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: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:20110502T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110502T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112825Z UID:10001920-1304294400-1304294400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Barbarians\, the Baltic\, and Beyond: A Comparative Borderlands Conference DESCRIPTION:Traditional research on borders and frontiers has typically emphasized the divisive influence of “hard” boundaries imposed by geography\, politics\, and economics. This conference seeks to widen the narrow conceptions of space underlying traditional work on borders by focusing on borderlands and frontier zones\, spaces of interaction between different cultural groups. The conference pays particular attention to the experiences of people who live and act in borderland societies. The participants in this conference study a diverse range of periods and places\, but all share a common interest in the mechanics of borderlands interactions and the shaping of borderlands identities. Our goal is to foster comparative discussion that crosses academic dividing lines\, in hopes of inspiring further research and cooperation.\n This conference is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group (UC Santa Barbara) and the Baltic Borderlands International Research Training Group (University of Greifswald\, Germany)\, in cooperation with the Ancient Mediterreanean Studies Program\, the Department of History\, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. \n Funding for this conference has been provided by the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the UCSB College of Letters & Science. Additional support was provided by the UC Multi-Campus Research Group in Late Antiquity. \nOPENING REMARKS: 9:00-9:10am\nJohn W.I. Lee (UCSB)\nMichael North (University of Greifswald) \nSESSION I: 9:10-10:25am\nVeronica Castillo-Munoz (History\, UCSB). Beyond “Red Light” Districts: Agrarian Struggles and Transnational Labor\n in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands.\nGabriela Soto Laveaga (History\, UCSB). Borders and Boundaries of Political Dissent: Medical Knowledge and\n Labor Strikes in Modern Mexico.\nManja Olschowski (History\, Greifswald). The Influence of Territorial Borders on Medieval Monastic Economy. \nBREAK: 10:25-10:45 \nSESSION II: 10:45am-12pm\nClinton Smith (History\, UCSB). From Frontiers to Borderlands: The Shifting Contours of Native American History.\nOlga Sasunkevich (Political Science & Sociology\, Greifswald). Place\, Gender and Power on the Borderlands: Studying the Petty\n Smuggling Community on the Border between Belarus and Lithuania.\nLeah Fernandez (History\, UCSB). Cooperation and Conflict in a Borderland: California’s Imperial Valley\, 1900-1910. \nLUNCH: 12:00-1:00pm \nKEYNOTE TALK & RESPONSE: 1:00-2:20pm\nGreg Fisher (Greek and Roman Studies\, Carleton University). Barbarian Leadership in the Places “In Between”– North African and Syrian Comparisons. With a response by Elizabeth DePalma Digeser (History\, UCSB). \nBREAK (2:20-2:40pm) \nSESSION III: 2:40-4:15pm\nAnn Marie Plane (History\, UCSB). “These inraged Barbarians”: Visionaries and the Spiritual Struggle for the Maine Borderlands\, 1675-1684.\nKord-Henning Uber (History\, Greifswald). Weak Borders\, Strong Boundaries? The Religious Environment of the\n Couronian Nobility around 1700.\nStefan Herfurth (History\, Greifswald). Swedish Pomerania in the 18th Century: Development of a Borderland in the Baltic Sea Region.\nAdrienne Edgar (History\, UCSB). Ethnic Mixing in a Eurasian Borderland: Intermarriage and Identity in Soviet Kazakhstan. \nClosing Remarks: 4:15pm\nJohn W.I. Lee (UCSB)\nMichael North (Greifswald) \njwil 10.iv.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/barbarians-the-baltic-and-beyond-a-comparative-borderlands-conference/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110502T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110502T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112829Z UID:10001953-1304294400-1304294400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Tak for Alt: Survival of a Human Spirit DESCRIPTION:This film\, made by a former UCSB student\, chronicles Judith Meisel’s experience as a Holocaust survivor\, which inspired her life-long cursade against racism. \nhm 4/26/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/tak-for-alt-survival-of-a-human-spirit/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110502T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110502T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112829Z UID:10001955-1304294400-1304294400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Social Protest in Imperial Japan: Reading the Visual Record DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by Department of History\, UCSB \nhm 4/26/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/social-protest-in-imperial-japan-reading-the-visual-record/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110504T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110504T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112829Z UID:10001954-1304467200-1304467200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharine to Splenda DESCRIPTION:Carolyn de la Pena is a professor of American Studies. \nSponsored by the Food Studies Research Focus Group and the History Department. \nhm 4/26/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/empty-pleasures-the-story-of-artificial-sweeteners-from-saccharine-to-splenda/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110505T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110505T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112829Z UID:10001952-1304553600-1304553600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Ground Zero and Anti-Muslim Sentiments DESCRIPTION:The battle over plans to build a Muslim religious center near ground zero has thrown into sharp relief anti-Muslim rhetoric that contradicts American values of religious tolerance. This panel will explore the origin of these sentiments in the context of ground zero as an emotionally-charged memorial space\, and the exploitation of this history for political and ideological purposes. Maher Hathout is a Senior Advisor at the Muslim Public Affairs Council\, Los Angeles; Nuha Khoury\, is a professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at UCSB; and Edward Linenthal is professor of History at the University of Indiana.\nCo-sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies; the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Geographies of Place series; and the Walter Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion and Public Life. \nhm 4/25/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/ground-zero-and-anti-muslim-sentiments/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110506T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110506T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112828Z UID:10001737-1304640000-1304640000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk by Tom Juravich\, Sociology and Labor Studies\, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.\n“The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century.” \nJuravich is a labor educator and musician. He is the author of Chaos on the Shop Floor: A Worker’s View of Quality\, Productivity and Management (1985); an ethnography of a bitter labor struggle in West Virginia\, Ravenswood: The Steelworkers’ Victory and the Revival of American Labor\, with Kate Bronfenbrenner\, (1999); and At the Altar of the Bottom Line: The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century (2009). \nThe talk\, and subsequent discussion\, is part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work\, Labor\, and Political Economy\, 2010-2011 lecture series. \nThe Spring Quarter series is on Worker Rights and the Law 20th Century America. \nThe Colloquium meets on Friday\, May 6 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building. \njmj 04/25/2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-degradation-of-work-in-the-21st-century/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110509T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110509T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112830Z UID:10001960-1304899200-1304899200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Pulling the Teeth of the Tropics: Science\, Medicine\, the Environment\, and the Construction of the Panama Canal DESCRIPTION:Between 1904 and 1914\, the United States built the Panama Canal\, an ambitious engineering project undertaken in the shadow of the French failure two decades earlier. The French experience taught American administrators several lessons\, none more potent than the need to mitigate the destructiveness of so-called “tropical” diseases such as malaria and yellow fever. The U.S. responded with a sanitary program\, informed by several critical mosquito vector discoveries at the end of the 19th century\, that seemed to successfully meet that threat; indeed\, many Americans claimed to have solved one of the vexing medical and imperial problems of the era: the settling of temperate peoples in tropical environments. The Americans had\, to use the words of a contemporary commentator\, pulled the teeth of the tropics. This talk will examine American perceptions of the tropics at the turn of the last century\, how those perceptions informed U.S. sanitary and other administrative practices in Panama\, and how those practices in turn resulted in the creation of a Canal Zone landscape that mixed marked public health improvements with racial and medical inequalities. It will also examine how the environmental changes wrought by canal construction actually created many of the conditions conducive to malaria and yellow fever transmission\, and how it was scientists working in Panama who came to notice the disconnect between an environmental ideology that naturalized tropical disease and a material reality that implicated environmental changes as critical to the Isthmus’ public health challenges.\nhm 5/6/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/pulling-the-teeth-of-the-tropics-science-medicine-the-environment-and-the-construction-of-the-panama-canal/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110510T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110510T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112830Z UID:10001964-1304985600-1304985600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:21st Century Socialism and Venezuela DESCRIPTION:Eva Golinger will discuss the Bolivarian project for participatory democracy in Venezuela that has occurred through the empowerment of the country’s poor majority during the last decade. As an advisor to elected President Hugo Chávez\, she will also address some of the problems and conflicts facing Venezuela and the leftist South American-Caribbean bloc it helped found: the Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América.\nEva Golinger\, winner of the International Award for Journalism in Mexico (2009)\, is an Attorney and Writer from New York\, living in Caracas\, Venezuela since 2005 and author of several best-selling books\, including The Chávez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela \nhm 5/6/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/21st-century-socialism-and-venezuela/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110511T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110511T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112830Z UID:10001961-1305072000-1305072000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Harvest of Loneliness: the Bracero Program DESCRIPTION:This documentary explores the historical accounts of migrant Mexican farm workers brought into the U.S. from 1942 to1964 under the temporary contract worker program known as the Bracero Program to work as cheap\, controlled\, and disposable workers. Discussion with Gonzalez following the screening. Gilbert G Gonzalez\, Vivian Price\, and Adrian Salinas\,. Co-sponsored by the Hull Chair in Feminist Studies.\nhm 5/6/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/harvest-of-loneliness-the-bracero-program/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110512T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110512T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112830Z UID:10001975-1305158400-1305158400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:CASTE\, RACE\, AND CLASS IN SPANISH CALIFORNIA DESCRIPTION:Presidio Chapel at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara SHP123 East Canon Perdido Street\, Santa Barbara\, CA \nIndependent scholar Vladimir Guerrero is author of the book The Anza Trail and the Settling of California.\nGuerrero will discuss the concepts of caste\, race and class among the Anza settlers and the population of Alta\nCalifornia at the end of the eighteenth century. \nFREE event \nFor more information contact SBTHP at (805) 965-0093 or www.sbthp.org \nhm 5/9/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/caste-race-and-class-in-spanish-california/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110513T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110513T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112828Z UID:10001941-1305244800-1305244800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Civil Rights Protest and Labor Union Autonomy: The 1966 Hilton Hotel Protests and the Fate of Postwar Liberalism DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk by Reuel Schiller\, University of California\, Hasting College of Law.\n“Civil Rights Protest and Labor Union Autonomy: The 1966 Hilton Hotel Protests and the Fate of Postwar Liberalism.” Schiller’s areas of academic interest are twentieth-century American legal history\, administrative law\, and labor and employment law. A forthcoming book compares the legal strategies of the labor movement and the civil rights movement in the years since the Second World War. \nThe talk\, and subsequent discussion\, is part of the History 294: Colloquium in Work\, Labor\, and Political Economy\, 2010-2011 lecture series. \nThe Spring Quarter series is on Worker Rights and the Law 20th Century America. \nThe Colloquium meets on Friday\, May 13 at 1 p.m. in 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building. \njmj 04/09/2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/civil-rights-protest-and-labor-union-autonomy-the-1966-hilton-hotel-protests-and-the-fate-of-postwar-liberalism/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110517T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110517T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112830Z UID:10001957-1305590400-1305590400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:How California Invented Nanotechnology DESCRIPTION:Despite its seeming newness\, nanotechnology already has many different historical narratives. From seminal speeches at the start of the Space Age to futuristic imaginings in the 1980s to industrial commercialization in the 1990s\, nanotechnology is always linked to California in some fashion. In this talk\, McCray will explore how the West Coast version of nanotechnology resonated among researchers\, policy makers\, the media\, and the public within and beyond the Golden State. Seen more broadly\, this California-infused perspective gives insights into the nature of technological ecosystems\, historical analogies\, and the challenges posed by competing historical narratives. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/how-california-invented-nanotechnology/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110518T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110518T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112830Z UID:10001969-1305676800-1305676800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Senior Honors Seminar Colloquium DESCRIPTION:In the following schedule\, the name of the student’s mentor appears in parenthesis and that of the commentator in brackets.\n1-1:30 pm: Benjamin Lopez\, “The Sullivan Campaign of 1779 and the New York Frontier: an American General Fails to Grasp Victory” (Pat Cohen) [Ann Plane] \n1:30-2 pm: Christos Potamiamos\, “The Function of the Roman Spectacle in Ephesos” (Christine Thomas\, Beth DePalma Digeser) [Hal Drake] \n2:10-2:40 pm: Rebekah Dunn\, “‘Africa a-liberate Zimbabwe’? Music and Pan-Africanism in Zimbabwe and South Africa\, 1950-1995” (Mhoze Chikowero) [Stephan Miescher]\n2:40-3:10 pm: Alexa Greco\, “Thorns Amongst the Tentacles: A Look into the Private and Public Depictions of the Standard Oil Company “ (Mary Furner) [John Majewski] \n3:20-3:50 pm: Doug Wagoner\, “A Crossroads of Racial and Gender Preferences: Affirmative Action and the University of California’s War Within” (Laura Kalman) [Greg Graves]\n3:50-4:20 pm: Miles Freeman\, “Heroes and Traitors: the China Hands\, the China Lobby\, and the War for America’s China Policy” (Randy Bergstrom) [Nelson Lichtenstein] \n4:30-5 pm: Ian Anderson\, “The Architecture of Totalitarianism” (Volker Welter)\n[Al Lindemann]\nhm 5/8/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/senior-honors-seminar-colloquium-3/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110518T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110518T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112831Z UID:10001978-1305676800-1305676800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Why Should I Join Learned Societies;" "Marriage and Citizenship" DESCRIPTION:“Why Should I Join Learned Societies — AHA\, OAH\, LASA\, MESA\, NCPH — Even Though I Now Can Get Their Journals Free?” This brown-bag talk will be held Wednesday\, May 18 at noon in HSSB 4041. \nKerber is part president of the American Historical Association\, the Organization of American Historians\, and the American Studies Association\, so she is particularly knowledgeable about this topic. \nKerber will be giving another talk later this afternoon at the IHC (4 pm\, McCune Conference Room). \nThe topic of that talk will be “What the Founders Didn’t Change: Marriage and Citizenship in the U.S. from 1776 to the Present.” This talk is part of the IHC Critical Issues in America series\, which this year focuses on “Marriage: Race\, Sex\, and Citizenship.” \nhm 5/18/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/why-should-i-join-learned-societies-marriage-and-citizenship/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110519T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110519T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112830Z UID:10001965-1305763200-1305763200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Senior Honors Seminar Colloquium DESCRIPTION:In the following schedule\, the name of the student’s mentor appears in parenthesis and that of the commentator in brackets.\n2:30-3 pm: Andrew Seguin\, “Forays into the ‘Urban Frontier’: The Beginnings of Gentrification in New York City” (Randy Bergstrom) [Dustin Walker] \n3-3:30 pm: Emmett Bloom\, “Who’s In Charge? Political Fragmentation in Post-Taliban Afghanistan” (Steve Humphreys) [Eric Massie] \n3:40-4:10 pm: Travis Van Ligten\, “A Delicate Balance: Tokugawa Diplomacy between 1862 and 1864“ (Luke Roberts) (Toshi Hasegawa) \n4:10-4:40: Lindsay Gaudinier\, “The Western Shoshone and the Nevada Test Site”\n(Laura Kalman) [Patrick McCray] \n4:50-5:20pm: Matt Fibiger\, “Redeeming the Ship of State: the Mayaguez Incident of 1975” (Salim Yaqub) [Toshi Hasegawa] \nhm 5/8/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/senior-honors-seminar-colloquium/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110519T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110519T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112830Z UID:10001973-1305763200-1305763200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:“MARCHING FOR THE EMPIRE: CHILDREN ON THE SECOND ANZA EXPEDITION” DESCRIPTION:Presidio Chapel at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara SHP123 East Canon Perdido Street\, Santa Barbara\, CA \nVanessa Crispin-Peralta\, adjunct professor of history at Westmont College\, will draw upon her doctoral\ndissertation “Children at the Edge of the Empire: A History of Childhood in Coastal California’s Pueblos and\nMissions\, 1750 – 1850\,” to explore the integral role that children played in the expansion of the Spanish\nEmpire and the establishment of Californio culture. \nFREE event \nFor more information contact SBTHP at (805) 965-0093 or www.sbthp.org \nhm 5/9/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/marching-for-the-empire-children-on-the-second-anza-expedition/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110520T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110520T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112826Z UID:10001934-1305849600-1305849600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Borderland Processes Along the Han Northern Frontier\, 130 BCE-2 CE DESCRIPTION:At the height of Han expansion\, the northern frontier of the Han Empire stretched from northern Korea in the east to the Tengger Desert in the west and onward into Central Asia. In Chinese historical sources\, the massive complex of walls built across this region appears as an absolute dividing line between the Chinese and the Xiongnu\, a confederation of nomadic pastoralists. In reality\, the boundaries in this vast region were far from definite and were constantly in flux. Using Bradley J. Parker’s “continuum of border dynamics” and “borderland matrix” models\, this paper analyzes the borderland processes occurring along the Han northern frontier directly to the north of the Han capital of Chang’an.\nDr. Leslie Wallace is Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh. \nThis event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group\, with co-sponsorship from the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures\, and from the East Asia Center. \njwil 09.iii.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/borderland-processes-along-the-han-northern-frontier-130-bce-2-ce/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110520T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110520T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112830Z UID:10001967-1305849600-1305849600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Senior Honors Seminar Colloquium DESCRIPTION:In the following schedule\, the name of the student’s mentor appears in parenthesis and that of the commentator in brackets.\n1-1:30 pm: Cheyanne Gustason\, “Some Like It Haute: the Role of 1930s Hollywood Cinema in the Rise of the U.S. in the International Fashion Industry” (Chuck Wolfe) [Lisa Jacobson] \n1:30-2 pm: Eric Rogers\, “A Study of Early Christianity in Relation to the Ancient Mysteries” (Christine Thomas\, Beth DePalma Digeser) [Hal Drake] \n2:10-2:40 pm: Jonathan Bronstein\, “Judging the Judges: the Politicization of Judicial Nomination from Nixon to Reagan” (Laura Kalman) [Randy Bergstrom] \n2:40-3:10 pm: Evan Sherwood\, “Extending the Containment Perimeter in Korea: October 9\, 1950” (Jack Talbott) [Salim Yaqub] \n3:20-3:50 pm: Greg Wilner\, “Into the Arms of the Infidel: Christian and Muslim Mercenaries of the Reconquista” (Debra Blumenthal) [Ed English] \n3:50-4:20 pm: Charles Lucero\, “Anybody ‘but not Ld. B’: a Study of Lord William Carr Beresford’s Intervention in 1820s Portugal” (Frank Dutra) [David Rock] \n4:30-5 pm: Ariana Dumpis\, “ Surf and Turf: Surfing\, Localism\, and Everything in Between” (John Park) [Peter Neushul] \nhm 5/8/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/senior-honors-seminar-colloquium-2/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110525T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110525T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101952 CREATED:20150928T112831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112831Z UID:10001980-1306281600-1306281600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Implications of the Assassination of Bin Laden DESCRIPTION:Americans seem united in their elation over justice being brought to themastermind of the September 11th terrorist attacks\, but no one seems to\nagree on what to expect now. Whether this will mark a major shift in\nnational priorities\, or is simply a symbolic and cathartic event\, is yet to\nbe determined. The situation is further complicated by suspicions and\nspeculation about knowledge among the Pakistani government of bin Laden’s\nlocation\, as well as national sovereignty concerns raised in the wake of an\nunannounced commando raid in a foreign country. \nWhat implications does this hold for American foreign policy?\nHow does al Qaeda work? What are their methods\, their rationale\, and their strategy?\nWho deserves more credit for the operation: Barack Obama\, or George Bush? \nCampus Democrats will host a panel discussion this Wednesday\, May 25th\, at 7:00 PM in the Loma Pelona Center.\nThe L.P. center is a new multipurpose facility located on the west side of campus near Manzanita Village\, above the graduation lawn. \nSpeakers include:\nMark Juergensmeyer\, Director of the Orfalea Center at UCSB\nNancy Gallagher\, Professor of History\, UCSB\nScott Englund\, UCSB Political Science Department doctoral candidate\, former FBI intelligence analyst \nhm 5/25/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/implications-of-the-assassination-of-bin-laden/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110525T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110525T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101953 CREATED:20150928T112831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112831Z UID:10001977-1306281600-1306281600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History Associates and Department of History Awards Ceremony and Reception DESCRIPTION:For information on the individual awards and past winners\, please follow the link below.\nhm 5/9/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-and-department-of-history-awards-ceremony-and-reception/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110525T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110525T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101953 CREATED:20150928T112831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112831Z UID:10001979-1306281600-1306281600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Masculinity\, Space\, and late Seventeenth-Century Alchemical Practices DESCRIPTION:Building on contemporary research in alchemy and gender\, I engage themedium of space\, examining the connections between the identity of the\nphilosopher-alchemist and the composition of a masculine domestic space. I\nshow that the private\, enclosed nature of alchemical experimentation\nenabled the free exploration of masculinity. The private and semi-private\nnature of alchemical practices in England challenges the easy alignment of\ngentlemanly sociability and public display that have long dominated\ndiscussions of Restoration science. Natural philosophy and a traditional\nheterosexual marriage were often considered incompatible during the time of\nGalileo and Descartes. The pursuit of alchemy\, a private interest that\nrequired domestic space and secrecy\, was likewise incompatible with\nmarriage. During the Restoration\, scientists were encouraged to be\nsociable\, but they were also participating in a tradition that excluded\nsuch parts of social life as marriage. In private\, alchemists could\nmanipulate substances with names like “the Doves of Diana” and “spiritual\nsemen\,” changing substances’ genders or fusing them together. In this way\,\nalchemy offered a contained space for the natural philosopher to think\nabout gender and a metaphorical space for him to think about sexuality\nwhile still remaining celibate. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Reserach Fellows program. \nhm 5/23/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/masculinity-space-and-late-seventeenth-century-alchemical-practices/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110527T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110527T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101953 CREATED:20150928T112828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112828Z UID:10001943-1306454400-1306454400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Framing the Word: The Bible in European Culture and Society\, ca. 1250-1611 DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with a student-curated exhibit (May 15-July 15) of Medieval and Early Modern Bibles in the UCSB Davidson Library’s Department of Special Collections\, Prof. Sharon Farmer (UCSB History) has organized this conference. Each speaker will incorporate material from books in the exhibit into his or her talk.\nFriday\, May 27 / 1:00-4:00 PM\, McCune Conference Center\, HSSB 6020 \nCommercial Manuscript Makers in Thirteenth-Century Paris and the Making of the “Santa Barbara Bible”\nRichard Rouse\, History\, University of California\, Los Angeles \nPrinting the Hebrew Bible in Early Modern Europe: Christian and Jewish Scholarly Collaboration\nin an Age of Persecution\nTheodore Dunkelgrün\, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies\, University of Pennsylvania \nWitches\, Virgins\, and the Whore of Babylon: Female Types in a Sixteenth-Century Lutheran Context\nBonnie Noble\, Art History\, University of North Carolina at Charlotte \nBefore and After 1611: The Making and Remaking of the King James Version\nLori Anne Ferrell\, School of Arts and Humanities\, Claremont Graduate University \nThere will be a reception following the conference at the Department of Special Collections\, Third Floor\, Davidson Library \nThis conference has been generously supported by the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts\, the Catholic Studies Program\, the Department of History\, the Department of Religious Studies\, The Early Modern Center\, the Medieval Studies Program\, and the Humanities and Fine Arts Dean’s Fund for Jewish Studies\, which was made possible by a generous donation in memory of Martha Heyman Franck. \njwil 13.iii.2011\, hm 5/17 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/framing-the-word-the-bible-in-european-culture-and-society-ca-1250-1611/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110527T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110527T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T101953 CREATED:20150928T112830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112830Z UID:10001956-1306454400-1306454400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Ancient India & Early Greece: A Historical-Comparative Approach to Political Thought and the Concept of Ruling DESCRIPTION:This talk will map out an analytic approach for political theory that combines the history of political ideas and cross-cultural\, comparative political thought. Special attention will be given to the methodological and interpretive challenges confronting this approach\, how and why it should be applied to ancient Greek and Indian political thought\, and finally\, its general analytic benefits for political theory.\nStuart Gray is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at UCSB. \nThis event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 26.iv.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/ancient-india-early-greece-a-historical-comparative-approach-to-political-thought-and-the-concept-of-ruling/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR