Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

History Club Weekly Meetings
2021-09-02 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-09-09 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-09-16 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-09-23 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-09-30 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-10-07 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-10-14 19:00 - 21:00, 2021-10-21 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) and 15 more dates | HSSB 4020
UCSB’s new and improved History Departmental club is for majors, minors, and anyone with a passion for the past! Meetings are held every Thursday at 7:00 PM in HSSB 4020. See flier below for information about upcoming events. Please email histclub.ucsb@gmail.com with any questions.

History Department New Majors' Meeting
2021-09-21 11:00 - 12:30 | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us at the annual History Department New Majors‘ Meeting! This meeting is geared towards incoming freshmen and transfer students, and any student that is new to our department. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 21st at 11am in HSSB 4080. Meet your future professors and classmates, listen to an impressive faculty panel speak about topics such as undergraduate research, the senior honors thesis program, the history club, and more!
This will be a hybrid event, so you can either attend in-person, or watch via Zoom. The first 35 students who RSVP to attend in-person will be able to do so, and any other students can watch the meeting live on Zoom, or review a recording at their own convenience. Please RSVP using one of the links below:
Use THIS LINK to RSVP to attend the meeting in-person (you must RSVP to attend in-person).

Use THIS LINK to RSVP to attend the meeting via Zoom, and THIS LINK to join the meeting.

Round Table: Hispanic Heritage Month & A New History of Iberian Feminism
2021-10-12 17:00 - 18:15 | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Round Table: Hispanic Heritage Month & A New History of Iberian Feminism
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese invites you to a Round Table on Iberian Feminism, on the occasion of Hispanic Heritage Month and the publication of Una nueva historia de los feminismos ibéricos (Tirant lo Blach, 2021) edited by Prof. Silvia Bermúdez (UCSB) and Prof. Roberta Johnson (University of Kansas, UCLA). This is an updated Spanish edition of their book A New History of Iberian Feminisms (University of Toronto Press, 2018).
The roundtable will focus on Basque and Portuguese feminisms, paying special attention to how Portuguese feminists contested Salazar’s dictatorship (1926-1974), as well as the resistance offered by Basque feminists to Franco’s lengthy dictatorship (1939-1975).
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Feminist Studies, the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, Graduate Division, and the Department of History, as part of our 2020-2022 department theme, “Gender and Politics”. Please see the flyer below for more information on the event, speakers, and Zoom details.

History Associates: "Wonders of Medieval Rome" Talk by Carol Lansing
2021-11-07 14:00 - 15:00 | 21 W. Anapamu Street, 21 Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara
Recent research, discoveries and restorations are dramatically changing how scholars view medieval Rome. The city was hardly the artistic and cultural backwater we had imagined: instead, as Julian Gardner writes, it was a crucible for the arts. This talk will set out some of those finds. The Aula Gotica frescoes are just one fascinating example. In the 1240s a cardinal constructed a Gothic palace attached to a convent, with a grand reception hall decorated with innovative secular paintings of extraordinary quality. The Virtues are personified by monumental women dressed in helmets and chain mail, each with a virtuous figure perched on her shoulder and the corresponding vice under her feet. The months are depicted with beautifully composed scenes of seasonal labors. Because the paintings were plastered over in the early fourteenth century and only discovered and restored in the last few decades, the bright color and elegant brushwork survives. They should lead to a reevaluation of the narrative of early Renaissance painting.
Carol Lansing is a historian of medieval Italy who is currently researching elite culture in southern Lazio.
The event will be in-person and also live-streamed via Zoom. Click here to register to attend via Zoom — no registration is required to attend in person. The event is free and open to the public.
Venue: Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 W. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara

Lecture by Jérémie Foa, Faces of the Massacre: Victims and Killers of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (France, 1572)
2021-11-19 14:00 - 15:30 | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Professor Jérémie Foa, Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study and Maître de conférences, HDR, Aix-Marseille Université, will present a lecture entitled,
“Faces of the Massacre: Victims and Killers of the Saint-Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (France, 1572).”
Friday, November 19, 2021 at 2 pm over Zoom;
Please email bernstein@history.ucsb.edu for the Zoom link.

In his new book, Tous ceux qui tombent. Visages du massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy, Professor Foa uses a broad range of little-known sources to uncover the lives and deaths of French Protestants killed during the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in Paris and other cities in France in August-October 1572. His research also identifies and illuminates their murderers, who gained experience in harassing their Protestant neighbors during the French civil wars and then put this knowledge to use when circumstances permitted. His talk will shed light not only on the nature of religious violence in the sixteenth century but also on how conflicts can build and generate violence in numerous times and places.
Foa, Victims of the Massacre

Gender Cluster Workshop | Anna Rudolph
2022-01-20 15:30 - 16:30 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
On Thursday, 20 January 2022, Anna Rudolph will share her chapter – Chapter 6_Revolutionary Radegund– with the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster.

This chapter presents an in-depth study of the cult of Radegund, a sixth-century Frankish queen-saint, from the French Revolution through the turn of the twentieth century. The Revolution had a devastating effect on the cult of Radegund – and on the cult of the saints in general. Radegund’s churches, chapels, relics, and art, were vandalized or destroyed in the city of Poitiers and in many of the smaller towns and villages throughout France where she was venerated. But these moments of upheaval also resulted in a dedicated revival of Radegund’s cult that produced new identities for Radegund that were distinct from how she was conceived of in previous periods. Radegund was imbued with new political and gendered meanings that reflected the needs and concerns of French people living in a revolutionary climate. This chapter will explore how these new meanings developed and suggest how they can help us better understand the strategies people used to redefine themselves and their country within the context of the post-Revolutionary Culture Wars.

We will meet at 3:30 PM on Zoom to discuss. Please use this link: Join Zoom Meeting (https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87526376038).

History Associates Talk and Performance: Mhoze Chikowero and Dr. Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa on Musics of State-making in Zimbabwe
2022-02-03 18:00 - 19:00 | HTTPS://UCSB.ZOOM.US/J/83279445270, Multicultural Center, Santa Barbara, CA, 93117, United States
History Associates presents, in collaboration with UCSB Multicultural Center, a special online performance from opera-singer and scholar, Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa. Tawengwa is a close collaborator of UCSB Associate Professor of History, Mhoze Chikowero, who will be moderating the post performance Q&A.
Tawengwa and Chikowero worked together to adapt her senior thesis from Princeton, “Dawn of the Rooster,” into an abridged one-hour performance which tells the story of Tawengwa’s family during the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle of 1965-1980. They performed this work on campus in early 2020 and spoke with KCSB about the importance of music in telling African histories. We are delighted to welcome her back to UCSB this year!

MWEDZI
Mwedzi means moon, menstrual cycle, and month in Chivanhu. Mwedzi tells the story of a rite of passage into Womanhood. The twelve-year journey began in 2008, when the artist left Zimbabwe for the United States. As a Zimbabwean woman living in the United States, staying grounded in ancestral wisdom has been vital for survival. Mwedzi shares this wisdom and honors the healing power of ancestors, the Divine Feminine, and self-love. Post performance screening Q&A with Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa, and special artist appearances with Etienne Charles and Gerson Lazo-Quiroga. Moderated by Dr. Mhoze Chikowero.
Tawengwa is a Zimbabwean gwenyambira, scholar, and community organizer, composer, and singer whose storytelling serves to bridge Zimbabwe’s past and present, in order to inform a self-crafted future. Her craft lives at the intersection of music and healing, drawing from the generations of Svikiro (spirit mediums) and N’anga (healers) in her bloodline. Read more
Thursday, Feb 3rd, 6pm
ONLINE PERFORMANCE SCREENING
ZOOM: HTTPS://UCSB.ZOOM.US/J/83279445270

History Faculty John W. I. Lee on IHC's Humanities Decanted: on his new book The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert
2022-02-10 16:00 - 17:30 | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center is hosting a dialogue between John W. I. Lee (History) and Krzysztof Janowicz (Geography) about Lee’s new book, The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert. Audience Q&A will follow.
The First Black Archaeologist reveals the untold story of a pioneering African American classical scholar, teacher, community leader, and missionary. Born into slavery in rural Georgia, John Wesley Gilbert (1863-1923) gained national prominence in the early 1900s, but his accomplishments are little known today. Using evidence from archives across the U.S. and Europe, from contemporary publications, and from newly discovered documents, this book chronicles, for the first time, Gilbert’s remarkable journey. As we follow Gilbert from the segregated public schools of Augusta, Georgia, to the lecture halls of Brown University, to his hiring as the first black faculty member of Augusta’s Paine Institute, and through his travels in Greece, western Europe, and the Belgian Congo, we learn about the development of African American intellectual and religious culture, and about the enormous achievements of an entire generation of black students and educators.

When: February 10th, 2022 @ 4:00 – :5:30 PM
Where: McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
