to the story of American Indian creativity and resilience in our modern times.
Professor Treuer will be signing books at the event.

Heavenly Hermaphrodites, a Lecture by Leah DeVun
2019-02-04 14:30 - 16:00 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
DeVun Flier
This lecture examines how certain ancient and medieval thinkers claimed that “hermaphroditism” was the original condition of humanity, created by God and documented in the first chapters of Genesis. The idea that Adam was a hermaphrodite fueled medieval debates about sex and gender, as well as about human nature. In the modern world, objections to transgender and gender-nonconforming people often cite the bible, which is viewed as describing the division of humans into two distinct sexes. Historians and other scholars, I argue, should consider more carefully how Christian ideas about the sexed body emerged and developed – such histories have the power to disrupt our certainty about which sexes and genders are legitimate, natural, and deserving of human dignity.
Leah DeVun is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time (Columbia) and co-editor of Trans*Historicities (Duke), as well as articles in GLQ, WSQ, Osiris, postmedieval, Journal of the History of Ideas, and Radical History Review. Her current research interests lie in the history of science and the history of gender, sex, and sexuality in medieval and early modern Europe.

Talk by Priti Ramamurthy, University of Washington: "Feminist Commodity Chains"
2019-02-01 13:00 - 15:00 | hssb 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
A scholar of gender and globalization, Ramamurthy has conducted ethnography in the same villages in the Telangana region of southern India for three decades to examine the relationship between social reproduction of families and agricultural transformation. She is co-editor and co-author of The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization (2008).

Film showing: "In the Shadow of the Moon"
2019-01-30 19:00 - 21:00 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
2019 marks the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo program. The mission’s crewed flights began in 1968 with the first lunar circumnavigation; on July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first human to step foot on another planet. By the end of 1972 Apollo’s funding was cut and NASA’s moon explorations were over. From 1969 to 1972 there were eight crewed missions and 12 astronauts walked on the surface of the moon, exploring and doing scientific work “for the benefit of all mankind.” This award-winning documentary explores remastered archival footage and the recollections and commentary of almost every astronaut alive in 2007 regarding their participation in the Apollo program. Note the determination and awe that echoes through the memories of these unique Americans. Learn what they thought about the tumultuous decade of the 1960s and how their accomplishment seemed to bring the world together, ever so briefly. Hear what they say about humans going back to the moon and beyond, a feat that is once again on NASA’s radar. The film will be introduced by 2018/2019 Center for Cold War Studies Fellow, Christina Roberts, a PhD student in the History of Science program at UCSB. Light refreshments served.In the Shadow of the Moon-flyer

"Agrarian Quests: The Search for Comunidades and Campesinos in Rural Peru,” a lecture by Javier Puente
2019-01-30 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Abstract
The history of twentieth-century Peru is the history of the rural countryside, its governance, and the making of comunidadesand campesinosas foundational elements of a social, economic, and political landscape. Throughout a number of decades, domestic state powers and transnational capital turned lands and pastures into battlegrounds of ideas about labor, property, and modernization at large. In turn, clashing visions of power placed comunidadesand campesinosat the center of their responses to enduring uncertainties and anxieties on the economic exploitation and sociopolitical control of the country. Hacendados, engineers, intellectuals, corporations, political parties, the military, among others, contended and disputed the meaning of being a comunidadand a campesino. Ultimately, a civil war brought the search to a violent end, revealing the extent, limitations, and failures of the rural making of a nation-state.
About
JAVIER PUENTE holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University and currently serves as assistant professor of Andean history at the Instituto de Historia of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
This lecture s presented as part of the LAIS 200 graduate seminar. It is free and open to the campus community. A small reception follows the talk. Students interested in discussing further Dr. Puente’s work after the reception are encouraged to contact the LAIS Program Director at mendez@lais.ucsb.edu to get the reading materials.
*LAIS thanks the generous co-sponsorship of the Departments of History, Global Studies, and the Global Environmental Justice Project to this event.

UCSB History Associates: "Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life", talk with Jane De Hart and Laura Kalman
2019-01-26 14:30 - 16:00 | Buchanan 1910
Please join us for a talk by Jane Sherron De Hart, professor emerita of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on her new biography, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life. It is the first full life—private, public, legal, philosophical—of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one of the deepest and most profoundly transformative legal minds of our time. This book, fifteen years in the making, was written with the cooperation of Justice Ginsburg herself and based on many interviews with the justice, her husband, her children, her friends, and her associates. De Hart’s book on the Equal Rights Amendment (Sex, Gender, and the Politics of Sex: A State and a Nation , co-written with Donald G. Matthews) won the American Political Science Association’s Victoria Schuck Award for the best book on women and politics.
Professor Laura Kalman, Distinguished Professor of History at UCSB, noted legal historian, and author most recently of The Long Reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court (2017), will present a comment on de Hart’s book and its significance. Kalman’s biography of Lyndon Johnson’s friend, Abe Fortas, told the story of another famous justice of the US Supreme Court, Abe Fortas. This book won the LittletonGriswold Prize awarded by the American Historical Association for the most distinguished book on US law and society.
This event will take place in UCSB’s Buchanan Hall, Room 1910, on Jan. 26, 2019 at 2:30 pm. Discussion and a reception will follow.

Symposium "BEYOND THE SPILL: THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF OIL IN CALIFORNIA"
2019-01-24 17:00 - 2019-01-25 15:30 | Wireframe Studio and SRB Multipurpose Rm
The year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. The Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective at UCSB is excited to invite you to our upcoming symposium, BEYOND THE SPILL: THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF OIL IN CALIFORNIA, which will take place on January 24-25 at UCSB. Attached to this message you will find a poster that we would love for you to share with your colleagues, friends, and email lists. For a full schedule of symposium events and information on participants, please see our website at http://www.global.ucsb.edu/energyjustice/events.

Talk by Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: "The Layered Landscapes of Hebei and Guangxi: Mao-era History and the COnstruction of China's Agricultural Heritage"
2019-01-23 17:00 - 18:30 | SS&MS 2135
Chinese scientists, scholars, and state officials are actively engaged in a transnational movement to preserve “agricultural heritage.” But what is agricultural heritage and how does it relate to a “people’s history” of agriculture? This talk will focus on two sites where the PRC state is actively seeking to promote and preserve agricultural heritage. Both sites are famed for their spectacular agricultural terraces: one lies in the northern province of Hebei and the other in the southern province of Guangxi. Despite ethnic, cultural, and environmental differences, the two sites share some important historical experiences. In both places, people identify terracing as a form of survivial for their migrant ancestors in a new land. More recently, the two sites underwent a powerful, transformative Mao-era history that matters deeply to local people but is in danger or erasure or cooption today in the ahnds of an eco-authoritarian state. The speaker will explore these two cases to demonstrate the need for a critical historical approach: she will urge scholars to recognize the significance of the Mao era in the construction of both agricultural knowledge and the agricultural heritage paradigm, while resisting efforts to coopt that history in the service of state power.
Sigrid Schmalzer is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her first book, The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008 and won the Sharlin Memorial Award from the Social Science History Association. Her second book, Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China (Chicago, 2016) won the Joseph Levenson Prize form the Association for Asian Studies.

"Podcasting the Past: Teaching Tolerance and the Making of Queer America"
2019-01-23 15:00 - 17:00 | CITRAL Seminar Room, Library, UCSB Library, 525 UCEN Rd, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
“Podcasting the Past: Teaching Tolerance and the Making of Queer America” — History Department Gender and Sexualities Cluster

Interactive talk with Dr. Leila Rupp, Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies Leila Rupp, Department of Feminist Studies, will talk about the process of designing and co-hosting a podcast, “Queer America,” sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project. The podcast aims to help educators to integrate queer history into their curriculum.

