Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharine to Splenda
2011-05-04 00:00 (America/Denver) | CA
Carolyn de la Pena is a professor of American Studies.
Sponsored by the Food Studies Research Focus Group and the History Department.
hm 4/26/11

Ground Zero and Anti-Muslim Sentiments
2011-05-05 00:00
The battle over plans to build a Muslim religious center near ground zero has thrown into sharp relief anti-Muslim rhetoric that contradicts American values of religious tolerance. This panel will explore the origin of these sentiments in the context of ground zero as an emotionally-charged memorial space, and the exploitation of this history for political and ideological purposes. Maher Hathout is a Senior Advisor at the Muslim Public Affairs Council, Los Angeles; Nuha Khoury, is a professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at UCSB; and Edward Linenthal is professor of History at the University of Indiana.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies; the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Geographies of Place series; and the Walter Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life.
hm 4/25/11

The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century
2011-05-06 00:00
Please join us for a talk by Tom Juravich, Sociology and Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
“The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century.”
Juravich is a labor educator and musician. He is the author of Chaos on the Shop Floor: A Worker’s View of Quality, Productivity and Management (1985); an ethnography of a bitter labor struggle in West Virginia, Ravenswood: The Steelworkers’ Victory and the Revival of American Labor, with Kate Bronfenbrenner, (1999); and At the Altar of the Bottom Line: The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century (2009).
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, May 6 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building.
jmj 04/25/2011

Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics: Science, Medicine, the Environment, and the Construction of the Panama Canal
2011-05-09 00:00
Between 1904 and 1914, the United States built the Panama Canal, an ambitious engineering project undertaken in the shadow of the French failure two decades earlier. The French experience taught American administrators several lessons, none more potent than the need to mitigate the destructiveness of so-called “tropical” diseases such as malaria and yellow fever. The U.S. responded with a sanitary program, informed by several critical mosquito vector discoveries at the end of the 19th century, that seemed to successfully meet that threat; indeed, many Americans claimed to have solved one of the vexing medical and imperial problems of the era: the settling of temperate peoples in tropical environments. The Americans had, to use the words of a contemporary commentator, pulled the teeth of the tropics. This talk will examine American perceptions of the tropics at the turn of the last century, how those perceptions informed U.S. sanitary and other administrative practices in Panama, and how those practices in turn resulted in the creation of a Canal Zone landscape that mixed marked public health improvements with racial and medical inequalities. It will also examine how the environmental changes wrought by canal construction actually created many of the conditions conducive to malaria and yellow fever transmission, and how it was scientists working in Panama who came to notice the disconnect between an environmental ideology that naturalized tropical disease and a material reality that implicated environmental changes as critical to the Isthmus’ public health challenges.
hm 5/6/11

21st Century Socialism and Venezuela
2011-05-10 00:00
Eva Golinger will discuss the Bolivarian project for participatory democracy in Venezuela that has occurred through the empowerment of the country’s poor majority during the last decade. As an advisor to elected President Hugo Chávez, she will also address some of the problems and conflicts facing Venezuela and the leftist South American-Caribbean bloc it helped found: the Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América.
Eva Golinger, winner of the International Award for Journalism in Mexico (2009), is an Attorney and Writer from New York, living in Caracas, Venezuela since 2005 and author of several best-selling books, including The Chávez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela
hm 5/6/11

Harvest of Loneliness: the Bracero Program
2011-05-11 00:00
This documentary explores the historical accounts of migrant Mexican farm workers brought into the U.S. from 1942 to1964 under the temporary contract worker program known as the Bracero Program to work as cheap, controlled, and disposable workers. Discussion with Gonzalez following the screening. Gilbert G Gonzalez, Vivian Price, and Adrian Salinas,. Co-sponsored by the Hull Chair in Feminist Studies.
hm 5/6/11

CASTE, RACE, AND CLASS IN SPANISH CALIFORNIA
2011-05-12 00:00
Presidio Chapel at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara SHP123 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, CA
Independent scholar Vladimir Guerrero is author of the book The Anza Trail and the Settling of California.
Guerrero will discuss the concepts of caste, race and class among the Anza settlers and the population of Alta
California at the end of the eighteenth century.
FREE event
For more information contact SBTHP at (805) 965-0093 or www.sbthp.org
hm 5/9/11

Civil Rights Protest and Labor Union Autonomy: The 1966 Hilton Hotel Protests and the Fate of Postwar Liberalism
2011-05-13 00:00
Please join us for a talk by Reuel Schiller, University of California, Hasting College of Law.
“Civil Rights Protest and Labor Union Autonomy: The 1966 Hilton Hotel Protests and the Fate of Postwar Liberalism.” Schiller’s areas of academic interest are twentieth-century American legal history, administrative law, and labor and employment law. A forthcoming book compares the legal strategies of the labor movement and the civil rights movement in the years since the Second World War.
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, May 13 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building.
jmj 04/09/2011

How California Invented Nanotechnology
2011-05-17 00:00
Despite its seeming newness, nanotechnology already has many different historical narratives. From seminal speeches at the start of the Space Age to futuristic imaginings in the 1980s to industrial commercialization in the 1990s, nanotechnology is always linked to California in some fashion. In this talk, McCray will explore how the West Coast version of nanotechnology resonated among researchers, policy makers, the media, and the public within and beyond the Golden State. Seen more broadly, this California-infused perspective gives insights into the nature of technological ecosystems, historical analogies, and the challenges posed by competing historical narratives.

Senior Honors Seminar Colloquium
2011-05-18 00:00
In the following schedule, the name of the student’s mentor appears in parenthesis and that of the commentator in brackets.
1-1:30 pm: Benjamin Lopez, “The Sullivan Campaign of 1779 and the New York Frontier: an American General Fails to Grasp Victory” (Pat Cohen) [Ann Plane]
1:30-2 pm: Christos Potamiamos, “The Function of the Roman Spectacle in Ephesos” (Christine Thomas, Beth DePalma Digeser) [Hal Drake]
2:10-2:40 pm: Rebekah Dunn, “‘Africa a-liberate Zimbabwe’? Music and Pan-Africanism in Zimbabwe and South Africa, 1950-1995” (Mhoze Chikowero) [Stephan Miescher]
2:40-3:10 pm: Alexa Greco, “Thorns Amongst the Tentacles: A Look into the Private and Public Depictions of the Standard Oil Company “ (Mary Furner) [John Majewski]
3:20-3:50 pm: Doug Wagoner, “A Crossroads of Racial and Gender Preferences: Affirmative Action and the University of California’s War Within” (Laura Kalman) [Greg Graves]
3:50-4:20 pm: Miles Freeman, “Heroes and Traitors: the China Hands, the China Lobby, and the War for America’s China Policy” (Randy Bergstrom) [Nelson Lichtenstein]
4:30-5 pm: Ian Anderson, “The Architecture of Totalitarianism” (Volker Welter)
[Al Lindemann]
hm 5/8/11

"Why Should I Join Learned Societies;" "Marriage and Citizenship"
2011-05-18 00:00
“Why Should I Join Learned Societies — AHA, OAH, LASA, MESA, NCPH — Even Though I Now Can Get Their Journals Free?” This brown-bag talk will be held Wednesday, May 18 at noon in HSSB 4041.
Kerber is part president of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the American Studies Association, so she is particularly knowledgeable about this topic.
Kerber will be giving another talk later this afternoon at the IHC (4 pm, McCune Conference Room).
The topic of that talk will be “What the Founders Didn’t Change: Marriage and Citizenship in the U.S. from 1776 to the Present.” This talk is part of the IHC Critical Issues in America series, which this year focuses on “Marriage: Race, Sex, and Citizenship.”
hm 5/18/11

Senior Honors Seminar Colloquium
2011-05-19 00:00
In the following schedule, the name of the student’s mentor appears in parenthesis and that of the commentator in brackets.
2:30-3 pm: Andrew Seguin, “Forays into the ‘Urban Frontier’: The Beginnings of Gentrification in New York City” (Randy Bergstrom) [Dustin Walker]
3-3:30 pm: Emmett Bloom, “Who’s In Charge? Political Fragmentation in Post-Taliban Afghanistan” (Steve Humphreys) [Eric Massie]
3:40-4:10 pm: Travis Van Ligten, “A Delicate Balance: Tokugawa Diplomacy between 1862 and 1864“ (Luke Roberts) (Toshi Hasegawa)
4:10-4:40: Lindsay Gaudinier, “The Western Shoshone and the Nevada Test Site”
(Laura Kalman) [Patrick McCray]
4:50-5:20pm: Matt Fibiger, “Redeeming the Ship of State: the Mayaguez Incident of 1975” (Salim Yaqub) [Toshi Hasegawa]
hm 5/8/11

“MARCHING FOR THE EMPIRE: CHILDREN ON THE SECOND ANZA EXPEDITION”
2011-05-19 00:00
Presidio Chapel at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara SHP123 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, CA
Vanessa Crispin-Peralta, adjunct professor of history at Westmont College, will draw upon her doctoral
dissertation “Children at the Edge of the Empire: A History of Childhood in Coastal California’s Pueblos and
Missions, 1750 – 1850,” to explore the integral role that children played in the expansion of the Spanish
Empire and the establishment of Californio culture.
FREE event
For more information contact SBTHP at (805) 965-0093 or www.sbthp.org
hm 5/9/11

Borderland Processes Along the Han Northern Frontier, 130 BCE-2 CE
2011-05-20 00:00
At the height of Han expansion, the northern frontier of the Han Empire stretched from northern Korea in the east to the Tengger Desert in the west and onward into Central Asia. In Chinese historical sources, the massive complex of walls built across this region appears as an absolute dividing line between the Chinese and the Xiongnu, a confederation of nomadic pastoralists. In reality, the boundaries in this vast region were far from definite and were constantly in flux. Using Bradley J. Parker’s “continuum of border dynamics” and “borderland matrix” models, this paper analyzes the borderland processes occurring along the Han northern frontier directly to the north of the Han capital of Chang’an.
Dr. Leslie Wallace is Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh.
This event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group, with co-sponsorship from the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, and from the East Asia Center.
jwil 09.iii.2011

Senior Honors Seminar Colloquium
2011-05-20 00:00
In the following schedule, the name of the student’s mentor appears in parenthesis and that of the commentator in brackets.
1-1:30 pm: Cheyanne Gustason, “Some Like It Haute: the Role of 1930s Hollywood Cinema in the Rise of the U.S. in the International Fashion Industry” (Chuck Wolfe) [Lisa Jacobson]
1:30-2 pm: Eric Rogers, “A Study of Early Christianity in Relation to the Ancient Mysteries” (Christine Thomas, Beth DePalma Digeser) [Hal Drake]
2:10-2:40 pm: Jonathan Bronstein, “Judging the Judges: the Politicization of Judicial Nomination from Nixon to Reagan” (Laura Kalman) [Randy Bergstrom]
2:40-3:10 pm: Evan Sherwood, “Extending the Containment Perimeter in Korea: October 9, 1950” (Jack Talbott) [Salim Yaqub]
3:20-3:50 pm: Greg Wilner, “Into the Arms of the Infidel: Christian and Muslim Mercenaries of the Reconquista” (Debra Blumenthal) [Ed English]
3:50-4:20 pm: Charles Lucero, “Anybody ‘but not Ld. B’: a Study of Lord William Carr Beresford’s Intervention in 1820s Portugal” (Frank Dutra) [David Rock]
4:30-5 pm: Ariana Dumpis, “ Surf and Turf: Surfing, Localism, and Everything in Between” (John Park) [Peter Neushul]
hm 5/8/11

Masculinity, Space, and late Seventeenth-Century Alchemical Practices
2011-05-25 00:00
Building on contemporary research in alchemy and gender, I engage themedium of space, examining the connections between the identity of the
philosopher-alchemist and the composition of a masculine domestic space. I
show that the private, enclosed nature of alchemical experimentation
enabled the free exploration of masculinity. The private and semi-private
nature of alchemical practices in England challenges the easy alignment of
gentlemanly sociability and public display that have long dominated
discussions of Restoration science. Natural philosophy and a traditional
heterosexual marriage were often considered incompatible during the time of
Galileo and Descartes. The pursuit of alchemy, a private interest that
required domestic space and secrecy, was likewise incompatible with
marriage. During the Restoration, scientists were encouraged to be
sociable, but they were also participating in a tradition that excluded
such parts of social life as marriage. In private, alchemists could
manipulate substances with names like “the Doves of Diana” and “spiritual
semen,” changing substances’ genders or fusing them together. In this way,
alchemy offered a contained space for the natural philosopher to think
about gender and a metaphorical space for him to think about sexuality
while still remaining celibate.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Reserach Fellows program.
hm 5/23/11

Implications of the Assassination of Bin Laden
2011-05-25 00:00
Americans seem united in their elation over justice being brought to themastermind of the September 11th terrorist attacks, but no one seems to
agree on what to expect now. Whether this will mark a major shift in
national priorities, or is simply a symbolic and cathartic event, is yet to
be determined. The situation is further complicated by suspicions and
speculation about knowledge among the Pakistani government of bin Laden’s
location, as well as national sovereignty concerns raised in the wake of an
unannounced commando raid in a foreign country.
What implications does this hold for American foreign policy?
How does al Qaeda work? What are their methods, their rationale, and their strategy?
Who deserves more credit for the operation: Barack Obama, or George Bush?
Campus Democrats will host a panel discussion this Wednesday, May 25th, at 7:00 PM in the Loma Pelona Center.
The L.P. center is a new multipurpose facility located on the west side of campus near Manzanita Village, above the graduation lawn.
Speakers include:
Mark Juergensmeyer, Director of the Orfalea Center at UCSB
Nancy Gallagher, Professor of History, UCSB
Scott Englund, UCSB Political Science Department doctoral candidate, former FBI intelligence analyst
hm 5/25/11

History Associates and Department of History Awards Ceremony and Reception
2011-05-25 00:00
For information on the individual awards and past winners, please follow the link below.
hm 5/9/11

Framing the Word: The Bible in European Culture and Society, ca. 1250-1611
2011-05-27 00:00
In conjunction with a student-curated exhibit (May 15-July 15) of Medieval and Early Modern Bibles in the UCSB Davidson Library’s Department of Special Collections, Prof. Sharon Farmer (UCSB History) has organized this conference. Each speaker will incorporate material from books in the exhibit into his or her talk.
Friday, May 27 / 1:00-4:00 PM, McCune Conference Center, HSSB 6020
Commercial Manuscript Makers in Thirteenth-Century Paris and the Making of the “Santa Barbara Bible”
Richard Rouse, History, University of California, Los Angeles
Printing the Hebrew Bible in Early Modern Europe: Christian and Jewish Scholarly Collaboration
in an Age of Persecution
Theodore Dunkelgrün, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Witches, Virgins, and the Whore of Babylon: Female Types in a Sixteenth-Century Lutheran Context
Bonnie Noble, Art History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Before and After 1611: The Making and Remaking of the King James Version
Lori Anne Ferrell, School of Arts and Humanities, Claremont Graduate University
There will be a reception following the conference at the Department of Special Collections, Third Floor, Davidson Library
This conference has been generously supported by the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Catholic Studies Program, the Department of History, the Department of Religious Studies, The Early Modern Center, the Medieval Studies Program, and the Humanities and Fine Arts Dean’s Fund for Jewish Studies, which was made possible by a generous donation in memory of Martha Heyman Franck.
jwil 13.iii.2011, hm 5/17

Ancient India & Early Greece: A Historical-Comparative Approach to Political Thought and the Concept of Ruling
2011-05-27 00:00
This talk will map out an analytic approach for political theory that combines the history of political ideas and cross-cultural, comparative political thought. Special attention will be given to the methodological and interpretive challenges confronting this approach, how and why it should be applied to ancient Greek and Indian political thought, and finally, its general analytic benefits for political theory.
Stuart Gray is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at UCSB.
This event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.
jwil 26.iv.2011

Spring quarter instruction ends
2011-06-03 00:00
Classes end for Spring quarter.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

Right to Work? Rethinking the Promise of Full Employment in the 1945 Moment
2011-06-03 00:00
Please join us for a talk by Steven Attewell, UCSB Department of History
“Right to Work? Rethinking the Promise of Full Employment in the 1945 Moment.”
Attewell is a Ph.D candidate in the Policy History Program of the History Department. “Right to Work?” is a chapter in the forthcoming dissertation, “Public At Work: Direct Job Creation Policy from the New Deal to the Rise of Reagan,” which studies the development of the “missing link” in the American welfare state through a focus on policy design, institutions, economic theories, and political ideology. Previous chapters have been presented at the Policy History Conference and at the LERF/IRLE Conference.
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, June 3 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building.
jmj 04/25/2011

Framing the Word: The Making of the Modern Bible, c. 1250-1611
2011-07-16 00:00
This exhibit was curated by six undergraduate history majors and Prof. Sharon Farmer. It is on display in the Davidson Library Department of Special Collections on the third floor.
hm 5/9/11, 5/17, 6/25

End of summer session A classes
2011-07-29 00:00
For more information, click the link below.

Start of Summer session B classes
2011-08-01 00:00

Last day of Summer session B classes
2011-09-09 00:00

New Student Convocation
2011-09-19 00:00
New Student Convocation is scheduled to take place on Monday, September 19, 2011, from 3:00-4:00 p.m. on the Faculty Club Green for all new freshmen and transfer students in the entering class of 2011.
Approximately 5,000 new UCSB freshmen and transfer students are expected to attend this ceremonial induction into the University designed to promote the values of scholarship, leadership, and citizenship.
hm 9/16/11

History TA Initial Training Session
2011-09-19 00:00
9-10 – Introductions from Department Chair, Faculty TA Coordinator, Undergraduate Adviser, plus general meet-and-greet.
10-12 – Workshop on the basics of TAing, including TA Responsibilities, Writing a Syllabus, Lesson Planning, Generating Classroom Discussion, Holding Office Hours, Assessing Student Performance.
12-1 – Potluck lunch with returning TAs.
1-2:30 – Presentations from campus resources, including CLAS, DSP, Student Counseling. Also presentations from the Graduate Student Union and Carol Lansing, new Director of Graduate Studies.
2:30-3 – Announcements from Ryan and Jackson about our plan for TA training for the 2011-2012 academic year.
hm 9/13/11, 9/16; jwil 19.ix.2011

Significant Letters in the Life of Old Mission Santa Barbara: Historical Letters from the Archives
2011-09-21 00:00
Public Lecture Celebrating 225 years of Franciscan Presence in Santa Barbara
Serra Hall is on the Corner of Los Olivos and Garden Streets.
Visitors can use street parking and walk up the drive to the hall.
Speakers:
Jack Clark Robinson O.F.M.
Franciscan friar and teacher of friars and member of the Academy of
American Franciscan History, but for those interested, the letters after
his name include: B.A. (Kentucky Wesleyan College); J.D. (University of
Kentucky); M.Div. (Catholic Theological Union of Chicago) and Ph.D.
(University of Kentucky at Santa Barbara) and he has taught at The
Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University and the Oblate School of
Theology, as well as a Franciscan novitiate near you.
Eric Pilarcik O.F.M.
Franciscan friar living at Old Mission Santa Bárbara with roots in Michigan
and Los Angeles. He has experience in movie production and real estate.
Currently he is working in the Provincial Archives and as secretary for the
Cause for Sainthood of Bl. Junípero Serra. He has a Master’s Degree in
Theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley with a focus on
California Mission Revival studies.
hm 7/8/11; 7/11

Fall classes begin
2011-09-22 00:00
See the calendar at:www.registrar.ucsb.edu/cal2012.htm
On our Courses page you will find some syllabi (click the Download link), and links to the instructors’ faculty pages, where there are often announcements about waiting list and “crashing” policies.
hm 8/11; 9/13/11, 9/17
