Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

History Club Weekly Meetings
2019-12-26 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-01-02 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-01-09 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-01-16 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-01-23 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-01-30 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-02-06 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-02-13 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 3 more dates | HSSB 4020
UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions.

Susan Lederer, "'Send My Body to the Medical College': Alternative Afterlives in Turn of the Century America"
2020-01-09 17:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Dr. Susan Lederer, Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Madison will be giving a talk on Thursday, January 9 at 5:30 pm entitled “‘Send My Body to the Medical College’: Alternative Afterlives in Turn of the Century America.”
In 1876 American and English newspapers reported the extraordinary will made by an American woman living in London. Inspired by Bentham’s 1832 bequest of his body, Susan Fletcher Smith approached the Royal College of Surgeons with the proposal that, upon her death, her body be “completely dissected in the most thorough manner known to science.” Moreover, she stipulated that preference be given to persons of the female sex who wished to inspect the body in the various stages of dissection. The President of the College agreed to accept her proposal. Smith’s donation was one of some 450 reported in the press in the years between 1870 and 1940. This talk explores how donating one’s remains to a medical institution was transformed in this period from a bizarre and macabre eccentricity into an exemplar of enlightened corporeal philanthropy.
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History Department Open House, sponsored by HIST Club/Phi Alpha Theta
2020-01-22 16:00 - 17:30 | 4041 HSSB, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The HIST Club of enthusiastic history majors and minors would like to invite you all to an Open House on Wed., Jan. 22, 4-5:30. That day is the day of our first faculty meeting so we are hoping you can stick around to grab some refreshments and chat with your students. They are super eager to meet you and other interested students and hope you can attend. Just as an FYI — we have some 20-25 active members and more than 50 members registered on campus. We are also in the process of preparing a student lounge! Partners and children are welcome. Please contact Miroslava Chavez-Garcia (mchavezgarcia@history.ucsb.edu) for more information.
When: Wed., Jan 22, 4-5:30 pm
Where: 4081 HSSB (across from 4020 HSSB)
Why: To promote and share our love of history!

Andrew Hartman, "Rethinking Karl Marx: American Liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War"
2020-01-24 13:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series, Andrew Hartman (History, Illinois State University) will present “Rethinking Karl Marx: American Liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War.” Hartman is the author of Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School (2008) and the widely reviewed A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars (2015). Professor Hartman is currently at work on a third book, Karl Marx in America, to be published by the University of Chicago Press. The winner of two Fulbright Awards, Hartman was the founding President of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History. He publishes in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Salon, The Washington Post, Jacobin, Baffler, and In These Times, as well as academic journals. Professor Hartman co-hosts a podcast dedicated to intellectual history, “Trotsky and the Wild Orchids.”
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Conversation with Jon Meacham
2020-01-30 15:00 - 16:30 | HSSB 4080, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
In addition to the public lecture at the Granada Theater, Jon Meacham will hold a small group discussion, open to all–faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates. Students especially encouraged to attend. A Pulitzer Prize winner, Meacham has written on Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, George W. H. Bush, and more recently, music as a window into American history.

Gender Studies Paper Workshop: Jarett Henderson's "The 'Turton Job' and the Sexual Politics of the Durham Administration in Britain and British North America"
2020-01-30 15:30 | HSSB 4065, 4065 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Join the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster for a paper workshop on Jarett Henderson‘s “The ‘Turton Job’ and the Sexual Politics of the Durham Administration in Britain and British North America.” The event will take place in HSSB 4065 on Thursday, January 30 at 3:30. To obtain the paper in advance, email Jarett Henderson at jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu.

lecture by Jon Meacham, "America Then and Now"
2020-01-30 19:30 - 21:00 | Granada Theater, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101, United States
Jon Meacham will be speaking on “American Then and Now: What History Tells Us About the Future” at the Granada Theater as part of Arts and Lectures “History Matters” series
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Documentary film screening: "McCarthy"
2020-02-03 07:00 - 21:00 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
McCarthy 2Seventy years ago this February, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin launched his destructive anticommunist rampage. Addressing the Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, WVA, McCarthy charged that 205—or was it 57?—known communists were working for the U.S. State Department, enjoying the protection of an indifferent or even a disloyal Truman administration. McCarthy went on to even wilder charges, intensifying an anticommunist Red Scare that had begun shortly after the end of World War II. For a few years in the early 1950s, the senator enjoyed remarkable support from his fellow Republicans. While many of them privately bemoaned his crudeness, they relished the damage he was inflicting on their liberal and Democratic foes. Only after McCarthy turned his attacks on other Republicans did the GOP start mobilizing against him. This riveting PBS documentary film, written, produced, and directed by Sharon Grimberg, chronicles the demagogue’s extraordinary rise and fall. After the screening, Prof. Salim Yaqub of the UCSB Department of History will lead an audience discussion.

History Scholar-Activism: Living Our Work
2020-02-03 16:00 - 17:30 | CA
Join us as we talk about how we—as historians and historians in training—approach our work as “scholar-activists” within the context of the academy. While not all of us identify as “scholar-activists,” we work with social justice and equity in mind.
Themes
Methodology: What does that look like? How do we describe it and/or think about it?
Historiography: What is it? How is it relevant to my work? And, where do I fit in?
Theory: What does theory look like in history? Can I talk about theory? Where and how can I learn more? Will my colleagues accept me?
Participants
Utathya Chattopadhyaya
Mhoze Chikowero
Lisa Jacobson
Kate McDonald
Light refreshments will be provided.
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Jennifer Burns, "The Last Conservative: The Life of Milton Friedman"
2020-02-07 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series, Jennifer Burns (History, Stanford University) will present “The Last Conservative: The Life of Milton Friedman.” Professor Burns is the author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right (2009), and is now at work on a biography of economist Milton Friedman. She publishes articles and interventions on conservatism, libertarianism, and liberalism in academic journals as well as The New York Times, Dissent, and The New Republic. Professor Burns is a co-founder of the Bay Area Consortium for the History of Ideas in America.
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Anna Rudolph, "Queen Radegund and the Monarchy in Medieval Europe"
2020-02-08 14:00 - 15:30 | Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Come hear Anna Rudolph‘s presentation on Queen Radegund (520AD – 587AD) – a royal sainted lady of Thuringia. Radegund was a princess and a war captive who became the unwilling queen of the Frankish Kingdom and one of the most beloved Saints of France. Radegund, an extreme ascetic, was widely believed to have the gift of healing. Venerated for centuries, she has given us insights into the changing conventions of elite and royal women’s spirituality. Radegund is the patron saint of many churches in France and England, with one priory dedicated to her memory
being converted into the world-renowned Jesus College, near Cambridge.

Join us for an afternoon of miracles, warfare and intrigue as we illuminate the life of one of history’s most remarkable women.
Original Medieval manuscripts will be on display.
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Panel Discussion, "Impeachment in Historical Perspective"
2020-02-11 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
On Tuesday, February 11, from 4 to 5:30 pm in HSSB 6020 (McCune Center), the Center for Cold War Studies and International History and the Walter H. Capps Center will host a panel discussion titled, “Impeachment in Historical Perspective.”

Three UCSB historians will speak on the following topics:

Giuliana Perrone on the Impeachment and Senate Trial of Andrew Johnson

Laura Kalman on Richard Nixon’s Watergate Scandal and the Impeachment and Senate Trial of Bill Clinton

Salim Yaqub on Presidential Impeachments and U.S. Foreign Policy

After the presentations, the speakers will engage the audience in discussion.

The panel discussion is free and open to the public. Delicious refreshments will be served!

Ronny Regev, "'We Want No More Economic Islands': The Mobilization of the Black Consumer Market in the Postwar US"
2020-02-14 13:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
On February 14 Ronny Regev (History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presents, “‘We Want No More Economic Islands’: The Mobilization of the Black Consumer Market in the Postwar US.”
WWII ushered in an era of economic growth in the United States, which enshrined consumption as an integral part of liberal citizenship. African Americans were often excluded from the benefits of this “affluent society,” due to the prevalence of segregation and discrimination in the name of white supremacy. Still, throughout the 1940s and 1950s, a network of black intellectuals and business leaders promoted their own vision of economic abundance. By emphasizing the power of the “black market,” the Afro-American economic elite advocated for a black consumer society, in which black shoppers used their buying power to promote racial uplift. Following the full contours of the African American consumer discourse reveals that the preoccupation with the black shopper turned this mundane identity into a political category and marked the commercial realm as a viable arena in the struggle for civil rights.
Dr. Regev is the author of Working in Hollywood: How the Studio System Turned Creativity into Modern Labor (2018), and is a scholar of modern popular culture and its intersection with mass media industries and US labor relations.
Students in any discipline may receive credit in History 294 for participating in this workshop.
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Vic Geraci, Wine by Design: Santa Barbara’s Quest for Terroir
2020-02-18 13:00 - 14:00 | HSSB 3208, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Public History program presents a talk by Vic Geraci about his new book, Wine by Design: Santa Barbara’s Quest for Terroir (Nevada, 2020).
A graduate of UCSB’s program in Public Historical Studies, Geraci taught public history at Central Connecticut State University and served as historian of food and wine at the Regional Oral History at the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley. Come learn about the practice of oral history, agricultural and food history, and the history of the wine industry in our county. There will be refreshments.

Gender Studies Paper Workshop: Kristen Thomas-McGill’s "'Even His Lungs Were Affected': Aubrey Beardsley, Earnestness, and the Artistic Politics of Interiority"
2020-02-20 15:30 | HSSB 4065, 4065 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Join the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster for a paper workshop on Kristen Thomas-McGill‘s “‘Even His Lungs Were Affected’: Aubrey Beardsley, Earnestness, and the Artistic Politics of Interiority.” The event will take place in HSSB 4065 on Thursday, February 20 at 3:30. To obtain the paper in advance, email Jarett Henderson at jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu.

Grace Peña Delgado, "Mexico's New Slavery: A Critique of Neo-Abolitionism to Combat Human Trafficking"
2020-02-21 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series, Grace Peña Delgado (History, UC Santa Cruz) will present “Mexico’s New Slavery: A Critique of Neo-Abolitionism to Combat Human Trafficking.” Delgado is the author of Making the Chinese American: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (2012) and co-author of Latino Immigrants in the United States (2011). Delgado participates in the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Project on Trafficking, Smuggling, and Illicit Migration in Historical and Gendered Perspective. She is also a collaborator with Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition working group on modern day slavery.
Contact Nelson Lichtenstein for a copy of Professor Delgado’s papger.
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Jill Lepore, The Case for the Nation
2020-02-21 15:00 - 16:30 | HSSB 3041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Join Harvard historian and New Yorker columnist Jill Lepore for informal conversation about her recent work on democracy and national identity. Open to all, undergraduates especially encouraged to attend.

Tory Swim Inloes, “History for Hire”
2020-02-25 12:00 - 13:00 | HSSB 3208, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
As part of the Public History speaker series, Tory Swim Inloes (UCSB alumna), will discuss her work as a freelance public historian, including work in oral history. She has also worked as curator the the Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site in Long Beach. Learn about the opportunities available for independent public historians as consultants for nonprofits, communities, and individuals.
A light lunch will be served; please RSVP to scase@history.ucsb.edu.

Brandon Seto, "Doctorates Without Borders: Careers in Government, Advocacy, and Communication for PhDs"
2020-02-28 11:15 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
On February 28, Dr. Brandon Seto, Senior Floor Consultant to California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (and a 2010 UCSB history PhD), will give a talk entitled “Doctorates Without Borders: Careers in Government, Advocacy, and Communication for PhDs,” about employment opportunities outside academia available to holders of PhDs.
The talk, which is sponsored by UCSB’s Public History Program, is free and open to the public, and a delicious lunch will be served. All are welcome to attend, and graduate students are especially encouraged to do so.
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Sara Beam, "Missing Babies and Tacit Tolerance of Infanticide in Early Modern Europe"
2020-02-28 15:30 - 17:00 | HSSB 4080, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Aggressive criminal prosecution of unwed mothers who killed their newborns in early modern Europe (1550-1750) has led historians to assume that Europe was less tolerant of illegitimacy and infanticide than other pre-modern societies, including China and Japan. New research throws this assumption into question. In early modern Geneva, authorities often turned a blind eye to the untimely deaths and abandonment of unwanted bastards. These findings suggest that Europeans took a more practical approach to managing fertility than we had thought.
Sara Beam, Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria (Canada), is the author of numerous works on judicial violence, including torture, in early modern Europe, with a special expertise on the city of Geneva. She is especially interested in the definition and prosecution of early modern “women’s” crimes, including infanticide and adultery. She is completing a book manuscript on the decline of judicial torture in Europe from 1550-1750 and an edition and translation of a seventeenth-century infanticide trial. Her first book, Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France (2007), won the Roland H. Bainton Prize for History.
This lecture is funded by the Department of History, the Department of French and Italian, the Early Modern Center, the Hull Chair in Women’s Studies, and the I.H.C.
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