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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20110313T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20111106T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100503T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100503T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T203816 CREATED:20150928T112816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112816Z UID:10001814-1272844800-1272844800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:What's so Urban About Food Security? The Why and Where of Hunger in Accra Ghana DESCRIPTION:talk in the Tequila Mondays series \nhm 4/8/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/whats-so-urban-about-food-security-the-why-and-where-of-hunger-in-accra-ghana/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100503T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100503T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T203816 CREATED:20150928T112818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112818Z UID:10001828-1272844800-1272844800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Deep Prehistory of Indian Gaming: The Perspective from Mesoamerica DESCRIPTION:Although it was not until the early 1980s that high stakes Indian Gaming was permitted in the United States\, at the time of the arrival of Europeans in North America high stakes gambling was widespread among indigenous peoples. This is particularly well documented in Mesoamerica where 16th century historians describe a variety of games of chance (e.g.\, dice games) and games of skill (e.g.\, rubber ball game\, bowling\, checkers). At least some of these games involved heavy gambling on the part of both players and onlookers. Archaeologists have been able to trace the origins of some of these games back into deep prehistory. In this presentation Dr. Voorhies will present an overview of Mesoamerican games and her recent discovery of a probably scoreboard for a dice game dating back to around 2400 B.C.\nProf. Barbara Voorhies is Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at UCSB. She is a leading scholar of Mesoamerican Prehistory\, including the prehistory of Mexico and the northern Central American countries from first settlement to the arrival of peoples from the Old World. She has also investigated how people over time have met the challenges of living along the world’s coastlines and the transition from foraging to farming in tropical coastal habitats\, specifically how mobile foragers shifted their lifeways to settled village farmers in the tropical lowlands\, especially on the south Pacific coast of Mexico. \nSponsored by the IHC Archaeology Research Focus Group. \njwil 27.iv.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-deep-prehistory-of-indian-gaming-the-perspective-from-mesoamerica/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100503T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100503T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T203816 CREATED:20150928T112818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112818Z UID:10001829-1272844800-1272844800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Rabbinic Sage as Martyred Saint: Transformations of Jewish Narrative and Liturgy in Late Antiquity DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Ph.D. Emphasis.\njwil 01.v.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-rabbinic-sage-as-martyred-saint-transformations-of-jewish-narrative-and-liturgy-in-late-antiquity/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100510T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100510T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T203816 CREATED:20150928T112813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112813Z UID:10001784-1273449600-1273449600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Subversion or Citizenship?: Civil Wars\, State-making\, and National Imaginings in Peru: A Historical and Theoretical Perspective DESCRIPTION:Unlike other American countries\, Peru does not have a memory of its nineteenth-century civil wars. Peru’s political confrontations lacked the clear-cut ideological contours that characterized civil strife in\, say\, the United States\, Argentina\, Colombia\, Mexico\, or Uruguay\, where nineteenth-century struggles created enduring memories that\, in turn\, shaped much of these countries? political identities and national imaginings in the twentieth century. Peru’s civil wars\, by contrast\, have been overshadowed by the War of the Pacific (1879-1883)\, which Peru and Bolivia lost to Chile. Thus\, on the surface\, Peru is an unlikely country to choose for an exploration of the interplay between civil wars\, state-making\, and national imaginings.\nMy book in progress\, The Wars Within\, reverts such a tacit common-sense argument and proposes a reappraisal of Peru?s political history by looking at the ?wars within\,? or Peru?s civil nineteenth-century civil wars\, in light of this country’s most recent civil conflagration: the one unleashed by the Maoist Party and terrorist organization Sendero Luminoso\, between 1980 and 1999. Concurrently\, this project constitutes an exploration of Charles Tilly’s theoretical claim that war making and state making are interrelated process. \nhm 4/8/10\, 5/5 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/subversion-or-citizenship-civil-wars-state-making-and-national-imaginings-in-peru-a-historical-and-theoretical-perspective/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100511T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100511T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T203816 CREATED:20150928T112818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112818Z UID:10001826-1273536000-1273536000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Muslim Scare in Europe: Hysteria or Threat? DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author and journalist Ian Buruma will discuss the debates about Muslim radicalism\, immigration\, and the challenge from religion in several European countries where anti-immigrant populism is on the rise and Islam is the main focus – from the arguments about multiculturalism in Britain to the proposed burqa ban in France. Is the danger posed by Muslim immigrants real? If it is exaggerated\, why the general hysteria? Buruma will address these questions and others raised in his new book Taming the Gods\, a sharp-eyed look at the tensions between religion and politics on three continents: Europe\, Asia and North America.\nBuruma is also the author of Anglomania\, Inventing Japan\, and Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe\, Islam\, and the Limits of Tolerance\, which won a Los Angeles Times Book Award. Courtesy of Borders\, copies of Taming the Gods will be available for purchase and signing at this event. \n“Ian Buruma addresses questions of political philosophy\, moral accountability and mass psychology in the most rigorous possible way: journalistically.” The New York Times \nPresented as part of the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB\, a program of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, cosponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures\, the Department of Religious Studies\, Congregation B’nai B’rith\, the Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\, and Santa Barbara Hillel. \nBooks will be available for purchase and signing. \nhm 4/25/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-muslim-scare-in-europe-hysteria-or-threat/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100512T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100512T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T203816 CREATED:20150928T112818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112818Z UID:10001835-1273622400-1273622400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The End of the Public University and the Beginning of the Next DESCRIPTION:History is replete with nations that declined because their leaders gradually undermined their own best institutions. The U.S. now appears to be doing this to its exemplary higher education system\, with the University of California serving as Exhibit A. This lecture will look at the contradictions within the American funding model for higher education\, and discuss three major symptoms: reduced affordability for students\, the loss of US educational preeminence in 20 years\, and underdeveloped social and cultural disciplines. It will also suggest two major steps through which the decline of public higher education could be reversed. Professor Newfield has offered an authoritative view of UC Budget issues and the funding shortfall crisis on his blog: http://utotherescue.blogspot.com\nSponsored by the Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment and the IHC’s Future of the University Series. \nhm 5/11/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-end-of-the-public-university-and-the-beginning-of-the-next/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100517T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100517T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T203816 CREATED:20150928T112816Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112816Z UID:10001816-1274054400-1274054400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Catholic Church and Social Revolutionaries in Latin America DESCRIPTION:talk in the Tequila Mondays series \nhm 4/8/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-catholic-church-and-social-revolutionaries-in-latin-america/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100518T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100518T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T203816 CREATED:20150928T112819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112819Z UID:10001849-1274140800-1274140800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Does it Take More Courage to be a Cybernetician Than to be a Gunman? DESCRIPTION:Prof. Medina’s research deals with the adoption of computer technologies in Latin America\, especially cybernetics in Allende’s Chile.\nFrom 1971 to 1973 Chilean and British engineers\, working under the direction of the pioneering British cybernetician Stafford Beer\, built a computer network to help make Chile’s socialist revolution a reality. The team called the system Cybersyn. It is arguably the most ambitious application of cybernetic ideas to date. In this talk Professor Medina will present material from her forthcoming book Cybernetic Socialism\, which tells the history of Project Cybersyn. She will argue that this unusual case study broadens our historical understanding of computers\, cybernetics\, and revolution. She will then discuss how this history has inspired members of the art community and present her own work transforming the Cybersyn story into an installation at ZKM Center for Digital Art and Media in Karlsruhe\, Germany. \nProf. Medina received her Ph.D. in 2005 from the MIT Doctoral Program in the History and Social Studies of Science and Technology and holds degrees in electrical engineering and women’s studies from Princeton University. Medina’s research uses technology as a means to understand historical processes. Her recent work addressed the history of information technologies in Latin America and the role these technologies played in creating new forms of governance and the advancement of state ideological projects. \nSponsored by the Department of Media\, Arts and Technology and the Arts Research Initiative. \nhm 5/13/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/does-it-take-more-courage-to-be-a-cybernetician-than-to-be-a-gunman/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100519T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100519T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T203816 CREATED:20150928T112819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112819Z UID:10001847-1274227200-1274227200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:4 Argentina DESCRIPTION:Presentations by Suzanne Levine\, Seth Wulsin\, Damian Nemirovsky and Kacey Link. \nhm 5/19/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/4-argentina/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100520T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100520T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T203816 CREATED:20150928T112818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112818Z UID:10001843-1274313600-1274313600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Revisioning an Ancient Synagogue: New Light from the UT Excavations at Ostia DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group and the Archaeology Research Focus Group.\njwil 12.v.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/revisioning-an-ancient-synagogue-new-light-from-the-ut-excavations-at-ostia/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100521T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100521T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T203816 CREATED:20150928T112818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112818Z UID:10001837-1274400000-1274400000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Evaluating Agricultural Strategies in Ancient Anatolia DESCRIPTION:“Risk\, sustainability\, and decision making: evaluating agricultural strategies in ancient Anatolia”\nIdentifying how ancient societies made decisions regarding agricultural land use is important for understanding why some pre-industrial agricultural systems flourished and others collapsed. Local environmental and cultural factors influence how people balance goals of short-term profitability and long-term sustainability in agricultural decision making. The ancient city of Gordion\, in central Turkey\, offers rich paleoethnobotanical\, zooarchaeological\, and phytogeographic evidence for coincident changes in landscape and agricultural practices over a period of 2500 years. Marston argues that climate change and shifts in political and economic networks led inhabitants of Gordion to utilize different land-use strategies over time\, which had broad implications for the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the region. \nJohn Marston is a PhD candidate at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\, UCLA. \njwil 12.v.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/evaluating-agricultural-strategies-in-ancient-anatolia/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100521T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100521T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T203816 CREATED:20150928T112818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112818Z UID:10001839-1274400000-1274400000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History Department Senior Honors Colloquium DESCRIPTION:Participants in the 2009-2010 History Senior Honors Colloquium\, directed by Professor Hilary Bernstein\, will present their research. Each student’s presentation will be followed by a faculty comment. Refreshments will be served. \nSession I (9-10:30 a.m): Literature and Politics in Italy and America \nChristy Mason\, “Valuing Virtue: Nineteenth-Century Sexuality and the Act of Seduction\, 1818-1860” (Cohen)\nComment: Professor Randy Bergstrom \nEleanor Dickson\, “Uncivilized and Idealized: Depictions of the Southern Italian Peasant in the Fascist Period” (Fogu and Rappaport)\nComment: Professor Harold Marcuse \nPhilomen Leonelli\, “Petrarchan Humor: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Irony” (Lansing)\nComment: Dr. Edward English \nBreak for Mid-Morning Refreshments (10:30-11 a.m.) \nSession II (11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.): War\, Diplomacy\, and Their Effects \nJoshua Madison\, “Perspectives on James II and the Emergence of Jacobitism in Ireland” (McGee)\nComment: Professor Stefania Tutino \nRheannon Maxwell\, “A House of Cards: U.S. State Department Policy in Nicaragua\, 1909-1928” (Dutra)\nComment: Professor Salim Yaqub \nAndrew Alvarado\, “‘The Best Little Army In Asia:’ KMAG\, the ROK Army\, and the Failure of American Policy in Korea” (Talbott)\nComment: Professor Tsuyoshi Hasegawa \nSession III (1:30-3:30 p.m.): U.S. Politics: Domestic and Foreign Influences \nMackenzie Weinger\, “Have You Any News? How America’s First Embedded Journalists Envisioned the United States\, 1846-1848” (Cohen)\nComment: Professor John Majewski \nMitchell Stewart\, “Black Radicalism\, the Communist Party\, and the Struggle to Liberate Haiti from American Imperialism\, 1918-1930” (Yaqub)\nComment: Professor Douglas Daniels \nCatherine Kwon\, “‘Seeds of the Contemporary New Right:’ California Young Americans for Freedom\, 1964-1980” (Kalman)\nComment: Professor Nelson Lichtenstein \nShauna Woods\, “Henry Spira and the SHAC 7: Comparing Animal Rights Activism in 1976 and 2006” (Kalman)\nComment: Professor Peter Alagona \njwil 12.v.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/history-department-senior-honors-colloquium/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100521T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100521T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T203816 CREATED:20150928T112818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112818Z UID:10001832-1274400000-1274400000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Old Tibetan Chronicle and the Origins of Tibetan Narrative History DESCRIPTION:A manuscript of the Old Tibetan Chronicle found in the cave library ofDunhuang represents one of the earliest attempts at Tibetan narrative\nhistory. The author-compilers draw on Tibetan inscriptions\, Indian epics\,\nChinese histories\, Tibetan ritual literature\, and a legacy of composition\nin performance and song to create a narrative of Tibet’s imperial period\n(c.600-866). This talk will explore the sources for the Old Tibetan\nChronicle and consider its legacy in later Tibetan traditions. \nsponsored by the UCSB Religious Studies and History Departments \nhm 5/4/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-old-tibetan-chronicle-and-the-origins-of-tibetan-narrative-history/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100522T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100522T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T203816 CREATED:20150928T112815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112815Z UID:10001804-1274486400-1274486400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Friends of Ancient History Spring Conference DESCRIPTION:The Friends of Ancient History\, a professional organization of southern California archaeologists\, classicists\, and historians\, will hold its spring 2010 conference at UCSB on Saturday\, May 22. \nThe conference will feature the following talks: \nLarry Tritle (Loyola Marymount University\, Los Angeles)\, “The Hoplite Agony: A Soldier’s View” with response by Kurt Raaflaub (Brown University) \nPaul Salay (UCLA)\, “The More Things Change: Economics in the Age of Homer” with response by Brian Rutishauser (Fresno City College). \nA catered lunch will be served\, at a cost of approximately $20. Advance reservations are required for lunch. The conference itself is free and open to all. \nFor more information or to request a reservation form\, please contact Professor David Hood. \njwil 04.iii.2010 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/friends-of-ancient-history-spring-conference/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100524T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100524T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T203816 CREATED:20150928T112819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112819Z UID:10001845-1274659200-1274659200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Public History Seminar Presentations DESCRIPTION:Presentations will take place on Monday\, May 24\, during our scheduled class period\, 2-4:50\, in Girvetz 1106.\n2:00-2:10 Introductions \n2:10-2:40\nPanel One – El Presidio de Santa Barbara\n Anjelica Gonzalez\, Education Dept (Supervisor: Ms. Karen Anderson)\nTorrey Ah-Tye\, Marketing and Public Relations Dept (Supervisor: Mr. Jared Brach)\nSamantha Rohman\, Marketing and Public Relations Dept (Supervisor: Mr. Jared Brach) \n2:40-3:10\nPanel Two – South Coast Railroad Museum\n Jesus Rios (Supervisor\, Dr. Gary Coombs)\n Amanda Gonzalez (Supervisor: Dr. Gary Coombs)\n Sunni Pyron (Supervisor: Dr. Gary Coombs) \n3:10-3:30\nPanel Three – Santa Barbara Mission Archive Library\n Christine Gonzalez (Supervisor: Dr. Monica Orozco)\n Samantha Behrendt (Supervisor: Dr. Monica Orozco) \n3:30-3:40 BREAK \n3:40-4:00\nPanel Four– California Landscape History Project\, UCSB\n Brandt Hill (Supervisor\, Dr. Peter Alagona)\n Maggie Johnson (Supervisor\, Dr. Peter Alagona) \n4:00-4:30\nPanel Five – Individual Projects\nStephen Thomsen\, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (Supervisor: Dr. Jan Timbrook)\n Otto Gonzalez\, Stow House/La Patera Ranch (Supervisor: Mr. Jim McNay)\n Brittany Saake\, Citizens Planning Association (Supervisor: Ms. Naomi Kovacs) \n4:30-4:40 Question and Answer Period \n4:40-4:45 ESCI Class Evaluations \nhm 5/18/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/public-history-seminar-presentations/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100525T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100525T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T203816 CREATED:20150928T112818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112818Z UID:10001841-1274745600-1274745600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Vietnam's Second Front: Domestic Politics\, the Republican Party\, and the War DESCRIPTION:In a talk based on his new book\, Vietnam’s Second Front: Domestic Politics\, the Republican Party\, and the War\, Andrew L. Johns assesses the influence of the Republican Party — its congressional leadership\, politicians\, grassroots organizations\, and the Nixon administration — on the escalation\, prosecution\, and resolution of the Vietnam War. Dr. Andrew Johns’ research and teaching focuses on the history of U.S. foreign relations\, with an emphasis on the Cold War and the nexus of foreign policy and domestic politics.\nAndrew Johns is a UCSB alumnus. \nSponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies\, International History\, the Dept. of History and the IHC. \nhm 5/12/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/vietnams-second-front-domestic-politics-the-republican-party-and-the-war/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100527T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100527T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T203816 CREATED:20150928T112818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112818Z UID:10001830-1274918400-1274918400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History Department Awards Ceremony DESCRIPTION:Hello Everyone\,\nPlease join us for the History Associates & the Department of History Awards Ceremony and Reception Thursday\, May 27\, 2010 at 4 p.m.. We’re coming together to honor the recipients of this year’s History Associates & the Department of History Awards. \nhm 5/3/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/history-department-awards-ceremony/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR