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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20120311T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20121104T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110302T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110302T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T044720 CREATED:20150928T112824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112824Z UID:10001912-1299024000-1299024000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Dead Kings and National Myths: Why myths of founding and martyrdom are important DESCRIPTION:Prof. Sabrina Ramet. Professor of Political Science\, The Norwegian University of Science &Technology Visiting Scholar\, Northwestern University\, 1 Sept 2010–31 March 2011\nLocation: Lane Rm\, 3rd fl\, Ellison Hall\nSponsored by RFG Identity. \nhm 1/30/11\, 2/27 image URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/dead-kings-and-national-myths-why-myths-of-founding-and-martyrdom-are-important/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110302T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110302T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T044720 CREATED:20150928T112825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112825Z UID:10001923-1299024000-1299024000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Communities\, Development and the Cold War: The Peace Corps in South America during the 1960s. DESCRIPTION:This presentation will examine the work and experiences of United States Peace Corps volunteers who served in South America during the 1960s. Paying particular attention to the interaction of volunteers with South American people\, their multiple interests and contradictions and to their motivations for becoming volunteers\, the talk will evaluate the way in which the global Cold War was experienced at a community level. This is part of an ongoing research project that combines both a diplomatic as well as a socio-cultural approach and incorporates non-state actors to understand the global Cold War in South America.\nThis is a UCSB(LAIS) and CSU-Los Angeles collaborative talk event.\nIt is free and open to the public. \nhm 2/23/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/communities-development-and-the-cold-war-the-peace-corps-in-south-america-during-the-1960s/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110302T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110302T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T044720 CREATED:20150928T112826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112826Z UID:10001926-1299024000-1299024000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:An Ax Falling under the Candle Light: A Royal Murder Mystery\, History Writing\, & the Political Culture of Song China DESCRIPTION:The Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE) is known for its remarkable political stability. Yet\, its very first royal succession was shrouded in mystery– murder mystery. Why did the founding emperor\, Taizu\, pass over his grown sons to designate his younger brother Taizong to be his heir? Or did he? Did Taizong kill his older brother Taizu\, possibly with poison or an ax? This paper will discuss how the memory of the murder mystery was simultaneously hushed up and preserved during the Song\, and what the subtle influence of this memory can tell us about history writing and the political culture of the Song period. And of course\, the murder mystery itself will also be discussed.\nDr. Xiao-bin Ji teaches in the Department of History at UCSB. \nThis lecture is sponsored by the UCSB East Asia Center. \njwil 01.iii.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/an-ax-falling-under-the-candle-light-a-royal-murder-mystery-history-writing-the-political-culture-of-song-china/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110304T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110304T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T044720 CREATED:20150928T112823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112823Z UID:10001712-1299196800-1299196800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Crisis and the Global Economy DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk by BARRY EICHENGREEN\, Economics and Political Science\, UC Berkeley. “The Crisis and the Global Economy.” A former advisor to the International Monetary Fund\, Eichengreen is the author of Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (2008) and Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods (2006). \nThe talk\, and subsequent discussion\, is part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work\, Labor\, and Political Economy\, 2010-2011 lecture series.\nThe Winter Quarter topic is “The Financial Crisis and its Origins.” \nThe Colloquium meets on Friday\, March 4 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building. \njmj 01/03/2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-crisis-and-the-global-economy/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110306T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110306T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T044720 CREATED:20150928T112823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112823Z UID:10001703-1299369600-1299369600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Jewish Odyssey: An Illustrated History DESCRIPTION:Marek Halter is an international best-selling novelist\, filmmaker and human rights activist. \nSponsored by the Harman P. and Sophia Taubman Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies\, cosponsored by UCSB Arts & Lectures\, Dept. of Religious Studies\, Congregation B’nai B’rith\, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara Hillel \nhm 12/7/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-jewish-odyssey-an-illustrated-history/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110307T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110307T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T044720 CREATED:20150928T112824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112824Z UID:10001898-1299456000-1299456000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Early Hellenistic Corinth Between Antigonid Macedon and the Achaian League DESCRIPTION:Corinth\, like many Greek poleis (”city-states”)\, did not enjoy full autonomy and freedom during the Hellenistic period. Between the battles of Chaironeia (338 BC) and Cynoscephalae (197 BC)\, Corinth was almost continuously under the control of Antigonid Macedon\, except for a brief time (243-224 BC) when it belonged to the Achaian League. This talk focuses on Corinth’s experience as a member state of the Achaian League. It scrutinizes the widely-held perception that the Corinthians enjoyed greater freedom and autonomy under the Achaian League than they had under the Macedonians.\nMichael Dixon is Professor of History at the University of Southern Indiana. \nThis event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 05.I.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/early-hellenistic-corinth-between-antigonid-macedon-and-the-achaian-league/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110307T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110307T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T044720 CREATED:20150928T112825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112825Z UID:10001922-1299456000-1299456000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Changing Values in Egyptian Burial at the End of the Late Bronze Age DESCRIPTION:Egyptian 20th and 21st Dynasty (1190-945 BCE) funerary arts from Thebes find their origins within the social unrest of the Late Bronze Age. In Thebes\, funerary preparations were challenged with limited burial space\, scarce material resources\, tomb robbery\, and re-use. Surviving funerary materials reflect a variety of defensive innovations while at the same time preserving the ability of elite families to shore up social power by means of funerary displays.\nThe mummy is perhaps our best evidence for these defensive burial adaptations\, as it was the only part of the Egyptian burial that could not be re-used by someone else and returned to the sphere of the commodity. Investments in mummification probably provided psychological security for Theban elites\, with the heightened intent of perfectly preserving the flesh and bone of the deceased for eternity. \nKathlyn (Kara) Cooney is Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA. \nThis talk is sponsored by the Archaeology Research Focus Group\, with cooperation from the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program. \njwil 23.ii.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/changing-values-in-egyptian-burial-at-the-end-of-the-late-bronze-age/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110307T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110307T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T044720 CREATED:20150928T112826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112826Z UID:10001924-1299456000-1299456000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Gender Studies in Kazakhstan DESCRIPTION:Prof. Nazym Shedenova Dept. of Sociology\, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University\nAlmaty\, Kazakhstan \nProf. Shedenova is a founder of Gender Studies in Kazakhstan and an expert on the role of women in the Kazakhstan labor force. She has participated in a wide array of programs focused on gender in Germany\, Ukraine\, Hungary\, United Kingdom\, and India. Professor Shedenova is currently a visiting scholar at the Institute of Slavic\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies\, University of California\, Berkeley. \nSponsored by IHC RFG on Identity\, Feminist Studies\, and Political Science. \nhm 2/28/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/gender-studies-in-kazakhstan/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110310T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110310T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T044720 CREATED:20150928T112826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112826Z UID:10001928-1299715200-1299715200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Rationing Food in Wartime: Doomed to Fail? DESCRIPTION:Food shortages in Occupied Europe offer a marked contrast to the experience with food rationing in the United States and Britain during World War II. Adding the French experience with rationing to comparative work on Britain and the United States offers a broader perspective on what was really important in wartime food rationing and its relative successes and failures.\nKenneth Mouré is Professor and Chair of the Department of History\, University of Alberta. \nThis event is sponsored by the IHC Food Studies Research Focus Group. \njwil 03.iii.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/rationing-food-in-wartime-doomed-to-fail/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110328T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110328T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T044720 CREATED:20150928T112826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112826Z UID:10001930-1301270400-1301270400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:From the Valley of the Kings to Philae: Ancient and Modern Pilgrimages DESCRIPTION:Dr Cruz-Uribe will examine the role of pilgrimage in ancient Egypt\, especially during Roman and Byzantine times. Using both newly-discovered and well-known Coptic and Demotic texts\, he will compare the pilgrimage practices of the traditional Egyptian and Nubian populations with the practices of the contemporary Christians\, investigating why the Egyptians went on pilgrimages\, how the Christians began to emulate “pagan” pilgrimage practices\, and the conflicts that arose between the groups over control of pilgrimage destination points.\nThis talk is sponsored by the Archaeology Research Focus Group with cooperation from the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program. \njwil 07.iii.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/from-the-valley-of-the-kings-to-philae-ancient-and-modern-pilgrimages/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110328T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110328T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T044720 CREATED:20150928T112828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112828Z UID:10001739-1301270400-1301270400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Spring Quarter Classes Begin DESCRIPTION:Spring Quarter 2011 classes begin on Monday\, March 28.\nIf you are enrolled in a discussion section that meets before the main lecture meets\, you should still attend section that week. \nSee calendar link below for details. \nSpring 2011 final examination schedule \nhm 3/16/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/spring-quarter-classes-begin/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110330T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110330T000000 DTSTAMP:20260429T044720 CREATED:20150928T112828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112828Z UID:10001732-1301443200-1301443200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Next Generation Nano? Narratives of Synthetic Biology DESCRIPTION:This talk will explore how narratives of novelty and familiarity have been routinely deployed by practitioners\, analysts\, and policymakers alike in synthetic biology\, and what this may mean for a consideration of synthetic biology as “the new new thing” for studies of emerging technoscience.\nLuis Campos is a graduate of Harvard’s History of Science Department and is now an assistant professor\, focusing on the history of biology\, at Drew University. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/next-generation-nano-narratives-of-synthetic-biology/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR