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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20110313T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20111106T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100304T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100304T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112813Z UID:10001771-1267660800-1267660800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Statewide Day of Action about Education Funding Crisis DESCRIPTION:March 4 has been declared “Day of Action” to protest the ongoing de-funding of public education and the rest of the public sector. Local actions will acquaint the public with the seriousness of the situation. Two years ago the California state education budget was $102 billion dollars. This year it is $84 billion. Two years ago California was already 47th in the nation in per pupil funding\, and we are undoubtedly further down the list now.\nThese cuts mean layoffs of certificated and classified school employees in K12 and community colleges\, furloughed faculty and staff in UC and CSU\, and loss of access to a quality education for millions of Californians.\nFor more information\, see this History Department News item: “News & Analysis about the UC Budget crisis.” \nMarch 4th Schedule (updated 2/27/10) \nMarch 4th Schedule of Events: \n7:30-9:30am- Bagel breakfast in the Arbor with rally info and social. Hosted by CUE (Coalition of University Employees).\n12pm- Rally and press conference in the Arbor with students\, workers\, faculty\, staff\, and local politicians speaking.\n1:00-3:04pm- Carpools/busses from NH bus loop to downtown.\n1:30pm- Critical bike mass begins at Pardall Tunnel (bike downtown)\n3:45pm- Gather to march on State Street with SB Teachers Association\, UCSB folks\, community members\, and parents.\nDemand Sacramento to invest in public education!! \nThe March on state street begins in De La Guerra Plaza\, and goes to the courthouse.\nPeople can down to State Street from on campus through either\n1. carpool\n2. the bus service (24x and 11)\n3. Biking to state street\n4. we’re trying to get funding to reserve buses to take extra students downtown. \nUCSB Humanities and Fine Arts\, and Social Sciences Department Chairs have signed the following letter of support: \nWe\, as Department Chairs in the Social Sciences and Humanities and Fine\nArts at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, endorse the statewide\nDay of Education on March 4\, 2010. We support the efforts\, organized by\nrepresentatives of the entire educational community–administrators\,\nteachers\, staff\, students\, alumni\, and concerned parents and students of\nthe UC\, CSU\, CC and K-12 systems–to demonstrate the need for a renewed\ncommitment to public education. As UC faculty\, we struggle with increased\nworkloads and reduced pay. We see austere student fee hikes\, overcrowded\nclasses\, graduate students squeezed\, overworked and demoralized staff\,\nworker layoffs\, shrinking departmental and curriculum budgets\, and eroding\nfunding to student services. How long can the UC maintain itself as a top\nquality\, Tier I research university? Meanwhile\, K-12 schools face severe\nbudget cuts and curricular pressures created by the demands for\nstandardized testing\, a situation of concern to us since the products of\nthe K-12 system become our students and the country’s future citizenry.\nIt’s time to stop and reverse this steady defunding and degradation of our\neducational system and to defend a first-rate public education. \nWe urge you to support our students’ organizing efforts in support of the\nstatewide March on Sacramento on Thursday\, March 4. \nSigned:\nDepartment Chairs\, Humanities and Fine Arts and Social Science\, UCSB \nDiane Fujino\, Chair\, Asian American Studies\nEileen Boris\, Chair\, Feminist Studies\nFrancisco Lomeli\, Chair\, Spanish and Portuguese\nPatricia Clancy\, Chair\, Linguistics\nUlrich Keller\, Chair\, History of Art and Architecture\nHoward Winant\, Chair\, Law and Society program\nVerta Taylor\, Chair\, Sociology\nSimon Williams\, Chair\, Theater and Dance\nElisabeth Saatjian Weber\, Chair\, German\, Slavic and Semitic Studies and Comparative Literature\nLisa Parks\, Chair\, Film and Media Studies\nJon Snyder\, Chair\, French and Italian\nJeffrey Stewart\, Chair\, Black Studies\nColin Gardner\, Chair\, Art\nFrancis Dunn\, Chair\, Classics\nBill Powell\, Chair\, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies\nAlan Liu\, Chair\, English\nAnn Bermingham\, Director\, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\nMichael Stohl\, Chair\, Communication\nJohn Majewski\, Chair\, History\nAida Hurtado\, Chair\, Chicana and Chicano Studies\nKatharina Schreiber\, Chair\, Anthropology\nGiles Gunn\, Chair\, Global and International Studies\nJohn Woolley\, Chair\, Political Science\nMatthew Turk\, Chair\, Media Arts and Technology\nPaul Berkowitz\, Chair\, Music \nThe state branch of the national organization BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) is circulating a petition with the following call: \nSHUT DOWN CALIFORNIA ON MARCH 4TH!\nHELP ORGANIZE THE BOYCOTT OF ALL SCHOOLS!\n \n*No more fee hikes\, program\, faculty or staff cuts in higher education\n*A Massive Increase in federal funding for public higher education\n*Defend public education from K thru 12\n*Pass the Dream Act Now! Create Campus based Dream Scholarships to provide financial aid for undocumented students\n*Stop the resegregation of higher education. Increase underrepresented minority student enrollment – Restore affirmative action now\, no more separate and unequal! \n*No more second class treatment of Latina/o students and students with and without papers – Make UCLA a sanctuary campus!\n*Build the new civil rights and student movement! \nhm 1/5/10; 2/3\, 2/23\, 2/25\, 2/27 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/statewide-day-of-action-about-education-funding-crisis/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100304T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100304T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112815Z UID:10001798-1267660800-1267660800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:How Southern Backwardness Made Wal-Mart Executives Love High Tech and Low Wages DESCRIPTION:Sam Walton founded Ozark-based Wal-Mart and made it a distinctively productive corporation in the decades immediately following World War II. The key to success was a rationalization of the firm’s chaotic and expensive supply chain and the efficient employment of thousands of poorly-educated refugees from the agricultural revolution then sweeping the old Southwest. Bar codes\, scanners\, satellite uplinks\, computerized cash registers\, and giant data warehouses proved some of the digital resources that Walton deployed to transform a regional chain of five and dime stores into an internationally pervasive big box phenomenon.\nNelson Lichtenstein directs the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy at UCSB. He is now writing a history of how U.S. intellectuals have thought about capitalism since the end of the Civil War. \nFor additional information or questions visit cits.ucsb.edu/event/fls-nelson-lichtenstein or contact Melissa Bator at mjb@cits.ucsb.edu or 893-5910. \nhm 2/24/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/how-southern-backwardness-made-wal-mart-executives-love-high-tech-and-low-wages/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100304T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100304T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112815Z UID:10001649-1267660800-1267660800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:What's Wrong with the One-State Solution: Why Ending the Occupation and Peace with Israel is Still the Palestinian National Goal DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Hussein Ibish examines the arguments put forward by Palestinian and Arab-American proponents of abandoning the goal of ending the occupation and establishing a Palestinian state and instead seeking to promote a single\, democratic state in all of Mandate Palestine. Dr. Ibish argues that ending the occupation and peace with Israel\, while difficult to achieve and thus far elusive\, are the only plausible and practicable Palestinian national strategy.\nHussein Ibish is a Senior Fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) and Executive Director of the Hala Salaam Maksoud Foundation for Arab-American Leadership. Dr. Ibish has made thousands of radio and television appearances and has written for many newspapers\, including the Los Angeles Times\, the Washington Post\, and the Chicago Tribune. He was the Washington\, DC Correspondent for the Daily Star (Beirut). Dr. Ibish is editor and principal author of three major studies of hate crimes and discrimination against Arab Americans and the author of numerous articles on Middle Eastern politics\, U.S. policy\, civil liberties\, and Arab-American life. His most recent book is What’s Wrong with the One-State Agenda? Why Ending the Occupation and Peace with Israel is Still the Palestinian National Goal (ATFP\, 2009). \njwil 22.ii.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/whats-wrong-with-the-one-state-solution-why-ending-the-occupation-and-peace-with-israel-is-still-the-palestinian-national-goal/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100305T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100305T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112814Z UID:10001797-1267747200-1267747200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Neither Priests nor Consuls: Authors and Authority in Roman Prose (1st cent. BC) DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Department of Classics. \njwil 16.ii.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/neither-priests-nor-consuls-authors-and-authority-in-roman-prose-1st-cent-bc/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100305T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100305T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112815Z UID:10001800-1267747200-1267747200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Empire of Cotton: A Global History DESCRIPTION:This lecture is part of the Colloquium on Work\, Labor\, and Political Economy series.\nSven Beckert is the author of The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie (2001). He organizes the biannual History of Capitalism Conferences hosted by the Department of History at Harvard University. \nA copy of Beckert’s path breaking 2004 AHR essay\, “Emancipation and Empire: Reconstructing the Worldwide Web of Cotton Production in the Age of the American Civil War” will shortly be posted on the web site of the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. \nAs usual\, a light lunch will be served \nNelson Lichtenstein\nDirector\, Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy \nhm 2/28/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-empire-of-cotton-a-global-history/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100307T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100307T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112813Z UID:10001773-1267920000-1267920000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Victory Gardens: Join the Garden Revolution! DESCRIPTION:With interest in home gardens at the highest it has been in decades (even the White House has one)\, this event will take us back to another time when national interest was focused on household agriculture—the Victory Gardens of World War II. Our own Rose Hayden-Smith will talk about current national policy and models and the way the local food-systems movement is addressing a wide range of challenges facing Americans today. The program will include a tour of historic Stow House and its beautiful gardens and a wine-and-cheese reception following the talk.\nThe talk will be held on Sunday\, March 7\, starting at 2:30 p.m. at the History Education Center of the Goleta Valley Historical Society\, 304 N. Los Carneros Road\, Goleta\, CA 93117. \nDirections: Exit Highway 101 at Los Carneros Rd and head toward the mountains. After Calle Real\, the Goleta Valley Historical Society/Stow House is on the right. Park in the South Coast Railroad Museum (Goleta Depot) lot. The newly restored History Education Center is the old barn in the farm yard behind Stow House. \nRose Hayden-Smith is a PhD candidate in the History Department and a national Kellogg Foundation Fellow. She is a nationally recognized expert on the topic of Victory Gardens and food policy in America\, and blogs for the Huffington Post\, Civil Eats\, and UC’s Victory Grower web site. \nThis talk is sponsored by the UCSB History Associates. \njwil 08.ii.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/victory-gardens-join-the-garden-revolution/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100308T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100308T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112814Z UID:10001632-1268006400-1268006400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Barbarian 'Modernity' and the Endurance of Romanitas: Some Continuity Issues Revisited DESCRIPTION:Philip Rousseau is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Early Christian Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Early Christianity at The Catholic University of America.\nSponsored by the IHC Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and the Mediterranean Studies program. \njwil 16.ii.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/barbarian-modernity-and-the-endurance-of-romanitas-some-continuity-issues-revisited/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100309T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100309T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112809Z UID:10001719-1268092800-1268092800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Reconstructing and Field Testing Ancient Greek Linen Body Armor: The UWGB Linothorax Project DESCRIPTION:For nearly 1\,000 years\, one of the most common forms of protection used by ancient Mediterranean warriors\, including the armies of the Greeks and Alexander the Great\, was the linothorax\, a type of body armor apparently made out of linen. Due to the perishable nature of its material\, however\, no examples have survived; today it is poorly understood\, and is known only through fragmentary descriptions in literature and from images on pottery and in sculpture. Employing only the materials and techniques that would have been available to the ancient Greeks\, the UWGB (University of Wisconsin\, Green Bay) Linothorax Project is investigating this mysterious armor by reconstructing and wearing examples of the linothorax\, as well as subjecting test samples to attack with ancient weapons in order to determine the characteristics and protective qualities of this type of armor. This presentation will not only describe the project’s findings\, but will also display a reconstructed linothorax and test samples for the audience’s examination.\nGregory S. Aldrete is Professor of History and Humanistic Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay. His areas of specialization include the city of Rome\, daily life in the Roman world\, floods and their effect\, military history\, Roman rhetoric and oratory\, and non-verbal communication. He holds degrees from Princeton (A.B.)and the University of Michigan (M.A. and Ph.D.)\, and has published a number of books and articles on his Roman research. He has received various awards for scholarship and teaching excellence\, and has most recently been awarded a grant towards his Linothorax Project. \nThis is the annual Sandra Church Lecture\, sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. \nFor more information\, please call (805) 893-3556. \njwil 08.ix.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/reconstructing-and-field-testing-ancient-greek-linen-body-armor-the-uwgb-linothorax-project/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100309T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100309T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112815Z UID:10001802-1268092800-1268092800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia DESCRIPTION:Drawn from Prof. Vladislav Zubok’s new book of the same title (Harvard University Press\, 2009)\, this talk examines one of the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history: the the story of the Russian intelligentsia after Stalin. In pursuing the dream of a civil\, democratic\, socialist society\, Russian intellectuals\, writers\, and artists contributed to the political disintegration of the communist regime. This highly educated and idealistic elite played a unique role in galvanizing their country to strive toward a greater freedom. Like their contemporaries in the United States\, France\, and Germany\, members of the Russian intelligentsia had a profound effect during the 1960s\, sounding a call for reform\, equality\, and human rights that echoed beyond their time and place. \nVladislav Zubok is Professor of History at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is the author of numerous articles and several books\, including the two prize-winning books INSIDE THE KREMLIN’S COLD WAR: FROM STALIN TO KHRUSHCHEV with C. Pleshakov (Harvard University Press\, 1996) and A FAILED EMPIRE: THE SOVIET UNION IN THE COLD WAR FROM STALIN TO GORBACHEV (University of North Carolina Press\, 2007). He is a Fellow of the National Security Archive and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and has served as a consultant to CNN. Prof. Zubok’s most recent book is ZHIVAGO’S CHILDREN: THE LAST RUSSIAN INTELLIGENTSIA (Harvard University Press\, 2009). \nhm 3/1/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/zhivagos-children-the-last-russian-intelligentsia/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100312T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100312T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112814Z UID:10001636-1268352000-1268352000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Last day of Winter quarter instruction DESCRIPTION:For detailed academic calendar information\, see:\nhttp://www.registrar.ucsb.edu/calinfo.htm. \nhm 2/22/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/last-day-of-winter-quarter-instruction/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100323T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100323T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112815Z UID:10001639-1269302400-1269302400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Winter quarter grades reported by midnight DESCRIPTION:For detailed academic calendar information\, see:\nhttp://www.registrar.ucsb.edu/calinfo.htm. \nhm 2/22/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/winter-quarter-grades-reported-by-midnight/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100329T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100329T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112814Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112814Z UID:10001637-1269820800-1269820800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Start of Spring quarter instruction DESCRIPTION:For detailed academic calendar information\, see:\nhttp://www.registrar.ucsb.edu/calinfo.htm. \nhm 2/22/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/start-of-spring-quarter-instruction/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100402T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100402T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112815Z UID:10001806-1270166400-1270166400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: The way Greek artists portrayed their culture's homoerotic customs DESCRIPTION:jwil 29.iii.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/images-of-ancient-greek-pederasty-the-way-greek-artists-portrayed-their-cultures-homoerotic-customs/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100406T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100406T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112815Z UID:10001812-1270512000-1270512000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"From Watts to Dakar: A View of African American Culture in Los Angeles and Beyond" DESCRIPTION:The Center for Black Studies Research invites you to the eighth annual Shirley Kennedy Memorial Lecture\nWHO: Jayne Cortez\, award-winning poet\, musical performer\, filmmaker\, and social activist\nWHAT: “From Watts to Dakar: A View of African American Culture in Los Angeles and Beyond”\nWHEN: Tuesday\, April 6\, 2010\, 4:00 p.m.\nWHERE: UCSB MultiCultural Center Theater\nCOST: FREE \nWe are excited to welcome poet\, musical performer\, filmmaker\, and social\nactivist Jayne Cortez to the MCC Theater for the premier Black Studies\nevent on our campus. Ms. Cortez\, who divides her time between New York City\nand Dakar\, Senegal\, won the 1980 American Book Award for “Mouth on Paper.” \nWe hope you’ll join us at this year’s Shirley Kennedy Memorial Lecture.\n===================================================================\nAbout Jayne Cortez \nPoet Maya Angelou has said of Ms. Cortez that she “has been and continues\nto be an explorer\, probing the valleys and chasms of human existence. No\nravine is too perilous\, no abyss too threatening for Jayne Cortez.” Ms.\nCortez – whose career has encompassed writing\, performing\, and teaching –\nis the author of twelve books of poetry and has performed her poems with\nmusic on nine recordings. Her voice is celebrated for its political\,\nsurrealistic\, dynamic innovations in lyricism\, and for its visceral sound –\n“Jayne Cortez’s poems are filled with images that most of us are afraid to\nsee\,” according to novelist Walter Mosley. Ms. Cortez’s poems have been\ntranslated into many languages and widely published in anthologies\,\njournals\, and magazines. She is the recipient of numerous awards\,\nincluding: Arts International\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the\nInternational African Festival Award\, the Langston Hughes Medal\, and the M.\nThelma McAndless Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities at Eastern\nMichigan University. Her most recent books are The Beautiful Book (Bola\nPress\, 2007)\, On The Imperial Highway (Hanging Loose Press\, 2009)\, and Jazz\nFan Looks Back (Hanging Loose Press\, 2002). Her latest CDs with the\nFirespitters are Find Your Own Voice and Borders of Disorderly Time (Bola\nPress)\, and Taking the Blues Back Home (Harmolodic/Verve). Cortez also\ndirected the documentary films Slave Routes: Resistance\, Abolition &\nCreative Progress (2009)\, Yari Yari Pamberi: Black Women Writers Dissecting\nGlobalization (2007)\, and Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future\n(1998). She is co-founder and president of the Organization of Women\nWriters of Africa\, Inc. and can be seen onscreen in the films Women In Jazz\nand Poetry In Motion. \nThe Shirley Kennedy Memorial Lecture is the premier Black Studies event on\nour campus. Dr. Shirley Kennedy was a social justice activist in Santa\nBarbara\, a faculty member in UCSB’s Black Studies Department\, and the\ncommunity affairs coordinator in the Center for Black Studies Research.\nThis lecture series honors her memory as one who merged academia and\ncommunity service in her life and work. Past speakers have included Robert\nBullard\, Lani Guinier\, Manning Marable\, and Beverly Tatum. \nThe Center for Black Studies Research gratefully acknowledges our\nco-sponsors for this event: American Cultures & Global Contexts Center\,\nAsian American Studies\, Black Studies\, Chicano Studies Institute\, Chicano/a\nStudies\, College of Creative Studies\, Feminist Studies\, Film and Media\nStudies\, Global & International Studies\, Interdisciplinary Humanities\nCenter\, Luis Leal Endowed Chair\, Mbanefo Foundation\, MultiCultural Center\,\nNew Racial Studies\, Office of Equal Opportunity & Sexual Harassment\, Office\nof the Chancellor\, Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Office of\nthe Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Equity and Academic Policy. \nhm 3/30/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/from-watts-to-dakar-a-view-of-african-american-culture-in-los-angeles-and-beyond/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100410T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100410T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112815Z UID:10001809-1270857600-1270857600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Spring Insight Open House for prospective freshmen and transfers DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, April 10\, 2010\, the History Department’s Table at the Academic Fair will offer friendly advice and information about the History major at UCSB.\nWhy study history at UCSB instead of at another UC campus? Besides the obvious advantages of our climate and location\, UCSB’s History program offers a broad array of courses from all eras and most geographical regions. \nSome of our special strengths are visible in the Affiliated Programs section at the bottom of our homepage (scroll down\, list on the right): Borderlands\, Cold War and International Relations\, Gender Studies\, Labor Studies\, Medieval\, and Middle East. \nThe History of Public Policy\, in which we offer a separate major (requirements page)\, and the History of Science\, Technology\, Environment and Medicine (HOS field page) are also specialties. \nClick on the FIELDS (here or in the menu bar above) for a list of possible concentrations. \nThe course requirements for the major are listed on our Undergrad Program page. In short\, they are:\n1. Two 3-quarter course sequences (3+3=6 courses)\, chosen from World History\, Western Civilization\, and US History;\n2. Two lower division elective courses (freshman/sophomore level\, no prerequisites; numbered 1-99);\n3. Ten upper division (numbered 100-199) courses\, at least one of which is a seminar (P or DR after course number). \nIn the case of double majors with other programs or departments (Global Studies\, Political Science\, for example)\, up to two courses from one dept. can be used to fulfill requirements in the other. \nFor a History Minor: 3 lower division and 5 upper division courses are the required minimum. \nA special feature of this website allows you to view course syllabi of current and past courses\, to find out the requirements (readings\, papers\, exams) and daily topics of most courses. Click the COURSES link in the menu bar above. You can see additional quarters from a drop-down menu there. \nFor more information on the open house\, see the:\nOfficial UCSB 2010 Spring Insight homepage with a schedule of events and maps. \nWe look forward to seeing you there! \nSincerely\,\nThe UCSB History Department Faculty\, Staff and Students \nPS. You might be interested in this History Department News item about the history of Santa Barbara\, and perusing the News on our homepage will give you an impression of some of the . \nhm 3/30/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/spring-insight-open-house-for-prospective-freshmen-and-transfers/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100414T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100414T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112813Z UID:10001779-1271203200-1271203200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants\, National Projects and the Making of the Pill DESCRIPTION:Prof. Soto Laveaga will be lecturing on her book about the origins of the birth control pill in rural Mexico. \nhm 3/31/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/jungle-laboratories-mexican-peasants-national-projects-and-the-making-of-the-pill/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100415T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100415T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112813Z UID:10001783-1271289600-1271289600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Politics and the Chinese Language DESCRIPTION:What distinguishes political language from daily-life language in thePeople’s Republic of China? In what ways have different sorts of\npeople (officials\, protesters\, ordinary folk) used or responded to the\nofficial language? Ludwig Wittgenstein used the term “language game”\n(Sprachspiel) to understand how people get through life using words.\nCan this notion help us understand official language use in China?\nProfessor Link will investigate and answer these important and\nfascinating questions. \nhm 4/8/10\, 4/9 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/politics-and-the-chinese-language/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100415T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100415T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112816Z UID:10001818-1271289600-1271289600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Time's Witnesses: Narratives from Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen DESCRIPTION:The Department of Germanic\, Slavic and Semitic Studies cordially invitesyou to the Ninth Dr. George J. Wittenstein Lecture: \nReferring to and proceeding from his book with the above title (co-edited\nwith Anette Storeide and published in 2006)\, Professor Lothe will focus on\nboth the possibilities and challenges of narrating about the historical\nevent of the Holocaust. He will also refer to Holocaust research in Norway\,\nincluding the projects pursued at the Center for Holocaust Studies where he\nserves as a board member. \nJakob Lothe is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oslo.\nHis books include Conrad’s Narrative Method (Oxford\, 1989) and Narrative in\nFiction and Film (Oxford\, 2000). He is the author of numerous essays and\nhas edited or co-edited several volumes including\, Franz Kafka: Zur\nethischen und aesthetischen Rechtfertigung (co-edited with Beatrice\nSandberg\, Rombach Verlag\, 2002)\, The Art of Brevity (University of South\nCarolina Press\, 2004)\, Literary Landscapes (Palgrave\, 2008)\, and Joseph\nConrad: Voice\, Sequence\, History\, Genre (co-edited with Jeremy Hawthorne\nand James Phelan\, Ohio State University Press\, 2008). In 2005-2006 he was\nthe leader of the research project “Narrative Theory and Analysis” at the\nCentre for Advanced Study\, Oslo. \nhm 4/14/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/times-witnesses-narratives-from-auschwitz-and-sachsenhausen/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100416T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100416T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112813Z UID:10001781-1271376000-1271376000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War DESCRIPTION:Prof. Andrews will discuss his new book\, Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War\, which reconsiders the 1914 Ludlow Massacre from the perspectives of labor and environmental history. It won the 2009 Bancroft Prize for the best book in American history–an honor Professor Andrews shared with our own Pekka Hämäläinen.\nThis talk is part of the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy’s speaker series\, and will be co-sponsored by the\nEnvironmental Studies Program as part of its 40th Anniversary Celebration and Critical Issues in America series. \nhm 4/7/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/killing-for-coal-americas-deadliest-labor-war/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100416T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100416T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112813Z UID:10001777-1271376000-1271376000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:2nd Ancient Borderlands Conference DESCRIPTION:Beyond Borders: Ancient Societies and their Conceptual Frontiers\nMcCune Conference Room (HSSB 6th floor)\nFriday\, 4/16\, 1:00 – 6:00 pm\nSaturday\, 4/17\, 8:30 am – 4:15 pm\nSunday\, 4/18\, 8:30 am ? 2:00 pm \nBorderlands: frontier zones lying along given boundaries\, limits beyond which something– a discipline\, an ethnic group\, a “nation”– transforms into something else. Borderlands Theory is an experimental division of scholarship that examines the creation\, maintenance\, and transgression of identity occurring within these zones. The UCSB Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group has been a pioneering group in the application of this theory\, seeking new insights about what it was like to live in the ancient world. Following in the path of our successful 2008 conference\, the second Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference will showcase new research on these themes from multiple disciplines. \nThe conference is also pleased to welcome to UCSB our keynote speaker\, Dr. Greg Fisher of Carleton University. Dr. Fisher’s keynote address\, “Trapped on a Rock between Two Lions”: The Arabs between Rome and Iran in Late Antiquity\,” will be presented Monday\, April 16\, 4:00-5:00 pm. \nBeyond Borders conference website \nFor information about the 2008 conference\, visit the web site of the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 18.i.2010\, 31.iii.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/2nd-ancient-borderlands-conference/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100419T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100419T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112813Z UID:10001785-1271635200-1271635200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:National Identity and The Nation in Post Neoliberal Latin America DESCRIPTION:talk in the “Tequila Mondays” series. \nhm 4/8/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/national-identity-and-the-nation-in-post-neoliberal-latin-america/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100419T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100419T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112816Z UID:10001820-1271635200-1271635200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Life of Local Inventor and Aviation Pioneer Earle Ovington DESCRIPTION:Jessica Price ’09\, currently a volunteer at the Goleta Valley Historical Society\, announces a local history lecture happening Monday night.  Student prices are $5. If anyone has questions they can call the GVHS office (805) 681-7216 or they can e-mail me at jprice@westmont.edu\n“Known only as America’s first Air Mail Pilot\, there is much more to the\nstory of Earle Lewis Ovington that can be learned today from a study of his\nlife. Earle Ovington exemplified all that was right with America–true\nsportsmanship\, common sense\, fairness\, perseverance\, achievement\,\nentrepreneurship\, competitiveness\, and personal responsibility–character\ntraits sadly lacking in much of America today. In a multifaceted career\nthat spanned a mere fifty-seven years\, he achieved a truly amazing number\nof accomplishments.” \nFrom the wind-swept streets of Chicago\, to the hurried pace of New York\nCity\, to the quiet Newton Highlands suburb of Boston\, to the boardwalks o f\nAtlantic City and the lush open spaces of Santa Barbara\, California\, Earle\nLewis Ovington passionately pursued his dreams. At age sixteen he left home\nto seek employment with Thomas Edison and later earned his Electrical\nEngineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a\nshowman\, a multi-enterprising entrepreneur\, inventor\, and fearless pioneer\naviator. \nIn a detailed and well researched narrative that draws upon hundreds of\nphotographs\, letters\, government records\, and original source materials\nfrom private and family records\, the author weaves the story of the life of\nEarle Ovington–from his little known contribution to early X-ray technology\nand friendship with Nikola Tesla\, to his roles in the advancement of the\nearly motorcycle and aviation industries in America. \nAnchored in the optimism of the late nineteenth century\, he was a visionary\nwho continually looked to the future. Virtually forgotten today\, Earle\nOvington lived a life of which most people can only dream. Reminiscences of\na Birdman tells for the first time to a new generation\, the complete story\nof this uniquely American hero.” \n-Robert D. Campbell \nhm 4/18/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-life-of-local-inventor-and-aviation-pioneer-earle-ovington/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100419T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100419T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112816Z UID:10001819-1271635200-1271635200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Nationalizing States Revisited DESCRIPTION:In this talk Prof. Brubaker will return to his influential book\, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe\, to reflect upon changes since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the re-emergence of independent Central and Eastern Europe.\nBrubaker is a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, a Guggenheim Fellowship winner\, and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. His most recent book is Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Identity Studies RFG\, the Dept. of Political Science\, the Dept. of Germanic\, Slavic\, & Semitic Studies\, and the Dept. of History. \nhm 4/15/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/nationalizing-states-revisited/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100423T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100423T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112816Z UID:10001817-1271980800-1271980800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Coercion\, Compliance\, and Resistance in Wartime Japan\, 1942-1945 DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the East Asian Cultures Research Focus Group\, the East Asia Center\, and the Department of History.\njwil 14.iv.2010\, hm 4/14 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/coercion-compliance-and-resistance-in-wartime-japan-1942-1945/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100423T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100423T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112817Z UID:10001823-1271980800-1271980800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History of the 1970 Isla Vista Riots DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 23rd\, at 7pm\, at the Magic Lantern Theater\, is Don’t Bank on Amerika\, a rarely-seen documentary from 1970\, co-directed by cinema scholar Peter Biskind\, about the turbulence at UCSB that resulted in the burning of the I.V. branch of the Bank of America.\nAt 7:45pm is another short from the 1980’s\, Beyond the Barricades\, about the lives of I.V. activists nearly twenty years later. \nAt 8:30pm is a new documentary by KCSB Media Center students called Our University\, a look into the privatization of public education and the power of student activism. \nThe evening culminates at 9:30pm with the area debut of Chicago 10 (http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/chicago10)\, a feature about the trial of the Chicago 8\, anti-war protesters who were prosecuted by the government for organizing demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic National Convention\, which contributed to tensions in Isla Vista. Utilizing archival footage\, animation\, contemporary music\, and the voices of Nick Nolte\, Roy Schieder\, Live Schrieber\, Mark Ruffalo\, Jeffrey Wright\, and Hank Azaria\, filmmaker Brett Morgen creates a cult-movie vibe perfectly suited for a late-night weekend screening. \nThe Magic Lantern Theater is located at 960 Embarcadero Del Norte in Isla Vista. \nThese events will also feature giveaways and special William Kunstler DVD discounts for attendees and are free and open to the entire public. \nhm 4/23/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/history-of-the-1970-isla-vista-riots/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100424T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100424T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112818Z UID:10001824-1272067200-1272067200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Story Faire (featuring guest appearance by Prof. Sears McGee) DESCRIPTION:In support of a local event\, we pass on this invitation by one of our professors\, J. Sears McGee:\nDear Friends\,\n Have you ever wondered how I’d look in a dress? And even if you haven’t\, wouldn’t that be worth seeing? I will be wearing a long ruffled dress and a straw hat with flowers on the brim on Saturday\, April 24th at the fourth annual StoryFaire\, held this year at De la Guerra Plaza from 11 to 4 p.m. \n Here’s the story. My wife\, Marni\, started StoryFaire four years ago – it’s a literacy festival\, a book signing and launch for local authors and illustrators of children’s books\, a party for kids\, and a benefit for its two sponsors\, CALM and Storyteller Children’s Center. It’s a wonderful day with food\, musicians\, dancers\, balloon art\, crafts and games\, author presentations\, book sales sponsored by Chaucer’s\, face painters\, clowns and magicians. All this\, with free entry – and ME. Oh yes\, in addition to 17 local authors and illustrators\, Valerie Tripp (who has written 31 of the American Girl books) will also be there\, signing books and greeting her fans. \n But back to my costume. I will be Granny Winston\, a wolf in drag – a character in one of Marni’s books\, WINSTON THE BOOK WOLF. He’s rather Churchillian. Don’t miss my long tail. Marni will also be dressed up\, as another of her characters\, SILLY GOOSE. She’s launching a new book this year\, BUMBLE\, THE LITTLE BEAR WITH BIG IDEAS and as such will be one of 8 authors launching new books at StoryFaire 2010. If you haven’t seen any of her books\, have a look at her website (marnimcgee.com – click on “Books”). \nStunning Stats: More than three out of four of those on welfare\, 85% of unwed mothers\, and 68% of those arrested are illiterate. About three in five of America’s prison inmates are illiterate\, and 85% of all juvenile offenders have reading problems. Children who have not developed some basic literacy skills by the time they enter school are 3 – 4 times more likely to drop out in later years. \nhm 4/22/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/story-faire-featuring-guest-appearance-by-prof-sears-mcgee/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100424T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100424T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112818Z UID:10001825-1272067200-1272067200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History of the 1970 Isla Vista Riots DESCRIPTION:The UCSB Alumni Association (http://ucsbalum.com)\, KCSB\, and Magic Lantern Films will host “Reflecting on Rebellion: Isla Vista 40 Years Later\,” a free program of films\, panelists\, and a reception mixer focusing on the I.V. riots and the Bank of America burning 40 years later.\nThe proceedings start at 3pm with screenings of those two short films\, Don’t Bank on Amerika and Beyond the Barricades. \nAt 4pm\, UCSB Professor Richard Flacks will moderate a panel of key participants and observers from 1970\, including former student-leader James Gregory\, former El Gaucho editor and News & Review founder Becca Wilson\, and photographer Gregory Desilet\, whose new book Burning Banks and Roasting Marshmallows is a fictionalized narrative of the uprisings. \nAfter a late afternoon reception\, at 6:30pm there will be a return-engagement showing of William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (http://www.disturbingtheuniverse.com)\, Emily and Sarah Kunstler’s acclaimed documentary about their radical attorney father\, who represented Civil Rights Era organizers\, Chicago conspiracy defendants\, Attica prisoners\, American Indian Movement activists\, and other political prisoners. Learn about the man some blamed for inciting the torching of the bank. \nThese events will also feature giveaways and special William Kunstler DVD discounts for attendees and are free and open to the entire public. \nhm 4/23/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/history-of-the-1970-isla-vista-riots-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100426T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100426T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112817Z UID:10001822-1272240000-1272240000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:HyperCities: The Challenges of Building a Web 2.0 Research and Teaching Platform DESCRIPTION:HyperCities (http://www.hypercities.com) is a collaborative research and educational platform for traveling back in time to explore the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive\, hypermedia environment.\nTodd Presner (http://www.toddpresner.com/?page_id=2) is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages\, Comparative Literature\, and Jewish Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. His research focuses on European intellectual history\, the history of media\, visual culture\, digital humanities\, and cultural geography. He is the author of two books: The first\, Mobile Modernity: Germans\, Jews\, Trains (http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14012-6/mobile-modernity; Columbia University Press\, 2007)\, maps German-Jewish intellectual history onto the development of the railway system; the second\, Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration (http://www.muscularjudaism.pbwiki.com/; Routledge\, 2007)\, analyzes the aesthetic dimensions of the strong Jewish body. \nHe is the founder and director of HyperCities\, a collaborative\, digital mapping platform that explores the layered histories of city spaces. Awarded one of the first “digital media and learning” prizes by the MacArthur Foundation/HASTAC in 2008\, HyperCities is an interactive\, web-based research and teaching environment for authoring and analyzing the cultural\, architectural\, and urban history of cities. The first HyperCities are Los Angeles\, Berlin\, New York\, Rome\, Ollantaytambo\, and Tel Aviv\, with many more in the works. The project co-PIs are Dean Abernathy\, Mike Blockstein\, Philip Ethington\, Diane Favro\, Chris Johnason\, and Jan Reiff. \nhm 4/21/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/hypercities-the-challenges-of-building-a-web-2-0-research-and-teaching-platform/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100430T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100430T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112817Z UID:10001821-1272585600-1272585600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Spring Mini-Colloquium: "The Medieval Other" DESCRIPTION:Papers include:\nBenjamin M. Liu\, Hispanic Studies\, UC Riverside: “Medieval Spain’s Asian Other.” \nThis paper will be looking at the figure of resemblance that Foucault identifies as “aemulatio”\, in the context of Medieval Spain’s knowledge of and relation to Asia. From Ramon Llull to late-14th and 15th century maps and travel narratives\, China and “Greater India” are delocalized sites that\, as they are desirously gazed upon from medieval Spain\, also return a gaze that serves to constitute a Spanish polity. \nChristine Chism\, English\, UCLA: “Over the Edge: Narrative and Cultural Extremities in the Travels of Ibn Battuta.” \nThis paper investigates Ibn Battuta’s experiences in South Asia\, the Maldives and especially China — where he finally reaches the edge of cultural comprehension and suffers a form of culture shock that effectively ends his journey and sends him home to Tangier\, traumatically neck and neck with the spread of the bubonic plague. This paper contrasts the sections of the narrative on China with other\, more interpenetrative encounters with otherness in the narrative. It investigates the causes of the traveler’s sudden\, uncharacteristic lack of willingness to encounter the strangeness to be found over the East Asian edge of the Islamic world\, an unwillingness that pervades even the style of the narration\, which becomes aversively vague and allusive. I chart the narrative’s flight back to the more familiar heartlands of the Dar al-Islam\, where the traveler reencounters\, almost with joy\, the more encompassable alterities of the Christians and Jews to be found within its contact zones. I end with Ibn Battuta’s description of an incident at Damascus\, where\, in the face of the accelerating attritions of the plague\, all the monotheisms join in a penitential fast and public procession\, a performance of penitential solidarity that unite all the people of the book\, and\, in the narrative\, effectively ameliorates the plague. In this traumatic return\, the narrative effectively rerenders former alterities into relationships within an unstable continuum. \nNancy McLoughlin\, History\, UC Irvine: “The Monstrous Other: Jean Gerson (1363-1429) and the Deadly Sins of Politics.” \nThe fifteenth-century Parisian preacher and theologian\, Jean Gerson\, has been credited with laying the foundation for the early modern witch-hunts by blurring the boundary between divinely inspired women visionaries and diabolically possessed religious frauds to such an extent that all women’s claims to divine inspiration fell under increasingly severe suspicion. Gerson\, however\, did not reserve his accusations of diabolical influence for women. In the sermons he delivered before the French royal court\, Gerson cast the enemies of the University of Paris\, whether these were the princes of the blood or the queen regent\, as the very embodiment of the seven deadly sins. Worse yet\, he suggested that if these monstrous agents of the devil succeeded in influencing the policy of the French crown that Jews and Saracens would rejoice and France would lose its status as the most Christian kingdom. My paper examines Gerson’s deployment of a constellation of diabolical and religious others as a means of promoting his own authority\, paying particular attention to how the multiple layerings of othering\, which characterize his sermons\, allowed him to condemn his enemies and present the University of Paris as a loyal voice of reason. \nComment: Sharon Farmer\, History\, UC Santa Barbara \njwil 19.iv.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/medieval-studies-spring-mini-colloquium-the-medieval-other/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100430T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100430T000000 DTSTAMP:20260607T062135 CREATED:20150928T112818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112818Z UID:10001827-1272585600-1272585600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Obama and the Struggle to Reform U.S. Policy DESCRIPTION:Skocpol is the author\, most recently\, of Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn; and The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism. \nSponsored by the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. \nhm 4/27/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/obama-and-the-struggle-to-reform-u-s-policy/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR