The Museum of Methodology and the Criminalization of Culture, Rio c. 1938 (Amy Buono, UCSB/UERJ)
2018-03-07 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Engineering Science Building 1001, University of California Santa Barbara, Lagoon Rd, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Please join us for the next meeting of the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Amy Buono, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at UCSB and Researcher at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, who will be presenting a paper entitled “The Museum of Methodology and the Criminizalization of Culture, Rio c. 1938”.
The talk will be held at 5pm on Wednesday, March 7th, in the Engineering Science Building 1001, and will be followed by a small reception.
Abstract: The Civil Police Museum of Rio de Janeiro, established within the Police Academy in 1912, went by many names: it was also known as the “Museum of Crime” and, tellingly, the “Museum of Methodology.” This lecture examines the museum, its collections, and the role of objects and visual culture in building a civic culture that linked collecting and seeing with police training. By 1938, the Civil Police Museum became Brazil’s earliest institutional collection of Afro-Brazilian heritage, one eventually under the domain of IPHAN. This talk explores the contradictory ways a particular collection within a collection, the inner “Museum of Black Magic,” was understood and preserved in the period, highlighting how police violence and museum preservation are intertwined.
About the Speaker: Amy Buono is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and affiliated as a Researcher at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Her scholarship centers on materiality, memory, and museums, with a special focus on Brazil and the Atlantic world. Amy’s is the author of the forthcoming book Tupinambá Feathercraft in the Brazilian Atlantic (University of Pennsylvania Press). Her current book project centers on race, pedagogy, and the visuality of crime in the Civil Police Museum of Rio de Janeiro.

5th Annual Van Gelderen Lecture: Ships and Saints: Mapping the World of Athanasius of Alexandra, Chris Nofziger
2018-03-11 14:00 - 16:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us for this year’s Van Gelderen Lecture, which will feature Chris Nofziger. Chris is currently an advanced PhD candidate in Roman history under the the direction of Beth Digeser. He will be presenting his work on Athanasius of Alexandria, bishop of Alexandria from 328 to 373 CE. Athanasius was sent into exile five times by four different emperors during his forty-four year career. His bombastic rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and penchant for political troublemaking earned him followers who were fervent and enemies who were dangerous, not the least of whom was the son of Constantine, Constantius II. One can see many things in the writings of Athanasius: the image of a saint, a gangster, or simply an adherent of one kind of Christianity struggling with ideas of belonging and otherness against the backdrop of imperial pressure toward the achievement of a single monolithic Christianity. Regardless of how one interprets his legacy, Athanasius’s stories proved astonishingly resilient and continued to haunt Christians’ ideas of orthodoxy and their sense of history for millennia. New interdisciplinary and digital tools allow us to explore the other stories behind the persistence of Athanasius’s works and tell a different story of early Christianity: a story told from the shores of Alexandria where waves, wind, topography, and a network that stretched from Indian to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea all play a role in the tale.
Admission $5 for members and guests; $7 for non-members; free for students. Please call (805) 300 4016 to reserve seats by March 9.

Talk by Deborah Coen (Yale), "Climate Science in the Age of Empire"
2018-03-13 16:00 - 18:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

45th ANNUAL MEETING of the PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES
2018-03-23 12:00 - 2018-03-25 12:30 | HSSB Multiple Rooms, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States

Prof. Susanna Elm: Eutropius the Consul: Power, Ugliness & Imperial Representation in Late Antiquity
2018-04-02 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States

POSTPONED — Ada Ferrer, NYU: "Visionary Aponte: History, Art, and Black Freedom"
2018-04-04 17:00 - 18:30 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
Professor Ada Ferrer’s talk at the Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History has unfortunately been cancelled.

Critical Issues in America Event: Julie Chávez Rodríguez
2018-04-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Multicultural Center (MCC) Theater, Multicultural Center, Isla Vista, CA, 93117, United States
Julie Chávez Rodríguez

Dr. Jessica Wright, "Preaching Phrenitis: The Medicalization of Religious Deviance in Early Christianity"
2018-04-12 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States

Center for Cold War Studies and International History 2018 Graduate Student Symposium
2018-04-13 09:00 - 16:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
This symposium is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History and co-sponsored by the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara in order to showcase the new and exciting work being done by UCSB graduate students on Cold War and related international history topics. The CCWS is a project of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the History Department.
Please find the program here, and find out more about the CCWS here.

Talk by Professor Emeritus Hal Drake on "A Century of Miracles"
2018-04-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library,, 2201 Laguna Street, Santa Barbara, United States
Professor Drake will be discussing his latest book, A Century of Miracles: Christians, Pagans, Jews, and the Supernatural, 312-410. The book offers a fresh examination of a complex polytheistic period in Roman history, surveying a wide range of faiths and belief systems during this eventful century. It offers a thoroughly researched assessment of the supernatural and its sociological and cultural effects on history down to the present. Anyone engaged in religious discourse will find the analysis especially illuminating.

Transregional Connections: Architectural Monuments and the Construction of Early Modern Empires: Gulru Necipoglu
2018-04-17 16:00 - 18:00
Transregional Connections:
Architectural Monuments and the Construction of Early Modern Islamic Empires
The Center for Middle East Studies at UCSB presents
Tuesday, April 17th, 4:00pm, HSSB 6020
Gülru Necipoğlu (Harvard University)
Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Focusing on the 16th and 17th centuries, this lecture presents comparative reflections on the architectural cultures of the Mediterranean-based Ottomans, the Safavids in Iran, and the Mughals in the Indian subcontinent, with an aim to highlight transregional interactions and intercrossings. From such a perspective, the tri-continental landmass dominated by these three early modern empires can be conceptualized asan interconnected contact zone. Th e premise of the lecture is that in the realm of architectural culture, the physical, mental, and social spaces interrelate and overlap with one another. Th e intimate connection between empire building and architectural construction is exemplified by the differing socio-religious and palatial building types favored in each of the three centralizing empires as expressions of distinctive theories of dynastic legitimacy. By emphasizing the deliberateness of these choices, the lecture challenges prevailing assumptions about an unmediated and self-propelled evolution of regional architectural and ornamental forms in the early modern era.

International Conference, "Ancient China in a Eurasian Context"
2018-04-20 09:00 - 2018-04-21 13:00 | SSMS 2135, Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us for our international conference from April 20-21 at UCSB (SSMS 2135), “Ancient China in a Eurasian Context!”
The goal of our conference is to place the history and archaeology of early China in a Eurasian context, through papers that either address “connections” across Eurasia, or “comparisons” between China and other cultures in West Asia and Europe.
Highlights include a keynote by Jessica Rawson of Oxford on the role of the steppe in the rise of the Qin Empire, a second-day address by Duan Qingbo, the archaeologist of the First Emperor’s mausoleum near Xi’an, and Peter S. Wells, one of the leading pre-historians of Europe.
All are welcome to join and this event is free and open to the public.
Download the program HERE.

Rosie Bermudez, Chican@ Studies, UC Santa Barbara. "Economic Justice is a Women's Issue: The Chicana Welfare Rights Organization's Challenge to Welfare Reform in the 1970s."
2018-04-20 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Rosie Cano Bermudez is a doctoral candidate in the department of Chicana and Chicano studies at UC Santa Barbara. Her dissertation “Doing Dignity Work: Alicia Escalante and the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization, 1967-1974,” focuses on the human dignity struggles waged by single Chicana welfare mothers in East Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s at the confluence of multiple social movements. Her research interests are centered on the histories of Chicana and Mexican American women’s activism, identity, and feminisms during the second half of the Twentieth century in Los Angeles. She is currently a Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Fellow and Ford Fellow at UC Santa Barbara.
Her chapter for discussion can found here.
A light lunch will be served.

Critical Issues in America presents Prof. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, "Citizenship's Insular Cases"
2018-04-23 16:00 - 18:00 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

Ian Coller - "The French Revolution and the Rights of Muslims" Monday, April 23rd at 5:00pm in the UCEN Flying A Studio
2018-04-23 17:00 - 18:30 | UCEN Flying A Studio, United States
The French Revolution and the Rights of Muslims
Ian Coller, University of California, Irvine
On 24 December 1789, a deputy named François de Hell proposed to the National Assembly an explicit decree that would allow Muslims to enjoy “all the rights, honors and advantages enjoyed by French citizens.”Coller Flyer
Some historians have read this proposition as no more than a feint to appear universalist while seeking to exclude other religious minorities—and Jews in particular— from the enjoyment of equal rights. On the assumption that there were no Muslims in France in this period, they concluded that such a proposal could have no independent content.
This paper will suggest that the question of Muslim rights was both substantive and significant in terms of the direction of the Revolution. It responded to a longer tradition of reciprocal rights guaranteed by treaties between France and the Ottoman Empire. Already during the 1770s and 1780s Muslims in France were beginning to assert these rights. Yet the rights they claimed were not equal rights as citizens, but differentiated rights as subjects.
In this sense, then, rather than an empty gesture of universalism, Hell’s proposal was in fact a concrete attempt to institute unequal rights. By offering Muslims equivalent rights, but as Muslims, rather than as citizens, Hell was drawing on the existing precedents to establish differentiated categories—which could offer Jews “rights” as second-class citizens.
Instead, the Assembly voted to abolish the impediments to non-Catholic participation, while retaining the temporary suspension of a decision regarding Jews. In September 1791, when the disqualification of Jews was fully lifted, the precedent of Muslims was cited in support. In the years that followed, this conception of Muslims as citizens would become a key contention of those claiming the Revolution was an affront against Christianity and the Church. It would also set the scene for further struggles over just what role Muslims might play in the Revolution.

Talk on the 1968 Student Massacre in Mexico City: the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Polytechnic "Brigadistas" in the 1968 Student Movement
2018-04-25 12:00 - 13:30 | Multicultural Center (MCC) Theater, Multicultural Center, Isla Vista, CA, 93117, United States
In 1968, hundreds of students were killed by the Mexican military and police for organizing student protests against government repression. On the fiftieth anniversary of this massacre, activists/survivors Gabriel Vega, Felipe Galvan, and Jesus Gutierrez will reflect on the meaning of student activism, memory, and social justice in times of repression. See the flyer for the event here.

Humanities in Prison (Critical Issues in America Co-Sponsored Event)
2018-04-26 09:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

Nate Citino, History, Rice University, "Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S.-Arab Relations, 1945-1967."
2018-04-27 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Citino discusses his most recent book, Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S. – Arab Relations, 1945-1967 (2017). He is also the author of From Arab Nationalism to OPEC: Eisenhower, King Sa’ud, and the making of U.S. – Saudi Relations (2002). Co-Sponsored with the Blum Center for Global Poverty Allevation and Sustainable Development. A chapter from his recent book can be found here.
A light lunch will be served.

Dr. Nancy Winter, "Traders & Refugees: Contributions to Etruscan Architecture"
2018-04-30 12:00 - 13:30 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States

Spanish Colonialism and the Origins of Microeconomics, a talk by Patricia Seed
2018-05-02 17:00 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us for the next meeting of the History Department’s Colloquium on Latin American and Caribbean History as we welcome Dr. Patricia Seed (UC Irvine), who will be presenting a paper entitled “Spanish Colonialism and the Origins of Microeconomics”.
The talk will be held at 5pm on Wednesday, May 2nd in HSSB 4020, and will be followed by a small reception.
Spanish Colonialism and the Origins of Microeconomics. For those wondering what Spanish colonialism has to do with the origins of modern microeconomics, the answer is everything. This talk will take you through the canon law of the School of Salamanca, the turbulent history of the unique Latin American institution of the encomienda, and Islamic traditions of property, only to see how it all came together in modern microeconomics.
Patricia Seed is History Professor at UC Irvine and the author of several award-winning books, including: The American Pentimento: The Pursuit of Riches and the Invention of “Indians” (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), winner of the 2003 Prize in Atlantic History; Ceremonies of Possession in Europe’s Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640 (Cambridge University Press, 1995; Portuguese edition, 2000) (ACLS E-selection); To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico: Conflicts Over Marriage Choice, 1574-1821 (Stanford University Press, 1988; Spanish edition, 1992), winner of the Bolton Prize and serialized in La Jornada (Mexico City). She is also the editor of José Limón and La Malinche: The Dancer and the Dance (The University of Texas Press, 2007).

We hope to see many of you there!

Book Launch and Talk: Market Encounters: Consumer Cultures in Twentieth-Century Ghana, by Bianca Murillo (CSU Dominguez Hills)
2018-05-03 17:00 - 18:30 | buchanan 1940, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, 93106, United States
Dr. Murillo, who received her Ph.D in African history from UCSB in 2009, will be discussing her new book on twentieth century Ghana. Market Encounters, which was published as a part of Ohio University Press’s series New African Histories, explores the shifting social terrains that made the buying and selling of goods in modern Ghana possible. Fusing economic and business history with social and cultural history, she traces the evolution of consumerism in the colonial Gold Coast and independent Ghana from the late nineteenth century through to the political turmoil of the 1970s.
This talk is co-sponsored by the African Studies Research Focus Group.

UCSB History Associates
2018-05-07 11:27

Trinity Episcopal Church, Guild Hall
2018-05-07 11:27

Unnamed Venue
2018-05-07 11:27