Talk by George O'Malley: "Tracking the Intercolonial Slave Trade"
2019-01-18 13:00 - 15:00 | hssb 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
Professor Gregory O’Malley, of UC Santa Cruz, is the author of Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 (2014), a logistical study of slave trading and its economic, political, and cultural consequences. His current project, “The Intra-American Slave Trade Database” tracks more than 11,000 voyages.
A copy of his paper, co-written with UC Irvine professor Alex Borucki, can be found here.

Public History event: Career Diversity speakers
2019-01-14 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Public History program and History Graduate program are hosting two guests, Megan Bowman and Peter Bachman, to discuss their experiences teaching at independent schools. Both teach at Fintridge Preparatory School, which is in the Los Angeles area, and both are historians.
This Career Diversity event is part of an ongoing series to encourage graduate students and their mentors to think more broadly and creatively about the career opportunities available to people seeking PhDs in history and related fields.
If you are are a graduate student, or a mentor of a graduate students, please join us for this important and exciting talk. Delicious refreshments will be served!

Stuart Tyson Smith, "Playing Hounds and Jackals: Gaming, Empire, Entanglement and the International Style in the Late Bronze Age
2019-01-09 11:00 - 12:30 | HSSB 6056

Talk by Stuart McManus, Chinese University of Hong Kong: "Agency, Intersectionality, and the Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Hispanic World
2018-12-07 16:00 - 18:00 | HSSB 4080, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
How did Mediterranean culture shape life in the multiethnic global empires of Spain and Portugal? To answer this question, this talk will explore the role of the classical tradition in structuring and disseminating early modern Hispanic discourses on empire, slavery, and Christian missions with a particular focus on the ways ancient literary forms and civic practices (from the epigram to Ciceronian public speaking) were then appropriated by ethnically Iberian, indigenous, and African students of antiquity to carve out a place for themselves within this hierarchical global space. By taking a global and intersectional approach to classical reception studies, this talk makes the case that the global impact of Greece and Rome cannot be understood without reference to historically-specific constructions of race, gender, and class.

Talk by Leon Fink, Georgetown: "Neoliberalism Before Its Time? Labor and the Free Trade Ideal in the Era of the 'Great Compression.'"
2018-12-07 13:00 - 15:00 | hssb 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
Fink, the editor of LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History, is the author or editor of a dozen books. These include The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order (2014); Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World’s First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present (2011); The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South (2003); and Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment (1997).

UCSB History Associates Lecture: "Pious Postmortems: Anatomy and the Making of Saints", Professor Brad Bouley
2018-12-01 14:00 - 15:30 | Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
During the Reformation, the Catholic Church suffered a crisis in one of its oldest and most powerful institutions: belief in the saints. To support the veneration of these individuals, canonization officials turned, it would seem paradoxically, to medical science. Canon lawyers and physicians thought that medicine could be used to prove miracles. The category of supernatural was, however, a tricky one and so canon lawyers, theologians, and doctors developed a range of techniques to establish the bounds of nature. This talk examines the means used to determine the existence of the supernatural in human bodies. Surprisingly, the tools employed in the search for the holy mirror and presage many of the techniques later used by experimental scientists to establish the factuality of unusual observations.
The speaker, Brad Bouley, completed his PhD at Stanford in 2012 and taught at Penn Sate until he joined the UCSB History department in 2017. His specialty is Italian history from the 16th through the 18th centuries. Bouley studies the intersections of religious history, the history of science, and the history of food and urban provisioning. His first monograph, Pious Postmortems: Anatomy, Sanctity and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe, was published last year.
Please RSVP using this flier

Talk by Professor Bonnie Honig, Brown University: "Postures of Refusal"
2018-11-28 14:00 - 16:00 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Postures of Refusal: From Antigone to Kaepernick

How do the postures of our bodies communicate citizens’ dissidence or conformity, non-compliance or care? When Kaepernick kneels, Black Lives Matter lie down in the streets, soldiers stand at attention, and we all speak of moral fortitude as having a spine or showing spine, are these mere dramatizations and harmless metaphors? Or might they tell us something about the gendering of moral conscience? This talk will look at the significance of posture of obedience and disobedience in a variety of texts, from Sophocles’ Antigone” to Euripides’ “Bacchae,” from speeches/interviews by Muhammad Ali to photographs of Colin Kaepernick.

Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor in the departments of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) and Political Science at Brown University. She is author of Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Cornell, 1993), Democracy and the Foreigner (Princeton, 2001), Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy (Princeton, 2009), Antigone, Interrupted (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair, (Fordham University Press, 2017). She has edited or co-edited: Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (Penn State, 1995), Skepticism, Individuality and Freedom: The Reluctant Liberalism of Richard Flathman (Minnesota, 2002) the Oxford Handbook of Political Thought (Oxford, 2006) and, most recently, Politics, Theory, and Film: Critical Encounters with Lars von Trier (Oxford, 2016). She is currently at work on a new project called Theaters of Refusal, to be delivered as the Flexner lectures at Bryn Mawr College in the fall of 2017 and to be published by Harvard University Press. In 2017-18 she is serving as the Inaugural Cranor Phi Beta Kappa Scholar.

Professor Barbieri-Low Speaks on "Paradise" at Santa Barbara Museum of Art
2018-11-15 16:30 - 18:00 | Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101, United States
Professor Anthony Barbieri-Low will speak on “Visions of Immortality and Paradise in Ancient China and Egypt” as part of the Art Matters series at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. This research is part of his new book-in-progress, The Black Land and the Middle Kingdom: Comparative Perspective on Ancient Egypt and Early China. Admission is free for students with ID.

Film screening: "1968: The Year that Shaped a Generation"
2018-11-07 19:00 - 20:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
1968 Poster1968 was a pivotal year in U.S. and global history. In the United States, students protested the Vietnam War. In France, they protested university conditions and sparked worker strikes across the country. In Mexico City, they protested state violence. This was also the year when the peaceful protest known as the “Prague Spring” flourished in Czechoslovakia, when Martin Luther King planned a Poor People’s March on Washington, and when Robert Kennedy ran for president. But the backlash against all of these stirrings was fierce. King and Kennedy were gunned down. Soviet tanks crushed the Prague Spring. Disarray in the American peace movement allowed Richard Nixon to become president. This documentary combines riveting archival footage and insightful interviews—with Jesse Jackson, Barbara Ehrenreich, Carlos Fuentes, Pat Buchanan and others—to recreate an extraordinary year. The emerging picture is one of turmoil and anguish but also one of hope. The Vietnam protests ultimately led to a winding down of the war. The French uprising spurred university reforms in that country. The Prague Spring, though ground down in 1968, planted the seeds of Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution of 1989. After the screening of the film, Professor Salim Yaqub will make a brief presentation and lead a discussion.
Sponsored by the IHC and the Center for Cold War Studies and International History

Film Screening at Pollock Theater: RBG
2018-11-05 19:00 - 21:30 | Pollock Theater
Screening of the film RBG at the Pollock Theater. At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But the unique personal journey of her rise to the nation’s highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans – until now. RBG (2018) explores Ginsburg’s life and career through interviews, public appearances and archival material.

Betsy West and Julie Cohen (co-directors) will join moderator Jeannine DeLombard (English, UCSB) for a post-screening discussion. For more, see the event website here.

Parents' and Family Weekend faculty panel event: "Crossings and Boundaries"
2018-11-02 14:00 - 15:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us for our Parents’ and Family Weekend faculty panel event. The History Department faculty will discuss the ways in which boundaries—ideological, cultural, political, and intellectual—build barriers that impact the lives of ordinary people and their ability to access resources, knowledge, and power. Come join us, and bring along your family!
