Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Rethink UC: Defend Public Education
2010-10-07 00:00 (America/Denver)
The historic actions, protests and strikes of last fall and spring showed our state and the nation that students, teachers, staff, and our communities are determined to fight against the cuts, layoffs, fee hikes, and the shrinking access to public education and services. However, our fight is far from over. On October 7th, supporters of public education plan to unite and demand accessible, affordable and quality education for all.
hm 10/1/10

Caesar Chavez, the UFW Boycott, and Why the Union Failed to Realize its Potential
2010-10-08 00:00
Matthew Garcia is Associate Professor of American Civilization, Ethnic Studies and History at Brown University.
Part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work, Labor, and Political Economy, 2010-2011 lecture series.
hm 9/9/10; jwil 14.ix.10

UCSB History Associates 2010-2011 Kickoff Event
2010-10-09 00:00
Say “Lompoc” and most people think of Vandenberg Air Force Base and flower farms, or maybe the prison. But our neighbor to the north has a fascinating history, preserved in its many Victorian houses and murals. We will assemble at the city parking lot at Ocean Ave. and I Street at 10:15 (parking is free), then walk to the nearby Fabing-McKay-Spanne House, a restored Victorian that now houses the Lompoc Historical Society, for a private tour. Lunch follows at Lompoc’s famous Penelope’s tea house, where you will have your choice of an Elegant Afternoon Tea (featuring a starter course, finger sandwiches, a warm scone, lemon curd, jam and English Double Devon Cream, with three sweets), a Ploughman’s Lunch of fresh bread, cheeses, Branston pickle, pickled onion, fruit, tea and dessert, or fresh Quiche, soup or salad, tea and dessert. After lunch, our own Cathy Rudolph will lead us on a walking tour of nearby murals.
For more information or to reserve your spot, call (805) 617-0998.
This event is sponsored by UCSB’s History Associates.
Since 1987, UCSB History Associates has brought together community members and UCSB faculty through an annual program of history-focused lectures, lunches, and tours. The History Associates raise money to support graduate training in History at UCSB. Support from the History Associates makes an essential contribution to the success of our graduate students.
jwil 14.ix.2010

Democracy and Insurgency in Health Care Unionism
2010-10-15 00:00
John Borsos, Vice President, National Union of Health Care Workers, is our guest at the next meeting of the Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy. Just last week one of the largest union election contests in modern U.S. history culminated in a large Service Employees International Union victory at the Kaiser hospital chain. Nearly 30,000 workers voted, which makes the subject chosen by our speaker, “Democracy and Insurgency in Health Care Unionism,” of particular interest. Borsos, who holds a Ph.D. in labor history from Indiana University, has been a union activist for nearly two decades. He was director of the Hospital Division of SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West and president of the Sacramento Labor Council from 2001 to 2009.
Use the link below to read a debate over the future of the labor movement between Borsos, the SEIU’s Stephen Lerner, and other labor experts and activists.
The Colloquium meets on Friday, October 15 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building. A light lunch will be served.
jmj 10/11/2010

Ancient Northeast Africa and the Indian Ocean Trade
2010-10-18 00:00
The establishment of direct sea contact between the Mediterranean and South Asia in the first century CE is one of the most remarkable developments in ancient history. Scholarship has focused overwhelmingly on the impact of the Indian Ocean trade on the economy of the Roman Empire and its significance for the spread of Greco-Roman influence in India. Professor Burstein considers a different and largely neglected aspect of this history: how the expansion of the Indian Ocean trade in the early centuries CE affected the ancient northeast African states of Kush and Aksum.
Stanley Burstein is Professor Emeritus of History at California State University, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA. Prof. Burstein is a past president of the Association of Ancient Historians.
Sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program.
jwil 06.ix.10

Islam and Politics in Turkey Today
2010-10-20 00:00
This roundtable will address the rapid growth of Islamist political parties, the expanding Turkish economy and the rise of the “Anatolian Tigers,” and new cultural trends in Turkey.
Coffee, tea, and cookies will be served
Sponsored by the Center for Middle east Studies, UCSB
hm 10/19/10

A Boy of Heart Mountain and Hello, Maggie!
2010-10-26 00:00
Please join us next Tuesday, October 26, for a talk by Shigeru “Shig” Yabu, a Japanese American who was interned at the Heart Mountain Concentration Camp from 1942-1945. He is the author of 2 books, A Boy of Heart Mountain and Hello, Maggie!, both of which describe his experience at the camp as a young boy.
Asian American Studies Conference Room
HSSB 5024
Please bring your brown bag lunch, light refreshments will be available.
hm 10/20/10

The American Friends of the Middle East: The CIA, Arabism, and Anti-Zionism in Cold War America
2010-10-28 00:00
This talk is about an American Arabist organization that received clandestine support from the CIA.
In 1967, it was revealed that the CIA had secretly funded the American Friends of the Middle East, an apparently private group of pro-Arab, anti-Zionist U.S. citizens. In this talk, Professor Wilford reveals the hitherto hidden history of the American Friends of the Middle East, relating it to the larger story of the rise and fall of Cold War American “Arabism.”
Hugh Wilford is Professor of U.S. history at California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of several books on Cold War American culture and politics, including THE MIGHTY WURLITZER: HOW THE CIA PLAYED AMERICA (Harvard, 2008). He is now writing a book on the American Friends of the Middle East.
The talk is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) and cosponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies and the Department of History.
The event is free and open to the public. A brief reception will follow Prof. Wilford’s presentation. Please join us for this exciting event!
hm 10/20/10

God Made Marriage but the White Man Made the Law': Slavery and Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
2010-10-28 00:00
Critical Issues in America
“‘God Made Marriage but the White Man Made the Law’: Slavery and Marriage in the Nineteenth Century”
Tera Hunter, Professor of History and African-American Studies, Princeton University
Hull Lecture, co-sponsored by UCSB New Racial Studies, Women’s Center, and the Departments of Black Studies and History
What did it mean for a nation to hold dear the institutions of marriage and slavery at the same time that marriage granted no legal standing for the enslaved? Hunter’s talk will look at the dilemmas and entanglements produced for slave, free black, and ex-slave intimate relationships throughout the nineteenth century.
Classes welcome
hm 10/26/10

Usable Pasts: Memory and Self-craft Through History, Song and Clothwork in Zimbabwe and among the Ainu of Japan
2010-10-28 00:00
The African Studies Research Focus Group will hold its first research seminar for the 2010-2011 academic year on October 28 in HSSB 6020 (McCune Conference Room), focused on the theme of Usable Pasts: Memory and Self-Craft Through History, Song and Clothwork in Zimbabwe and among the Ainu (Japan).
Presenters will include:
Mhoze Chikowero (Assistant Professor, Department of History)
Ann-Elise Lewallen (Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures)
The presenters will circulate papers beforehand. For more information or to obtain copies of the papers, please contact Mhoze Chikowero (chikowero(at)history.ucsb.edu) or Peter Bloom (pbloom(at)mediandfilm.ucsb.edu).
jwil 26.x.2010

Lessons of Hiroshima: Past and Present
2010-10-29 00:00
Prof. Hasegawa’s Faculty Research Lecture will be on Friday, Oct. 29 at 3:30 pm at the McCune Conference Room (6th floor HSSB). A reception will follow. The Faculty Research Lectureship is the highest honor the UCSB Academic Senate gives to one of its members.
An expert in modern Russian/Soviet history and the Cold War, Hasegawa has two main research interests: the Russian Revolution of 1917, and foreign relations between Russia, Japan, and the United States. He is the recipient of dozens of research grants and fellowships, and has authored or edited 15 books, and has published more than 250 articles, essays, and book chapters, written in English, Russian, and Japanese. He has also published numerous analyses of Soviet military and nuclear strategies; Perestroika and the role of Gorbachev in that process; and reforms in other Communist enclaves.
In 2005, Belknap Press published Hasegawa’s ground-breaking work, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. Researched in archives in Japan, Russia, and the United States, the award-winning book suggests that it was fear and a real threat of the Soviet Union’s military might –– not the dropping of atomic bombs –– that led to Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II. Acclaimed both here and in Japan, the book has influenced the work of Russian and other European scholars.
More recently, Hasegawa published East Asia’s Haunted Present, which explores the bitter historical memories that have resurfaced in recent years and led to contentious issues between Japan and its neighbors.
“Dr. Hasegawa’s scholarly achievements extend beyond his own discipline of history,” said Howard Giles, professor of communication and a member of the 2010 Faculty Research Lecturer Committee. “Writing in the English, Japanese, and Russian languages, he has challenged established ways of explaining important historical events. He has radically changed the way global history is now cast and has made extraordinary contributions to our understanding of civilization.”
Hasegawa earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington and completed his postdoctoral work at Columbia University. Before joining the faculty at UCSB in 1990, he served on the faculties of the State University of New York at Oswego, and at the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University. The center is the only research institute in Japan that specializes in Soviet and East European affairs.
hm 10/11/10; jwil 14.x.10

