Grad Melissa Barthelemy Wins Mentorship Award
2017-07-31 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
Graduate Division names six winners for 2017 mentoring awards
By Shawn Warner-Garcia, Assistant Director of Professional Development
Friday, July 14, 2017 10:07 AM View original article

The Graduate Division is pleased to announce the ​winners for two awards ​honoring graduate students who have distinguished themselves in the area of undergraduate research supervision. The Fiona and Michael Goodchild Graduate Mentoring Award is available to students in the College of Engineering; Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences Division of the College of Letters and Science; and the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. The Dean’s Graduate Mentoring Award is available to students in the Humanities and Fine Arts and Social Sciences Divisions of the College of Letters and Science and the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education.
The winners of the 2017 Dean’s Graduate Mentoring Awards are:

Aubrie Adams (Communication), nominated by Prof. Norah Dunbar
Melissa Barthelemy (History), nominated by Prof. Randy Bergstrom
Baron Haber (English), nominated by Prof. Christopher Newfield

These students are recognized for their excellence in and contributions to undergraduate research supervision and for encouraging others to become involved in these research efforts. Each of the winning students receives a $1000 award.

MELISSA BARTHELEMY​ // History
Research Interests
My dissertation looks at the ways that politics and memory have been mobilized in the wake of mass violence, such as school shootings. Much of my research looks at the Isla Vista Tragedy of May 23, 2014, when six UCSB students were killed and another 14 individuals were injured. I am also working at a national level to help develop a better system of support for archivists and historians who end up managing condolence projects when their community suffers a public tragedy.
Mentoring Experiences
In the wake of the May 23, 2014 tragedy, I mentored a team of students through the process of collecting, archiving, and curating a memorial archive. This project would not have been possible without these students! Several interns have continued to stay involved in the project even after graduating, and I’ve been able to help them in references for competitive graduate programs and job positions. It is great to see their hard work pay off. The most challenging aspect has been the intensely emotional nature of the work we’ve done together, but that’s also what has made it so valuable and meaningful. For me, a true mentorship relationship should involve reciprocity, openness, and trust.
What the Award Means to ​Her
Mentoring by graduate students is a crucial responsibility that frequently goes unrecognized as it often occurs during the spaces of office hours, responses to emails late at night, writing letters of recommendations for past students, giving advice on grad school and career prospects, and helping refer students to support services. I have benefited from fantastic mentors in my life who have done many of these things for me, and it is deeply meaningful to be acknowledged for my role in doing the same for others. I applaud the Graduate Division for recognizing the value of mentorship in fostering deeper relationships and building a healthier community, which contributes to the success of our students.

2017-2018 History New Majors Meeting
2017-09-27 11:00 - 12:30 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Come to make connections with History Departmental faculty members! One of them could potentially become your academic mentor in future years at UCSB. You will also get to meet peers in your graduating cohort and even new friends or study buddies in the department! Learn the who`s who of UCSB History! There will be an additional half-hour of Q&A hosted jointly by Alan Vu, the Undergraduate Advisor and Professor Marcuse, immediately following the meeting.
Panel:

Professor Sharon Farmer | Department Chair
Professor Terence Keel | Department Vice Chair
Professor Harold Marcuse | Director of Undergraduate Studies
Professor Tony Barbieri-Low | Undergraduate Faculty Advisor & Phi Alpha Theta Advisor
Professor Randy Bergstrom | History of Public Policy Faculty Advisor
Professor Giuliana Perrone | 19th Century US History, Slavery, Law, Civil War & Reconstruction

"U.S.-Russian Relations: Crisis without End," with Michael Kimmage
2017-09-29 11:00 - 12:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
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American History & Institutions Exam
2017-10-04 09:00 - 12:00 | HSSB 3237, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
NOTE: This exam is used to fulfill the UCSB American History & Institutional General Educational requirement. History majors and minors, please contact the History Undergraduate Advisor, Alan Vu for specific questions about how your degree/minor requirements could be fulfilled through this exam. The current reading list to prepare for the examination can be found below with an important disclaimer. You must read and review all of the listed readings, and no sample exams are provided for reference. This quarter’s exam will be offered during the following time and location:
When: Wednesday, 10/4/17 from 9 am – 12 pm | Where: HSSB 3237
It is graded Pass/Fail, though a Pass is understood to be a grade better than 75%.
1. The American Promise: A History of the United States
by James L. Roark, Michael P. Johnson, and Patricia Cline Cohen
(Bedford Books, 1999) ISBN: 0312191995.
2. The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
by Richard Hofstader (Vintage Books, 1989) ISBN: 0679723153.
3. Give Me Liberty! An American History 4th Edition
by Eric Foner (Norton & Company, Inc. 2014) ISBN: 0393920338
Courses applicable to the American History and Institutions requirement are listed here:

American History and Institutions Course List

"En la frontera de los pijaos": the making of an Andean borderland (Santiago Muñoz, Universidad de los Andes)
2017-10-04 17:00 - 19:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us for the first meeting of the new Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez, who will deliver a talk entitled “‘En la frontera de los pijaos’: the making of an Andean borderland in northern South America”.
The talk will be held in HSSB 4020 at 5 pm on Wednesday, October 4th, and will be followed by a small reception.
Abstract: In the 1550s a coalition of native groups took arms against the Spanish empire in northern South America. The Pijao, as the imperial officials called the rebels, burnt cities, looted royal paths, and took captives. The officials of the empire classified the Pijao as caribes, accused them of cannibalism, and invoked theological arguments to justify their enslavement. From then on, interaction between the empire and the Pijaos was marked by violence, captivity, and slavery. By 1610, the president of the court of Santafé estimated that the Pijaos had destroyed fourteen cities and killed and eaten more than one hundred thousand indigenous allies. While the existing studies have depicted the Pijaos as pre-Hispanic warriors who survived due to their extreme cruelty, the Pijao frontier formed and grew in tandem with the empire. Far from being a static group that preceded the Spanish, the Pijao frontier was a novel political creation that grew as a reaction to Spanish conquest and its dynamics were intimately linked with those of the Spanish empire. This talk explores the birth, growth, and decline of an indigenous political project that emerged two decades after the conquest and expanded over the slopes of the northern Andes.
About the Speaker: Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez is Assistant Professor of History at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.

Book Launch: Kate McDonald's Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan
2017-10-09 18:00 - 20:00 | McCune Conference Room, Humanities & Social Sciences Building, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Come Celebrate the publication of Kate McDonald’s, Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan (University of California Press, 2017)
Featuring:
Ken Ruoff
Professor of History, Director / Center for Japanese Studies, Portland State University
Sabine Fruhstuck
Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies, Director/ East Asia Center, UCSB
Kate McDonald
Professor of History, UCSB

Diocletian's Palace: Design and Construction
2017-10-11 18:00 - 19:30 | Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Speaker: Goran Nikšić is the City Archaeologist and Architect for City of Split in Croatia (Service for the Old City Core), and the Senior Lecturer on architectural conservation at the University of Split. He holds his degrees from the University of Zagreb (Ph.D.), the University of York, and the University of Belgrade. His areas of specialization are architectural conservation and the history of architecture, particularly Roman, Medieval, and Renaissance architecture. From 2004 on he has served as an expert for ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites). Dr. Nikšić is an AIA Norton Lecturer for 2017-2018.
Abstract: Although Diocletian’s Palace in Split has been a topic of scientific interest for a long time, there has been no full consensus about some of its basic elements, from the typological definition to the original purpose of the building, from the original appearance of the whole down to the reliable reconstruction of the architectural parts. Traditionally, Diocletian’s Palace has been described as a unique combination of an imperial villa and a typical Roman military camp. Recent research has established the probable original purpose of the complex in Split as the imperial manufacture of textiles. It was later, most likely already during the construction, adapted for the residence of the retired Emperor. Detailed architectural analysis shows that the mistakes in the design and execution, and the unfinished decoration can be explained by the change of architectural concept which occurred probably during the first phase of construction, and by the very short deadline given to the builders by the Emperor who probably retired to his palace in Split earlier than originally planned. Finally, a new interpretation is given of this complex building, in terms of design and construction process.

Book Launch: Erika Rappaport's A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World
2017-10-13 17:00 - 19:00 | TD-W 1701, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
Please come celebrate the publication of Erika Rappaport’s new book:
A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World
Speakers:
Nadja Durbach, Professor of History, University of Utah
Bishnupriya Ghosh, Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Erika Rappaport, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Russian Revolution and the Trump Revolution by Prof. Toshi Hasegawa
2017-10-22 13:30 - 14:30 | CA
Please join us on Sunday October 22 2017 to hear a talk by Prof. Toshi Hasegawa. The event will be at the Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara.

In 1917, the February Revolution overthrew the monarchy of Tsar Nicholas II in Russia and un-wittingly opened the door to Lenin and his allies who seized power in October. On Oct. 22, 2017, Professor Emeritus Tsuyoshi Hasegawa will speak about what the Russian Revolution can tell us about our situation now. He taught at UCSB from 1990 until his retirement in 2016, and he is one of the leading historians of Soviet Russia in the world. His new book (cover above left) was published by the Harvard University Press this year, and a second, much expanded and revised edition of his book on The February Revolution, Petrograd, 1917 (1981) appears this month from Brill Publishers. Historian Robert H. McNeal (U. Mass, Amherst), reviewing the first edition in the American Historical Review, called it “the best work in any language on its subject and essential reading for any serious student of the Russian Revolution.” Hasegawa’s Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (Harvard UP, 2005) won the 2005 Robert Ferrell Award from the Society for the Historians of American Foreign Relations as well as other major prizes in Japan and the U.S. Able to use sources in Japanese and Russian as well as English, Hasegawa demonstrated that the decisive factor in the decision of the Japanese to surrender was not the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Rather, the Soviet declaration of war against Japan raised the specter of a Russian conquest of Japan. The Japanese feared the Russian bear more than the American eagle.
This free event is co-sponsored by UCSB’s Center for Cold War Studies.

Slaves, Silver, and Atlantic Empires (Alex Borucki, UC Irvine)
2017-11-01 17:00 - 19:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
Please join us for the next meeting of the new Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Alex Borucki, who will deliver a talk entitled “Slaves, Silver, and Atlantic Empires: The Slave Trade to Spanish South America, 1700-1810”.
The talk will be held in HSSB 4020 at 5 pm on Wednesday, November 1st, and will be followed by a small reception.
Prof. Borucki has pre-circulated a paper. Please e-mail jcobo@history.ucsb.edu to obtain a copy.
Abstract: This presentation examines the slave voyage conducted by the ship Ascension (1795-1797) connecting Rhode Island, Mozambique, and the Río de la Plata (The River of Silver, today’s Argentina and Uruguay), as a window into the eighteenth-century slave trade to Spanish South America. In this era, the slave trade became the key to accessing Spanish American consumers and silver for foreign traders. As a result, Spanish American silver entered English, Dutch, and Portuguese commercial circuits beneficial to metropolitan merchants and public revenues. The story of the Ascension’s captives goes beyond Anglo-American conceptions of the Middle Passage born out of the triangular trade, as the yearlong ordeal of these Africans involved Indian Ocean embarkation, Atlantic crossing to Montevideo, a journey on oxen-carts throughout the Pampas and on mule-trains across the Andes into Chile, and their final reshipment in the Pacific to Lima.
About the Speaker: Alex Borucki is Associate Professor of History at UC Irvine.

The Chinese Typewriter: A History (Tom Mullaney, Stanford)
2017-11-07 16:00 - 17:30 | CA
7 November at 4PM in the McCune Room (6th floor, HSSB)

Abstract: Chinese writing is character-based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Over the past two centuries, Chinese script has encountered presumed alphabetic universalism at every turn, whether in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards, word processing, or other systems developed with the Latin alphabet in mind. Today, however, after more than a century of resistance against the alphabetic, not only have Chinese characters prevailed, they form the linguistic substrate of the vibrant world of Chinese information technology. In this talk, Stanford historian Tom Mullaney shows how this unlikely transformation happened, by charting out a fascinating series of experiments, prototypes, failures, and successes in the century-long struggle between Chinese characters and the QWERTY keyboard.
About the Speaker: Thomas S. Mullaney is Associate Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University, and Curator of the international exhibition, Radical Machines: Chinese in the Information Age. His talk comes from his 2017 book The Chinese Typewriter, (The MIT Press).
[This talk is sponsored jointly by the History Department, the East Asia Center, and the Machines, People, and Politics RFG]

James Delbourgo (Rutgers) on the Origins of the British Museum
2017-11-15 16:00 - 18:00 | UCSB Library, 1312, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum
In 1759, London’s British Museum opened its doors for the first time–the first free national public museum in the world. But how did it come into being? This talk recounts the overlooked yet colorful life of the museum’s founder: Sir Hans Sloane. Born in 1660, Sloane amassed a fortune as a London society physician, became president of the Royal Society and Royal College of Physicians, and assembled an encyclopedic collection of specimens and objects–the most famous cabinet of curiosities of its time–which became the foundation of the British Museum. Slavery and empire played crucial roles in his career. Sloane worked in Jamaica as a plantation doctor and made collections throughout the island with help from planters and slaves. On his return to London, he established a network of agents to supply him with objects of all kinds from Asia, the Americas, and beyond: plants and animals, books and manuscripts, a shoe made of human skin, the head of an Arctic walrus, slaves’ banjos, magical amulets, Buddhist shrines, copies of the Qur’an, and more. The little-known life of one of the Enlightenment’s most controversial luminaries provides a new story about the beginnings of public museums through their origins in encyclopedic universalism, imperialism, and slavery.
The lecture is based on James Delbourgo’s new biography of Sloane entitled Collecting the World, published by Penguin in the UK and Belknap Press in the US, which has been named Book of the Week in The Guardian, The Times (London), the Daily Mail, and The Week (UK).
[this event is co-sponsored by the History Department and the UCSB Library]

History Associates and Arthur Miller’s View from the Bridge, Nov. 19
2017-11-19 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
The UCSB History Associates are presenting a talk by Prof. Irwin Appel (Professor of Theater) on Arthur Miller’s play A View from the Bridge on 19 November 2017.
He will speak at a luncheon in HSSB 4020 at noon, after which we will proceed to the theater to see the play (directed by Appel). Please see the attached flyer. 2107-View Flyer-pdf

Robert Mugabe-Vladimir Putin: The End of One Era-Continuation of Another
2017-12-04 17:00 - 18:30 | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Mhoze Chikowero, Professor of History, UCSB, “The End of an Era in Zimbabwe?”
Elena Aronova, Professor of History, UCSB, “Trolls, Bots, Cyberwarfare and the Cold War Origins of Putin’s Information Wars”
Monday, December 4, 5-6:30, UCSB McCune Conference Room
Poster here: Mugabe poster

Gift of the Nile? Racism, Egyptological Bias, and Ancient Egypt as an African Civilization
2018-01-18 13:00 - 14:30 | HSSB 6056, UCSB, CA, United States
Prof. Stuart Tyson Smith (Anthropology) will speak for the Ancient Borderlands group.

Cold War Curvature: Measuring and Modeling Gravity in Postwar American Physics (David Kaiser, MIT)
2018-01-24 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
A popular image persists of Albert Einstein as a loner, someone who avoided the hustle and bustle of everyday life in favor of quiet contemplation. Yet Einstein was deeply engaged with politics throughout his life; indeed, he was so active politically that the FBI kept him under surveillance for decades. His most enduring scientific legacy, the general theory of relativity – physicists’ reigning explanation of gravity and the basis for nearly all our thinking about the cosmos – has likewise been cast as an austere temple standing aloof from the all-too-human dramas of political history. But was it so? By focusing on examples of research on general relativity from the 1950s and 1960s, this lecture will examine some of the ways in which research on Einstein’s theory was embedded in, and at times engulfed by, the tumult of world politics.

David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics at MIT. His books include Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics (2005), which received the Pfizer Prize from the History of Science Society for best book in the field; and How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival (2011), which was named “Book of the Year” by Physics World magazine. He is currently writing two books about gravity: a physics textbook with his colleague Alan Guth on gravitation and cosmology, and a history of research.
Sponsored by the Department of History and the IHC’s Machines, People, and Politics RFG.
A link to the flyer is here…

Life and Death at Ancient Eleon: Excavations in Central Greece, 2011-2017
2018-01-31 18:00 - 19:30 | Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
A lecture by Brendan Burke, Associate Professor and Department Chair of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada.
Excavations at ancient Eleon, located 15 km east of Thebes in central Greece, have revealed a center of vibrant activity throughout the Late Bronze Age, starting with a burial complex of the Late Helladic I period (ca. 1600 BCE) and continuing to significant settlement remains of the Late Helladic IIIC period (ca. 1100 BCE). Work has also revealed intriguing evidence for the site’s re-use in historical periods, when the construction of a massive polygonal wall redefined the site’s topography and function during the late Archaic period (ca. 500 BCE).
This is the annual Sandra L. Church Lecture in memory of Albert H. Clayburgh, sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the UCSB Department of Classics.
For assistance in accommodating a disability, please contact Anna Roberts in the UCSB Classics Department.

Dreamland: America's Opiate Epidemic and How We Got Here
2018-02-01 16:00 - 18:00 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Quinones will discuss the origins of our nationwide opioid epidemic: pharmaceutical marketing, changes in our heroin market, and new attitudes toward pain among American healthcare consumers. He will also discuss cultural shifts that made this epidemic possible.
Sam Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and author of three books of narrative nonfiction. His book Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic won a National Book Critics Circle award for the Best Nonfiction Book of 2015. He has reported on immigration, gangs, drug trafficking, and the border as a reporter for the L.A. Times (2004–2014) and as a freelance writer in Mexico (1994–2004).
Sponsored by the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries series, the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life, and the IHC’s Idee Levitan Endowment.

Professor Jeremy Johns, Oxford University, "Documenting Multiculturalism in Norman Sicily"
2018-02-06 17:00 - 18:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games
2018-02-07 17:00 - 18:30 | Engineering Science Building 1001, United States
You are invited to join us for the third meeting of the Colloquium for Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall from the California State University, San Marcos who will be presenting a paper entitled “‘Slave Revolts on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Videogames”.
The lecture considers existing films and video games on the Haitian Revolution in light of anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s arguments about the “unthinkability” of this event. It will compare existing cinematic representations of the Revolution to current historiography on the Revolution, as well as to recent video games which touch upon slave revolt in colonial Saint-Domingue. Is it possible that despite conventional wisdom about video games representing the past simplistically, that such games could offer a better depiction than existing films, let alone many textbooks? In examining video games as well as films, the paper will consider larger issues about the representation of slavery and of slave revolt in twenty-first century popular culture.
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall is professor of history at California State University San Marcos. Prof. Sepinwall’s research focuses on the late 18th and early 19th centuries, particularly in France and Haiti. Her scholarship centers on the origins of modern thinking about difference, whether religious, racial, linguistic or gender. She published The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism (University of California Press, 2005), Haitian History: New Perspectives (Routledge, 2012) and many articles and book chapters.
The event is cosponsored by the Department of History, the Center for Black Studies, the Colloquium for Caribbean and Latin American History, and the Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom RFG Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
Download the flyer here

Royal Manuscripts of the Moroccan Royal Library: An Introduction and Overview
2018-02-08 18:00 - 19:30 | HSSB 4080, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Speaker: Dr. Khalid Zahri, Royal Library, Rabat, Morocco.
Sponsored by the UCSB Center for Middle East Studies.

Professor Tracy Adams, University of Auckland, New Zealand, "The French Political Royal Mistress and Gallic Singularity"
2018-02-16 12:00 - 13:30 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
We are so used to the idea of the royal mistress as a constituent element of the French king’s grandeur that we tend not to think about how strange it is that in Ancien Régime France nine women who were not part of the royal family exercised significant political influence.
Adams suggests that the key moment in the emergence of influential royal mistresses comes when the royal family, traditionally assimilated with the Holy Family, began to be assimilated with the more fluidly composed family of classical deities. Focusing on the period between Agnès Sorel (1422-1450), whose representation as the Virgin Mary can only be described as a “one-off” and the Duchess of Etampes (1508-1580), who performed her role with François I in the “theater” of Fontainebleau where massive frescoes drawn from classical mythology provided a gloss for her career, Adams draws attention to the convergence of theatrical reading practices and renewed interest in the chaste but fierce huntress Diana that made the role of politically influential royal mistress thinkable.Tracy Adams

Seth Rockman, History, Brown University, "Plantation Labor Outsourced: Rethinking New England Outwork and the National Economy of Slavery in Antebellum America"
2018-02-16 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Rockman is the author of Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (2008) and co-editor, with Sven Beckert, of Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (2016). Scraping By won the OAH’s Merle Curti Prize, the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, and the H.L. Mitchell Prize from the Southern Historical Association. Rockman spent the 2016-17 year at re:work, a research institute on global labor history at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Citizens of Nowhere: The Case for Embracing the Stateless - David Baluarte, Washington & Lee University
2018-02-16 16:00 - 18:00 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

Professor Terence Keel, "The Ghost in the Machine: How Christianity Haunts the Biological Sciences"
2018-02-18 14:00 - 15:30 | Goleta Valley Public Library, 500 N. Fairview Avenue, Goleta, CA, 93117, United States
Keel argues that the enduring belief that race comes from “nature” reflects the haunting influence of Christian intellectual history on the development of modern scientific thinking about human ancestry.2018-Keel-flyer-pdf

Prof. Michele Salzman (UC Riverside) - Lay Aristocrats and Roman Bishops
2018-02-22 12:00 - 13:30 | Arts 1332, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
Felix III, who held the papal seat from 483-492, is called by several scholars “Rome’s first aristocratic bishop.” As the first elected pope after the fall of the last western emperor, his aristocratic origins would bestow a distinctly new status to the office of bishop of Rome on the eve of new challenges to his authority from the Eastern Patriarch in Constantinople, Acacius. But was Felix the first aristocratic bishop? And how important were social background and aristocratic networks after the fall of the western empire? The Letters of Felix and close reading of contemporary sources shed new light on Felix’s social standing and how he used his social networks to become the first Roman pope to break with Constantinople in what is today known as the Acacian schism. Sponsored by the California Consortium for Late Antiquity, the Department of Art History and the Cordano Endowed Chair in Catholic Studies.

Amy Stanley, "Finding Echigo in Edo: Snow Country Migrants and Their Urban Worlds"
2018-02-28 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 4080, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
The Echigo province migrant was a familiar type in nineteenth-century Edo. Every year in the tenth month, snow country peasants would come down the mountains on the Nakasendō Highway and enter the city through Itabashi Station. They wandered down the main street in Hongō, where they were met by labor scouts who had learned to recognize their bewildered expressions and country accents. Many ended up in hitoyado, the city’s notorious boarding houses for laborers, where they were dispatched to rice polishers and bathhouses. Others found work in service with the help of migrants who had come before. Most went home eventually, but others stayed on in the city – they became shop owners, peddlers, and even low-ranking samurai. This talk examines the lives of Echigo people in Tenpō-era Edo to illuminate the importance of regional connections and rural-urban migration in the development of Japan’s largest city. It also considers how documents kept in far-flung places (in this case Niigata Prefecture) can illuminate urban space.

Amy Stanley is an associate professor in the History Department at Northwestern University, where she teaches early modern and modern Japanese and global history. She is also the author of Selling Women: Prostitution, Households, and the Market in Early Modern Japan (UC Press, 2012) and “Maidservants’ Tales: Narrating Domestic and Global History in Eurasia, 1500-1800” (AHR, 2016), as well as articles in The Journal of Asian Studies and The Journal of Japanese Studies. She is on Twitter @astanley711.

Marcia Chatelain, History, Georgetown University, “Burgers in the Age of Black Capitalism: Fast Food and the Remaking of Civil Rights after 1968”
2018-03-02 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Chatelain is currently writing a book about race and fast food, From Sit-In to Drive-Thru: Black America in the Age of Fast Food (under contract, Liveright, an imprint of W.W. Norton). Her first book South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration was published by Duke University Press in 2015. Chatelain co-edited, with Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, Staging a Dream: Untold Stories and Transatlantic Legacies of the March on Washington (2015).
Chatelain is a regular commenter on current events and social issues across a variety of media platforms. She also created the Twitter campaign #Fergusonsyllabus in August 2014.

Onontio’s Reward: When Louis XIV’s head hung from Native American necks
2018-03-05 15:00 - 16:30 | HSSB 3001E, 3001E Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
French royal medals crossed into a radically different cultural context when awarded to the Amerindian people of Canada in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. So it may come as a surprise that the symbolic potential of these medals was only fully realized by the indigenous warriors that they were gifted to. These small sculptures, designed in emulation of ancient Roman coins, are quintessentially Western objects designed to function as instruments of communication across spatial, cultural and temporal divides. Small in scale and easily transported; relatively inexpensive, depending on the material from which they were made; produced in large quantities—they had the potential to convey messages far and wide.
The guest lecture examines the fate of the Louis XIV Royal Family medal awarded to Amerindian allies. To Algonquin and Iroquois speaking warriors the king was Onontio, the great mountain, a father to their people. The concept of family that this medal represents thus functions an allegory for the bond between the King of France and his subjects; a powerful ideological message for those living in French colonies far from the center of empire. The positive reception of these medals by the Indigenous supporters of the French colonists reveals the shifting talismanic and political power that these objects could carry across surprisingly diverse cultural contexts. Functioning like the ornaments worn by Indigenous people for centuries before the arrival of European settlers, French royal medals were endowed with new symbolic power by the First Nations people of Canada.
Robert Wellington is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Art history and Art Theory at the Australian National University. His research focuses on the role of material culture in history making and cross-cultural exchange in ancien régime France. Robert Wellington’s monograph Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts For a Future Past, explores the place of medals in the project of documenting the history of Louis XIV for posterity.

The Museum of Methodology and the Criminalization of Culture, Rio c. 1938 (Amy Buono, UCSB/UERJ)
2018-03-07 17:00 - 18:30 | Engineering Science Building 1001, University of California Santa Barbara, Lagoon Rd, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Please join us for the next meeting of the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Amy Buono, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at UCSB and Researcher at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, who will be presenting a paper entitled “The Museum of Methodology and the Criminizalization of Culture, Rio c. 1938”.
The talk will be held at 5pm on Wednesday, March 7th, in the Engineering Science Building 1001, and will be followed by a small reception.
Abstract: The Civil Police Museum of Rio de Janeiro, established within the Police Academy in 1912, went by many names: it was also known as the “Museum of Crime” and, tellingly, the “Museum of Methodology.” This lecture examines the museum, its collections, and the role of objects and visual culture in building a civic culture that linked collecting and seeing with police training. By 1938, the Civil Police Museum became Brazil’s earliest institutional collection of Afro-Brazilian heritage, one eventually under the domain of IPHAN. This talk explores the contradictory ways a particular collection within a collection, the inner “Museum of Black Magic,” was understood and preserved in the period, highlighting how police violence and museum preservation are intertwined.
About the Speaker: Amy Buono is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and affiliated as a Researcher at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Her scholarship centers on materiality, memory, and museums, with a special focus on Brazil and the Atlantic world. Amy’s is the author of the forthcoming book Tupinambá Feathercraft in the Brazilian Atlantic (University of Pennsylvania Press). Her current book project centers on race, pedagogy, and the visuality of crime in the Civil Police Museum of Rio de Janeiro.
