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:20130310T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20131103T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20140309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20141102T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20150308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20151101T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140210T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140210T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112855Z UID:10001931-1391990400-1391990400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Battles of Cradles: Abandoned Babies in the Late Ottoman Empire DESCRIPTION:AbstractThe nineteenth century developments on the issue of child abandonment and provisions for them reveal significant traits of the political\nagenda\, specifically regarding national identity\, citizenship\, and demographic politics. In the late Ottoman Empire\, multi-lingual and multi-religious urban centers shared certain aspects of a cosmopolitan lifestyle. In addition\, there was a rather politicized and sensitive concern for strengthening the solidarity and integrity of communities\, which felt themselves under the threat of losing their members’ identity\, language and religion. The sentiment of dissolution was triggered by reforms for the modernization and centralization of the state. These gave way to many tendencies of a nation-state and threatened the relative autonomy of the communities. Under these circumstances\, religion\, nationality\, and citizenship of abandoned children became a contested terrain\, over which arduous efforts were spent by local authorities\, missionaries\, non-Muslim communities\, and the central state. In an unexpected manner\, these infants occupied a major role in politics of demography\, conversion and national rivalry. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/battles-of-cradles-abandoned-babies-in-the-late-ottoman-empire/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140212T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112855Z UID:10001938-1392163200-1392163200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Faculty Panel on the Big Burn DESCRIPTION: A panel of UCSB faculty from multiple disciplines will discuss the UCSB Reads selection\, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America. Panelists are Peter S. Alagona (History) Karen Lunsford (Writing Program); and Dar Roberts (Geography). URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/faculty-panel-on-the-big-burn/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140214T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140214T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112855Z UID:10001933-1392336000-1392336000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Bare Needs: Palestinian Capitalists and British Colonial Rule DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nIn British-ruled Palestine\, Palestinian elites and British colonial officials attempted to define and regulate basic needs with varying consequences for economic thought and practices. In the 1930s\, against the backdrop of armed rebellion and the Great Depression\, Palestinian capitalists distinguished between needs and luxuries in order to shape a pan-Arab utopia as well as emerging forms of gendered subjectivities. As the decade wore on and World War II came to Palestine\, these capitalists\, with their emphasis on growth and capital accumulation\, confronted a landscape of commercial paralysis and a crisis of supply. The scarcity of basic goods such as wheat\, rice\, and flour and the specter of political disorder also inspired the British colonial government to innovate new modes of economic management. Through institutions such as the Middle East Supply Center\, British colonial rule shaped ideal territories. In Palestine\, an ambitious rationing regime relied on new indices such as the “calorie” and the “cost of living” to determine each person’s “bare minimum\,” assure “food for all\,” and assess colonial rule. By tracing these instances of defining and regulating individual needs\, this paper explores the commonalities and differences in Palestinian and British visions of progress\, territory\, and economic development. It reveals divergent but overlapping attempts to shape and develop the economy as an object of knowledge and a site of social management. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/bare-needs-palestinian-capitalists-and-british-colonial-rule/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140219T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140219T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112855Z UID:10001935-1392768000-1392768000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Life\, Sovereignty\, and the Political: Towards a Middle Eastern Global History DESCRIPTION:AbstractWith one of the latest turns in historiography\, it seems that documents as quintessentially national as the American Declaration of Independence can have a global history. This is indeed an exciting prospect\, and the distinguished historian David Armitage encourages us all to become global historians if we are to remain relevant. In my first book\, Working Out Egypt\, I tried to do something to that effect before having\nread Armitage\, situating what I called effendi masculinity within a set of emerging global practices and discourses around gender\, sexuality\, the body\, desire\, and national identity. It seems to me that scholars of gender and sexuality were at the forefront of claiming a global canvas for their work. Of course one could also make a good case for scholars of Islam such as Marshall Hodgson and Richard Eaton. What animates my current project\, of which I give an overview in this talk\, is a certain anxiety about the kinds of themes deemed globally significant in the recent scholarship. Thus\, I consider how some of the basic building blocks of our modern world—life\, sovereignty\, and the political—appeared through the lens of a nineteenth-century Sufi\, Sayyid Fadl b. Alawi\, as a step towards imagining a Middle Eastern global history. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/life-sovereignty-and-the-political-towards-a-middle-eastern-global-history/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140220T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140220T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112854Z UID:10002213-1392854400-1392854400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:“The Recovery of Nazi-Looted Art: The Bloch-Bauer Klimt Paintings” DESCRIPTION:Los Angeles attorney specializing in recovery of property stolen by the Nazis responsible for the landmark Supreme Court case returning Gustav Klimt paintings–valued at $325 million–to their rightful heir. \nThe Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, a program\nof the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, is cosponsored by UCSB Arts and Lectures\, Department of Religious Studies\,\nCongregation B’nai B’rith\, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\, and Santa Barbara Hillel. \nhm 1/6/14 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-recovery-of-nazi-looted-art-the-bloch-bauer-klimt-paintings/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140303T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140303T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112855Z UID:10001937-1393804800-1393804800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Urbanizing Masculinity: Workers\, Weavers and Futuwat in Violent Alliances and Fluid Identities DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, I employ urban violence to examine how men constructed\, performed\, and struggled for their masculine identity. I argue that gender identity\, performing masculinity\, and the construction of manhood were important sites of the adaptation to industrial urban life in crucial years of interwar Egypt. On the backdrop of rapid urbanization and industrialization\, the town of al-Mahalla al-Kubra attracted thousands of poor peasants to become factory workers and urban dwellers. Violence broke out between townspeople\, who called themselves Mahallawiyya\, and the newly arrived peasant-workers whom people of al-Mahalla called Shirkawiyya\, or people of the company. The competition among tough men (futuwwat) from both sides fed into that violence and communal division. Inflation\, the high prices of food and housing\, professional competition and cultural differences\, anxiety over living with strangers and adapting to an alien place fueled and fed violence among workers and between newcomers and urbanites. In their competing and fluid communal loyalties\, working class Mahallawiyya and Shirkawiyya developed their notion of the ideal masculine and created social locations for peer bonding and friendship. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/urbanizing-masculinity-workers-weavers-and-futuwat-in-violent-alliances-and-fluid-identities/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140305T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140305T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112854Z UID:10002212-1393977600-1393977600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:“The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks in Historical Perspective” DESCRIPTION:U.S. Ambassador Dennis Ross serves as Counselor\, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Ghaith al-Omari is Executive Director\, American Task Force on Palestine.\nThe event is free and open to the public. \nAmbassador Ross\, the Washington Institute’s Ziegler Distinguished fellow and counselor from 2001-2009\, returned as its Counselor in December 2011 after serving two years as special assistant to President Obama as well as National Security Council senior director for the Central Region\, and a year as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton\, focusing on Iran. \nFor more than twelve years\, Ambassador Ross played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and dealing directly with the parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat\, Ambassador Ross was U.S. point man on the peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. He was instrumental in assisting Israelis and Palestinians to reach the 1995 Interim Agreement; he also successfully brokered the 1997 Hebron Accord\, facilitated the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty\, and intensively worked to bring Israel and Syria together. \nA scholar and diplomat with more than two decades of experience in Soviet and Middle East policy\, Ambassador Ross worked closely with Secretaries of State James Baker\, Warren Christopher\, and Madeleine Albright. Prior to his service as special Middle East coordinator under President Clinton\, Ambassador Ross served as director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in the first Bush administration. In that capacity\, he played a prominent role in U.S. policy toward the former Soviet Union\, the unification of Germany and its integration into NATO\, arms control negotiations\, and the 1991 Gulf War coalition. \nDuring the Reagan administration\, he served as director of Near East and South Asian affairs on the National Security Council staff and deputy director of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment. Ambassador Ross was awarded the Presidential Medal for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service by President Clinton\, and Secretaries Baker and Albright presented him with the State Department’s highest award. \nThe Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, a program\nof the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, is cosponsored by UCSB Arts and Lectures\, Department of Religious Studies\,\nCongregation B’nai B’rith\, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\, and Santa Barbara Hillel. \nhm 1/6/14 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-israeli-palestinian-peace-talks-in-historical-perspective/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140305T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140305T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112855Z UID:10001942-1393977600-1393977600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Russians are Coming (1966) DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will be showing the classic 1966 film\, “The Russians Are Coming\, The Russians Are Coming.” Directed by Norman Jewison and starring Car Reiner\, Eva Marie Saint\, Jonathan Winters\, and Alan Arkin\, the film is a hilarious spoof on the U.S.-Soviet confrontation. It stands as a relatively early (and still gentle) challenge to the Cold War consensus in U.S. popular culture.\nThe film is free and open to the public. Delicious refreshments\, also free of charge\, will be served. Don’t miss this exciting event! \nhm 3/1/14 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-russians-are-coming-1966/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140307T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140307T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112853Z UID:10002208-1394150400-1394150400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Marxism and Classics DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Department of Classics. \nmoved from News by hm 12/1/13 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/marxism-and-classics/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140313T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140313T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112855Z UID:10001925-1394668800-1394668800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Public Lecture and Graduate Student Lunchtime Program; Dr. Ned Kaufman DESCRIPTION:Dr. Ned Kaufman will do a lunchtime talk about his current research around historic conservation\, social justice\, intangible resources\, sustainability and the economics of heritage. He will also discuss his career inside and outside of academia. As more Ph.D.’s are seeking alternative careers\, by choice and by necessity\, Dr. Kaufman’s academic and non-academic career offers an example of a path of intellectually challenging and worthwhile work as a consultant\, a public historian and a professor. A light lunch will be served at the session.\nDr. Ned Kaufman is principal of Kaufman Heritage Conservation and Adjunct Professor of Historic Preservation at Pratt Institute. Previously\, Dr. Kaufman served as director of historic preservation at the Municipal Art Society of New York\, where he led campaigns to protect the African Burial Ground\, Aubudon Ballroom\, Ellis and Governors Islands\, and other historic sites. He also founded and co-directed Place Matters as well as the international research and training program at Rafael Viñoly Architects. His books include Place\, Race\, and Story: Essays in the Past and Future of Historic Preservation (2009) and Pressures and Distortions: City Dwellers as Builders and Critics (2011)\, as well as histories of Sagamore Hill and Springfield Armory National Historic Sites. He has advised the National Trust on sustainability policy and is a U.S. voting member on the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Intangible Heritage. \nProgram Co-Sponsors\nUCSB Grad Division Grant\nUCSB Public History Graduate Student Association\nUCSB AD&A Museum\nSanta Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation\nUCSB History Department\nUCSB Art History and Architecture Department\nUCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/public-lecture-and-graduate-student-lunchtime-program-dr-ned-kaufman/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140313T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140313T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112855Z UID:10001927-1394668800-1394668800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Extraordinary Prizes in Ordinary Places: How Preserving Everyday Things Can Save People and the Planet DESCRIPTION:Evening Public Lecture at The Presidio at the Santa Barbara Trust forHistoric Preservation\, 7pm. Dr. Ned Kaufman’s lecture is entitled\n“Extraordinary Prizes in Ordinary Places: How Preserving Everyday Things\nCan Save People and the Planet.” He will make a presentation around the\ngeneral themes of rethinking the economics of heritage and historic\npreservation as a tool for achieving social justice\, and how the field is\nforging new interdisciplinary alliances with public history\, folklore\,\ncommunity planning and tourism promotion in places like Santa Barbara. Book\nsigning and reception to follow. \nDr. Ned Kaufman is principal of Kaufman Heritage Conservation and Adjunct\nProfessor of Historic Preservation at Pratt Institute. Previously\, Dr.\nKaufman served as director of historic preservation at the Municipal Art\nSociety of New York\, where he led campaigns to protect the African Burial\nGround\, Aubudon Ballroom\, Ellis and Governors Islands\, and other historic\nsites. He also founded and co-directed Place Matters as well as the\ninternational research and training program at Rafael Viñoly Architects.\nHis books include Place\, Race\, and Story: Essays in the Past and Future of\nHistoric Preservation (2009) and Pressures and Distortions: City Dwellers\nas Builders and Critics (2011)\, as well as histories of Sagamore Hill and\nSpringfield Armory National Historic Sites. He has advised the National\nTrust on sustainability policy and is a U.S. voting member on the ICOMOS\nInternational Scientific Committee on Intangible Heritage. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/extraordinary-prizes-in-ordinary-places-how-preserving-everyday-things-can-save-people-and-the-planet/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140314T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140314T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112843Z UID:10002109-1394755200-1394755200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:End of Winter 2014 instruction DESCRIPTION:Classes end Friday March 14.\nFinal Exam Schedule \nhm 1/4/13\, 10/3/14 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/end-of-winter-2014-instruction/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140319T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140319T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112856Z UID:10002225-1395187200-1395187200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Japan Under Empire: A Guided Tour DESCRIPTION:In 1912\, Japanese government railways embarked on a mission to remake how Europeans and Americans thought about Japan—through tourism. In this talk\, historian Kate McDonald will explore how Japanese tourist organizations fought to transform the image of Japan from a looming threat to European and American interests in East Asia into a peaceful\, industrial nation with a sophisticated culture and a progressive empire. World War II brought an abrupt end to this mission\, but the Japanese did eventually succeed—with the support of the U.S. Occupation.\nJoin us on a journey through Japan as Professor McDonald discusses the turbulent history of tourist politics\, and what this means for how we travel today. A wine-and-cheese reception will precede the talk. \nAbout the Speaker\nProf. Kate McDonald teaches modern Japanese History at UCSB. Her research focuses on the cultural and technological history of mobility\, especially the way transportation technologies and networks affect the way we see our world. Her current project examines how the Japanese transportation network shaped what travelers saw and learned about the Japanese empire in the 1910s-1930s. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/japan-under-empire-a-guided-tour/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140331T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140331T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112844Z UID:10002110-1396224000-1396224000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Spring classes begin DESCRIPTION:Instruction begins on Monday March 31.\nMonday\, May 26: Memorial Day holiday \nFriday\, June 6: Last day of instruction. \nJune 7-13: Final exams. \nfinal Exam Schedule \nhm 1/4/13\, 10/3/13 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/spring-classes-begin/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140403T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140403T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112856Z UID:10002228-1396483200-1396483200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Sasha Abramsky Speaks on Poverty in American DESCRIPTION:Sasha Abramsky\, author of The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives (2013) and contributor to The Nation\, The Atlantic Monthly\, Rolling Stone\, and other publications. Co-sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Value of Care Series.\nNews article featured on The Current \nAJ 3/24/14 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/sasha-abramsky-speaks-on-poverty-in-american/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140406T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140406T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112854Z UID:10002210-1396742400-1396742400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Student Conference: Innovation in Borderlands Regions DESCRIPTION:BORDERLANDS\, broadly defined\, are spaces where disparate ethnicities\, cultures\, religions\, political systems\, or linguistic traditions come into close contact and require both individuals and societies to adapt culturally\, politically\, economically\, or technologically to encounters with other ways of life. The Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference will showcase new research on the ways that interactions in borderlands inspire innovation and adaptation from a range of geographic and chronological contexts.\nFriday\, April 4\, 4:00 – 6:00 pm\nOpening Remarks\nKEYNOTE ADDRESS: Dr. Samuel Truett\, Professor of History at the University of New Mexico \nSaturday\, April 5\, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm\nPanel 1: State-Society Conflicts over Identification and Migration\nPanel 2: Interchange and Imagination in Late Antiquity\nPanel 3: Reifying Life through the Celebration of Death\nPanel 4: Crafting Identity through Object and Image \nSunday\, April 6\, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm\nPanel 5: Communal Adjustment to Shifting Boundaries\nClosing Comments \nAll events held in McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6th Floor) \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, the Ancient Borderlands MRG\, the Department of Anthropology\, the Department of Classics\, the Department of History\, the Department of the History of Art and Architecture\, the Department of Religious Studies\, the Department of Sociology\, and the Late Antique MRG. \njwil 28.iii.2014 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/graduate-student-conference-innovation-in-borderlands-regions/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140408T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140408T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112856Z UID:10002230-1396915200-1396915200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Dean Baker on "The Importance of Full Employment and the Routes for Getting There." DESCRIPTION:Dean Baker\, “The Importance of Full Employment and the Routes for Getting There.” Baker is co-Founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research\, and author of several books on American political economy\, including Getting Back to Full Employment (with Jared Bernstein)\, and The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive (2011)\, and frequent contributor to The Guardian\, The Huffington Post\, and MSNBC.\nAJ 3/24/14 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/dean-baker-on-the-importance-of-full-employment-and-the-routes-for-getting-there/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140410T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140410T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112855Z UID:10001940-1397088000-1397088000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Reason\, Rationality\, and Rules: A Short History of the Way We Think Now DESCRIPTION:This talk will be held at Alumni Hall\, Mosher Alumni House\, 2nd floor on Thursday April 10 at 4:00 p.m.\nAbout the Speaker\nLorraine Daston is Executive Director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She has published on a wide range of topics in the history of science\, including the history of probability and statistics\, wonders in early modern science\, the emergence of the scientific fact\, scientific models\, objects of scientific inquiry\, the moral authority of nature\, and the history of scientific objectivity. She has taught at Harvard\, Princeton\, Brandeis\, and Göttingen Universities\, as well as at the University of Chicago\, where she is Visiting Professor of Social Thought and History. She has also held visiting positions in Paris and Vienna and given the Isaiah Berlin Lectures at the University of Oxford (1999)\, the Tanner Lectures at Harvard University (2002)\, the West Lectures at Stanford University (2005)\, and the Humanitas Lecture at the University of Oxford (2013). She has twice won the Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society and was awarded the Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society and the Schelling Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 2012. Dr. Daston is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, a Corresponding Member of the British Academy\, as well as a Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Leopoldina. Dr. Daston was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2010. She is currently completing a book on moral and natural orders. Histories of Scientific Observation\, co-edited with Elizabeth Lunbeck\, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2011. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/reason-rationality-and-rules-a-short-history-of-the-way-we-think-now/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140414T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140414T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112856Z UID:10002233-1397433600-1397433600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Shifting Centers of Maritime Activity in the Eastern Mediterranean: A View from Burgaz or "Old Knidos" DESCRIPTION:Excavation at the settlement of Burgaz on Turkey’s Datça peninsula—at the junction of the Aegean and Mediterranean seas—has revealed uninterrupted occupation from the Archaic period through Late Antiquity. With its proximity to fertile land and the sea\, Burgaz is generally considered to be the early settlement of the Knidians\, long famed for their nude cult statue of the goddess Aphrodite. While settlement at “New Knidos” on the tip of the peninsula flourishes from the late fourth century BCE\, earlier remains at the site are scarce. Seeking information about the earlier settlement’s economic success and subsequent demise\, our project undertakes comprehensive survey and excavation in the four harbors of Burgaz in tandem with a broader project of underwater cultural heritage advocacy in Turkey and beyond.\nThe project investigates the question of “wandering cities” or “portable ports” in antiquity\, collecting archaeological evidence for the curious phenomenon of settlements which—through catastrophe or gradual environmental or economic decline—shift their population core from one locale to another. By combining excavation with surface survey and geophysical prospection both on land and underwater\, we seek answers about the long-term development of the town\, its military and commercial ports\, and its integration within a broader maritime cultural and economic landscape. Through analysis of architectural structures and cultural artifacts we ask why the early city of the Knidians flourished and how it adapted to changing patterns of regional and international connectivity in the Mediterranean world. \nElizabeth S. Greene is Associate Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology at Brock University (St. Catharines\, Ontario\, Canada). \nSponsored by the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program\, Borderlands Research Focus Group\, and Archaeology Research Focus Group. \njwil 28.iii.2014 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/shifting-centers-of-maritime-activity-in-the-eastern-mediterranean-a-view-from-burgaz-or-old-knidos/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140418T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140418T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112856Z UID:10002232-1397779200-1397779200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Paul Starr on "America's Peculiar Struggle over Health Care\, Then and Now." DESCRIPTION:Paul Starr\, “America’s Peculiar Struggle over Health Care\, Then and Now.” Starr is co-Founder of The American Prospect\, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University\, author of Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health-Care Reform as well as the Pulitzer Prize winning: The Social Transformation of American Medicine (1982). He has served as a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton on healthcare policy. His talk will be followed by a symposium on “Healthcare Rights and Healthcare Reform from Medicare to Obamacare\,” featuring reports from the front lines of state and local\, official and grassroots efforts to implement the Affordable Care Act.\nAJ 3/24/14 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/paul-starr-on-americas-peculiar-struggle-over-health-care-then-and-now/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140424T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140424T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112856Z UID:10002235-1398297600-1398297600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:William P. Jones Reflects on the Role of Labor in the Civil Rights Movement DESCRIPTION:“The March on Washington: Jobs\, Freedom\, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights”\nWilliam P. Jones\, History Professor at the University of Wisconsin- Madison\, is a leading historian of the 20th Century United States\, with a particular interest in race\, class and work. He has written books on African American industrial workers in the Jim Crow South and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. At UCSB\, he will lecture on his newest book\, The March on Washington: Jobs\, Freedom\, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights. This event is co-sponsored by the Great Society at Fifty\, the Center for Black Studies\, and the Department of Black Studies. \nThe March on Washington will be available courtesy of Granada Books for sale and signing after the lecture. \nAdded by: AJ 4/23/14 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/william-p-jones-reflects-on-the-role-of-labor-in-the-civil-rights-movement/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140425T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140425T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112851Z UID:10001897-1398384000-1398384000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Lost Eagle: The Untold Story of the Legionary Eagle on Rome's Most Famous Statue DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.\njwil 16.viii.2013 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-lost-eagle-the-untold-story-of-the-legionary-eagle-on-romes-most-famous-statue/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140428T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140428T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112854Z UID:10002209-1398643200-1398643200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Aftermath" DESCRIPTION:Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB present\,in commemoration of Yom Hashoah and as Holocaust Remembrance Week Inaugural Event: \nThe Santa Barbara premiere screening of Aftermath\, winner of the Yad Vashem Chairman’s Award at this year’s Jerusalem Film Festival\, will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Monday\, April 28\, 2014 at UCSB. The riveting story of two Polish brothers who try to come to terms with their village’s long hidden role in the Holocaust\, Aftermath offers “a highly unsettling look at lingering prejudice and collective guilt” (New York Daily News). “A bombshell disguised as a thriller” (Los Angeles Times Film Critic Kenneth Turan)\, the film brilliantly “succeeds in bringing the past into the present” (J. Hoberman\, The New York Times). This free\, public event will serve to commemorate Yom HaShoah and to inaugurate Holocaust Remembrance Week at UCSB. \nFranek and Jozek Kalina\, sons of a poor farmer\, are brothers from a small village in central Poland. Franek immigrated to the United States in the 80s and cut all ties with his family. Only when Jozek’s wife arrives in the US\, without explanation\, does Franek finally return to his homeland. Franek discovers that Jozek has been ostracized from the community and constantly receives threats. As Franek and Jozek struggle to rebuild their relationship\, they are drawn into a gothic tale of intrigue. The two brothers eventually uncover a dark secret that forces them to confront the history of their family and their village. \nUpon its release in Poland\, Aftermath reignited the intense controversy that surrounded the publication\, in 2000\, of Neighbors by historian Jan T. Gross\, a searing account of the covered-up slaughter in Jedwabne\, a once half-Jewish village in northeastern Poland where hundreds of Jews\, including children\, were murdered in a savage pogrom in 1941. Polish nationals accused the film of being anti-Polish propaganda\, as well as a distortion of a sensitive piece of Polish history\, leading the film to be banned in some Polish cinemas. \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 and Lectures\, Department of Religious Studies\, Congregation B’nai B’rith\, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\, and Santa Barbara Hillel. \nhm 12/7/13; 4/15/14 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/aftermath/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140501T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140501T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112856Z UID:10002234-1398902400-1398902400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America DESCRIPTION:In the early 1960s\, young bohemians swayed together under the swirling lights of psychedelic slide shows\, surrounded by walls of amplified sound\, in dance halls and art galleries from Greenwich Village to San Francisco. For a generation of historians\, their tribal rites have long represented a sharp break with a vastly more conservative early cold war media culture. This talk makes a very different case. It first returns to World War II\, to explore the widespread fear that mass media technologies might turn Americans into authoritarians. It then recounts how\, as the fighting began\, American social scientists and Bauhaus refugees collaborated to produce new multimedia environments with which to turn the senses of their fellow citizens in explicitly democratic directions. The talk shows that this turn became the basis of both two decades of cold war American propaganda and the multimedia utopianism of the 1960s. As it traces this history\, the presentation reconnects the immersive\, multi-mediated environments of the 1960s to those of the decades that preceded them.\nFred Turner is Associate Professor of Communication and Director of the Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society at Stanford University. His books include the widely acclaimed From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand\, the Whole Earth Network\, and The Rise of Digital Utopianism; and most recently\, The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties. \nThis talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Information Technology and Society and the Machines\, People\, and Politics RFG. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-democratic-surround-multimedia-and-the-politics-of-attention-in-cold-war-america/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140501T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140501T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112856Z UID:10002236-1398902400-1398902400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:“The Racial Politics of American Philanthropy.” DESCRIPTION:For over a century the largest American philanthropies\, from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Gates Foundation\, have promised no less than to promote the well-being of all mankind. Acting on this grandiose mission\, these powerful private institutions have had great influence globally and at home in areas such as education\, public health\, and economic development. However\, the often ambiguous results and outright failures of these efforts have exposed the contradictions and conflicts inherent in a program of universal well being\, as well as the boundaries of philanthropists’ putatively limitless circle of care. At home\, these limits are most apparent in the racial politics of American philanthropy. Since the late eighteenth century\, African Americans and the American “race problem” have been at the very center of American philanthropy’s domestic agenda. Yet white American philanthropy’s record in promoting black people’s well-being has been decidedly mixed. In her talk\, Karen Ferguson will interrogate the nature of white philanthropists’ care when it comes to addressing the racial inequality in the United States. Who of what\, exactly have they cared about? \nSponsored by the Critical Issues in American series “The Great Society at Fifty: Democracy in America\, 1964/2014\,” the IHC sries The Value of Care and the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment. \nAdded by: AJ 4/23/14 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-racial-politics-of-american-philanthropy/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140502T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140502T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112856Z UID:10002237-1398988800-1398988800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:“Beyond the Global Great Society: Critical Perspectives on the Decade of Development as Lessons for Today.” DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, May 2\, at 1 p.m. a symposium composed of leading scholars explores the historical connections between the domestic “war” against poverty and the 20th-century development project as led by policymakers and foundations in the United States. It is entitled “Beyond the Global Great Society: Critical Perspectives from the Decade of Development as Lessons for Today.”\nAmong the participants: Amy Offner\, Department of History\, University of Pennsylvania; Alyosha Goldstein\, Department of American Studies\, University of New Mexico; Karen Ferguson\, Department of History\, Simon Fraser University; and from UCSB\, Javiera Barandiaran\, Department of Global Studies; Gabriela Soto-Lavega\, Department of History; and Kum-Kum Bhavnani\, Department of Sociology. More information on the symposium and its participants can be found here: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/greatsociety/news/event/183-032614 \nThese events are sponsored by the 2013-14 Critical Issues in America Series: The Great Society at Fifty: Democracy in America 1964/2014\, the Department of History\, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, and the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. \nAdded by: AJ 4/29/14 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/beyond-the-global-great-society-critical-perspectives-on-the-decade-of-development-as-lessons-for-today/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140507T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140507T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112857Z UID:10002238-1399420800-1399420800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Palestinian and African American Coalition Politics DESCRIPTION:Professor Alex Lubin (Director of the Center for American Studies and Research at the American University of Beirut) on Wednesday May 7th at 4:00pm in the MCC. Professor Lubin will be discussing the parallels between Palestinian and African American coalition politics. This event is co-sponsored by The Department of Black Studies\, the Black Studies Graduate Colloquium\, and the Multicultural Center. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/palestinian-and-african-american-coalition-politics/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140507T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140507T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112857Z UID:10002239-1399420800-1399420800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Chinese Bluegrass and Beyond: Abigail Washburn in Dialogue with Jeff Wasserstrom (UC\, Irvine) and Michael Berry DESCRIPTION:Abigail Washburn is a critically acclaimed singer\, composer and banjo player known for her collaborations with the Sparrow Quartet\, the Wu Force\,and her duet performances with Bela Fleck. Her albums include Sparrow Quartet\, City of Refuge\, Song of the Traveling Daughter\, Afterquake by Abigail Washburn and Shanghai Restoration Project and Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet. She has performed extensively in China and collaborated with many leading Chinese musicians. For more see her website: http://www.abigailwashburn.com/ URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/chinese-bluegrass-and-beyond-abigail-washburn-in-dialogue-with-jeff-wasserstrom-uc-irvine-and-michael-berry/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140508T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140508T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112857Z UID:10002240-1399507200-1399507200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Chinese Boxer Crisis of 1900: Facts\, Fictions\, and Fantasies DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Wasserstrom is the author of four books on China and the editor or co-editor of several more\, including most recently Chinese Characters:Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land\, which contains chapters by both fellow academics and such acclaimed journalists as Peter Hessler\, Leslie T. Chang\, Evan Osnos\, and Ian Johnson. Wasserstrom is a Professor of History at the University of California\, Irvine and the Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. He is also the Asia editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books\, an Associate Fellow of the Asia Society\, and a co-founder of the “China Beat” blog. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-chinese-boxer-crisis-of-1900-facts-fictions-and-fantasies/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140516T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140516T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T213758 CREATED:20150928T112857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112857Z UID:10002243-1400198400-1400198400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium DESCRIPTION:Panel I: War and International Relations8:45 Andrew Haney\, The Cossack and the Elephant: The Court-Martial of John Basil Turchin and Military Necessity in the American Civil War (Majewski)\nCommentator: Prof. JohnTalbott \n9:15 Dominic Moretto\, There Are Few Heroes Here: Understanding the Devastation of the Paraguayan War (Méndez)\n Commentator: Prof. David Rock \n9:45 Paul Pham\, Assured Commitment: Ngo Dinh Diem’s Official State Visit\, 1957 (Kalman)\n Commentator: Prof. Salim Yaqub \n10:15 Break \nPanel II: Identities and Religious Reform\n10:30 Roxanne Houman\, “Sorry\, Mom”: A History of Jewish Intermarriage in the United States since 1880 (Spickard)\n Commentator: Prof. Laura Kalman \n11:00 Emily Rebecca Megan Stierwalt\, Crossing a Bridge over Troubled Water: The Effects of the Holocaust on the Children of Survivors (Marcuse)\nCommentator: Prof. Paul Spickard \n11:30 Chelsea Simpson\, The Hidden Work of the “Bloody” Queen: Innovation and Reform during England’s Counter-Reformation (McGee)\nCommentator: Prof. Hilary Bernstein \n12:00 Lunch \nPanel III: Empires\n1:00 Katherine Thompson\, Cultural Autonomy and Provincial Rebellion in the Achaemenid Empire (Lee)\nCommentator: Prof. Beth DePalma Digeser \n1:30 Meredith Inman\, “And What a Place for a Shopman!” Liberty’s\, Regent Street\, and the Intersection of Empire and Commercialism\, 1875 – 1927 (Rappaport)\n Commentator: Prof. Kate McDonald \n2:00 Rehan Bholat\, “An Entertainment in Imperialism”: The Uganda Railway and the East African Interior\, 1896 – 1903 (Miescher)\n Commentator: Prof. Mary Hancock \nedits hm 5/15/14 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/history-senior-honors-thesis-colloquium/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR