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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20130310T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20131103T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120402T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120402T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T091543 CREATED:20150928T112839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112839Z UID:10002051-1333324800-1333324800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Start of Spring Instruction DESCRIPTION:First day of classes.For the official academic calendar\, click the link: URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/start-of-spring-instruction/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120403T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120403T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T091543 CREATED:20150928T112839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112839Z UID:10002049-1333411200-1333411200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:In Search of King Midas: New Discoveries and Reinterpretations at Gordion (Turkey) DESCRIPTION:For over half of a century\, the University of Pennsylvania Museum has conducted excavations at the ancient site of Gordion in central Turkey. The site is best known as the capital of the Iron Age kingdom of Phrygia and the home of the semi-legendary King Midas\, who ruled around 725 BC and whose enormous wealth and power helped to spawn enduring legends of his “golden touch”. Who was this semi-legendary figure\, and what is the current state of our evidence concerning his actual life and accomplishments? The on-going excavations at Gordion have helped to answer some of these questions\, unveiling a society of enormous complexity and shedding much needed light on the history of this elusive ruler and the enigmatic Phrygian people. Recent research at the site has substantially improved our understanding of Phrygian culture\, as well as clarifying other important aspects of the site’s three millennia of occupation. The application of new archaeological techniques and a fresh study of previous finds have combined to produce dramatic and significant new interpretations about the site’s history\, its multicultural heritage and the unheralded preeminence of Phrygian culture in ancient Anatolia.\nAndrew Goldman is Associate Professor of History with Gonzaga University. He received his degrees from Wesleyan University and the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill (M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology)\, and his research interests include Roman Anatolia\, the Roman military\, and Roman pottery. Professor Goldman has worked at many sites throughout Turkey\, including Çatal Höyük\, and since 1992 he has been working at the ancient site of Gordion. \nThis talk is sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America\, with cooperation from the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program. \njwil 05.iii.2012 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/in-search-of-king-midas-new-discoveries-and-reinterpretations-at-gordion-turkey/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120403T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120403T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T091543 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002064-1333411200-1333411200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Archaeology of Shipwrecks: Treasuring the Past? DESCRIPTION:To the media and in the minds of the general public ‘maritime archaeology’ often suggests the study of shipwrecks\, perhaps because of the prominent role they played in the development of the subject over the last half century. In reality maritime archaeology encompasses all past human activity relating to seas\, interconnected waterways and adjacent locales. But ships and ancient seafaring nevertheless remain a significant focus for research. Unfortunately it is not only archaeologists for whom shipwrecks hold a fascination but those whose motivation is rather more commercial. This lecture reviews current research\, reviews some dramatic discoveries and asks in what ways should we treasure the past?\nJonathan Adams is a specialist in maritime archaeology\, with interests in ships as manifestations of innovation and social change\, and in the practice of archaeology in the coastal zone and under water\, particularly the ethics of the developing field of deep-water archaeology. He was a Deputy Director of the Mary Rose Project and has directed several other research excavations including the Amsterdam (UK)\, and the Sea Venture (Bermuda). He is currently working on medieval and early modern shipwreck sites in Sweden including the Kravel Project\, and in Guernsey\, as well as prehistoric maritime landscapes in Sweden and the UK. He is Director of the Centre for Maritime Archaeology and a member of the Archaeology Management Group. \nSponsored by the Department of Anthropology. the IHC’s Archeology RFG\, and the IHC’s Public Goods series. \njwil 30.iii.2012 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-archaeology-of-shipwrecks-treasuring-the-past/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120405T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120405T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T091543 CREATED:20150928T112838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112838Z UID:10002043-1333584000-1333584000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Close to Jedenew" DESCRIPTION:Kevin Vennemann will be delivering an introduction to and a lecture from his widely acclaimed debut novel Close to Jedenew\, published in German by the prestigious Suhrkamp Verlag 2005 and in English\, by Melville House in 2008. A group of children from the rural village of Jedenew\, which might or might not be located in early 1940s Poland\, get together late at night to play together in the dark woods. But their game is to pretend they live in the imaginary world of the Jedenew that came before them\, when it was not occupied by what might or might not be German troops\, and when their Jewish friends were not mysteriously disappearing one by one.\nKevin Vennemann studied German and English Literature\, Jewish Studies and History in Cologne\, Innsbruck\, Berlin and Vienna where he received his M.A. In 2011\, he was a visiting fellow for German literature and philosophy at the University of Zurich; since 2009 he has been a PhD candidate at New York University. \nVennemann has been celebrated as of the most original and masterful young writers to appear in decades. The beautifully lush prose of his writing has been compared both to W.G. Sebald’s and to Franz Kafka’s and earned him numerous awards and prizes. His most recent publications include the novels Mara Kogoj (2007) and Sunset Boulevard. Vom Filmen\, Bauen und Sterben in Los Angeles which is set to appear this April with Suhrkamp Verlag. \nAbout the Dr. George Wittenstein Lecture Series: We are privileged that Dr. George J. Wittenstein\, a participant in two resistance groups against Hitler’s National-Socialist regime\, lives in our community. Jürgen (George) Wittenstein was actively involved in the Weisse Rose (White Rose) and the Freiheitsaktion Bayern (Freedom Action Bavaria). Named in honor of Dr. Wittenstein in order to preserve and continue his legacy of civic courage and commitment\, our series brings scholars to our campus\, whose research\, teaching\, civic courage and engagement mutually inform and inspire each other. \nhm 2/14/12\, 2/22; jwil 20.iii.2012 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/close-to-jedenew/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120406T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120406T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T091543 CREATED:20150928T112839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112839Z UID:10002059-1333670400-1333670400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Non-Aligned Movement and the Cold War\, 1961-1973 DESCRIPTION:The Non-Aligned Movement was created to stand apart from the Cold War. Lorenz Luthi argues\, however\, that the Non-Aligned Movement was a product of the Cold War and was almost torn apart by it during the 1961-1973 period. From the start\, Cold War issues–such as the division of Germany\, nuclear weapons\, the Middle East conflict\, and the Indochina war–impaired the cohesion of the Non-Aligned Movement. Internal weakness and the lack of a clear agenda were also responsible for the movement’s political demise by the early 1970s.\nLorenz Lüthi received his PhD from Yale University in 2003 and is now associate professor of history at McGill University. His first book\, THE SINO-SOVIET SPLIT was published by Princeton University Press in 2008. Professor Lüthi is currently working on a book on the regional Cold Wars in Asia\, the Middle East\, and Europe. \nThe event is free and open to the public. A brief reception\, with refreshments\, will follow Prof. Lüthi’s presentation. Please join us for this exciting event! \nhm 3/29/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-non-aligned-movement-and-the-cold-war-1961-1973/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120409T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120409T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T091543 CREATED:20150928T112839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112839Z UID:10002061-1333929600-1333929600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography\, War\, and the Holocaust DESCRIPTION:In January 1942\, three years before Americans arrived at Buchenwald and Dachau\, Jewish photographers working for the Soviet press became the first liberators to photograph the unprecedented horror we now call the Holocaust. These photographers participated in a social project in which they were emotionally and intellectually invested; they had been dispatched by the Stalinist state to document Nazi atrocities. David Shneer tells the stories of these photographers and highlights their work through their own images; he has amassed never-before-published photographs from families\, collectors\, and private archives.\nSpeaker: \nDavid Shneer is the Singer Chair of Jewish History at the University of Colorado\, Boulder. His most recent books include NEW JEWS: THE END OF THE JEWISH DIASPORA (NYU\, 2005) and the award-winning THROUGH SOVIET JEWISH EYES: PHOTOGRAPHY\, WAR\, AND THE HOLOCAUST (Rutgers\, 2011). Professor Shneer has published scholarly articles in leading journals like THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW and in the popular press such as the Huffington Post and THE JEWISH DAILY FORWARD. \nEvent sponsored by the History Department\, Center for Cold War and International Studies\, the Dept of Germanic\, Slavic and Semitic Studies\, and the program in Jewish Studies. \nhm 3/30/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/through-soviet-jewish-eyes-photography-war-and-the-holocaust/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120413T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120413T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T091543 CREATED:20150928T112834Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112834Z UID:10002018-1334275200-1334275200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Conflict\, Consensus\, and the Crossing of Boundaries in the Premodern World DESCRIPTION:The Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group at the University of California\, Santa Barbara is pleased to host the 3rd Biennial Graduate Student Conference on Ancient Borderlands. The full conference program appears below.\nFRIDAY\, APRIL 13TH \nCOFFEE/ MEET AND GREET– starting at 2:00pm \nINTRODUCTIONS AND WELCOMING COMMENTS– 3:00pm\nDean David Marshall\, Prof. John W. I. Lee\, Prof. Beth DePalma Digeser\, Peninah Wolpo \nPANEL ONE: GEOGRAPHIES\, REAL AND IMAGINED– 3:30-4:30\n1)”Love and Wine: The Ancient Mediterranean and the Geographies of Space and Time”\n-Andrew Tobolowsky\, Brown University\, Department of Religious Studies\n2)“Strabo’s Representation of the Mesopotamian Borderland”\n-Hamish Cameron\, University of Southern California\, Department of Classics \nComments: Dr. Felix Racine\, University of St. Andrews\, School of Classics \nKEYNOTE ADDRESS– 4:30pm\nProf. BRADLEY PARKER\, University of Utah\, Department of History \nRECEPTION– 5:30pm\nGRADUATE STUDENT DINNER– 7:30pm \nSATURDAY\, APRIL 14TH \nCOFFEE– starting at 8:45am \nPANEL TWO: DEFINING THE LIMITS OF COMMUNITY– 9:50am\nChair: Prof. Frances Hahn\, UCSB\, Department of Classics\n1)“The so-called Assyrian Fortifications in the Iron IIC Western Negev: a Comparative Approach”\n-Heidi Dodgson\, UCLA\, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures\n2)“Deconstructing Town and Country: Reconsidering Urban\, Suburban and Rural in Ancient Rome”\n-Tracey Watts\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Department of History\n3)“Bounding the Conceptual City: The Roman Pomerium”\n-Alison Turtledove\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Department of History \nPANEL THREE: CONSTRUCTING AND CONCEALING IDENTITY IN THE FRONTIERS– 11:15am\n1)“Outliers and Interactions: The Face of Loro Ceramics”\n-Deborah Spivak\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Department of Art History\n2)“Druidic Relations: Bridging Gaul and Rome”\n-Regina Loehr\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Department of Classics\n3)“Antique Antiques in Roman Hispania: Archaeological Heirlooms as Indicators of Indigenous Identity and Cultural Resistance in Roman Frontier Zones”\n-Linda Gosner\, Brown University\, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World \nComments: Prof. Mary Hancock\, UCSB Departments of History and Anthropology; \nLUNCH 12:35-2:00pm \nPANEL FOUR: DISCOURSES OF THE OTHER– 2:00pm\nChair: Prof. Dayna Kalleres\, UCSD\, Department of Literature\n1)”Narrative and Iranian Identity in the New Persian Renaissance”\n-Conrad Harter\, University of California\, Irvine\, Department of History\n2)“Ethnicity\, Hybridity\, and the Perception of Community: The Role of Law in Shaping Ethnicity in the Anglo-Welsh Borderlands”\n-Michael Hill\, Rutgers University\, Department of History\n3)“Your Impurity is My Purity: The ‘Jewish’ Persecution of Christ in P. Heidelberg\, inv. G 1101”\n-Joseph Sanzo\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, Department of History \nComments: Prof. Heidi Marx-Wolf\, University of Manitoba\, Department of Religion \nPANEL FIVE: PIRATES! POLICING THE BOUNDARIES– 3:30pm\n1)“Pompey’s Pet Pirates: Making Subjects from Outlaws”\n-Jason Shattuck\, University of Washington\, Department of History\n2)“Laws and Lines: Monsters\, Boundaries and the Rise of ‘Cilician’ Pirates”\n-Andrew Roller\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Department of History\n3)“Arrrr! There be Pirates in Homer!”\n-Daniel Bellum\, UC Irvine\, Department of Classics \nComments: Prof. Michele Salzman\, UC Riverside\, Department of History; \nCLOSING COMMENTS– 5:00pm\nProf. GREG FISHER\, Carleton University\, Department of Greek and Roman Studies \njwil 10.iv.2012 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/conflict-consensus-and-the-crossing-of-boundaries-in-the-premodern-world/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120415T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120415T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T091543 CREATED:20150928T112839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112839Z UID:10002050-1334448000-1334448000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:“Surf’s Up! But Where and How High?” Measuring and Riding Waves DESCRIPTION:It may mean Beach Boys and wood-paneled station wagons to you\, but surfing today is more a matter of wave prediction data and real time animated film about key surf spots\, published on surfing websites. Take a break from your taxes and come join us at noon on Sunday\, April 15 at Moby Dick Restaurant on picturesque Stearns Wharf for the best view of the waves (both literally and figuratively) in Santa Barbara (90-minute free parking at the wharf with restaurant validation).\nPeter Neushul received his PhD in the History of Science at UCSB in 1993 with a dissertation on Science\, Technology and the Arsenal of Democracy: Production Research and Development during World War II. A member of UCSB’s Program in the History of Science\, Technology and Medicine\, Peter co-taught with Peter Westwick the department’s popular class on\n“History of Surfing.” \nRSVP NECESSARY:\n“Surf’s Up!” Moby Dick Restaurant\, Sun.\, Apr. 15 (noon)\nPlease reserve _____ space(s) @ $23 (HA members and guests) $25 (non-members)\nUCSB HISTORY ASSOCIATES\nName _____________________________________ Guest(s) ________________________________________\nAddress ___________________________________________________________________________________\nDaytime Phone ________________________ E-mail ______________________________________________\n“Surf’s Up! But Where and How High?”\nOr phone (805) 893-4388 \nhm 3/20/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/surfs-up-but-where-and-how-high-measuring-and-riding-waves/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120419T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120419T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T091543 CREATED:20150928T112839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112839Z UID:10002055-1334793600-1334793600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Holocaust and Genocide DESCRIPTION:Prof. Bauer will discuss why humans are the only living creatures that kill their own kind in large numbers\, and the essential similarities and difference between the Holocaust and other genocides.\nWhat do we mean by “genocide”? Why are humans the only living creatures that kill their own kind in huge numbers? What place does the Holocaust occupy in the history of genocides? What are the essential similarities and differences between the Holocaust and other genocides\, particularly ones that have occurred during the last hundred years – Armenian\, Cambodian\, Ethiopian\, Rwandan\, and Darfurian? \nYehuda Bauer\, Professor Emeritus of History and Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, is the Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem. He was the founding Chair of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at Hebrew University. His publications include From Diplomacy to Resistance\, My Brother’s Keeper\, Flight and Rescue\, The Holocaust in Historical Perspective\, The Jewish Emergence From Powerlessness\, and The Death of the Shtetl. \nSponsored by The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies\, Arts & Lectures\, the Dept. of Religious Studies\, Congregation B’nai B’rith\, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara Hillel\, the Dept. of Germanic\, Slavic & Semitic Studies\, and the Dept. of History. \nhm 3/26/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/holocaust-and-genocide/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120425T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120425T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T091543 CREATED:20150928T112839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112839Z UID:10002053-1335312000-1335312000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Waves of Resistance: Surfing and History in Twentieth-Century Hawai'i DESCRIPTION:The author of Waves of Resistance: Surfing and History in 20th Century Hawaii will be speaking\, following an introduction by Dr. Teresa Shewry (UCSB\, English) of the Center for Literature and the Environment.\nSurfing has been a significant sport and cultural practice in Hawai’i for more than 1\,500 years. In the last century\, facing increased marginalization on land\, many Native Hawaiians have found refuge\, autonomy\, and identity in the waves. In Waves of Resistance Isaiah Walker explains that throughout the twentieth century Hawaiian surfers have successfully resisted colonial encroachment in the po?ina nalu (surf zone). The struggle against foreign domination of the waves goes back to the early 1900s\, shortly after the overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom\, when proponents of this political seizure helped establish the Outrigger Canoe Club?s haoles (whites)-only surfing organization in Waikiki. A group of Hawaiian surfers\, led by Duke Kahanamoku\, united under Hui Nalu to compete openly against their Outrigger rivals and established their authority in the surf. \nWalker also examines how Hawaiian surfers have been empowered by their defiance of haole ideas of how Hawaiian males should behave. For example\, Hui Nalu surfers successfully combated annexationists\, married white women\, ran lucrative businesses\, and dictated what non-Hawaiians could and could not do in their surf\, even as the popular\, tourist-driven media portrayed Hawaiian men as harmless and effeminate. Decades later\, the media were labeling Hawaiian surfers as violent extremists who terrorized haole surfers on the North Shore. Yet Hawaiians contested\, rewrote\, or creatively negotiated with these stereotypes in the waves. The po?ina nalu became a place where resistance proved historically meaningful and where colonial hierarchies and categories could be transposed. \nWhile born and raised in Keaukaha Hawai`i\, Isaiah Walker is currently an Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University- Hawaii on O`ahu?s North Shore. He earned a PhD in History from the University of California\, Santa Barbara in 2006. He is the author of several academic articles\, and has most recently published Waves of Resistance: Surfing and History in Twentieth Century Hawai`i. In addition to researching and writing Hawaiian and surfing history\, he is an avid (and former competitive) surfer. \nhm 3/23/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/waves-of-resistance-surfing-and-history-in-twentieth-century-hawaii/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120426T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120426T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T091543 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002068-1335398400-1335398400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Race and Immigration in the Era of Decolonization DESCRIPTION:This talk will examine debates surrounding immigration in the United Kingdom\, South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the 1960s and 1970s. South Africa in 1961 and Rhodesia in 1965 broke away from the British Empire and Commonwealth in order to continue to pursue racially-­‐based settler colonial rule. This was reflected in their immigration policies\, which aggressively recruited immigrants defined as white by the Rhodesian and South African governments as they sought to mount a demographic defense of minority rule in a rapidly decolonizing continent. Though less explicit in racial ideology\, the United Kingdom in the same period began to restrict immigration from the former empire with the Commonwealth Immigrants Acts of 1962 and 1968. In all three cases decolonization allowed the retreat from the universalizing rhetoric of the postwar British Empire to a racially-­‐defined nation\, visible in the regulation of immigration.\nSponsored by the Center for New Racial Studies \nhm 4/17/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/race-and-immigration-in-the-era-of-decolonization/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120426T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120426T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T091543 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002072-1335398400-1335398400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Role of Maya Catholic Health Networks in Guatemala's Armed Conflict\, 1966 - 1996 DESCRIPTION:Dr. Susan Fitzpatrick-BehrensCal State Northridge\nThursday\, April 26\n11:00-12:15\nHSSB 2252 \nIn the 1960s\, paraprofessional health programs proliferated in the\nMaya regions of Guatemala’s western highlands.. The programs\nresponded to medical needs in rural highland communities and coastal\ncoffee plantations where there were neither hospitals nor doctors. By\nthe 1970s\, Maya leaders prepared through these programs provided\nnearly 50 percent of Guatemala’s health care. With the advent of\nGuatemala’s “armed conflict\,” the military identified Maya leaders as\na threat and began systematically to target and murder them.\nForeigners engaged in paraprofessional health programs began to use\nhealth networks as a kind of underground railroad to deliver their\npromoters to safety. This medical network played a key role in the\nexodus of Guatemalan refugees to Mexico during the worst years of the\narmed conflict. It also played a central role in the provision of aid\nto Communities of Peoples in Resistance (CPRs) during the worst\nyears of the violence. This presentation explores the issues of\nhealth and activism associated with the development of these\nparaprofessional programs. \nvz 4/23 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-role-of-maya-catholic-health-networks-in-guatemalas-armed-conflict-1966-1996/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120430T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120430T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T091543 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002074-1335744000-1335744000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Dams\, Displacement and the Delusion of Development: The Case of Cahora Bassa DESCRIPTION:The history of Cahora Bassa reveals the persistence of “colonialism’s afterlife.” Under the 1974 Lusaka Peace Accord\, which set the stage for Mozambique’s independence\, in return for assuming the US$550 million debt incurred in building Cahora Bassa\, Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB)\, a Portuguese para-statal\, received 82% of the shares\, with the remainder going to the Mozambican government. The Constitution of the Cahora Bassa Dam\, signed between Portugal and Frelimo on June 23\, 1975\, which memorialized this agreement\, granted HCB the right to manage the dam until Mozambique repaid the construction debt. Because it was unable to do so until 2007\, for 32 years after independence a Portuguese company retained effective control of the hydroelectric project operating the dam\, determining the outflows of water\, and negotiating the sale of virtually all of its electricity to South Africa.\nOver the past three and one-half decades\, Cahora Bassa has caused very real ecological\, economic\, and social trauma for Zambezi Valley residents. All of this is conspicuously absent from the widely publicized developmentalist narratives of Mozambique’s colonial and post-colonial states\, which have been a critical feature of state efforts to dam the Zambezi River in Mozambique. Elderly African peasants\, who had a long and intimate relationship with the Zambezi River\, graphically describe how the dam devastatingly affected their physical and social world and recount their resiliency in coping and adjusting. These memories\, which speak so powerfully about the daily lives and lived experiences of the rural poor\, are either discounted or ignored in dominant discourses touting Cahora Bassa’s centrality to national development. This silencing is indicative of the unequal field of power in which the histories of the rural poor are typically embedded. \nAllen Isaacman is Professor of African History at the University of Minnesota. \nSponsored by the Department of Sociology\, the Department of History\, and the African Studies Research Focus Group \njwil 26.iv.2012 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/dams-displacement-and-the-delusion-of-development-the-case-of-cahora-bassa/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR