Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

History Graduation Reception 2016 for all graduating History majors and their families
2016-06-12 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Denver) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
All graduating History majors and their families are invited:
Sunday June 12th 10:00am-12:00pm in HSSB 4020
The UCSB Department of History is pleased to invite you to the annual UC Santa Barbara History Department Graduation Reception.
Please join History faculty members and your fellow students for a buffet breakfast and mingling.
This celebration is for all graduates of the 2015-2016 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) programs in History, History of Public Policy and Medieval Studies, and their families. This event prior to the commencement ceremony is an opportunity for faculty and graduates to celebrate their achievements together, and for families to meet the professors who taught their newly minted graduates. A light buffet breakfast will be provided.
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Kathleen Cairnes to Speak about First Female Chief Justice of California
2016-08-20 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Women in History Lecture: Rose Bird–Chief Justice of California
Kathleen Cairns PhD (retired annuitant in Women’s History/Gender Studies at Cal Poly SCU) will be speaking about Rose Elizabeth Bird (1936-1999), who served for 10 years as the first female Chief Justice of CA, and her role in politicizing the judiciary.
There will be a Special Manuscript Exhibit on Women in History from noon to 4pm.
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum
21 W. Anapamu St. – FREE

Save the Date! Breakfast with the Humanities, September 20
2016-09-20 09:30 - 23:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
On Tuesday, September 20, the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts will host the fourth annual Breakfast with the Humanities for HFA undergraduates at the McCune Conference room (HSSB 6020) at 9:30am.
$50 gift certificates to the UCSB Bookstore as well as cool gear from local marketing company Oniracom will be raffled off!!!

2016-2017 Department of History New Majors Meeting
2016-09-21 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
This is a great opportunity for the 2016-2017 new undergraduate majors and those interested in the History, Medieval Studies, and the History of Public Policy majors and the History and Labor Studies minors to meet members of the Department of History faculty. Students will make connections with faculty and with other students and learn about the Department of History. Students will learn about the national History honors society Phi Alpha Theta, the History of Public Policy major and learn who the 2016-2017 faculty undergraduate will be, meet the Chair of the Department of History, meet the Director of Undergraduate Studies and other faculty members who will speak about their areas of specialty. This is an opportune time for new majors and all students interested in the Department of History to interact with faculty on a personal basis.

Gender and Intimacy Across the U.S-Mexico Borderlands
2016-09-30 - 2016-10-01 | Loma Pelona Conference Center, Loma Pelona Center, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
A Workshop at UC Santa Barbara
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Alexandra Minna Stern, Professor of American Culture, Women’s Studies, History, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan, will provide they keynote talk on “Gender and Intimacy Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.” Author of Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in America, 2d. ed. (UC Press, 2015) and Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (John Hopkins University Press, 2012) as well as numerous articles on the history of public health in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Professor Stern is a leading voice in unraveling the dynamics of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, disability, social difference, and reproductive politics in the United States and Latin America.
Image at right. Photo credit: Jae C. Hong – Design: Ebers Garcia

About the Workshop

In recent years, scholars from across a variety of disciplinary fields have initiated studies exploring gender and intimacy across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Some of the most exciting and innovating work has begun to examine how notions of gender as well as masculinity and femininity shape emotional and personal relations with partners, spouses, children, and extended family members and how those relationships, in turn, impact their experiences with migration, community formation, and their interactions with the state, among other topics.
Building on this rich emerging literature, we solicit proposals for papers that explore deeply and widely themes of gender and intimacy as well as sexuality and identity in/on and across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. We define gender and intimacy broadly. While we consider gender as the social and cultural roles assigned to biological males and females that construct them as a multiplicity of feminine and masculine subjects, we treat intimacy as an emotional and personal expression of love and desire as well as affection between two or more people that is performed or enacted across a variety of spaces, places, and relationships, including marriage, courtship, and the family as well as in homosocial relations and contexts. We also treat the U.S.-Mexico borderlands loosely, regarding it as a region of diverse social, political, economic, and cultural interactions, inconsistencies, contradictions, conflicts, and violence, that is bisected by an international boundary separating and joining peoples of different genders, races, ethnicities, classes, and sexual orientations.
Topics of Interest Include

Courtship, marriage, and migration in the borderlands
Gender, race, and ethnicity in the borderlands
Family and community formation in the borderlands
Sexuality and intimacy in the borderlands
Sexual violence in the borderlands
State power and practices regulating gender and intimacy in the borderlands
Masculinity and manhood in the borderlands
Queer bodies in the borderlands
Queer and transgender activists and activism in the borderlands

Goals of the Workshop
Our goals are to bring together scholars of all ranks (including graduate students) who are willing to share their work, provide constructive feedback to fellow presenters, and publish their papers. After the workshop, we plan to invite all participants to submit revised papers for consideration in a Special Issue of the Pacific Historical Review, pending peer and editorial review. Note: The editor of the journal will attend the workshop to see the work in progress.
Logistics of the Workshop & Keynote Speaker
All selected workshop participants will receive complimentary accommodations for one night near the UCSB campus. Transportation between the accommodations and the UCSB campus will also be provided. Dinner the evening before the event as well as a continental breakfast and lunch the day of the event are also included. Transportation costs to UCSB from home institutions are not included.

Schedule

SCHEDULE
September 30, 2016

5:00-5:15 pm: Welcome & Introduction, Sharon Farmer, Chair & Professor, History
5:15-6:00 pm: Keynote Speaker, Dr. Alexandra M. Stern, Professor of American Culture, Women’s Studies, History, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan.
6:00-8:00 pm: Catered Dinner & Informal Discussion

October 1, 2016

8:00-8:45 am: Coffee, Tea, and Light Refreshments
8:45-9:00 am: Welcome & Introductions, Miroslava Chávez-Garcia & Verónica Castillo-Muñoz
9:00-10:30 am: Session I: Cultural Studies, Media, & Personal Narratives in Contemporary U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Laura Barraclough, Assistant Professor, American Studies, Yale University, “Charro Masculinity in Motion: Gender, Sexuality, and the Family on Hulu’s Los Cowboys”
Juan Llamas-Rodríguez, Ph.D. Student, Film & Media, UCSB, “The Familial Ties of the Female NarcoTrafficker”
Jennifer Tyburczy, Assistant Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSB, “Sex Toys After NAFTA: Transnational Class Politics, Erotic Consumerism, and the Economy of Female Pleasure in Mexico City”
Deborah Boehm, Associate Professor, Anthropology, UN Reno, “Divided by Citizenship: Mixed-Status Partnerships in the United States and Mexico”
Commentators: D. Inés Casillas, Associate Professor, Chicana/o Studies, UCSB, & Leisy Abrego, Associate Professor, Chicana/o Studies, UCLA
Audience: Comment

10:45 am-12:15 pm: Session II: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender, Marriage, and Intimacy in 20th-Century U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Celeste Menchaca, Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies and Ethnicity, USC, “Staging Crossings: Policing and Performing Difference at the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1906-1917”
Marla A. Ramírez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Sociology and Sexuality Studies, SFSU, “Transnational Gender Formations: A Banished U.S. Citizen Woman Negotiates Motherhood & Marriage Across the U.S.-Mexico Border”
Jane Lily López, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, UCSD, “Together and Apart: Mixed-Citizenship Couples in the Mexican Border Region”
Commentators: Denise Segura, Professor, Sociology, UCSB, & Veronica Castillo-Muñoz, Assistant Professor, History, UCSB
Audience: Comment

Lunch Break: 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Session III: Contesting Gender, Family, and Marriage in the 19th-Century U.S.-Borderlands

Margie Brown-Coronel, Assistant Professor, History, CSU, Fullerton, “History Makers in the Borderlands: Josefa Del Valle and Legacy Building in California, 1880 to 1940”
Amy Langford, Ph.D. Candidate, History, American University, “Saints on the Border: Plural Marriage and the Contest for Authority in the Mormon Colonies of Mexico, 1885 to 1915”
Erika Pérez, Assistant Professor, History, University of Arizona, “The Zamorano-Daltons and the Unevenness of U.S. Conquest in California: A Borderland Family at the Turn of the 20th Century”
Commentators: James Brooks, Professor, History & Anthropology, UCSB, & Miroslava Chávez-García, Professor, History, UCSB
Audience: Comment

3:00-3:15 pm: Concluding Remarks & Publishing Timeline

Miroslava Chávez-García, Verónica Castillo-Muñoz, & Marc Rodríguez, Editor, Pacific Historical Review

Dinner: 5:00 – 8:00 pm @ home of Miroslava Chávez-García

Keynote Speaker Biography
Dr. Alexandra Minna Stern, Professor of American Culture, Women’s Studies, History, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan, will provide they keynote talk on “Gender and Intimacy Across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.” Author of Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in America, 2d. ed. (UC Press, 2015) and Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (John Hopkins University Press, 2012) as well as numerous articles on the history of public health in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Professor Stern is a leading voice in unraveling the dynamics of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, disability, social difference, and reproductive politics in the United States and Latin America.

Accommodations & Transportation

Hotel Accommodations
Best Western Plus, South Coast Inn
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Goleta, California, 93117-2319, US
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For more information, please contact Miroslava Chavez-Garcia at mchavezgarcia@chicst.ucsb.edu or (53) 219-3933 or Veronica Castillo-Muñoz at castillomunoz@history.ucsb.edu

UCSB's History Associates "Much Ado about Nothing" Sponsored Lecture
2016-10-02 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join UCSB’s History Associates at 12pm on October 2 in HSSB 4020 (the History Department’s Conference Room) for lunch and a talk by Irwin Appel, Professor of Theater and Director of the BFA Actor Training Program at UCSB. We will then proceed to the nearby Studio Theater for the 2pm performance of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (directed by Professor Appel). This timeless story of two of literature’s all-time greatest lovers, Beatrice and Benedick, features some of the wittiest banter in all of Shakespeare. Last year, Appel created and directed an adaptation of Shakespeare’s history plays titled The Death of Kings that was described by The Santa Barbara Independent as
something tremendous . . . Come, Appel invites the audience, let us sit and tell sad stories about the death of kings. Appel’s work, clearly a labor of passion, is a brilliant version of Shakespeare’s history of England; one that reminds us why Shakespeare is, to this day, still lauded as one of the greatest theatrical storytellers of the age.
For more on Professor Appel and this production of Much Ado About Nothing, see https://secure.lsit.ucsb.edu/dram/d7/news/event/482
To view the flyer for this History Associates-sponsored event, please click here.

"The Specter of Social Engineering: Scientism and its Critics in the Long 1950s" a talk by Andrew Jewett, Harvard University
2016-10-07 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Andrew Jewett’s talk traces fears about science’s cultural impact among intellectual and political leaders and ordinary citizens in postwar America. Jewett is the author of Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War (2012).
A copy of his paper can be found here.

Outlaws and Scofflaws: Pirates and the Making of the Mediterranean - Judith Tucker (Georgetown University)
2016-10-10 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Monday, October 10th, 5:00 pm
IHC McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)
How did the Mediterranean emerge as a coherent and recognizable place in the early modern period? By looking to the semi-licit world of piracy and to the development of its laws and practices in particular, we can trace a convergence of understandings and agreements across Mediterranean space. Ironically enough, these outlaws and scofflaws of the time played major roles in forging the critical connections that drew the shores of the Mediterranean closer in a time of turmoil on the seas. Should we give pirates significant credit for the making of the modern Mediterranean?
Judith E. Tucker (PhD, History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 1981) is Professor of History at Georgetown University and former Editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (2004-2009). She is the author of many publications on the history of women and gender in the Arab world, including Women in 19th Century Egypt (Cambridge University Press, 1985), In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (California University Press, 1998), Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and co-author of Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Restoring Women to History (Indiana University Press, 1999). She has authored numerous articles for professional journals, edited volumes, and encyclopedias. Her research interests focus on the Arab world in the Ottoman period, women and gender in Middle East history, Islamic law, women, and gender, and most recently the Arab World, the Mediterranean, and global connections in the eighteenth century.

Meeting for Winter 2017 Scheduling for History Majors and Minors
2016-10-17 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Registration Begins 10/22!!!!
Are you a first year? A transfer student? New to the Department of History? Just want guidance?
Come learn about all the amazing courses History is offering in Winter quarter and learn how to schedule the most advantageous schedule for YOU!
ALWAYS THINK HISTORY FIRST
The days, times, and locations of all Winter courses have been posted on the
Department of History website since 10/9/2016
Come meet:
MONDAY OCTOBER 17th
HSSB 4020 12pm-2pm

"Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity," a talk by David Sepkoski
2016-10-20 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Why do we care about preserving biodiversity? At the beginning of the 21st century biodiversity has come to be seen as fragile and tenuous, constantly endangered by the threat of loss. Extinction plays a central role in this understanding of biodiversity. Whereas most historians who have examined this phenomenon have placed the modern biodiversity movement in the context of a history of conservation biology and endangered species protection, I want to frame it in a new perspective. This talk will examine the influence of biological theories about the nature and dynamics of extinction—and especially mass extinction—on the current valuation of biological diversity. I will focus particularly on the ways that new understandings of extinction in the past—for example, the extinction of the dinosaurs—have converged with scientific and cultural anxieties about the present—the specters of global warming, nuclear war, and biodiversity loss. I will argue that this new model of extinction has played a prominent conceptual and rhetorical role in debates surrounding the current biodiversity crisis, which I will examine in critical historical perspective.
David Sepkoski is Senior Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin
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Suez at Sixty: Remembering the Suez Crisis and War of 1956
2016-10-20 19:30 - 2016-10-21 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 6020 (McCune Room), University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
This fall marks the 60th anniversary of the Suez War of 1956, a pivotal moment in Egyptian, Middle Eastern, and international history. In response to Egypt’s nationalization of the Suez Canal Company, Britain, France, and Israel launched a coordinated military assault against Egypt. The United States, the Soviet Union, and much of the international community strongly opposed this move, eventually compelling the aggressors to withdraw their forces from Egypt. These events signaled a new complexity in the Cold War and hastened the decline of British and French empire in the Arab world, permitting the United States and the Soviet Union to increase their own involvement in the region while also accelerating the broader decolonization movement.
Smoke rises from oil tanks beside the Suez Canal; November 1956
To bring out these areas of significance and connection, members of the UCSB community will host a two-day program of events:
On THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, at 7:30 PM in HSSB 6020, we will screen the BBC documentary film “The Other Side of Suez,” a riveting reconstruction of the Suez Crisis and War that brings out the perspectives of numerous international actors: Egypt, Israel, Britain, France, the United States, the Soviet Union, and other nations. Following the documentary, which runs for one hour, Professor Joel Gordon of the University of Arkansas will lead a discussion of the issues raised by the film.
On FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, from 1:30 to 5:30 PM in the UNIVERSITY CENTER HARBOR ROOM, we will host a series of insightful academic talks by a diverse array of scholars, from UCSB and elsewhere, each focusing on a different aspect of the Suez Crisis and its legacy. The speakers include:

Jennifer Derr, Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Muriam Haleh Davis, Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Joel Gordon, Professor of History and Director of the King Fahd Center at the University of Arkansas
Dwight Reynolds, Professor of Religious Studies, UCSB
Sherene Seikaly, Associate Professor of History, UCSB
Salim Yaqub, Professor of History, UCSB

A more detailed schedule of the Friday talks is available here
Both events are free and open to the public. Delicious refreshments, also free of charge, will be served.

Lecture by Dr. Lella Gandini on Early Childhood Education
2016-10-24 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
“Early Childhood Education and Society in Post-War Italy:
The Case of Reggio Emilia”
In Northern Italy in the late 1960’s, within the context of the emerging Italian feminist movement and of social protests advocating for better social services, child care, and schools for young children, the city of Reggio Emilia developed an innovative system for the education of young children. Parents, citizens and new immigrants alike, were included as owners and participants. Teachers, moreover, collaborated with school psychologist Loris Malaguzzi in developing a system of documentation for their innovative work in the preschool setting.
Dr. Gandini, the U.S. liaison for the Reggio Emilia Program, is the co-author of The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach-Advanced Reflections; Bambini: The Italian Approach to Infant/Toddler Care; In the Spirit of the Studio: Learning from the Atelier of Reggio Emilia; and Loris Malaguzzi and the Teachers: Dialogues on Collaboration and Conflict Among Children.

"The Forgotten Wine Porters of Northern Italy and their Forgotten Saint, 1200-1900" a talk by Lester K. Little (Smith College)
2016-10-24 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join us for Professor Lester K. Little’s lecture, “The Forgotten Wine Porters of Northern Italy and their Forgotten Saint, 1200-1900.”
Little is Professor Emeritus at Smith College and the author of Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe; Benedictine Maledictions; and Indispensable Immigrants: The Wine Porters of Northern Italy and their Saint, 1200-1800 (Manchester Univ. Press, 2015).

"Diplomacy as a Means of Political Survival: The Cities and Duchies of the Northern Holy Roman Empire in relation to France, 1650–1730," a talk by Indravati Félicité
2016-10-27 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
“Diplomacy as a Means of Political Survival: The Cities and Duchies of the Northern Holy Roman Empire in relation to France, 1650–1730”
Talk by Indravati Félicité, Maîtresse de conférences, Université Paris-Diderot (Paris VII)
October 27 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm in HSSB 4020
Indravati Félicité is the author of Négocier pour exister. Les villes et duchés du nord de l’Empire face à la France 1650–1730 (Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2016). This talk analyzes France’s impact on the politics of the Hanseatic cities of Lübeck, Bremen, and Hamburg and the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp and Mecklenburg-Schwerin at the time of King Louis XIV. This was a period of change in the constitutional premises of the Holy Roman Empire. For these German “states” as well as for the diplomats and statesmen involved in these relations, negotiation and diplomacy became a matter of life and death, essential for safeguarding the existence of their governments. The place held by the diplomats in this process underlines the importance of their networks and reveals their contribution to the genesis of the early modern State.

Prof. Cavan Concannon (USC): "An Assemblage Approach to Early Christianity, Deleuze, Latour, and the Letters of Dionysios of Corinth"
2016-10-28 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4080, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Modern historians map the diversity of early Christianity in a variety of ways, from declines into heresy to competition among “varieties” of early Christianities. Drawing particularly on the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze and Bruno Latour, Concannon argues that we might better map the remains of second-century Christianity by focusing on networks of people, ideas, and letters that moved along broader patterns of trade and communication in the eastern Mediterranean. Focusing on the costs, velocities, and viscosities of movement and commerce, he examines the network associated with Dionysios of Corinth, whose writings come to us only as fragments and summaries in Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History. Concannon shows how non-human actants such as geography, economic activity, and trade routes shape the interactions within Dionysios’ network, allowing us to think more broadly about second-century Christianity as a series of emergent networks that form, coalesce, and dissolve in the flow of movement and connectivity that characterized the Roman Mediterranean. Sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands RFG.

Democracy and Its Opponents in the 2016 Elections
2016-10-28 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Beyond the horse race, UCSB faculty from a variety of disciplines and viewpoints consider the larger meaning of the campaign and its implications for U.S. society and politics. Participants in this special panel include Paul Amar, Global Studies; Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, Chicano/a Studies; Hahrie Han, Political Science; and Alice O’Connor, History.

David Laitin speaks on Muslim integration
2016-10-28 13:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Stanford political scientist David Laitin will speak about his new book (with Claire L. Adida and Marie-Anne Valfort), Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies (Harvard, 2016). The lecture will take place on October 28 at 1 p.m., in Buchanan 1930. Sponsored by the IHC Research Focus Group on Identity and the Center for Middle East Studies.

Professor Timon Screech (SOAS) speaks on "God, Art, and Money in the First English Voyages to Japan, 1611-1623"
2016-11-02 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | SSMS 2135, Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join the RFG Reinventing Japan in welcoming Professor Timon Screech (SOAS, University College London) to campus on November 2, 2016. Professor Screech will be presenting his new work on “The Shogun’s Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the First English Voyages to Japan, 1611-1623.” The talk will be held in SSMS 2135 at 4pm on November 2, 2016.

Co-sponsored by the departments of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, History, Economics, History of Art and Architecture, Global Studies, the East Asia Center, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

Giuliana Perrone Speaks on Reconstruction-Era Courts and Legacies of Slavery
2016-11-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4065, 4065 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Giuliana Perrone, new Assistant Professor in the History Department, will give a talk at the IHC on the role the courts played in (re)constructing the lives of black families. Perrone will discuss the problems and possibilities Reconstruction-era courts presented to former slaves and the legal system in “Slaves into Citizens: Legitimizing Black Domestic Relationships in Reconstruction-Era State Courts” This talk is one of a series of lectures put together by the IHC’s Research Focus Group (RFG) on Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom. Perrone’s larger current project,”Litigating Emancipation: Slavery’s Legal Afterlife, 1865-1877,” explores the ways that slavery and the court system remained relevant after emancipation and how concepts of race shaped legal and political identities over time.

Sophie Desrosiers speaks on Precolumbian Andean Textiles
2016-11-03 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
“Looking at the Central Andes from a Textile Viewpoint: How Textiles Shaped Peruvian Space from the Early Horizon to the Incas”
Professor Sophie Desrosiers brings together archeological evidence and observations of contemporary practice in order to reconstruct historical textile practices. Her main areas of study are the Andes, Xinjiang archaeological textiles, and silk between China and Europe during the Late Antique and Medieval periods.
Professor Desrosiers is the maîtresse de conferences at the Centre de Recherches Historiques at the EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales).

Prof. Alice O'Connor on "Democracy Matters: The Road to Self-Governance in Isla Vista"
2016-11-03 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davidson Library (UCSB), Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
On November 8 Isla Vista residents will take part in a historic vote that will determine the future of self-governance in the community. With ballot initiatives E and F, they will weigh in on proposals to create a new Community Services District with an elected board, and a utility tax to empower it to provide locally-controlled services. Drawing on the UCSB Library’s extensive historical holdings as well as the contemporary scene, Professor of History Alice O’Connor will discuss the issues, debates, and traditions of community-based activism that have brought Isla Vista to this important point of decision about its political future, and what’s at stake in the vote. The talk will be in the Library Special Research Collections Room, 3rd floor of UCSB Davidson Library, Mountain Side.

History Department Panel - UCSB Parents' Weekend - Protest and Politics in Historical Perspective
2016-11-04 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020), Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
“Protest and Politics in Historical Perspective,” Panelists:
Professor Giuliana Perrone, PhD UC Berkeley, “Black Lives Matter in Context: The Long HIstory of Black Activism in America”
Professor Nelson Lichtenstein, PhD UC Berkeley, “$15 an Hour: Is it a Social Movement?”
Professor Alice O’Connor, PhD Johns Hopkins University, “By the People: Self-Governance and the Isla Vista Ballot Initiatives”
Q&A and Reception to follow the presentations

Phi Alpha Theta Meeting: Learn About CSU Long Beach's M.A. in History Program
2016-11-07 15:30 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Please join UCSB’s Phi Alpha Theta and the History Club in welcoming Dr. David Shafer, Chair of the Department of History at CSU-LB. Dr. Shafer will be on campus to introduce the M.A. in History Program at CSULB.

Five Centuries of Mortality: The Second Plague Pandemic in Comparative Perspective, Egypt, 1347 - 1844 CE Stuart Borsch (Assumption College)
2016-11-07 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4080, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
This talk will analyze the impact of the Second plague pandemic in Egypt (1347-1844 CE). The Second plague pandemic refers to the long series of epidemics that struck the Middle East and Europe, starting with the Black Death, 1347-1351 CE. This pandemic generally lasted until the early 1700s in Europe, but longer in the Middle East. Why was this? Professor Borsch explores this question and the possible connection to the economic and technological divergence between Europe and the Middle East between the 1300s and 1800s. Borsch also takes a comparative perspective, looking at the dynamics of this long-term catastrophe by studying the mortality of the urban (Cairo, Alexandria, Qus, Asyut) and rural plague outbreaks in the Mamluk and Ottoman periods and into the modern period, 1347-1844. His talk will include some comparative perspectives with Syrian population losses.
Co-sponsored by the King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies and the Center for Middle East Studies

Digital History Workshop: Mapping Spartacus: The Topography of Servitude and Rebellion --
2016-11-14 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Public History Reading Room, HSSB 3027, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Spartacus is a historical figure that has captured the imagination of millions since he escaped from that gladiatorial school in Capua over two millennia ago. This workshop looks at the historical sources for the Third Servile War (73-71 BCE) and then introduces basic digital approaches to mapping the movement of Spartacus and his supporters through the Italic peninsula, based on these surviving texts and using geodata from the Pleiades Project. No knowledge of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is required for this workshop, just an interest in Roman history, the geography of rebellion, and the use of texts to reconstruct the topography of social history. Led by Sarah Bond, professor of History and Classics at the University of Iowa, and regular blogger for Forbes Magazine on connections between the ancient and modern worlds, this is another of our events to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the founding of Public History at UCSB.
Please RSVP to Professor James Brooks.

Monumental Mausolea: Building Projects and Slave Labor from Antiquity to the World Cup
2016-11-14 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 3041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Sarah Bond, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa, will examine the use of slave labor in monumental building through a broad historical lens. The use of contracted and slave labor for large building projects has roots going back to antiquity. The Pyramids at Giza, the Baths of Caracalla, the Great Wall of China, and, now, the sports arenas being erected for the Qatar World Cup in 2022 have all relied upon thousands of workers in order to build these monumental structures. Despite the hands of thousands contributing to the creation of these landmark buildings, the lives of the contracted workers, slaves, and freed-persons who labored and often died while working on them have been largely invisible. This lecture examines the politics of celebrating a building such as the Colosseum or the White House while disregarding the contributions and sacrifices of the slaves that made these works possible. It also asks: what new landscapes of memory, commemoration, and public appreciation can be created when we notify the public of the extensive input of slaves?
Sponsored by the IHC’s Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom RFG, the Dept. of Classics, the Public History Program, and the IHC’s Ancient Borderlands RFG.

"China and the 2008 Riots in Tibet: What Happened, and How Do We Know?" with Prof. Zheng
2016-11-20 16:30 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Goleta Valley Public Library, 500 N. Fairview Avenue, Goleta, CA, 93117, United States
UCSB’s Professor Xiaowei Zheng (November 20 at 4:30PM at the Goleta Public Library) will discuss the difficulties in assessing the 2008 riots in Tibet. The rioting that began on March 14 in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, spread quickly to other Tibetan cities. In Lhasa, rioters targeted Han Chinese merchants who suffered injuries, casualties, and massive property damage. In the crackdown that followed, the authorities arrested over a thousand Tibetans. Controversy quickly emerged over allegations that there had been serious inaccuracies and biases in reports about the coverage of the riots in the international media. Zheng will analyze the coverage, drawing upon video images and press accounts. The media stories shaped people’s understanding of the events, demonstrating how challenging it can be even to know the very recent past.

"The Devil's Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic," A Talk by Sasha Disko
2016-12-01 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s burgeoning motorcycle culture. With automobiles largely a luxury of the upper classes, motorcycles complexly symbolized masculinity and freedom, embodying a widespread desire to embrace progress as well as profound anxieties over the course of social transformation. Through its richly textured account of the motorcycle as both icon and commodity,The Devil’s Wheels teases out the intricacies of gender and class in the Weimar years.

Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster Brown Bag
2016-12-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB, location TBD, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster will meet periodically throughout the year for brown bag lunches to read and workshop works-in-progress from members of the research cluster.
On December 5th, Sarah Case will discuss, “Juliette Derricotte, Mildred Rutherford Mell, and the Limits of Interwar Interracialism.” Draft papers will be distributed before the event, and all participants will be invited to offer feedback to the author.
Contact history-gender-cluster@history.ucsb.edu for more information or to join the Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster

Mariel Aquino, "'A unique case in the world of football": Athletic Club de Bilbao, Nationalism, and Basque Exceptionalism.”
2017-01-09 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 4080, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster invites all to attend a paper workshop by Mariel Aquino. The paper explores the construction of masculinity and Basque nationalism through an examination of football (soccer), specifically the Athletic Club de Bilbao. This is a paper workshop so please try to read the paper in advance.
Mariel Aquino is graduate student in the history department, writing a dissertation on Basque immigration and national identities in the American West in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
Click Here to Download Paper: Aquino
