“Crafting Gendered Notions of Intimacy: Indian ‘Coolie’ Households in British Malaya and the Colonial Construction of ‘Everyday Violence’
2016-04-04 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Lecture by
Dr. Arunima Datta
Dr. Arunima Datta received her PhD in 2015 in Southeast Asian history from the National University of Singapore. She is currently a post-doctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Malayan Branch of the Asiatic Society. She has published several articles related to her dissertation, “Life Beyond Dependency and Victimhood: Indian Coolie Women on Rubber Estates of Colonial Malaya (1900-1945), most recently in Women’s History Review.

Robin and Robert Jones present "Refugees on the Greek Island of Lesbos"
2016-04-14 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
On Thursday, April 14th at 2pm in HSSB 6020, Robin and Robert Jones will speak about their experiences working with refugees landing on the Greek island of Lesbos.
Their presentation is co-sponsored by the History Department, the Center for Middle East Studies, and the Argyropoulos Hellenic Studies Endowment.
Robin and Robert Jones live part of their year on the Greek island of Lesbos, which is a major landing area for desperate refugees from war-torn Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. The refugees arrive in rubber rafts, crossing the strait from Turkey, under harrowing conditions; many die en route.
Robin (center) greets a family waiting at a transit station. Women and children composed 50 percent of all refugees who fled to Europe by sea in 2015.
The Jones’ have put together a photographic exhibit of the refugees – their arrival and living conditions – and the children’s drawings, along with a PowerPoint presentation documenting this world event. They were intimately involved in providing assistance and support and now they want to tell the refugees’ stories.
It is a story that needs to be told, and puts a very human face on what otherwise is, for most people, a five minute clip on the news. It also provides an important counterpoint to the “immigrant as terrorist” narrative that dominates the news these days.

You can read more about Robin and Robert in the Independent: http://www.independent.com/news/2016/mar/10/horror-and-hope-lesbos/

"The Journey: Domestic Violence Legislation in Ghana" by Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo
2016-04-15 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Daily, all over the world, women and children (especially) are abused by intimate partners and family members, friends and colleagues. While a legal infrastructure and legal responses will not end gender-based violence (GBV) and domestic violence (DV), they can provide reliefs for survivors of violence. They can serve as spaces from which GBV and DV can be discussed and explained, as well where advocacy can occur. This talk chronicles the journey traveled by women’s rights advocates for the passage of DV legislation in Ghana. The advocates faced considerable resistance but also built strong alliances and learned about effective methods of strategizing among different constituencies helpful in other areas of struggle. They learned more about “deconstructing” notions of GBV. The lessons learned in Ghana suggest strategies for mobilizing and advocacy that are useful for women and men globally, including the United States.
Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, is a sociologist who has published widely on gender (including masculinities), sexuality, children and socialization, and feminism. She was the first head of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy at the University of Ghana.
Organized by the IHC’s African Studies RFG, with co-sponsorship from the Hull Chair in Feminist Studies and the Department of History.

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The Just Prince and the Nation: Muslim Patriotism and the Politics of Notables in late Ottoman Egypt, 1860s - Adam Mestyan (Harvard University)
2016-04-19 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | UCEN Santa Barbara Mission Room, University Center, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Speaker: Adam Mestyan (Harvard University)
About the Talk:
In this presentation Mestyan will argue that in nineteenth-century Ottoman Egypt the symbolic unification between the Ottoman governor (khedive) and the homeland was based on vocabularies of kingship in the Koran and in Arab-Persian-Ottoman traditions. During this process of constructing patriotism by rural men of distinction, the perceived ‘justice’ of the Muslim prince meant the local elite’s participation in state affairs and in rural capitalist enterprises.
Based on archival documents, petitions to the ruler by local village notables, and Arabic political poetry and plays, this presentation also introduces the notion of Muslim patriotism as an ideological tool of legitimating power in khedivial Egypt before and during the British occupation.”

About the Presenter:
Adam Mestyan is a historian of the modern Middle East, specialized in cultural and social history. He has been undertaking research in various archives, especially in the Egyptian National Archives. At the moment, he is a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Previously, he taught at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the “Europe in the Middle East – the Middle East in Europe” program of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute of Advanced Studies). He holds a PhD in History from the Central European University and another PhD in Art Theory from the Eotvos Lorand University (both in Budapest). His articles were published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Journal of Semitic Philology, Die Welt des Islams, and Muqarnas. His first book, Arab Patriotism – The Ideology and Culture of Power in Modern Egypt is forthcoming at Princeton University Press.
Sponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies

"Survivors into Minorities: Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey" with Lerna Ekmekcioglu (MIT)
2016-04-20 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Speaker:
Lerna Ekmekcioglu is McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she is also affiliated with Women and Gender Studies Program. She specializes on Turkish and Armenian lands in the beginning of the 20th century and the history of Armenian feminism. In 2006 she co-edited a volume in Turkish about the first five Armenian feminists of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic. Her most recent book, Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey, came out from Stanford University Press in early 2016.
About the Talk
This talk follows the trajectories of the survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide who remained inside Turkish borders after the signing of the 1918 Mudros Armistice (and during the Allied occupation years of Istanbul) and after the 1923 establishment of the new country as the Turkish Republic. How did the Kemalist state treat the remaining Armenians? What were Armenians’ responses to the new (but also old) Turkish regime? I will discuss multiple strategies Armenians –including feminist Armenians– improvised in order to cohabit with unapologetic perpetrators and survive the new Turkey.

Farina Mir: "Reconsidering Modernity in an Indian Vernacular: Punjabi Literature and the Writing of Colonial History"
2016-04-21 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | SSMS 2135, Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
FARINA MIR
University of Michigan, Associate Professor of History
KAPANY ENDOWMENT VISITING LECTURE SERIES
About the Talk
This talk considers the literary history of one Indian vernacular tradition, Punjabi, to interrogate assumptions about the temporality of literary history embedded in today’s normative mode of writing the history of literature, assumptions critically linked to notions of modernity. Identifying at least two types of temporality in existing literary history, an even temporality, on the one hand, and one that emphasizes rupture, on the other it argues for the adoption of a third mode: “lumpy time”, a concept drawn from the work of sociologist William Sewell. The broader aim of the talk is to show how assessments of modernity in literary history mirror a broader tension in South Asian historiography between indigenous agency and colonialism.
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“The Visual Archive: Ho-Chunk Cultural Performance, Modern Labor, and Survivance in Wisconsin, 1879-1960.”
2016-04-22 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
This presentation explores the intersections of photographic images, family history, tourism, and Ho-Chunk survivance through an examination of two photographic collections housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society: the Charles Van Schaick Collection and the H.H. Bennett Collection. The Van Schaick collection includes nearly taken between 1879-1936, and the H.H. Bennett Collection is comprised of hundreds of images of tribal members taken from 1865-1960. Also contained within the Bennett Collection are film reels of the Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial, a major tourist attraction that employed tribal members in Wisconsin Dells, WI from the 1920s through the 1960s. The stories that these images convey of the importance of kinship, place, modern labor, cultural performance, settler colonialism, and survivance are the central themes of the Ho-Chunk experience in the 20th century, and my presentation will address these intersecting themes and the ongoing meanings that these images have for contemporary tribal citizens.
Amy Lonetree, a member of The Public Historian editorial board, is author of Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums (University of North Carolina Press, 2012), and co-editor with Amanda Cobb of The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations (University of Nebraska Press, 2008).
Sponsored by the UCSB Public History Program, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of History.
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"Was the Rise of Islam a Black Swan Event?" Michael Cook, 2016 R. Stephen Humphreys Distinguished Visiting Scholar
2016-05-02 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
A Black Swan Event is by definition a highly improbable happening with a massive impact. No one questions the impact of rise of Islam, but just how improbable was it? Two of its central features look very unlikely against the background of earlier history: the appearance among the Arabs of a new
monotheistic religion, and the formation of a powerful state in Arabia. Does that add up to two Black Swans, or do they cancel out?
Michael Cook is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought and A Brief History of the Human Race, among other books, and he is also the general editor of The New Cambridge History of Islam.
Sponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies, R. Stephen Humphreys Distinguished
Lecture Series
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Wolfenden's Witnesses: Making Sense of Homosexuality in Postwar Britain
2016-05-03 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4202, 4202 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Brian Lewis, Professor of History at McGill University, Montreal will be giving a lecture related to his recently published book Wolfenden’s Witnesses: Homosexuality in Postwar Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. In addition to two other books, Professor Lewis has published two collections of essays on British Queer History. He is currently writing a study of sexologist and criminologist George Ives, tentatively titled Greek to the Soul: George Ives and Homosexuality in Britain from Wilde to Wolfenden.

Senior Honors Seminar Informational Meeting
2016-05-04 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Senior Honors Seminar is a two-quarter seminar for majors in History, History of Public Policy, and Medieval Studies to be held in fall 2016 and winter 2017.
The informational meeting for interested and eligible students is scheduled for Wednesday, May 4th from 2-3:30 pm in HSSB 4020. Please contact Prof. Hilary Bernstein at bernstein@history.ucsb.edu with any questions.

2016 Annual Medieval Studies Program Conference: "Gender & Religious Practice in the Middle Ages"
2016-05-07 09:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Keynote talk:
“Men in Women’s Monasteries: Nuns’ Priests in the Central Middle Ages”
by Fiona Griffiths,
Professor of History at Stanford University
The Medieval Studies Program would like to invite you to join us for our annual conference, May 7, 2016.
The theme of this year’s conference is “Gender and Religious Practice in the Middle Ages.” There will be a keynote talk from Fiona Griffiths, Associate Professor of History at Stanford University, entitled “Men in Women’s Religious Spaces in the Central Middle Ages.”
Additionally, a number of students from the department will be presenting at or moderating panels. Attached please find a flyer advertising the event, along with a schedule of speakers. Please also note that there will also be a reception following the conference.
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Seeking Peace Amid Violence: Professor James F. Brooks to Speak on Awat'ovi Massacre
2016-05-11 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Alhecama Theatre, 914 Santa Barbara Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101, United States
Modern Americans love thinking that the Hopi people of the Southwest represent the epitome of peacefulness. But in the year 1700, in the populous village of Awat’ovi, Hopi slaughtered Hopi by the hundreds in a predawn raid, showering crushed red pepper, fire, and arrows into subterranean kivas while kidnapping the women and children who survived. This massacre is well documented, but UCSB history and anthropology professor James Brooks wanted to find out why, and whether the tragic incident resonates in today’s world.
James Brooks will speak about Mesa of Sorrows at the Alhecama Theatre (914 Santa Barbara St.) on Wednesday, May 11, at 7 p.m. in an event hosted by the S.B. Trust for Historic Preservation and the UCSB History Associates. Free for members; $10 otherwise.
Read more @ http://www.independent.com/news/2016/may/02/finding-peace-amid-hopi-violence/

Talk by Neil Maher: Cold War Star Wars: The New Left and the Space Race During the Vietnam War
2016-05-13 11:00 - 12:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
In the mid-1960s, NASA began building space technologies for the war in Vietnam. Students from the New Left vigorously protested against the space agency, which responded in the early 1970s by scrapping several of its military projects and instead developing satellites that could collect useful ecological data on natural resources around the world. Soon scientists, engineers, and politicians from Latin America, Africa, and Asia—including even Vietnam—were cooperating with the U.S. government to acquire satellite data about their countries’ natural resources. The Soviets did similarly with their own space technology and developing communist nations. The result was a more subtle, but still hegemonic, superpower rivalry
Neil M. Maher is Associate Professor in the Federated History Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University at Newark, where he teaches environmental history and political history. He has published widely in academic and has edited a collection of essays by historians, scientists, and policy analysts titled New Jersey’s Environments: Past, Present, and Future (Rutgers University Press, 2006). His first monograph, Nature’s New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement (Oxford University Press, 2008), received the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award for the best monograph in conservation history. He has recently completed his second book, tentatively titled Ground Control: How Apollo Scrubbed the Age of Aquarius (Harvard University Press, 2017), which will examine how efforts to put humans on the Moon influenced the social and political movements of the “long 1960s.”
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"The Calorie, Development, and War in Mandate Palestine, 1915-1945"
2016-05-15 13:30 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library,, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, United States
Sherene Seikaly
Event Description:
This talk explores British economic policy in the Middle East in general and Palestine specifically during WWII. Scholarly depictions have focused on the importance of measuring and realizing economic growth. This analysis looks instead at the construction and provision of basic needs during times of scarcity. It shows how British officials sought to realize economy through new technologies such as the calorie and the emerging science of nutrition. Far from an imperative to rationalize the colonized body, this effort was born of the exigencies of war. British colonial officials introduced new conceptions of development, poverty, health, and productivity throughout the war. Their failures reveal the politics of basic needs. They also show how paradigms such as colonial development and sciences like nutrition promised the universal but instead enforced and were constituted by exclusion.
About the Speaker:
Sherene Seikaly is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the editor of the Arab Studies Journal, co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya e-zine, and an editor of Journal of Palestine Studies. Her book, Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2016) explores how Palestinian capitalists and British colonial officials used economy to shape territory, nationalism, the home, and the body. She has published in academic journals such as International Journal of Middle East Studies and Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies and several online venues.
RSVP:
This event is free, but please download the event flyer, detach the included RSVP form, fill it out, and mail to UCSB History Associates, Department of History, UCSB, 93106-9410 so we can insure that we have enough refreshments on hand.

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Film Screening/Talk: "American Umpire"
2016-05-18 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Elizabeth Cobbs and James Shelley grant us a sneak preview of their forthcoming PBS documentary film, “American Umpire,” based on Prof. Cobbs’s acclaimed history book of the same name. The film recounts America’s post-World War II role as the world’s policemen and explores whether the United States can, and should, continue to play that role in the future. After screening the film, which runs for 56 minutes, Professor Cobbs and Mr. Shelley, the film’s director, will discuss the making of the documentary and engage the audience members in dialogue.
Elizabeth Cobbs is Professor and Melbern G. Glasscock Chair in American History at Texas A & M University. Her first book, The Rich Neighbor Policy: Kaiser and Rockefeller in Brazil (Yale, 1992), 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 Cobbs has also authored All You Need is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s (Harvard, 2000), along with works of historical fiction. Her most recent historical monograph, American Umpire (Harvard, 2013), is the inspiration for the featured documentary film.
James Shelley is the owner of Shell Studios, a San Diego-based production company that specializes in award-winning documentaries and commercial films. Having retired from a 35-year career as a global risk management executive, Shelley is now pursuing a lifelong interest in filmmaking. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and of the University of California, San Diego’s video production program. He is currently pursuing his Master of Fine Arts degree in Television, Media, and Film at San Diego State University.
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History Honors Seminar Colloquium
2016-05-20 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
UCSB History Department’s Annual Senior Honors Seminar Colloquium

Friday, May 20th

4020 HSSB

8:30 AM Coffee and pastries

9:00 AM Welcome

– Professor Sharon Farmer, Chair of the History Department

– Professor Debra Blumenthal, Director of 2015-16 Senior Honors Seminar

9:15 AM

Bruno Tomasini, “The Danger of Moral Necessity: The Dissolution of the Civil Rights Congress” (advisor: Professor Randy Bergstrom)

Comment: Professor Nelson Lichtenstein, History Department

9:45 AM

I-Wen (Winnie) Wang, “The New Chinese-American Baby: Chinese Birth Tourism in Southern California” (advisor: Professor Paul Spickard)

Comment: Professor Xiaojian Zhao, Department of Asian and Asian-American Studies

10:15 AM COFFEE BREAK

10:30 AM

Paola Villegas, “‘Vivimos en conflicto’: University-Induced Displacement in Isla Vista, CA” (advisor: Professor George Lipsitz, Sociology)

Comment: Professor Paul Spickard, History Department

11:00 AM

C.J. Key, “Dogwhistle Disarmament: A History of Racialized Gun Control in 20th Century America (advisor: Professor Laura Kalman)

Comment: Professor Mary Furner, History Department

11:30 – 1:00PM LUNCH BREAK

1:00 PM

Lovepreet Brah, “The Mixed Race Issue: A Curious Case of a Muslim Nawab, his Jewish Lover and the Late 19th Century Calcutta High Court” (Advisor: Professor Erika Rappaport)

Comment: Professor Mary Hancock, History Department

1:30 PM

Audrey Dalton, “The First World War in Contemporary Juvenile Fiction” (advisor: Professor Alice O’Connor)

Comment: Professor Lisa Jacobson, History Department

2:00 PM

Remy Bogna, “From Nothing to Something: Recognizing Hidden Children as Holocaust Survivors” (Advisor: Professor Harold Marcuse)

Comment: Professor Stephan Miescher, History Department

2:30 PM COFFEE BREAK

2:45 PM

Meghan Brown, “Three Million Slaves and a Celebration of Progress: Slavery and The London Great Exhibition of 1851” (Advisor: Professor John Majewski)

Comment: Professor Jeannine DeLombard, English Department

3:15 PM

Jacob Weeks, “No One Reads this Rag: Punk Rock and the Zine-Scene Dynamic” (Advisor: Professor Alice O’Connor)

Comment: Jesse Halvorsen, History Department

2016 Islamic Studies Graduate Student Conference - Identity, Memory, & Diaspora
2016-05-20 14:30 - 2016-05-22 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join the History Department for its 6th annual Islamic Studies Graduate Student Conference, beginning on May 20th and concluding on the 22nd in HSSB’s McCune Conference Room. For additional information, including the schedule of speakers, please review the conference program which is provided below.
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U.S. Senate Historian on Career Opportunities in Public History
2016-05-20 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4080, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Betty K. Koed is the U.S. Senate Historian and Director of the Senate Historical office. Koed earned her Ph.D. in political and public history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also taught history and provided editorial assistance to The Public Historian. A Senate Historian, Koed supervises all historical and archival projects, provides talks and presentations to senators, staff, and the public on wide-ranging topics of Senate history, and conducts oral history interviews with former senators and staff. She oversees more than 10,000 pages of historical material on the Senate website, is senior editor of the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, and provides research and reference assistance to the Senate community and the media. Her current Senate projects include online documentary histories of Senate impeachment trials and a series of oral history interviews to explore the decision-making process during the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
Some Questions Dr. Koed Will Address:

How and why did you pursue a career in public history?
What does the Senate Historian do?
What do you like the most, and the least, about your job?
As a professional public historian, how do you interact with those working in the broader historical profession?
What are the unique challenges of being a Senate historian?
What are your thoughts on the state of public history and how well that field is served by academic departments and professional organizations?
As the Senate historian, how do you define professional success?

A reception follows the session: light refreshments and libations included.

Department of History and the History Associates Annual Awards Ceremony
2016-06-01 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The UCSB History Associates and the Department of History honor the recipients of this year’s History Associates and Department of History awards at the Annual Awards Ceremony:
Wednesday June 1, 2016 at 4:00pm
UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
McCune Conference Room Sixth floor
Humanities and Social Sciences Building

Hundred Years Since Columbus: Pancho Villa, the Border, & U.S. History
2016-06-04 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Huntington Library, Seaver 3 Classroom, CA, United States
ICW Director Bill Deverell with Veronica Castillo-Munoz (UCSB), Kelly Lytle Hernandez (UCLA), and Jessica Kim (CSUN).
Hundred Years Since Columbus- Pancho Villa, the Border, & U.S. History

Last Day of Spring 2016 Quarter
2016-06-10
View full academic calendar: https://registrar.sa.ucsb.edu/cal2016.aspx

History Graduation Reception 2016 for all graduating History majors and their families
2016-06-12 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Denver) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
All graduating History majors and their families are invited:
Sunday June 12th 10:00am-12:00pm in HSSB 4020
The UCSB Department of History is pleased to invite you to the annual UC Santa Barbara History Department Graduation Reception.
Please join History faculty members and your fellow students for a buffet breakfast and mingling.
This celebration is for all graduates of the 2015-2016 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) programs in History, History of Public Policy and Medieval Studies, and their families. This event prior to the commencement ceremony is an opportunity for faculty and graduates to celebrate their achievements together, and for families to meet the professors who taught their newly minted graduates. A light buffet breakfast will be provided.
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Kathleen Cairnes to Speak about First Female Chief Justice of California
2016-08-20 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Women in History Lecture: Rose Bird–Chief Justice of California
Kathleen Cairns PhD (retired annuitant in Women’s History/Gender Studies at Cal Poly SCU) will be speaking about Rose Elizabeth Bird (1936-1999), who served for 10 years as the first female Chief Justice of CA, and her role in politicizing the judiciary.
There will be a Special Manuscript Exhibit on Women in History from noon to 4pm.
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum
21 W. Anapamu St. – FREE

Save the Date! Breakfast with the Humanities, September 20
2016-09-20 09:30 - 23:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
On Tuesday, September 20, the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts will host the fourth annual Breakfast with the Humanities for HFA undergraduates at the McCune Conference room (HSSB 6020) at 9:30am.
$50 gift certificates to the UCSB Bookstore as well as cool gear from local marketing company Oniracom will be raffled off!!!

2016-2017 Department of History New Majors Meeting
2016-09-21 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
This is a great opportunity for the 2016-2017 new undergraduate majors and those interested in the History, Medieval Studies, and the History of Public Policy majors and the History and Labor Studies minors to meet members of the Department of History faculty. Students will make connections with faculty and with other students and learn about the Department of History. Students will learn about the national History honors society Phi Alpha Theta, the History of Public Policy major and learn who the 2016-2017 faculty undergraduate will be, meet the Chair of the Department of History, meet the Director of Undergraduate Studies and other faculty members who will speak about their areas of specialty. This is an opportune time for new majors and all students interested in the Department of History to interact with faculty on a personal basis.

Gender and Intimacy Across the U.S-Mexico Borderlands
2016-09-30 - 2016-10-01 | Loma Pelona Conference Center, Loma Pelona Center, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
A Workshop at UC Santa Barbara
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Alexandra Minna Stern, Professor of American Culture, Women’s Studies, History, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan, will provide they keynote talk on “Gender and Intimacy Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.” Author of Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in America, 2d. ed. (UC Press, 2015) and Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (John Hopkins University Press, 2012) as well as numerous articles on the history of public health in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Professor Stern is a leading voice in unraveling the dynamics of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, disability, social difference, and reproductive politics in the United States and Latin America.
Image at right. Photo credit: Jae C. Hong – Design: Ebers Garcia

About the Workshop

In recent years, scholars from across a variety of disciplinary fields have initiated studies exploring gender and intimacy across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Some of the most exciting and innovating work has begun to examine how notions of gender as well as masculinity and femininity shape emotional and personal relations with partners, spouses, children, and extended family members and how those relationships, in turn, impact their experiences with migration, community formation, and their interactions with the state, among other topics.
Building on this rich emerging literature, we solicit proposals for papers that explore deeply and widely themes of gender and intimacy as well as sexuality and identity in/on and across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. We define gender and intimacy broadly. While we consider gender as the social and cultural roles assigned to biological males and females that construct them as a multiplicity of feminine and masculine subjects, we treat intimacy as an emotional and personal expression of love and desire as well as affection between two or more people that is performed or enacted across a variety of spaces, places, and relationships, including marriage, courtship, and the family as well as in homosocial relations and contexts. We also treat the U.S.-Mexico borderlands loosely, regarding it as a region of diverse social, political, economic, and cultural interactions, inconsistencies, contradictions, conflicts, and violence, that is bisected by an international boundary separating and joining peoples of different genders, races, ethnicities, classes, and sexual orientations.
Topics of Interest Include

Courtship, marriage, and migration in the borderlands
Gender, race, and ethnicity in the borderlands
Family and community formation in the borderlands
Sexuality and intimacy in the borderlands
Sexual violence in the borderlands
State power and practices regulating gender and intimacy in the borderlands
Masculinity and manhood in the borderlands
Queer bodies in the borderlands
Queer and transgender activists and activism in the borderlands

Goals of the Workshop
Our goals are to bring together scholars of all ranks (including graduate students) who are willing to share their work, provide constructive feedback to fellow presenters, and publish their papers. After the workshop, we plan to invite all participants to submit revised papers for consideration in a Special Issue of the Pacific Historical Review, pending peer and editorial review. Note: The editor of the journal will attend the workshop to see the work in progress.
Logistics of the Workshop & Keynote Speaker
All selected workshop participants will receive complimentary accommodations for one night near the UCSB campus. Transportation between the accommodations and the UCSB campus will also be provided. Dinner the evening before the event as well as a continental breakfast and lunch the day of the event are also included. Transportation costs to UCSB from home institutions are not included.

Schedule

SCHEDULE
September 30, 2016

5:00-5:15 pm: Welcome & Introduction, Sharon Farmer, Chair & Professor, History
5:15-6:00 pm: Keynote Speaker, Dr. Alexandra M. Stern, Professor of American Culture, Women’s Studies, History, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan.
6:00-8:00 pm: Catered Dinner & Informal Discussion

October 1, 2016

8:00-8:45 am: Coffee, Tea, and Light Refreshments
8:45-9:00 am: Welcome & Introductions, Miroslava Chávez-Garcia & Verónica Castillo-Muñoz
9:00-10:30 am: Session I: Cultural Studies, Media, & Personal Narratives in Contemporary U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Laura Barraclough, Assistant Professor, American Studies, Yale University, “Charro Masculinity in Motion: Gender, Sexuality, and the Family on Hulu’s Los Cowboys”
Juan Llamas-Rodríguez, Ph.D. Student, Film & Media, UCSB, “The Familial Ties of the Female NarcoTrafficker”
Jennifer Tyburczy, Assistant Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSB, “Sex Toys After NAFTA: Transnational Class Politics, Erotic Consumerism, and the Economy of Female Pleasure in Mexico City”
Deborah Boehm, Associate Professor, Anthropology, UN Reno, “Divided by Citizenship: Mixed-Status Partnerships in the United States and Mexico”
Commentators: D. Inés Casillas, Associate Professor, Chicana/o Studies, UCSB, & Leisy Abrego, Associate Professor, Chicana/o Studies, UCLA
Audience: Comment

10:45 am-12:15 pm: Session II: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender, Marriage, and Intimacy in 20th-Century U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Celeste Menchaca, Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies and Ethnicity, USC, “Staging Crossings: Policing and Performing Difference at the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1906-1917”
Marla A. Ramírez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Sociology and Sexuality Studies, SFSU, “Transnational Gender Formations: A Banished U.S. Citizen Woman Negotiates Motherhood & Marriage Across the U.S.-Mexico Border”
Jane Lily López, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, UCSD, “Together and Apart: Mixed-Citizenship Couples in the Mexican Border Region”
Commentators: Denise Segura, Professor, Sociology, UCSB, & Veronica Castillo-Muñoz, Assistant Professor, History, UCSB
Audience: Comment

Lunch Break: 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Session III: Contesting Gender, Family, and Marriage in the 19th-Century U.S.-Borderlands

Margie Brown-Coronel, Assistant Professor, History, CSU, Fullerton, “History Makers in the Borderlands: Josefa Del Valle and Legacy Building in California, 1880 to 1940”
Amy Langford, Ph.D. Candidate, History, American University, “Saints on the Border: Plural Marriage and the Contest for Authority in the Mormon Colonies of Mexico, 1885 to 1915”
Erika Pérez, Assistant Professor, History, University of Arizona, “The Zamorano-Daltons and the Unevenness of U.S. Conquest in California: A Borderland Family at the Turn of the 20th Century”
Commentators: James Brooks, Professor, History & Anthropology, UCSB, & Miroslava Chávez-García, Professor, History, UCSB
Audience: Comment

3:00-3:15 pm: Concluding Remarks & Publishing Timeline

Miroslava Chávez-García, Verónica Castillo-Muñoz, & Marc Rodríguez, Editor, Pacific Historical Review

Dinner: 5:00 – 8:00 pm @ home of Miroslava Chávez-García

Keynote Speaker Biography
Dr. Alexandra Minna Stern, Professor of American Culture, Women’s Studies, History, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan, will provide they keynote talk on “Gender and Intimacy Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.” Author of Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in America, 2d. ed. (UC Press, 2015) and Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (John Hopkins University Press, 2012) as well as numerous articles on the history of public health in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Professor Stern is a leading voice in unraveling the dynamics of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, disability, social difference, and reproductive politics in the United States and Latin America.

Accommodations & Transportation

Hotel Accommodations
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For more information, please contact Miroslava Chavez-Garcia at mchavezgarcia@chicst.ucsb.edu or (53) 219-3933 or Veronica Castillo-Muñoz at castillomunoz@history.ucsb.edu

UCSB's History Associates "Much Ado about Nothing" Sponsored Lecture
2016-10-02 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join UCSB’s History Associates at 12pm on October 2 in HSSB 4020 (the History Department’s Conference Room) for lunch and a talk by Irwin Appel, Professor of Theater and Director of the BFA Actor Training Program at UCSB. We will then proceed to the nearby Studio Theater for the 2pm performance of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (directed by Professor Appel). This timeless story of two of literature’s all-time greatest lovers, Beatrice and Benedick, features some of the wittiest banter in all of Shakespeare. Last year, Appel created and directed an adaptation of Shakespeare’s history plays titled The Death of Kings that was described by The Santa Barbara Independent as
something tremendous . . . Come, Appel invites the audience, let us sit and tell sad stories about the death of kings. Appel’s work, clearly a labor of passion, is a brilliant version of Shakespeare’s history of England; one that reminds us why Shakespeare is, to this day, still lauded as one of the greatest theatrical storytellers of the age.
For more on Professor Appel and this production of Much Ado About Nothing, see https://secure.lsit.ucsb.edu/dram/d7/news/event/482
To view the flyer for this History Associates-sponsored event, please click here.

"The Specter of Social Engineering: Scientism and its Critics in the Long 1950s" a talk by Andrew Jewett, Harvard University
2016-10-07 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Andrew Jewett’s talk traces fears about science’s cultural impact among intellectual and political leaders and ordinary citizens in postwar America. Jewett is the author of Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War (2012).
A copy of his paper can be found here.

Outlaws and Scofflaws: Pirates and the Making of the Mediterranean - Judith Tucker (Georgetown University)
2016-10-10 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Monday, October 10th, 5:00 pm
IHC McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)
How did the Mediterranean emerge as a coherent and recognizable place in the early modern period? By looking to the semi-licit world of piracy and to the development of its laws and practices in particular, we can trace a convergence of understandings and agreements across Mediterranean space. Ironically enough, these outlaws and scofflaws of the time played major roles in forging the critical connections that drew the shores of the Mediterranean closer in a time of turmoil on the seas. Should we give pirates significant credit for the making of the modern Mediterranean?
Judith E. Tucker (PhD, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 1981) is Professor of History at Georgetown University and former Editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (2004-2009). She is the author of many publications on the history of women and gender in the Arab world, including Women in 19th Century Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 1985), In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (California University Press, 1998), Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and co-author of Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Restoring Women to History (Indiana University Press, 1999). She has authored numerous articles for professional journals, edited volumes, and encyclopedias. Her research interests focus on the Arab world in the Ottoman period, women and gender in Middle East history, Islamic law, women, and gender, and most recently the Arab World, the Mediterranean, and global connections in the eighteenth century.

Meeting for Winter 2017 Scheduling for History Majors and Minors
2016-10-17 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Registration Begins 10/22!!!!
Are you a first year? A transfer student? New to the Department of History? Just want guidance?
Come learn about all the amazing courses History is offering in Winter quarter and learn how to schedule the most advantageous schedule for YOU!
ALWAYS THINK HISTORY FIRST
The days, times, and locations of all Winter courses have been posted on the
Department of History website since 10/9/2016
Come meet:
MONDAY OCTOBER 17th
HSSB 4020 12pm-2pm
