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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20100314T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20101107T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090303T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090303T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085008 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001640-1236038400-1236038400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Staged Reading of Ida Fink's "The Table" DESCRIPTION:directed by WILLIAM SMITHERS\nIn Ida Fink’s “The Table\,” four witnesses testify to mass murder in a\nsmall Polish-Jewish town during World War II. But does their testimony\nmatter in a court of law? \nCast:\nProsecutor: William Smithers\nFirst Man: George Backman\nFirst Woman: Dianne Hull\nSecond Man: Ed Giron\nSecond Woman: Danielle Aubuchon \nIda Fink was born in Zbaraz\, Poland (now in the Ukraine) in 1921. She\nspent 1941-42 in the ghetto and escaped using forged identity papers. She\nhas lived in Israel since 1967. “A Scrap of Time and Other Stories”\n(which includes “The Table”) was published in Polish in 1983. Two years\nlater it received the first Anne Frank Prize for Literature. The English\ntranslation\, by Madeline Levine and Francine Prose\, appeared in 1987. Ms.\nFinks’ other works include “The Journey” (1990) and “Traces”(1996) \nThe George J. Wittenstein lecture series\, created to commemorate and\ncontinue the legacy of civic courage of Dr. George J. Wittenstein\, who\nparticipated in two resistance groups against Hitler’s dictatorship\,\nsponsors one to three lectures every year. \nIn 2008-2009\, the series is made possible by the generous co-sponsorships\nof the following campus agencies and departments: Office of the Chancellor\,\nComparative Literature\, Feminist Studies\, Film and Media Studies\, French\nand Italian\, History\, Law and Society\, Religious Studies\, Theater and Dance. \nFor more information\, please visit:\nhttp://www.gss.ucsb.edu/index.php/news-a-events \nhm 2/19/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/staged-reading-of-ida-finks-the-table/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090303T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090303T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085008 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001648-1236038400-1236038400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:CCWS Film Series Presents "Good Bye Lenin!" DESCRIPTION:This German film directed by Wolfgang Becker comically portrays the collapse of communism. Suffering a heart attack and falling into a coma after seeing her son arrested during a protest\, Alex’s (Daniel Brühl) socialist mother Christiane (Katrin Sass)\, remains comatose through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the German Democratic Republic. Knowing that the slightest shock could prove fatal upon his mother’s awakening\, Alex strives to keep the fall of communism secret for as long as possible by reconstructing the GDR in the family’s flat. Alex’s scheme works for a while\, but it’s not long before his mother is feeling better and ready to get up and around again.\nProfessor Harold Marcuse (UCSB History) will give a scholarly introduction and lead the post-screening discussion. \nFor further information please visit CCWS. \ntt 24.02.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/ccws-film-series-presents-good-bye-lenin/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090305T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090305T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085008 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001651-1236211200-1236211200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Anti-Poverty Policy in the Obama Administration DESCRIPTION:Peter B. Edelman is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and co-chair of the Task Force on Poverty for the Center for American Progress. In a career devoted to social thought\, social justice\, and public policy\, Professor Edelman has written extensively on poverty\, constitutional law\, and children and youth. He is the author of Searching for America’s Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope\, and an award-winning Atlantic Monthly article on 1996 welfare reform\, entitled “The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done.” He is currently chair of the District of Columbia Access to Justice Commission and is board chair of the Public Welfare Foundation at the National Center for Youth Law.\nThis lecture will be followed by a Panel Discussion with Belen Seara\, Executive Director of PUEBLO (People United for Economic Justice Building Leadership Through Organizing); Marcos Vargas\, Executive Director of CAUSE (The Central Coast Alliance United for A Sustainable Economy); and Clyde Woods\, UCSB Department of Black Studies. \nThe aim of the Critical Issues program is to stimulate public conversation about long-standing problems of economic and political inequality\, widening insecurity\, and the policies and politics that helped to bring them about\, but also about how we might imagine and shape a different economic future through an equally concerted politics of reform. We plan also to situate the current\, potentially transformational moment in politics and political economy within a longer historical tradition of progressive reform. \nCo-sponsored by the Department of History\, Department of Feminist Studies\, and the UCSB Women’s Center. For more information contact Alice O’Connor. \nhm 2/25/09; jwil 26.ii.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/anti-poverty-policy-in-the-obama-administration/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090306T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090306T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085008 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001638-1236297600-1236297600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The AFL-CIA's Cold War in Honduras-- And How Hondurans Felt About It DESCRIPTION:Professor Dana Frank is Co-Director of the UCSC Center for Labor Studies. Her books include Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2008)\, Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (2000)\, and Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing\, Gender\, and the Seattle Labor Movement\, 1919-1929 (1994). \nWorkshop participants are invited to read Dana Frank’s article “Where is the History of U.S. Labor and International Solidarity?” in Labor\, volume 1\, pages 95-119. \nSponsored by the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. \njwil 17.ii.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-afl-cias-cold-war-in-honduras-and-how-hondurans-felt-about-it/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090310T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090310T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085008 CREATED:20150928T112757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112757Z UID:10001596-1236643200-1236643200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Star Power: Astral Theology\, Castorian Imagery\, and Dual Heirs in Imperial Rome DESCRIPTION:Today we speak of movie stars\, rock stars\, all-star athletes\, and even academic stars. The role of “stars” in the cult of personality has a long tradition. From the time of early Egyptian and Near Eastern civilizations\, man– or more precisely\, royalty– aspired to dwell among the stars in heaven for all eternity as the ultimate reward after death. Greece played a key role in the transmission of ideas of astral divinity\, especially in the Hellenistic period following the conquests of Alexander the Great. As Rome expanded eastward and conquered the Hellenistic kingdoms\, it absorbed many aspects of Hellenistic royal ideology and astral theology. In this lecture Professor Pollini explains how astral theology and the imagery of the Greek twin gods (the Dioscuri or Castores) were adopted by the emperor Augustus to promote a system of “dual heirs” that would ensure the orderly transmission of imperial power. The lecture focuses on the Imperial period from the time of Augustus (27 B.C.-A.D. 14) to the reign of Septimius Severus (A.D. 193-211).\nThis lecture is sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. For more information\, or for assistance in accommodating a disability\, please call (805) 682-4711. \njwil 25.ii.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/star-power-astral-theology-castorian-imagery-and-dual-heirs-in-imperial-rome/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090312T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090312T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085008 CREATED:20150928T112801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112801Z UID:10001626-1236816000-1236816000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:A Liturgical Order of Thanksgiving in Ancient Rome DESCRIPTION:This talk is sponsored by the IHC Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.\nFor more information contact Christine Thomas. \njwil 09.ii.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/a-liturgical-order-of-thanksgiving-in-ancient-rome/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090313T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090313T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085008 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001650-1236902400-1236902400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Reading as a Social Technology DESCRIPTION:The History of Reading Group is hosting a one-day\, interdisciplinary conference that will provide a forum for sharing recent research findings in the history of reading\, with an eye toward investigating the technologies that shape reading as a social experience. The keynote speakers will be Adrian Johns (University of Chicago) and Elaine Treharne (Florida State University).\nFor more information\, visit the conference web site. \nThis conference is sponsored by the University of California Transliteracies Project and the IHC History of Material Texts Research Focus Group. \njwil 25.ii.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/reading-as-a-social-technology/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090318T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090318T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085008 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001653-1237334400-1237334400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Augustine and the History of Reading: from Post-Medieval to Prenaissance DESCRIPTION:Brian Cummings is Professor of English at the University of Sussex\, where he was Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies from 2004 to 2008. He is the author of The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace (Oxford University Press\, 2002)\, which was named a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year for 2003.\nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCSB Renaissance Studies program\, the Transliteracies History of Reading Group\, and the IHC History of Material Texts RFG. \njwil 03.i.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/augustine-and-the-history-of-reading-from-post-medieval-to-prenaissance/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090330T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090330T000000 DTSTAMP:20260427T085008 CREATED:20150928T112803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112803Z UID:10001656-1238371200-1238371200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Spring Classes Start DESCRIPTION:Welcome back students\, faculty and staff–we hope you had an energizing spring break!The last day of instruction is June 5.\nFor a full schedule of this quarter\, follow the link below. \nhm 3/24/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/spring-classes-start/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR