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-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:20081010T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081010T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T131820 CREATED:20150928T112756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112756Z UID:10001489-1223596800-1223596800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice DESCRIPTION:Fletcher\, a longtime labor and international activist\, is executive editor of Black Commentator and founder of the Center for Labor Renewal. Gapasin is a Central Labor Council President and former professor of Industrial Relations and Chicana/o Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Fletcher is also the author of The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. \nhm 9/22 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/solidarity-divided-the-crisis-in-organized-labor-and-a-new-path-toward-social-justice/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081013T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081013T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T131820 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001600-1223856000-1223856000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Black Masses\, Poltergeists\, and Ritual Sex: Reconstructing the Libertine Topography of West Wycombe\, Buckinghamshire\, UK DESCRIPTION:Jason Kelly is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University of Indiana.\nSince its existence first became public knowledge in the 1760s\, politicians\, critics\, and historians alike have represented the so-called Monks of Medmenham Abbey in a variety of ways. The 4th Earl of Sandwich\, Francis Dashwood\, and John Wilkes\, all early members of the group\, publicized their libertine behaviors — drunkenness and hyper-masculine sexuality in particular. They suggested that the grounds of West Wycombe manor\, the parish church\, and even the local chalk mines had been locations of the monks’ debauchery. Within a generation\, locals were regaling tourists with stories of haunted churchyards and caves\, leading unsuspecting tourists on muddy romps to see the ghosts of the Franciscan Friars. One hundred years later\, the stories of the friars’ haunts had become infused with stories of black magic and satanic orgies. When the National Trust took over the West Wycombe estate and the associated grounds in the 1930s\, the stories about the area had become such a part of the local history that it became central to drawing tourists to West Wycombe. By the 1950s\, the oral histories of the Monks prompted the National Trust to introduce a Disney-esque array of wax figures into the re-opened chalk mines\, promoting stories about eighteenth-century ritualized sex\, ghostly tales\, and black magic in the accompanying literature. The West Wycombe lore found a ready audience\, andthe popularized version of black masses\, poltergeists\, and sex rituals found\nrepetition in late twentieth-century history writing\, X-Men comics\, and even a Japanese cartoon series. \nThrough a virtual walking tour through West Wycombe\, this paper is\, in part\, an attempt to separate the factual from the mythological stories surrounding the eighteenth-century Monks of Medmenham Abbey. More importantly\, however\, it shows why the telling and retelling of the stories about the monks — in particular stories about their libertinism — have remained important to the construction of elite identity into the twenty-first century. \njwil 10.x.08 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/black-masses-poltergeists-and-ritual-sex-reconstructing-the-libertine-topography-of-west-wycombe-buckinghamshire-uk/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081015T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081015T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T131820 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001594-1224028800-1224028800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Malaria\, Witchcraft\, Infant Cemeteries and the Fall of Rome DESCRIPTION:This lecture examines evidence from an ancient Roman infant cemetery recently discovered at Lugnano in Teverina (Umbria). The cemetery contained forty-eight bodies. DNA testing techniques recently developed by Robert Sallares of the University of Manchester have revealed that the bodies contain evidence of an epidemic of plasmodium falciparum malaria. The cemetery also offers evidence of witchcraft and puppy sacrifice ca. A.D. 450. Circumstantial and physical evidence suggest that the area of Umbria / Tuscany may have become a malarial zone contributing to the fall of Rome.\nDavid Soren is Regents Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona\, and Director of the Orvieto Institute in Umbria. He holds a B.A. in Greek & Roman Studies from Dartmouth\, and an M.A. in Fine Arts and a Ph.D. in Archaeology from Harvard. He has done extensive field work in Cyprus\, Italy\, Portugal\, and Tunisia\, and has received numerous honors and awards for his work. \nThis is the annual Sandra Church Lecture. The Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America gratefully acknowledges the support of Sandra Church in making this lecture possible. \nIf you wish to attend this lecture and need special assistance due to a disability please call (805) 893-3556. \njwil 01.x.08 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/malaria-witchcraft-infant-cemeteries-and-the-fall-of-rome/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081017T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081017T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T131820 CREATED:20150928T112756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112756Z UID:10001490-1224201600-1224201600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Working-Class Readers\, Libraries and Networks of Self-Education in the Progressive Era DESCRIPTION:Tobias Higbie\, Associate Professor of History at UCLA\, is the author of Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest\, 1880-1930 (2003)\, which won the Philip Taft Labor Prize in Labor History. \nhm 9/22; jwil 08.x.08 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/working-class-readers-libraries-and-networks-of-self-education-in-the-progressive-era/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081019T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081019T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T131820 CREATED:20150928T112756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112756Z UID:10001485-1224374400-1224374400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story DESCRIPTION:Diane Ackerman\, author of the bestselling A Natural History of the Senses and An Alchemy of Mind\, will discuss and sign copies of her latest book\, The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story\, at 3 p.m. on Sunday\, October 19 at UCSB Campbell Hall. This groundbreaking work of nonfiction recounts a story–as powerful as Schindler’s List–of Jan and Antonina Zabinski\, Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism\, who capitalized on the Nazis’ obsession with pureblood animals in order to save over 300 doomed Jewish refugees and Polish resistance fighters by hiding them in the bombed-out cages at the Warsaw Zoo. This free\, public event is presented by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara.\nListen to a Jan. 2008 interview with Diane Ackerman on NPR’s Science Friday. \nhm 7/29; 9/18\, 10/2 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-zookeepers-wife-a-war-story-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081022T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081022T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T131820 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001598-1224633600-1224633600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Ionian Topography and the Spartan Attack on Sardis\, 395 B.C. DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the literary and archaeological/topographical evidence for Agesilaos’ campaign against Sardis in 395 B.C. By reading the conflicting accounts of Xenophon\, the Oxyrhynchus Historian\, and Diodorus Siculus in combination with the ancient topography of the Kaystros Valley\, a plausible case can be made that Agesilaos marched to Sardis via Hypaipa and over Mount Tmolus\, rather than via the Karabel Pass.\nThis talk is sponsored by the interdisciplinary Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information please contact Professor Christine Thomas. \njwil 08.x.08 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/ionian-topography-and-the-spartan-attack-on-sardis-395-b-c/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081022T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081022T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T131820 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001603-1224633600-1224633600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"The Middle East and the Shifting Global Balance\," DESCRIPTION:For the past 35 years\, the US has been unquestionably the dominant power in both the Middle East and the world. But now\, the global balance is shifting rapidly; we are hurtling into a post-unipolar world. As during earlier periods of deep global change\, developments in the Middle East have been intimately involved. (What comparisons are valid between the tripartite invasion of Egypt in 1956 and President Bush’s invasion of Iraq in 2003?). How might the present– and continuing– shift in global power affect the Middle East? \nhm 10/22 \nHelena Cobban is an internationally known journalist and author\, with a focus on the Middle-East. She has worked for several years as a Beirut-based correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor\, and The Sunday Times of London. She is the author of “Re-engage America and the World After Bush.” Ms. Cobban received her B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University. \nSponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies\, the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies\, the MA Program in Global and International Studies\, and the Department of History \nFor questions\, please contact CMES at 805-893-4245 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-middle-east-and-the-shifting-global-balance/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081024T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081024T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T131820 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001607-1224806400-1224806400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Conference "Domesticity\, Affect\, Intimacy\, Power\, and Justice" DESCRIPTION:Friday\, Saturday\, & Sunday\, October 24 – 26\, 2008University of California\, Santa Barbara\nMcCune Conference Room (6020 HSSB) \n7:30pm Friday October 23\nKEYNOTE: Intimate Justice\nTricia Rose\, Africana Studies\, Brown University\n______________________________ \n9pm Friday October 24\nDomesticity and Normativity\nLisa Duggan\, Program in American Studies\, New York University\nRespondents:\nErin Ninh\, UCSB Asian Ameri can Studies\nSohail Daulatzai\, UCI African Ameri can Studies\n______________________________ \n10am Saturday October 25\nGenteel Apartheid: The Affect of Power\nDaniel HoSang\, Departments of Political Science and Ethnic Studies\, University of Oregon\n______________________________ \n11:30am Saturday October 25\nOrphans of Modernism\nOndine Chavoya\, Department of Latino/a Studies and Department of Art\, Williams College\nRespondents:\nPaula Ioanide\, Center for the Study of Culture\, Race\, and Ethnicity\, Ithaca College\nDavid Garcia\, UCSB Postdoctoral Fellow\n______________________________ \n2PM Saturday October 25\nPanel Discussion:\nArt\, Affect\, and Activism\nRickey Kim\, Evil Monito webzine\nMelissa K. Nelson\, Cultural Conservancy and American Indian Studies SFSU\nLisa Nevins\, hip hop activist\nDenise Pacheco\, UCLA School of Education\nPepe Urquijo\, Film Maker\n______________________________ \n10am Sunday October 26\nPlanning Session for a UC-Wide\nRace\, Place\, and Power Network\n3635 South Hall \nAll Friday and Saturday sessions will be held in the McCune Conference Room\n(6020 HSSB) \nAll sessions free and open to the public Sponsored by: University of California Humanities Research Institute; Center for Black Studies Research; Chicano Studies Institute; Asian American Studies Department; Chicano Studies Department; Hull Chair in Feminist Studies; Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Equity\, and Academic Policy; English Department; History Department; Black Studies Department \nhm 10/22 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/conference-domesticity-affect-intimacy-power-and-justice/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081028T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081028T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T131820 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001605-1225152000-1225152000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Sir Thomas Browne\, the Laudian Moment\, and the Birth of Modernity DESCRIPTION:UCSB Renaissance Studies presents the first talk in its new speaker series. There will be a light reception after the talk.\nFor more information contact Stefania Tutino or Jim Kearney. \nhm 10/13/08 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/sir-thomas-browne-the-laudian-moment-and-the-birth-of-modernity/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081029T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081029T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T131820 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001609-1225238400-1225238400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:In Cod We Trust DESCRIPTION:Was John Cabot the first European after the Norse to set foot in North America? Brian Fagan takes us on a fascinating 1\,500-year archaeological and historical journey in search of the answer\, which is closely linked to the importance of fish like cod to Christian doctrine. We begin with Christ’s 40-day fast in the wilderness\, with the symbolism of fish in Christian belief\, in a world of abstinence\, atonement\, fasting and penance. Within a few centuries\, enormous numbers of (now vanished) fish farms appeared throughout Europe. Soon afterward\, a huge international fish trade developed to satisfy an insatiable demand for fish on holy days and during Lent. This is a story of salt\, herrings and cod\, of busses\, doggers\, cogs\, and caravels\, of fishers sailing the North Atlantic in mid-February for Lenten catches. The journey culminates in the discovery of the Newfoundland cod fisheries and with the permanent settlement of New England well before the Pilgrims. This lecture is the opening event of the IHC’s “Food Matters” series.Sponsored by the IHC; part of the “Food Matters” series. \nhm 10/22 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/in-cod-we-trust/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081030T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081030T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T131820 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001493-1225324800-1225324800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:FILM SCREENING: Food for the Ancestors DESCRIPTION:Dias de los Muertos event\nThursday\, October 30 / 5:30 PM\nMcCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\nAs part of its Food Matters series\, the IHC will celebrate the Days of the Dead with a screening of the PBS film Food for the Ancestors. Food for the Ancestors is a culinary-history exploration of Days of the Dead and Mexican traditions\, set in the state of Puebla. \nSponsored by the IHC; part of the “Food Matters” series. \nhm 10/22 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/film-screening-food-for-the-ancestors/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081030T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081030T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T131820 CREATED:20150928T112758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112758Z UID:10001499-1225324800-1225324800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:FILM Seven Days In May DESCRIPTION:Presented by the CCWS Cold War film series.\nThe president of United States has just signed a treaty with the Soviet Union requiring both countries to destroy their nuclear weapons. The polls show the treaty to be unpopular. The charismatic Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff believes that the Soviets will cheat and launch a nuclear surprise attack that would kill hundreds of millions and destroy the United States. To thwart the treaty\, he and a cadre of like-minded officers plot to seize control of the U.S. government. A vigilant colonel\, committed to the U.S. Constitution\, uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time to derail a takeover? The clock is ticking. \nReleased the same year that ushered in Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove\, this John Frankenheimer (Manchurian Candidate) film explored another nightmare scenario of the Cold War – a right-wing military coup in the United States. The book and film were inspired by the disarmament debate at the end of the Eisenhower years and start of the Kennedy years. President John F. Kennedy admired the novel so much that he allowed Frankenheimer to film outside the White House in late 1963\, but the Department of Defense objected to the negative portrayal of the military and refused cooperation. Starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas\, the film is a fine example of Cold War psychological drama at its best. \nWikipedia Seven Daysfilm page \nhm 10/26 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/film-seven-days-in-may/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20081031T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20081031T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T131820 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001494-1225411200-1225411200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Democracy and Knowledge in Classical Athens DESCRIPTION:In this colloquium\, Josiah Ober will draw on his recent book Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens (Princeton University Press\, 2008) to discuss the institutional contexts of democratic knowledge management in classical Athens.\nJosiah Ober is Professor of Classics and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University\, and holds the Constantine Mitsotaki Chair in the School of Humanities and Sciences. \njwil 23.x.08 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/democracy-and-knowledge-in-classical-athens/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR