Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Borderland Processes Along the Han Northern Frontier, 130 BCE-2 CE
2011-05-20 00:00 (America/Denver)
At the height of Han expansion, the northern frontier of the Han Empire stretched from northern Korea in the east to the Tengger Desert in the west and onward into Central Asia. In Chinese historical sources, the massive complex of walls built across this region appears as an absolute dividing line between the Chinese and the Xiongnu, a confederation of nomadic pastoralists. In reality, the boundaries in this vast region were far from definite and were constantly in flux. Using Bradley J. Parker’s “continuum of border dynamics” and “borderland matrix” models, this paper analyzes the borderland processes occurring along the Han northern frontier directly to the north of the Han capital of Chang’an.
Dr. Leslie Wallace is Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh.
This event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group, with co-sponsorship from the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, and from the East Asia Center.
jwil 09.iii.2011

Senior Honors Seminar Colloquium
2011-05-20 00:00
In the following schedule, the name of the student’s mentor appears in parenthesis and that of the commentator in brackets.
1-1:30 pm: Cheyanne Gustason, “Some Like It Haute: the Role of 1930s Hollywood Cinema in the Rise of the U.S. in the International Fashion Industry” (Chuck Wolfe) [Lisa Jacobson]
1:30-2 pm: Eric Rogers, “A Study of Early Christianity in Relation to the Ancient Mysteries” (Christine Thomas, Beth DePalma Digeser) [Hal Drake]
2:10-2:40 pm: Jonathan Bronstein, “Judging the Judges: the Politicization of Judicial Nomination from Nixon to Reagan” (Laura Kalman) [Randy Bergstrom]
2:40-3:10 pm: Evan Sherwood, “Extending the Containment Perimeter in Korea: October 9, 1950” (Jack Talbott) [Salim Yaqub]
3:20-3:50 pm: Greg Wilner, “Into the Arms of the Infidel: Christian and Muslim Mercenaries of the Reconquista” (Debra Blumenthal) [Ed English]
3:50-4:20 pm: Charles Lucero, “Anybody ‘but not Ld. B’: a Study of Lord William Carr Beresford’s Intervention in 1820s Portugal” (Frank Dutra) [David Rock]
4:30-5 pm: Ariana Dumpis, “ Surf and Turf: Surfing, Localism, and Everything in Between” (John Park) [Peter Neushul]
hm 5/8/11

History Associates and Department of History Awards Ceremony and Reception
2011-05-25 00:00
For information on the individual awards and past winners, please follow the link below.
hm 5/9/11

Masculinity, Space, and late Seventeenth-Century Alchemical Practices
2011-05-25 00:00
Building on contemporary research in alchemy and gender, I engage themedium of space, examining the connections between the identity of the
philosopher-alchemist and the composition of a masculine domestic space. I
show that the private, enclosed nature of alchemical experimentation
enabled the free exploration of masculinity. The private and semi-private
nature of alchemical practices in England challenges the easy alignment of
gentlemanly sociability and public display that have long dominated
discussions of Restoration science. Natural philosophy and a traditional
heterosexual marriage were often considered incompatible during the time of
Galileo and Descartes. The pursuit of alchemy, a private interest that
required domestic space and secrecy, was likewise incompatible with
marriage. During the Restoration, scientists were encouraged to be
sociable, but they were also participating in a tradition that excluded
such parts of social life as marriage. In private, alchemists could
manipulate substances with names like “the Doves of Diana” and “spiritual
semen,” changing substances’ genders or fusing them together. In this way,
alchemy offered a contained space for the natural philosopher to think
about gender and a metaphorical space for him to think about sexuality
while still remaining celibate.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Reserach Fellows program.
hm 5/23/11

Implications of the Assassination of Bin Laden
2011-05-25 00:00
Americans seem united in their elation over justice being brought to themastermind of the September 11th terrorist attacks, but no one seems to
agree on what to expect now. Whether this will mark a major shift in
national priorities, or is simply a symbolic and cathartic event, is yet to
be determined. The situation is further complicated by suspicions and
speculation about knowledge among the Pakistani government of bin Laden’s
location, as well as national sovereignty concerns raised in the wake of an
unannounced commando raid in a foreign country.
What implications does this hold for American foreign policy?
How does al Qaeda work? What are their methods, their rationale, and their strategy?
Who deserves more credit for the operation: Barack Obama, or George Bush?
Campus Democrats will host a panel discussion this Wednesday, May 25th, at 7:00 PM in the Loma Pelona Center.
The L.P. center is a new multipurpose facility located on the west side of campus near Manzanita Village, above the graduation lawn.
Speakers include:
Mark Juergensmeyer, Director of the Orfalea Center at UCSB
Nancy Gallagher, Professor of History, UCSB
Scott Englund, UCSB Political Science Department doctoral candidate, former FBI intelligence analyst
hm 5/25/11

Framing the Word: The Bible in European Culture and Society, ca. 1250-1611
2011-05-27 00:00
In conjunction with a student-curated exhibit (May 15-July 15) of Medieval and Early Modern Bibles in the UCSB Davidson Library’s Department of Special Collections, Prof. Sharon Farmer (UCSB History) has organized this conference. Each speaker will incorporate material from books in the exhibit into his or her talk.
Friday, May 27 / 1:00-4:00 PM, McCune Conference Center, HSSB 6020
Commercial Manuscript Makers in Thirteenth-Century Paris and the Making of the “Santa Barbara Bible”
Richard Rouse, History, University of California, Los Angeles
Printing the Hebrew Bible in Early Modern Europe: Christian and Jewish Scholarly Collaboration
in an Age of Persecution
Theodore Dunkelgrün, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Witches, Virgins, and the Whore of Babylon: Female Types in a Sixteenth-Century Lutheran Context
Bonnie Noble, Art History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Before and After 1611: The Making and Remaking of the King James Version
Lori Anne Ferrell, School of Arts and Humanities, Claremont Graduate University
There will be a reception following the conference at the Department of Special Collections, Third Floor, Davidson Library
This conference has been generously supported by the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Catholic Studies Program, the Department of History, the Department of Religious Studies, The Early Modern Center, the Medieval Studies Program, and the Humanities and Fine Arts Dean’s Fund for Jewish Studies, which was made possible by a generous donation in memory of Martha Heyman Franck.
jwil 13.iii.2011, hm 5/17

Ancient India & Early Greece: A Historical-Comparative Approach to Political Thought and the Concept of Ruling
2011-05-27 00:00
This talk will map out an analytic approach for political theory that combines the history of political ideas and cross-cultural, comparative political thought. Special attention will be given to the methodological and interpretive challenges confronting this approach, how and why it should be applied to ancient Greek and Indian political thought, and finally, its general analytic benefits for political theory.
Stuart Gray is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at UCSB.
This event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.
jwil 26.iv.2011

Spring quarter instruction ends
2011-06-03 00:00
Classes end for Spring 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.
Spring 2011 final examination schedule
hm 3/16/11

Right to Work? Rethinking the Promise of Full Employment in the 1945 Moment
2011-06-03 00:00
Please join us for a talk by Steven Attewell, UCSB Department of History
“Right to Work? Rethinking the Promise of Full Employment in the 1945 Moment.”
Attewell is a Ph.D candidate in the Policy History Program of the History Department. “Right to Work?” is a chapter in the forthcoming dissertation, “Public At Work: Direct Job Creation Policy from the New Deal to the Rise of Reagan,” which studies the development of the “missing link” in the American welfare state through a focus on policy design, institutions, economic theories, and political ideology. Previous chapters have been presented at the Policy History Conference and at the LERF/IRLE Conference.
The talk, and subsequent discussion, is part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work, Labor, and Political Economy, 2010-2011 lecture series.
The Spring Quarter series is on Worker Rights and the Law 20th Century America.
The Colloquium meets on Friday, June 3 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building.
jmj 04/25/2011

Framing the Word: The Making of the Modern Bible, c. 1250-1611
2011-07-16 00:00
This exhibit was curated by six undergraduate history majors and Prof. Sharon Farmer. It is on display in the Davidson Library Department of Special Collections on the third floor.
hm 5/9/11, 5/17, 6/25

End of summer session A classes
2011-07-29 00:00
For more information, click the link below.

Start of Summer session B classes
2011-08-01 00:00

Last day of Summer session B classes
2011-09-09 00:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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