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:20110328T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110328T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 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:20260503T190238 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:20260503T190238 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:20260503T190238 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:20260503T190238 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:20260503T190238 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:20260503T190238 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110411T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110411T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112825Z UID:10001914-1302480000-1302480000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:East and West: Encounters along the Silk Road DESCRIPTION:Ronald Mellor is Professor of History at UCLA.\nThis event is sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa in cooperation with the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 24.iii.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/east-and-west-encounters-along-the-silk-road/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110413T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110413T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112829Z UID:10001944-1302652800-1302652800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:From Victory Gardens to Urban Agriculture DESCRIPTION:TALK: From Victory Gardens to Urban Agriculture: Join the Garden RevolutionRose Hayden-Smith (IHC Research Fellow)\nWednesday\, April 13 / 12:00 PM\nMcCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\nHayden-Smith will present an in-depth look at the past and present of the Victory Garden movement. This paper will review historical case studies and discuss current national policies and models as well as future work needed to sustain the Victory Garden model as part of the overall local food movement. Hayden-Smith will also discuss urban agriculture and how the local food-systems movement is addressing a wide range of challenges facing Americans today. A graduate of UCSB\, Hayden-Smith is the Strategic Initiative Leader for Sustainable Food Systems for UC’s Agriculture and Natural Resources Division.\nSponsored by the IHC’s Research Fellows Program.\nWebsite: www.victorygrower.com\nMore Information: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/?p=4412 \nhm 4/6/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/from-victory-gardens-to-urban-agriculture/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110414T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110414T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112829Z UID:10001948-1302739200-1302739200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War DESCRIPTION:The GWU/UCSB/LSE International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War will be taking place here at UCSB April 14-16\, 2011\, in the Harbor Room\, on the lower level of UCen. The conference is an annual event jointly sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History\, along with affiliated Cold War centers at George Washington University and the London School of Economics. The conference rotates among the three university campuses\, and this year is UCSB’s turn. Twenty-two graduate students from all over the world are taking part in the conference\, presenting papers covering a wide array of topics relating to the Cold War. (See attached schedule.) It’s shaping up to be a great event\, and we cordially invite you to attend.\nThe students’ papers have been submitted and uploaded onto a password-protected web site\, and conference attendees are encouraged to read as widely in the papers as possible prior to the event. Anyone interested in attending the conference can contact me at this email address\, and I will provide him or her with the url and password. \nPlease join us for this exciting event! The schedule is as follows: \nTHURSDAY\, APRIL 14 \n5:00-8:00 pm—Orientation\, Reception\, and Dinner \n(Including presentation by Tsuoyoshi Hasegawa on his new edited volume\, The Cold War in East Asia\, 1945-1989\, and comment by Arne Westad\, London School of Economics) \nFRIDAY\, APRIL 15 \n8:15-9:00—Breakfast \nSession 1: 9:00-10:30—Nuclear Weapons \nChair: Jason Parker\, Texas A & M \nMary McPartland\, George Washington University\n“Captured Colleagues: British Scientists’ Advice about Their German Colleagues Detained at Farm Hall\, 1945-46”\nComment: Peter Westwick\, University of Southern California \nAnthony Crain\, Ohio State University\n“Neutron Diplomacy”\nComment: Hope M. Harrison\, George Washington University \nJason Saltoun-Ebin\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\n“Ronald Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative”\nComment: Peter Westwick\, University of Southern California \nSession 2: 10:40-12:10—Europe \nChair: Salim Yaqub\, University of California\, Santa Barbara \nWeston Ullrich\, London School of Economics\n“Same as the Old Boss? U.S. Policy and the Malenkov Interregnum\, 1953-1955”\nComment: Donal O’Sullivan\, California State University\, Northridge \nBernhard Blumenau\, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies\, Geneva\, Switzerland\n“The Other Battleground of the Cold War: The UN\, West Germany\, and the Struggle Against International Terrorism in the 1970s”\nComment: Hope M. Harrison\, George Washington University \nUna Bergmane\, Institute d’Etude Politique Paris\n“French\, American\, and German Foreign Policy Toward the Lithuanian Crisis of 1990”\nComment: Mary Sarotte\, University of Southern California \n12:10-1:10—Lunch \n1:10-2:15 Keynote Address \nMary Sarotte\, University of Southern California \n“The International Legacy of 1989” \n2:15-3:00—Plenary discussion on subject TBA\, led by Hope M. Harrison\, George Washington University \nSession 3: Africa—3:15-4:45 \nChair: Mhoze Chikowero\, University of California\, Santa Barbara \nAlessandro Iandolo\, Oxford University\n“The Rise and Fall of the ‘Socialist Model of Development’ in West Africa\, 1957-1964”\nComment: Arne Westad\, London School of Economics \nJamie Miller\, Cambridge University\n“‘This Bastion Against Communism’: South Africa and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire\, 1973-74”\nComment: Jennifer De Maio\, California State University\, Northridge \nNathaniel Powell\, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies\, Geneva\, Switzerland\n“Saving Mobutu: The International History of Africa’s First Peacekeeping Force”\nComment: Jennifer De Maio\, California State University\, Northridge \n6:00 pm—Dinner at the home of Salim Yaqub \nSATURDAY\, APRIL 16 \n9:00-9:20 Breakfast \nSession 4: The Arab and Muslim Worlds—9:20-10:50 \nChair: Donal O’Sullivan\, California State University\, Northridge \nPaul Baltimore\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\n“From the Camel to the Cadillac: American Perceptions of Saudi Arabian Modernization and Consumption in the Early Cold War”\nComment: Christopher Endy\, California State University\, Los Angeles \nBrian Lawatch\, George Washington University\n“American Foreign Policy in France and the Maghreb: The 1958 Sakiet Crisis and the Anglo-American Good Offices Mission”\nComment: Salim Yaqub\, University of California\, Santa Barbara \nHanna Jansen\, University of Amsterdam\n“Gorbachev’s Multipolarity: A Clash of Civilizations?”\nComment: Arne Westad\, London School of Economics \nSession 5: U.S. Domestic Affairs—11:00-12:30 \nChair: Darlene Rivas \nAmanda Schlumpberger\, University of Kansas\n“‘Like Landing on the Moon: African Students\, the Cold War\, and Civil Rights in the United States in the 1960s”\nComment: Sara Pugach\, California State University\, Los Angeles \nEric Fenrich\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\n“Guns\, Butter\, or Rockets: The Evolution of the American Impetus during the Race to the Moon”\nComment: Tom Devine\, California State University\, Northridge \nRachel Winslow\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\n“Preserving the Black Family: Transnational Adoption\, Social Policy\, and Race during the Vietnam War”\nComment: Christopher Endy\, California State University\, Los Angeles \n12:30-1:15 Lunch \nSession 6: East Asia—1:15-3:05 \nChair: Xiaowei Zheng \nLyong Choi\, London School of Economics\n“The Peaceful ‘War’: The Nixon Doctrine and South Korea’s Northern policy\, 1969-1971”\nComment: Toshi Hasegawa\, University of California\, Santa Barbara \nHelen Pho\, University of Texas\, Austin\n“The Johnson Administration\, the NLF\, and the Kidnapping of Gustav Hertz during the Vietnam War\, 1965-1967”\nComment: Thomas Devine\, California State University\, Northridge \nBrian Hilton\, Texas A & M University\n“‘A Tolerable State of Order’: The United States\, Taiwan\, and the Recognition of the People’s Republic of China\, 1948-1979”\nComment: Thomas Maddux\, California State University\, Northridge \nAnna Armentrout\, University of California\, Berkeley\n“Containing the Cold War: The Fulbright Hearings\, Veteran Experience\, and Ending the War in Vietnam”\nComment: Thomas Maddux\, California State University\, Northridge \nSession 7: Latin America and the Caribbean—3:15-4:45 \nChair: Sara Pugach\, California State University\, Los Angeles \nJorge Rivera Marin\, Cornell University\n“Breaking the Covenant: The United States\, Cienfuegos\, and the Collapse of U.S.-Cuban Relations\, 1957-1958”\nComment: Darlene Rivas\, Pepperdine University \nAragorn Storm Miller\, University of Texas\, Austin\n“Caribbean Crisis: The U.S. Struggle with Venezuela\, Cuba\, and the Dominican Republic\, 1958-1961”\nComment: Jason Parker\, Texas A & M University \nIvan McLaughlin\, University College Cork\, Ireland\n“Sheriff No More: The Vietnam Legacy in US-Nicaraguan Relations during the Carter Era”\nComment: Brian O’Neil\, California State University\, Long Beach \n4:45-5:00—Closing Comments \nhm 4/110/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/international-graduate-student-conference-on-the-cold-war-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110414T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110414T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112829Z UID:10001945-1302739200-1302739200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Russia and Terrorism DESCRIPTION:This talk is about Russia’s historical experiences with and responses to terrorist activities.\nAlexander Kubyshkin is Professor of the Department of North American Studies\, School of International Relations\, St. Petersburg State University\, Russia\, and currently a Fulbright Scholar at Ramapo College of New Jersey. He will speak about the historical roots of terrorism in Russian history\, terrorist activities and Russia’s anti-terrorism measures in the Northern Caucasus\, and Russia’s policy toward international terrorism. \nThe talk is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History\, the Ofalea Center for Global and International Studies\, the Department of History\, and the Department Political Science. \nThe talk is free and open to the public. Please join us for this important event! \nhm 4/7/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/russia-and-terrorism/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110415T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110415T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112826Z UID:10001936-1302825600-1302825600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Government Lawyers and Bureaucratic Autonomy in the New Deal DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk by Daniel Ernst\, Georgetown University Law Center.\nEarnst will speak on “Government Lawyers and Bureaucratic Autonomy in the New Deal.” He is the author of the prize-winning Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (1995) and Total War and the Law: the American Home Front in World War II. (2003) \nThe talk\, and subsequent discussion\, is part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work\, Labor\, and Political Economy\, 2010-2011 lecture series. \nThe Spring Quarter series is on Worker Rights and the Law 20th Century America. \nThe Colloquium meets on Friday\, April 15 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building. \njmj 04/09/2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/government-lawyers-and-bureaucratic-autonomy-in-the-new-deal/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110415T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110415T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112828Z UID:10001745-1302825600-1302825600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Mountains: Representations of Italic Landscapes in the Aeneid DESCRIPTION:Alessandro Barchiesi\, Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Siena at Arezzo and G. and H. Spogli Professor of Italian Studies at Stanford University\, holds the 2011-2012 Sather Lectureship at UC Berkeley.\nProfessor Barchiesi’s talk will examine representations of Italic landscapes in the Aeneid\, especially wilderness\, as seen in mountains and woods\, and (super)natural phenomena\, volcanic and sulphurous. He will discuss these images in a double perspective: on the one side ‘wild Italy’ anticipates ideas of Roman control over nature\, on the other it allows the poem to be read not only as a meditation on the Italic past\, but as a foundational text for Roman imperial expansion\, colonial and diasporic. \nThis event is sponsored by the Department of Classics in cooperation with the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 30.iii.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-mountains-representations-of-italic-landscapes-in-the-aeneid/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110418T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110418T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112829Z UID:10001947-1303084800-1303084800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Global Politics in the 1970s: The Transformation of China DESCRIPTION:This workshop is about global politics in the 1970s\, focusing primarily on the transformation of China in and around that decade.\nProfessor Westad will make a brief presentation and then lead a discussion of some of his recent scholarship. Workshop attendees are encouraged to read in advance Professor Westad’s essay\, “The Great Transformation: China in the Long 1970s\,” which he contributed to Niall Ferguson et al.\, eds.\, THE SHOCK OF THE GLOBAL: THE 1970S IN PERSPECTIVE\, along with Niall Ferguson’s introduction to that volume. Both pieces are contained in the pdf file attached to this message. \nProfessor Westad is a highly acclaimed scholar and a dynamic and engaging teacher. Please join us for this rare opportunity to work with him up close! \nOdd Arne Westad is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and an expert on the history of the Cold War era and on contemporary international affairs. He co-directs LSE IDEAS\, a center for international affairs\, diplomacy\, and strategy\, is an editor of the journal COLD WAR HISTORY\, and is a general editor of the forthcoming three-volume CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR. Professor Westad lectures widely on China’s foreign affairs\, on Western interventions in Africa and Asia\, and on foreign policy. Professor Westad’s most recent book\, THE GLOBAL COLD WAR: THIRD WORLD INTERVENTIONS AND THE MAKING OF OUR TIMES\, received the Bancroft Prize\, the Michael Harrington Award\, and the Akira Iriye International History Book Award. It has been translated into fourteen languages. He is now working on a history of Chinese foreign affairs since 1750. \nhm 4/10/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/global-politics-in-the-1970s-the-transformation-of-china/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110419T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110419T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112828Z UID:10001747-1303171200-1303171200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Art Markets and Cultural Exchanges: New Perspectives on the Renaissance DESCRIPTION:Michael North is Professor of History at the University of Greifswald in Germany. He is the 2010-2011 Fulbright Chair in German Studies at UCSB.\nProfessor North’s research and teaching interests include the Holy Roman Empire\, the growth of consumer culture in early modern Europe\, the development of German nationalism\, and the conceptualization of the Baltic region as a borderland. He is the author of Material Delight and the Joy of Living: Cultural Consumption in the Age of Enlightenment in Germany (Ashgate\, 2008) and Artistic and Cultural Exchanges between Europe and Asia\, 1400-1900 (Ashgate\, 2010). \nA light lunch will be served. \nSponsored by The Medieval Studies Program\, Renaissance Studies\, and the Department of History. For more information contact Ed English (english(at)history.ucsb.edu). \njwil 03.iv.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/art-markets-and-cultural-exchanges-new-perspectives-on-the-renaissance/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110420T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110420T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112829Z UID:10001950-1303257600-1303257600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:From Victory Gardens to Urban Agriculture: Join the Garden Revolution DESCRIPTION:Hayden-Smith will present an in-depth look at the past and present of theVictory Garden movement. This paper will review historical case studies and\ndiscuss current national policies and models as well as future work needed\nto sustain the Victory Garden model as part of the overall local food\nmovement. Hayden-Smith will also discuss urban agriculture and how the\nlocal food-systems movement is addressing a wide range of challenges facing\nAmericans today. A graduate of UCSB\, Hayden-Smith is the Strategic\nInitiative Leader for Sustainable Food Systems for UC’s Agriculture and\nNatural Resources Division. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Research Fellows Program. \nhm 4/18/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/from-victory-gardens-to-urban-agriculture-join-the-garden-revolution/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110420T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110420T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112829Z UID:10001946-1303257600-1303257600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Native to the Republic: Citizenship\, Slum Clearance and Social Welfare in 1950s Marseille DESCRIPTION:During the post-World War Two economic boom\, France implemented a comprehensive urbanism program intended to modernize and rationalize the nation by putting the city\, the home\, and the citizen in order. During this period\, France was also working out the repercussions of decolonization as families from former French colonies in Africa and Asia migrated to the metropole. Municipal technocrats and central state planners had to decide how migrant families fit into an emerging national vision for a modern France. An important feature of this vision was developing a welfare state which included the mass construction of modern housing. In the late 1950s\, many migrant families began to move into these large\, concrete\, Le Corbusier influenced housing projects on the fringes of French cities such as Marseille. This talk will situate recent debates about the “immigrant question” in the context of the developing post-1945 welfare state. In particular\, the talk will explore the broader contours of the debate through a discussion of slum clearance and re-housing practices in 1950s Marseille. \nhm 4/7/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/native-to-the-republic-citizenship-slum-clearance-and-social-welfare-in-1950s-marseille/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110421T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110421T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112829Z UID:10001949-1303344000-1303344000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Language of Hip Hop DESCRIPTION:A Zimbabwean born academic and musician\, Dr. Farai Berefocuses on what he calls Black performativity\, the performance of\nBlackness as a political force and how Black performance can be\nsaid to embody Blackness. He looks at the context of Black\nperformance in Africa\, the United States\, and the rest of the\nAfrican Diaspora. Bere received his PhD from New York University\nin Performance Studies with an emphasis on African and\nAfro-Diasporic music\, theater\, and orature. Fafi will perform\nbriefly after his lecture. \nCO-SPONSORED BY THE AFRICAN STUDIES RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP-INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES CENTER\, FRIENDS OF AFRICA\, PROFESSORS PETER BLOOM\, MHOZE CHIKOWERO\, AND STEPHAN MIESCHER\, AND THEATER AND DANCE. \nhm 4/12/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-language-of-hip-hop/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110426T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110426T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112829Z UID:10001951-1303776000-1303776000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Writing of John Winthrop\, Jr.\, Alchemy\, and the Creation of New England Culture\, 1606-1676 DESCRIPTION:Walter Woodward\, the Connecticut State Historian and Assoc. Prof. of History at the Univ. of Connecticut\, Storrs\, will be giving this talk via Skype hookup on Tuesday\, April 26\, 1-2:15\, in HSSB 3001E (the seminar room located in the old Religious Studies Dept office) as part of the history department colloquium series and my History 201AM seminar on Colonial America.\nWoodward’s talk will touch on colonial history\, history of science\, and public history\, as well as offer a narrative of his own development as a scholar and public history professional. Ever wondered what it would be like to be a state historian? Walter can tell you: it keeps you on your toes. \nWoodward will address the process of conceiving\, researching\, writing\, and publishing his book\, Prospero’s America: John Winthrop\, Jr.\, Alchemy\, and the Creation of New England Culture\, 1606-1676 (Omohundro Institute\, UNC Press 2010). This is a study of John Winthrop Jr\, the founder of New London Colony\, governor of Connecticut\, and a leading alchemical and medical practitioner in seventeenth-century New England. \nThe book itself is available at:\nAmazon.com. \nOr you can find a description and review of it at:\nphilobiblios blog. \nHope to see you there! \nThis program co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Program in Public Historical Studies. \nhm 4/19/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-writing-of-john-winthrop-jr-alchemy-and-the-creation-of-new-england-culture-1606-1676/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110429T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110429T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112827Z UID:10001939-1304035200-1304035200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Globalization and Flexibilization: The Remaking of the Employee Relationship in the 21st Century DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk by Katherine Stone\, UCLA School of Law.\nStone will talk on “Globalization and Flexibilization: The Remaking of the Employee Relationship in the 21st Century.” She is the author of the prize-winning From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace (2004)\, as well as dozens of path-breaking law review essays on work and employment. \nThe talk\, and subsequent discussion\, is part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work\, Labor\, and Political Economy\, 2010-2011 lecture series. \nThe Spring Quarter series is on Worker Rights and the Law 20th Century America. \nThe Colloquium meets on Friday\, April 29 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building. \njmj 04/09/2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/globalization-and-flexibilization-the-remaking-of-the-employee-relationship-in-the-21st-century/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110501T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110501T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112824Z UID:10001902-1304208000-1304208000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Eichmann Trial DESCRIPTION:Prof. Lipstadt will present her new book The Eichmann Trial .\nReviews\n“Having covered the Eichmann trial myself\, I can warmly recommend Deborah Lipstadt’s important analysis of its fascinating perspectives.”\n –Elie Wiesel \n“A penetrating and authoritative dissection of a landmark case and its after effects.”\n –Publishers Weekly \n“Just in time for its fiftieth anniversary\, renowned historian Deborah Lipstadt has reworked the Eichmann trial. This book is a powerfully written testimony to our ongoing fascination with the proceedings\, the resonance of survivor tales\, and how both changed our understanding of justice after atrocity.”\n –David Gergen\, professor\, Harvard Kennedy School \n“An excellent work of historical and political analysis by an accomplished writer. Compellingly written\, it grips the reader from its opening pages. With this book\, Deborah Lipstadt consolidates her standing as one of the major figures in the Jewish world today.”\n –Anthony Julius\, author of Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England \nBook Description \nAward-winning historian Deborah Lipstadt gives us a com­pelling reassessment of the groundbreaking trial that has become a touchstone for judicial proceedings throughout the world in which victims of genocide confront its perpetrators. \nThe capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eich­mann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Tel Aviv by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on where\, how\, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought to justice\, and the international media cov­erage of the trial itself\, is recognized as a watershed moment in how the civilized world in general and Ho­locaust survivors in particular found the means to deal with the legacy of genocide on a scale that had never been seen before. \nIn The Eichmann Trial\, award-winning historian Deborah Lipstadt gives us an overview of the trial and analyzes the dramatic effect that the testimony of sur­vivors in a court of law–which was itself not without controversy–had on a world that had until then regu­larly commemorated the Holocaust but never fully understood the millions who died and the hundreds of thousands who managed to survive. \nAs the world continues to confront the ongoing reality of genocide and ponder the fate of those who survive it\, this “trial of the century” offers a legal\, moral\, and political framework for coming to terms with unfathomable evil and with those who perpe­trate it. In The Eichmann Trial\, Lipstadt infuses a gripping narrative with historical perspective and con­temporary urgency.\nDescription: \nAward-winning historian Deborah E. Lipstadt offers a compelling reassessment of the groundbreaking trial that has become a touchstone for judicial proceedings throughout the world in which victims of genocide confront its perpetrators. \nThe capture of SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann by Israeli agents in Argentina in May of 1960 and his subsequent trial in Tel Aviv by an Israeli court electrified the world. The public debate it sparked on where\, how\, and by whom Nazi war criminals should be brought to justice\, and the international media coverage of the trial itself\, is recognized as a watershed moment in how the civilized world in general and Holocaust survivors in particular found the means to deal with the legacy of genocide on a scale that had never been seen before. \nIn The Eichmann Trial\, Lipstadt provides an overview of the trial and analyzes the dramatic effect that the testimony of survivors in a court of law– which was itself not without controversy– had on a world that had until then regularly commemorated the Holocaust but never fully understood the millions who died and the hundreds of thousands who managed to survive. As the world continues to confront the ongoing reality of genocide and ponder the fate of those who survive it\, this “trial of the century” offers a legal\, moral\, and political framework for coming to terms with unfathomable evil and with those who perpetrate it. In The Eichmann Trial\, Lipstadt infuses a gripping narrative with historical perspective and contemporary urgency. \nProfile of Speaker: \nDeborah E. Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University. Her book History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving (2005) is the story of her libel trial in London against David Irving\, who sued her for calling him a Holocaust denier and right wing extremist. The book has been described as a “fascinating and meritorious work of legal–and moral–history” (Kirkus). It won the National Jewish Book Award and was a finalist for the Koret Book Award. It was ranked by the editors at Amazon.com as number four on its list of top ten history books of 2005. \nThe Daily Telegraph (London) declared that Lipstadt’s trial had “done for the new century what the Nuremberg tribunals or the Eichmann trial did for earlier generations.” The Times (London) described it as “history has had its day in court and scored a crushing victory.” The judge found David Irving to be a Holocaust denier\, a falsifier of history\, a racist\, an antisemite\, and a liar. Her legal battle with Irving lasted approximately six years. According to The New York Times\, the trial “put an end to the pretense that Mr. Irving is anything but a self-promoting apologist for Hitler.” In July 2001 the Court of Appeal resoundingly rejected Irving’s attempt to appeal the judgment against him. \nAs an historical consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, Lipstadt helped design the section of the Museum dedicated to the American Response to the Holocaust. \nLipstadt has been called upon by both President Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to represent the United States in several capacities. President Bush asked her to represent the White House at the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. In June 2007 President Bush appointed her to the American delegation to the OSCE (the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) conference on combating intolerance and antisemitism. President Clinton appointed her to two consecutive terms on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. She accompanied President and Mrs. Clinton on an official visit to Warsaw. President Clinton also appointed her to the United States State Department Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad. In this capacity she\, together with a small group of leaders and scholars\, advised Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on matters of religious persecution abroad. \nDr. Lipstadt has also written Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (1993)\, the first full length study of those who deny the Holocaust. The book has been translated into German and Japanese. She has also written Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust (1986). The book\, an examination of how the American press covered the news of the persecution of European Jewry between the years 1933 and 1945\, addresses the question “what did the American public know and when did they know it?” \nShe has taught at University of Washington\, UCLA and Occidental College in Los Angeles. In Spring 2006 she was a Visiting Professor at the Gregorian Pontifical University in Rome. She received her B.A. from City College of New York and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University. \nLipstadt has appeared on BBC\, CNN\, CBS’s Sixty Minutes\, NBC’s Today Show\, ABC’s Good Morning America\, National Public Radio’s Fresh Air\, PBS’s Charlie Rose Show\, and the O’Reilly Factor. She is a frequent contributor to and is widely quoted in a variety of newspapers including the Los Angeles Times\, Washington Post\, New York Times\, and Chicago Tribune. \nShe has received numerous teaching awards including Emory’s student government association’s award for being the teacher most likely to motivate students to learn about new and unfamiliar topics and the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching award\, for her courses on modern Jewish and Holocaust studies. Given to Emory’s outstanding teachers\, the award is based on nominations by alumni of the professor who has had the greatest impact on them. She has received Honorary Doctorates from Yeshiva University\, Bar Ilan University\, John Jay College of Criminal Justice\, and Hebrew Union College. \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. This event is also cosponsored by the Department of History at UCSB. \nhm 1/25/11\, 3/24 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-eichmann-trial/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110502T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110502T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112825Z UID:10001920-1304294400-1304294400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Barbarians\, the Baltic\, and Beyond: A Comparative Borderlands Conference DESCRIPTION:Traditional research on borders and frontiers has typically emphasized the divisive influence of “hard” boundaries imposed by geography\, politics\, and economics. This conference seeks to widen the narrow conceptions of space underlying traditional work on borders by focusing on borderlands and frontier zones\, spaces of interaction between different cultural groups. The conference pays particular attention to the experiences of people who live and act in borderland societies. The participants in this conference study a diverse range of periods and places\, but all share a common interest in the mechanics of borderlands interactions and the shaping of borderlands identities. Our goal is to foster comparative discussion that crosses academic dividing lines\, in hopes of inspiring further research and cooperation.\n This conference is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group (UC Santa Barbara) and the Baltic Borderlands International Research Training Group (University of Greifswald\, Germany)\, in cooperation with the Ancient Mediterreanean Studies Program\, the Department of History\, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. \n Funding for this conference has been provided by the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the UCSB College of Letters & Science. Additional support was provided by the UC Multi-Campus Research Group in Late Antiquity. \nOPENING REMARKS: 9:00-9:10am\nJohn W.I. Lee (UCSB)\nMichael North (University of Greifswald) \nSESSION I: 9:10-10:25am\nVeronica Castillo-Munoz (History\, UCSB). Beyond “Red Light” Districts: Agrarian Struggles and Transnational Labor\n in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands.\nGabriela Soto Laveaga (History\, UCSB). Borders and Boundaries of Political Dissent: Medical Knowledge and\n Labor Strikes in Modern Mexico.\nManja Olschowski (History\, Greifswald). The Influence of Territorial Borders on Medieval Monastic Economy. \nBREAK: 10:25-10:45 \nSESSION II: 10:45am-12pm\nClinton Smith (History\, UCSB). From Frontiers to Borderlands: The Shifting Contours of Native American History.\nOlga Sasunkevich (Political Science & Sociology\, Greifswald). Place\, Gender and Power on the Borderlands: Studying the Petty\n Smuggling Community on the Border between Belarus and Lithuania.\nLeah Fernandez (History\, UCSB). Cooperation and Conflict in a Borderland: California’s Imperial Valley\, 1900-1910. \nLUNCH: 12:00-1:00pm \nKEYNOTE TALK & RESPONSE: 1:00-2:20pm\nGreg Fisher (Greek and Roman Studies\, Carleton University). Barbarian Leadership in the Places “In Between”– North African and Syrian Comparisons. With a response by Elizabeth DePalma Digeser (History\, UCSB). \nBREAK (2:20-2:40pm) \nSESSION III: 2:40-4:15pm\nAnn Marie Plane (History\, UCSB). “These inraged Barbarians”: Visionaries and the Spiritual Struggle for the Maine Borderlands\, 1675-1684.\nKord-Henning Uber (History\, Greifswald). Weak Borders\, Strong Boundaries? The Religious Environment of the\n Couronian Nobility around 1700.\nStefan Herfurth (History\, Greifswald). Swedish Pomerania in the 18th Century: Development of a Borderland in the Baltic Sea Region.\nAdrienne Edgar (History\, UCSB). Ethnic Mixing in a Eurasian Borderland: Intermarriage and Identity in Soviet Kazakhstan. \nClosing Remarks: 4:15pm\nJohn W.I. Lee (UCSB)\nMichael North (Greifswald) \njwil 10.iv.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/barbarians-the-baltic-and-beyond-a-comparative-borderlands-conference/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110502T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110502T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112829Z UID:10001953-1304294400-1304294400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Tak for Alt: Survival of a Human Spirit DESCRIPTION:This film\, made by a former UCSB student\, chronicles Judith Meisel’s experience as a Holocaust survivor\, which inspired her life-long cursade against racism. \nhm 4/26/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/tak-for-alt-survival-of-a-human-spirit/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110502T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110502T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112829Z UID:10001955-1304294400-1304294400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Social Protest in Imperial Japan: Reading the Visual Record DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by Department of History\, UCSB \nhm 4/26/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/social-protest-in-imperial-japan-reading-the-visual-record/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110504T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110504T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112829Z UID:10001954-1304467200-1304467200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharine to Splenda DESCRIPTION:Carolyn de la Pena is a professor of American Studies. \nSponsored by the Food Studies Research Focus Group and the History Department. \nhm 4/26/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/empty-pleasures-the-story-of-artificial-sweeteners-from-saccharine-to-splenda/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110505T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110505T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112829Z UID:10001952-1304553600-1304553600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Ground Zero and Anti-Muslim Sentiments DESCRIPTION:The battle over plans to build a Muslim religious center near ground zero has thrown into sharp relief anti-Muslim rhetoric that contradicts American values of religious tolerance. This panel will explore the origin of these sentiments in the context of ground zero as an emotionally-charged memorial space\, and the exploitation of this history for political and ideological purposes. Maher Hathout is a Senior Advisor at the Muslim Public Affairs Council\, Los Angeles; Nuha Khoury\, is a professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at UCSB; and Edward Linenthal is professor of History at the University of Indiana.\nCo-sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies; the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Geographies of Place series; and the Walter Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion and Public Life. \nhm 4/25/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/ground-zero-and-anti-muslim-sentiments/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110506T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110506T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112828Z UID:10001737-1304640000-1304640000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk by Tom Juravich\, Sociology and Labor Studies\, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.\n“The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century.” \nJuravich is a labor educator and musician. He is the author of Chaos on the Shop Floor: A Worker’s View of Quality\, Productivity and Management (1985); an ethnography of a bitter labor struggle in West Virginia\, Ravenswood: The Steelworkers’ Victory and the Revival of American Labor\, with Kate Bronfenbrenner\, (1999); and At the Altar of the Bottom Line: The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century (2009). \nThe talk\, and subsequent discussion\, is part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work\, Labor\, and Political Economy\, 2010-2011 lecture series. \nThe Spring Quarter series is on Worker Rights and the Law 20th Century America. \nThe Colloquium meets on Friday\, May 6 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building. \njmj 04/25/2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-degradation-of-work-in-the-21st-century/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110509T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110509T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112830Z UID:10001960-1304899200-1304899200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics: Science\, Medicine\, the Environment\, and the Construction of the Panama Canal DESCRIPTION:Between 1904 and 1914\, the United States built the Panama Canal\, an ambitious engineering project undertaken in the shadow of the French failure two decades earlier. The French experience taught American administrators several lessons\, none more potent than the need to mitigate the destructiveness of so-called “tropical” diseases such as malaria and yellow fever. The U.S. responded with a sanitary program\, informed by several critical mosquito vector discoveries at the end of the 19th century\, that seemed to successfully meet that threat; indeed\, many Americans claimed to have solved one of the vexing medical and imperial problems of the era: the settling of temperate peoples in tropical environments. The Americans had\, to use the words of a contemporary commentator\, pulled the teeth of the tropics. This talk will examine American perceptions of the tropics at the turn of the last century\, how those perceptions informed U.S. sanitary and other administrative practices in Panama\, and how those practices in turn resulted in the creation of a Canal Zone landscape that mixed marked public health improvements with racial and medical inequalities. It will also examine how the environmental changes wrought by canal construction actually created many of the conditions conducive to malaria and yellow fever transmission\, and how it was scientists working in Panama who came to notice the disconnect between an environmental ideology that naturalized tropical disease and a material reality that implicated environmental changes as critical to the Isthmus’ public health challenges.\nhm 5/6/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/pulling-the-teeth-of-the-tropics-science-medicine-the-environment-and-the-construction-of-the-panama-canal/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110510T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110510T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112830Z UID:10001964-1304985600-1304985600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:21st Century Socialism and Venezuela DESCRIPTION:Eva Golinger will discuss the Bolivarian project for participatory democracy in Venezuela that has occurred through the empowerment of the country’s poor majority during the last decade. As an advisor to elected President Hugo Chávez\, she will also address some of the problems and conflicts facing Venezuela and the leftist South American-Caribbean bloc it helped found: the Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América.\nEva Golinger\, winner of the International Award for Journalism in Mexico (2009)\, is an Attorney and Writer from New York\, living in Caracas\, Venezuela since 2005 and author of several best-selling books\, including The Chávez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela \nhm 5/6/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/21st-century-socialism-and-venezuela/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110511T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110511T000000 DTSTAMP:20260503T190238 CREATED:20150928T112830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112830Z UID:10001961-1305072000-1305072000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Harvest of Loneliness: the Bracero Program DESCRIPTION:This documentary explores the historical accounts of migrant Mexican farm workers brought into the U.S. from 1942 to1964 under the temporary contract worker program known as the Bracero Program to work as cheap\, controlled\, and disposable workers. Discussion with Gonzalez following the screening. Gilbert G Gonzalez\, Vivian Price\, and Adrian Salinas\,. Co-sponsored by the Hull Chair in Feminist Studies.\nhm 5/6/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/harvest-of-loneliness-the-bracero-program/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR