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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20130310T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20131103T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120209T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120209T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112837Z UID:10002040-1328745600-1328745600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Past\, Present\, and Future of Feminist Studies DESCRIPTION:Conference ScheduleThe Past\, Present\, and Future of Feminist Studies\nFebruary 9th – 11th 2012 \nThursday\, February 9th\n7 – 9 pm\nOpening Remarks – Eileen Boris\, Hull Professor and Chair\, Feminist Studies and Patricia Cline Cohen\, Professor of History \nGenders and Sexualities \nChair: Leila Rupp (UCSB)\nPanelists:\n” Matt Richardson (University of Texas\, Austin)\n” Lynn Sacco (University of Tennessee\, Knoxville)\n” Siobhan Somerville (University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign) \n10:30 am – 12:00 pm\nThe Past\, Present and Future of Feminist Studies\nWelcome – Melvin Oliver\, Dean of Social Sciences\, College of Letters & Science \nChair: Jacqueline Bobo (UCSB)\nPanelists:\n” Nan Alamilla Boyd (San Francisco State University)\n” Ednie Garrison (University of South Florida)\n” Valerie Ann Johnson (Bennett College)\n” Alison Kafer (Southwestern University) \n3:30 pm- 5:30 pm\nProductive and Reproductive Labors \nChair: Laury Oaks (UCSB)\nPanelists:\n” Melissa Forbis (Stony Brook University)\n” Francisca James Hernandez (Pima Community College\, Research Associate at the Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW) at The University of Arizona)\n” Lilia Soto (University of Wyoming)\n” Ruby Tapia (University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor)\n” Chikako Takeshita (University of California\, Riverside) \nDinner 6 pm\nAt the Faculty Club for invited guests\, members of the department\, and affiliates who worked with our former ABD scholars. RSVP required–Leigh Dodson\, ldodson@umail.ucsb.edu and Eileen Boris\, boris@femst.ucsb.edu \nSaturday\, February 11th\n9 am- 11:30 am\nRace and Nation \nChair: Mireille Miller-Young (UCSB)\nPanelists:\n” Maylei Blackwell (University of California\, Los Angeles)\n” Emily Hobson (University of Southern California)\n” Paula Ioanide (Ithica College) and Felice Black (UCSB)\n” Priya Kurian (University of Waikato)\n” Judy Rohrer (University of Connecticut) \n12 pm – 1 pm\nRethinking the Field\nConcluding and Discussion \nhm 2/5/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-past-present-and-future-of-feminist-studies/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120216T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120216T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112836Z UID:10001805-1329350400-1329350400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:UCSB Associated Students History Initiatives DESCRIPTION:[Note: This event was originally scheduled for Feb. 2.]\nThe Living History Project is an exciting new effort that uses a variety of media\, including archival materials\, interviews\, and video to bring together stories and remembrances about the role UCSB students have played in shaping the campus throughout the years. \nAssociated Students Living History Project Coordinator Mahader Tesfai will present his work developing the Associate Students’ Living History Project.\nA.S. Publications Coordinator Andy Doerr will give a brief overview of A.S. history and the A.S. Annual Report which he has produced since 2004. \nPlease rsvp to jpd@umail.ucsb.edu \nhm 1/23/12; 1/30/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/ucsb-associated-students-history-initiatives/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120216T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120216T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112836Z UID:10001801-1329350400-1329350400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Using the Ancient Greeks to Think about Public Goods: A Dialogue DESCRIPTION:Using the Ancient Greeks to Think about Public Goods: A Dialogue with Josiah Ober (Classics and Political Science\, Stanford)Greg Anderson (History\, Ohio State University) and moderator Glenn Patten (Classics\, UCSB) \nClassical structures (such as the polis) and ideas (such as koinonia) are frequently invoked in discussions of the common good — either as the grounds from which modern ideas and structures developed\, or as marks of a fundamental break between ancient and bourgeois societies. Two leading scholars offer complementary views\, exploring both civic decision-making and social practices\, Aristotelian theory and cultural context\, continuity of past with present and the distance between them. Together they offer new perspectives on the problem of re-imagining the commons today. \nGreg Anderson is the Ohio State University Department of History’s specialist in the history of ancient Greece. He is a graduate of the universities of Newcastle and London in his native Britain\, and holds MA\, MPhil\, and PhD degrees in Classics from Yale University. Anderson’s primary research areas are archaic Greece\, classical Athens\, and social theory. His work explores articulations between culture\, politics\, and the production of material life. His first book\, The Athenian Experiment (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press\, 2003)\, addressed the cultural implications of the shift from a narrow oligarchic regime to a more socially inclusive political formation in pre-classical Athens. Among his more recent publications\, one article reconsiders the cultural construction of “tyranny” in archaic Greece\, while another makes a case for seeing the classical Greek “state” as a cultural “effect\,” the product of a complex entanglement between the material and the ideational. His current book project (Illiberal Athens) is a postmodern Marxist “social ecology” of classical Athens\, an account of the inequalities\, the exploitations\, and the other costs of producing a “free society” in Greek antiquity. \nJosiah Ober\, the Constantine Mitsotakis Chair in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University\, specializes in the areas of ancient and modern political theory and historical institutionalism. He has a secondary appointment in the Department of Classics and a courtesy appointment in Philosophy. His most recent book\, Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens\, was published by Princeton University Press in 2008. His ongoing work focuses on the theory and practice of democracy and the politics of knowledge and innovation\, Recent articles and working papers seek to explain economic growth in the ancient Greek world\, the relationship between democracy and dignity\, and the aggregation of expertise. \nHe is sole author of about 60 articles and chapters and several other books\, including Fortress Attica (1985)\, Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens (1989)\, The Athenian Revolution (1996)\, Political Dissent in Democratic Athens (1998)\, and Athenian Legacies (2005). He has held residential fellowships at the National Humanities Center\, Center for Hellenic Studies\, Univ. of New England (Australia)\, Clare Hall (Cambridge)\, Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences \, and Univ. of Sydney; research fellowships from the ACLS\, NEH\, and Guggenheim; and has been a visiting professor at University of Michigan\, Paris I-Sorbonne\, and UC-Irvine. Before coming to Stanford he taught at Montana State University (1980-1990) and Princeton University (1990-2006). \nSponsored by the Department of Classics\, the Department of History\, the Department of Political Science and the IHC’s Idee Levitan Endowment as part of its Public Goods series. \njwil 20.i.2012 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/using-the-ancient-greeks-to-think-about-public-goods-a-dialogue/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120217T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120217T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112838Z UID:10002041-1329436800-1329436800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Chicano! A Conference on the Emerging Historiography of the Chicano Movement DESCRIPTION:This is the first major confernce on the emerging historiography of the Chicano Movement as witnessed by the several scholars who will be presenting on their recently published books or on their book projects on the Movement. More than 40 years after many of the key events of the Chicano Movement\, historians and other scholars with the distance of time are now rexamining and assessing the various aspects of the most significant civil rights and empowerment struggle by Chicanos in the United States. This conference will call attention to the emergence of what we can now call Movement Studies as part of Chicano Studies.\nWe are very excited about the pathbreaking nature of this conference and I along with my colleagues and students in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and the Chicano Studies Institute here at UCSB would like to invite you to join us for the conference. \nThank you\, \nMario T. Garcia\nProfessor of Chicana and Chicano Studies\nUC Santa Barbara\n(805)893-4074\ngarcia@history.ucsb.edu \nhm 2/8/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/chicano-a-conference-on-the-emerging-historiography-of-the-chicano-movement/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120221T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120221T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112838Z UID:10002042-1329782400-1329782400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Questions and Answers about Nazi Art DESCRIPTION:75 years ago\, the first Great German Art Exhibition (Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung) opened at the new „House of German Art“. The show was accompanied by the infamous exhibition „Degenerate Art“ („Entartete Kunst“)\, which was initiated by Joseph Goebbels and on view in the Munich Hofgarten close by. For the national socialist regime no other exhibition project had a comparably programmatic and propagandistic significance as the GDK. Explicitly intended to demonstrate the achievements of the regime’s cultural politics\, the sales and exhibitions mirrored both the way the „Third Reich“ conceived of art and of itself as a nation of culture and civilization. Numerous works were purchased by the national socialist elite\, but also by private customers.On October 20\, 2011\, the database GDK Research was launched. The paper will give a short introduction to the database\, explain its various sources\, and deliver a succinct historiography of the art of the national socialist regime. In particular\, however\, this talk will highlight some pertinent questions: \nWhat was the impact of the eight shows (1937-1944)?\nHow do politics and ideology relate to landscapes\, genre scenes\, portraits and still lives?\nAnd where do we stand today?\nWhy is this research on Nazi art important and necessary?\nWhat does the media response to tell us? \nhm 2/14/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/questions-and-answers-about-nazi-art/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120222T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120222T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112836Z UID:10001811-1329868800-1329868800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:White Wash DESCRIPTION:“White Wash” explores the complexity of race in America through the eyes of the ocean via the history of African Americans and water culture from slavery\, civil rights wade-ins to surfing in contemporary times. In examining the history of world water culture\, and the history of black identity as it triumphs and evolves in the minds of black surfers\, we learn about the power of transcending race as a constructive phenomenon. Discussion following the screening. Panelists include\, Ted Woods\, director; Rick Blocker\, UCSB Alum and founder of BlackSurfing.com; Alison Rose Jefferson\, Cultural Historian and UCSB Doctoral Graduate Student in HIstory; and Peter Neushul\, UCSB Lecturer on the History of Science and Surfing. 78 min.\, English\, USA.\nCO-SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR BLACK STUDIES RESEARCH\, THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT\,\nAND THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION\, ISLA VISTA CHAPTER \nhm 2/2/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/white-wash/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120223T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120223T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112836Z UID:10001803-1329955200-1329955200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Nuclear Weapons and Humanity's Future DESCRIPTION:11th Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future\nDaniel Ellsberg is America’s best known whistleblower for his role\nin releasing the Pentagon Papers in 1971\, a move that harkened an end\nto U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and exposed government deceit\nand illegality at the highest levels.\nIn the 1960s\, he became a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation\nand consultant to the Department of Defense and the White House\,\nspecializing in the command and control of nuclear weapons\, nuclear\nwar plans\, and crisis decisionmaking.\nSince the end of the Vietnam War\, Daniel Ellsberg has\nbeen a lecturer\, writer and activist on the dangers of the nuclear era\nand unlawful interventions. \nThis FREE event is sponsored by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.\nAdmission will be on a first-come\, first-served basis. \nhm 1/20/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/nuclear-weapons-and-humanitys-future/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120223T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120223T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112838Z UID:10002044-1329955200-1329955200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Cold War\, Human Rights\, and Self-Determination DESCRIPTION:During the Cold War countless peoples and movements in both the decolonizing world and the advanced industrial states mobilized under the banner of self-determination and sought to institutionalize its status as a human right in international law. In this talk\, focusing on the end of European empire in the 1970s\, Professor Simpson explains why self-determination came to have such expansive and potentially disruptive meaning in the post-WWII era\, serving as a short-hand for a wide range of claims to sovereignty.\nBradley Simpson received his Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University in 2003. He is assistant professor of history and international affairs at Princeton University and the author of ECONOMISTS WITH GUNS: AUTHORITARIAN DEVELOPMENT AND U.S.-INDONESIAN RELATIONS\, which was published by Stanford University Press in 2008. Professor Simpson is currently working on two book projects\, an international history of the idea self-determination\, and a study of U.S.-Indonesian-international relations during the Suharto era (1966-1998). \nThe talk is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) and cosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and by the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies. \nThe event is free and open to the public. A brief reception\, with refreshments\, will follow Prof. Simpson’s presentation. Please join us for this exciting event! \nhm 2/17/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-cold-war-human-rights-and-self-determination/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120224T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120224T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112835Z UID:10002034-1330041600-1330041600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Civitates Permixtae: Cicero\, Arendt\, Augustine DESCRIPTION:This talk is sponsored by the Department of Classics\, the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program\, and the UC Multi-Campus Research Group on Late Antiquity.\njwil 18.i.2012 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/civitates-permixtae-cicero-arendt-augustine/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120224T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120224T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112835Z UID:10002036-1330041600-1330041600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:From Material Exchange in Eurasia to Liberating Appropriations in World Art DESCRIPTION:This talk will be divided into two parts. The first part will give two case studies of material exchange in Eurasia during the first millennium B.C. In the second part the implications of these examples of material exchange for the study of Chinese art will be given\, using illustrations mainly from later Chinese art\, after the introduction of Buddhism into China at the end of the Han dynasty to the early Qing dynasty.\nWang Haicheng is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Washington (Seattle). He earned his MA at Peking University (2000) and PhD at Princeton University (2007). His research focuses on the art and archaeology of early China\, especially on comparative studies between Bronze Age China and other early civilizations. He is also interested in the art and archaeology of the Silk Routes. He has conducted archaeological fieldwork– both excavations and surveys– on both Neolithic and historic-period sites on the Silk Routes. \nThis talk is sponsored by East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies\, Art History & Architectures\, the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program\, the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group\, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. \njwil 18.i.2012 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/from-material-exchange-in-eurasia-to-liberating-appropriations-in-world-art/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120226T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120226T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112837Z UID:10001815-1330214400-1330214400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"John Quincy Adams Pimped for the Tsar!" Political Rhetoric in 19th-Century America DESCRIPTION:Think America’s political discourse is nastier than it’s ever been? Think again. According to History Prof. John Majewski\, the political scene now is downright genteel compared to what it was like in the days when America was young. Come hear what politicos said about each other in that era when Prof. Majewski speaks on “Political Rhetoric in Nineteenth-Century America.”\nWe will meet at noon in the banquet room of Marmalade Restaurant in the La Cumbre Shopping Center (directly across the parking lot from Vons). A buffet lunch of sandwiches and salads will be served prior to Prof. Majewski’s talk. \nOur speaker\, UCSB History department Chair John Majewski\, is a 19th-Century U.S. historian who specializes in Civil War and economic history. He is the author\, most recently\, of Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Imagination of the Confederate Nation (UNC Press\, 2009). \nSponsored by the UCSB History Associates. Please RSVP.\nThe cost is $22 for members\, $25 for non-members. \nhm 2/3/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/john-quincy-adams-pimped-for-the-tsar-political-rhetoric-in-19th-century-america/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120301T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120301T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112838Z UID:10002045-1330560000-1330560000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Films of the Cold War: Countdown to Looking Glass DESCRIPTION:For over forty years\, “Looking Glass” was the nickname of the Airborne Command Post–an essential element in the command and control of the Strategic Air Command’s forces. This made-for-TV docudrama is a fictionalized account of how quickly a nuclear war could break out between the US and the Soviet Union over Middle East oil. This fast-paced film feels as though you are watching breaking news\, and features cameos by famous diplomats such as Paul Warnke\, and a young Georgia Congressman\, and current presidential candidate\, Newt Gingrich. The film will be followed by a Q and A\, and feature commentary from History Professor Salim Yaqub. \nhm 2/22/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/films-of-the-cold-war-countdown-to-looking-glass/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120302T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120302T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112834Z UID:10002017-1330646400-1330646400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:New Discoveries in the Jewish and Early Christian Catacombs of Rome DESCRIPTION:The catacombs of ancient Rome form the single most important source of information concerning the rise of Christianity from an archaeological point of view. This lecture focuses on exciting new results produced by a science-based approach to these materials\, as performed within the framework of a recently concluded international project based at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. It discusses the results and historical ramifications of a series of radiocarbon datings in the Jewish and early Christian catacombs of Rome by seeking to answer such questions as: What does the fact that the Jewish catacombs antedate the Christian ones tell us about Jewish-Christian relationships in the very center of the Roman Empire? By then elaborating on the evidence produced by stable isotope analysis and several other research techniques\, this lecture also delves into the harsh demographic realities that Jews and Christians alike were facing during the first centuries of the Common Era. In an attempt to bring back to life the common folk that lie buried in the endless and pitch-dark subterranean galleries of the catacombs\, I will argue that there is very little in the archaeology of these monumental sites that lends support to more optimistic notions about the rise of Christianity such as those proposed\, most prominently\, by Rodney Stark.\nThis lecture is sponsored by the UC Multi-Campus Research Group in Late Antiquity in cooperation with the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program. \njwil 02.xi.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/new-discoveries-in-the-jewish-and-early-christian-catacombs-of-rome/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120308T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120308T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112836Z UID:10001813-1331164800-1331164800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:From Imperial Capital to Polis: Sardis from the Lydians to the Hellenistic Period DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Cahill is Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the Sardis Expedition.\nDuring the seventh and sixth centuries BCE\, the Lydians\, a native Anatolian culture located in what is now western Turkey\, established the first empire in this region since the Bronze Age. As they conquered Greek cities along the Aegean coast and native peoples inland\, the Lydians established a border between the great civilizations of the Near East and the emerging western identity in Greece. In consequence\, they became both the most generous patrons of Greek sanctuaries and sages\, and paradigms to the Greeks of wealthy but disordered and ignorant barbarians. \nThis event is sponsored by the Department of the History of Art & Architecture\, the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program\, and Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 02.ii.2012 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/from-imperial-capital-to-polis-sardis-from-the-lydians-to-the-hellenistic-period/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120309T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120309T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112839Z UID:10002048-1331251200-1331251200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Excavations at Sardis DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Cahill is Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Director of the Sardis Expedition.\nPlease RSVP by March 6th by contacting Ryan Abrecht: ryanabrecht(at)umail.ucsb.edu \nParticipants may wish to read the following article in preparation for the roundtable: \nN. Cahill “Mapping Sardis\,” in Love for Lydia: A Sardis Anniversary Volume Presented to Crawford H. Greenewalt\, Jr. (Cambridge\, MA: 2008)\, 111-124. A copy of this volume is on reserve at the Arts Library. \nThis event is sponsored by the Department of the History of Art & Architecture\, the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program\, and Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 02.iii.2012 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-excavations-at-sardis/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120314T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120314T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112839Z UID:10002046-1331683200-1331683200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Theories and New Developments in Learning in History DESCRIPTION:Susannah McGowan\, a Ph.D. candidate in Education\, will be leading a discussion on teaching on Wednesday\, March 14\, at noon in HSSB 4020. Susannah will describe the some key theoretical ideas in the education literature that can be applied to history\, and then discuss how how digital technology can be used to enhance learning in history classrooms.\nSusannah was worked extensively with historians on teaching issues–she has co-authored an article in the JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY on “Ways of Seeing: Evidence and Learning in the History Classroom.” (Vol 92\, 2006). \nClick the link below to see a copy from within the UCSB domain. (Note: large file\, slow download) \nhm 2/26/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/theories-and-new-developments-in-learning-in-history/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120402T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120402T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112839Z UID:10002051-1333324800-1333324800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Start of Spring Instruction DESCRIPTION:First day of classes.For the official academic calendar\, click the link: URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/start-of-spring-instruction/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120403T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120403T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112839Z UID:10002049-1333411200-1333411200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:In Search of King Midas: New Discoveries and Reinterpretations at Gordion (Turkey) DESCRIPTION:For over half of a century\, the University of Pennsylvania Museum has conducted excavations at the ancient site of Gordion in central Turkey. The site is best known as the capital of the Iron Age kingdom of Phrygia and the home of the semi-legendary King Midas\, who ruled around 725 BC and whose enormous wealth and power helped to spawn enduring legends of his “golden touch”. Who was this semi-legendary figure\, and what is the current state of our evidence concerning his actual life and accomplishments? The on-going excavations at Gordion have helped to answer some of these questions\, unveiling a society of enormous complexity and shedding much needed light on the history of this elusive ruler and the enigmatic Phrygian people. Recent research at the site has substantially improved our understanding of Phrygian culture\, as well as clarifying other important aspects of the site’s three millennia of occupation. The application of new archaeological techniques and a fresh study of previous finds have combined to produce dramatic and significant new interpretations about the site’s history\, its multicultural heritage and the unheralded preeminence of Phrygian culture in ancient Anatolia.\nAndrew Goldman is Associate Professor of History with Gonzaga University. He received his degrees from Wesleyan University and the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill (M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology)\, and his research interests include Roman Anatolia\, the Roman military\, and Roman pottery. Professor Goldman has worked at many sites throughout Turkey\, including Çatal Höyük\, and since 1992 he has been working at the ancient site of Gordion. \nThis talk is sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America\, with cooperation from the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program. \njwil 05.iii.2012 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/in-search-of-king-midas-new-discoveries-and-reinterpretations-at-gordion-turkey/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120403T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120403T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002064-1333411200-1333411200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Archaeology of Shipwrecks: Treasuring the Past? DESCRIPTION:To the media and in the minds of the general public ‘maritime archaeology’ often suggests the study of shipwrecks\, perhaps because of the prominent role they played in the development of the subject over the last half century. In reality maritime archaeology encompasses all past human activity relating to seas\, interconnected waterways and adjacent locales. But ships and ancient seafaring nevertheless remain a significant focus for research. Unfortunately it is not only archaeologists for whom shipwrecks hold a fascination but those whose motivation is rather more commercial. This lecture reviews current research\, reviews some dramatic discoveries and asks in what ways should we treasure the past?\nJonathan Adams is a specialist in maritime archaeology\, with interests in ships as manifestations of innovation and social change\, and in the practice of archaeology in the coastal zone and under water\, particularly the ethics of the developing field of deep-water archaeology. He was a Deputy Director of the Mary Rose Project and has directed several other research excavations including the Amsterdam (UK)\, and the Sea Venture (Bermuda). He is currently working on medieval and early modern shipwreck sites in Sweden including the Kravel Project\, and in Guernsey\, as well as prehistoric maritime landscapes in Sweden and the UK. He is Director of the Centre for Maritime Archaeology and a member of the Archaeology Management Group. \nSponsored by the Department of Anthropology. the IHC’s Archeology RFG\, and the IHC’s Public Goods series. \njwil 30.iii.2012 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-archaeology-of-shipwrecks-treasuring-the-past/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120405T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120405T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112838Z UID:10002043-1333584000-1333584000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Close to Jedenew" DESCRIPTION:Kevin Vennemann will be delivering an introduction to and a lecture from his widely acclaimed debut novel Close to Jedenew\, published in German by the prestigious Suhrkamp Verlag 2005 and in English\, by Melville House in 2008. A group of children from the rural village of Jedenew\, which might or might not be located in early 1940s Poland\, get together late at night to play together in the dark woods. But their game is to pretend they live in the imaginary world of the Jedenew that came before them\, when it was not occupied by what might or might not be German troops\, and when their Jewish friends were not mysteriously disappearing one by one.\nKevin Vennemann studied German and English Literature\, Jewish Studies and History in Cologne\, Innsbruck\, Berlin and Vienna where he received his M.A. In 2011\, he was a visiting fellow for German literature and philosophy at the University of Zurich; since 2009 he has been a PhD candidate at New York University. \nVennemann has been celebrated as of the most original and masterful young writers to appear in decades. The beautifully lush prose of his writing has been compared both to W.G. Sebald’s and to Franz Kafka’s and earned him numerous awards and prizes. His most recent publications include the novels Mara Kogoj (2007) and Sunset Boulevard. Vom Filmen\, Bauen und Sterben in Los Angeles which is set to appear this April with Suhrkamp Verlag. \nAbout the Dr. George Wittenstein Lecture Series: We are privileged that Dr. George J. Wittenstein\, a participant in two resistance groups against Hitler’s National-Socialist regime\, lives in our community. Jürgen (George) Wittenstein was actively involved in the Weisse Rose (White Rose) and the Freiheitsaktion Bayern (Freedom Action Bavaria). Named in honor of Dr. Wittenstein in order to preserve and continue his legacy of civic courage and commitment\, our series brings scholars to our campus\, whose research\, teaching\, civic courage and engagement mutually inform and inspire each other. \nhm 2/14/12\, 2/22; jwil 20.iii.2012 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/close-to-jedenew/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120406T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120406T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112839Z UID:10002059-1333670400-1333670400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Non-Aligned Movement and the Cold War\, 1961-1973 DESCRIPTION:The Non-Aligned Movement was created to stand apart from the Cold War. Lorenz Luthi argues\, however\, that the Non-Aligned Movement was a product of the Cold War and was almost torn apart by it during the 1961-1973 period. From the start\, Cold War issues–such as the division of Germany\, nuclear weapons\, the Middle East conflict\, and the Indochina war–impaired the cohesion of the Non-Aligned Movement. Internal weakness and the lack of a clear agenda were also responsible for the movement’s political demise by the early 1970s.\nLorenz Lüthi received his PhD from Yale University in 2003 and is now associate professor of history at McGill University. His first book\, THE SINO-SOVIET SPLIT was published by Princeton University Press in 2008. Professor Lüthi is currently working on a book on the regional Cold Wars in Asia\, the Middle East\, and Europe. \nThe event is free and open to the public. A brief reception\, with refreshments\, will follow Prof. Lüthi’s presentation. Please join us for this exciting event! \nhm 3/29/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-non-aligned-movement-and-the-cold-war-1961-1973/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120409T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120409T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112839Z UID:10002061-1333929600-1333929600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography\, War\, and the Holocaust DESCRIPTION:In January 1942\, three years before Americans arrived at Buchenwald and Dachau\, Jewish photographers working for the Soviet press became the first liberators to photograph the unprecedented horror we now call the Holocaust. These photographers participated in a social project in which they were emotionally and intellectually invested; they had been dispatched by the Stalinist state to document Nazi atrocities. David Shneer tells the stories of these photographers and highlights their work through their own images; he has amassed never-before-published photographs from families\, collectors\, and private archives.\nSpeaker: \nDavid Shneer is the Singer Chair of Jewish History at the University of Colorado\, Boulder. His most recent books include NEW JEWS: THE END OF THE JEWISH DIASPORA (NYU\, 2005) and the award-winning THROUGH SOVIET JEWISH EYES: PHOTOGRAPHY\, WAR\, AND THE HOLOCAUST (Rutgers\, 2011). Professor Shneer has published scholarly articles in leading journals like THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW and in the popular press such as the Huffington Post and THE JEWISH DAILY FORWARD. \nEvent sponsored by the History Department\, Center for Cold War and International Studies\, the Dept of Germanic\, Slavic and Semitic Studies\, and the program in Jewish Studies. \nhm 3/30/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/through-soviet-jewish-eyes-photography-war-and-the-holocaust/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120413T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120413T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112834Z UID:10002018-1334275200-1334275200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Conflict\, Consensus\, and the Crossing of Boundaries in the Premodern World DESCRIPTION:The Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group at the University of California\, Santa Barbara is pleased to host the 3rd Biennial Graduate Student Conference on Ancient Borderlands. The full conference program appears below.\nFRIDAY\, APRIL 13TH \nCOFFEE/ MEET AND GREET– starting at 2:00pm \nINTRODUCTIONS AND WELCOMING COMMENTS– 3:00pm\nDean David Marshall\, Prof. John W. I. Lee\, Prof. Beth DePalma Digeser\, Peninah Wolpo \nPANEL ONE: GEOGRAPHIES\, REAL AND IMAGINED– 3:30-4:30\n1)”Love and Wine: The Ancient Mediterranean and the Geographies of Space and Time”\n-Andrew Tobolowsky\, Brown University\, Department of Religious Studies\n2)“Strabo’s Representation of the Mesopotamian Borderland”\n-Hamish Cameron\, University of Southern California\, Department of Classics \nComments: Dr. Felix Racine\, University of St. Andrews\, School of Classics \nKEYNOTE ADDRESS– 4:30pm\nProf. BRADLEY PARKER\, University of Utah\, Department of History \nRECEPTION– 5:30pm\nGRADUATE STUDENT DINNER– 7:30pm \nSATURDAY\, APRIL 14TH \nCOFFEE– starting at 8:45am \nPANEL TWO: DEFINING THE LIMITS OF COMMUNITY– 9:50am\nChair: Prof. Frances Hahn\, UCSB\, Department of Classics\n1)“The so-called Assyrian Fortifications in the Iron IIC Western Negev: a Comparative Approach”\n-Heidi Dodgson\, UCLA\, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\n2)“Deconstructing Town and Country: Reconsidering Urban\, Suburban and Rural in Ancient Rome”\n-Tracey Watts\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Department of History\n3)“Bounding the Conceptual City: The Roman Pomerium”\n-Alison Turtledove\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Department of History \nPANEL THREE: CONSTRUCTING AND CONCEALING IDENTITY IN THE FRONTIERS– 11:15am\n1)“Outliers and Interactions: The Face of Loro Ceramics”\n-Deborah Spivak\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Department of Art History\n2)“Druidic Relations: Bridging Gaul and Rome”\n-Regina Loehr\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Department of Classics\n3)“Antique Antiques in Roman Hispania: Archaeological Heirlooms as Indicators of Indigenous Identity and Cultural Resistance in Roman Frontier Zones”\n-Linda Gosner\, Brown University\, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World \nComments: Prof. Mary Hancock\, UCSB Departments of History and Anthropology; \nLUNCH 12:35-2:00pm \nPANEL FOUR: DISCOURSES OF THE OTHER– 2:00pm\nChair: Prof. Dayna Kalleres\, UCSD\, Department of Literature\n1)”Narrative and Iranian Identity in the New Persian Renaissance”\n-Conrad Harter\, University of California\, Irvine\, Department of History\n2)“Ethnicity\, Hybridity\, and the Perception of Community: The Role of Law in Shaping Ethnicity in the Anglo-Welsh Borderlands”\n-Michael Hill\, Rutgers University\, Department of History\n3)“Your Impurity is My Purity: The ‘Jewish’ Persecution of Christ in P. Heidelberg\, inv. G 1101”\n-Joseph Sanzo\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, Department of History \nComments: Prof. Heidi Marx-Wolf\, University of Manitoba\, Department of Religion \nPANEL FIVE: PIRATES! POLICING THE BOUNDARIES– 3:30pm\n1)“Pompey’s Pet Pirates: Making Subjects from Outlaws”\n-Jason Shattuck\, University of Washington\, Department of History\n2)“Laws and Lines: Monsters\, Boundaries and the Rise of ‘Cilician’ Pirates”\n-Andrew Roller\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Department of History\n3)“Arrrr! There be Pirates in Homer!”\n-Daniel Bellum\, UC Irvine\, Department of Classics \nComments: Prof. Michele Salzman\, UC Riverside\, Department of History; \nCLOSING COMMENTS– 5:00pm\nProf. GREG FISHER\, Carleton University\, Department of Greek and Roman Studies \njwil 10.iv.2012 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/conflict-consensus-and-the-crossing-of-boundaries-in-the-premodern-world/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120415T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120415T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112839Z UID:10002050-1334448000-1334448000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:“Surf’s Up! But Where and How High?” Measuring and Riding Waves DESCRIPTION:It may mean Beach Boys and wood-paneled station wagons to you\, but surfing today is more a matter of wave prediction data and real time animated film about key surf spots\, published on surfing websites. Take a break from your taxes and come join us at noon on Sunday\, April 15 at Moby Dick Restaurant on picturesque Stearns Wharf for the best view of the waves (both literally and figuratively) in Santa Barbara (90-minute free parking at the wharf with restaurant validation).\nPeter Neushul received his PhD in the History of Science at UCSB in 1993 with a dissertation on Science\, Technology and the Arsenal of Democracy: Production Research and Development during World War II. A member of UCSB’s Program in the History of Science\, Technology and Medicine\, Peter co-taught with Peter Westwick the department’s popular class on\n“History of Surfing.” \nRSVP NECESSARY:\n“Surf’s Up!” Moby Dick Restaurant\, Sun.\, Apr. 15 (noon)\nPlease reserve _____ space(s) @ $23 (HA members and guests) $25 (non-members)\nUCSB HISTORY ASSOCIATES\nName _____________________________________ Guest(s) ________________________________________\nAddress ___________________________________________________________________________________\nDaytime Phone ________________________ E-mail ______________________________________________\n“Surf’s Up! But Where and How High?”\nOr phone (805) 893-4388 \nhm 3/20/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/surfs-up-but-where-and-how-high-measuring-and-riding-waves/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120419T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120419T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112839Z UID:10002055-1334793600-1334793600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Holocaust and Genocide DESCRIPTION:Prof. Bauer will discuss why humans are the only living creatures that kill their own kind in large numbers\, and the essential similarities and difference between the Holocaust and other genocides.\nWhat do we mean by “genocide”? Why are humans the only living creatures that kill their own kind in huge numbers? What place does the Holocaust occupy in the history of genocides? What are the essential similarities and differences between the Holocaust and other genocides\, particularly ones that have occurred during the last hundred years – Armenian\, Cambodian\, Ethiopian\, Rwandan\, and Darfurian? \nYehuda Bauer\, Professor Emeritus of History and Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, is the Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem. He was the founding Chair of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at Hebrew University. His publications include From Diplomacy to Resistance\, My Brother’s Keeper\, Flight and Rescue\, The Holocaust in Historical Perspective\, The Jewish Emergence From Powerlessness\, and The Death of the Shtetl. \nSponsored by The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies\, Arts & Lectures\, the Dept. of Religious Studies\, Congregation B’nai B’rith\, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara Hillel\, the Dept. of Germanic\, Slavic & Semitic Studies\, and the Dept. of History. \nhm 3/26/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/holocaust-and-genocide/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120425T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120425T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112839Z UID:10002053-1335312000-1335312000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Waves of Resistance: Surfing and History in Twentieth-Century Hawai'i DESCRIPTION:The author of Waves of Resistance: Surfing and History in 20th Century Hawaii will be speaking\, following an introduction by Dr. Teresa Shewry (UCSB\, English) of the Center for Literature and the Environment.\nSurfing has been a significant sport and cultural practice in Hawai’i for more than 1\,500 years. In the last century\, facing increased marginalization on land\, many Native Hawaiians have found refuge\, autonomy\, and identity in the waves. In Waves of Resistance Isaiah Walker explains that throughout the twentieth century Hawaiian surfers have successfully resisted colonial encroachment in the po?ina nalu (surf zone). The struggle against foreign domination of the waves goes back to the early 1900s\, shortly after the overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom\, when proponents of this political seizure helped establish the Outrigger Canoe Club?s haoles (whites)-only surfing organization in Waikiki. A group of Hawaiian surfers\, led by Duke Kahanamoku\, united under Hui Nalu to compete openly against their Outrigger rivals and established their authority in the surf. \nWalker also examines how Hawaiian surfers have been empowered by their defiance of haole ideas of how Hawaiian males should behave. For example\, Hui Nalu surfers successfully combated annexationists\, married white women\, ran lucrative businesses\, and dictated what non-Hawaiians could and could not do in their surf\, even as the popular\, tourist-driven media portrayed Hawaiian men as harmless and effeminate. Decades later\, the media were labeling Hawaiian surfers as violent extremists who terrorized haole surfers on the North Shore. Yet Hawaiians contested\, rewrote\, or creatively negotiated with these stereotypes in the waves. The po?ina nalu became a place where resistance proved historically meaningful and where colonial hierarchies and categories could be transposed. \nWhile born and raised in Keaukaha Hawai`i\, Isaiah Walker is currently an Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University- Hawaii on O`ahu?s North Shore. He earned a PhD in History from the University of California\, Santa Barbara in 2006. He is the author of several academic articles\, and has most recently published Waves of Resistance: Surfing and History in Twentieth Century Hawai`i. In addition to researching and writing Hawaiian and surfing history\, he is an avid (and former competitive) surfer. \nhm 3/23/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/waves-of-resistance-surfing-and-history-in-twentieth-century-hawaii/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120426T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120426T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002068-1335398400-1335398400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Race and Immigration in the Era of Decolonization DESCRIPTION:This talk will examine debates surrounding immigration in the United Kingdom\, South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the 1960s and 1970s. South Africa in 1961 and Rhodesia in 1965 broke away from the British Empire and Commonwealth in order to continue to pursue racially-­‐based settler colonial rule. This was reflected in their immigration policies\, which aggressively recruited immigrants defined as white by the Rhodesian and South African governments as they sought to mount a demographic defense of minority rule in a rapidly decolonizing continent. Though less explicit in racial ideology\, the United Kingdom in the same period began to restrict immigration from the former empire with the Commonwealth Immigrants Acts of 1962 and 1968. In all three cases decolonization allowed the retreat from the universalizing rhetoric of the postwar British Empire to a racially-­‐defined nation\, visible in the regulation of immigration.\nSponsored by the Center for New Racial Studies \nhm 4/17/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/race-and-immigration-in-the-era-of-decolonization/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120426T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120426T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002072-1335398400-1335398400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Role of Maya Catholic Health Networks in Guatemala's Armed Conflict\, 1966 - 1996 DESCRIPTION:Dr. Susan Fitzpatrick-BehrensCal State Northridge\nThursday\, April 26\n11:00-12:15\nHSSB 2252 \nIn the 1960s\, paraprofessional health programs proliferated in the\nMaya regions of Guatemala’s western highlands.. The programs\nresponded to medical needs in rural highland communities and coastal\ncoffee plantations where there were neither hospitals nor doctors. By\nthe 1970s\, Maya leaders prepared through these programs provided\nnearly 50 percent of Guatemala’s health care. With the advent of\nGuatemala’s “armed conflict\,” the military identified Maya leaders as\na threat and began systematically to target and murder them.\nForeigners engaged in paraprofessional health programs began to use\nhealth networks as a kind of underground railroad to deliver their\npromoters to safety. This medical network played a key role in the\nexodus of Guatemalan refugees to Mexico during the worst years of the\narmed conflict. It also played a central role in the provision of aid\nto Communities of Peoples in Resistance (CPRs) during the worst\nyears of the violence. This presentation explores the issues of\nhealth and activism associated with the development of these\nparaprofessional programs. \nvz 4/23 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-role-of-maya-catholic-health-networks-in-guatemalas-armed-conflict-1966-1996/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120430T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120430T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002074-1335744000-1335744000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Dams\, Displacement and the Delusion of Development: The Case of Cahora Bassa DESCRIPTION:The history of Cahora Bassa reveals the persistence of “colonialism’s afterlife.” Under the 1974 Lusaka Peace Accord\, which set the stage for Mozambique’s independence\, in return for assuming the US$550 million debt incurred in building Cahora Bassa\, Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB)\, a Portuguese para-statal\, received 82% of the shares\, with the remainder going to the Mozambican government. The Constitution of the Cahora Bassa Dam\, signed between Portugal and Frelimo on June 23\, 1975\, which memorialized this agreement\, granted HCB the right to manage the dam until Mozambique repaid the construction debt. Because it was unable to do so until 2007\, for 32 years after independence a Portuguese company retained effective control of the hydroelectric project operating the dam\, determining the outflows of water\, and negotiating the sale of virtually all of its electricity to South Africa.\nOver the past three and one-half decades\, Cahora Bassa has caused very real ecological\, economic\, and social trauma for Zambezi Valley residents. All of this is conspicuously absent from the widely publicized developmentalist narratives of Mozambique’s colonial and post-colonial states\, which have been a critical feature of state efforts to dam the Zambezi River in Mozambique. Elderly African peasants\, who had a long and intimate relationship with the Zambezi River\, graphically describe how the dam devastatingly affected their physical and social world and recount their resiliency in coping and adjusting. These memories\, which speak so powerfully about the daily lives and lived experiences of the rural poor\, are either discounted or ignored in dominant discourses touting Cahora Bassa’s centrality to national development. This silencing is indicative of the unequal field of power in which the histories of the rural poor are typically embedded. \nAllen Isaacman is Professor of African History at the University of Minnesota. \nSponsored by the Department of Sociology\, the Department of History\, and the African Studies Research Focus Group \njwil 26.iv.2012 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/dams-displacement-and-the-delusion-of-development-the-case-of-cahora-bassa/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120503T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120503T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T114040 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002073-1336003200-1336003200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Digitize\, Democratize: Libraries and the Future of Books DESCRIPTION:Openness may seem self-evident as a principle of library policy\, but libraries have often been closed and the world of knowledge in general has been fenced off by commercial interests intent on making profit at the expense of the public good. Commercialization and democratization run through the history of copyright right up to the present\, when Google Book Search dramatized the need to strike a proper balance between private profit and the public good. The Digital Public Library of America will redress that balance by making the cultural heritage of America available\, free of charge\, to all Americans and in fact to everyone in the world.\nSponsored by the IHC’s Public Goods series. \nhm 4/19/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/digitize-democratize-libraries-and-the-future-of-books/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR