Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

History Club Weekly Meetings
2020-09-24 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-10-01 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-10-08 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-10-15 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-10-22 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-10-29 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-11-05 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-11-12 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 7 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.

New Majors' Meeting
2020-09-29 11:00 - 12:30
Please joins us at the annual History Department New Majors’ Meeting! This meeting is great for incoming freshmen and transfer students, and any student that is new to our department. View the attached flyer for more details, and use this Zoom link to join: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/95769465508

New Majors’ Meeting 2020 (1)

Conference: Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts
2020-10-01 - 2020-10-03 | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts proposes new considerations of realism on stage. Since its association with 19th-century innovations in European and American drama, theatrical realism has largely remained limited to Euro-American definitions. We explore conventions of realism in culturally-specific locations and times across East Asia, articulating alternative histories of realism that extend from the premodern into the present. Through our individual inquiries, we aim to broaden the term’s analytic power and shed collective light on the diversity and versatility of this important representational mode. The conference will end with a play reading performed by LAUNCH PAD, UCSB.
View the complete schedule and conference information at www.realismseastasia.com. You can download the informational flyer here: Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts.

John Majewski, Living Democracy in Capitalism's Shadow: Creative Labor, Black Abolitionists, and the Struggle to End Slavery
2020-10-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom, CA
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Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link
In the two decades before the Civil War, a new type of capitalism developed in the northern United States that stressed mass education, widespread innovation, and new markets for art and design. For Black abolitionists, the changing northern economy presented new opportunities to highlight the evils of slavery. While continuing to attack slavery’s physical cruelty, Black abolitionists in the 1840s and 1850s increasingly highlighted the “mental darkness” of slavery, focusing on the systematic denial of literacy, learning, and creativity. Through their own creative labor, Black abolitionists made a compelling case for racial equality. The fate of Black creative labor after the Civil War, though, demonstrated the limits of using creativity as a way of obtaining citizenship, and raises important questions about how we in the 21st century “live democracy” in a society that valorizes creativity amidst growing inequality and systemic racism. Audience Q&A will follow.
John Majewski is the Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts and Professor in the Department of History. His areas of specialization include American economic, social, and legal history; Southern history; and the U.S. Civil War. He is the author of A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Imagination of the Confederate Nation (UNC Press, 2009), and numerous articles, reviews, and book chapters.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series
REGISTER NOW. ASL and Spanish interpretation will be available. To view ASL interpretation, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer.

Decolonizing California through Critical Mission Studies: The Reclaiming Homelands Project
2020-10-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Click link to register:, CA, United States
Ami Admire, Director, Rincon Youth Storytellers, Amrah Salomón J., President’s Postdoctoral Fellow (English) UC Riverside, and Ross Frank (Ethnic Studies) UC San Diego
Admire and Salomón will speak about an intergenerational cultural revitalization project bringing youth and elders together to revitalize Indigenous knowledge and training indigenous youth in conducting historical research to reclaim indigenous place names among the Kumeyaay, Payomkawichum (Luiseño), and Cupeño communities. Frank will contextualize this project within the larger collective of Critical Mission Studies, a multi-campus research effort at the University of California.

For more info on the multi-campus project, see https://criticalmissionstudies.ucsd.edu

To register in advance for this webinar and view recommended readings visit the Department Colloquium in Public History page.

EAP Information Session
2020-10-12 16:00 - 17:00
Are you interested in going abroad and taking major courses? Come and learn about how that’s possible with the Education Abroad Program (EAP). Please see meeting details on the flyer below.

Reading 2020 Award Winners | Gender & Sexualities Cluster Welcome
2020-10-15 15:30 - 17:00 | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Each year members of the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster begin the academic year by reading two award-winning and recently published articles. This year, we will begin with a discussion of the following:
2020 Best Article Prize Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History: Nic John Ramos, “Poor Influences and Criminal Locations: Los Angeles’s Skid Row, Multicultural Identities, and Normal Homosexuality,” American Quarterly, 71:2 (June 2019): pp. 541-567.
2020 Best Article Prize Canadian Committee of the History of Sexuality: Elise Chenier, “Love-Politics: Lesbian Wedding Practices in Canada and the United States from the 1920s to the 1970s.” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 27: 2 (May 2018): pp. 294-321.
Participation is limited to UCSB community members. To join this Zoom Meeting click: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/94523663185

Sarah Case, "The Woman Suffrage Movement: 'A Century of Struggle'"
2020-10-17 16:00 | Zoom, CA
Join UCSB History Associates on Saturday, October 17 on Zoom for their first public lecture of the academic year. Dr. Sarah Case will survey the woman suffrage movement for the hundred years or so before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. Her talk will consider why the idea of women voting was so controversial in the nineteenth
century, and examine how it became less so in the early twentieth century. Dr. Case will introduce some of the major activists and organizations in the women suffrage movement and highlight some of the turning points in the “century of struggle.”
Dr. Sarah Case earned her MA and PhD in history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is a continuing lecturer in history, teaching courses in public history, women’s history, and history of the South. She is also the managing editor of The Public Historian, a journal focused on publicly engaged historical scholarship. She is the author of Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women in the New South (Illinois, 2017) and articles on women and education, reform, and commemoration.

The Zoom link for this event is https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82201755393. All are welcome!

Lizabeth Cohen, Struggling to Save America's Cities in the Suburban Age: Urban Renewal Revisited
2020-10-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom, CA
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Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link
Urban Renewal of the 1950s through 1970s has acquired a very poor reputation, much of it deserved. But reducing it to an unchanging story of urban destruction misses some important legacies and genuinely progressive goals. Those include efforts to create more socially mixed communities, to involve suburbs—not just cities—in solving metropolitan inequality, and most importantly, to hold the federal government responsible for funding more affordable housing and other urban investments, rather than turn to the private sector. Cohen will revisit this history by following the long career of Edward J. Logue, who worked to revitalize New Haven in the 1950s, became the architect of the “New Boston” in the 1960s, and later led innovative organizations in New York at the state level and in the South Bronx. She will analyze the evolution in Logue’s thinking and actions, when and how he met resistance and accommodation by communities, and what he and many others who cared about cities learned in facing the challenges of urban revitalization during the suburban boom of the second half of the 20th century. Amid substantial challenges today in the realms of racial injustice, public health, economic viability, and urban resilience, it is more important than ever that we reexamine the history of efforts—successful and failed—to keep American cities vital. Audience Q&A will follow.
Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History at Harvard. Her most recent book is Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age (October 2019), winner of the Bancroft Prize. It examines the benefits and costs of the shifting strategies for rebuilding American cities after World War II by following the career of urban redeveloper Edward J. Logue, who oversaw major renewal projects in New Haven, Boston, and New York State from the 1950s through the 1980s. Cohen has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is also a former president of the Urban History Association.
To learn more about or purchase a copy of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age, please visit Chaucer’s Books online.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series; the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment; the UCSB Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy; and the UCSB Department of History
Image courtesy of Boston City Archives
REGISTER NOW. ASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer.

History of Public Policy (& Law) Senior Thesis Meeting
2020-11-05 16:00 - 17:00 | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
This meeting explains the thesis seminar application and enrollment process for History 195IA/IB, gives an overview of the Winter seminar and Spring quarter thesis process, helps get you started on preliminary tasks this quarter, and lets you meet and hear from your fellow policy history students on what they intend to research.

If you cannot attend on Thursday November 5th at 4pm, the meeting will be recorded and posted on the history department website. You can reach out to Professor Bergstrom directly with any questions!

Zoom link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/83083342663?pwd=[REDACTED]

Public History Colloquium Event--"In the Spaciousness of Uncertainty is Room to Act": Public History’s Long Game
2020-11-06 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom, CA
Join the History Department’s Colloquium in Public History this Friday, November 6 at noon for a Zoom talk by Professor Marla Miller (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) about her recent article in The Public Historian, “‘In the Spaciousness of Uncertainty is Room to Act’: Public History’s Long Game.”
Taking her title from Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark, an exploration of the long arc of historical change, Miller engages with students and the public around the ideas, questions and new directions posed in this address to the National Council for Public History, public history’s major professional organization. Miller is a historian of US women’s work prior to the industrial revolution, and is the NCPH’s immediate past president. She is the author of many books, including Betsy Ross and the Making of America and Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts. Her research, teaching, publications and consulting engage North American material culture, museum and historic site interpretation, historical interpretation in the National Park Service, and the teaching of public history.
Event attendees are invited to read Professor Miller’s article in advance; it may be accessed here.
Please register to attend using this link.

Azaria Mbughuni, "Tanzania and the Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa"
2020-11-12 11:30 - 12:30 | Zoom, CA
All are cordially invited to a special guest lecture by Dr. Azaria Mbughuni on the role of Tanzania in Southern Africa’s liberation struggles. Dr. Mbughuni’s guest lecture will build onto Professor Mhoze Chikowero‘s ongoing graduate seminar on African Self-Liberation.
Dr. Mbughuni is Assistant Professor of History at Lane College, where he is also the Chair of the Division of Business, Social and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Mbughuni was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He earned his Ph.D. from Howard University. His research interests include the role of Tanzania and the Pan-African Diasporas in the struggles for African independence.
For more information and to obtain relevant readings, contact Professor Chikowero at chikowero@history.ucsb.edu. To download the flyer for this event, click here. To attend Dr. Mbughuni’s lecture on Zoom, use this link.

Kendall Lovely, "Dismembering Classicism: Contesting Colonial and Classical Legacies in the Southwest"
2020-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom, CA
Classicization in U.S. heritage narratives often involves the imposition of classical elements, derived from Greek and Roman civilization, onto narratives of colonial conquest in Southwestern borderlands and frontier spaces. Ongoing controversies surrounding statues of the conquistador, Juan de Oñate, reflect the ways in which the classical legacy remains prominent in public spheres of historical narrative. In providing a visual narrative of conquest linked to classical imagery, the Spanish history of the settling of the Southwest becomes implicated in broader U.S. historical narratives that valorize conquest as a civilizing force in the settling of the American West. While much of this classical imagery first appeared in Spanish sources, this paper traces specifically how these classicized narratives of Spanish conquest became appropriated and implicated in Anglo-American/U.S. historical narratives, as well as counter-narratives of Indigenous resistance.
Kendall Lovely, a member of the Navajo Nation, is from Albuquerque, NM. She holds a double-major B.A. from the University of New Mexico in Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies and Anthropology, an M.A. in Comparative Humanities from Brandeis University, and a second M.A. in Museum Studies from UNM. Her recent thesis in Museum Studies explored Classical influence within early anthropology and museum discourses. Her examinations revealed how these models helped to construct colonial representations of gender, especially in Southwest ethnology. As a Ph.D. student in Public History at the University of California Santa Barbara, she continues these research inquiries toward decolonizing museum practices and the public interpretation of history in museum settings.
Please register in advance for this free presentation at this link.

Sheila Lodge, "Santa Barbara: An UNcommonplace American Town"
2020-11-15 16:00 | Zoom, CA
UCSB History Associates has partnered with the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation to present a public lecture by former mayor Sheila Lodge on the topic of Santa Barbara history.
Lodge will discuss her book Santa Barbara: An UNcommonplace American Town about how Santa Barbara became the community that it is through planning. She will describe the many battles it sometimes took and the process that was developed to make the critical decisions. Because of her personal involvement in the struggles, her book is partially a memoir.
Lodge was born at home on her parents’ dairy in Arcadia, CA. She is a life-long Californian except for 2 1/2 years in Annapolis, MD, where she taught school and did social work. She returned to
California in 1950 and came to Santa Barbara in 1952. She served on the Santa Barbara City Planning Commission from 1973-1975, the City Council from 1975-1981, and as Mayor from 1981-
1993. An incurable public policy wonk, since 2009 she’s been back on the Planning Commission where she started her civic life 45 years ago.
Please register in advance for this free event here. To download the event flyer, click here.

Public History Colloquium Event–"Pride of Place: LGBTQ Public History in the United Kingdom"
2020-12-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom, CA
Join the History Department’s Colloquium in Public History on Friday, December 4 at noon for a Zoom talk by UCSB alumnus Dr. Justin Bengry (Goldsmiths, University of London).
Dr. Bengry will present a major crowdsourced public history project he helped develop. Pride of Place maps sites of LGBTQ history in the United Kingdom. Dr. Bengry set the project in context of the state of LGBTQ public history in the UK. He is a historian of sexuality and capitalism who chairs the first MA in Queer History at Goldsmiths, University of London.
To view the Pride of Place online exhibition at the Historic England webpage, click here. To view the crowdsourced map, click here.
Please register in advance for this event at this link.

Nyasha Mboti, "Closing the Loophole: Apartheid Studies"
2020-12-10 09:30 | Zoom, CA
Professor Mhoze Chikowero invites all to attend a special guest lecture by Dr. Nyashi Mboti as part of UCSB’s African Studies Series. Dr. Mboti will discuss the new field he founded: Apartheid Studies. He will introduce his forthcoming 4-volume treatise on the subject, Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto, which will change how we think about enslavement, colonialism, neocolonialism, impoverishment, and the exploitation and carnage of humans that has defined global history for at least half a millennium.

Dr. Mboti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Science at the University of the Free State in South Africa. His keen interest in academia is to ask questions that people do not normally intend or think to ask. He has, to date, successfully supervised ten doctoral students,
delivered seminal keynotes at international conferences, and published over two dozen peer reviewed research articles.

To read an early copy of Volume 1 of Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto, contact Professor Chikowero at chikowero@history.ucsb.edu or Claudia Ankrah at c_ankrah@ucsb.edu. To download the flyer for the lecture, click here. To attend Dr. Mbughuni’s lecture on Zoom, use this link.
