Last day of Summer session B classes
2011-09-09 00:00 (America/Denver)
For more information, click the link below.

History TA Initial Training Session
2011-09-19 00:00
9-10 – Introductions from Department Chair, Faculty TA Coordinator, Undergraduate Adviser, plus general meet-and-greet.
10-12 – Workshop on the basics of TAing, including TA Responsibilities, Writing a Syllabus, Lesson Planning, Generating Classroom Discussion, Holding Office Hours, Assessing Student Performance.
12-1 – Potluck lunch with returning TAs.
1-2:30 – Presentations from campus resources, including CLAS, DSP, Student Counseling. Also presentations from the Graduate Student Union and Carol Lansing, new Director of Graduate Studies.
2:30-3 – Announcements from Ryan and Jackson about our plan for TA training for the 2011-2012 academic year.
hm 9/13/11, 9/16; jwil 19.ix.2011

New Student Convocation
2011-09-19 00:00
New Student Convocation is scheduled to take place on Monday, September 19, 2011, from 3:00-4:00 p.m. on the Faculty Club Green for all new freshmen and transfer students in the entering class of 2011.
Approximately 5,000 new UCSB freshmen and transfer students are expected to attend this ceremonial induction into the University designed to promote the values of scholarship, leadership, and citizenship.
hm 9/16/11

Significant Letters in the Life of Old Mission Santa Barbara: Historical Letters from the Archives
2011-09-21 00:00
Public Lecture Celebrating 225 years of Franciscan Presence in Santa Barbara
Serra Hall is on the Corner of Los Olivos and Garden Streets.
Visitors can use street parking and walk up the drive to the hall.
Speakers:
Jack Clark Robinson O.F.M.
Franciscan friar and teacher of friars and member of the Academy of
American Franciscan History, but for those interested, the letters after
his name include: B.A. (Kentucky Wesleyan College); J.D. (University of
Kentucky); M.Div. (Catholic Theological Union of Chicago) and Ph.D.
(University of Kentucky at Santa Barbara) and he has taught at The
Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University and the Oblate School of
Theology, as well as a Franciscan novitiate near you.
Eric Pilarcik O.F.M.
Franciscan friar living at Old Mission Santa Bárbara with roots in Michigan
and Los Angeles. He has experience in movie production and real estate.
Currently he is working in the Provincial Archives and as secretary for the
Cause for Sainthood of Bl. Junípero Serra. He has a Master’s Degree in
Theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley with a focus on
California Mission Revival studies.
hm 7/8/11; 7/11

Fall classes begin
2011-09-22 00:00
See the calendar at:www.registrar.ucsb.edu/cal2012.htm
On our Courses page you will find some syllabi (click the Download link), and links to the instructors’ faculty pages, where there are often announcements about waiting list and “crashing” policies.
hm 8/11; 9/13/11, 9/17

Congress in Black and White: Race and Representation in Washington and at Home
2011-10-06 00:00
At this event the convenors will announce plans for lectures and events for the coming academic year which include lectures by Keiji Sato, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University (visiting at the Davis Center, Harvard University) on national mobilization and Barbara Junisbai, Pritzer College on ethnic conflict and Kazakhstan.
All colleagues and graduate students who may be new to the RFG Identity are invited to attend.
Cynthia S. Kaplan and Adrienne Edgars
Co-conveners, RFG Identity
hm 10/5/11

Women, Islamism & the Jasmine Revolution
2011-10-06 00:00
Women, Islamism & the Jasmine Revolution (or the so-called “Arab Spring”)
Thursday, October 6, 2011 * 12:00 noon * Center for Black Studies Research
4603 South Hall*
Tunisian women have played a major role in the Jasmine revolution that led
to the ousting of President Ben Ali, after 23 years of autocratic
leadership. They stood side by side with men during the massive protests
that shook the country, and their voices rose loud and clear demanding that
the dictator leave. Six months after the revolution, the great political
emptiness beyond the ousted president is being filled by Islamist parties
(30% of vote intention) which are marginalizing women’s role in the
revolution and in society at large and threatening their basic rights.
This talk will examine the role that Tunisian women played in the
revolution as well as the many challenges that they are facing in the post
revolution era. It will also focus on women’s strategies to protect their
rights and to ensure that religion will remain separate from the political.
Professor Raja Boussedra is a Professor of English at the Université de
Carthage, Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis, English Department, in
Tunis, Tunisia.
Co-sponsors:
John Woolley for the Department of Political Science,
Mark Juergensmeyer for the Orfalea Center,
Giles Gun for the Global and International Studies Program,
Dwight Reynolds for the Center for Middle East Studies, and
Richard Hutton and LeeAnne French for the Carsey-Wolf Center
hm 10/5/11

Tule Mat Making
2011-10-08 00:00
Learn the art of tule mat making and the historical signifance of tule inChumash life. Karen Osland, co-owner of Lavenpine Consulting, has been
leading workshops on basketry using Native California plants for 25 years.
Leave with your own mat made from tule.
15 E. De La Guerra Street, Santa Barbara
$15 Public, $12.50 Students and Seniors, $10 SBTHP Members
Reservation required. For more information go to www.sbthp.org.
hm 8/23/11, 10/6/11

India's National Security Challenges
2011-10-12 00:00
General Ved Prakash Malik was the Chief of the Indian Army from 1997 to 2000. During his tenure, India fought a war with Pakistan to eject intruders from the heights of the Kargil sector of Jammu and Kashmir. In a distinguished military career spanning more than 40 years, General Malik was involved in the executing, planning, and overseeing of some of India’s most prominent military operations, including Operations ?Vijay? (Jammu & Kashmir), ?Pavan? (Sri Lanka), and ?Cactus? (Maldives). After retirement, he was a member of the National Security Advisory board from 2000 to 2002. Today, he serves as an independent director on the boards of some of India’s major corporate firms, including Coca-Cola India and Reliance India. A respected voice on defense and security affairs, General Malik has authored Kargil: From Surprise to Victory, edited Defense Planning: Problems and Prospects, Emerging NATO: Europe and Asia, and written chapters and articles for several other security related books.
This presentation is co-sponsored by the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies and the Center for Cold War Studies and International History at UCSB.
hm 10/9/11

Fifty Years of Archaeology at SB Trust for Historic Preservation: A Retrospective
2011-10-13 00:00
Fifty Years of Archaeology at SBTHP: A RetrospectiveThursday, October 13 at 7:00 PM
Join Dr. Robert Hoover, SBTHP board president, and Mike Imwalle, SBTHP archaeologist, as they review 50 years of archaeology at the Santa Barbara Presidio. Beginning with Dr. James Deetz in 1961, the retrospective follows the history of archaeological study from before the incorporation of SBTHP through the ongoing development of the El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park. Examine the evolution of techniques used to uncover Santa Barbara’s oldest historic site. See what has been achieved and a glimpse of research we have planned for the future.
Presidio Chapel
El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park
123 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, CA
Free for SBTHP Members, $10 Non-Members, $5 Students
For more information (805) 965-0093
hm 10/6/11

From the Museum of the October Revolution to the Museum of Political History
2011-10-13 00:00
Aleksei Kulegin is the Curator of the Museum of Political History of Russia in St. Petersburg.
The balcony you see in this building is where Lenin delivered his first speech in April 1917 after he returned from exile. This building, formerly owned by Emperor Nicholas II’ lover, famous ballerina Mathilda Kshesinskaia, became the Museum of the October Revolution. Kulegin will discuss how the museum survived the difficult periods of Stalin’s purges and the siege of Leningrad and how the museum was transformed into the Museum of Political History after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Sponsored by the Trust of Mutual Understanding and CES ArtsLinkInc and the Likhachev Foundation in St. Petersburg.
Kulegin will present again at 12:30-2:00 on Thursday, October 20, in HSSB, “Who Killed Rasputin? Myths and Reality of the Murder of the Holy Devil: Grigorii Rasputin.”
Both presentations will be accompanied with interesting photographs and illustrations that his museum has collected.
hm 10/6/11

Elite Contestations, Space and Ideology after the Sack of Rome in 410
2011-10-14 00:00
Michele R. Salzman is Professor of History at UC Riverside. She is the author of On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity (UC Press, 1990), The Making of a Christian Aristocracy (Harvard University Press, 2002), and The First Book of Symmachus’ Letters. Introduction and Commentary; Translation with Michael Roberts (Brill, forthcoming in 2011). She is currently working on a new book project that examines the city of Rome and its response to crisis from the third to seventh centuries. Her current research uses textual and material evidence to assess the roles that competing elites played in the transformation of the city and Italy.
This event is sponsored by the UC Multi-Campus Research Group on Late Antiquity, in cooperation with the
UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.
jwil 03.x.2011

Multi-Campus Research Group on Ancient Mediterranean Borderlands
2011-10-15 00:00
For more information contact Jessie Ambler at jessica_ambler(at)umail.ucsb.edu.
This event is sponsored by the UC Multi-Campus Research Group on Ancient Mediterranean Borderlands, in cooperation with the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program.
jwil 04.x.2011

The Tektaş Burnu Shipwreck: Shedding New Light on Classical Ionia
2011-10-17 00:00
For three summers between 1999 and 2001, underwater excavations off the Aegean coast of Turkey atTektaş Burnu revealed the remains of a small Greek merchant ship that sank between 440 and 425 B.C. or
shortly thereafter. The vessel was carrying a primary cargo of wine and pine tar contained in more than
200 transport amphoras and smaller quantities of East Greek pottery. At the time the Tektaş Burnu ship
sunk in the third quarter of the fifth century B.C., Athens was the leading naval power in the
Mediterranean, a position the Athenians achieved through the economic exploitation of allied city-states
and heavy-handed control over maritime trade. As the only Classical shipwreck ever to be fully excavated
in Aegean waters, the Tektaş Burnu ship promises to shed light on local trade networks at a time when
Ionia was thought to be mired in an “economic paralysis” brought on by the high cost of Athenian
imperialism in the decades following the Ionian Revolt of 499 B.C.
Deborah Carlson is Associate Professor in the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University.
Prof. Carlson specializes in trade and seafaring in the ancient Mediterranean.
Sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America with cooperation from the UCSB Department of Classics.
jwil 03.x.2011

The Academic Job Market for Historians
2011-10-19 00:00
The Graduate placement committee will hold a workshop on navigating the academic job market next Wednesday Oct. 19 at 4 pm in HSSB 4020. We will concentrate on preparing your application file, resources for identifying jobs and getting ready for interviews.
If you are on the market, you might want to bring a copy of your application letter.
Professor Carol Lansing
Director of Graduate Studies
hm 10/12/11

The Arab Spring: Where Are the Swallows?
2011-10-20 00:00
“In England, a swallow is the first sign of summer,” Wright says. “Hence we will discuss when will the Arab spring, representing potentiality, turn to summer, representing actuality, for the people of this region.” The speakers, who are married, were living in Egypt during the Egyptian Revolution and were based there during the past decade. The talk will focus on Egypt as an exemplar of the Arab Spring. The presentations will combine big-picture historical analysis with more personal, anecdotal insights. While the issues of what comes next are inevitably speculative, the couple will try to extrapolate from the multiple and often contradictory forces at play to suggest some possible outcomes. “By the end of the evening I would like the audience to see that the situation is a little more complex, subtle and interesting than they thought at the beginning,” Wright says.
The lecture is part of Westmont Downtown: Conversations about Things that Matter, which is sponsored by the Westmont Foundation. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
The University Club, 1332 Santa Barbara St. , Santa Barbara
Phone: 805-565-6051
map: http://www.independent.com/places/university-club/
hm 10/19/11

Who Killed Rasputin? Myths and Reality of the Murder of the Holy Devil: Grigorii Rasputin
2011-10-20 00:00
Aleksei Kulegin, Curator of the Museum of Political History of Russia in St. Petersburg will present at 12:30-2:00 on Thursday, October 20, in HSSB, “Who Killed Rasputin? Myths and Reality of the Murder of the Holy Devil: Grigorii Rasputin.”
The presentation will be accompanied with interesting photographs and illustrations that his museum has collected.
hm 10/6/11

Militant Femininities, 'Enlightened Moderation,' & the Global War on Terror
2011-10-20 00:00
subtitle: Pakistan’s Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) Movement
The Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) movement came into international
visibility in 2007 when armed men, women and children occupied the
oldest mosque in Islamabad, refusing to surrender until
the Pakistani government met their demands. A notable
aspect of this movement was the emergence of militant
women activists affiliated with Jamia Hafsa the
women’s seminary affiliated with the Lal Masjid – who
participated in very public forms of protest to demand
new systems of governance premised on a purist interpretation
of Islam. This presentation will illuminate the
ways that these religious femininities engage, challenge,
and intervene in hegemonic discourses surrounding
the Global War on Terror.
Dr. Khanum Shaikh is a University of California
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow for 2010-2012 in
the Department of History at UCSB.
Directions:The Orfalea Center is located in the detached
ground-level wing of offices on the left just outside the
main Ocean Road entrance to Robertson Gymnasium.
hm 10/15/11

The Startling Rise of Women Filmmakers in the Islamic Republic
2011-10-21 00:00
Hamid Naficy is Professor of Radio-Television-Film and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University, and he is also an affiliate faculty in Art History. He is a leading authority in cultural studies of diaspora, exile, and postcolonial cinemas and media and of Iranian and Middle Eastern cinemas. His Latest books are An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking and A Social History of Iranian Cinema, a 4-volume book, whose first two volumes have just been released.
This lecture will be followed by:
Shahla Haeri, “From Belqeis to Benazir: A Queen, A Sultan, and A Prime Minister Shahla”
Shahla Haeri is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and the former director of Women’s Studies Program (2001-2010) at Boston University. She will be a Visiting Fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for International and Regional Studies in Doha, Qatar for 2011-2012. She is the author of Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage, Mut’a, in Iran (1989, 2006 4th pt.), and No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani women (2002/2004), and a video documentary, “Mrs. President: Women and Political Leadership in Iran, 2002” (www.films.com).
hm 10/20/11

History of Public Health in the Americas and the Caribbean
2011-10-24 00:00
8:55 Welcome – Gabriela Soto-Laveaga
9:00 – 10:25
Adam Warren (University of Washington)
Indigenismo, Degeneration, and Racial Differentiation in Peruvian Coca Science, 1920-1950
Hanni Jalil Paier (UCSB)
Luchando por la patria, forjando trabajadores: Tuberculosis, Alcoholism and Public Health in Colombia, 1910-1925
10:25 – 10:40
BREAK
10:40 – 12:40
Heather McCrea (Kansas State University) Indians, Doctors, and Parasites: Medicine and Identity Formation in the Tropics (or the “Indiscriminate Vector”)
Nicole Pacino (UCSB)
A Small Oasis in a Large Intellectual Desert: Debates over Rockefeller Foundation Funding to Revolutionary Bolivia
Jill Briggs (UCSB)
Venereal Disease in 1930s Jamaica: moral panic and a case of mistaken identity
12:45 – 2:00 Lunch (only for presenters)
Faculty Club
2:10 – 3:40
Jethro Hernandez-Berrones (UCSF)
“Medicos científicos” or “bifurcación de la ciencia”: Homeopathy and the struggle against the monopolization of the medical profession in Mexico, 1895-1924.
Gabriela Soto Laveaga
Creating Rural Doctors for the Modern State: Curricular Changes and Social Service for Mexican Medical Students, 1934-1945
3:40-3:50 Break
3:50 – 5:00 Wrap-Up: Common Themes, Disparities & New ideas
The event is free and open to the public.
vz 10/23

An Evening with Librarian of Congress James Billington
2011-10-25 00:00
UCSB HISTORY ASSOCIATES
Special Event: ‘A Life for the Books’
An Evening with Librarian of Congress James Billington
Sponsored by the Friends of the Library of the Santa Ynez Valley
Solvang Brewing Company
1547 Mission Dr., Solvang
When he became the 13th Librarian of Congress in 1987, Dr. James
Billington had never heard of the iPad, Kindle, Smart phones or the Google
digital book project. Of course, that’s because none of them existed. Join
us for this special evening to hear what it was like to run the largest
and most diverse library in the world during a period of the greatest
changes in publishing technology since the invention of moveable type.
We will begin with dinner and an illustrated lecture on the history of the
Library of Congress by UCSB’s own Dr. Bev Schwartzberg, followed
by Dr. Billington’s public lecture in the nearby Veterans Memorial Hall.
Mission Dr. is Route 246, the main street in Solvang. The
Solvang Brewing Company is located at 1547 Mission,
next to the big windmill and Paula’s Pancake House. The
Veterans Memorial Hall is located at 1745 Mission, adjacent
to the Solvang Library. It has ample parking.
Dr. Billington’s public lecture will begin at 7 p.m.
Please reserve your space(s) @ $25 (HA members and guests) $30 (non-members)
hm 10/6/11, corr. 10/14

The Empire Fallacy: A New Interpretation of U.S. Foreign Relations From George Washington to Barack Obama
2011-10-26 00:00
In this talk, Professor Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman challenges the assumption that the United States is an empire. Rather, it acts as an arbiter and enforcer in a world system where goals and rules are increasingly universal. Over the past three centuries, most nations have become republics and many democracies. Almost all have embraced free market economic policies in some form. After World War II, numerous voluntary pacts prohibited conquest and placed limits on the right of states to abuse their populations. The primary challenge to nationalism lay no longer in imperialism but in universalism. The U.S. did not cause these changes, Professor Hoffman argues, but it hastened them. The global role toward which it gravitated was rooted in domestic U.S. experience, where the historical tension between states’ rights and federal authority prefigured the later tension between state sovereignty and supranational authority.
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman is Dwight E. Stanford Professor of American Foreign Relations at San Diego State University. She is the author of The Rich Neighbor Policy: Kaiser and Rockefeller in Brazil (Yale, 1992) and All You Need is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s (Harvard, 2000). Her first book won the Allan Nevins Prize from the Organization of American Historians and the Stuart Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Professor Hoffman is now completing a book, for Harvard University Press, on U.S. foreign relations since 1776.
The talk is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) and cosponsored by the UCSB Department of History.
hm 10/17/11
The event is free and open to the public. A brief reception, with refreshments, will follow Prof. Hoffman’s presentation.
Please join us for this exciting event!

Yours and Mine, But Not Ours: The Toledot Yeshu and Identity Construction in Late Antiquity
2011-10-28 00:00
This event is sponsored by the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.
jwil 19.x.2011

Identity, Commemoration and Remembrance: Funerary Practice and Contested Identities in Sudanese Nubia during the Time of the Kushite Pharaohs (c. 750-650 BCE)
2011-11-03 00:00
Professor Smith’s research centers on the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Nubia. He is particularly interested in theidentification of ethnicity in the archaeological record and the ethnic dynamics of colonial encounters. The origins of
the Napatan state, whose rulers conquered Egypt, becoming Pharaohs of the 25th Dynasty, provides the focus of his
current archaeological research. He has published on the dynamics of Egyptian imperialism and royal ideology, the
use of sealings in administration, death and burial in ancient Egypt and Nubia, and the ethnic, social and economic
dynamics of interaction between ancient Egypt and Nubia.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Identity RFG.
jwil 28.x.2011, hm 10/28

Jerusalem: The Biography
2011-11-03 00:00
Montefiore has written an epic history of the world’s most contested place through the lives of those who created, destroyed, conquered, wrote about–and believed in–the Holy City.
See this October 22 review in the Wall Street Journal.
hm 10/29/11

Building the City of the Future: ... Akosombo Township in Ghana
2011-11-03 00:00
hm11/1/11

Penelope in Persepolis or The Power of Images to Stop War with an Arch-Enemy
2011-11-04 00:00
Among the finds from the Achaemenid palace of Persepolis a classical Greek marble statue of highest quality, representing Odysseus’ wife Penelope, constitutes an ongoing and still unexplained surprise. How, by whom, and for what purpose was this work of art brought to the residence of the Persian king? Moreover, Roman marble copies testify to a second, contemporary version of this work, destined for collocation in one of the centres of Greece. Close analysis allows the conclusion that one replica was erected in Athens and the other brought to Persia as a gift to the Great King on the occasion of the ‘treaty’ of Kallias by which the Persian Wars were concluded. Penelope serves as a mythical example representing the disturbances brought about by continuous far-reaching warfare.
This event is sponsored by the Department of Classics, the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program, and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.
jwil 27.x.2011

The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Making of Modern America
2011-11-04 00:00
The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Making of Modern America (Oxford 2010)
winner of the Spur Prize for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction Book
Lawrence Culver
Associate Professor of History
Utah State University
all are welcome
hm 10/31/11

Early California Dance
2011-11-05 00:00
Experience the dances of early California in the historic Presidio Chapel withdancer and teacher Diana Replogle-Purinton. Diana is the director of Las
Fiesteras folk dance group, and has over three decades of experience as an
instructor.
El Presidio Chapel
123 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara
$15 Public, $12.50 Students and Seniors, $10 SBTHP Members
Reservation required. For more information go to www.sbthp.org
hm 8/23/11, 10/6/11

Shakespeare and Pizza? “A Comedy of Errors”
2011-11-09 00:00
The cast of England’s Globe Theater company will be performing Shakespeare’s “AComedy of Errors” in Cambell Hall Nov. 8-11. We have arranged for director Rebecca
Gatward and one of the troupe to join us for lunch at noon on Wednesday, Nov. 9 in
Rusty’s Pizza Parlor, 232 W. Carrillo St. downtown (on the corner of Carrillo and
Bath). Why pizza? Because this Rusty’s was originally built as an English pub, with
genuine half-timbering. So join us for a pizza-and-salad buffet and a conversation
on Shakespeare, Elizabethan England, and the making of the new Globe Theater in
London. And if you want to attend a performance, phone the Arts & Lectures box
office at (805) 893-3535, open Mon. through Fri. 10-5, Saturdays 12-4.
Please phone (805) 617-0998 to reserve,
OR print and mail check made out to UCSB History Associates to:
Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410
Shakespeare and Pizza Wed., Nov. 9, 2011 (noon)
Please reserve _____ space(s) @ $15 (HA members and guests) $20 (non-members)
UCSB HISTORY ASSOCIATES
Name _____________________________________ Guest(s) ________________________________________
Address ___________________________________________________________________________________
Daytime Phone ________________________ E-mail ______________________________________________
hm 10/10/11
