BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of History, UC Santa Barbara - ECPv6.15.12.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Department of History, UC Santa Barbara X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Department of History, UC Santa Barbara REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20080309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20081102T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20090308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20091101T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20100314T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20101107T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090508T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090508T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112805Z UID:10001687-1241740800-1241740800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Reclaiming Class: Poverty and Higher Education in the United States DESCRIPTION:Vivyan Adair is the Elihu Root Endowed Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and the Director of The ACCESS Project (serving welfare eligible student parents) at Hamilton College. She is the author of From Good Ma to Welfare Queen: A Genealogy of the Poor Woman in American Literature\, Photography and Culture (2000) and the co-editor of Reclaiming Class: Women\, Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education in America (2003)\, as well as articles in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society\, Harvard Educational Review\, Feminist Studies\, Labor\, Sociology\, NWSA Journal\, and the AAUW’s On Campus with Women In 2005\, Dr. Adair was named the CASE Carnegie New York State Teacher of the Year.\nFor more information please visit www.hamilton.edu/college/access. \nAdair’s biography on the Hamilton College website. \nSponsored by the Seminar on Work\, Labor\, and Political Economy. \nhm 5/1/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/reclaiming-class-poverty-and-higher-education-in-the-united-states/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090511T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090511T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112803Z UID:10001657-1242000000-1242000000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Peace Initiatives in the Middle East DESCRIPTION:There is an exciting and timely series of events taking place this spring: The Shalom/Salam Conversations\, in which members of the UCSB faculty and community will address aspects of the Israel/Palestine dispute. There will be three events this spring\, all on Monday at 5 pm in the Multicultural Center. The series is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts and by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.\nThe second event will take place THIS MONDAY\, MAY 11\, AT 5 PM IN THE MULTICULTURAL CENTER. The subject will be “Peace Initiatives.” Professor Salim Yaqub of the UCSB Department of History will moderate. \nThis is the third and final event of the series. \nFree Pizza and beverages will be served. Please join us for this important event! \nhm 4/6/09\, 5/11/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/peace-initiatives-in-the-middle-east/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090511T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090511T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112804Z UID:10001669-1242000000-1242000000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Gazing through the Empire's Shop Window: Women and Consumption at the British Empire Exhibition\, 1924-1925 DESCRIPTION:Professor Clendinning is the author of Demons of Domesticity: Women and the English Gas Iindustry\, 1889-1939\, Ashgate Publications\, Aldershot \, England \, 2004.\nAnyone interested in gender\, consumer culture\, imperialism and European history more generally is encouraged to attend. \nhm 4/20/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/gazing-through-the-empires-shop-window-women-and-consumption-at-the-british-empire-exhibition-1924-1925/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090511T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090511T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112805Z UID:10001689-1242000000-1242000000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Christianity and Empire: Unity and Diversity in New Worlds DESCRIPTION:Fernando Cervantes\, J.E. & Lillian Byrne Tipton Distinguished Visiting Professor in Catholic Studies\, Department of Religious Studies\, UCSB\, for Spring 2009 will present a paper exploring the interaction of Christianity among the populations of the New World. His presentation will seek to shed light on what J.H. Elliott once called “the remarkable survival of a worldwide empire for a period of three centuries without a standing army or police force.” Professor Cervantes will do so by reassessing the process of Christianization and the central role of religious culture in the early modern Hispanic world.\nFive panelists will respond\, relating his research to their own work in the fields of Ancient Borderlands and Latin American Studies: Gerardo Aldana (Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies\, UCSB); Sarah Cline (Department of History\, UCSB); Beth DePalma Digeser (Department of History\, UCSB); Hal Drake (Department of History\, UCSB); and Pamela Huckins (History of Art and Archaeology\, NYU). The panel will be moderated by Christine Thomas (Department of Religious Studies\, UCSB). A public Q & A and reception will follow. \nFor further information\, please contact Ann Taves or Cathy Albanese. \njwil 06.v.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/christianity-and-empire-unity-and-diversity-in-new-worlds/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090512T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090512T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112805Z UID:10001691-1242086400-1242086400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Black September and the Question of Palestinian Identity within Jordan DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Clea Bunch looks at the events of Black September 1970\, in which King Hussein of Jordan fought a civil war against Palestinian\nmilitant groups. She argues that Jordan constituted a “hidden pillar”\nof America?s Middle East policy. Only during crises like Black\nSeptember did the kingdom’s essential role become apparent.\nWashington saw Hussein’s pro-Western leadership as essential\nmaintaining a regional balance of power\, and so United States linked\nits policy to the continuation of the Hashemite regime in Jordan. \nClea Bunch is Assistant Professor of History and Chair of Middle East\nStudies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She specializes\nin U.S.-Middle East diplomacy and has conducted extensive research in\nthe Middle East. She is currently writing a book on the history of\nJordanian-American relations\, 1948-1970. \nThe talk is free and open to the public. A brief reception will\nfollow Prof. Bunch’s presentation. Please join us for this exciting\nevent! \nhm 5/10/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/black-september-and-the-question-of-palestinian-identity-within-jordan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090512T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090512T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112805Z UID:10001688-1242086400-1242086400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Who determines what becomes history? A witness's reflections DESCRIPTION:The renowned historian Arnold Toynbee posed the question whether we\, the general public\, but also scholars and students of historical events\, are correctly informed. This question has concerned George Wittenstein for many decades\, as it has a determining influence on “what becomes history”. Dr. Wittenstein will discuss the common and disturbing phenomenon of historical facts being presented in slanted\, misleading\, and\, at times\, even falsifying ways. From the vantage point of a witness to and active participant in historical events during the Hitler regime\, Dr. Wittenstein will then describe lesser known facts about two resistance groups with whom he was closely associated: the famous White Rose and the Freedom Action Bavaria.\nDr. George Wittenstein\, born in 1919\, majored simultaneously in medicine\, psychology and philosophy at the University of Munich during World War II. As Military service was compulsory\, Wittenstein and most of his White Rose friends were drafted together into a medical student company. As early as 1939\, he was threatened by the Nazi secret police (Gestapo) and\, in 1942 and 1943\, undertook a series of dangerous actions on behalf of the White Rose. In 1943\, five of his friends\, Hans Scholl\, Sophie Scholl\, Christoph Probst\, Alexander Schmorell\, Willi Graf\, and his PhD advisor\, the professor of philosophy Kurt Huber\, were executed. When Wittenstein learned in 1944 that the Gestapo was likely to apprehend him\, he volunteered to serve at the front-lines\, as the immediate combat zone was the only place where the Gestapo had no jurisdiction over members of the armed forces. Assigned as a physician to the Italian front\, he collected the wounded soldiers’ weapons for the secret arsenal of the Freedom Action Bavaria\, a resistance group of military officers led by Captain Rupprecht Gerngross based in Munich. Wittenstein was wounded at the Italian front in 1945. \nWittenstein emigrated to the United States in 1948. Continuing his surgical training at Harvard and the universities of Rochester and Colorado\, he specialized in general\, cardiovascular\, and thoracic surgery and later taught and performed the latest complex heart operations at numerous European medical schools. Since 1960\, Wittenstein has been residing in Santa Barbara\, where he was in private practice until his appointment as professor of surgery at the University of California at Los Angeles\, and as chair of the Department of Surgery at UCLA/LAC Olive View Medical Center. He retired from UCLA in 1991 and continued to practice in Santa Barbara. Over almost four decades\, Wittenstein served in various capacities at four Santa Barbara hospitals\, the UCSB’s Affiliates\, the Friends of the UCSB Library\, and on the board of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. In recognition of his active involvement in the resistance against Hitler\, for his contributions to German cardiac surgery\, and for promoting scientific exchange between the United States and Germany\, Wittenstein was awarded the “Commander’s Cross Of The Federal Republic Of Germany” (Grosses Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) and more recently the “Bayerischer Verdienstorden”\, the State of Bavaria’s highest honor. \nIn Fall 2007 the UCSB Department of Germanic\, Slavic and Semitic Studies initiated the George J. Wittenstein lecture series\, created to commemorate and continue the legacy of civic courage of Dr. George J. Wittenstein. The series sponsors one to three lectures every year. (UCSB press release)\nIn 2008-2009\, the series is made possible by the generous co-sponsorships of the following campus agencies and departments: Office of the Chancellor\, Comparative Literature\, Feminist Studies\, Film and Media Studies\, French and Italian\, History\, Law and Society\, Religious Studies\, Theater and Dance. \nDr. Wittenstein himself will be the speaker at this event\, which will take place in the McCune conference room (HSSB 6020) at 5 pm. \nThis lecture series is designed to inspire people to become active citizens and to uphold and defend democratic principles. While some talks may have an explicitly political dimension\, others will deal with literature and philosophy—two areas that were extremely important to White Rose members\, including Dr. Wittenstein\, who continues to be greatly interested in them. \nThe Munich-based White Rose consisted of a group of friends\, predominantly medical students\, who appealed to the German people to defy both Hitler’s dictatorship and the apathy of their fellow citizens. Members of the White Rose wrote\, printed\, and disseminated six leaflets that denounced the National Socialist regime’s criminal activities and goals. It was the only German group specifically to condemn the extermination of European Jews. Six members were convicted of high treason and executed. \nAlready a member of the German armed forces\, Wittenstein escaped apprehension by the Gestapo by volunteering to serve on the front line—the only place the German secret police would have no jurisdiction over him. He was assigned to the Italian front to serve as a physician. There he collected the weapons of wounded soldiers and contributed them to a secret arsenal maintained by Freedom Action Bavaria\, a resistance group that consisted of military officers based in Munich. \nWounded in 1945\, Wittenstein immigrated to the United States a few years later and continued his surgical training at Harvard University\, the University of Rochester\, and the University of Colorado. A Santa Barbara resident for almost 50 years\, he has worked in private practice\, as a professor of surgery at UCLA\, and as chair of the Department of Surgery at the UCLA-Olive View Medical Center. \nhm 5/4/09\, 5/6/09 \nFor more information\, please visit: URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/who-determines-what-becomes-history-a-witnesss-reflections/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090513T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090513T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112805Z UID:10001690-1242172800-1242172800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Catholicism and the Early Modern Imagination DESCRIPTION:The imagination as a human faculty was subjected to some of the most fascinating explorations in its history during the period from 1430 to 1680. Fernando Cervantes will explore the broad Catholic intellectual background of these debates with particular reference to the work the two greatest literary figures of the age: Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare.\nFernando Cervantes is a historian of early modern Europe specializing in the cultural\, religious and intellectual history of early modern Spain and Spanish America. He is the author of The Devil in the New World (1994) and The Hispanic World in the Historical Imagination (2006) as well as editor of Spiritual Encounters: Interactions between Christianity and Native Religions in Colonial America (1999). He is currently completing a book entitled The Celestial and the Fallen: Angels and Demons in the Hispanic World. \nFor further information\, please contact Ann Taves or Cathy Albanese. \njwil 06.v.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/catholicism-and-the-early-modern-imagination/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090514T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090514T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112806Z UID:10001698-1242259200-1242259200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Precipitating Factors and Root Causes of the Sino-Soviet Split DESCRIPTION:Professor Shen Zhihua is Director of the Center for Cold War Studies at East China Normal University in Shanghai. \nThe event is free and open to the public. A brief reception will follow Prof. Shen’s presentation. \nIn this talk\, Professor Shen Zhihua discusses the surface and root\ncauses of the Sino-Soviet split. The surface causes were China’s\nshelling of Goumindang-held islands in August 1958 and its commune\nmovement of July 1959\, which revealed sharp divergences between China\nand the Soviet Union. The root causes were the fundamental\ncontradictions between internationalist ideals and the pursuit of\nnational interest\, and between the fraternal ideals and hierarchical\nreality of the Sino-Soviet relationship. These structural\ncontradictions made the Sino-Soviet split inevitable. \nShen Zhihua is Professor of History at East China Normal University\n(Shanghai\, China)\, where he also serves as Director of the Cold War\nInternational History Research Center. He is also concurrent\nprofessor at Peking University\, and honorary research fellow at the\nChinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Shen’s research interests\ninclude Cold War History\, the diplomatic history of the Soviet Union\,\nSino-Soviet relations\, and the Korean War. His books include Soviet\nExperts in China\, 1948-1960 (2nd ed.\, 2009)\, Mao Zedong\, Stalin\, and\nthe Korean War (2003)\, and An Outline History of Sino-Soviet Relations\n(2007). \nThe event is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and by East Asian\nLanguages and Cultural Studies. \nhm 5/12/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/precipitating-factors-and-root-causes-of-the-sino-soviet-split/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090515T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090515T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112806Z UID:10001696-1242345600-1242345600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History Honors Colloquium DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, May 15\, the undergraduates who wrote senior theses this year will present their work at the History Honors Colloquium in HSSB 4020. The students have produced very interesting research and all interested parties are invited to attend some or all of the sessions.\nThe program is as follows: \nSession I (9:00-10:30): War and Suffrage \nAllison Fischer (Jacobson): “Shot to the Core: Vietnam Veterans and the Disintegration of American Exceptionalism”\n Discussant: Laura Kalman\nMichael Hale (Lee): “The Destruction of Poleis in the Greek World”\n Discussant: Jack Talbott\nRisa Katzen (Harris\, Miescher): “Anything to Fit in: A Comparative Study of American and South African Women’s Suffrage Movements”\n Discussant: Adrienne Edgar \nSession II (10:45-12:15): Education and Political Activism \nDamien Mimnaugh (O’Connor): “The School is Before the Church: A History of Catholic Dissent During and Following the Great School Controversy in New York\, 1840-1870”\n Discussant: Patricia Cohen\nAdrienne Minor (Daniels): “What’s Left of the Struggle: The Oakland Community School and the Black Panther Party”\n Discussant: Megan Bowman\nCraig Nelson (Westwick): “The Evolution of Environmentalism in the California Surfing Community”\n Discussant: Greg Graves \nSession III (2:00-4:00): Politics and Public Policy \nChristopher Kindell (Tutino): “ ‘Now for the Lord and our good Queene/ To fight be not afraide’: Elizabethan Propaganda and the Spanish Armada”\n Discussant: Sears McGee\nMathew Hamula (McGee): “Modernizing Medieval Medicine and the Medical Marketplace: The London Medical Establishment during the English Civil War”\n Discussant: Stefania Tutino\nCeline Purcell (Bergstrom): “STEP it Up: The Rise of Conservative Anti-Gang Legislation in California”\n Discussant: Andrea Gill\nKatyn Evenson (Woods): “Upon a Blank Slate: Reforming Public Education in Post-Katrina New Orleans”\n Discussant: Randy Bergstrom \nhm 5/11/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/history-honors-colloquium/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090516T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090516T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112806Z UID:10001695-1242432000-1242432000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Memorial Celebration for Dmitrije Djordjevic DESCRIPTION:The celebration of Dimitrije’s life will take place at Elings Park this Saturday\, May 16\, from noon to 2 p.m. in the Singleton Pavilion. Dimitrije’s wife Nan welcomes his colleagues\, friends\, and all who wish to remember his contributions to scholarship and to the UCSB History department.\nProf. Djordjevic passed away on March 5\, 2009. See our News item on his passing\, which includes a biographical sketch. \nhm 5/11/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/memorial-celebration-for-dmitrije-djordjevic/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090518T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090518T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112806Z UID:10001694-1242604800-1242604800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Bankers Strike Back: The Anglo-American and Anglo-Canadian Financial Agreements of 1945-1946 DESCRIPTION:The commodities and markets research group will meet again on Monday\, May 18\, from 11-noon in HSSB 4020 to discuss George Fujii’s paper “The\nBankers Strike Back: The Anglo-American and Anglo-Canadian Financial\nAgreements of 1945-1946.” George will provide a brief introduction to\nhis work\, which is part of his dissertation\, but we will devote most\nof our time to discussion of his paper. The paper will be circulated by\nemail; contact Lisa Jacobson jacobson@history.ucsb.edu.\nA description follows below: \n“Justice\,” “Temptation\,” or “Austerity.” In the words of John Maynard\nKeynes\, these were Britain’s choices in 1945 as it sought large-scale\nU.S. aid in order to stabilize its financial position and rebuild its\nwar-torn economy. Keynes\, dispatched by the British government to\nWashington as its lead negotiator\, thought he could obtain “justice\,”\nor a U.S. grant of about $5 billion to Britain plus favorable\nconsideration of wartime debt. He appealed to the sense of justice of\nhis American counterparts\, arguing that Britain’s earlier wartime\nsacrifices entitled it to favorable consideration. \nNations rarely show gratitude\, though\, and Britain instead obtained\nthe option that Keynes had feared most–“temptation.” This was a U.S.\nloan of $3.75 billion at an attractively low interest rate (2%) but\nwith two key conditions–an early deadline for sterling convertibility\nand ratification of the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement. Not only was\nthe loan balance lower than expected\, but an early date for\nconvertibility might well strain Britain’s financial resources and\nlead to a run on sterling. For U.S. policymakers and leading\ninternationalist bankers\, though\, early sterling convertibility would\nbe an important first step in pushing their global freer trade agenda\nand opening up Britain’s protected domestic\, colonial\, and\ncommonwealth markets. \nMaking up the missing $1.25 billion was Canada\, whose government\nsought to ensure that its access to British markets would remain\nunimpeded and that it could retain its traditional trading pattern of\nrunning surpluses to Britain and deficits with the United States. In\nCanada\, the loan negotiations became wrapped up in nationalist\nrhetoric\, while in the United States\, other domestic concerns would\nintrude onto an ordinarily somewhat dry\, economic policy matter. This\nis then the story of a path to temptation and its consequences. \nhm 5/11/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-bankers-strike-back-the-anglo-american-and-anglo-canadian-financial-agreements-of-1945-1946/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090519T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090519T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112806Z UID:10001702-1242691200-1242691200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Declarations of Dependence: Labor\, Personhood\, and Welfare in South Africa and Beyond DESCRIPTION:JAMES FERGUSON is Chair of the Department of Anthropology\, Stanford University\nSouth Africa has in recent decades gone through a wrenching transformation from a labor-scarce society to a labor-surplus one. Labor scarcity through most of the 19th and 20th centuries led to forms of social solidarity and social personhood that had significant continuities with the pre-colonial past (continuities that are obscured by conventional narratives that emphasize the rise of capitalism as a complete and comprehensive break with the past). It is suggested that the South African experience reveals\, in an extreme and clarifying form\, a set of processes that are occurring in many other parts of the world. Better understanding such processes may help us to find our way past some of the current impasses in progressive politics. James Ferguson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. Ferguson’s most recent book\, Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order\, was published by Duke University Press in 2006. He is now beginning a new research project in South Africa\, exploring the emergence of new problematics of poverty and social policy under conditions of neoliberalism. \nSponsored by the IHC’s African Studies RFG\, the Department of History\, and the Department of Anthropology. \nhm 5/15/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/declarations-of-dependence-labor-personhood-and-welfare-in-south-africa-and-beyond/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090520T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090520T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112805Z UID:10001692-1242777600-1242777600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Edward Teller the Communist? American Scientists and the National Security State during the Cold War (4PM in McCune Room; 6th Floor HSSB) DESCRIPTION:The recent release of the FBI files on Edward Teller has revealed the bureau’s suspicion and investigation of the “father” of the American hydrogen bomb as a possible communist. Almost certainly the result of a mistaken identity\, the FBI’s case on Teller\, one of the most outspoken anti-communist Hungarian-American scientists\, nevertheless sheds lights on the complex relationships between American scientists and the national security state during the Cold War\, especially when compared with the experiences of his political rivals J. Robert Oppenheimer and members of the President’s Science Advisory Committee. This paper is co-authored by Lawrence Badash who will be present at the talk and lead the question period. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/edward-teller-the-communist-american-scientists-and-the-national-security-state-during-the-cold-war-4pm-in-mccune-room-6th-floor-hssb/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090521T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090521T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112806Z UID:10001563-1242864000-1242864000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Alone\, Unattended and Unexplained: American Lenses and Mexican Subjects in the Borderlands\, 1930-1945 DESCRIPTION:This presentation discusses the ambivalent attitudes of U.S. photographers regarding Mexican/Chicano subjects in the 1930-40s Borderlands. It analyzes the ways in which meaning was constructed in the visual representations of Mexican Nationals and Mexican American subjects in the United States\, while incorporating the historical context of public policies regarding the presence of worker of Mexican origin/descent in the national agricultural landscape. Focusing on photographic materials by Ansel Adams\, Dorothea Lange\, and others\, most of them unpublished\, the presentation unveils the complex thread of photographing Mexicans while abiding by the long standing tradition of placing them against pre-conceived backgrounds and complying with the emerging rules of modern photography documentary practices.\nJuan Javier Pescador (historian & photographer) teaches Chicano History and Mexican Cultures in the United States at Michigan State University. His recent publications include “Los Heroes del Domingo: Soccer Associations and Border Spaces in the Great Lakes Mexican/Chicano Barrios” in Jorge Iber and Samuel O. Regalado (eds.)\, Mexican Americans and Sports (College Station: Texas A&M\, 2007) and Crossing Borders with the Santo Nino de Atocha: A History of the Holy Child of Plateros (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press\, forthcoming). His current research project analyzes the history of photography in Mexico and the United States and the process of racialization of Mexicans in the United States\, in photography and the visual arts\, from the Mexican-American War to the NAFTA-era. \njwil 18.v.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/alone-unattended-and-unexplained-american-lenses-and-mexican-subjects-in-the-borderlands-1930-1945/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090521T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090521T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112806Z UID:10001700-1242864000-1242864000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Stones of Famagusta: The Story of a Forgotten City DESCRIPTION:The Mediterranean Research Focus Group of the IHC and the Medieval Studies Program present “The Stones of Famagusta: The Story of a Forgotten City” followed by a discussion with the director\, writer\, and presenter Allan Langdale of UC Santa Cruz. The film and discussion will be from 4-6pm in HSSB 6020.\nIn the film art historian and filmmaker Dr. Allan Langdale takes you on a bicycle tour of the once famous medieval city of Famagusta\, Cyprus. Once considered the world’s richest city\, Famagusta is now largely forgotten by the West. Explore the wonders of the gothic churches and monasteries\, the ruins of Venetian palaces\, the fabulous two-mile long walls and moat\, Byzantine churches\, Ottoman baths\, and some of Famagusta’s unique and mysterious underground churches. \nFor more information contact Ed English. \njwil 13.v.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-stones-of-famagusta-the-story-of-a-forgotten-city/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090526T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090526T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112806Z UID:10001565-1243296000-1243296000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Ancient Map\, Modern State: Toward a Geo-History of the Meiji Restoration DESCRIPTION:The continuing career of Shinano Province as present-day Nagano Prefecture suggests that the reformers of the Meiji era (1868-1912) recruited classical geography to the cause of administrative reform. Under the guise of new toponyms\, nineteenth-century oligarchs effectively reinscribed an ancient set of imperial boundaries on the landscape of modern Japan. This classicizing strategy was not altogether new; nor was it promoted solely by power-holders at the center. Dating from the era of the unification wars in the sixteenth century\, the project of restoring the ritsuryo map was ultimately embraced and carried forward by local literati in the provinces themselves. This illustrated talk will explore these issues through an examination of maps and gazetteers from central Honshu. Kären Wigen is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University. A geographer by training\, she brings a spatial sensibility to the Japanese past. Her research interests have ranged from economics to education\, from mountains to the oceans\, and from the local to the global. Her recent work centers on cartography\, chorography\, and regionalism in central Japan. \nSponsored by the East Asia Center\, the IHC’s East Asian Cultures RFG\, the IHC\, and the departments of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies\, History\, and Geography. \nhm 5/19/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/ancient-map-modern-state-toward-a-geo-history-of-the-meiji-restoration/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090529T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090529T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112806Z UID:10001567-1243555200-1243555200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:From "State Interference to the 'Return to the Market': The Rhetoric of Economic Regulation from the Old Gilded Age to the New DESCRIPTION:Professor Furner’s talk will be the final session in Spring quarter of the Seminar on Work\, Labor\, and Political Economy.\nThe public is invited to attend. \nhm 5/22/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/from-state-interference-to-the-return-to-the-market-the-rhetoric-of-economic-regulation-from-the-old-gilded-age-to-the-new/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090601T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090601T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112806Z UID:10001573-1243814400-1243814400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Shame of Survival: Working Through a Nazi Childhood DESCRIPTION:Professor Ursula Mahlendorf\, Professor Emerita of the Department of Germanic\, Slavic and Semitic Studies and a founder of the Feminist Studies Department at UCSB\, will offer a reading from her memoir published this spring about her childhood in Silesia and her early adolescent membership in the Hitler Youth. Publisher’s Weekly calls it “An eye-opening\, honest and absorbing account of how evil takes root and flourishes among ordinary people.” \nSponsored by the Senior Women’s Council and the Department of Feminist Studies. \namazon.com page \nhm 5/27/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-shame-of-survival-working-through-a-nazi-childhood/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090604T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090604T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112806Z UID:10001575-1244073600-1244073600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The global history of wax prints and its implications on female dress in urban South Ghana DESCRIPTION:The Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies presents\n“The global history of wax prints and its implications on female dress in urban South Ghana” \nSilvia Ruschak\nGlobal History Working Group\nUniversity of Vienna \nWHEN: Thursday\, June 4\, 2009 — 12:00\nWHERE: Orfalea Center seminar Room\, 1005 Robertson Gym \nThis presentation will focus on the history of textiles – specifically\, the\nglobal history of industrially printed fabrics for the Ghanaian market\ncalled wax prints. The usually colourful and manifold fabrics are nowadays\ncommonly known as traditional Ghanaian fabrics. However\, their history is\nrather young and the result of complex colonial\, economic and cultural\ninteractions. \nIn the mid 19th century Dutch factory owners and merchants tried to conquer\nthe Indonesian batik market with industrially printed imitations of hand\nmade Javanese batik. They however were not successful in satisfying the\nlocal market for various reasons. Entangled economic and colonial\ninteractions brought the fabrics to the former Gold Coast – today’s Ghana –\nwhere they quickly got very popular. Especially since Ghana’s independence\nfrom Britain in 1957 the fabrics have been carrying national as well as\ngendered significances. \nAfter giving a quick overview of the global history of wax prints in the\n19th century and the adaptation of designs to the Ghanaian context I am\ngoing to analyse their importance in contemporary urban South Ghana. How\nare wax prints incorporated into everyday dressing? Who wears clothes made\nof wax prints and when? What is the gender of wax prints? How do they\ncommunicate different constructions of social status\, sexuality and\nnationality? Selected examples from oral history material and public media\nserve as starting point for analysing these questions. They are\nadditionally read against mainly sociological and anthropological theories\nof dressing and fashion. The aim of the presentation is to show how fabrics\nand dressing can be used as rich historic sources to elaborate\nsocio-economic\, cultural and gender related research questions. \nSilvia Ruschak\nSilvia Ruschak is a contemporary historian with a special focus on global\ngender and fashion history. She is working at the Department of\nContemporary History at the University of Vienna where she also teaches and\nis part of the Global History Work Group. She has recently submitted her\nPhD with the title: Fabrics that create global history. Stations in the\ncultural biography of wax prints in urban South Ghana for which she has\ngathered archival material as well as oral sources in Ghana\, Great Britain\nand the Netherlands. During her stay at the Orfalea Center\, Silvia Ruschak\nis going to research into the question in how far fabrics produced in or\nfor West Africa are relevant for identity constructions of African\nAmericans. Thus she wants to follow the global history of the Ghanaian wax\nprints within the US. \nhm 5/28/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-global-history-of-wax-prints-and-its-implications-on-female-dress-in-urban-south-ghana/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090605T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090605T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112806Z UID:10001569-1244160000-1244160000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Department BBQ DESCRIPTION:It’s that time again! The end of the year history department BBQ is Friday\, June 5\, from 4-6 pm at Stow Grove Park\, 580 La Patera Lane\,\nGoleta. We will provide hamburgers\, hot dogs\, veggie burgers\, buns\, and\nnon-alcoholic beverages. There is a sign-up sheet on the mail room\ndoor. It would be great if you could bring a bottle of wine and sign up\nto bring an appetizer\, side dish\, or dessert (and accompanying serving\nutensils). There will also be coolers with ice to chill the beverages. \nPlease RSVP by Monday\, June 1\, so we can get an accurate headcount for\nfood purchase. Partners\, family members\, children and anyone else all\nwelcome.\nColleen’s e-mail for RSVP: colleen_ho@umail.ucsb.edu \nTradition has it that we have a US vs. world historian softball game (and\nsince I’ve been here\, world has dominated?at least\, that’s how I remember\nit). It doesn’t matter how we divide up teams\, I just think it would be\ngreat to play a game. Also let me know if you have any bats\, balls\,\ngloves\, helmets\, etc. \nhm 5/26/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/department-bbq/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090605T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090605T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112807Z UID:10001579-1244160000-1244160000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Curious Encounter of Telstar and STARFISH PRIME\, July 1962 DESCRIPTION:This talk is based on Schwoch’s book Global TV: New Media and The Cold War which examines the relationship of global television\, diplomacy\, and new electronic communications media. Beginning with the Allied occupation of Germany in 1946 and ending with the 1969 Apollo moon landing\, this book explores major developments in global media\, including the postwar absorption of the International Telecommunications Union into the United Nations and its impact on both television and international policy; the rise of psychological warfare and its relations to new electronic media of the 1950s; and the role of the Ford Foundation in shaping global communication research concepts.\nJames Schwoch conducts research and teaching in global media\, media history\, global security\, international studies\, ICT policy\, and research methodologies. He has published five books\, most recently Global TV: New Media and the Cold War\, 1946-69 and is currently co-editing with Lisa Parks (UC-Santa Barbara) an anthology about satellites called Down To Earth for Rutgers University Press. \nHis research has been supported by\, among others\, the Fulbright Commission (Finland 2005\, Germany 1997)\, the Ford Foundation\n(1993-2000)\, the National Science Foundation (1998-2002)\, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (1985\, 1986). During 1997-98\, Schwoch was the Leonard Marks Resident Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies\, Washington DC; he has held visiting faculty appointments in Finland on three occasions (Tampere 1994\, Jyvaskyla 1996\, Helsinki 2005.) \nSchwoch is currently in residence at the new Northwestern campus in Doha\, Qatar where he is building the curriculum and developing research projects in the broad area of global media. He continues to work with graduate students and advise dissertations on the Evanston campus during his Qatar residency. \nhm 6/1/09\, 6/2 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-curious-encounter-of-telstar-and-starfish-prime-july-1962/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090611T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090611T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112805Z UID:10001693-1244678400-1244678400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:A Tale of Two Authors DESCRIPTION:The public is invited to participate in a dialogue between Maria Segal\, survivor of the Holocaust from the Warsaw Ghetto\, and Dr. Ursula Mahlendorf\, UCSB Professor Emerita and former member of Hitler Youth in Germany.\nBoth authors are active participants in the Portraits of Survival program.\nTheir recently published memoirs bring us two very different experiences of childhood during World War II. \nDiscussion/Q & A will follow. \nModerated by Professor Harold Marcuse\, UCSB Professor of Modern German History \nRSVP: 805-957-1115\, E-mail: info@sbjf.org \nThe memoirs are: \nMaria Segal\, Maria’s Story: Childhood Memories of the Holocaust (Boehmgroup\, 2009\, 108 pages)(amazon.com with preview)\, and \nDr. Ursula Mahlendorf\, The Shame of Survival: Working Through a Nazi Childhood (U. Penn. Press\, 2009\, 344 pages) (amazon.com) \nBoth authors are active participants in the Santa Barbara Holocaust memory program Portraits of Survival. Their recently published memoirs bring us two very different experiences of childhood during World War II. \nMaria Segal was a child when she survived in the Warsaw Ghetto. She was born in Okuniew\, Poland\, a small town near Warsaw. Maria has three children\, six grandchildren\, and now lives in Santa Barbara\, CA. She volunteers at the Santa Barbara Jewish Federation as a docent for the Portraits of Survival Exhibit and is one of the thirty-seven profiles of Santa Barbara Holocaust survivors in the permanent exhibit. She speaks about her experiences during and after the Holocaust to groups of adults and children\, ranging from high school students to law enforcement agencies. \nFrom Publishers Weekly about The Shame of Survival\nA former German and women’s studies professor at UC Santa Barbara\, Mahlendorf grew up in a small town in Silesia and was a squad leader in the Hitler Youth who embraced Hitler as a father substitute after the death of her own father\, a former SS member\, in 1935 and also in rebellion against her mother who disapproved of the Nazis. Her escape from a group suicide pact in the wake of Hitler’s suicide was a first step in her denazification and eventual acceptance of her culpability in the Holocaust\, an open-ended process that gained a feminist twist as she realized how politics were personal under Nazism. An eye-opening\, honest and absorbing account of how evil takes root and flourishes among ordinary people. Illus. (Mar. 28) \nhm 5/11/09\, 6/2/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/a-tale-of-two-authors/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090611T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090611T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112807Z UID:10001577-1244678400-1244678400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:How the Irish Made Serra a Saint and Saved the California Missions DESCRIPTION:Fr. Jack Clark Robinson\, O.F.M.\, a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department\, will speak on “How the Irish Made Serra a Saint and Saved the California Missions!” on Thursday\, June 11 at the Santa Barbara Mission. Events will start at 5:30 p.m. with a tour of the archive library\, followed by the talk at 6:30 p.m. and a social “with plentiful hors d’oeuvres and wine” at 7:30 p.m.\nFr. Jack’s talk is sponsored by the American Irish Historical Society. The cost is $20. Checks for reservations can be sent to American Irish Historical Society\, 801 Riven Rock Road\, Santa Barbara\, CA 93108\, or you can phone for reservations at (805) 965-2022. \njwil 29.v.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/how-the-irish-made-serra-a-saint-and-saved-the-california-missions/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090614T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090614T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112806Z UID:10001571-1244937600-1244937600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Reception for Graduating Seniors DESCRIPTION:The History department will host a reception for graduating seniors and their families on Sunday\, June 14\, from 11 a.m. to noon in the History Conference Room\, HSSB 4020. The commencement ceremony will begin at 1 p.m. on the Faculty Club Green.\nOf the 187 students receiving degrees this year\, 40 completed their coursework at the end of Fall and Winter quarters and another 39 will finish after taking their last courses this Summer. \nThe total also includes students graduating with degrees in History of Public Policy and Medieval Studies. \nLeading this year’s class are 10 students who received Distinction in the Major for completing the Senior Honors seminar. They are Katyn Evenson\, Allison Fischer\, Michael Hale\, Mathew Hamula\, Risa Katzen\, Christopher Kindell\, Damien Mimnaugh\, Adrienne Minor\, Craig Nelson and Celine Purcell. \nSix History majors were among 119 students campuswide to be selected for Phi Beta Kappa\, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor society. They are Alexandra Fish\, Michael Hale\, Mathew Hamula\, Ethan Hartsell\, Avian Johnson and Damien Mimnaugh. \nhm 5/26/09\, 6/4/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/reception-for-graduating-seniors/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090622T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090622T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112807Z UID:10001581-1245628800-1245628800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Summer Session A Instruction Begins DESCRIPTION:UCSB’s Summer Session A classes begin today. \nhm 6/19/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/summer-session-a-instruction-begins/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090625T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090625T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112807Z UID:10001704-1245888000-1245888000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Launch of New Public History Website DESCRIPTION:All students\, faculty and members of the public at large with an interest in UCSB’s public history program\, please stop by HSSB 4020 to see Julia Brock & Mira Foster’s presentation of the PHS website & join in general end-of-academic year\, start-of-summer conviviality. We have one more new Doctor — Bonnie Harris — to toast\, too. \nhm 6/25/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/launch-of-new-public-history-website/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090731T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090731T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112808Z UID:10001706-1248998400-1248998400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Summer Session A Instruction Ends DESCRIPTION:Click the link below for the calendar for all Summer sessions. \nhm 6/24/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/summer-session-a-instruction-ends/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090803T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090803T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112808Z UID:10001708-1249257600-1249257600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Summer Session B Instruction Begins DESCRIPTION:Click the link below for a schedule of all Summer sessions. \nhm 6/24/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/summer-session-b-instruction-begins/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090911T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090911T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112808Z UID:10001711-1252627200-1252627200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Summer Session B Instruction Ends DESCRIPTION:Click the link below for the full schedule of all Summer sessions. \nhm 6/24/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/summer-session-b-instruction-ends/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090919T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090919T000000 DTSTAMP:20260602T062807 CREATED:20150928T112809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112809Z UID:10001722-1253318400-1253318400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Exhibition: Ancient China DESCRIPTION:Noble Tombs at Mawangdui: Art and Life in the Changsha Kingdom\, China (3rd Century BCE – 1st Century CE)\nMore than 2\,000 years ago\, a Chinese marquis and his family began their plans for the afterlife with three lavish tombs in Hunan Province which were excavated in the 1970s. For the first time in the U.S.\, their extraordinary existence will come to life in this exhibition. Nearly 70 treasures including lacquer ware\, wood carvings\, jade ornaments\, bronze sculptures\, seals\, and silk costumes and textiles from the Hunan Provincial Museum will be on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art after an exhibition at the China Institute in New York City earlier this year. \nThe excavation at Mawangdui in southeastern China is considered one of the major archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. Containing the remains and possessions of the Marquis of Dai and his wife and son\, the tombs were found between 1972 and 1974 in the archaeological site of Mawangdui\, which is located in a suburb of the modern city of Changsha\, Hunan Province. More than 3\,000 objects from the Western Han dynasty (206 BCE to 25 CE) were found in extraordinary condition representing the highest levels of workmanship. The tomb that housed the wares most represented in the exhibition\, also held the remarkably well-preserved body of the noblewoman of the family\, known affectionately as “Lady Dai”. “People during the Han dynasty regarded death as birth and longed for immortality\,” notes Willow Hai Chang\, Director\, China Institute Gallery. “To prepare for the afterlife\, they constructed their tombs to be eternal residences. As a result of this landmark excavation\, we now have a rare window into the fascinating Han civilization through these remarkable objects of the highest artistry.” \nThe extraordinary significance of this assemblage is not only apparent in the variety and quality of objects\, but also the time period and place from whence these artifacts originated. The Changsha Kingdom was heir to the Chu culture in southeastern China. It played a significant role in the cultural formation of the Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE)\, a defining period in Chinese history that shaped the artistic\, intellectual\, political\, religious\, and social foundations of Chinese civilization. The objects preserved in the Mawangdui tombs give a visual dimension to early Han dynasty beliefs\, design\, and technology\, while the body of material culture challenges us to re-evaluate our current understanding of early China. \nThe above text is excerpted from the full exhibition description.\nFor more information visit the Santa Barbara Museum of Art web site\, or call the Museum at 805.963.4364. \njwil 28.ix.2009\, hm 10/3/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/exhibition-ancient-china/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR