Department of History, UC Santa Barbara

Vic Geraci, Wine by Design: Santa Barbara’s Quest for Terroir
2020-02-18 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | HSSB 3208, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
The Public History program presents a talk by Vic Geraci about his new book, Wine by Design: Santa Barbara’s Quest for Terroir (Nevada, 2020).
A graduate of UCSB’s program in Public Historical Studies, Geraci taught public history at Central Connecticut State University and served as historian of food and wine at the Regional Oral History at the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley. Come learn about the practice of oral history, agricultural and food history, and the history of the wine industry in our county. There will be refreshments.

Gender Studies Paper Workshop: Kristen Thomas-McGill’s "'Even His Lungs Were Affected': Aubrey Beardsley, Earnestness, and the Artistic Politics of Interiority"
2020-02-20 15:30 | HSSB 4065, 4065 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Join the Gender and Sexualities Research Cluster for a paper workshop on Kristen Thomas-McGill‘s “‘Even His Lungs Were Affected’: Aubrey Beardsley, Earnestness, and the Artistic Politics of Interiority.” The event will take place in HSSB 4065 on Thursday, February 20 at 3:30. To obtain the paper in advance, email Jarett Henderson at jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu.

History Club Weekly Meetings
2020-02-20 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-02-27 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-03-05 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-03-12 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-03-19 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-03-26 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-04-02 19:00 - 21:00, 2020-04-09 19:00 - 21:00 and 7 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.

Grace Peña Delgado, "Mexico's New Slavery: A Critique of Neo-Abolitionism to Combat Human Trafficking"
2020-02-21 13:00 - 15:00 | HSSB 4041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy‘s Winter Quarter speaker series, Grace Peña Delgado (History, UC Santa Cruz) will present “Mexico’s New Slavery: A Critique of Neo-Abolitionism to Combat Human Trafficking.” Delgado is the author of Making the Chinese American: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (2012) and co-author of Latino Immigrants in the United States (2011). Delgado participates in the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Project on Trafficking, Smuggling, and Illicit Migration in Historical and Gendered Perspective. She is also a collaborator with Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition working group on modern day slavery.
Contact Nelson Lichtenstein for a copy of Professor Delgado’s papger.
Click here to download the flyer for this event.

Jill Lepore, The Case for the Nation
2020-02-21 15:00 - 16:30 | HSSB 3041, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Join Harvard historian and New Yorker columnist Jill Lepore for informal conversation about her recent work on democracy and national identity. Open to all, undergraduates especially encouraged to attend.

Tory Swim Inloes, “History for Hire”
2020-02-25 12:00 - 13:00 | HSSB 3208, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
As part of the Public History speaker series, Tory Swim Inloes (UCSB alumna), will discuss her work as a freelance public historian, including work in oral history. She has also worked as curator the the Rancho Los Cerritos Historic Site in Long Beach. Learn about the opportunities available for independent public historians as consultants for nonprofits, communities, and individuals.
A light lunch will be served; please RSVP to scase@history.ucsb.edu.

Brandon Seto, "Doctorates Without Borders: Careers in Government, Advocacy, and Communication for PhDs"
2020-02-28 11:15 | HSSB 4020, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
On February 28, Dr. Brandon Seto, Senior Floor Consultant to California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (and a 2010 UCSB history PhD), will give a talk entitled “Doctorates Without Borders: Careers in Government, Advocacy, and Communication for PhDs,” about employment opportunities outside academia available to holders of PhDs.
The talk, which is sponsored by UCSB’s Public History Program, is free and open to the public, and a delicious lunch will be served. All are welcome to attend, and graduate students are especially encouraged to do so.
Click here to download the flyer for this event.

Sara Beam, "Missing Babies and Tacit Tolerance of Infanticide in Early Modern Europe"
2020-02-28 15:30 - 17:00 | HSSB 4080, 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States
Aggressive criminal prosecution of unwed mothers who killed their newborns in early modern Europe (1550-1750) has led historians to assume that Europe was less tolerant of illegitimacy and infanticide than other pre-modern societies, including China and Japan. New research throws this assumption into question. In early modern Geneva, authorities often turned a blind eye to the untimely deaths and abandonment of unwanted bastards. These findings suggest that Europeans took a more practical approach to managing fertility than we had thought.
Sara Beam, Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria (Canada), is the author of numerous works on judicial violence, including torture, in early modern Europe, with a special expertise on the city of Geneva. She is especially interested in the definition and prosecution of early modern “women’s” crimes, including infanticide and adultery. She is completing a book manuscript on the decline of judicial torture in Europe from 1550-1750 and an edition and translation of a seventeenth-century infanticide trial. Her first book, Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France (2007), won the Roland H. Bainton Prize for History.
This lecture is funded by the Department of History, the Department of French and Italian, the Early Modern Center, the Hull Chair in Women’s Studies, and the I.H.C.
Download the flyer: Beam flyer

Information Session on minor in Poverty, Inequality, and Social Justice
2020-04-22 10:00 - 11:00, 2020-04-28 15:00 - 16:00 | CA
Interested in poverty, inequality, and social justice? Hoping to pursue those interests through interdisciplinary coursework? Trying to find ways to engage in concrete efforts to address inequality and promote democratic social change?

Come learn more about the new undergraduate Minor in Poverty, Inequality, and Social Justice, housed in the History Department and affiliated with the Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy. This interdisciplinary minor provides students with the tools to understand the structural and political roots, dynamics and consequences of poverty and intersectional inequality; conduct original research; and engage meaningfully in efforts to address poverty through policy, practice and social action. In this session we will also discuss how the Minor is proceeding in light of guidelines related to COVID-19 in Spring and Summer 2020.
Join us for a virtual information session about this minor on Wednesday, April 22nd from 10-11AM (using this link) or Tuesday, April 28th from 3-4PM (using this Zoom link). Please RSVP with Joanne Nowak (joanne.nowak@ucsb.edu).

VIRTUAL TALK: Alan Liu, "Friending the Past: The Sense of History in the Digital Age"
2020-05-04 11:00 - 12:00 | CA
Alan Liu (English, UCSB), Friending the Past: The Sense of History in the Digital Age

Date/Time: Monday, May 4 from 11am-12pm PST

Abstract: “Can today’s society, increasingly captivated by a constant flow of information, share a sense of history? How did our media-making forebears balance the tension between the present and the absent, the individual and the collective, the static and the dynamic—and how do our current digital networks disrupt these same balances? Can our social media, with its fleeting nature, even be considered social at all? In Friending the Past, Alan Liu proposes fresh answers to these innovative questions of connection. He explores how we can learn from the relationship between past societies whose media forms fostered a communal and self-aware sense of history. Interlaced among these inquiries, Liu shows how extensive ‘network archaeologies’ can be constructed as novel ways of thinking about our affiliations with time and with each other.

Attendance Request Form: If you’re interested in attending this virtual talk, please click on the following URL and fill out the following attendance request form. During the days leading up to the presentation, the event’s host, Brian J Griffith, will send you the schedule, along with a Zoom meeting URL and accompanying password.

URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYDHH0i7fZ0MZInNacm1pl6iOPGR9qsuHHDyIE_-5EqPQRvA/viewform

Senior Honors Thesis Virtual Information Session
2020-05-04 16:00 - 17:00 | CA
Interested in applying for the 2020-21 History Senior Honors Thesis? Join Professor Debra Blumenthal and Undergraduate Advisor Corey Carpenter on Monday, May 4th from 4-5pm for a virtual information session. At this meeting we will be giving a general overview of the honors thesis course and colloquium, discussing details on how to apply, and leaving time for a Q&A. Use this Zoom link to join the meeting. It is highly recommended that you attend if you plan to apply. If you are unable to attend the meeting, please email Corey Carpenter for a briefing of what was discussed.
See the call for applications for details on how to apply, and prerequisites for the course > Invitation to Apply.

Virtual Paper Workshop: Victoria Cosby (Queen's University), "Sisters Suffering Separation: Harriet Dobbs Cartwright and her Siblings Spread from Upper Canada to India"
2020-05-08 15:00 - 16:30 | CA
Join the Gender and Sexualities research cluster for a Virtual Paper Workshop Friday, 8 May 2020, at 3:00 PM. That day we will discuss Victoria Cosby’s COVID-cancelled conference paper (email jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu for the Zoom link and a copy) that utilizes Harriet Dobbs Cartwright’s familial letters to Ireland to explore how Cartwright understood the relationship she had with her sisters who were spread from Upper Canada to Ireland to India in the first third of the 19th century.
Victoria is a graduate student in History (women and gender, colonial Canada, and the British world) at Queen’s University where she is completing a dissertation on Cartwright’s life and world. Victoria has TA’d courses on the history of sexuality, the global history of food, and Canada and the world. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Women’s Canadian Historical Society of Toronto Award.

VIRTUAL TALK: Ryan Horne, “Aeolian Alexanders: Coins, Space, and Networks in Ancient Turkey”
2020-05-18 11:00 - 12:00 | CA
Ryan Horne (World History Center, University of Pittsburgh), “Aeolian Alexanders: Coins, Space, and Networks in Ancient Turkey”

Date/Time: Monday, May 18 from 11am-12pm PST

Abstract: “An increasing number of historians and sociologists have theorized empires as a series of interlocking networks of social and political interactions. Less attention has been paid to how digital techniques can be deployed to study the structure of those networks, their geospatial context, or their visualization, especially in the construction of maps. Advances in digital gazetteers, social network analysis software, and historical geographic information systems are fundamentally altering this paradigm, enabling the discovery, modeling, and visualization of complex geospatial networks. Building upon the NEH-funded Aeolian Alexanders project, this talk will discuss how geospatial studies and network analysis are dramatically changing the study of numismatics by examining networks of minting activity in Hellenistic Asia Minor. In addition, this talk will illustrate how existing resources can be leveraged by non-specialists to model the flow of materials and communications between urban centers in the Hellenistic east.”

Attendance Request Form: If you’re interested in attending this virtual talk, please click on the following URL and fill out the following attendance request form. During the days leading up to the presentation, the event’s host, Brian J Griffith, will send you the schedule, along with a Zoom meeting URL and accompanying password.

URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebuXZ8Pd8y397Vd6qtGWyq2RgKn3ZJw9QCJP0VGi3umtol-g/viewform

“Coronavirus and Historical Patterns of Epidemics in Latin America"
2020-05-22 12:00 - 13:30 | CA
A Zoom Talk by Dr. Marcos Cueto
Wednesday, May 13, at 12 pm – 1:30 pm, via Zoom
Abstract. Historical studies on epidemics in Latin America have magnified fragilities in public health structures, revealed the vulnerability of the poor and discovered cases of heroism under adversity. They have also identified an historical trend –revived in the contemporary crisis caused by Covid-19– characterized by a reductionism in the explanation of the social factors that sustain epidemics, insufficient and contradictory official responses and stigma against marginal groups. This presentation will discuss the main historical patterns of response to epidemics in Latin America, especially in Brazil, during the late 20th and early 21st centuries and relate them to the coronavirus pandemic.
Marcos Cueto is Professor of History of Health at the Casa Oswaldo Cruz, FIOCRUZ, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and a Researcher in the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos in Lima. He holds a PhD from Columbia University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Science, Technology and Society Program at the MIT. His major books include A History of the World Health Organization (2019); Medicine and Public Health in Latin America (2016) (co-authored with S. Palmer), which won the 2017 George Rosen Award of the American Association for the History of Medicine; Cold War and Deadly Fevers: Malaria Eradication in Mexico, 1955-1970 (2007), among many others. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, the University of Shanghai, the University College London, L’Institut de hautes études internationales et du dévelopement in Geneva, Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, and New York University and was fellow of the Guggenheim, Mellon, Tinker, Ford, and Rockefeller foundations. He publishes regularly in English, Spanish and Portuguese. For more on his work see https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marcos_Cueto7
* Professor Cueto will be joining us from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This event is organized by the Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies with generous cosponsorship from the Department of History.
Please sign up here to attend: https://bit.ly/LAISTertuliaMay2020 or email lisamcallister@ucsb.edu

Virtual Paper Workshop: Nicky Rehnberg, (UC Santa Barbara), “Women in the Woods: Redwood Conservation at its Early Grassroots"
2020-05-22 15:00 - 16:30 | CA
Join the Gender and Sexualities research cluster for a Virtual Paper Workshop Friday, 22 May 2020, at 3:00 PM. That day we will discuss Nicky Rehnberg’s paper (email jhenderson@history.ucsb.edu for the Zoom link and a copy) that examines the Sempervirens Club’s call to conserve and preserve Coast Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) starting in 1870. Rehnberg argues that the Sempervirens Club’s status as a local, lower-economic, Republican women-run organization negatively impacted the organization’s trajectory and social memory of their work.
Nicky is a UC Santa Barbara graduate student in History studying 19th- and 20th-century Environmental Histories. Her dissertation explores the development of national and state parks in California, particularly focusing on the areas surrounding Sequoia National Park and Redwood National and State Parks. Nicky has TA’d courses in Environmental Studies and Latin American History. In 2018, she was the recipient of UCSB’s Public History Fellowship.
