BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of History, UC Santa Barbara - ECPv6.15.12.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Department of History, UC Santa Barbara X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Department of History, UC Santa Barbara REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20080309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20081102T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20090308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20091101T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20100314T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20101107T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20110313T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20111106T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091203T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091203T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112811Z UID:10001753-1259798400-1259798400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:From Space Colonies to Nanobots to Xanadu: California's Technological Enthusiasts\, 1970-1990. DESCRIPTION:The idea that America and other industrialized societies faced limits to their power and future economic growth helped define the 1970s. While scientists and free-market economists criticized this perspective\, these Malthusian views stimulated fierce debate about the need to adopt a steady-state lifestyle. “Limits” – to resources\, energy\, wealth\, even life itself – became a staple theme for movies\, television shows and fiction. This motif of impending doomsday\, however\, was only one possible vision of the future that emerged in the late 1970s. McCray’s talk explores alternative and competing visions of the technological future – much of it originating from California – that was just as widely debated in the 1970s and 1980s. During this time\, futuristic technologies such as space colonization\, nanotechnology\, and early internet-based commerce captured the public’s imagination. These California-based\, pro-technology movements also stimulated the creation of privately funded research institutes and investment from high-tech entrepreneurs. Whereas utopian crusaders of the nineteenth century were inspired by a broad wish to perfect society\, the technological visionaries his talk examines were also motivated by a desire to make a fortune and overcome inherent biological limits. By examining the political and social context of several exploratory technologies and the communities of the scientists\, technologists\, and futurists who advocated them\, a clearer understanding of how we view modern technological utopias emerges.\njwil 01.xii.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/from-space-colonies-to-nanobots-to-xanadu-californias-technological-enthusiasts-1970-1990/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100104T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100104T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112811Z UID:10001754-1262563200-1262563200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Classes start today DESCRIPTION:Classes begin today. Visit the link below for the academic calendar of your choice.\nHistory students who have a section meeting time before the lecture meets should attend their section anyway. \nPlease see our News announcement about waitlists for instructions on how to sign up on an electronic waiting list for full classes.\nhttps://waitlist.ucsb.edu/ \nhm 12/18/09; 12/29 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/classes-start-today-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100111T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100111T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001759-1263168000-1263168000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Discussion of the Publishing Process DESCRIPTION:Susan Ferber\, the executive editor of Oxford University Press\, will talk on the nuts and bolts of the publishing process\, with plenty of time for questions. Light refreshments will be served.\nPlease note that the time was changed (originally 12 noon). \nhm 1/3/10; 1/4 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/discussion-of-the-publishing-process/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100111T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100111T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001760-1263168000-1263168000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Letters\, Bodies\, and Crimes: Love Letters and the Anatomy of Sentiment in Northern Mexico\, 1876-1929 DESCRIPTION:As perhaps no other field of inquiry\, the history of emotion\, especially romantic love\, seems dominated\, almost premised upon\, a search for attributes experiencing some sort of prolonged “rise” (and never “fall”). Romantic love has been the scale used to chart\, variously\, the rise of the civilizing process (as in the work of Norbert Elias); the rise of emotional self-control (as in the work of Peter and Carol Stearns); the rise of sentimentality; the rise of “American individualism” (as in Karen Lystra’s book\, Searching the Heart); and the rise and/or spread of intimacy (as in Stephanie Coontz’s work\, Marriage\, A History). Yet another rise\, this time of introspection and the quest for self\, is the dominant concern of Volume IV of A History of Private Life\, where Alain Corbin’s emphasis on the increasing need for self-scrutiny and for the development of techniques of self-comprehension\, leads him to stress the importance of writing (as in private diaries and letters\, a point to which I want to return).\nInstead of contributing to such teleologies (or adding another of my own)\, I’d like to begin with a different premise\, one that stresses the historicity of romantic love (and emotion more generally). Many of the contributors to Cuidado con el corazón: Los usos amorosos en el México moderno (INAH\, 1995)\, published more than ten years ago\, for example\, insist on the importance of studying what they refer to as the norms of romantic morality in specific regional and temporal contexts. In common with more recent anthropological work concerned with the relationship between love and social and cultural change in places like Nepal and rural China\, the goal becomes understanding how emotions accrue meanings only through specific interactions\, in particular places\, and at given moments of time\, creating dominant (and not so dominant) “structures of feeling”that come to characterize any given era (making periodization of such eras a problem for investigation rather than assumed to follow divisions based on traditional political criteria). What I’d like to do in my talk is to look briefly at love letters\, one of the means by which a history of emotion\, especially romantic love\, might be undertaken. \nWilliam E. French is associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia. He is the past director of the Latin American Studies Programme at that institution. He is the author of A Peaceful and Working People: Manners\, Morals\, and Class Formation in Northern Mexico (1996) and coeditor of Rituals of Rule\, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico (1994) and Gender\, Sexuality\, and Power in Latin America since Independence (2007). He has published articles in the Hispanic American Historical Review and the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and contributed to the Oxford History of Mexico. He is currently completing a book on love letters\, diaries\, and courtship in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico. \nhm 1/4/10; 1/5 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/letters-bodies-and-crimes-love-letters-and-the-anatomy-of-sentiment-in-northern-mexico-1876-1929/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100111T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100111T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001770-1263168000-1263168000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:On the Look and Logos of Zen Art DESCRIPTION:“Everyone’s looking for something.” Some of us have found it\, or part of it\, in Zen Art\, though the types of things we look at\, the way we talk about them\, and the sorts of Zen we draw from them may be dramatically different. Indeed\, the easily joined words “Zen” and “Art” exist in dynamic tension\, grammatically as well as conceptually\, and bring to mind other intersections: “East” and “West\,” practitioner and scholar\, past and present. This paper explores some of the tensions\, or perhaps currents and cross-currents\, that accompany modern looking at and explaining Zen Art. It offers an episodic history of the formation and reception of Zen Art in modern era and reconsiders\, somewhat insistently\, figures such as Arthur Waley\, Hisamatsu Shin’ichi\, and\, even\, Murakami Takashi. \nCosponsored by he East Asian RFG \, Art History (as part of its “Thinking Through Media” series)\, History\, and the East Asia Center \nhm 1/5/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/on-the-look-and-logos-of-zen-art/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100112T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100112T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112813Z UID:10001775-1263254400-1263254400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Up the Yangtze DESCRIPTION:A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze\, navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as “The River.” The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. At the river’s edge\, a young woman says goodbye to her family as the floodwaters rise towards their small homestead. The Three Gorges Dam — contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle — provides the epic backdrop for Up the Yangtze\, a dramatic feature documentary on life inside modern China.\nSponsored by the IHC?s Oil + Water Series and the Community Environmental Council. \nhm 1/8/09/ 1/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/up-the-yangtze/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100115T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100115T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001755-1263513600-1263513600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age DESCRIPTION:Bartels is the author of Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice (1988) and Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (2008). He will also deliver a public lecture Thursday\, January 14 at 4 PM in Lane Room\, 3824 Ellison Hall.\nSponsored by the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science. \njwil 28.xii.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/unequal-democracy-the-political-economy-of-the-new-gilded-age/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100121T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100121T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001761-1264032000-1264032000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century DESCRIPTION:Wired for War – The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century\n“[P.W. Singer] has written what is likely to be the definitive work on this subject for some time to come.” Financial Times \nSenior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution\, P.W. Singer reveals how science fiction is fast becoming a reality on the battlefield in his new book Wired for War. Singer argues that a massive shift in military technology and the advent of robotic warfare is changing not just how wars are fought\, but also the politics\, economics\, laws\, and ethics that surround war itself. The author of the eerily prescient award-winning books Corporate Warriors\, about private military contractors\, and Children at War\, about child soldiers\, Singer will discuss his recent work. \nAdmission is free for UCSB students with valid UCSB ID. \nCo-presented with the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies and USCB Center for Nanotechnology in Society. \nBooks will be available for purchase and signing. \njwil 04.i.2010\, hm 1/6/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/wired-for-war-the-robotics-revolution-and-conflict-in-the-21st-century/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100121T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100121T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001764-1264032000-1264032000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:ROUNDTABLE: The Future of the University: Equity and Access DESCRIPTION:A panel discussion treating the futures of racial\, ethnic\, and economic diversity in the UC system in an era of budget crisis and fee “deregulation.” Will the University of California still serve all the people of California\, and which students or prospective students stand to be most affected as the UC system moves toward greater privatization?\nPanelists include Professors Julie Carlson (English\, UCSB and Academic Director\, Project Excel)\, Marisela Ramos (History\, Latino/a Studies\, University of the Pacific)\, Claudia Martinez (Director of Academic Preparation\, UCSB)\, and Jeffrey Stewart (Chair\, Black Studies\, UCSB). Student activists will be invited to attend and participate in post-panel discussion. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Future of the University series and the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center. \nhm 1/4/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/roundtable-the-future-of-the-university-equity-and-access/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100128T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100128T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112813Z UID:10001786-1264636800-1264636800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Methodological Challenges of Researching Postcolonial African Histories DESCRIPTION:Within the field of African history\, scholars have just begun to historicize Africa’s postcolonial era\, roughly marked by the independence of Ghana in 1957 to the present. This new endeavor presents significant methodological challenges\, since African states have not always had the means nor the political will to maintain state archives. This scenario has prompted scholars to ask whether a history of postcolonial Africa needs to explore alternative archives located outside of official state institutions\, such as non-government agencies\, popular culture productions\, and orality.\nStephan Miescher will lead a discussion about these issues in the context of the African Studies RFG’s 2009-10 theme of “Performance\, Orality\, and the Postcolonial State.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s African Studies RFG. \nhm 1/20/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-methodological-challenges-of-researching-postcolonial-african-histories/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100129T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100129T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001756-1264723200-1264723200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Importance of Hubert Harrison (1883-1927): The Voice of Harlem Radicalism and an Intellectual/Activist Ahead of His Time DESCRIPTION:Perry is a long-time union activist and editor for the National Postal Mail Handlers Union. He is the author of Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism\, 1883-1918 (2008). He edited Theodore W. Allen’s Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race (2006).\nSponsored by the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. \njwil 28.xii.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-importance-of-hubert-harrison-1883-1927-the-voice-of-harlem-radicalism-and-an-intellectualactivist-ahead-of-his-time/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100201T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100201T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001762-1264982400-1264982400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Ancient City DESCRIPTION:Participants in Professor Digeser’s 213AB research seminar (Spring 2009-Fall 2009) will make individual presentations on their research.\nSponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and the Ancient Mediterranean Studies Ph.D. Emphasis. \njwil 04.i.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-ancient-city/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100203T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100203T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112813Z UID:10001787-1265155200-1265155200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Iranian Presidential Election and the Emergence of the Green Movement DESCRIPTION:Mohammad Amjad has just returned from Iran where he was an activist in the protest movement following the Iranian elections. An expert in Iranian nuclear diplomacy and foreign policy\, he received his PhD in Political Science from the University of California\, Riverside\, in 1986/.\nSponsored by the IHC\, Center for Middle East Studies\, the Department of History\, and the Mellichamp Chair-Religious Studies Dept. For additional information call 893-4245\, or email cmes@cmes.ucsb.edu \nhm 1/30/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-iranian-presidential-election-and-the-emergence-of-the-green-movement/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100204T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100204T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001758-1265241600-1265241600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Women Sweatshop Workers: Victims of Exploitation or Agents of Change? DESCRIPTION:Quan is Associate Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center and this year’s Hull Lecturer.\nShe also speaks on Friday at 1pm in the History dept. \nCo-sponsored by the Feminist Studies\, Asian American Studies\, and the Multicultural Center. \nhm 12/30/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/women-sweatshop-workers-victims-of-exploitation-or-agents-of-change/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100205T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100205T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001757-1265328000-1265328000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Missing Link: China and Global Struggles Against Walmart DESCRIPTION:Quan is Associate Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center and this year’s Hull Lecturer.\nShe also speaks on “Women Sweatshop Workers: Victims of Exploitation or Agents of Change?” Thursday\,February 4\, 4 PM\,Multicultural Center. Co-sponsored by the Feminist Studies\, Asian American Studies\, and the Multicultural Center. \nhm 12/30/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/missing-link-china-and-global-struggles-against-walmart/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100208T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100208T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112813Z UID:10001788-1265587200-1265587200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Stalin's Great Terror: Historic Photo Documents and Memorial Culture Today DESCRIPTION:Tomasz Kizny will present his documentary photo project that gives faces and voices to the victims of The Great Terror in the USSR (1936-38).\nFirst\, historic prison portraits of the victims with biographical notes accompanied by excerpts from diaries and private documents are shown. \nNext\, Kizny presents his recent photographs of the Soviet killing fields and the heirs of the victims in Russia to reveal the immense topography of terror and to bear witness to the atrocities of the past remaining in the present. \nTomasz Kizny is a Polish photojournalist who was a founding member of the clandestine association Dementi and author of Gulag: Life and Death inside Soviet Concentration Camps (2004). \nSponsored by the departments of Comparative Literature\, Germanic Slavic & Semitic Studies\, History\, Political Science and the IHC. \nhm 2/3/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/stalins-great-terror-historic-photo-documents-and-memorial-culture-today/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100209T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100209T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112814Z UID:10001790-1265673600-1265673600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Under the U.N. Flag: The International Community and the Genocide in Srebrenica DESCRIPTION:Hasan Nuhanovic is visiting California for a lecture at the UCLA Human Rights Colloquium Series and joins us at UCSB to give a talk on the events surrounding the fall and genocide of the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia in July 1995. Nuhanovic is a Bosnian Muslim who worked as a translator for the United Nations. As such he worked very closely with the Dutch Battalion (DutchBat3) tasked with protecting the unarmed population of Srebrenica. His mother\, father and brother were all killed in the genocide after the Dutch Battalion refused to grant them\, or any other civilians refuge within the UN compound\, as mass executions by the Serbian forces were taking place.\nMr. Nuhanovic’s book\, Under the U.N. Flag: The International Community and the Genocide in Srebrenica (2007) offers the first publicly available account of the terror and inhumanity experienced by those seeking sanctuary from genocide who placed their lives and their trust in the hands of the peacekeepers. Unarmed\, starved and deprived of basic human needs the people of the ‘safe haven’ of Srebrenica placed their complete reliance on the promise of protection by the United Nations. This book is compiled from firsthand experience of the events by Hasan Nuhanovic as well as other survivors of the genocide. It provides a detailed chronology covering the days leading up to the notorious days in July 1995 when the genocide of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica began and the subsequent period during which the world media continued to propagate the message that nothing sinister was going on: it took the best part of six years before genocide was officially deemed to have taken place in 2001. This unique account is both an exhilarating read and a major work of historical reference. (amazon UK page; foreword) \nThe lecture is open to the public and will be followed by a discussion. \n**For more information\, see this transcript of this March 2006 PBS/Frontline interview with Mr. Nuhanovic.**\nIn January 2000 PBS also aired a film\, “Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave.” The companion website offers a overview of the film\, which includes testimony by Mr. Nuhanovic. (I noticed that most of the links on the Resources Page are broken\, however.) \nThe BBC has compiled a timeline of the siege (July 6-19) with embedded clips of news reports. \nGendercide Watch offers an excellent\, relatively brief overview page: Case Study: The Srebrenica Massacre\, July 1995 as well as a gallery of 14 photos. \nWikipedia’s Srebrenica Massacre page offers extensive background information and images. \nMr. Nuhanovic’s visit is sponsored by the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA)\, the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies\, the Global Studies Program\, the Human Rights Council\, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. \nhm 2/6/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/under-the-u-n-flag-the-international-community-and-the-genocide-in-srebrenica/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100211T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100211T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112814Z UID:10001789-1265846400-1265846400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Place of Liberal Arts in a Public University DESCRIPTION:The idea of a liberal education is threatened today by the assumption that learning is insignificant if it does not have immediate economic and commercial impact. This panel will examine the values underlying the idea of free and open-ended inquiry and the place of the liberal arts in a public university.\nParticipants include: Professors \nLaurie Monahan\, (History of Art and Architecture\, UCSB and Director\, Arts Research Initiative)\,\nDavid Gross (Physics\, UCSB and Director\, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics)\,\nWade Clark Roof (Religious Studies\, UCSB and Director\, Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion\, and Public Life)\, and\nCharles Wolf (Film and Media Studies\, UCSB). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Future of the University Series. \nhm 2/6/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-place-of-liberal-arts-in-a-public-university/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100215T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100215T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112810Z UID:10001746-1266192000-1266192000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Twenty years after the Fall of the Wall: Assessments\, biographies\, perspectives DESCRIPTION:POSTPONED until Winter quarter 2010 due to visa problems\nDaniela Dahn was born in Berlin\, studied journalism in Leipzig and worked as a TV-journalist. After 1981 work as a freelance journalist and writer. In 1989\, she was a founding member of the civil rights group “Demokratischer Aufbruch.” Numerous prizes\, such as the Fontane prize\,\nthe Tucholsky prize\, and the Boerne prize\, and various professorships in the UK and USA. Her latest book is titled: Wehe dem Sieger! Ohne Osten kein Westen\, Reinbeck: Rowohlt\, 2009. (amazon.de page). \nCo-sponsored by the German Department\, Center for Cold War Studies and International History\, and the History Department \nhm 10/7/09\, 10/9 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/twenty-years-after-the-fall-of-the-wall-assessments-biographies-perspectives/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100217T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100217T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001767-1266364800-1266364800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Our Spirits Don't Speak English: Indian Boarding School DESCRIPTION:A Native American perspective on Indian Boarding Schools\, this film uncovers the dark history of U.S. Government policy which took Indian children from their homes\, forced them into boarding schools\, and enacted a policy of educating them in the ways of Western Society. It gives a voice to the countless Indian children forced through a system designed to strip them of their Native American culture\, heritage and traditions.\nChip Richie\, 80 min.\, 2008\, English\, USA. \nhm 1/5/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/our-spirits-dont-speak-english-indian-boarding-school/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100217T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100217T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112814Z UID:10001795-1266364800-1266364800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:3rd Annual Ask-a-Vet Forum DESCRIPTION:Student Veterans at UCSB\, an organization of undergraduate and graduate students\, will hold its third annual Ask-a-Vet Forum this Wednesday\, February 17. The event will be at 7:30pm in the SRB-Multi Purpose Room. A panel of student veterans will discuss their experiences in the military and as returning students\, and will respond to questions from the campus community.\nFor more information\, click here. \njwil 14.ii.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/3rd-annual-ask-a-vet-forum/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100219T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100219T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112814Z UID:10001793-1266537600-1266537600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Pythagoras the Theurgist: Images of the Ideal Philosopher in Late Platonism DESCRIPTION:Heidi Marx-Wolf is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba.\nThis talk is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies Ph.D. emphasis. \njwil 10.ii.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/pythagoras-the-theurgist-images-of-the-ideal-philosopher-in-late-platonism/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100219T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100219T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112814Z UID:10001794-1266537600-1266537600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Migrants\, Ethnicity\, and Membership in Europe: The View from Germany DESCRIPTION:Professor Paul Spickard (Department of History\, UCSB) is a specialist on Race and Ethnicity in the United States and in Comparative International Perspective. An award-winning teacher\, among his many books are Japanese Americans: The Formation and Transformations of an Ethnic Group Revised Edition (2009); Almost All Aliens: Immigration\, Race\, and Colonialism in American History and Identity (2007); and Race and Nation: Ethnic Systems in the Modern World (2005). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Identity Studies RFG. \nFor more information\, please visit: \nhm 2/10/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/migrants-ethnicity-and-membership-in-europe-the-view-from-germany/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100222T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100222T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112814Z UID:10001791-1266796800-1266796800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Latex and Blood: Science\, Markets\, and American Empire DESCRIPTION:The Lawrence Badash Distinguished Lecture\nSponsored by the Lawrence Badash Speakers’ Fund and hosted by the UCSB Center for Science in Society \nDuring the 20th century\, the United States developed a unique kind of empire\, one bound together less by military conquest and direct political administration than by the expansion of markets\, corporate influence\, and cultural exchange. The political and economic ties between the United States and the Republic of Liberia\, cemented in the 1920s when the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company successfully established a major rubber plantation in the country\, exemplify this new imperial relationship. Yet\, the transformation of Liberia into America’s rubber empire depended on new tools of seeing and new forms of scientific and medical expertise. Through a focus on the Harvard African Expedition to Liberia in 1926\, the motion picture record it gathered\, and the place of rubber as a precious commodity in the global economy\, Prof. Mitman’s talk will investigate the relationships between science\, business\, and the state in the economic transformation of nature and a nation. \nGregg Mitman is William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and professor of medical history and science and technology studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, where he also serves as Interim Director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. His most recent books include Reel Nature: America’s Romance with Wildlife on Film\, 2d ed. (2009) and Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes (2007). \nThis event is free and open to the public. The UCSB History Associates and the Department of History will co-host a reception following Prof. Mitman’s lecture. \njwil 08.ii.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/latex-and-blood-science-markets-and-american-empire/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100223T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100223T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112814Z UID:10001792-1266883200-1266883200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Hauntings: Ghosts from a Nazi Childhood DESCRIPTION:The Department of Germanic\, Slavic and Semitic Studies cordially invites you to the eighth Dr. George J. Wittenstein Lecture.\nProfessor Mahlendorf will discuss some unexpected reader responses to her recently published memoir\, “The Shame of Survival: Working through a Nazi Childhood”\, and the ghosts they raised up for some readers and for herself. \nUrsula Mahlendorf was a member of the faculty of the departments of Germanic\, Slavic and Semitic Studies and of Women’s Studies from 1957 to 1992. She studied\, taught and wrote on 19th and 20th Century literature from a feminist\, psychoanalytic perspective. Reader responses to her recently published memoir\, The Shame of Survival: Working through a Nazi Childhood\, will form the basis of her lecture/reading. Professor Mahlendorf is presently Dickson Emeriti Professor at UCSB. \nhm 2/10/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/hauntings-ghosts-from-a-nazi-childhood/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100223T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100223T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112814Z UID:10001796-1266883200-1266883200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"The Ugly American" (1963) DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will be showing the 1963 film “The Ugly American\,” based on William Lederer’s and Eugene Burdick’s bestselling novel of the same name\, which was first published in 1958.\nProf. Salim Yaqub will offer commentary and lead a Q & A session after the movie. \nHarrison Carter MacWhite (Marlon Brando) is the new U.S. ambassador to Sarkhan\, an imaginary country in Southeast Asia. Sarkhan is wracked by nationalist ferment\, which MacWhite initially attributes to communist subversion. Eventually\, however\, MacWhite comes see that the politics of Sarkhan are far more complex than he realized\, and that even well-intentioned U.S. policies can alienate the very people they are designed to help. Released in 1963\, the film uncannily foreshadows the U.S. debacle in Vietnam. \nhm 2/16/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-ugly-american-1963/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100224T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100224T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001766-1266969600-1266969600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Traces of Trade: A Story from the Deep South" DESCRIPTION:In this feature documentary filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine cousins retrace the Triangle Trade and gain a powerful new perspective on the black/white divide.\nDiscussion with Professor Wade Roof and Dr. Gloria Willingham following the screening. \nKatrina Browne\, 86 min.\, English\, 2008\, USA. \nhm 1/5/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/traces-of-trade-a-story-from-the-deep-south/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100224T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100224T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112814Z UID:10001634-1266969600-1266969600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Cultural Diffusion Across Eurasia\, 500 BC-AD 200 DESCRIPTION:The transmission of a vast number of art motifs\, technologies\, and cultural traits from West to East in prehistoricperiod was due to the speed of communications and trading networks across the Eurasian Steppes beginning in the\nsecond millennium B.C.. The formation of larger territorial states\, nomadic confederations and empires (such as the Xiongnu) beginning in the first millennium BCE also facilitated these transmissions\, which before then had mostly consisted of sporadic\, cultural diffusion between the Western borders and China’s Inner Asian frontier. In this talk Prof. Barbieri-Low examines four case studies of cultural transmission\, which date from between 500 BCE to around 200 CE: glass eye-beads\, Chinese patterned silks\, Roman silver plate\, and the Ionic capital. Prof. Barbieri-Low investigates not necessarily how these features were diffused or by what route\, but how the indigenous societies chose to adapt (or not to adapt) new ideas and technologies according to their pre-existing cultural preferences and repertoires. \nSponsored by the IHC Archaeology Research Focus Group and the East Asian Cultures Research Focus Group. \njwil 20.ii.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/cultural-diffusion-across-eurasia-500-bc-ad-200/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100226T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100226T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112815Z UID:10001647-1267142400-1267142400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State DESCRIPTION:The Colloquium on Work\, Labor\, and Political Economy hosts JENNIFER KLEIN (Yale\, History) and EILEEN BORIS (UCSB\, Feminist Studies) this Friday\, February 26 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building. They will discuss their paper\, “Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State.” A copy can be downloaded from the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy web page at http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/labor/.\nKlein is Professor of History and the author of For All These Rights: Business\, Labor\, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State (2003). Boris is Hull Professor of Feminist Studies and the author of Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework (1994). \nA light lunch will be served at the workshop. \nhm 2/22/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/caring-for-america-home-health-workers-in-the-shadow-of-the-welfare-state/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100302T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100302T000000 DTSTAMP:20260605T120156 CREATED:20150928T112815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112815Z UID:10001643-1267488000-1267488000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Was it the Boston Tea Party? Why Americans Drink Coffee DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Professor Topik considers the political economy and culture of coffee consumption in the Americas. He argues that it wasn’t the Boston Tea Party that turned coffee into the Liberty Drink. Rather\, economic and political factors in North and South America shaped this consumer culture.\nSteven Topik is Professor of History at UC Irvine\, where he concentrates on world history\, with an emphasis on Latin American and especially Brazilian history. His latest works focus on commodities as a means of studying world history and include The Second Conquest of Latin America (1997\, with Allen Wells); The Global Coffee Economy in Africa\, Asia and Latin America: 1500-1989 (2003\, with William Clarence Smith); and From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy\, 1500-2000 (2006\, with Carlos Marichal and Zephyr Frank). He is currently working on a world history of coffee from 1500 to today. \nSponsored by the IHC Food Studies Research Focus Group. \njwil 22.ii.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/was-it-the-boston-tea-party-why-americans-drink-coffee/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR