Drawing Twentieth-Century History: The World in Flames, a talk by Fernando Bryce Copy
2017-04-07 15:00 - 17:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Fernando Bryce’s upcoming public lecture, “Drawing Twentieth-Century History: The World in Flames” to take place Friday, April 7th in HSSB 4020 starting at 3 pm, is part of the yearlong new interdisciplinary graduate workshop “Theoretical Perspectives on War, Political Violence, Nationalism and the State” (History 291) in the History Department. After the formal talk (3:00-4:30) and a coffee break, Bryce will stay for one more hour further to discuss his work with students registered in the workshop and any other interested students and faculty. The following paper is available for discussion: Natalia Majluf, “Seeing History” (Fernando Bryce. Lima: Museo de Arte de Lima, 2011). For further reading see Rodrigo Quijano, “Present Allusion”. Fernando Bryce. Barcelona: Fundació Antoni Tàpies, 2005, or Jiménez Fernando Bryce, The Untimely Copyist, Jiménez in Artnexus 2010
Since the goal of History 291 is to tackle the problems of war and political violence, including colonialism and empire from a multiplicity of disciplinary angles, I have taken the somehow experimental step of inviting an internationally renowned artist whose remarkable visual work addresses precisely those concerns. Historians, as Michel-Trouillout pointed out, are not the only ones to provide historical narratives. Or, as Natalia Mafluf, Director of the Museum of Art of Lima, eloquently wrote:
“Bryce focuses on the grand narratives, on the century’s historical events and decisive processes: the conquests of European imperialism, the great wars, the revolutions and ideological debates of the Cold War –that is, the development of the international ideologies of communism and capitalism shaping the political struggles of the twentieth century. Bryce’s project is thus aligned with certain recurrent themes of critical studies related to culture, images, politics, politics and the formation of subjectivities in the public sphere. At the same time, his series distance themselves from the practice of academics and professional historians, who usually focus on particular problematics or on the study of complex social processes by way of narrative argumentation. His drawings nevertheless provide a different approach to historical facts; one might say that what the academic discipline of history basically focuses on explaining, is what Bryce proposes instead to show. In other words, what he discovered, very simply, was a method that allows us to see history”.
This event is co-sponsored by the History Department, the Departments of Film and Media Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, History of Art and Architecture, the Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies, and the Office of the Associate Vice-chancellor on Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy.
For more information about Fernando Bryce, please scroll down. For inquiries please write Prof. Cecilia Méndez at mendez@history.ucsb.edu

FERNANDO BRYCE (b. 1965 Lima) attended university in both Lima and Paris and lived for many years in Berlin. Currently, he lives and works in Lima and New York. His ink on paper drawings systematically re-examine the ways historical events are represented in printed media. The process, which Bryce describes as ‘mimetic analysis’ involves culling archives for print materials like advertisements, newspaper articles, and propaganda pamphlets in order to faithfully reproduce a selection of these materials, creating his own ink-on-paper “reconstructions.”
In May 2011, Bryce had his first one-person exhibition in North America at Alexander and Bonin, El Mundo en Llamas [The World in Flames] in which the expansive sets of drawings El Mundo en Llamas and Das Reich / Aufbau were shown. Drawing Modern History, a survey exhibition of his work, was on view in 2011 at the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) and traveled to Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC), Mexico City and Malba-Colección Costantini, Buenos Aires. His work was included in “Manifesta 4,”Frankfurt (2002); “8th International Istanbul Biennial,” (2003); “26th Biennial of SãoPaulo” (2004); “54th Carnegie International,” Pittsburgh (2005); “T1 – The Pantagruel Syndrome,” Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2006); “The 11th Biennale de Lyon,” (2011) ; “The 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art”, Cartagena de Indias (2014).
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FERNANDO BRYCE: “DRAWING MODERN HISTORY”
Over the past decade Fernando Bryce (Lima, 1965) has produced a vast corpus of drawings that forge new forms of representation of historical memory. His method, which he early defined with a dose of humor as “mimetic analysis”, is based on the careful copy of official documents, press images, political propaganda and advertisements so as to form large series of ink drawings that focus on power relations and their mediatization in twentieth-century history. Through the basic play of re-presentation (in the most literal sense of showing again), by copying or the simple mise en scène of documents and objects, Bryce uses appropriation, parody and irony as weapons to expose the prejudices underlying commonly accepted official discourses.
This exhibition, jointly presented by Fundación Telefónica, the Museo de Arte de Lima and the City of Lima, brings together for the first time the greater part of the artist’s most ambitious series. A significant group of Bryce’s early work is shown at Fundación Telefónica. In these drawings and paintings made between Berlin and Lima in the second half of the 1990s, the artist explores diverse approaches to the representation of the local context and its history through images drawn from the mass media. The large series of drawings presented at the Museo de Arte de Lima reveal the way in which Bryce’s project gradually acquires a programmatic character and assumes an almost encyclopedic ambition. At the turn of the millennium, his work opens up, as in concentric circles, to encompass other regions and other chapters in twentieth-century history. He centers on the printed matter of ideology to cover war and revolution, colonial exploits, imperial domination and art programs, as officially portrayed in their own graphic language. Through his drawings, Bryce literally recovers the figuration of ideology. His project engages the images of the modern world, fixed selectively to forge a genealogy of the present.
Tatiana Cuevas and Natalia Majluf, curators (2011)
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FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES
The wars and conflicts of the 20th century yielded entities like Unesco, a United Nations agency dedicated to encouraging international peace and, according to its website, “universal respect for human rights.” In his current show, the Peruvian-born artist Fernando Bryce reproduces images and text printed in Unesco’s Courier magazine between 1948 and 1954, as well as other publications devoted to promoting new aesthetic or cultural ideas.
The largest work includes 81 ink-on-paper drawings — what Mr. Bryce calls “reconstructions” — made from the Unesco Courier. Among the selections here, writers argue against racism, call for better access to education and ask how art and technology might aid peace and unity. On the opposite wall are 31 ink-on-paper reconstructions of advertisements for gallery exhibitions published from 1944 to 1947 in ARTnews, the reigning English-language contemporary art magazine of that period. In the rear gallery are 28 silk-screen prints with reproductions of images from Parisian and Latin American art magazines.
Culled from museum and library archives, Mr. Bryce’s project hints at the complications between originals and the copies. After all, art during the midcentury was often experienced — particularly by people outside urban centers — through black-and-white reproductions in magazines. The rise of abstraction as an international language in art is another concern raised by this show, since it was seen as having the ability to erase cultural differences. The gallery’s walls are filled with grand and wonderful ideas: foundations for a new and better world. The sobering fact is how familiar these problems of yesterday feel today.
Source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/arts/design/fernando-bryce-explores-midcentury-cultural-ideas.html?_r=0
For more on Fernando Bryce:

http://db-artmag.com/en/78/feature/the-artist-and-the-propaganda-machine-how-fernando-bryce-retells/
http://www.alexanderandbonin.com/sites/default/files/jimenez_artnexus_2010.pdf

"'A Toda Madre (ATM)': Migrant Dreams and Nightmares in El Norte"
2017-04-13 16:00 - 17:30 | UCSB Library Instruction & Training Room 1312 (First Floor, Mountain Side), Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106
A talk by Miroslava Chávez-García, Professor, Department of History, UCSB
Relying on dozens of personal letters exchanged among Mexican male migrants across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the 1960s, this talk by Miroslava Chávez-García (UCSB Department of History) probes migrants’ longing for economic opportunity, masculine affirmation, and emotional fulfillment. As the migrants’ correspondence illustrates, they relied on each other and the broader social networks to achieve lawful migration, employment, housing and transportation, and familiar forms of entertainment and companionship, easing their transition to the new environment and allowing them to bridge the best of both worlds. Offered as part of UCSB Reads 2017.

Honoring a Chicana Activist Dignity Warrior: The Life and Work of Alicia Escalante
2017-04-14 13:00 - 15:00 | UCSB Main Library, Pacific View Room, 8th Floor, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
A reception honoring Alicia Escalante, life-long community activist.

Please join us in recognizing the life-long activism of Alicia Escalante, the founder of the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization (ELAWRO), who recently donated her papers to the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives at the UCSB Library. Escalante organized the ELAWRO in 1967 after tiring of the indignities poor, single mothers of color like her secured at the hands of local authorities. Focused on economic justice and human dignity, Escalante’s social and political activism sheds new light on the multiple insurgencies and inter-organizational dynamics across a wide berth of movements, including welfare rights, women of color and white women’s feminist struggles, and Chicano battles for self-determination. Today, Escalante and the ELAWRO carry tremendous historical insight for the current struggles for human dignity, as they teach us the critical role of individual as well as collective, grassroots activism and leadership in furthering movements for social justice.
Speakers to include: Alicia Escalante; Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, History; & Rosie Bermudez, PhD Candidate, Chicana/o Studies. Reception to follow.

France Winddance Twine, Sociology, UCSB, “Diversity, Sexuality and Inequality in the San Francisco Tech Industry.”
2017-04-14 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Twine is the author, most recently, of Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class & Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market (2015); Girls with Guns: Firearms, Feminism, Militarism (2013); and A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy (2010). A copy of one of Twine’s recent articles on this topic, “Gender-Fluid Geek Girls: Negotiating Inequality Regimes in the Tech Industry,” can be found here.

Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster Brown Bag
2017-04-17 12:00 - 14:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster will meet periodically throughout the year for brown bag lunches to read and workshop works-in-progress from members of the research cluster.
On April 17, Elizabeth Schmidt will discuss, “Culinary Commonplacing: The Literary Value of Food Manuscripts in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain.”
Draft papers will be distributed before the event, and all participants will be invited to offer feedback to the author. Contact history-gender-cluster@history.ucsb.edu for more information or to join the Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster.

Hannah Arendt, On Truth and Lying in Politics
2017-04-17 16:00 - 18:00 | Phelps 6206, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Lecture and discussion with Prof. Susanne Lüdemann (Munich/Rutgers Univ.)
Hannah Arendt (1906 –1975) was a German-born American political theorist. She escaped Europe during the Holocaust, becoming an American citizen. Her works offer provocative reflections on the conditions of possibility for political experience, an experience that defines the human condition. Her work is deeply concerned with the questions of nationhood, totalitarianism, the status of refugees and stateless persons, and the political sphere as an autonomous domain of human practice.
Susannne Lüdemann is the Charlotte M. Craig Distinguished Visiting Professor of German at Rutgers University and is professor of German and Comparative Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany. After having received her Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg (Germany), she held research and teaching positions at Aarhus University (Denmark), at the Freie Universität Berlin, at the University of Konstanz, and at the University of Chicago. Her books include: Politics of Deconstruction. A New Introduction to Jacques Derrida (2014); Exemplarity and Singularity: Thinking Through Particulars in Literature, Philosophy, and Law (2015), co-edited with Michèle Lowrie; Der fiktive Staat. Konstruktionen des politischen Körpers in der Geschichte Europas (co-authored with A. Koschorke, T. Frank, E. Matala, 2007); Metaphern der Gesellschaft. Studien zum soziologischen und politischen Imaginären (2004); Mythos und Selbstdarstellung. Zur Poetik der Psychoanalyse (1994). Susanne Lüdemann works at the intersection of modern literature, continental philosophy, political theory, and psychoanalysis. Her current research project is a critical edition of Hannah Arendts’s unpublished lectures on Immanuel Kant. She is also preparing a monograph on Hannah Arendt and the Problem of Judgment in Modernity. The seminar will begin with a short presentation by Dr. Lüdemann, after which we will discuss the following texts by Hannah Arendt:

“Lying in Politics: Reflections on the Pentagon Papers,” in: Crises of the Republic (1972), pp. 1-47 https://monoskop.org/images/7/70/Arendt_Hannah_Crises_of_the_Republic.pdf
“Truth and Politics”, The New Yorker, Feb. 25, 1967, https://idanlandau.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/arendt-truth-and-politics.pdf

Marriage and Ritual Performance among the Servants of the Babylonian Gods
2017-04-18 12:00 - 13:30 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Talk by Bastian Still, Leiden University
With more than 50,000 legal-administrative cuneiform tablets, the so-called Neo-
Babylonian Period (c. 625-484 BCE) is one of the best-documented periods in the
history of Mesopotamia, the region between Tigris and Euphrates. Unfortunately,
this invaluable and very rich material rarely finds use in wider social-historical
discourses, as cuneiform specialists still engage predominantly in conventional
investigations of philological, juridical and economic nature. Attempts to further the
field of Assyriology by providing much needed social perspectives are still strikingly
missing with the result that the complex fabric of this ancient society as a whole
remains a poorly understood subject of research – this is particularly obvious in the
study of Babylonian marriage.
This talk presents a novel approach to marriage in Babylonian society of the
mid-first millennium BCE, based on a combination of social network analysis,
sociological theory and anthropological studies. Focusing on priests in the city of Borsippa,
the talk reveals how marriage practices helped shape not only the social order of the community but also the daily cult activities of the temple of Borsippa.

Let us go upon the Acropolis: John Wesley Gilbert in Greece, September 1890-April 1891
2017-04-19 16:00 - 17:30 | UCSB Library Instruction & Training Room 1312 (First Floor, Mountain Side), Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106
Talk by John W.I. Lee, UCSB History Department

John Wesley Gilbert (ca. 1863-1923) was born in Hephzibah, Georgia. He attended Paine College (Augusta, Georgia), then received his BA from Brown University in 1888. He was the third African American to graduate from Brown. As a Brown MA student in 1890-1891, Gilbert became the first African American to attend the fledgling American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA). The ASCSA was founded in 1881 by a group of scholars from Brown, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and other American colleges as a research and teaching center for Greek archaeology, literature, and history.
Drawing on Gilbert’s own writings and other contemporary documents, this talk examines the historical significance of Gilbert’s time in Greece. During his year as a student at the American School, Gilbert traveled throughout Greece, wrote a thesis on the demes (political subdivisions) of ancient Athens, and took part in the ASCSA’s excavations at the ancient city of Eretria.
After studying in Greece, Gilbert returned to the U.S. to teach at Paine College in Augusta, Georgia. He was a leader in the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (now Christian Methodist Episcopal Church) and was an important voice for African American education and for racial equality and harmony in the U.S.
This talk is part of the ‘Black Classicism’ lecture series presented in conjunction with the “14 Black Classicists” exhibition hosted by the AD&A Museum and the UCSB Library. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Argyropoulos Endowment in Hellenic Studies, and the departments of Classics and Black Studies.

A talk by Sarah Bridger (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo) on "STEM Feminists, Social Constructivists, and Well-Meaning War Criminals: Redefining American Science in the 1970s”
2017-04-20 17:00 - 18:30 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
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Amelia Brown (University of Queensland), Maritime Religion in Ancient Greek Culture
2017-04-24 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Amelia Brown on Greek Maritime Religion

"Thinking Palestine Panel: 1967 and Beyond", Panel and Poster Exhibit
2017-04-28 16:00 - 18:30 | Unnamed Venue, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us on April 28 from 4-6:30 pm for a panel, poster exhibit, and reception for the event “Thinking Palestine: 1967 and Beyond.” The event will be at Wireframe Studio in the Music Library, Music Building 1st floor.
June 2017 will mark fifty years of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem. The anniversary makes all too evident what activists and scholars have long noted: the Israeli military occupation is not temporary. It is a defining structure of the Israeli and Palestinian political landscape.
Along with UCLA and UC Berkeley, UCSB is hosting a day of commemoration that will include a panel, a poster exhibit, and a reception. The panel, including Felice Blake, Richard Falk, Lisa Hajjar, and Sherene Seikaly, seeks to build on decades of critical thinking and political organizing around Palestine and justice more broadly. It will engage how legality, legitimacy, and history have intersected over the last half a century. The discussant for the panel is Jennifer Tyburczy.

Caitlin Rathe, History, UCSB, “Food Assistance Policies and the Transformation of the Public/Private Welfare State in the U.S. and Britain, 1972-1988”
2017-05-05 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
While completing her dissertation in history at UCSB, Rathe is affiliated with the Blum Center for Global Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development. She studies welfare and social policy in the twentieth century.