The Dynamics of Social Movement Unionism: Local Union Involvement in Immigrants Rights Movements in Los Angeles
2010-10-29 00:00
Please join us for a talk by Cassandra Engeman on “The Dynamics of Social Movement Unionism: Local Union Involvement in Immigrants’ Rights Movements in Los Angeles.” Engeman is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology. Her work focuses on social movements and social movement outcomes, union-community coalitions in the United States, and union strategy. She has recently presented her work at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting and the UCLA IRLE “Strategic Decision-Making in Labor and Social Movements” conference. Engeman has long been active in UAW Local 2865, the union for Readers, Tutors, and TAs in the UC system.
The talk, and subsequent discussion, is part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work, Labor, and Political Economy, 2010-2011 lecture series.
The Colloquium meets on Friday, October 29 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building.
jmj 10/11/2010

What is a Feminist Classroom?
2010-10-29 00:00
What are some effective practices of feminist pedagogy?What is your teaching metaphor?
What are some difficulties or obstacles facing instructors who advocate feminisms?
Please come with examples of difficult situations that you manage in classrooms, strategies you implement to build feminist classrooms, and any other tools and techniques you use as an instructor.
Suggested reading:
Ellen C. Carillo (2007): “’Feminist’ Teaching: Teaching ‘Feminism’”
Available from ahendley@umail.uscb.edu or sarahwatkins@umail.ucsb.edu
hm 10/26/10

Aeschylus' Persians on the Eve of the Greek War of Independence
2010-11-01 00:00
Gonda Van Steen is Cassas Professor of Greek Studies at the University of Florida. She earned a BA degree in Classics in her native Belgium and a PhD degree in Classics and Hellenic Studies from Princeton University. As the Cassas Chair in Greek Studies at the University of Florida, Professor Van Steen teaches courses in ancient and modern Greek language and literature. Her research interests include classical drama, French travelers to Greece and the Ottoman Empire, nineteenth and twentieth-century receptions of the classics, and modern Greek intellectual history.
Professor Van Steen’s visit to UCSB is sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, in cooperation with the UCSB Department of Classics, the Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program, the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group, and the Performance Studies Research Focus Group.
jwil 06.ix.10, 27.x.10

The Manhattan Mosque and Burning Qur'ans: Placing an American Dilemma in Perspective
2010-11-03 00:00
This discussion concerns the recent controversies surrounding the proposed building of a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan and the threatened burning of the Qur’an in Gainesville, FL.
America’s Muslims have become a flashpoint for public debate about freedom of religion, freedom of speech, civil rights, and U.S. relations with Muslim majority countries in the Middle East and Asia. Recently there has been an outcry about the propriety of building an Islamic center (called a mosque in the media) near the site of the World Trade Center in Manhattan. There also appears to be a rise in anti-Muslim rhetoric and incidents around the country, including threats to stage burnings of the Muslim holy book, the Qur’an. Four UCSB faculty experts from the departments of Religious Studies and History will discuss and assess these developments with an aim to enhance public understanding of the issues involved and their consequences
The panel features Juan E. Campo (Religious Studies) on the meaning and functions of mosques and the Qur’an in the eyes of Muslims and non-Muslims, Richard Hecht (Religious Studies) on Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism, Kathleen Moore (Religious Studies) on the Manhattan Islamic Center and the law, and Salim Yaqub (History) on the implications anti-Muslim incidents might hold for U.S. foreign policy. Wade Clark Roof (J.F. Rowny Professor of Religion and Society, Director of the Walter H. Capps Center) will be the panel convener and respondent.
Please join us for this important event.
The event is presented by the Department of Religious Studies, the Center for Middle East Studies, the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies, and the Center for Cold War Studies and International History.
hm 11/1/10

Food Justice: A New Social Movement Takes Root
2010-11-04 00:00
Robert Gottlieb will be discussing his new book Food Justice: A New Social Movement Takes Root at 11:30 am in HSSB 1233.
Sponsored by the Food Studies Research Focus Group.
hm 11/1/10

Green Jobs/Sustainable Labor in the Age of Climate Justice
2010-11-05 00:00
Please join us for a talk by Andrew Ross of New York University.
Ross has published 17 books, including No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture (1989), Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade (2006), The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace (2007), and Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times (2009).
The talk, and subsequent discussion, is part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work, Labor, and Political Economy, 2010-2011 lecture series.
The Colloquium meets on Friday, November 5, at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building.
jmj 10/11/2010

The Reception of Ancient Greek Comedy: Aristophanes
2010-11-05 00:00
Gonda Van Steen is Cassas Professor of Greek Studies at the University of Florida. She earned a BA degree in Classics in her native Belgium and a PhD degree in Classics and Hellenic Studies from Princeton University. As the Cassas Chair in Greek Studies at the University of Florida, Professor Van Steen teaches courses in ancient and modern Greek language and literature. Her research interests include classical drama, French travelers to Greece and the Ottoman Empire, nineteenth and twentieth-century receptions of the classics, and modern Greek intellectual history.
Professor Van Steen’s visit to UCSB is sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, in cooperation with the UCSB Department of Classics, the Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program, the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group, and the Performance Studies Research Focus Group.
jwil 28.x.2010

Health and Disease in the Bolivian Amazon
2010-11-08 00:00
Event in the Fall Tequila Monday talk series
hm 9/30/10, 11/3

The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space
2010-11-10 00:00
Cosponsored by Public History program and the Chicano Studies Department.
hm 11/8/10

Eat Drink and be Roman: The Changing Identity of Dining in the Roman World
2010-11-16 00:00
This lecture will be held at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol, Santa Barbara, CA.
For directions visit www.sbnature.org or call 805-682-4711.
The Roman banquet was a spectacular social event that holds a peculiar place in modern popular culture. Whether in the form of the college Greek ‘toga party’ or portrayals in films, as a modern audience we have expectations about the Roman banquet that meet certain criteria regarding common (mis)conceptions of Roman luxury and revelry. The ancient reality was something strikingly different, but not necessarily any less exotic. The Roman banquet was more than simply a chance to eat well with friends, it was an opportunity to expand one’s political and economic horizons. Successfully participating in a banquet required detailed knowledge of appropriate etiquette and the ability to prove by wit and erudition that you belong on the guest list.
Using a wide variety of evidence, including frescoes, mosaics, the written word, and the dishes used at the banquets themselves, we can reconstruct banqueting traditions full of social meaning. This lecture explores the purposes, processes and changes of the Roman banquet from the first through the sixth century AD. During the first few centuries of the Roman Empire the banquet followed a relatively constant set of rules. After the fourth century AD, a new tradition appeared that was in stark contrast to the earlier model. Rather than replacing the old banquet, the new is associated with the non-elite, whereas the Late Roman rich and powerful continued to feast in much the same way as their Early Roman predecessors. The divergence of banqueting fashions represents a fissure between the ruling elite and the increasingly disenfranchised masses, and the form the new style took may have everything to do with the rise of Christianity.
Nicholas Hudson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies.
jwil 29.vii.2010, 08.xi.2010

"The Temperance Tea Party: Free Trade, Sacred Tastes, and the Sober Consumer in Early Industrial Britain."
2010-11-18 00:00
The Food Studies RFG will discuss a book chapter Erika Rappaport has recently completed.
hm 11/9/10

Food Crisis in Mexico
2010-11-22 00:00
Event in the Fall Tequila Monday talk series.
hm 9/30/10, jwil 19.xi.10

The Global Financial Crisis and Russia's Economic Growth
2010-11-23 00:00
Professor Shinichiro Tabata of the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University, Japan, specializes in the history of the Russian economy.
This event is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History, the Department of Political Science, and the Department of Economics.
jwil 17.xi.2010

The 'Big One'--Coming Soon On a Fault Near You?
2010-11-30 00:00
The San Andreas fault system is responsible for the formation of our most beloved and dramatic landscapes, and for the earthquakes that shake us up from time to time. In her illustrated lecture, Prof. Tanya Atwater will discuss the chance of someday predicting when and where the earth will break next, the same way weather forecasters predict storms. How far are we from such predictions? Using animations, simulations, maps and images, Prof. Atwater will demonstrate how specialists are finding out about longer term activity by studying sediment layers in the walls of trenches. We will learn how a “trench party” gleans information about possible future earthquakes, and vicariously experience what the next big one might be like.
Prof. emerita Tanya Atwater is UCSB’s very own “shock jock,” with a lifelong passion for maps and large-scale landscapes, both oceanic and terrestrial, and for the plate tectonic processes that create them. She is especially well known for her works on the plate tectonic evolution of western North America and the San Andreas fault system.
An outstanding teacher, Prof. Atwater’s animations are used in classrooms, teaching laboratories, museums, and public forums around the world. Prof. Atwater was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in 1997. Other recent honors include the National Science Foundation Director’s Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars and the Geological Society of America Structure and Tectonics Division’s Best Paper Award.
First Presbyterian Church
23 E. Constance Ave.
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
The First Presbyterian Church is located on the corner of State and Constance. The parking lot is entered on East Constance Ave. We will assemble in the small meeting room adjacent to the parking lot.
Cost: $10
Please make checks payable to UCSB History Associates
Detach at dotted line and mail to:
UCSB History Associates, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410
hm 11/5/10

Fall quarter instruction ends
2010-12-03 00:00
See calendar link for details.
hm 5/28/10

Is Conventional Trade Unionism Obsolete?
2010-12-03 00:00
Please join us for a talk by Stephen Lerner of the Service Employees International Union, “Is Conventional Trade Unionism Obsolete?”
Lerner is an architect of the groundbreaking Justice for Janitors campaign. He has been a union strategist for more than three decades and writes frequently for both the mainstream press and scholarly publications. He currently directs the SEIU’s effort to hold banks and other financial institutions accountable for their employment effects on our economy and workplace.
The talk, and subsequent discussion, is part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work, Labor, and Political Economy, 2010-2011 lecture series.
The Colloquium meets on Friday, December 3, at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building.
jmj 10/11/2010

Human Experimentation in 20th Century American Medicine: Myths and Realities.
2010-12-03 00:00
This talk compares and contrasts the myths and realities surrounding three specific human experiments: the Tuskegee syphilis study, the Salk polio trials, and the Willowbrook hepatitis experiments.
hm 12/2/10

Winter Quarter instruction begins
2011-01-03 00:00
Classes begin in Winter quarter.If you are enrolled in a discussion section that meets before the main lecture meets, you should still attend section that week.
See calendar link below for details.
hm 12/7/10

The White Rose, or: German Students against Hitler
2011-01-06 00:00
The Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies cordially invitesyou to the
Tenth George J. Wittenstein Lecture
Christian Petry’s lecture explores the question whether remembering past
acts of resistance against tyranny–such as that of the Munich student group
in 1942-43–can provide inspiration to face today’s political challenges.
The White Rose (German: die Weiße Rose) was a non-violent/intellectual
resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University
of Munich and their philosophy professor. The group became known for an
anonymous leaflet campaign, lasting from June 1942 until February 1943,
that called for active opposition to dictator Adolf Hitler’s regime.
The six core members of the group were arrested by the Gestapo (German
secret police) and they were executed by decapitation in 1943. The text of
their sixth leaflet was smuggled by Helmuth James Graf von Moltke out of
Germany through Scandinavia to the United Kingdom, and in July 1943
copies of it were dropped over Germany by Allied planes, retitled “The
Manifesto of the Students of Munich.”
Christian Petry is the author of Studenten aufs Schafott: Die Weisse Rose
und ihr Scheitern, 1968 (Students under the Guillotine: The Defeat of the
White Rose). He has published books, articles and films on student
resistance in Nazi Germany, on intercultural education and communication,
and on curriculum development and educational reform.
After studying history and sociology at the Free University of Berlin,
Petry first worked as a teacher and sociologist at schools in southern Germany
before starting a project for vocational and social integration of foreign
youth in Weinheim, Germany. He has served as director of a project network
to support ethnic minorities (“Regionale Arbeitsstellen zur Förderung
ausländischer Kinder und Jugendlicher”) in eight cities of the Ruhr area,
as director of a European Community model project to overcome youth
unemployment in the city of Duisburg, and as executive director of the
Freudenberg Foundation whose objectives include the integration of
immigrant children and adolescents in German civil society and the defense
and promotion of democratic culture. Petry has also served as Chair at the
European Foundation Centre, Interest Group Youth and Education. Since 2010,
he has been executive director of the Stiftungs- und Fördergemeinschaft
Modellprojekte GmbH, Weinheim.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
hm 11/30/10, 1/4/11
