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: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:20091004T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091004T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T210050 CREATED:20150928T112809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112809Z UID:10001723-1254614400-1254614400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Mawangdui and Its Roaming in the Celestial Realm: Immortality and the Imagination in Han Dynasty China DESCRIPTION:Among the motifs decorating Han dynasty mortuary objects\, including those found in the tomb of the noblewoman at Mawangdui\, are clouds and creatures representing an “other world” through which the soul journeys after death.\nThese motifs are especially prevalent in tombs of the first half of the Han dynasty and are clearly relatable to the growth of what has been labeled the immortality cult–a melding of longstanding religious notions of what happens after death with a popular fascination with the idea of attaining everlasting life. Expansion of the Han empire during this time further fueled the imagination of what lay beyond. This lecture will survey and contextualize many of the exquisite objects found in Western Han tombs\, including the famous painted banner and coffins of Mawangdui\, to demonstrate the creative burst of artistic imagination that accompanied the speculative flights of Han dynasty belief. \nLecturer Peter Sturman is Professor of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at UCSB. \nThis event description is excerpted from the web page of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s special exhibition web page on The Noble Tombs at Mawandui. For more information visit the Santa Barbara Museum of Art web site\, or call the Museum at 805.963.4364. \njwil 29.ix.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/mawangdui-and-its-roaming-in-the-celestial-realm-immortality-and-the-imagination-in-han-dynasty-china/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091006T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091006T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T210050 CREATED:20150928T112809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112809Z UID:10001720-1254787200-1254787200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Wal-Mart and the Future of US Business DESCRIPTION:The “Big Box” Phenomenon: Wal-Mart and the Future of American Business\nUCSB History Associates event\, $10 members\, $12 non-members. \nSee the UCSB Daily Nexus\, Wednesday\, October 7\, 2009:\nLichtenstein Lectures on Retail Giant\nAccording to UCSB labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein\, judgment day may be fast approaching for revolutionary retail giant Wal-Mart. \nhm 9/11/09\, 10/7 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/wal-mart-and-the-future-of-us-business/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091007T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091007T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T210050 CREATED:20150928T112809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112809Z UID:10001731-1254873600-1254873600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Paradise Now film screening DESCRIPTION:A 2006 Golden Globe winner for best foreign language film\, Paradise Now intensely and powerfully tells the story of two lifelong friends that are tapped by an unidentified Palestinian resistance organization to carry out a suicide bombing together in Tel Aviv. Hany Abu-Assad\, 91 min.\, Arabic and English\, 2005\, Palestine.\nIn the MultiCultural Center’s Cup of Culture series. \nhm 10/2/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/paradise-now-film-screening/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091007T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091007T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T210050 CREATED:20150928T112809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112809Z UID:10001718-1254873600-1254873600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Archaeology in Sri Lanka: Challenges and Prospects for the Future DESCRIPTION:The island of Sri Lanka has been known by many names throughout its history: Ratnadipa\, or the “land of gems” in Buddhist Sanskrit literature\, Taprobane among Greeks and Romans\, Serendib to the Arabs\, and Ceylon under the British Empire. This small island\, only 25\,000 square miles in size\, lies off the southern tip of India. Early Iron Age culture was introduced to the island\, presumably from South India\, at the beginning of the First Millennium B.C.\, but few sites of this period are known\, except for cemeteries with megalithic graves. Archaeological work in Sri Lanka has concentrated instead on large monastic settlements which were established in the Early Historic Period\, ca. 300 B.C. – 300 A.D. and mark the spread of Buddhist influence over the island. Little attention has been paid to secular sites\, nor have the lower levels of most monastic sites been probed to determine the nature of earlier occupation. Also neglected have been the remains of Hindu\, Islamic and Christian sites and structures. The challenge that lies ahead for the next generation of Sri Lankan archaeologists is the investigation of sites and regions that will provide a broader and more balanced picture of the island’s past.\nNancy Wilkie has a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota where she studied classics and prehistoric Greek archaeology. At Carleton College she is the William H. Laird Professor of Classics\, Anthropology and the Liberal Arts; her areas of specialization are prehistoric Greece\, Nepal\, and Sri Lanka\, and cultural property issues. Her publications include “Governmental Agencies and the Protection of Cultural Property in Times of War” in Lawrence Rothfield (ed.)\, Antiquities Under Siege. Cultural Heritage Protection After the Iraq War (2008). She is past president of the Archaeological Institute of America\, and the 2009/2010 Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer for the AIA. \nThis lecture is sponsored by the Santa Barbara Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. \nFor more information please call (805) 893-3556. \njwil 08.ix.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/archaeology-in-sri-lanka-challenges-and-prospects-for-the-future/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091014T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091014T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T210050 CREATED:20150928T112809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112809Z UID:10001717-1255478400-1255478400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Campuswide Teach-In on UC Budget Crisis DESCRIPTION:This teach-in explores the origins and character of the current crisis at the University of California. The program is as follows; for more information see the Keep California’s Promise website. \n2:30 p.m. Welcome from the Campbell Hall Steps\nReginald Archer\, President\, Graduate Student Association\, UCSB\nJessie Bernal\, Student Member of UC Regents\nAmanda Wallner\, Campus Democrats\, UCSB \n3:05 p.m. Student Voices\nErica Stenz\, Exercise and Sports Studies Campaign\nNayra Pacheco\, IDEAS (Improving Dreams\, Equality\, Access\, & Success)\nJoel Mardujano\, Associated Students Legislative Council Representative \n3:25 p.m. Meaning of the Teach-In\nDean David Marshall\, UCSB\nNelson Lichtenstein\, Professor of History\, UCSB: Clark Kerr’s forgotten legacy \n3:40 p.m. The Crisis at the University of California\nChair: Michael Brown\, UCSB\, Gevirtz School of Education (invited)\nStan Glantz\, Professor of Medicine\, UC San Francisco\, past chair of UC Committee on Planning and Budget: UC’s budget blunders\nRobert Samuels\, President\, UC-American Federation of Teachers: Why the furloughs are unnecessary\nChristine Petit\, President\, UAW Local 2865\, (The union for TAs\, readers and tutors): The teaching experience under stress\nRobert Meister\, Professor of Political Science\, UC Santa Cruz\, President\, UC Faculty Associations: What is faculty governance? \n5:30 p.m. California Politics: What Reforms Do We Need?\nChair: Aranye Fradenburg\, Professor of English\, UCSB\nLenny Goldberg\, California Tax Reform Association 25\nRuth Gilmore\, Professor of Ethnicity and Geography\, University of Southern California: The Budget-draining prison complex\nKent Wong\, Director\, UCLA Labor Center: A “Dream Act” for Undocumented students\nSharde Davis\, UCSB: Stop rising fees! \n7:00 p.m. Breakout Workshops and Panels at Various Locations on Campus.\nA light dinner will be available outside of Campbell. See program for location of workshops and panels in nearby classroom buildings \n8:30 p.m. Where Do We Go From Here?\nChair: Hannah Beth Jackson\, former South Coast Assemblywoman\nJanelle Mungo\, Human Rights Coalition\, UCSB: What students can do.\nLoni Hancock\, Chair\, Elections\, Reapportionment\, and Constitutional Amendments Committee\, California State Senate: Ending the Sacramento deadlock\nGeorge Lakoff\, Professor of Linguistics\, UC Berkeley: Framing the issues \nOpen Mike\n——————————— \nThe Sept. 14 UC Budget Crisis Teach-In at UC Berkeley is available on Youtube: See this playlist of 5 presentions (they are each 12-19 mins. long). \nhm 8/31/09\, 9/22\, 10/5\, 10/8\, 10/9 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/campuswide-teach-in-on-uc-budget-crisis/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091018T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091018T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T210050 CREATED:20150928T112809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112809Z UID:10001724-1255824000-1255824000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Rethinking Early China in Light of the Mawangdui Finds DESCRIPTION:Many of the archaeological discoveries at Mawangdui have great artistic merit and aesthetic appeal. Beyond these qualities\, however\, the Mawangdui finds suggest that certain of our assumptions about early China\, until now based on Confucian canonical texts\, need serious reconsideration. As such the archaeological finds at Mawangdui are a powerful reminder of the narrowness of the elite textual tradition and the important place that should be given to evidence of material culture in our reconstructions of ancient civilizations. This talk examines the ways that the Mawangdui finds challenge us to rethink our understanding of early China.\nLecturer Ron Egan is Professor of Chinese Literature and Aesthetics in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at UCSB. \nThis event description is excerpted from the web page of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s special exhibition web page on The Noble Tombs at Mawandui. For more information visit the Santa Barbara Museum of Art web site\, or call the Museum at 805.963.4364. \njwil 29.ix.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/rethinking-early-china-in-light-of-the-mawangdui-finds/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091018T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091018T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T210050 CREATED:20150928T112810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112810Z UID:10001748-1255824000-1255824000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The California Missions: History\, Art\, and Preservation DESCRIPTION:Julia Costello will be talking about her newly published book\, The California Missions\, History\, Art\, and Preservation (Edna E. Kimbro and Julia G. Costello with Tevvy Ball)\, as the Norman Neuerburg Memorial Lecture on Sunday October 18 at 2:00 pm in the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library conference room.\nThe lecture is free. \nCopies of the book will be available for purchase and refreshments will be served. For more information\, see the web page for the book. \nPlease feel free to call Monica Orozco at 682-4713 ext. 152 or email her at\ndirector@sbmal.org if you have any questions. \nhm 10/12/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-california-missions-history-art-and-preservation/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091019T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091019T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T210050 CREATED:20150928T112810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112810Z UID:10001740-1255910400-1255910400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Medicalization of the Maya: Ethnicity\, Culture and Morality in Postrevolutionary Yucatan DESCRIPTION:This presentation will examine how the medical establishment in Mérida and medical student brigades from the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán interpreted the health conditions of rural Maya communities and prescribed solutions to the “Indian problem” in the 1930s and 1940s. In general\, physicians identified Maya customs as the primary cause for the high incidence of endemic disease in rural Yucatán and suggested the modernization of Maya households through scientific domesticity and the moral reformation of the Maya family unit as the way to achieve rural development in the region. However\, medical students trained in the postrevolutionary era simultaneously introduced social explanations for Maya degeneration that challenged the dominant cultural and ethnic frameworks of medical thought about indigenous health. Consequently\, as Maya customs and mores became relevant subjects of medical inquiry among “revolutionary” doctors\, medical students paved the way towards the rise of a social medicine that more directly heeded the call by President Lazáro Cardenas for the social uplift of campesinos. \nThis talk is co-sponsored by the Badash Speakers’ Series Fund \nhm 10/4/09\, 10/15 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-medicalization-of-the-maya-ethnicity-culture-and-morality-in-postrevolutionary-yucatan/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091019T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091019T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T210050 CREATED:20150928T112810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112810Z UID:10001742-1255910400-1255910400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Too Many Temples: Interpreting the Evidence at Omrit in Northern Israel DESCRIPTION:Daniel Showalter is co-director of the Omrit Excavations project.\nThis event is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 04.x.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/too-many-temples-interpreting-the-evidence-at-omrit-in-northern-israel/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091022T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091022T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T210050 CREATED:20150928T112809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112809Z UID:10001726-1256169600-1256169600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Signals Astray: Radio\, Radioactivity\, and Cold War Culture DESCRIPTION:The Federal Communications Act\, as amended by Congress in 1951\, grants the President of the United States the authority\, during times of “public peril or disaster or other national emergency\,” to “suspend or amend . . . the rules and regulations applicable to any or all stations or devices capable of emitting electromagnetic radiations.” In December 1951\, President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order that ceded this authority to the Federal Communications Commission. Charged with developing a plan that would\, first\, prevent enemy aircraft from homing in on U.S. radio broadcast signals (as the Japanese had done during the attack on Pearl Harbor) and\, second\, ensure that the nation’s airwaves would be available for the circulation of civil-defense warnings and instructions\, the FCC created a public emergency broadcasting system called CONELRAD (“CONtrol of ELectromagnetic RADiation”).\nMy talk will explore the cultural discourses surrounding the emergence and institutionalization of CONELRAD in the 1950s. Those discourses recycled\, within the context of Cold War militarism and nationalism\, longstanding hopes and fears concerning the disseminative powers of broadcast media. On the one hand\, the radio signal’s reckless promiscuity threatened the safety of the citizenry and security of the nation by turning every high-powered transmission tower into a readymade bull’s-eye for enemy missiles. On the other hand\, that same signal’s ethereal instantaneity promised civil survival and national salvation by alerting a culturally diverse\, geographically dispersed population to the existence of an impending catastrophe\, and by soothing the nerves and directing the behaviors of the populace in the event of catastrophe’s realization. \nhm 9/28/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/signals-astray-radio-radioactivity-and-cold-war-culture/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091023T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091023T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T210050 CREATED:20150928T112809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112809Z UID:10001727-1256256000-1256256000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The "Myth" of the Weak American State DESCRIPTION:Professor Novak\, who is also a research professor at the American Bar Foundation\, works in the fields of U.S. legal\, political\, and intellectual history. His first book first book\, The People’s Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America\, used nineteenth-century state court records to document the long history of governmental activism in the United States. His next book is The Creation of the Modern American State.\nA copy of his presentation can be downloaded from the Center for the Study of Work\,\nLabor\, and Democracy’s web site at:\nhttp://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/labor/speakers. \nProfessor Novak will speak on Friday\, October 23 at 1 p.m. in Humanities and Social Science Building\, Room 4041. Sandwiches will be served. \nFuture talks in the series: \nChristopher McAuley\, UCSB\, November 6\, “Shaping Max Weber and W.E.B.\nDuBois: Scholarship\, Politics\, and Protection.” \nMark Hendrickson\, UCSD\, November 20\, “‘New Capitalism:’ Rights\,\nExpectations\, and Fairness in the New Era Economy.” \nThis talk is sponsored by the Center for Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. For more information contact Leah Fernandez. \njwil 01.x.2009\, hm 10/19 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-myth-of-the-weak-american-state/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091026T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091026T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T210050 CREATED:20150928T112810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112810Z UID:10001733-1256515200-1256515200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Biribi: The Penal Colonies of the French Army DESCRIPTION:Biribi is nowadays a forgotten and incomprehensible word for most people in France. But it was a well-known name in the late nineteenth and in the first half of the twentieth century. For every young Frenchmen who had to give two or three years of his life for conscription\, Biribi was synonymous with hell on earth and symbolic of the French state’s military oppression. In fact\, Biribi was the generic name given to the diverse disciplinary or penitentiary institutions of the French army: discipline sections\, African Battalions\, penal camps and others. These numerous structures had two common points: their localization in North Africa and their reputation as an awful and barbarous regime. Since 1890 (date of the publication of the novel Biribi by Georges Darien) to the eve of World War II\, Biribi has become a major issue of the French popular culture and of our social imaginary: a target for the antimilitarist movement\, an exotic theme for dime novels\, story papers\, popular songs and newspaper reports\, a sign of pride and glory in the culture of the underworld (all famous gangsters were veterans of the African battalion). This talk will present the organization of this forgotten system\, the making of its imaginary and the social and cultural meaning of its popularity.\nProfessor Kalifa’s research is devoted to the representations of crime and police in modern France as well as mass culture and the process of social control. He is the author of numerous books: L’Encre et le sang: Récits de crimes et société à la Belle Epoque (Fayard\, 1995) ; Naissance de la police privée: Détectives et agences de recherches en France\, 1832-1942 (Plon\, 2000)\, La Culture de masse en France\, 1860-1930 (La Découverte\, 2001)\, Vidal le tueur de femmes: Une biographie sociale\, avec Ph. Artières (Perrin\, 2001)\, Crime et Culture au XIXe siècle (Perrin\, 2005)\, and the editor or co-editor of Les Exclus en Europe (L’Atelier\, 1999); Histoire et archives de soi (Sociétés & Représentations\, 2002); Imaginaire et sensibilités au XIXe siècle (Créaphis\, 2005); L’Enquête judiciaire en Europe au XIXe siècle (Créaphis\, 2007)\, Le Commissaire de police au XIXe siècle (Publications de la Sorbonne\, 2008); and Métiers de police\, XVIIIe-XXe siècles (Presses universitaires de Rennes\, 2008). \nSponsored by the Series in Contemporary Literature\, the Department of History\, and the Department of French and Italian. \njwil 02.x.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/biribi-the-penal-colonies-of-the-french-army/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091029T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091029T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T210050 CREATED:20150928T112810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112810Z UID:10001752-1256774400-1256774400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Global Femicide and the Disappearance of Women in Juarez DESCRIPTION:The program includes:20 minute movie clip from Senorita Extraviada\nPanel: Professor Hobson\,\nGraduate Student Sara Watkins\, and members from\nMujeres de Juarez\nSnacks will be provided \nUCSB History grad student Sarah Watkins will be talking about what’s been going on in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo over the last decade. \nThe discussion will be preceded (on Wednesday) by a film screening: \nStudent Series\nBordertown\nWednesday\, October 28\, 6pm\nFilm Screening/MCC Theater \nBordertown is based on the tragic account of hundreds of women working in American-owned factories in Ciudad Juarez\, Mexico\, where dozens of women working in the maquiladoras have been kidnapped\, raped\, and murdered; and little\, if anything\, has been done about it. Eva\, a 16-year-old factory worker who was left for dead by the two men who raped her\, seeks the help of a local newspaper man. Lauren Adrian\, an up-and-coming Chicago newspaper reporter is assigned to the story. What she finds is a corrupt system of unfair labor practices\, where workers are offered absolutely no protection from the police\, the government agencies\, or the companies they slave for. Discussion with Mujeres de Juarez de UCSB following the screening. Gregory Nava\, 112 min.\, English and Spanish\, 2006\, USA. \nhm 10/28/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/global-femicide-and-the-disappearance-of-women-in-juarez/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091029T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091029T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T210050 CREATED:20150928T112810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112810Z UID:10001738-1256774400-1256774400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The future of graduate education in the humanities at UC DESCRIPTION:Does graduate education in the humanities have a future at the University of California\, and if so what might it look like? In this roundtable\, the first event in the IHC’s Future of the University series\, UCSB faculty will discuss innovative graduate programs and initiatives that transcend disciplinary boundaries and train students for the new intellectual\, professional\, and economic landscape of the twenty-first century. Participants will include L&S Executive Dean David Marshall\, Mary Bucholtz (Linguistics)\, Susan Derwin (German\, Slavic & Semitic Studies)\, Carl Gutierrez-Jones (English)\, Alan Liu (English)\, Patrick McCray (History)\, and Janet Walker (Film & Media Studies).\nThe program was conceived last spring after the uproar over Mark C. Taylor’s Op Ed piece in the New York Times criticizing graduate education in the humanities (op-ed).\nThe program took on more urgency as the dire UC funding picture became clearer.\nPanelists will give a brief over-view of their graduate programs and discuss what motivated them to move outside the parameters of their department/discipline to establish an interdisciplinary center/program at the graduate level. They’ll discuss what the advantage of this move has been to them and to their graduate students\, as well as its challenges.It’s hoped that the panel will generate discussion and new ideas about how to approach graduate education and graduate funding in this era of shrinking resources. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Future of the University series. \nhm 10/4/09\, 10/12/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-future-of-graduate-education-in-the-humanities-at-uc/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091030T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091030T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T210050 CREATED:20150928T112810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112810Z UID:10001749-1256860800-1256860800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Seminar by Stephen Humphreys (UCSB History) DESCRIPTION:Seminar by Stephen Humphreys (UCSB History)\, 12:00-1:00 PM in HSSB 4020\n“Christian Communities and Muslim Rule in Early Islamic Syria and Mesopotamia (634-1070)”. Sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program and the Mediterranean RFG. \nTWA 10-21-2009\, hm 10/27/09 \nNote also this event with Prof. Humphreys on Nov. 13: URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/seminar-by-stephen-humphreys-ucsb-history/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR