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:20070311T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20071104T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20080309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20081102T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20090308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20091101T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080302T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080302T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T110743 CREATED:20150928T112751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112751Z UID:10001518-1204416000-1204416000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History Associates and "Idiot's Delight" DESCRIPTION:History Conference Room (HSSB 4020)\nThe Robert Sherwood play\, which won him the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1936\, tells the story of a song and dance man traveling through Europe with a troupe of blonde beauties on the eve of World War II. It was later made into a movie starring Clark Gable and Norma Shearer. After a light lunch and talk by the play’s innovative set designer\, Tal Sanders\, History Associates and guests will adjourn to the nearby Hatlen Theater for a 2 p.m. matinee\, then have an opportunity to participated in a post-play discussion with the cast. Price of lunch and play is $22 for members\, $25 for non-members. Please make reservations by Wednesday\, Feb. 27 through the UCSB Office of Community Relations\, (805) 893-4388. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-and-idiots-delight/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080305T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080305T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T110743 CREATED:20150928T112751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112751Z UID:10001520-1204675200-1204675200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:In Poseidon's Realm: Underwater Archaeology in the Mediterranean DESCRIPTION:About this LectureThe annual Church Lecture is sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America\, and made possible by the generosity of Sandra Church. \nDirections to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art may be found here. \nFor more information about the Archaeological Institute of America\, click here. \nAbout the Speaker\nJohn R. Hale is the Director of Liberal Studies at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. He earned his B.A. at Yale University and his Ph.D. at Cambridge University in England. Dr. Hale teaches introductory courses on archaeology\, as well as more specialized courses on the Bronze Age\, the ancient Greeks\, the Roman world\, Celtic cultures\, Vikings\, and on nautical and underwater archaeology. Dr. Hale’s writing has been published in the journal Antiquity\, The Classical Bulletin\, the Journal of Roman Archaeology\, and Scientific American. He is also the author of Lords of the Sea\, a book about the ancient Athenian navy. Dr. Hale has received many awards for distinguished teaching\, including the Panhellenic Teacher of the Year Award and the Delphi Center Award. An accomplished instructor\, Dr. Hale is also an archaeologist with more than 30 years of fieldwork experience. He has excavated at a Romano-British town in Lincolnshire\, England\, and at the Roman Villa of Torre de Palma in Portugal. He has also carried out interdisciplinary studies of ancient oracle sites in Greece and Turkey\, including the famous Delphic Oracle\, and participated in an undersea search in Greek waters for lost fleets from the time of the Persian Wars. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/in-poseidons-realm-underwater-archaeology-in-the-mediterranean/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080306T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080306T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T110743 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001560-1204761600-1204761600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Recruitment Day is Friday\, March 7 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. DESCRIPTION:The History Department’s annual graduate recruitment day runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday\, March 7.\nHighlights include: 10 a.m. bagel breakfast in HSSB 4208\, informational sessions for admitted applicants (11 a.m.-5 p.m.\, with a break for lunch)\, and a 5 p.m. reception in HSSB 4020. \nA full schedule is now available. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/graduate-recruitment-day-is-friday-march-7-from-10-a-m-to-5-p-m/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080307T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080307T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T110743 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001556-1204848000-1204848000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Saving the Hero: Or\, Why Virgil Was No Plagiarist DESCRIPTION:The fundamental role that imitation played in Latin literature lies beyond any doubt. Ancient readers\, however\, did not deem every act of textual adaptation acceptable\, and in fact relegated some to the category of plagiarism. In addition\, disagreements recurrently arose in Latin literary history regarding whether an author had licitly imitated a source or had illicitly stolen from it. One writer whose reuse of models occasioned such controversy was the poet Virgil. This paper examines an ancient defense of Virgil against plagiarism charges that appears in Macrobius’ Sat. 6.1.1-7. My aims are to explore how the speaker\, Furius Albinus\, understands both plagiarism and its legitimate counterpart\, imitation; to use Albinus’ apology as a springboard for investigating approaches to plagiarism elsewhere in Latin antiquity; and to examine what was at stake in the debate\, so that insights might emerge into how plagiarism was stigmatized and punished in an age before copyright.\nScott McGill is an assistant professor of Classics at Rice University in Houston\, Texas. His book\, Virgil Recomposed: The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity (APA Monograph Series\, Oxford University Press) was published in 2005. His current book project is entitled Plagiarism in Classical Latin Literature. Professor McGill is also co-editing a volume of essays entitled The Roman Empire from the Tetrachy to Theodosius II: Politics\,Society\, Culture\, Religion for Cambridge University Press\, with Cristiana Sogno and Edward Watts. \nThis talk is sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/saving-the-hero-or-why-virgil-was-no-plagiarist/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080307T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080307T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T110743 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001557-1204848000-1204848000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Figurational Sociology: The Critical Potential of a European Approach to American Studies DESCRIPTION:Do scholars in Europe approach American Studies differently than their colleagues in the US? Looking at the history and culture of the United States from a distance\, they indeed show a tendency to ask uncommon questions. European perspectives onto America may also derive from intellectual traditions rooted in specific national schools of thought. A typical European approach\, e.g. French structuralism\, may travel swiftly across the Atlantic and become an integral part of American academia. In other cases\, there is notable resistance to certain ideas or methods. The talk will present a socio-historical approach well-known in Europe and widely neglected in the United States: the method of figurative or processual sociology\, as derived from the theories of the German-Jewish cultural historian Norbert Elias and the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Professor Buschendorf will discuss key concepts of this approach – such as “(de)civilizing processes\,” “habitus\,” “established and outsiders\,” or “(symbolic) power” –with regard to their implied notions of the relationship between individuals and society. Jesse Hill Ford’s almost forgotten novel The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones (1965)\, which highlighted violent eruptions of racial tensions in a small town in Tennessee in the early sixties\, will provide a concrete example of both the conceptual advantages of the figurational approach and the reasons for its neglect. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/figurational-sociology-the-critical-potential-of-a-european-approach-to-american-studies/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080307T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080307T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T110743 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001559-1204848000-1204848000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Current State of Cold War Studies DESCRIPTION:Professor Odd Arne Westad (London School of Economics and Political Science) will discuss the current state of Cold War studies.\nProfessor Westad is the author of The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Time (Cambridge University Press\, 2005)\, which won the Bancroft Prize in 2006. He is currently editing a multi-volume series\, The Cambridge History of the Cold War. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-current-state-of-cold-war-studies/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080313T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080313T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T110743 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001562-1205366400-1205366400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Cold War Legacies and Contemporary Dilemmas DESCRIPTION:Did the Cold War truly end in 1991? In Part III of The Unfinished Cold War Lecture Series\, Professor Melvyn Leffler provides some surprising answers to this question while discussing the Cold War roots of today’s international conflicts. \nMelvyn P. Leffler is a world-renowned expert on the Cold War and serves as the Edward R. Stettinius Professor in the Department of History at the University of Virginia. \nHe is author most recently of an analysis of the Cold War\, For the Soul of Mankind: The United States\, the Soviet Union\, and the Cold War\, which draws on extensive research in American and Soviet archives and offers an account of the forces that constrained Soviet and American leaders in the second half of the 20th century. \nLeffler is also author and editor of many other books and articles on U.S. foreign relations. His volume on the national security policy of the Truman administration\, A Preponderance of Power\, won the prestigious Bancroft Prize and many other awards. Leffler has also written on U.S.-European relations in the inter-war years and on the policies of the George W. Bush administration. He is now co-editing\, with Odd Arne Westad\, the three-volume Cambridge History of the Cold War. \nLeffler has served as the President of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations and has been the recipient of senior fellowships from the Norwegian Nobel Peace Institute\, Woodrow Wilson International Center\, United States Institute of Peace\, Kluge Center of the Library of Congress\, and Lehrman Institute. In 2002-03\, he was the Harmsworth Professor at the University of Oxford\, and\, this past fall\, he was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Christ College\, Cambridge. \nThis lecture is sponsored by the UCSB Center for Cold War Studies and International History and by the Global & International Studies Program. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/cold-war-legacies-and-contemporary-dilemmas/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080314T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080314T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T110743 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001561-1205452800-1205452800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Early Modern Center Conference: Science and Technology\, 1500-1800 DESCRIPTION:The Early Modern Center of the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, in collaboration with the Transcriptions Project\, invites scholars to attend a conference on the Center’s 2007-2008 theme\, “Science & Technology\, 1500-1800.”\nThis one-day interdisciplinary conference will be a forum to explore the interrelated fields of science and technology in the early modern period. We conceive of science and technology as a broad range of social and cultural practices\, cultural and historical formations\, and epistemological perspectives. How and why were systems of knowledge created and proliferated? What particular scientific developments participated in the exploration of the body\, the mind\, time\, and space? How were individuals\, communities\, and nations affected by new systems of knowledge\, particular objects or hardware\, or advanced procedures to accomplish tasks? \nThe program (available online here) will consist of ten panelists representing a variety of disciplines\, as well as the following keynote talks: \nAnn Jensen Adams (History of Art and Architecture\, University of California\, Santa Barbara)\, “The Technology of Time and\nSeventeenth-Century Dutch Painting”\nKevis Goodman (English\, University of California\, Berkeley)\, “Medics and Aesthetics: On the Disease Formerly Known as Nostalgia”\nWilliam R. Newman (History and Philosophy of Science\, Indiana University)\, “Art\, Nature\, Alchemy\, and Newton: The Art-Nature Dichotomy in the Chymistry of Isaac Newton”\nOnline registration for the conference is available here. \nFor more information about the conference\, the Early Modern Center\, and the Transcriptions Project at UCSB\, please visit the conference website. \nThe conference is sponsored by the Early Modern Center; the College of Letters & Sciences (Division of Humanities and Fine Arts); UCSB Graduate Division; the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center; the Department of Theater & Dance; the Department of History of Art and Architecture; the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; the Department of Germanic\, Slavic & Semitic Studies; the Comparative Literature Program; the Department of History; and the Women’s Studies Program. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/early-modern-center-conference-science-and-technology-1500-1800/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080314T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080314T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T110743 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001558-1205452800-1205452800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Globalism\, Islam\, and Democracy in Iran DESCRIPTION:Professor Janet Afary will look at the impact of globalization on Islamic discourses of Iran and the region\, from Pan-Islamism of the late nineteenth century to today’s debates on Reformist Islam.\nJanet Afary has a Ph.D. in Modern Middle East History from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, where she received the Horace H. Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award. Her dissertation also received the annual award for Best Dissertation of the Year from the Foundation for Iranian Studies. She is an Associate Professor of History and Women’s Studies (Joint Appointment)\, and an affiliate Associate Professor of Political Science\, at Purdue University. In 2006 Professor Afary was appointed University Faculty Scholar. This five year appointment is made by Purdue’s President. \nProfessor Afary’s latest book is Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press\, 2008). Her previous publications include The Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Grassroots Democracy\, Social Democracy\, and the Origins of Feminism (Columbia University Press\, 1996)\, which was also translated and published in Iran (Bisotoun\, 2000); and (with Kevin B. Anderson) Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (University of Chicago Press\, 2005). This book received the Latifeh Yarshater Award for Best Book in Iranian Women’s Studies and was a first runner-up for the book award from the Association for Humanist Sociology. Professor Afary has also received year-long fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS). She has served as president of the International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS-MESA\, 2004-2006); the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS-MESA\, 2004-2005)\, and the Coordinating Council for Women in History of the American Historical Association (CCWH-AHA\, 2001-2003). URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/globalism-islam-and-democracy-in-iran/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080317T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080317T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T110743 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001564-1205712000-1205712000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Red Cross Threads of History DESCRIPTION:The Santa Barbara Historical Museum presents “Red Cross Threads of History: A Santa Barbara County Retrospective.”\nCelebrate the American Red Cross’s 116-year-long presence in our county by visiting this exhibit of vintage Red Cross clothing\, photos\, pins\, and posters. \nThe exhibit is at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum\, Covarrubias Adobe\, 136 East De la Guerra Street. Opening hours are 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.\, and admission is free. For more information on this exhibit\, please contact Stephanie Boumediene at (805) 403-1477. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/red-cross-threads-of-history/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20080321T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20080321T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T110743 CREATED:20150928T112753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112753Z UID:10001553-1206057600-1206057600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference DESCRIPTION:The first Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference\, organized by the graduate students of the UCSB Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group\, will be held on Friday\, March 21 and Saturday\, March 22\, 2008.\nConference sessions begin at 1 p.m. on Friday the 21st\, and at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday the 22nd. All sessions will be held in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, on the UCSB Main Campus. To see the full list of panels\, paper titles\, and participants\, download the conference schedule. \nThe conference seeks to build on the foundation laid by contemporary scholars working with borderlands (frontier zones lying along given boundaries\, limits beyond which something– a discipline\, an ethnic group\, a ‘nation’– transforms into something else) by applying borderlands theories and concepts to the ancient world. The articulation\, maintenance\, and even transgression of such boundaries is a vibrant activity that can be observed not only within material culture\, but also in the rhetorical strategies adopted by ancient authors\, in the political and military tactics pursued by those seeking or maintaining power\, or in the establishment of ideological perimeters by believers looking to define or defend their faith. \nGraduate students from various backgrounds and disciplines will present papers\, and they will explore topics\, methods and theoretical concepts including borders both physical and ideological\, methodological approaches from archaeology to literature\, and conceptual tools such as identity and space. \nThe keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr. James F. Brooks\, the President and CEO of the School of American Research and the author of Captives and Cousins: Slavery\, Kinship\, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (2002) as well as the forthcoming Mesa of Sorrows: Archaeology\, Prophecy\, and the Ghosts of the Awat’ovi Pueblo. \nFor directions and parking information\, click here. \nIf you need any additional information about the conference\, please contact Wyatt Rounds (awr@umail.ucsb.edu)\, with “Borderlands Conference” in the subject line. \nThis conference is sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, the Multi-Campus Research Group for Late Antiquity\, the Graduate Division\, and the departments of History\, Religious Studies\, Classics\, Art History\, Anthropology\, and English at UCSB. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/ancient-borderlands-international-graduate-student-conference/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR