Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Book Launch and Signing by David Treuer, University of Southern California: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America From 1890 to the Present
2019-02-04 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Almost from the moment it occurred, the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota was cast in the popular imagination as a point of no return, at which not only did hundreds of Lakota men, women and children perish but so, in a sense, did Native American life itself. Now David Treuer–the critically acclaimed writer, anthropologist, and journalist, himself Ojibwe from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota–brings to that mythology its long-overdue reckoning. In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer traces the rich, resilient and multi-dimensional story that Native people have been living over the past century, and adds new chapters to the story of American Indian creativity and resilience in our modern times.
Professor Treuer will be signing books at the event.

Edgardo Pérez, USC: "Slavery, irreverence, and sovereignty in the revolutionary Caribbean"
2019-02-06 17:00 - 18:30 | HSSB 4020
Please join us for the next meeting of the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Edgardo Pérez, who will deliver a talk entitled “Slavery, irreverence, and sovereignty in the revolutionary Caribbean”.
The talk will be held in HSSB 4020 at 5 pm on Wednesday, February 6th, and will be followed by a small reception.
Abstract: Cartagena de Indias, on the north coast of today’s Colombia, declared independence from Spain and extended citizenship to free men of color between 1812 and 1815. Hundreds of Afro-Caribbean sailors flocked to this port town, where they obtained nominal citizenship and jobs as privateers—pirates with a license to attack Spanish shipping out at sea. Because Cartagena leaders saw their privateering policy as an “act of sovereignty,” this talk asks how exactly common sailors—the main protagonists of this story—embodied political sovereignty at sea and on land. Cartagena’s privateers throw into relief the history of sovereignty as practice; these maritime workers used irreverent talk, ambivalent political belonging, and dynamic connections with the Republic of Haiti to build the first Spanish American experiment in maritime republicanism. This untold story may thus reveal the origins of multi-ethnic, plurilingual and border-crossing citizenship.
About the Speaker: Edgardo Pérez Morales is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern California.

History Club Weekly Meetings
2019-02-07 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-02-14 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-02-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-02-28 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-03-07 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-03-14 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-03-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-03-28 19:00 - 21:00 and 2 more dates | HSSB 4020
UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions.

Career Diversity Speaker: Jim Newland, Program Manager for Strategic Planning and Recreation Services
2019-02-12 13:30 - 16:00 | HSSB 3208
Jim Newland, Program Manager for Strategic Planning & Recreation Services, California State Parks, will be speaking on Tuesday, February 12, 1:30-4pm, HSSB 3208, as part of our series on alternate careers for historians. In addition to talking about his own work as a historian within the California State Parks, he will be discussing upcoming opportunities within the park system. Within the next two years, California State Parks will be hiring eight to ten historians for full-time positions across the state. Jim will discuss the process of application and the kinds of work done by historians within the state park system. You can find more information about this here.
This Career Diversity event is part of an ongoing series to encourage graduate students and their mentors to think more broadly and creatively about the career opportunities available to people seeking PhDs in history and related fields.
If you are are a graduate student, or a mentor of a graduate students, please join us for this important and exciting talk. Delicious refreshments will be served!

Talk by Anya Zilberstein, Concordia University: "Vegetable Diets for People and other Animals in the 18th Century"
2019-02-12 15:30 - 17:30 | HSSB 6056
In her seminar paper, “’The Chief Supper of Hogs… and Peasants who are Not Too Nice’: Vegetable Diets for People and other Animals in the Long 18th Century,” Anya Zilberstein presents her new project. She will discuss the mutual influences and broader implications of 18th-century attempts to impose dietary shifts on animals and people, by situating them in transatlantic debates about poor relief as well as experiments in the emerging food and agricultural sciences in the period. She welcomes discussion not only about the interconnections she is tracing in the past, but also their continuities with later changes in the increasingly industrialized food system as well as debates about the legitimacy and scope of government food subsidies for the poor.
Anya Zilberstein is associate professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal. She received her PhD from MIT (2007). Her first book, A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America, published by Oxford University Press in 2016, demonstrates that debates about the politics and science of climate are nothing new. Indeed, they began as early as the settlement of English colonists in North America, well before the age of industrialization. Her new project examines the history of experiments in producing and distributing cheap, high-calorie food in non-perishable forms for working people and working animals after the unprecedented expansion of British colonial territory following the Seven Years’ War.
Sponsored by the Workshop in History of Science (HIST 295TS) and the Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Wine and Cheese Professional Workshop: Navigating the Academic Job Market
2019-02-13 17:30 - 18:30 | HSSB 4041
What comes next upon graduation? What resources does the History department provide for that challenge? How have other historians achieved their “dream job” as university professors?

If these questions have crossed your mind, join us for a night of wine and delicious treats as professors Carol Lansing, Cheryl Jimenez Frei and Utathya Chattopadhyaya tell us about their experiences in job placement, give input about the current state of the job market, and share their stories in getting tenure-track positions.
Hope to see you there!

HYDRO SYMPOSIUM
2019-02-15 10:00 - 16:00 | SSMS 4513
Friday, February 15, 2019 | 10:00am – 4:00pm
UCSB | Annenberg Room (SSMS 4315)10:00: 10:00 Session 1: Valerie Hänsch,
R. Lane Clark, Stephan Miescher
Welcome: Stephan Miescher and
Janet Walker
Moderator: Bishnupriya Ghosh
Respondent: Javiera Barandiarán
12:15: Lunch
1:15: Session 2: Nick Estes,
Todd Darling
Moderator: Emily Roehl
Respondent: Mishuana Goeman
3:15: Closing Comments
Jéssica Malinalli Coyotecatl Contreras
Sage Gerson, Christopher McQuilkin
(Sawyer Seminar Grad Fellows)
Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective

Early North American History Job Talk
2019-02-15 15:30 - 17:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States

Colloquium: Celebrating the Work and Pedagogy of Sharon Farmer
2019-02-16 13:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Medieval Studies Program and the Department of History are proud to sponsor a colloquium on the work and pedagogy of Sharon Farmer. The event will include presentations by six of her students exploring Professor Farmer’s areas of expertise. The event will take place on February 16th in the McCune Conference Room, and the schedule will be as follows:
1:00-2:30 I. Gender
Nicole Archambeau (Colorado State University). “Granting Access: Revealing Women’s Networks through Miraculous Healing.”
Abigail P. Dowling (Mercer University). “`Grave Prejudice against Her Honor’: The Gendered Implications of Park Break during the Revolt of the Allies of Artois, 1314-1319.”
Nancy McLoughlin (University of California, Irvine). “Imagining Saracens and Women at the Court of Charles VI.”
2:45 -4:15 II. The Church
Jessica M. Elliott (Missouri State University). “Conversion and Reversion: Crossing Boundaries between Jews and Christians in Medieval Northern France.”
Andrew Miller (DePaul University). “Persuasive Bishops: Propaganda, Performance, and Episcopal Masculinity in the Medieval Dioceses of Exeter and Lincoln.”
Tanya Stabler (Loyola University, Chicago). “Down, But Not Out, in Thirteenth-Century Paris: The Pastoral Networks of Robert of Sorbon.”
4:30-5:30 III. Main Speaker
Amy G. Remensnyder (Brown University). “Island Histories, Sea Grammar and the Multiconfessional Mediterranean: The Case of Lampedusa.”
Professor Remensnyder is the author of two books, one that spans the Atlantic to place medieval Iberia in dialogue with colonial Mexico by exploring the Virgin Mary as a symbol of conquest and conversion (La Conquistadora: The Virgin Mary at War and Peace in the Old and New Worlds, 2014), and another that focuses on high medieval monasteries and collective memory in southern France (Remembering Kings Past: Monastic Foundation Legends in Medieval Southern France, 1995). She is a co-editor of Why the Middle Ages Matter: Medieval Light on Modern Injustice(2011) and is the director of the Brown History Education Prison Project. Her professional service includes terms as a councilor of the Medieval Academy of America and as a member of the editorial boards of Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean and of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies.
She is currently working on three new projects:

An Island of Interfaith Trust in a Sea at War (a study of the way that medieval and early modern Muslim and Christian sailors and captives made the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa into an interfaith refuge during centuries of warfare between the two faiths)
Neighbors: Life in a Medieval Borderland (a microhistory based on archival documents and focusing on the network of social, sexual, cultural, economic, and military relations that, in the fifteenth century, bound the Granada Muslim town of Vera together with its Christian neighbor immediately across the frontier in Castile, Lorca)
A Global History of Captivity (a synthetic overview of the history of captivity across the world)

Professor Remensnyder’s talk will be followed by an open reception at 5:30.
See the flyer for the event here

Early North American History Job Talk
2019-02-19 15:30 - 17:00 | HSSB 4080, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States

Pan-Africanism: A History
2019-02-21 18:00 - 19:30 | Girvetz 1004, Girvetz Hall, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Lecture by Professor Hakim Adi (University of Chichester, UK)
Thursday, February 21, 2019, 6:15-7:30 pm
Girvetz Hall 1004

Early North American History Job Talk
2019-02-22 15:30 - 17:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

Book Talk: Brendan W. Rensink, Brigham Young University "Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands"
2019-02-25 17:00 - 18:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
In Native but Foreign, historian Brenden W. Rensink presents an innovative comparison of indigenous peoples who traversed North American borders in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining Crees and Chippewas, who crossed the border from Canada into Montana, and Yaquis from Mexico who migrated into Arizona. The resulting history questions how opposing national borders affect and react differently to Native identity and offers new insights into what it has meant to be “indigenous” or an “immigrant.”
Rensink’s findings counter a prevailing theme in histories of the American West—namely, that the East was the center that dictated policy to the western periphery. On the contrary, Rensink employs experiences of the Yaquis, Crees, and Chippewas to depict Arizona and Montana as an active and mercurial blend of local political, economic, and social interests pushing back against and even reshaping broader federal policy. Rensink argues that as immediate forces in the borderlands molded the formation of federal policy, these Native groups moved from being categorized as political refugees to being cast as illegal immigrants, subject to deportation or segregation; in both cases, this legal transition was turbulent. Despite continued staunch opposition, Crees, Chippewas, and Yaquis gained legal and permanent settlements in the United States and successfully broke free of imposed transnational identities.
Brendan W. Rensink is the Assistant Director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and an Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He created and directs two ongoing public history initiatives for the Redd Center: serving as the Project Manager and General Editor of the Intermountain Histories digital history project and as the Host and Producer of the Writing Westward Podcast. His current research projects include consulting with the Native American Rights Fund, editing a collection of essays on 21st century West history, and writing a new cultural and environmental history monograph tracing experience in, perception of, and recreation in Western American wilderness landscapes.
This talk is part of the History Department’s two-year Migrations themed programming.

Book Talk by Kiran Klaus Patel, University of Maastricht: "The New Deal: A Global History"
2019-02-27 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
Prof. Kiran Klaus Patel (Univ. of Maastricht) will speak about his new book The New Deal: A Global History (Princeton University Press, 2016), which won the World History Association’s Bentley Book Prize in 2017.
Professor Patel compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses by other countries around the globe — not just in Europe but also in Latin America, Asia, and other parts of the world. Work creation, agricultural intervention, state planning, immigration policy, the role of mass media, forms of political leadership, and new ways of ruling America’s colonies — all had parallels elsewhere and unfolded against a backdrop of intense global debates.
Prof. Patel has also published ​Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945 (2005), and several books on the European Union, including most recently Project Europa: A Critical History (2018).
His talk is sponsored by the German Historical Institute (West) with the Gerda Henkel Foundation, supported by the UCSB Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, and the Center for Cold War Studies and International History.

Talk by Dr. Alexander Statman: "Global Enlightenment: France, China, and the Idea of Progress"
2019-02-28 16:00 - 17:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
Over the course of the Enlightenment, Europe claimed a monopoly on progress for itself alone. In the eighteenth century, other places had appeared as familiar and comparable. By the early nineteenth century, they were cast as inscrutable and incommensurable. What caused this fundamental transformation in Europe’s understanding of itself? In this talk, I aim to explain the transition from early-modern cosmopolitanism to late-modern orientalism by revealing the hitherto unknown deployment of Chinese science in Enlightenment debates. To do so, I reconstruct a cross cultural conversation that took place around the turn of the nineteenth century between Paris and Beijing. Searching for alternatives to the emerging idea of progress, orphans of the Enlightenment entered into communication with the last great scholar of the Jesuit mission to China, Joseph-Marie Amiot. Together, they drew from Chinese learning to invent modern esotericism, associating distant places with the ancient past in an attempt to salvage both. The unintended result was to place a cognitive chasm around the modern West. In the early nineteenth century, professional scholars created modern academic disciplines to bring that work back into progress theory. They made the past into a foreign country – both became a window into a fundamentally different worldview.

Alexander Statman is the Dibner Fellow in the History of Science at The Huntington Library. Dr. Statman researches the global Enlightenment and east-west exchange in the history of science and has been published in journals such as Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society and East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine. He is currently revising his first book, A Global Enlightenment: France, China, and the Idea of Progress.
Statman Flyer(3)

Graduate Recruitment Day—Schedule of Events
2019-03-01 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
8:30 am – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast (HSSB 4020)
9:00 am – 10:15 am Campus Walking Tour (led by grad students)
10:15 am – 10:30 am Welcome (HSSB 4020) Professor Erika Rappaport, Department Chair; Professor Salim Yaqub, Director of Graduate Studies
10:30 am – 11:30 am Program Overview (HSSB 4020) Professors Paul Spickard, Randy Bergstrom, Erika Rappaport, Salim Yaqub, Alice O’Connor, Brad Bouley
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Lunch/Meetings with Faculty by Field (various venues)
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Seminars/Individual Meetings with Faculty/Students by Field
Colloquium talk sponsored by the Center for Work, Labor, and Democracy: Kashia Arnold, PhD Candidate, Department of History, UCSB, “U.S. Silk Imports during World War I: Contextualizing U.S.-Japanese Relations, Munitions Production, and Wartime Substitution,” HSSB 4041
Ancient History mini-colloquium, presentations by Justin Devris and Q.Z. Lau, 12:30–1:30 (note earlier start time), HSSB 3041
East Asia meeting, hosted by Professors Tony Barbieri-Low, Luke Roberts, and Kate McDonald, 1:30–2:30, HSSB 3041
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Break
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Faculty Roundtable on Empire and Borderlands (HSSB 4020) Professors Beth Digeser, Butch Ware, James Brooks, and Kate McDonald
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm History Graduate Student Association Q & A panel: “Life in Santa Barbara as a Graduate Student,” HSSB 4020
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Pizza/Refreshments with UCSB History Graduate Students (HSSB 4020)
After hours Grad Student Pub Crawl!

Talk by Kashia Arnold, UCSB: "Integrating the Pacific: Commodities in Motion and the Pacific World."
2019-03-01 13:00 - 15:00 | hssb 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
Arnold’s dissertation research examines the transformations of the regional economy of the Pacific basin caused by World War I and the booming American commodity demand that accompanied it.

Alicia Boswell, UCSB: "Cultural Heritage and Community: Protecting the Past for the Future in the Moche Valley, Peru"
2019-03-06 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 Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Alicia Boswell, who will deliver a talk entitled “Cultural Heritage and Community: Protecting the Past for the Future in the Moche Valley, Peru”.
The talk will be held in HSSB 4020 at 5 pm on Wednesday, March 6th, and will be followed by a small reception.
Abstract: Media reports on cultural heritage issues focus primarily on the destruction of ancient monuments and the illicit looting and sale of antiquities, especially at the hands of groups such as ISIS. In doing so, they largely ignore the likelihood that antiquities extraction and site destruction is more related to issues of global economic development. This talk addresses the global and national socioeconomic pressures connected to heritage destruction in Peru and highlights a model implemented to combat archaeological site destruction in the Moche Valley, Peru by Moche Inc, a nonprofit organization that Boswell collaborates with. This model, which engages local communities in heritage preservation and development projects demonstrates that the benefits of conserving archaeological sites can extend beyond site preservation and tourism opportunities. Community collaboration and protection of archaeological sites can contribute to economic opportunities and long-term community development.
About the Speaker: Alicia Boswell is Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at UCSB.
To access the pre-circulated paper, please visit https://items.ssrc.org/facing-extreme-el-ninos-at-the-local-level/

Film Screening: Mediterranea
2019-03-06 18:00 - 21:00
Please join the Department of History for the second screening of the Film in/as History series, focused on our two-year curricular theme, Migrations.
After La Bestia last quarter, the Film in/as History series will continue with Mediterranea (107 mins, 2015). Directed by Jonas Carpignano, Mediterranea tells the story of migrants between Burkina Faso and southern Italy. It speaks to the long history of migration in the Mediterranean as well as the violent realities faced by African migrants which are otherwise lost under the word ‘crisis’.
Prof. Harold Marcuse and Kalina Yamboliev, a Ph.D. candidate in History, will introduce the film and lead the discussion afterwards. Light refreshments will be served.

Career Diversity Event: Anne Petersen and Monica Orozco speak
2019-04-10 14:00 - 16:00 | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Anne Petersen, executive director of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, and Monica Orozco, executive director at Mission Santa Barbara, will come and speak about their experiences working at top California historic sites.

Career Diversity Event: Talk by Marianne Babal
2019-04-11 15:00 - 17:00 | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Senior historian and vice president at Wells Fargo Bank Marianne Babal will be coming to speak as part of our Career Diversity series. Marianne is a UCSB public history alumna and she will be speaking about how her skills as a historian have shaped her career.