Dana Frank, History, UC Santa Cruz, leads an all day Op-Ed writing workshop
2017-05-06 09:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Professor Dana Frank of UC Santa Cruz will be leading an all day op-ed writing workshop on Saturday, May 6th. This workshop, offered on an annual basis by the UCSB Center for Work, Labor, and Democracy, provides faculty and students with an opportunity to hone their op-ed writing skills, translating their historical expertise into opinion pieces that speak to the present.
In addition to writing frequently for The Nation, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Huffington Post, Frank is the author of Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California’s Kitsch Monuments (2007); Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2005); and Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (1999).
If you wish to participate in this workshop, please contact Caitlin Rathe at: crathe(at)umail.ucsb.edu. There is space for 12 participants; coffee and a light lunch will be provided.

Echoes from El Pueblo Viejo
2017-05-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Alhecama Theatre, 914 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101, United States
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Gender and Sexualities Brown Bag: Sasha Coles
2017-05-08 12:00 - 14:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster will meet periodically throughout the year for brown bag lunches to read and workshop works-in-progress from members of the research cluster.
On May 8, Sasha Coles will discuss “A Nation’s Wealth Surrounds a Worm”: Mormonism, Consumer Politics, and Utah’s Silk Industry, 1860s-1906.”
Draft papers will be distributed before the event, and all participants will be invited to offer feedback to the author. Contact history-gender-cluster(at)history.ucsb.edu for more information or to join the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster.

Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture - Erika Milam on "Creatures of Cain"
2017-05-10 16:00 - 17:30 | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us on May 10, 4PM, in the McCune Conference Room for the Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture. Our guest speaker will be Erika Lorraine Milam (Princeton University) who will be giving a lecture titled Creatures of Cain: Human Nature and the Politics of Violence During the Cold War.
Human nature contains the seeds of humanity’s destruction. Or so it seemed to popular consumers of evolutionary theory in the late 1960s who maintained that the essential quality distinguishing the human animal from its simian kin lay in our capacity for murder. This startlingly pessimistic view enjoyed particular currency in the United States between 1966 and 1975. Even ten years earlier, this vision of humanity would have struck many scientists as odd. After the Second World War, liberal American biologists and anthropologists had crafted an account of humanity’s past that emphasized a common evolutionary heritage bonded through continued inter-breeding into a universal family of man. Her talk tells the story of how definitions of human nature came to grip public science with such force and why purported insights shifted, so dramatically and in such a short time, from seeing humanity as characterized by our unique capacity for reasoned cooperation to emphasizing, even lauding, our proficiency with violence.

Erika Milam is an Associate Professor of History at Princeton University where she specializes in the history of evolutionary theory. Her research explores how scientists have used animals as models for understanding human behavior, from sex to aggression. She is author of Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) and coeditor, with Robert Nye, of Scientific Masculinities (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015).
The Badash Lecture honors the late Prof. Lawrence Badash, a long-time professor in the history of science at UCSB. The lecture is made possible with generous donations from Larry’s partner Nancy Hofbauer, his former student Peter Neushel, and numerous other donors who have contributed their support to the series.
A flyer for this event is here.

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Political Science, Columbia, “How Employers Recruit Their Workers into Politics”
2017-05-12 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Hertel-Fernandez is completing a book, Politics at Work, and with Theda Skocpol is writing a study that examines the rise of the Koch political network. Visit http://www.history.ucsb.edu/labor/home for more details.

Senior Honors Research Colloquium
2017-05-19 09:00 - 16:45 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us for the annual Senior Honors Research Colloquium hosted by the Department of History. Twelve senior honors students will present their research, followed by comments from faculty respondents. Refreshments will be served, beginning at 8:45 a.m.

Leilah Danielson, History, Northern Arizona University, “Workers’ Education in the 1930s and Beyond”
2017-05-19 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Danielson is the author of American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the 20th Century (2014). Visit http://www.history.ucsb.edu/labor/home for more details on her talk.

The Politics of Rights and The 1911 Revolution in China, a talk by Xiaowei Zheng
2017-05-19 15:00 - 16:30 | HSSB 3001E, 3001E Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Workshop Theoretical Perspectives on War, Political Violence, Nationalism, and the State (His 291) is pleased to present Xiaowei Zheng, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at UCSB, who will speak about her forthcoming book with Stanford University Press, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China. The appointment is Friday May 19th from 3:00 to 4:30 pm, in HSSB 3001E.
Professor Zheng’s presentation will focus on her books’ introduction and conclusions, which can downloaded from the following links: Zheng Introduction_coded_ED Feb 3 2017, Zheng Conclusion_coded_ED Feb 3 2017
China’s 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation. Its leaders, however, were not rebellious troublemakers on the periphery of imperial order. On the contrary, they were a powerful political and economic elite deeply entrenched in local society and well-respected both for their imperially sanctioned cultural credentials and for their mastery of new ideas. The revolution they spearheaded produced a new, democratic political culture that enshrined national sovereignty, constitutionalism, and the rights of the people as indisputable principles. Based upon previously untapped Qing and Republican sources, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China is a nuanced and colorful chronicle of the revolution as it occurred in local and regional areas. Xiaowei Zheng explores the ideas that motivated the revolution, the popularization of those ideas, and their animating impact on the Chinese people at large. The focus of the book is not on the success or failure of the revolution, but rather on the transformative effect that revolution has on people and what they learn from it.
For questions about this event please contact Prof. Cecilia Méndez at mendez@history.ucsb.edu.

A Woman’s Drink? Gender & the Global History of the Tea Shop
2017-05-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
In this talk, Professor Erika Rappaport of the UCSB History Department explores how tea shops emerged in the 18th century and came to be defined as “women’s spaces” in 19th century and early 20th century Europe and North America — but as “male spaces” in parts of Africa and South Asia. These institutions helped build mass markets but also shaped the “gendered” meanings surrounding selling and drinking tea.
Original manuscripts will be on display.

Face 2 Face: Egodocuments and Microhistory - An adventure in historical thinking
2017-05-22 12:00 - 13:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Dr. Sigurdur Gylfi Magnusson, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Iceland and a Visiting Scholar all this year in the UCSB History Department, will give a talk May 22, at noon in HSSB 4020.
Dr. Magnusson brings us an expert’s interpretation of two major aspects of current European historical writing: life writing and microhistory. He will discuss the significance of the concept of gender for historical analysis, particularly on the basis of the importance of different types of egodocu-ments for the self-expression of the sexes. He will evaluate the status of the autobiography as a historical source, with some consideration of other types of life writing or egodocuments in Iceland. He will show how the form of the genre affects the sexes’ access to self-expression and how their differing ‘cultural space’ opens up opportunities for people self-creation. Dr. Magnusson views these developments in an international light. Sources of this kind and women’s perspectives are necessary to enable scholars to interpret much material that has previously defied their analysis.
THERE WILL BE FOOD.

UCSB History Associates Lecture: Things that Go Bump in the Night in Santa Barbara
2017-05-24 17:00 - 19:00 | American Red Cross Building, 2706 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105, United States
Public lecture by geologist Arthur Sylvester. See PDF below for details and registration information.
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Politics in the Age of Trump: Some Historical Perspective
2017-05-25 12:00 - 13:30 | Multicultural Center (MCC) Theater, Multicultural Center, Isla Vista, CA, 93117, United States
On Thursday, May 25, from 12:00 to 1:30 pm in the Multicultural Center Theater, the UCSB Department of History and the Center for Cold War Studies and International History will host a panel discussion entitled Politics in the Age of Trump: Some Historical Perspective.

Three UCSB historians will speak on the following topics:

Giuliana Perrone, “The Emoluments Clause: What it is, what it’s for, and why it won’t stop Trump”

Salim Yaqub, “A Truly Foreign Policy”

Nelson Lichtenstein, “Trump is a Distraction: The Action is in Congress–and the Country”

The panel discussion is free and open to the public; a flyer is attached.

Delicious refreshments will be served.
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Graduate Student Colloquium: Isabella Gabrovsky on "Rethinking Britain" and Mario Tumen on "Decolonization of Taxation in Peru"
2017-05-26 15:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Workshop on Theoretical Perspectives on War, Political Violence, Nationalism and the State (History 291) is pleased to invite you to its final open presentation and discussion this Friday May 26 from 3:00 to 5:30 pm in HSSB 4020. Two graduate students, Isabella Gabrovsky and Mario Tumen, will be presenting their work in progress on Britain and Peru. Please, join the conversation. Their papers can be downloaded from the links below. Everybody is welcome!
“Rethinking Britain: An English identity Crisis in the Era of Devolution.”
By Isabella Gabrovsky. PhD student, Political Science Department, UCSB.
This paper (Gabrovsky Rethinking Britain rev) seeks to explore the rise of nationalist movements in the UK, how they differfrom the global rise of the far-right, and what changes in Westminster we might expect as a result. While the leftist Scottish National Party surged to become the second largest party in the UK, there has been a rise of right-wing nationalist groups in England such as the UK Independence Party. Analysis of historical context will shed light on how these two diametrically opposed political ideologies expanded simultaneously. This is seen in the psephological maps of the 2015 General Election and the Brexit referendum. The current political climate in the UK, where two separate nationalist movements are in power, is unprecedented and more importantly, unsustainable. The policies that arise during this time will determine not only what role the UK will play on a global stage, but also, if the UK will exist as a unitary state in the near future. There is a significant gap in the current political literature deconstructing the motivations behind these nationalist movements. This paper will address that void, asses the potential political ramifications, and provide possible policy prescriptions. Isabella Gabrovsky currently is a PhD student at UCSB in the Political Science department. She has previously worked in the Scottish Parliament.

“Decolonization of Taxation: Indigenous Peasants and the Civil War of 1895 in Peru”
By Mario Tumen. PhD student, History Department, UCSB
By looking at the civil war, or the “Revolution of 1895” as it happened in the department of Ancash, Peru, this essay ( Tumen, Decolonization of Taxation) analyzes the role indigenous peasants played in the abolition of the contribución personal, a tax they had paid since colonial times. Through war, they exercised their citizenship and influenced the distribution of power within the state. Yet, the largest peasant insurrection of the nineteenth century, the Atusparia Rebellion, had shaken social order in the department ten years before. I argue that resilient efforts to abolish the contribución personal in 8 Ancash date back to 1885 and continued in the period leading up to Revolution of 1895.
Everybody is welcome, please spread the word!
* * Coffee will be served.
For questions or comments, please contact prof. Cecilia Méndez at mendez@history.ucsb.edu

Healing in Rwanda: Dealing with Legacies of the 1994 Genocide, presentation by Emmanuel Habimana
2017-06-01 14:00 - 15:15 | TD-W 1701, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
What would it take you to forgive the murder of your family? What would you do if you had to choose between your life and those of 400 children? How would you redefine family if you were the only survivor in yours? And how would you react when the people who tried to exterminate your people were released from prison and returned to your community? These are some of the questions Emmanuel Habimana addresses in his documentary film Komora: To Heal.
Emmanuel Habimana is a filmmaker, public speaker and educational activist from Kigali, Rwanda. After surviving the 1994 Rwanda genocide, he became a youth organizer in Kigali, where he assisted fellow orphans of the genocide. He was trained in the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission, and is currently studying film production in Los Angeles.

Undergraduate Policy History Research Symposium
2017-06-02 10:00 - 15:30 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us for the annual Undergraduate Policy History Research Symposium hosted by the Department of History. Twelve students will present their research, followed by comments from faculty respondents. This annual event is not to be missed! A copy of the poster can be downloaded here.

Book Launch: The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands by Verónica Castillo-Muñoz
2017-06-02 18:00 - 20:00 | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Book Launch:
The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands
Featuring:
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Associate Professor of History, UCLA
Paul Spickard, Professor of History, UCSB
and:
Veronica Castillo Munoz, Assistant Professor of History, UCSB

Gender and Sexualities Brown Bag: Julie Johnson
2017-06-05 14:00 - 16:00 | HSSB 3001E, 3001E Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster meets periodically throughout the year for brown bag lunches to read and workshop works-in-progress from members of the research cluster.
On June 5, Julie Johnson will discuss “A Woman’s Business: Branding Marie Stopes 1918-1939.”
Image: Marie Stopes with Clinic Midwives, London, 1921
(courtesy of Marie Stopes International www.mariestopes.org)
Draft papers will be distributed before the event, and all participants will be invited to offer feedback to the author. Contact history-gender-cluster(at)history.ucsb.edu for more information or to join the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster.

Magic in Ancient Egypt
2017-06-05 16:00 - 17:00 | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
