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:20111006T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111006T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T100447 CREATED:20150928T112832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112832Z UID:10001774-1317859200-1317859200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Congress in Black and White: Race and Representation in Washington and at Home DESCRIPTION:At this event the convenors will announce plans for lectures and events for the coming academic year which include lectures by Keiji Sato\, Slavic Research Center\, Hokkaido University (visiting at the Davis Center\, Harvard University) on national mobilization and Barbara Junisbai\, Pritzer College on ethnic conflict and Kazakhstan.\nAll colleagues and graduate students who may be new to the RFG Identity are invited to attend. \nCynthia S. Kaplan and Adrienne Edgars\nCo-conveners\, RFG Identity \nhm 10/5/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/congress-in-black-and-white-race-and-representation-in-washington-and-at-home/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111006T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111006T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T100447 CREATED:20150928T112832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112832Z UID:10001776-1317859200-1317859200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Women\, Islamism & the Jasmine Revolution DESCRIPTION:Women\, Islamism & the Jasmine Revolution (or the so-called “Arab Spring”)\nThursday\, October 6\, 2011 * 12:00 noon * Center for Black Studies Research\n4603 South Hall* \nTunisian women have played a major role in the Jasmine revolution that led\nto the ousting of President Ben Ali\, after 23 years of autocratic\nleadership. They stood side by side with men during the massive protests\nthat shook the country\, and their voices rose loud and clear demanding that\nthe dictator leave. Six months after the revolution\, the great political\nemptiness beyond the ousted president is being filled by Islamist parties\n(30% of vote intention) which are marginalizing women’s role in the\nrevolution and in society at large and threatening their basic rights. \nThis talk will examine the role that Tunisian women played in the\nrevolution as well as the many challenges that they are facing in the post\nrevolution era. It will also focus on women’s strategies to protect their\nrights and to ensure that religion will remain separate from the political. \nProfessor Raja Boussedra is a Professor of English at the Université de\nCarthage\, Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis\, English Department\, in\nTunis\, Tunisia. \nCo-sponsors:\nJohn Woolley for the Department of Political Science\,\nMark Juergensmeyer for the Orfalea Center\,\nGiles Gun for the Global and International Studies Program\,\nDwight Reynolds for the Center for Middle East Studies\, and\nRichard Hutton and LeeAnne French for the Carsey-Wolf Center \nhm 10/5/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/women-islamism-the-jasmine-revolution/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111008T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111008T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T100447 CREATED:20150928T112831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112831Z UID:10001987-1318032000-1318032000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Tule Mat Making DESCRIPTION:Learn the art of tule mat making and the historical signifance of tule inChumash life. Karen Osland\, co-owner of Lavenpine Consulting\, has been\nleading workshops on basketry using Native California plants for 25 years.\nLeave with your own mat made from tule. \n15 E. De La Guerra Street\, Santa Barbara\n$15 Public\, $12.50 Students and Seniors\, $10 SBTHP Members \nReservation required. For more information go to www.sbthp.org. \nhm 8/23/11\, 10/6/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/tule-mat-making/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111012T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111012T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T100447 CREATED:20150928T112833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112833Z UID:10001992-1318377600-1318377600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:India's National Security Challenges DESCRIPTION:General Ved Prakash Malik was the Chief of the Indian Army from 1997 to 2000. During his tenure\, India fought a war with Pakistan to eject intruders from the heights of the Kargil sector of Jammu and Kashmir. In a distinguished military career spanning more than 40 years\, General Malik was involved in the executing\, planning\, and overseeing of some of India’s most prominent military operations\, including Operations ?Vijay? (Jammu & Kashmir)\, ?Pavan? (Sri Lanka)\, and ?Cactus? (Maldives). After retirement\, he was a member of the National Security Advisory board from 2000 to 2002. Today\, he serves as an independent director on the boards of some of India’s major corporate firms\, including Coca-Cola India and Reliance India. A respected voice on defense and security affairs\, General Malik has authored Kargil: From Surprise to Victory\, edited Defense Planning: Problems and Prospects\, Emerging NATO: Europe and Asia\, and written chapters and articles for several other security related books. \nThis presentation is co-sponsored by the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies and the Center for Cold War Studies and International History at UCSB. \nhm 10/9/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/indias-national-security-challenges/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111013T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111013T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T100447 CREATED:20150928T112832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112832Z UID:10001780-1318464000-1318464000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Fifty Years of Archaeology at SB Trust for Historic Preservation: A Retrospective DESCRIPTION:Fifty Years of Archaeology at SBTHP: A RetrospectiveThursday\, October 13 at 7:00 PM \nJoin Dr. Robert Hoover\, SBTHP board president\, and Mike Imwalle\, SBTHP archaeologist\, as they review 50 years of archaeology at the Santa Barbara Presidio. Beginning with Dr. James Deetz in 1961\, the retrospective follows the history of archaeological study from before the incorporation of SBTHP through the ongoing development of the El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park. Examine the evolution of techniques used to uncover Santa Barbara’s oldest historic site. See what has been achieved and a glimpse of research we have planned for the future. \nPresidio Chapel\nEl Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park\n123 East Canon Perdido Street\, Santa Barbara\, CA\nFree for SBTHP Members\, $10 Non-Members\, $5 Students\nFor more information (805) 965-0093 \nhm 10/6/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/fifty-years-of-archaeology-at-sb-trust-for-historic-preservation-a-retrospective/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111013T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111013T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T100447 CREATED:20150928T112833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112833Z UID:10001989-1318464000-1318464000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:From the Museum of the October Revolution to the Museum of Political History DESCRIPTION:Aleksei Kulegin is the Curator of the Museum of Political History of Russia in St. Petersburg.\nThe balcony you see in this building is where Lenin delivered his first speech in April 1917 after he returned from exile. This building\, formerly owned by Emperor Nicholas II’ lover\, famous ballerina Mathilda Kshesinskaia\, became the Museum of the October Revolution. Kulegin will discuss how the museum survived the difficult periods of Stalin’s purges and the siege of Leningrad and how the museum was transformed into the Museum of Political History after the collapse of the Soviet Union. \nSponsored by the Trust of Mutual Understanding and CES ArtsLinkInc and the Likhachev Foundation in St. Petersburg. \nKulegin will present again at 12:30-2:00 on Thursday\, October 20\, in HSSB\, “Who Killed Rasputin? Myths and Reality of the Murder of the Holy Devil: Grigorii Rasputin.” \nBoth presentations will be accompanied with interesting photographs and illustrations that his museum has collected. \nhm 10/6/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/from-the-museum-of-the-october-revolution-to-the-museum-of-political-history/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111014T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111014T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T100447 CREATED:20150928T112832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112832Z UID:10001772-1318550400-1318550400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Elite Contestations\, Space and Ideology after the Sack of Rome in 410 DESCRIPTION:Michele R. Salzman is Professor of History at UC Riverside. She is the author of On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity (UC Press\, 1990)\, The Making of a Christian Aristocracy (Harvard University Press\, 2002)\, and The First Book of Symmachus’ Letters. Introduction and Commentary; Translation with Michael Roberts (Brill\, forthcoming in 2011). She is currently working on a new book project that examines the city of Rome and its response to crisis from the third to seventh centuries. Her current research uses textual and material evidence to assess the roles that competing elites played in the transformation of the city and Italy.\nThis event is sponsored by the UC Multi-Campus Research Group on Late Antiquity\, in cooperation with the\nUCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 03.x.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/elite-contestations-space-and-ideology-after-the-sack-of-rome-in-410/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111015T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111015T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T100448 CREATED:20150928T112833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112833Z UID:10001988-1318636800-1318636800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Multi-Campus Research Group on Ancient Mediterranean Borderlands DESCRIPTION:For more information contact Jessie Ambler at jessica_ambler(at)umail.ucsb.edu.\nThis event is sponsored by the UC Multi-Campus Research Group on Ancient Mediterranean Borderlands\, in cooperation with the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program. \njwil 04.x.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/multi-campus-research-group-on-ancient-mediterranean-borderlands/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111017T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111017T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T100448 CREATED:20150928T112832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112832Z UID:10001769-1318809600-1318809600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Tektaş Burnu Shipwreck: Shedding New Light on Classical Ionia DESCRIPTION:For three summers between 1999 and 2001\, underwater excavations off the Aegean coast of Turkey atTektaş Burnu revealed the remains of a small Greek merchant ship that sank between 440 and 425 B.C. or\nshortly thereafter. The vessel was carrying a primary cargo of wine and pine tar contained in more than\n200 transport amphoras and smaller quantities of East Greek pottery. At the time the Tektaş Burnu ship\nsunk in the third quarter of the fifth century B.C.\, Athens was the leading naval power in the\nMediterranean\, a position the Athenians achieved through the economic exploitation of allied city-states\nand heavy-handed control over maritime trade. As the only Classical shipwreck ever to be fully excavated\nin Aegean waters\, the Tektaş Burnu ship promises to shed light on local trade networks at a time when\nIonia was thought to be mired in an “economic paralysis” brought on by the high cost of Athenian\nimperialism in the decades following the Ionian Revolt of 499 B.C. \nDeborah Carlson is Associate Professor in the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University.\nProf. Carlson specializes in trade and seafaring in the ancient Mediterranean. \nSponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America with cooperation from the UCSB Department of Classics. \njwil 03.x.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-tekta-burnu-shipwreck-shedding-new-light-on-classical-ionia/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111019T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111019T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T100448 CREATED:20150928T112833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112833Z UID:10001998-1318982400-1318982400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Academic Job Market for Historians DESCRIPTION:The Graduate placement committee will hold a workshop on navigating the academic job market next Wednesday Oct. 19 at 4 pm in HSSB 4020. We will concentrate on preparing your application file\, resources for identifying jobs and getting ready for interviews.\nIf you are on the market\, you might want to bring a copy of your application letter. \nProfessor Carol Lansing\nDirector of Graduate Studies \nhm 10/12/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-academic-job-market-for-historians/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111020T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111020T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T100448 CREATED:20150928T112833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112833Z UID:10001990-1319068800-1319068800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Who Killed Rasputin? Myths and Reality of the Murder of the Holy Devil: Grigorii Rasputin DESCRIPTION:Aleksei Kulegin\, Curator of the Museum of Political History of Russia in St. Petersburg will present at 12:30-2:00 on Thursday\, October 20\, in HSSB\, “Who Killed Rasputin? Myths and Reality of the Murder of the Holy Devil: Grigorii Rasputin.”\nThe presentation will be accompanied with interesting photographs and illustrations that his museum has collected. \nhm 10/6/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/who-killed-rasputin-myths-and-reality-of-the-murder-of-the-holy-devil-grigorii-rasputin/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111020T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111020T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T100448 CREATED:20150928T112833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112833Z UID:10002000-1319068800-1319068800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Militant Femininities\, 'Enlightened Moderation\,' & the Global War on Terror DESCRIPTION:subtitle: Pakistan’s Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) Movement\nThe Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) movement came into international\nvisibility in 2007 when armed men\, women and children occupied the\noldest mosque in Islamabad\, refusing to surrender until\nthe Pakistani government met their demands. A notable\naspect of this movement was the emergence of militant\nwomen activists affiliated with Jamia Hafsa the\nwomen’s seminary affiliated with the Lal Masjid – who\nparticipated in very public forms of protest to demand\nnew systems of governance premised on a purist interpretation\nof Islam. This presentation will illuminate the\nways that these religious femininities engage\, challenge\,\nand intervene in hegemonic discourses surrounding\nthe Global War on Terror. \nDr. Khanum Shaikh is a University of California\nPresidential Postdoctoral Fellow for 2010-2012 in\nthe Department of History at UCSB. \nDirections:The Orfalea Center is located in the detached\nground-level wing of offices on the left just outside the\nmain Ocean Road entrance to Robertson Gymnasium. \nhm 10/15/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/militant-femininities-enlightened-moderation-the-global-war-on-terror/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111020T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111020T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T100448 CREATED:20150928T112833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112833Z UID:10002005-1319068800-1319068800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Arab Spring: Where Are the Swallows? DESCRIPTION:“In England\, a swallow is the first sign of summer\,” Wright says. “Hence we will discuss when will the Arab spring\, representing potentiality\, turn to summer\, representing actuality\, for the people of this region.” The speakers\, who are married\, were living in Egypt during the Egyptian Revolution and were based there during the past decade. The talk will focus on Egypt as an exemplar of the Arab Spring. The presentations will combine big-picture historical analysis with more personal\, anecdotal insights. While the issues of what comes next are inevitably speculative\, the couple will try to extrapolate from the multiple and often contradictory forces at play to suggest some possible outcomes. “By the end of the evening I would like the audience to see that the situation is a little more complex\, subtle and interesting than they thought at the beginning\,” Wright says.\nThe lecture is part of Westmont Downtown: Conversations about Things that Matter\, which is sponsored by the Westmont Foundation. Seating is limited and available on a first-come\, first-served basis. \nThe University Club\, 1332 Santa Barbara St. \, Santa Barbara\nPhone: 805-565-6051\nmap: http://www.independent.com/places/university-club/ \nhm 10/19/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-arab-spring-where-are-the-swallows/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111021T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111021T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T100448 CREATED:20150928T112834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112834Z UID:10002008-1319155200-1319155200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Startling Rise of Women Filmmakers in the Islamic Republic DESCRIPTION:Hamid Naficy is Professor of Radio-Television-Film and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University\, and he is also an affiliate faculty in Art History. He is a leading authority in cultural studies of diaspora\, exile\, and postcolonial cinemas and media and of Iranian and Middle Eastern cinemas. His Latest books are An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking and A Social History of Iranian Cinema\, a 4-volume book\, whose first two volumes have just been released.\nThis lecture will be followed by: \nShahla Haeri\, “From Belqeis to Benazir: A Queen\, A Sultan\, and A Prime Minister Shahla”\nShahla Haeri is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and the former director of Women’s Studies Program (2001-2010) at Boston University. She will be a Visiting Fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for International and Regional Studies in Doha\, Qatar for 2011-2012. She is the author of Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage\, Mut’a\, in Iran (1989\, 2006 4th pt.)\, and No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani women (2002/2004)\, and a video documentary\, “Mrs. President: Women and Political Leadership in Iran\, 2002” (www.films.com). \nhm 10/20/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-startling-rise-of-women-filmmakers-in-the-islamic-republic/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111024T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111024T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T100448 CREATED:20150928T112834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112834Z UID:10002009-1319414400-1319414400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History of Public Health in the Americas and the Caribbean DESCRIPTION:8:55 Welcome – Gabriela Soto-Laveaga\n9:00 – 10:25\nAdam Warren (University of Washington)\n Indigenismo\, Degeneration\, and Racial Differentiation in Peruvian Coca Science\, 1920-1950 \nHanni Jalil Paier (UCSB)\n Luchando por la patria\, forjando trabajadores: Tuberculosis\, Alcoholism and Public Health in Colombia\, 1910-1925 \n10:25 – 10:40\nBREAK \n10:40 – 12:40\nHeather McCrea (Kansas State University) Indians\, Doctors\, and Parasites: Medicine and Identity Formation in the Tropics (or the “Indiscriminate Vector”) \nNicole Pacino (UCSB)\nA Small Oasis in a Large Intellectual Desert: Debates over Rockefeller Foundation Funding to Revolutionary Bolivia \nJill Briggs (UCSB)\nVenereal Disease in 1930s Jamaica: moral panic and a case of mistaken identity \n12:45 – 2:00 Lunch (only for presenters)\nFaculty Club \n2:10 – 3:40\nJethro Hernandez-Berrones (UCSF)\n “Medicos científicos” or “bifurcación de la ciencia”: Homeopathy and the struggle against the monopolization of the medical profession in Mexico\, 1895-1924. \nGabriela Soto Laveaga\nCreating Rural Doctors for the Modern State: Curricular Changes and Social Service for Mexican Medical Students\, 1934-1945 \n3:40-3:50 Break\n3:50 – 5:00 Wrap-Up: Common Themes\, Disparities & New ideas \nThe event is free and open to the public. \nvz 10/23 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/history-of-public-health-in-the-americas-and-the-caribbean/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111025T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111025T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T100448 CREATED:20150928T112832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112832Z UID:10001782-1319500800-1319500800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:An Evening with Librarian of Congress James Billington DESCRIPTION:UCSB HISTORY ASSOCIATES\nSpecial Event: ‘A Life for the Books’\nAn Evening with Librarian of Congress James Billington\nSponsored by the Friends of the Library of the Santa Ynez Valley \nSolvang Brewing Company\n1547 Mission Dr.\, Solvang \nWhen he became the 13th Librarian of Congress in 1987\, Dr. James\nBillington had never heard of the iPad\, Kindle\, Smart phones or the Google\ndigital book project. Of course\, that’s because none of them existed. Join\nus for this special evening to hear what it was like to run the largest\nand most diverse library in the world during a period of the greatest\nchanges in publishing technology since the invention of moveable type.\nWe will begin with dinner and an illustrated lecture on the history of the\nLibrary of Congress by UCSB’s own Dr. Bev Schwartzberg\, followed\nby Dr. Billington’s public lecture in the nearby Veterans Memorial Hall. \nMission Dr. is Route 246\, the main street in Solvang. The\nSolvang Brewing Company is located at 1547 Mission\,\nnext to the big windmill and Paula’s Pancake House. The\nVeterans Memorial Hall is located at 1745 Mission\, adjacent\nto the Solvang Library. It has ample parking. \nDr. Billington’s public lecture will begin at 7 p.m.\nPlease reserve your space(s) @ $25 (HA members and guests) $30 (non-members) \nhm 10/6/11\, corr. 10/14 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/an-evening-with-librarian-of-congress-james-billington/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111026T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111026T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T100448 CREATED:20150928T112833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112833Z UID:10002003-1319587200-1319587200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Empire Fallacy: A New Interpretation of U.S. Foreign Relations From George Washington to Barack Obama DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Professor Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman challenges the assumption that the United States is an empire. Rather\, it acts as an arbiter and enforcer in a world system where goals and rules are increasingly universal. Over the past three centuries\, most nations have become republics and many democracies. Almost all have embraced free market economic policies in some form. After World War II\, numerous voluntary pacts prohibited conquest and placed limits on the right of states to abuse their populations. The primary challenge to nationalism lay no longer in imperialism but in universalism. The U.S. did not cause these changes\, Professor Hoffman argues\, but it hastened them. The global role toward which it gravitated was rooted in domestic U.S. experience\, where the historical tension between states’ rights and federal authority prefigured the later tension between state sovereignty and supranational authority.\nElizabeth Cobbs Hoffman is Dwight E. Stanford Professor of American Foreign Relations at San Diego State University. She is the author of The Rich Neighbor Policy: Kaiser and Rockefeller in Brazil (Yale\, 1992) and All You Need is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s (Harvard\, 2000). Her first book won the Allan Nevins Prize from the Organization of American Historians and the Stuart Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Professor Hoffman is now completing a book\, for Harvard University Press\, on U.S. foreign relations since 1776. \nThe talk is sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) and cosponsored by the UCSB Department of History. \nhm 10/17/11 \nThe event is free and open to the public. A brief reception\, with refreshments\, will follow Prof. Hoffman’s presentation.\nPlease join us for this exciting event! URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-empire-fallacy-a-new-interpretation-of-u-s-foreign-relations-from-george-washington-to-barack-obama/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20111028T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20111028T000000 DTSTAMP:20260428T100448 CREATED:20150928T112833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112833Z UID:10002007-1319760000-1319760000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Yours and Mine\, But Not Ours: The Toledot Yeshu and Identity Construction in Late Antiquity DESCRIPTION:This event is sponsored by the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.\njwil 19.x.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/yours-and-mine-but-not-ours-the-toledot-yeshu-and-identity-construction-in-late-antiquity/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR