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:20110208T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110208T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T020144 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:20260508T020144 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:20260508T020144 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:20260508T020144 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:20260508T020144 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:20260508T020144 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:20260508T020144 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:20260508T020144 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:20260508T020144 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:20260508T020144 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:20260508T020144 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:20260508T020144 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:20260508T020144 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:20260508T020144 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:20260508T020144 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:20260508T020144 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:20260508T020144 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110304T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110304T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T020144 CREATED:20150928T112823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112823Z UID:10001712-1299196800-1299196800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Crisis and the Global Economy DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk by BARRY EICHENGREEN\, Economics and Political Science\, UC Berkeley. “The Crisis and the Global Economy.” A former advisor to the International Monetary Fund\, Eichengreen is the author of Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (2008) and Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods (2006). \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\, March 4 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building. \njmj 01/03/2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-crisis-and-the-global-economy/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110306T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110306T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T020144 CREATED:20150928T112823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112823Z UID:10001703-1299369600-1299369600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Jewish Odyssey: An Illustrated History DESCRIPTION:Marek Halter is an international best-selling novelist\, filmmaker and human rights activist. \nSponsored by the Harman P. and Sophia Taubman Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies\, cosponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures\, Dept. of Religious Studies\, Congregation B’nai B’rith\, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara Hillel \nhm 12/7/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-jewish-odyssey-an-illustrated-history/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110307T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110307T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T020144 CREATED:20150928T112824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112824Z UID:10001898-1299456000-1299456000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Early Hellenistic Corinth Between Antigonid Macedon and the Achaian League DESCRIPTION:Corinth\, like many Greek poleis (”city-states”)\, did not enjoy full autonomy and freedom during the Hellenistic period. Between the battles of Chaironeia (338 BC) and Cynoscephalae (197 BC)\, Corinth was almost continuously under the control of Antigonid Macedon\, except for a brief time (243-224 BC) when it belonged to the Achaian League. This talk focuses on Corinth’s experience as a member state of the Achaian League. It scrutinizes the widely-held perception that the Corinthians enjoyed greater freedom and autonomy under the Achaian League than they had under the Macedonians.\nMichael Dixon is Professor of History at the University of Southern Indiana. \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/early-hellenistic-corinth-between-antigonid-macedon-and-the-achaian-league/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110307T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110307T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T020144 CREATED:20150928T112825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112825Z UID:10001922-1299456000-1299456000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Changing Values in Egyptian Burial at the End of the Late Bronze Age DESCRIPTION:Egyptian 20th and 21st Dynasty (1190-945 BCE) funerary arts from Thebes find their origins within the social unrest of the Late Bronze Age. In Thebes\, funerary preparations were challenged with limited burial space\, scarce material resources\, tomb robbery\, and re-use. Surviving funerary materials reflect a variety of defensive innovations while at the same time preserving the ability of elite families to shore up social power by means of funerary displays.\nThe mummy is perhaps our best evidence for these defensive burial adaptations\, as it was the only part of the Egyptian burial that could not be re-used by someone else and returned to the sphere of the commodity. Investments in mummification probably provided psychological security for Theban elites\, with the heightened intent of perfectly preserving the flesh and bone of the deceased for eternity. \nKathlyn (Kara) Cooney is Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA. \nThis talk is sponsored by the Archaeology Research Focus Group\, with cooperation from the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program. \njwil 23.ii.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/changing-values-in-egyptian-burial-at-the-end-of-the-late-bronze-age/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110307T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110307T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T020144 CREATED:20150928T112826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112826Z UID:10001924-1299456000-1299456000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Gender Studies in Kazakhstan DESCRIPTION:Prof. Nazym Shedenova Dept. of Sociology\, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University\nAlmaty\, Kazakhstan \nProf. Shedenova is a founder of Gender Studies in Kazakhstan and an expert on the role of women in the Kazakhstan labor force. She has participated in a wide array of programs focused on gender in Germany\, Ukraine\, Hungary\, United Kingdom\, and India. Professor Shedenova is currently a visiting scholar at the Institute of Slavic\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies\, University of California\, Berkeley. \nSponsored by IHC RFG on Identity\, Feminist Studies\, and Political Science. \nhm 2/28/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/gender-studies-in-kazakhstan/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110310T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110310T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T020144 CREATED:20150928T112826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112826Z UID:10001928-1299715200-1299715200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Rationing Food in Wartime: Doomed to Fail? DESCRIPTION:Food shortages in Occupied Europe offer a marked contrast to the experience with food rationing in the United States and Britain during World War II. Adding the French experience with rationing to comparative work on Britain and the United States offers a broader perspective on what was really important in wartime food rationing and its relative successes and failures.\nKenneth Mouré is Professor and Chair of the Department of History\, University of Alberta. \nThis event is sponsored by the IHC Food Studies Research Focus Group. \njwil 03.iii.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/rationing-food-in-wartime-doomed-to-fail/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110328T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110328T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T020144 CREATED:20150928T112826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112826Z UID:10001930-1301270400-1301270400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:From the Valley of the Kings to Philae: Ancient and Modern Pilgrimages DESCRIPTION:Dr Cruz-Uribe will examine the role of pilgrimage in ancient Egypt\, especially during Roman and Byzantine times. Using both newly-discovered and well-known Coptic and Demotic texts\, he will compare the pilgrimage practices of the traditional Egyptian and Nubian populations with the practices of the contemporary Christians\, investigating why the Egyptians went on pilgrimages\, how the Christians began to emulate “pagan” pilgrimage practices\, and the conflicts that arose between the groups over control of pilgrimage destination points.\nThis talk is sponsored by the Archaeology Research Focus Group with cooperation from the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program. \njwil 07.iii.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/from-the-valley-of-the-kings-to-philae-ancient-and-modern-pilgrimages/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110328T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110328T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T020144 CREATED:20150928T112828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112828Z UID:10001739-1301270400-1301270400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Spring Quarter Classes Begin DESCRIPTION:Spring Quarter 2011 classes begin on Monday\, March 28.\nIf 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. \nSpring 2011 final examination schedule \nhm 3/16/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/spring-quarter-classes-begin/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110330T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110330T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T020144 CREATED:20150928T112828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112828Z UID:10001732-1301443200-1301443200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Next Generation Nano? Narratives of Synthetic Biology DESCRIPTION:This talk will explore how narratives of novelty and familiarity have been routinely deployed by practitioners\, analysts\, and policymakers alike in synthetic biology\, and what this may mean for a consideration of synthetic biology as “the new new thing” for studies of emerging technoscience.\nLuis Campos is a graduate of Harvard’s History of Science Department and is now an assistant professor\, focusing on the history of biology\, at Drew University. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/next-generation-nano-narratives-of-synthetic-biology/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110405T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110405T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T020144 CREATED:20150928T112828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112828Z UID:10001743-1301961600-1301961600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Whiskey Goes to War: American Distillers and the Politics of Food and Alcohol during WWII DESCRIPTION:The invasion of Normandy\, the creation of an industrial war machine\, and the falling reputation of rum—how does whiskey tie them all together? Lisa Jacobson answers this question by exploring the political and cultural ramifications of domestic whiskey shortages during World War II. Contrary to the common assumption that the federal government steered clear of alcohol questions after Prohibition’s repeal\, her paper shows how large distillers emerged from the war both more powerful and more distrusted thanks to delayed federal intervention on their behalf. Distillers might have scored a much-needed public relations victory when they converted their entire production to industrial alcohol to aid in the manufacture of smokeless gun powder and synthetic rubber. Their substantial reserves of aging whiskey\, however\, could not keep pace with rising wartime demand and the resulting liquor shortages gave way to price gouging and black markets. The distillers campaigned for (and eventually won) “liquor holidays” from war production to replenish dwindling whiskey inventories\, but the state’s ambivalent response to liquor shortages and the liquor trade’s own eagerness to profit from them damaged whiskey makers’ reputation.\nThis paper workshop is designed to provide the author with feedback on work-in-progress. Please contact Ali Hendley at ahendley@umail.ucsb.edu to obtain a copy of the paper to read beforehand. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Food Studies RFG and the Dept. of History. \nhm 3/30/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/whiskey-goes-to-war-american-distillers-and-the-politics-of-food-and-alcohol-during-wwii/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110405T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110405T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T020144 CREATED:20150928T112828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112828Z UID:10001734-1301961600-1301961600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Teach-In against Corporate Greed DESCRIPTION:Faculty are invited to bring their classes.\nFrom 1100AM to 1230PM the national teach-in will be streaming live on the\nbig screen. From 1230 to 200PM we will have local speakers and discussion\nabout the current assault on unions\, students\, the poor and elderly\, women\,\npeople of color\, and gays. There will be a lot to talk about\, but at this\npoint some of the key issues are these: \nCorporate and particularly Wall St fraud and looting of the public via\nregressive redistribution of taxation and social provision of all types: in\neducation\, health care\, public transport etc. \nEfforts to rescind hard-won rights: workers’ rights to organize and bargain\ncollectives\, women’s rights to abortion\, contraception\, and a variety of\nhealth services\, students’\, poor people’s\, and people of color’s right to\nvote\, gay people’s rights to marry and domestic partnership\, a variety of\ncivil rights and liberties\, and others…. \nIn respect to these rollback efforts it is most notable that few of them\nhave any relationship to the US fiscal crisis\, which was the supposed big\nissue in the 2010 elections; where there is a significant relationship\, it\nusually involves worsening and deepening that crisis\, for example by\ncutting corporate taxes and further reducing the already limited tax burden\nof the wealthy. \nAlthough there was no advance indication that newly elected leaders were\nplanning this on either the federal\, state\, or local levels\, a coordinated\nnational initiative is underway to undermine the Democratic Party in\nadvance of the 2012 elections\, both by restricting its access to funds and\nby curtailing the voting rights of its main constituency bases: unionized\nworkers\, people of color\, young voters\, and women. None of these groups\nhave any significant relationship to the fiscal crisis of the state at any\nlevel\, although propaganda efforts are underway to suggest that public\nsector workers\, abortion rights\, and such programs as HeadStart are the\nsources of the problem. We are talking largely about Republican strategy\nhere\, but it is notable that at thus far there has been little Democratic\neffort to counter these assaults. \nThe purpose of this Teach-in is to raise consciousness on campuses across\nthe country about the present political crisis\, and to help mobilize\nstudents in their own (and the public) interest. \nhm 3/24/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/teach-in-against-corporate-greed/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110406T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110406T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T020144 CREATED:20150928T112826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112826Z UID:10001932-1302048000-1302048000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Anatolian Past and the Roman Beholder DESCRIPTION:In Roman antiquity as much as now\, the landscapes of Asia Minor were strewn with the traces of prior human habitation\, from Hittite rock-cut reliefs to abandoned Urartian fortifications. Anatolian authors writing under Roman rule—notably during the second and third centuries CE—had a keen interest in exploring mythological and pseudo-historical narratives about the local past; echoing these literary concerns\, the sculptural and numismatic production of cities throughout Roman Asia Minor celebrated remote foundation myths and kinship ties. But was anyone interested in manipulating material remains to imagine the Anatolian past? And were the traces of prior human habitation used to substantiate a preferred one version of local history over others? Who cared about Anatolian realia and why? \nFelipe Rojas received his Ph.D. in Classics from UC Berkeley. He is a 2010-2011 postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Villa. \nThis event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 09.iii.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-anatolian-past-and-the-roman-beholder/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110407T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110407T000000 DTSTAMP:20260508T020144 CREATED:20150928T112828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112828Z UID:10001741-1302134400-1302134400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Racial Politics of Bernstein's On the Town (1944) DESCRIPTION:Lecture I: An Integrated Cast in a Segregated AmericaThursday\, April 7\, 4 p.m.\, Karl Geiringer Hall (Music 1250)\nOn the Town (1944) was the first Broadway show of Leonard Bernstein (music)\, Betty Comden and Adolph Green (book and lyrics)\, and Jerome Robbins (choreography). It featured three sailors enjoying a one-day leave in New York City\, and it did so in the midst of WWII\, when the U.S. military remained firmly but contentiously segregated. A number of African Americans performed in the show’s otherwise all-white cast. Black male dancers donned sailor uniforms\, and black women danced hand-in-hand with white men. This lecture explores the transgressive message and silent-but-powerful political back-story of this now-forgotten racial landmark. \nLecture II: A Japanese-American Star on Broadway during WWII\nFriday\, April 8\, 4 p.m.\, Karl Geiringer Hall (Music 1250)\nAt the same time as On the Town contributed a chapter to the Long Civil Rights movement\, it also challenged the virtual exclusion of Asians from Broadway by hiring the dancer Sono Osato as the show’s star. On the day after Pearl Harbor\, Osato’s father had been arrested as an “alien enemy” and he remained on parole in Chicago when the show opened. This lecture explores the cultural complexities of Osato’s presence in On the Town . \nCarol J. Oja is William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard and on the faculty of its Program in the History of American Civilization. Her Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Other titles include Copland and his World (co-edited with Judith Tick) and Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds . She is past-president of the Society for American Music\, and she is completing a book tentatively titled Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War . \nThese lectures are sponsored by the UCSB Department of Music. \njwil 28.iii.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-racial-politics-of-bernsteins-on-the-town-1944/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR