Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Dakota 38
2013-04-24 00:00 (America/Denver)
Native spiritual leader Jim Miller and a group of riders retraced the 330-mile route on horseback from Lower Brule, South Dakota to Mankato, Minnesota to arrive at the hanging site of 38 Dakota ancestors on the anniversary of their execution ordered by President Lincoln. This is the story of their journey- the blizzards they endure, the Native and Non-Native communities that house and feed them along the way as well as the dark history they wipe away. Smooth Feather Productions, 78 min., English, 2012, USA.
hm 4/6/13

The Desert Stones Speak: Women, Men, and Cycles of Evangelism in the SW Borderlands
2013-04-25 00:00
This event is co-sponsored by the History Associates and the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2013. The cost is $8 for HA members, $10 for non-members.
Four “big ideas” swept across the Southwest borderlands of North
American in the thousand years preceding the consolidation of the
Spanish colony of New Mexico. The Chaco Phenomenon, the Katsina
Religion, Franciscan Catholicism and Po’Pay’s Peublo Revolt used
evangelical methods to effect a dynamic reorganization of popular
religious, cultural, and political beliefs. In this illustrated lecture, Dr.
James Brooks explores how these “big ideas” continue to resonate in
regional memories and life ways.
About our speaker
Dr. James Brooks is president of the School for
Advanced Research in Santa Fe. A gifted scholar
and lecturer, Dr. Brooks is the recipient of more
than a dozen national awards. His 2002 book,
Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and
Community in the Southwest Borderlands
focused on the traffic in women and children
across the region as expressions of intercultural
violence and accomodation. Dr. Brooks served on
the UCSB History faculty from 2000 to 2003
and currently is teaching a graduate seminar here.
Museum of Natural History
2559 Puesta del Sol
The Museum is located off Mission St., just beyond
the Old Mission. We will meet in Farrand
Hall. There is ample free parking.
Coffee and cookies will be provided.
hm 4/10/13

Paradise Lost? Zahra's Paradise and the Future of Politics in Modern Iran
2013-04-25 00:00
Click the link below for full information on this talk.
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Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts
2013-04-26 00:00
Dr. Daly Thompson will talk about her new book.
For fuller details, including abstract, please visit the URL below.
Chapter One of the book is available from Prof. Chikowero for reading before the talk.
hm 4/10/13

The Intellectual as Agent: Politics and Independence in the Lives of Ignazio Silone
2013-04-26 00:00
Professor Saccarelli offers insights on Silone’s role as a secret collaborator with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. His paper can be found here.
About our speaker:
Emmanuel Saccarelli an Associate Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University, and is the author of Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism (2008).
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.

The Modern Life of Roman Republicanism
2013-04-26 00:00
Joy Connolly works mainly on Roman ideas about communication, education, and governance, and their ongoing relevance for the modern world. Her first book, The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome, was published by Princeton in 2007; her second, a book about republicanism called Talk about Virtue, is under contract with Duckworth Press. She has written articles on Roman political theory, elegiac and pastoral poetry, rhetorical education, and the seventeenth century reception of classical literature and political thought, and her book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, the Women’s Review of Books, Bookforum, and TLS. Her forthcoming work includes essays on the exemplarity of Rome in eighteenth century American education, the framing of ethical choice in Vergil’s Aeneid, and the relation of torture and justice in early imperial Roman rhetoric.
Friday, April 26, 2013
2:00 PM
HSSB 4080
A public reception will immediately follow in the Classics Reading Room (HSSB 4075)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics

Beyond Race, Gender, and Class: Understanding the Roots of Privilege
2013-04-30 00:00
Using the concept of privilege in race, gender, and class, this discussion will raise questions about systems and structures of power that can allow us to go beyond polite “diversity talk” to discuss what would be needed to transform our society and promote justice and sustainability. Any serious effort toward those goals must confront the structures of power in the contemporary United States that produce such profound inequality. Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the Universityof Texas at Austin and author of Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialogue (City Lights, 2013) and The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege (City Lights, 2005).
hm 4/3/13

Imagining House Churches in Light of Evidence for Cultic Activities in the Terrace Houses in Ephesus
2013-05-06 00:00
In addition to evidence for household cults in the terrace houses at Ephesus, three of the units contained installations for cultic activities that “blur” the traditional distinction between public and private space. The likely identification of Terrace House 2 as that of C. Vibius Salutaris offers additional commentary on important aspects of such “blurring” through details preserved in the 568 line inscription recording the terms of his bequest. Although it is extremely unlikely that any early Christians would have lived in houses as “rich” as the terrace houses excavated at Ephesus, they provide important comparative materials for imagining how religious activities within domestic space could welcome persons from outside the household while enhancing the status of the owner.
Professor Walters’ interests focus on Pauline studies and especially on the urban social context of Pauline communities in the Aegean basin (Greece and western Asia Minor). He is the author of one book, Ethnic Issues in Paul’s Letter to the Romans, and a number of scholarly essays.
Reception to follow.

Forty Years of Endangered Species: Conflict and Conservation in California and Beyond
2013-05-08 00:00
The landmark federal Endangered Species Act—the most powerful and comprehensive U.S. environmental law, and the most ambitious biodiversity conservation statute ever enacted by any country—turns forty in 2013. Is this anniversary cause for celebration or despair? What have we learned during the past four decades? Why is endangered species conservation so complicated? And why do efforts to preserve species often result in such bitter controversy? This year’s Plous lecture will address these questions, place them in a broader historical context, and discuss some of the challenges and opportunities for conservation in the twenty-first century.
Peter S. Alagona is an assistant professor of history and environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before joining the UCSB faculty, he was a Beagle Environmental Fellow in the Center for the Environment and Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a postdoctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford.
The Harold J. Plous Memorial Award was established in 1957 to honor Harold J. Plous,
Assistant Professor of Economics. The award is given annually to a faculty member of the rank of
Assistant Professor or Instructor who has demonstrated outstanding performance by creative action
or contribution to the intellectual life of the college community.
hm 5/6/13

The Making of "The Atomic Cafe"
2013-05-09 00:00
> Released in 1982, “The Atomic Cafe” was a masterful compilation of > U.S. government propaganda films that exposed the madness of the
> nuclear arms race. Jayne Loader, one of the film’s directors,
> screens excerpts of the documentary and engages the audience in a
> discussion of her work process. Also taking part in the
> conversation are Prof. Charles Wolfe (Film and Media Studies), Prof.
> Salim Yaqub (History), and Kenneth Hough, PhD candidate in history.
>
> Born in Weatherford, TX and educated at Reed College in Oregon,
> Jayne Loader is a filmmaker and writer. In 1982 she co-directed the
> cult classic, “The Atomic Cafe.” Loader is the author of a novel,
> BETWEEN PICTURES, and a short story collection, WILD AMERICA. In the
> 1990s she created WWWench, one of the first blogs. Ms. Loader lives
> in Cambridge, MA and Friendship, ME.
hm 5/8/13

Remembering War, Looking Forward
2013-05-09 00:00
This is the closing talk and reception as part of the IHC’s Fallout: In the Aftermath of War series, with series closing remarks by IHC director Susan Derwin.
Historian John Lee offers closing reflections on the year’s IHC program, Fallout. Using as a starting point the war memoirs of Xenophon (ca. 427-355 BC), Lee considers our changing visions of war, memory and trauma, war memoirs, and the relationship between war and the humanities.
Sponsored by the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War.
hm 5/7/13

“The Widening Gyre: Colonial Labor, Guestworkers, and the End of Empire.”
2013-05-10 00:00
Professor Hahamovitch explores exploited labor systems in the colonial period and the guest worker programs in the United States during the post-war period.
About our speaker:
Cindy Hahamovitch is the author of The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 (1997). Her No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor (2012) won the Rawley and Curti Awards from the Organization of American Historians as well as the Philip Taft Labor History Prize. Her paper can be found here.

You Say You Want a Revolution? Transition, Stability and Chaos in Post-Dictatorship Arab States
2013-05-16 00:00
In this talk, Hussein Ibish looks at the different ways post-dictatorship transition has unfolded in the three North African Arab states that experienced regime change during the “Arab Spring”: Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. Among the questions he addresses are: What are the new systems emerging in those countries? To what extent have old governance structures persisted despite the changes? How have Islamists fared in each of the three states, and what are the prospects for their long-term power? What about non-Islamist opposition movements and parties? Are these states on the road to stability or a period of protracted chaos? And what influence will their experiences have on the broader region and vice versa? Are we seeing the emergence of the consent of the governed, or the consolidation of power by new and/or old elites?
Hussein Ibish is Senior Fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine. He is a regular contributor on Middle East affairs in numerous publications and a weekly columnist at “Now Media” and “The Daily Beast.” His most recent book is WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE ONE-STATE AGENDA? Dr. Ibish has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the UMass, Amherst. And in case you thought he was a one-trick pony, he has a lengthy essay in the current issue of MIT’s quarterly THE BAFFLER on the cultural, political and intellectual legacy of the Marquis de Sade.
hm 5/11/13

The Plague! Making Sense of Epidemics, Contagions, and Pestilence
2013-05-16 00:00
The Division of Humanities and Fine Arts is sponsoring this special event. UCSB History professors Stefania Tutino and John Majewski were involved in putting the program together. We hope this is an entertaining and informative way to present the humanities to the general public, so please come and bring along family and friends. The Natural History Museum charges for this event, but it is FREE to all members of the campus community, as well as alumni and friends of UC Santa Barbara. Reserve free tickets by contacting Justin Canty at jcanty@sbnature2.org or 805-682-4711, ext. 170.
For thousands of years, humans have faced devastating epidemics that suddenly kill millions. In this innovative program, three scholars analyze how humans respond to the massive disruption caused by these catastrophic events. These carefully crafted presentations explore different cultural and social responses to devastating epidemics, while highlighting our common humanity in response to unimaginable death and suffering. The program includes selected scenes from Tony Kushner’s award-winning play Angels in America performed by UCSB’s superb Department of Theater and Dance.
A copy of the flyer can be found at
http://www.hfa.ucsb.edu/news/372-050713
hm 5/11/13

"The 'Discovery of Writing' in the Qur'an: Tracing an Epistemic Revolution in Arab Late Antiquity
2013-05-21 00:00
Please join us for the R. Stephen Humphreys Distinuished Lecture:
The “Discovery of Writing” in the Qur’an: Tracing an Epistemic Revolution in Arab Late Antiquity”
Professor Angelika Neuwirth
Arabic Studies, Free University (Berlin)
Tuesday, May 21st at 4:00 pm
HSSB 4080
The Qur’an—being the first significant non-oral literary text in the Arabic language—induced an epistemic revolution in the Arabic-speaking world of Late Antiquity. This fundamental renewal of the Arab Late Antique world was achieved through the Qur’anic negotiation and re-interpretation not only of the neighboring Jewish and Christian traditions but no less through the re-working of the Ancient Arabic lexicon of concepts. The talk will discuss the emergence of a communal identity based on the newly discovered authority of writing and in particular the understanding of the prophetical proclamation, qur’an, as a “reading” from a celestial text. At the same time, the poetical concept of script as a frustratingly mute and unintelligible sign system (wahy) will be un-demonized: Qur’anic wahy is communication par excellence.
Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Stephen Huphreys Distinguished Lecture Series.

Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
2013-05-22 00:00
Revealing the direct connection between the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the current immigration crisis, this film based on Juan González’s book by the same title, provides a powerful glimpse into the sacrifices and triumphs of the growing Latino communities, putting a human face on issues that are often reduced to stereotyping. The film features immigrant stories as well as interviews with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchú, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Junot Díaz, and more. Peter Getzels and Eduardo Lopez, 90 min., English and Spanish with English subtitles, 2012.
hm 4/6/13

2013 History Senior Honors Colloquium
2013-05-24 00:00
Participants in the 2012-2013 Senior Honors Thesis seminar will present their research in this year’s colloquium. Eachstudent presenter will be followed by a faculty or advanced PhD student commentator.
This event is free and open to the public. The complete program of speakers is below.
9:00-9:30
Salina Cruz. Women of the Mills: The Lawrence, Massachusetts Strike of 1912
Commentator: Prof. Patricia Cohen
9:30-10:00
Jesse McCarthy, The Creation of English Arminianism: Richard Montagu, 1624-1629
Commentator: Tim Daniels
10:00-10:30
Heidi Graves, The Public Debate on Witchcraft in Colonial Ghana
Commentator: Prof. Mhoze Chikowero
10:30-11:00
Sean Garbutt, “Do you fellows ever talk to the Israelis?”: The United States and the War of Attrition, 1969-1970
Commentator: Paul Baltimore
11:00-11:30
Mickey Boxell, The Taciturn Revolutionary: William of Orange-Nassau and the Motivations of the Dutch Revolt
Commentator: Prof. Hilary Bernstein
11:30-12:30 LUNCH BREAK
12:30-1:00pm
Susan Reid, National Assimilation Through Racial Amalgamation: The Japanese-Brazilian Community, 1930-1970
Commentator: Prof. Kate McDonald
1:00-1:30pm
Alexa Cover, SB 813, the Hughes-Hart Education Reform Bill: California’s Expansive and Expensive Attempt at Education Equality
Commentator: Prof. Alice O’Connor
1:30-2:00pm
Morgan Stocks, Perusing the Papal Pantry: The Fasting Practices of Pope Boniface VIII, 1299-1303
Commentator: Prof. Debra Blumenthal
2:00-2:30pm
Molly Nugent, “Your tax dollars buy sex discrimination!”: The Fight for Equal Gender Representation in France and the United States
Commentator: Prof. Eileen Boris
2:30-2:50 BREAK
2:50-3:20
Elaine MacPherson, Relief Without A Roof: The Emergence of a Policy Discussion on American Homelessness 1980-1996
Commentator: Prof. Mary Furner
3:20-3:50
Jacob Owens, “A most inconvenient dilemma”: The British Motives Behind the Making of the Hoare-Laval Plan
Commentator: Prof. Toshi Hasegawa
3:50-4:20
Michael Schneider, Driving Defense: The Role of the Auto Industry in War Mobilization
Commentator: Prof. Nelson Lichtenstein
4:20-4:50
Ricardo Quezada, “Free the 13”: Contesting Legal Discrimination– The East Los Angeles Blowouts and the Chicana/o Community’s Agency, 1968-1970
Commentator: Prof. Paul Spickard

Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden
2013-05-29 00:00
Posing a challenge to the assumption that the western model of education improves lives wherever it is, this controversial film gives insight to the effects of western education as a panacea for world issues. “With a rare, philosophical sense for the truth, the documentary reflects on the alienating impact of schooling not just on children but also on adults in indigenous contexts such as Ladakh.” Dr. Nosheen Ali, UC Berkeley. Carol Black, 66 min., English, USA and India, 2010.
hm 4/6/13

Paper Newton/Digital Newton
2013-05-30 00:00
Abstract:Isaac Newton generated a huge amount of manuscript material during a long and active life. This rich and daunting archive includes millions of words of impassioned and heretical theological writings as well as evidence of thousands of hours spent on alchemical experimentation and research, alongside notes on natural philosophy and mathematics. The range, complexity and disorder of this material has challenged editors and scholars ever since his death. Our talks cover two aspects of Newton’s archive. Sarah Dry will discuss the complicated history of Newton’s papers, from his death in 1727 through two centuries of near (but not total) neglect to their dispersal by auction at Sotheby’s in 1936. Rob Iliffe, who heads the online Newton Project, will discuss pioneering and on-going efforts to digitize all of Newton’s vast manuscript holdings and the implications of this new resource for scholarship in the history of science and in the humanities more generally.
Sarah Dry is an independent scholar. She has a PhD in the history of science from the University of Cambridge and is the author of Curie: A Life (Haus) and the co-editor of Epidemics: Science, Health and Governance (Earthscan). She is writing a book on the history of the Newton papers for Oxford University Press.
Rob Iliffe is Professor of Intellectual History and the History of Science at the University of Sussex. He is editorial director of the online Newton Project and is finishing a monograph titled Priest of Nature: the religious lives of Isaac Newton (OUP). He has published a number of articles on early modern history and the history of science, and has written the Very Short Introduction to Newton (OUP). Prof. Iliffe’s main research interests include: the history of science 1550-1800; the theological and scientific work of Isaac Newton; and the implications for academic work posed by the increasing digitisation of the scholarly infrastructure.

History Department Awards Ceremony
2013-06-04 00:00
Please join History Department students and faculty as this year’s honors and awards are distributed.
hm 5/11/13

Hacienda de Quimichis and the Bard Family, 1909-1935
2013-06-08 00:00
Professor Verónica Castillo-Muñoz will be the featured speaker at the Friends of the Bard Mansion Quarterly Dinner on the grounds of the Bard family’s historic home and gardens in Port Hueneme.
She will share the fruits of her research for her second book, about the people who worked on a 75,000 acre ranch, Hacienda de Quimichis, on the west coast of Mexico, that was owned by Bard and other Ventura County investors early in the twentieth century. Thanks to Professor Castillo-Muñoz’s efforts, the Mexican National Museum of Anthropology in Tepic will share an exhibition on the history of the Hacienda de Quimichis with the Ventura County Museum.
For more information, visit the Berylwood Historic Home and Gardens web site.
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Summer Session A classes end
2013-08-02 00:00
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Summer Session B classes begin
2013-08-05 00:00
First day of Summer Session B classes; last day of classes is Sept. 13.
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A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 Invasion of Mexico
2013-08-08 00:00
The U.S.· Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back·channel negotiations as it divided the nation and paved the way for the
Civil War a generation later. Penn State University Professor Amy
Greenberg provides skilled storytelling and rigorous scholarship as she
brings this American war to life with memorable characters, plotlines,
and legacies. In A Wicked War, Dr. Greenberg offers a view into the
world that the war made, a war that brought the United States more than
one·third of its territory, a new border and a Mexican American popula·
tion that would come to demand equal rights. It was a defining moment
in America’s past, and she reminds us of this with her gripping account.
In July Prof. Greenberg’s book on the Mexican War won the best book prize given by the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic in St. Louis. It was also one of five contenders for the Los Angeles Times history book award in April 2013. This book is a skillful blend of the arguments and deceptions that launched the U.S. into its first preemptive war told via a narrative focus on biography of 4 the or 5 key people on different ends of those arguments (including a young Abe Lincoln, and Mrs. Polk along with her husband).
Prof. Greenberg is a Santa Barbara native who studied at Berkeley and Harvard, and now holds an endowed chair at Penn State.
Presented by the Santa Barbara ‘Crust for Histor ic Preservation,
Co·sponsored by the UCSB History Associates.
Presidio Chapel, EI Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park
123 East Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, CA
Free for SBTHP Members, SI 0 Non-Members, $5 Students
For more information visit www.sbthp.org or call (805) 965-0093
hm 7/23/13

End of Summer Session B classes
2013-09-13 00:00
Friday is last day of Summer Session B.
hm 7/15/13

Fall quarter classes begin
2013-09-26 00:00
Instruction begins on Thursday; last day of Fall classes on Friday December 6, 2013.
hm 7/15/13

Fear Itself: the New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
2013-09-27 00:00
The author of ten books, Ira Katznelson is the Ruggles Professor of History and Political Science at Columbia University, former president of the American Political Science Association, and current president of the Social Science Research Council.
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy.

Our Campus, Our Community: Advancing a New Politics for Social Change
2013-10-02 00:00
Speakers include Marcos Vargas, executive director of CAUSE and Manuel Pastor of USC’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity.

The Style is the – Empire. Caesar's Writing Reevaluated
2013-10-04 00:00
Caesar’s style has been admired for its stringency and simplicity–and to the detriment of a fuller appreciation of its complexities. His classic texts are worth a second glance. They reveal not only far greater debts to the administrative language of the Roman Empire than previously assumed (hence the title) but also a good number of extremely rare words, including hapax legomena, which may allow for a look into the smithery of the Latin Language of the 1st century BCE. Was Caesar himself a wordsmith?
Sponsored by the Classics Department with co-sponsorship from the History Department.
jwil 08.ix.2013

Beer: From Prohibition to America's Emblem of the Good Life?
2013-10-10 00:00
UC Santa Barbara Arts and Humanities “Nature and Culture” Series at the Wine Cask
Join UC Santa Barbara historian Lisa Jacobson for a spectacular Wine Cask artisan dinner and talk at the inaugural UCSB public humanities Culture and Nature Series event.
For more information about the series, please click here.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
6:00 p.m.
Wine Cask
813 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara
For tickets and menu inquiries, please contact Wine Cask at 805-966-9463 or www.WineCask.com
The beer-inspired menu features wild boar sausage and Shepherd’s Pie carefully paired with craft beers for each of the four courses.
The UC Santa Barbara Culture and Nature Series showcases the sustainable, local, and artisanal food of the Wine Cask, and the research of UC Santa Barbara scholars who are actively engaged in understanding the historical and cultural importance of food.
Cost for meal, including drinks, and lecture: $50
We gratefully acknowledge our co-sponsors for this event: Wine Cask and Telegraph Brewing Company.
hm 10/8/13
