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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20120311T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20121104T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110103T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110103T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112823Z UID:10001701-1294012800-1294012800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Winter Quarter instruction begins DESCRIPTION:Classes begin in Winter quarter.If you are enrolled in a discussion section that meets before the main lecture meets\, you should still attend section that week. \nSee calendar link below for details. \nhm 12/7/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/winter-quarter-instruction-begins/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110106T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110106T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112822Z UID:10001890-1294272000-1294272000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The White Rose\, or: German Students against Hitler DESCRIPTION:The Department of Germanic\, Slavic and Semitic Studies cordially invitesyou to the \nTenth George J. Wittenstein Lecture \nChristian Petry’s lecture explores the question whether remembering past\nacts of resistance against tyranny–such as that of the Munich student group\nin 1942-43–can provide inspiration to face today’s political challenges. \nThe White Rose (German: die Weiße Rose) was a non-violent/intellectual\nresistance group in Nazi Germany\, consisting of students from the University\nof Munich and their philosophy professor. The group became known for an\nanonymous leaflet campaign\, lasting from June 1942 until February 1943\,\nthat called for active opposition to dictator Adolf Hitler’s regime. \nThe six core members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo (German\nsecret police) and they were executed by decapitation in 1943. The text of\ntheir sixth leaflet was smuggled by Helmuth James Graf von Moltke out of\nGermany through Scandinavia to the United Kingdom\, and in July 1943\ncopies of it were dropped over Germany by Allied planes\, retitled “The\nManifesto of the Students of Munich.” \nChristian Petry is the author of Studenten aufs Schafott: Die Weisse Rose\nund ihr Scheitern\, 1968 (Students under the Guillotine: The Defeat of the\nWhite Rose). He has published books\, articles and films on student\nresistance in Nazi Germany\, on intercultural education and communication\,\nand on curriculum development and educational reform. \nAfter studying history and sociology at the Free University of Berlin\,\nPetry first worked as a teacher and sociologist at schools in southern Germany\nbefore starting a project for vocational and social integration of foreign\nyouth in Weinheim\, Germany. He has served as director of a project network\nto support ethnic minorities (“Regionale Arbeitsstellen zur Förderung\nausländischer Kinder und Jugendlicher”) in eight cities of the Ruhr area\,\nas director of a European Community model project to overcome youth\nunemployment in the city of Duisburg\, and as executive director of the\nFreudenberg Foundation whose objectives include the integration of\nimmigrant children and adolescents in German civil society and the defense\nand promotion of democratic culture. Petry has also served as Chair at the\nEuropean Foundation Centre\, Interest Group Youth and Education. Since 2010\,\nhe has been executive director of the Stiftungs- und Fördergemeinschaft\nModellprojekte GmbH\, Weinheim. \nThe lecture is free and open to the public. \nhm 11/30/10\, 1/4/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-white-rose-or-german-students-against-hitler/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110108T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110108T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112823Z UID:10001705-1294444800-1294444800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Strategies for Defending Higher Education DESCRIPTION:This counter-conference will take place during the annual Modern Language Convention in Los Angeles\, January 8th\, 2011 from 1-5 at Loyola Law School (919 Albany St\, 4 block from the Mariott\, in Merrifield Hall). While thousands of people will be meeting at the traditional convention\, UC-AFT will hold a one-day event centered on discussing actual strategies for making higher education more just. Speakers will present short papers on topics like the death of tenure\, the corporatization of the university\, the possibilities of unionization\, direct social action\, the use and abuse of graduate students\, organizing contingent faculty\, and taking back shared governance.\nSchedule:Remaking the University of California: 1:00-1:45: Catharine Liu\, Chris Newfield\, Joshua Clover\nDefending the Humanities and Shared Governance: 1:45-2:30: Cary Nelson\, Jeffrey Williams\, Michelle Masse\nOrganizing Labor and the Academic Class War: 2:30-3:15: Marc Bousquet\, Maria Maisto\, Joe Berry\nGraduate Students and Precarious Labor: 3:15-4:00: Annie McClanahan (Harvard\, former UAW bargaining unit)\, Jasper Bernes (GSOC\, UCB)\, Stephanie Seawell (GEO\, UI Champaign Urbana)\, Kerry Pimblott (UI Champaign Urbana)\nQuality\, Access\, and Affordability: 4:00-4:30: Murray Sperber\, Elizabeth Hoffman\, and Bob Samuels\nOpen Discussion on Strategies for Changing Higher Education: 4:30-4:55. \nhm 12/10/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/strategies-for-defending-higher-education/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110112T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110112T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112822Z UID:10001891-1294790400-1294790400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture DESCRIPTION:Jas’ Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art at Corpus Christi College\, Oxford\, and Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago.\nThis talk is sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Department of History. \njwil 02.xii.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/art-and-rhetoric-in-roman-culture/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110118T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110118T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112823Z UID:10001699-1295308800-1295308800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:America and the Holocaust DESCRIPTION:Pierre Sauvage\, award-winning documentary filmmaker and child survivor of the Holocaust\, screens and discusses excerpts from his upcoming feature documentary And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry in Marseille (2011)\, as well as his recent documentary short\, Not Idly By–Peter Bergson\, America and the Holocaust (2010).  His presentation addresses one of the enduring questions of the Shoah: What could have been done by the U.S. and its allies and by American Jews to save the Jews of Europe–and why wasn’t it done?  Sauvage wrote\, produced\, and directed Weapons of the Spirit\,which received the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award honoring excellence in broadcast journalism and which is widely regarded as a seminal documentary on rescue during the Holocaust.\nProfile of Filmmaker \nPierre Sauvage is a child survivor of the Holocaust and a child of Holocaust survivors.  An Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker\, Sauvage is the President of the Chambon Foundation\, which he founded in 1982.  The Chambon Foundation was the first nonprofit educational foundation committed to exploring and communicating the necessary and challenging lessons of hope intertwined with the Holocaust’s unavoidable lessons of despair.  \nSauvage’s recent documentary short\, Not Idly By: Peter Bergson\, America and Holocaust (2010) offers a portrait of a militant Jew born in Palestine who led a controversial American effort to fight the Holocaust.  According to historian Blanche Wiesen Cook\, “This brilliant\, galvanizing\, and profoundly moving documentary celebrates Peter Bergson’s vigorous efforts to end the silence and the slaughter that defined the Holocaust.” \nHis latest film\, And Crown Thy Good–Varian Fry in Marseille\, will be released in 2011.  A feature documentary\, it tells the story of a New York intellectual who after the fall of France to the Nazis spent a year in the Southern port city of Marseille leading one of the most remarkable and successful rescue efforts of the Nazi era.  While celebrating some remarkable Americans?Varian Fry\, Miriam Davenport\, Mary Jayne Gold\, Charles Fawcett\, Leon Ball and Hiram Bingham IV?the documentary places the story in the context of those challenging times\, addressing American policies towards the unwanted refugees.  Both the Jerusalem Cinematheque and New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage have recently held retrospectives devoted to the filmmaker. \nSauvage is best known for his 1989 feature documentary Weapons of the Spirit\, which tells the story the conspiracy of goodness of a mountain community in France that defied the Nazis and took in and saved five thousand Jews\, including himself and his parents.  Sauvage was born in this unique Christian oasis\, Le Chambon\, at a time when much of his family was being tortured and murdered in the Nazi death camps.  Only at the age of 18 did Sauvage learn that he and his family were Jewish and survivors of the Holocaust.  Weapons of the Spirit won numerous awards and received two national prime-time broadcasts on P.B.S.\, accompanied by Bill Moyers’ probing 1989 interview of the filmmaker\, and remains one of the most widely used documentary teaching tools on the Holocaust.  \nA popular lecturer on the Holocaust and its continuing challenges\, for over twenty years\, Sauvage has been a student of what he calls the American experience of the Holocaust.  He is one of a pioneering handful of experts on rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust–“righteous Gentiles”–and contends that they still have much to teach us.  The son of prominent French journalist and author\, Sauvage was 4 when he and his parents moved to New York City in 1948\, returning to Paris at 18 to pursue his studies. After working briefly as a journalist\, the Sorbonne drop-out fell in love with film at Paris’ legendary Cinémathèque Française\, becoming a film scholar and landing a job there working for the legendary genius Henri Langlois.  Veteran émigré producer Otto Preminger brought Sauvage back to New York as a story editor. After co-authoring a two-volume critical study of American film directors\, American Directors\, Sauvage finally got behind the camera himself as a staff producer-reporter for Los Angeles public television station KCET.  While producing over 30 hours of varied programming\, his first major success came when he decided to begin exploring those Jewish roots he had never known in Yiddish: the Mame-Loshn (1979). \nSponsors:\nThe Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, a program of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, is cosponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures\, Department of Religious Studies\, Congregation B’nai B’rith\, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\, and Santa Barbara Hillel. \nhm 12/7/10\, 1/2/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/america-and-the-holocaust/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110119T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110119T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112823Z UID:10001892-1295395200-1295395200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Global Landscape of Holocaust Memorials since 1945 DESCRIPTION:Since the January 2000 Stockholm conference “The Holocaust – Education\, Remembrance and Research\,” which was attended by high-level representatives from 46 countries\, there has been much discussion of a “globalization” of memory of the Nazi Holocaust. This lecture uses memorials and museums to trace the origins and spread of public awareness of “the” Holocaust and its changing meanings from the 1940s to the new millennium.\nThe presentation will be followed by a response from Richard Hecht (Religious Studies\, UCSB). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Geographies of Place Series. \nhm 1/3/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-global-landscape-of-holocaust-memorials-since-1945/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110121T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110121T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112820Z UID:10001852-1295568000-1295568000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Women in Prehistoric Greece DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the lives of girls and women in the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures of the prehistoric Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BCE). Testing modern assumptions and expectations against the archaeological\, iconographic\, and textual evidence leads to some surprising conclusions. While Minoan-Mycenaean society was probably sex-segregated (Minoan perhaps more so than Mycenaean)\, there is almost no evidence for love\, intimacy\, sex\, or marriage\, but there is good evidence for women participants in some athletic events and the hunt.\nJohn Younger is Professor of Classics and Director of the Women\, Gender & Sexuality Studies program at the University of Kansas. \nThis event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 06.ix.10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/women-in-prehistoric-greece/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110121T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110121T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112823Z UID:10001707-1295568000-1295568000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Crisis\, Los Angeles Black Communities\, and the Failed State Debate DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk by Clyde Woods\, Black Studies\, UCSB\, “The Crisis\, Los Angeles’ Black Communities\, and the Failed State Debate.” Woods is the author of Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta (2000) and editor of Black Geographies and the Politics of Place (2007). He is now part of a community/academic team studying development policy in Los Angeles.\nThe talk\, and subsequent discussion\, is part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work\, Labor\, and Political Economy\, 2010-2011 lecture series.\nThe Winter Quarter topic is “The Financial Crisis and its Origins.” \nThe Colloquium meets on Friday\, January 21 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building. \njmj 01/03/2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-crisis-los-angeles-black-communities-and-the-failed-state-debate/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110131T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110131T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112820Z UID:10001856-1296432000-1296432000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Some Problems with Hubris in Ancient Greek Law DESCRIPTION:This paper will examine some characteristic problems and issues in the study of Athenian law\, and of ancient Greek law more generally\, through an analysis of the offense of hubris (“intentionally dishonoring behavior”). Topics to be discussed include (1) the Athenian law of hubris; (2) parallels with the laws and practices of other Greek communities and their ramifications for the question of the unity of Greek law; and (3) hubris and the categorization of shame.\nDavid Phillips is Associate Professor of History at UCLA. \nThis event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 05.I.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/some-problems-with-hubris-in-ancient-greek-law/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110203T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110203T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112823Z UID:10001714-1296691200-1296691200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:West Meets East: The International Labor Organization from Geneva to the Pacific Rim Conference DESCRIPTION:West Meets East: The International Labor Organization from Geneva to the Pacific Rim is an Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of California\, Santa Barbara from February 3-5\, 2011\nMcCune Conference Room on the 6th floor\, HSSB \nThursday\, Feb. 3\, 3:00 – 5:00 pm\nFriday\, Feb 4\, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm\nSaturday\, Feb. 5\, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm \nThis conference explores the historical role of the International Labor Organization throughout the Pacific Rim. During the last half century this vast region has become the world’s most important site of capitalist growth and social transformation\, the global center of low-wage manufacturing\, transoceanic trade\, and economic rivalry. As the ILO approaches its hundredth anniversary\, the conference probes how this United Nations affiliated international organization has defined “development\,” promoted labor standards\, fought for women’s rights\, and collaborated with nation-states and NGOs. \nKeynote Speakers:\nLeon Fink\, Distinguished Professor of History\, University of Illinois\, Chicago\, 6:30 pm\, February 3\, UCSB Alumni House\nAnita Chan\, Professor\, China Research Centre of the University of Technology\, Sydney\, 6:30 pm\, February 4\, UCSB Faculty Club \nFor a full conference schedule: URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/west-meets-east-the-international-labor-organization-from-geneva-to-the-pacific-rim-conference/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110203T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110203T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112824Z UID:10001913-1296691200-1296691200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Assessing the Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt DESCRIPTION:The overthrow of the Ben Ali dictatorship in Tunisia by sustained popular demonstrations has led to even more cataclysmic protests in Egypt\, Yemen\, Jordan\, and elsewhere in the Arab World. UCSB has two of the best experts on Egypt and Tunisia in the US to provide perspective on recent events. Both have done extensive research in Egypt and Tunisia.\nJuan E. Campo specializes on Islam in Religious Studies. He is a past EAP Director in Cairo and a frequent visitor to Egypt. He is the current Acting UCSB EAP Director. \nNancy Gallagher is a professor of Modern Middle East History. She has published widely on both modern Tunisian and Egyptian history. She has been nominated to become the UC EAP Director in Cairo. \nhm 1/31/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/assessing-the-revolutions-in-tunisia-and-egypt/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110204T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110204T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112824Z UID:10001904-1296777600-1296777600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"A Republic Amidst the Stars": political astronomy and the intellectual origins of the stars and stripes DESCRIPTION:Eran Shalev\, a historian of the early republic at the university of haifa\, Rome rebornon western shores: historical imagination and the creation of the american\nrepublic (charlottesville: university of virginia press\, 2009). \nHis talk will demonstrate how throughout the republic’s history\, the configuration\nof the state-as-star and the consequent image of the united states as a\n“new constellation” provided a powerful and overlooked vocabulary to\narticulate and express Americans’ shifting attitudes toward\, and\nunderstanding of their federal republic. \nShalev is a powerful thinker and an engaging speaker. and a light\nlunch will be served! \nhm 1/29/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/a-republic-amidst-the-stars-political-astronomy-and-the-intellectual-origins-of-the-stars-and-stripes/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110207T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110207T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112824Z UID:10001894-1297036800-1297036800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Alea iacta est and all that: Game Theory and Caesar at the Rubicon DESCRIPTION:Robert Morstein-Marx is Professor of Classics at UCSB.\nThis event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 05.I.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/alea-iacta-est-and-all-that-game-theory-and-caesar-at-the-rubicon/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110208T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110208T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112820Z UID:10001681-1297123200-1297123200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Magic and Religion in Ancient Corinth DESCRIPTION:Located at the narrowest part of the Greek peninsula and controlling land and sea traffic in all four directions\, Corinth became famous as one of the greatest commercial centers in the ancient world. Her mighty rock fortress of Acrocorinth also made her almost impervious to attack. Corinth was a prime player in all the important historical events of antiquity\, succumbing at one point to destruction by the Roman armies in 146 B.C. and abandonment for roughly a century. Revived by Julius Caesar\, Corinth became a provincial capital and once again a thriving center of trade and culture\, attracting a large and diverse population of Italians\, Egyptians\, Jews\, Syrians\, and many others.\nFrom at least as early as legendary times Corinth also had a reputation as a center for magic and the occult. The city was the venue for some of the most striking adventures of the most notorious witch in Greece\, Medea. Many tales about ghosts\, haunted houses\, the supernatural\, and monsters were set in Corinth. Excavations by the American School of Classical Studies have revealed a “cell” where black magic was practiced at night high up on the slopes of Acrocorinth in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone. It was established at roughly the same time as St. Paul’s famous Christian mission to Corinth in the middle of the first century after Christ. \nThis lecture will present some of the special magical equipment used in these secret activities\, as well as the texts incised on lead tablets carrying curses that were deposited in this shrine. Named individuals are singled out for destruction and merit special attention because both writers and targets of many are women. \nRonald Stroud is Klio Distinguished Professor of Classical Languages and Literature Emeritus at the University of California\, Berkeley. \njwil 29.vii.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/magic-and-religion-in-ancient-corinth/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110209T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110209T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112824Z UID:10001906-1297209600-1297209600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Evolution of Arab- and Muslim-American Activism in the Post-9/11 Decade DESCRIPTION:The talk is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) and cosponsored by the Department of History.\nThe event is free and open to the public. A brief reception will follow Dr. Ibish’s presentation.\nPlease join us for this exciting event! \nHussein Ibish will discuss Arab- and Muslim-American activism after September 11\, 2001. He will address immediate reactions to the terrorist attacks\, examining how the communities coped with various kinds of fallout and backlash and organized politically in response. He will also consider the longer-term ramifications for Arab and Muslim Americans’ political and community organizing\, and the prospects for their empowerment and integration into the American social\, cultural\, and political scene. Finally\, Dr. Ibish will look at the rise of Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism in the broader American cultural and political discourse\, and responses to it from various sources. \nHussein Ibish is a Senior Fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) and Executive Director of the Hala Salaam Maksoud Foundation for Arab-American Leadership. Dr. Ibish has made thousands of radio and television appearances and has written for many newspapers\, including the Los Angeles Times\, the Washington Post\, and the Chicago Tribune. He was the Washington\, DC Correspondent for the Daily Star (Beirut). Dr. Ibish is editor and principal author of three major studies of hate crimes and discrimination against Arab Americans and the author of numerous articles on Middle Eastern politics\, U.S. policy\, civil liberties\, and Arab-American life. His most recent book is “What’s Wrong with the One-State Agenda? Why Ending the Occupation and Peace with Israel is Still the Palestinian National Goal” (ATFP\, 2009). \nhm 1/29/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-evolution-of-arab-and-muslim-american-activism-in-the-post-911-decade/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110210T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110210T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112824Z UID:10001910-1297296000-1297296000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai. DESCRIPTION:Discussant: Prof. Amit Ahuja\, Political Science\, UCSB\nThe Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai examines the dynamics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai\, a former colonial port that now hosts new economic ventures such as software engineering\, back office services and export processing. Over the past two decades of neoliberal globalization\, state and municipal authorities have launched new efforts to attract investment and consumption through regulatory changes and by fashioning a heritage-conscious cityscape. Working from specific sites (museums\, temples\, vernacular architecture projects and memorials)\, Hancock grapples with the question of how people in Chennai remember\, represent and debate their past\, considering the political and economic contexts and implications of those memory practices. \nMary Hancock is Professor in the Departments of History and Anthropology at UCSB\, where she teaches courses on public memory\, religion and the anthropology of space and place. She earned her PhD n Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania\, and is the author of The Politics of Memory from Madras to Chennai\, as well as numerous articles that have appeared in Modern Asian Studies\, American Ethnologist\, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space\, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. \nAmit Ahuja\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, UCSB\, conducts research on the participation and mobilization of marginalized ethnic groups. His interests are located in the areas of ethnic politics\, political development\, security studies\, and South Asia. \nDownload chapters from the Book: Chapters 1 and 4 from the\nRFG Identity website.\nChapter 1 provides background information and we will focus our discussion on Chapter 4. \nSponsored by RFG Identity. \nhm 1/30/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-politics-of-heritage-from-madras-to-chennai/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110211T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110211T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112825Z UID:10001917-1297382400-1297382400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Painting the People’s Court: Art and Democracy in Postwar Japan DESCRIPTION:This paper introduces the work of a group of miner-artists at a coal mine in northern Japan\, as an exampleof how art and other forms of cultural expression became vehicles for building new forms of democratic\nsubjectivity after the end of WWII. The miner-artists’ vision was but one of a multiplicity of visions that\njostled and jockeyed in the dispersed cultural environment of the early postwar\, but their efforts to represent\nand memorialize an important moment in their recent history can be seen as part of a broad movement\namong ordinary people to participate in the formation of their own culture and lay claim to the franchise of\nauthorship. \nhm 2/9/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/painting-the-peoples-court-art-and-democracy-in-postwar-japan/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110214T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110214T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112824Z UID:10001896-1297641600-1297641600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:What's the Matter with Marriage? Some Early Christian Answers DESCRIPTION:Abstract forthcoming.\nElizabeth Clark is John Kilgo Carlisle Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Duke University. \nThis event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 05.I.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/whats-the-matter-with-marriage-some-early-christian-answers/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110214T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110214T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112825Z UID:10001916-1297641600-1297641600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Language Vitality in Southern Mexico: Histories of Forced Relocations DESCRIPTION:From the mid 1950s to the late 1980s\, thousand of indigenous people -particularly Mazatecos and Chinantecos – were relocated from their towns in the state of Oaxaca to the state of Veracruz\, to make way for two large dams. There is no record of how many families where relocated\, and only few anthropological accounts followed these processes\, They all agreed in describing these relocations as ethnocidal\, and that the languages were in risk of disappearing. Half a century after the relocations\, contrary to what was predicted\, we find linguistic communities of Mazatecos\, Chinantecos\, Nahuas and Zapotecos in the region of southern Veracruz. Due to their lack of territory\, language has become a determinant factor in the reproduction of identity and the social\, economical and political organization of these communities. In this presentation we discus some of these communities and the conditions under which their languages have persisted. \nhm 2/7/11\, 2/13 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/language-vitality-in-southern-mexico-histories-of-forced-relocations/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110216T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110216T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112825Z UID:10001918-1297814400-1297814400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Solvang Past and Present DESCRIPTION:Solvang’s particular Danishness has evolved in step with the American twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. An emphasis on tourism has both preserved and distorted the heritage that fueled the community’s origin. By looking at the details of Solvang’s architecture and objects\, we learn what lures recreational shoppers from around the world. Interviews with Solvang’s residents reveal points of view on a cultural production that packages Danish traditions with a dependence on a Latino workforce. Esther Jacobsen Bates will discuss the history of Solvang and how it became the Danish enclave it is today. Ethan Turpin will share short films on his hometown and what he learned in the process of documenting its cultural space.See Solvang presentation page. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Local Places and Geographies of Place series. \nAbout the Local Places Series\nHow did Solvang become Danish? How did Santa Barbara become California’s first Hollywood? How did Isla Vista become home to one of the most distinguished artists’ presses? Join the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center as we delve into these and other fascinating regional histories in our talks on Local Places.\nFor more information\, please visit: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/series/local-places/ URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/solvang-past-and-present/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110217T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110217T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112825Z UID:10001915-1297900800-1297900800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Career and Influence of Apple Computer's CEO\, Steve Jobs DESCRIPTION:When Apple Computer recently announced that CEO Steve Jobs wastaking a medical leave\, its stock dropped 5 per cent in one day and\npundits began to speculate about the company’s future. How did the\nfate of a multi-billion dollar enterprise come to rest so heavily on the\nhealth of a single individual? Join us February 17 as local author Daniel\nAlef tells the fascinating story of one of America’s most intriguing and\ncomplex business leaders. Since he co-founded Apple\, Steve Jobs has\nled an evolution in American technology and culture that has affected\nthe way Americans think\, write\, and communicate; the way we buy\nand listen to music\, even our concept of animated films. Daniel Alef\nwill describe the defining moments and events in Jobs’ life and attempt\nto pierce the iron veil that accounts for his mystique. \nDaniel Alef is an award-winning novelist\, author and former\nsyndicated columnist. In addition to his novel\, Pale Truth\n(named Book-of-the-Year in general fiction by Foreword\nmagazine at BEA in 2000)\, the former lawyer and CEO is\nthe author of articles ranging from the Journal of Taxation to\nAmerican Biography\, a book on tax law\, and more than 300\nbiographical profiles of America’s great titans of fortune. He is\nalso a contributor to Sage Publishing’s just released Gender &\nWomen’s Leadership: A Reference Handbook. A member of the\nHistory Associates Board of Directors\, Alef received his J.D. from UCLA Law School\nand an LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He did\npost-graduate work at Cambridge University (Queen’s College). He is also one of the\nhead coaches (senseis) of the UCSB Judo Club. \n$20 (HA members and guests) $23 (non-members) \nFor more information or to reserve your spot\, call (805) 617-0998. \nThis event is sponsored by UCSB’s History Associates.\nSince 1987\, UCSB History Associates has brought together community members and UCSB faculty through an annual program of history-focused lectures\, lunches\, and tours. The History Associates raise money to support graduate training in History at UCSB. Support from the History Associates makes an essential contribution to the success of our graduate students. \nhm 2/5/11\, 2/7 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-career-and-influence-of-apple-computers-ceo-steve-jobs/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110218T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110218T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112823Z UID:10001709-1297987200-1297987200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:A Long Strange Trip: The State and the Market for Mortgage Securitization\, 1968-2010 DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk by NEIL FLIGSTEIN\, Sociology\, UC Berkeley. “A Long Strange Trip: The State and the Market for Mortgage Securitization\, 1968-2010.” Fligstein is the author of Markets\, Politics\, and Globalization (1997) and The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Capitalist Societies (2002). His current work evaluates how policies in the 1980s and 1990s to “maximize shareholder value” effected the organization of American industries and working conditions.\nThe talk\, and subsequent discussion\, is part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work\, Labor\, and Political Economy\, 2010-2011 lecture series.\nThe Winter Quarter topic is “The Financial Crisis and its Origins.” \nThe Colloquium meets on Friday\, February 18 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building. \njmj 01/03/2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/a-long-strange-trip-the-state-and-the-market-for-mortgage-securitization-1968-2010/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110218T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110218T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112824Z UID:10001900-1297987200-1297987200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Galileo's Middle Finger: Struggles of Science and Identity Politics in the Internet Age DESCRIPTION:Dear friends of Lawrence Badash and members of the community\,\nThe UCSB Center for Science and Society is pleased to announce the second annual Lawrence Badash Lecture. The Badash Lecture honors a scholar of science and society whose work has advanced not only the history of science\, but also the larger aims of social justice\, civil liberties\, peace and disarmament\, public health\, or environmental protection. \nThe first annual Badash Lecture\, held in 2010\, honored Gregg Mitman\,\nDirector of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the\nUniversity of Wisconsin. This year’s address will be given by Alice\nDomurat Dreger\, Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics\nin the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Please\njoin us for this exciting event. \nAbstract:\nThis talk explores the nature of contemporary scientific controversies\nregarding human identity. We will consider several case studies\n(including one involving UCSB emeritus professor Napoloen Chagnon) to\nparse out the similarities and differences among these cases\, and to\nconsider what scientists and identity activists can do to more\neffectively engage in productive\, fair dialogue. The speaker\napproaches this topic as an historian of science and medicine who has\nbeen studying this issue as part of a Guggenheim book project\, but\nalso as someone who has been an advocate in the intersex rights\nmovement and as someone who has been subject to scathing criticisms by\nsome transgender rights advocates for her historical scholarship. \nAbout the Speaker:\nAlice Dreger is Professor of Clinical Medical Humanities and Bioethics\nin the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University\, and a\nGuggenheim Fellow. Her books include *Hermaphrodites and the Medical\nInvention of Sex* and *One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of\nNormal* (both from Harvard University Press). She served as Chair of\nthe Board of the Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) for seven\nyears. Dr. Dreger’s essays on science\, medicine\, and life have\nappeared in the New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, the\nWashington Post\, and the Chicago Tribune. In 2009\, W. W. Norton\nselected her essay\, “Lavish Dwarf Entertainment\,” for inclusion in its\nannual Best Creative Non-Fiction volume. She has appeared on numerous\nbroadcasts as an expert on sex\, including on HBO\, CNN\, the Oprah\nWinfrey Show\, and Savage Love. Dr. Dreger is a regular blogger for\nPsychology Today and a contributor to the Hastings Center’s Bioethics\nForum. More information is available at her personal website\,\nalicedreger.com. \nAbout Larry Badash:\nProfessor Emeritus Larry Badash passed away in 2010 after a 36-year\nteaching and research career at UCSB. A specialist in the history of\nphysics and nuclear weapons\, Larry was the author of seven books and\ndozens of articles. He was also a popular mentor\, avid outdoorsman\,\nand community activist who worked for civil liberties and\nenvironmental protection. For more about Larry’s life and\naccomplishments\, please see:\nSB Independent obituary\, Sept. 2010 \nThis event is hosted by the UCSB Center for Science and Society\, and\ncosponsored by the UCSB departments of Anthropology and Feminist\nStudies. \nhm 1/25/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/galileos-middle-finger-struggles-of-science-and-identity-politics-in-the-internet-age/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110223T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110223T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112825Z UID:10001919-1298419200-1298419200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:4th Annual Ask-A-Vet Forum DESCRIPTION:A panel of UCSB student veterans will participate in this event\, now in its fourth year. The students will discuss their experiences in the armed forces\, including service in Iraq and Afghanistan\, and their transition to university life. This event is sponsored by Student Veterans at UCSB\, a non-partisan student group sponsored by the Office of Student Life. Professor John Lee from the Department of History will serve as moderator for the forum.\njwil 15.ii.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/4th-annual-ask-a-vet-forum/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110224T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110224T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112825Z UID:10001921-1298505600-1298505600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Migrant Rights and Migrant Melodrama\, or Elvira Arellano as Suffering Mother and Evil Mother\, Criminal and Saint DESCRIPTION:Date: Thursday\, Feb. 24th from 5:00-6:00 p.m.Location: 2nd Floor conference room\, #2135\, Social Sciences and\nMedia Studies building \nAbstract of Talk: \nAna Elena Puga trains a theater/performance studies lens on the\nstruggle to control public perception of undocumented migrant rights\nactivist Elvira Arellano\, who was deported in 2007. Puga coins the\nterm “migrant melodrama” to describe how key media coverage\,\ncultural production\, and social performance in Arellano’s case\nrecycled and deployed tropes from nineteenth-century melodrama.\nMigrant melodrama was used by Arellano herself\, as well as by both\nsupporters and detractors of the single mother\, who sought\nsanctuary in a Chicago church together with her US-born son. Can\nmelodramatic spectacles of suffering insist on a common humanity\nand make ethical claims for inclusion into an imagined community?\nYet can they also backfire by setting the price of inclusion at an\nimpossibly high level of virtue? \nBio of Speaker:\nAna Puga’s current book project\, Desperate Acts: Melodrama and\nSpectacles of Suffering in the Performance of Migration\,\ninterrogates the reliance on melodrama in late twentieth and\ntwenty-first century artistic and social performances featuring\nundocumented migrants from Latin America\, especially women and\nchildren. Desperate Acts shows how performances that involve\nsuffering migrant bodies often re-circulate nineteenth-century\nmelodramatic tropes from race\, domestic\, and sensation melodramas\,\nasking how those tropes circumscribe contemporary political agency.\nPuga is the author of Memory\, Allegory\, and Testimony in South\nAmerican Theatre: Upstaging Dictatorship (Routledge 2008) and\ntranslator\, with Mónica Núñez-Parra\, of Finished from the Start and\nother Plays\, an anthology of six works by Chilean playwright Juan\nRadrigán (Northwestern University Press 2008). Puga has published\narticles in Latin American Theatre Review and Theatre Journal\,\namong other journals. She co-founded LaMicro Theatre\, dedicated to\nthe staging of contemporary Spanish\, Latin American and US Latino\nplays in English and bilingual productions. \nhm 2/21/11; jwil 22.ii.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/migrant-rights-and-migrant-melodrama-or-elvira-arellano-as-suffering-mother-and-evil-mother-criminal-and-saint/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110225T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110225T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112823Z UID:10001710-1298592000-1298592000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:When Wall Street Met Main Street\, 1890-1932 DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk by JULIA OTT\, New School for Social Research\, “When Wall Street Met Main Street\, 1890-1932.” Ott’s book of the same title will be published by Harvard University Press in the spring of 2011. Her next project considers the enduring influence of financial institutions and pro-investor ideology in recent U.S. political history.\nThe talk\, and subsequent discussion\, is part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work\, Labor\, and Political Economy\, 2010-2011 lecture series.\nThe Winter Quarter topic is “The Financial Crisis and its Origins.” \nThe Colloquium meets on Friday\, January 25 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building. \njmj 01/03/2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/when-wall-street-met-main-street-1890-1932/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110301T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110301T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112824Z UID:10001908-1298937600-1298937600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Public Memorial Service honoring Tom Sizgorich DESCRIPTION:There will be a public memorial for Tom Sizgorich at UCSB on a date around early March\, to be announced.\nHal Drake has also set up a fund for the Tom Sizgorich Memorial Incoming Graduate Student Award. It will go to an outstanding incoming graduate student from an economically disadvantaged background pursuing any of Tom’s fields of interest:\nAncient History\,\nLate Antiquity\,\nEarly Islamic History or\nBorderlands Studies. \nChecks should be made out to: \nUC Regents/UCSB History Associates\nThomas Sizgorich Memorial Fund \nand mailed to: \nThomas Sizgorich Memorial Fund\nOffice of Community Relations\nUniversity of California\nSanta Barbara\, CA 93106-1136 \nhm 2/12/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/public-memorial-service-honoring-tom-sizgorich/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110302T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110302T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112824Z UID:10001912-1299024000-1299024000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Dead Kings and National Myths: Why myths of founding and martyrdom are important DESCRIPTION:Prof. Sabrina Ramet. Professor of Political Science\, The Norwegian University of Science &Technology Visiting Scholar\, Northwestern University\, 1 Sept 2010–31 March 2011\nLocation: Lane Rm\, 3rd fl\, Ellison Hall\nSponsored by RFG Identity. \nhm 1/30/11\, 2/27 image URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/dead-kings-and-national-myths-why-myths-of-founding-and-martyrdom-are-important/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110302T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110302T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112825Z UID:10001923-1299024000-1299024000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Communities\, Development and the Cold War: The Peace Corps in South America during the 1960s. DESCRIPTION:This presentation will examine the work and experiences of United States Peace Corps volunteers who served in South America during the 1960s. Paying particular attention to the interaction of volunteers with South American people\, their multiple interests and contradictions and to their motivations for becoming volunteers\, the talk will evaluate the way in which the global Cold War was experienced at a community level. This is part of an ongoing research project that combines both a diplomatic as well as a socio-cultural approach and incorporates non-state actors to understand the global Cold War in South America.\nThis is a UCSB(LAIS) and CSU-Los Angeles collaborative talk event.\nIt is free and open to the public. \nhm 2/23/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/communities-development-and-the-cold-war-the-peace-corps-in-south-america-during-the-1960s/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110302T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110302T000000 DTSTAMP:20260506T000509 CREATED:20150928T112826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112826Z UID:10001926-1299024000-1299024000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:An Ax Falling under the Candle Light: A Royal Murder Mystery\, History Writing\, & the Political Culture of Song China DESCRIPTION:The Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE) is known for its remarkable political stability. Yet\, its very first royal succession was shrouded in mystery– murder mystery. Why did the founding emperor\, Taizu\, pass over his grown sons to designate his younger brother Taizong to be his heir? Or did he? Did Taizong kill his older brother Taizu\, possibly with poison or an ax? This paper will discuss how the memory of the murder mystery was simultaneously hushed up and preserved during the Song\, and what the subtle influence of this memory can tell us about history writing and the political culture of the Song period. And of course\, the murder mystery itself will also be discussed.\nDr. Xiao-bin Ji teaches in the Department of History at UCSB. \nThis lecture is sponsored by the UCSB East Asia Center. \njwil 01.iii.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/an-ax-falling-under-the-candle-light-a-royal-murder-mystery-history-writing-the-political-culture-of-song-china/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR