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:20120503T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120503T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T163405 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002073-1336003200-1336003200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Digitize\, Democratize: Libraries and the Future of Books DESCRIPTION:Openness may seem self-evident as a principle of library policy\, but libraries have often been closed and the world of knowledge in general has been fenced off by commercial interests intent on making profit at the expense of the public good. Commercialization and democratization run through the history of copyright right up to the present\, when Google Book Search dramatized the need to strike a proper balance between private profit and the public good. The Digital Public Library of America will redress that balance by making the cultural heritage of America available\, free of charge\, to all Americans and in fact to everyone in the world.\nSponsored by the IHC’s Public Goods series. \nhm 4/19/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/digitize-democratize-libraries-and-the-future-of-books/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120503T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120503T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T163405 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002075-1336003200-1336003200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Muslims in Georgia and Morocco DESCRIPTION:NOTE THE ROOM CHANGE!\nIn this Public History First Thursday meeting Julia will discuss her\ncurrent work on an international public history project: an online exhibit\nbased on the lives and experiences of Muslims in the exchange communities\nof Kennesaw\, Georgia\, and Casablanca\, Morocco. She would love questions and\ncomments from us! \nPlease join us! \nhm 4/29/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/muslims-in-georgia-and-morocco/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120504T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120504T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T163405 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002077-1336089600-1336089600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:American Democracy in an Era of Rising Inequality DESCRIPTION:Pearson is the author\, with Jacob Hacker\, of both Off-Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy (2005) and Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned its Back on the Middle Class (2010). He is also the author of numerous other books and essays including Politics in Time: History\, Institutions and Social Analysis (2004) This Friday he speaks on “American Democracy in an Era of Rising Inequality.” \nHosted by the Colloquium on Work\, Labor\, and Political Economy \nhm 4/30/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/american-democracy-in-an-era-of-rising-inequality/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120508T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120508T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T163405 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002076-1336435200-1336435200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Public History Book Sale DESCRIPTION:The Annual Public History Book Sale has arrived!!!\nWe have more than a thousand used and new books. Used books are from the\nshelves of Professors Sears McGee\, Laura Kalman and Randall Garr (Religious\nStudies). We have everything from comic books and MAD Magazines to\ntranslation guides for ancient Egyptian. \nThree days only! Tues/Weds/Thurs\, May 8/9/10 \nWe are located in HSSB 3208 \nThere will be a special PRIVATE SALE for Grad Students on\nThursday May 3 between 1:30 and 3:30. \nhm 4/28/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/public-history-book-sale/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120510T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120510T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T163405 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002070-1336608000-1336608000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Context Matters: Experiencing Racist Violence and Responses in Eastern Germany DESCRIPTION:This talk is based on a work in progress about racist violence in contemporary eastern Germany. By analyzing case studies\, I examine how survivors interpret and mediate racist attacks\, and how they understand these incidents not as singular crimes\, but as part of larger\, structural problems that reveal the normality of racist violence. This violence has most often been triggered by a victim’s immigration status\, by prevailing discourses of crime\, especially through media outlets\, and by statements from law enforcement and key members of civil society. All of these contribute to a climate of racial violence. The talk concludes with a brief discussion of how grassroots organizations and government agencies have responded to these issues.\nGesa Köbberling is a visiting scholar with the UC Center for New Racial Studies \nhm 4/19/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/context-matters-experiencing-racist-violence-and-responses-in-eastern-germany/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120511T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120511T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T163405 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002078-1336694400-1336694400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Creating an American Island: The Volta Aluminum Company (VALCO) in Ghana\, 1964-2000 DESCRIPTION:Colleagues\, Students\, Friends:\nThe Colloquium on Work\, Labor\, and Political Economy hosts Stephan Miescher\, History\, UCSB this Friday\, May 11\, at 1 p.m. in Humanities and Social Science Building Room 4041. Derived from his forthcoming book\, Miescher offers a paper entitled\, “Creating an American Island: The Volta Aluminum Company (VALCO) in Ghana\, 1964-2000.” Miescher is the co-editor of Africa After Gender (2007) and author of Making Men in Ghana (2005). \nA light lunch will be served. \nhm 5/9/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/creating-an-american-island-the-volta-aluminum-company-valco-in-ghana-1964-2000/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120514T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120514T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T163405 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002066-1336953600-1336953600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Jazz Singer: From the Melting Pot to a Multicultural America DESCRIPTION:Ever since it premiered in 1927\, The Jazz Singer has been considered the paradigmatic film about the Americanization of the children of Jewish immigrants. The movie has inspired remakes and retakes on the theme of the son’s rebellion against his father’s traditions. This lecture examines how and why subsequent versions altered the original plotline and message to reflect the values of target audiences and the changing configurations of national\, racial\, and religious identity in the United States from the 1920s until the present.\nLawrence Baron has held the Nasatir Chair of Modern Jewish History at San Diego State University since 1988 and directed its Jewish Studies Program until 2006. He has authored and edited four books including The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema (2011) and Projecting the Holocaust into the Present: The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema (2005). He served as the historian and as an interviewer for Sam and Pearl Oliner’s The Altruistic Personality: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe. In 2006 he delivered the keynote address for Yad Vashem’s first conference devoted to Hollywood and the Holocaust. His contribution to Holocaust Studies was recently profiled in Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide (2010). \nThe Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, a program of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, is cosponsored by UCSB Arts and Lectures\, Department of Religious Studies\, Congregation B’nai B’rith\, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\, and Santa Barbara Hillel. This event is also cosponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center at UCSB. \nhm 4/2/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-jazz-singer-from-the-melting-pot-to-a-multicultural-america/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120518T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120518T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T163405 CREATED:20150928T112839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112839Z UID:10002047-1337299200-1337299200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Great King and the Sea: Maritime Trade and Naval Power in the Achaemenid Empire DESCRIPTION:At the beginning of the fifth century BCE\, Achaemenid Persia had the largest navy in the world\, but after its failed invasions of Greece\, the empire limited its warships’ numbers and refused to maintain a standing fleet. While Classical Athens viewed naval power as a catalyst for maritime trade and the acquisition of wealth\, the Persians found that excessive naval development strained their financial structures and interfered with their coastal subjects’ trade income. This lecture will explore the conflict between naval and economic interests in one of the ancient world’s first great empires.\nJohn Hyland is Associate Professor of History at Christopher Newport University (Newport News\, VA). \nThis event is sponsored by the the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 02.iii.2012 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-great-king-and-the-sea-maritime-trade-and-naval-power-in-the-achaemenid-empire/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120524T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120524T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T163405 CREATED:20150928T112841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112841Z UID:10002079-1337817600-1337817600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Gender\, Creative Dissidence\, and the Discourses of African Diaspora DESCRIPTION:The History Department is co-sponsoring the upcoming conference “Gender\, Creative Dissidence\, and the Discourses of African Diaspora: A Colloquium in Honor of Ama Ata Aidoo\,” to be held at the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, May 24-26\, 2012.\nAma Ata Aidoo\, an eminent Ghanaian playwright and author\, will deliver the keynote address (UC Regent’s Lecture and UCSB Michael Douglas Lecture):\nThursday\, May 24\, 4 PM / Hatlen Theatre \nAma Ata Aidoo’s well known play\, ANOWA\, will be staged by the Theater & Dance Department\, opening night:\nFriday\, May 25\, 8 pm / Hatlen Theater \nThe African Studies Research Focus Group at UCSB proudly presents Gender\, Creative Dissidence\, and the Discourses of African Diaspora\, a three-day conference at that will explore the work of eminent Ghanaian author Ama Ata Aidoo and the broader questions of Diaspora and gender it raises. Due to her illustrious literary repute\, contributions to Ghanaian national culture\, and global commitment to women’s liberation and anti-imperialism\, Ms. Aidoo is the ideal pivot for this colloquium. Along with her keynote address\, the conference will feature speakers who will engender novel feminist approaches to Diaspora that elucidate its potential as a site of solidarity\, new cultural formations\, and political possibilities\, paying particular attention to relationships between gender constructs and cultural specificities. Invited speakers include scholars and grad students from the UC system and various U.S. universities. \nBio \nAma Ata Aidoo’s literary career dates from when\, as an undergraduate\, she wrote her first play\, The Dilemma Of A Ghost (1964)\, which was subsequently produced and published. She followed that up with Anowa (drama 1970). Since then\, she has published novels\, including Changes (1991)\, volumes of poetry and short stories including An Angry Letter In January & Other Poems (1992) and The Girl Who Can & Other Stories (1997). Her third collection of short stories Diplomatic Pounds & Other Stories was published on 1st March 2012 by Ayebia Clarke Publishing Limited\, UK. She also edited the widely-acclaimed African Love Stories Anthology\, published by Ayebia Clarke Publishing Limited (Oxford\, UK\, 2006). Her books for children include Birds & Other Poems (2002). Aidoo has taught at colleges and universities in Ghana and the United States including the University of Cape Coast and Brown University. She currently lives in Ghana and is the Executive Director of Mbaasem\, a foundation to promote the work of Ghanaian and African women writers. \nSee the conference website for more information. \nhm 5/11/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/gender-creative-dissidence-and-the-discourses-of-african-diaspora/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120525T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120525T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T163405 CREATED:20150928T112839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112839Z UID:10002057-1337904000-1337904000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Elephants in Late Antique Iran: Symbols of Kingship and Warfare DESCRIPTION:The Persians used elephants in their military from the Achaemenid to the Safavid period. The talk discusses the importance of elephants forSasanian royal ideology as a symbol of kingship\, and their use against the Romans in Late Antiquity. \nTouraj Daryaee is Howard C. Baskerville Professor in the History of Iran and the Persianate World at the University of California\, Irvine. \nThis event is sponsored by the the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 28.iii.2012 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/elephants-in-late-antique-iran-symbols-of-kingship-and-warfare/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120525T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120525T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T163405 CREATED:20150928T112841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112841Z UID:10002080-1337904000-1337904000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Senior Honors Colloquium DESCRIPTION:Honors Colloquium to Show Disease\, Witchcraft\, Murder\nby Dyne Suh and Nate Gelman\, excerpted from Historia\, May 2012 \nFrom televangelists to venereal disease\, dictators to witchs’ teats\, 15 seminarians tested the full powers of their creativity and skill to compose theses examining a wide array of edgy paper topics stretching from antiquity to the Middle\nAges\, and on through the 19th century to the present. \nThe students will present their research in the annual Department Honors Colloquium\,\non Friday\, May 25\, in the History Conference Room\, HSSB 4020\, beginning at 9 a.m.\nThe public\, including especially all alumni and friends\, is welcome! \nStruggling to compose original pieces of scholarship ranging from 35 to over a hundred\npages\, this cadre of seminarians provided invaluable advice to one another as they\ngrappled with alchemies to turn primary and secondary sources into scholastic gold. The\ntopics were wildly diverse\, but a mutual love of history\, a fascination with controversial\naspects of human experiences and narratives of redemption and the triumph of justice\,\nalong with the help of delicious seminar snacks forged strong friendships and a sense of\ncommunity amongst all the people involved in this seminar. \nThe papers accomplished over the past two quarters\, with the generous support of\nadvising professors and Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) grants\nare as follows:\nLauren Carpenter (Humphreys)\, “Hidden in Plain Sight: A Decade of Non-Traditional Activism by Egyptian Youth Before the Arab Spring.”\nMolly E. Contreras (Jacobson)\, “Reclaiming Eros: Gender Transgression\, Obscenity\, and One Woman’s Quest for Sexual Liberation.”\nJim Davies (Lansing)\, “Vengeance and Remembrance: The Role of Florentine Family Memoirs in Vendetta Culture.”\nNate Gelman (Lichtenstein)\, “Of Gods and Gold: “Televangelism and the Rise of Supply Side Economics During the Reagan Era.”\nDana Hughes (Lansing). “Personal Purification and Group Identity in Late Medieval Italian Confraternities.”\nElizabeth G. Jimenez (Soto Laveaga)\, “Making Marital Equality and Freedom in the United States.”\nKevin King (Dutra)\, “Eis a democracia podre: the Charles Elbrick Kidnapping Revisited.”\nMichael Masket (Majewski)\, “Government’s Role in the Transportation Revolution: A Case Study of the Pennsylvania Canal.”\nKevin McGill (Digeser)\, “A Romance of Three Kingdoms: Carthage\, Numidia\, Rome and the Causes of the Third Punic War.”\nChelsea McTigue (Digeser)\, “Republic to Republic: The Influence of the Roman Republic on the Founding of the U.S. Constitution.”\nRoss Melczer (Chikowero)\, “The Revolution that Incited Chimurenga (The Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe\, 1997-2000).”\nLia Schallert (Soto Laveaga)\, “Venereal Disease and the Evolution of Public Health Care in San Francisco\, 1850- 1930.”\nDyne Suh (Spickard)\, “Between Traitors and Survivors: Pro-Japanese Collaborators\, Comfort Women and Gender- Restricted Assimilation Opportunities in Colonial Korea During WWII.”\nPaul Thies (Plane)\, “To Inspect the Unexpected: The Social Emasculation of the Colonial Male Witch with Animal Familiars.”\nHarrison E. Weber (Lichtenstein)\, “A Covenant Undone: Understanding the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California in Light of 1993 Realities.” \nhm 5/21/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/senior-honors-colloquium/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120530T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120530T000000 DTSTAMP:20260423T163405 CREATED:20150928T112841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112841Z UID:10002081-1338336000-1338336000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Missionary Witchcrafting African Being: Cultural Disarmament DESCRIPTION:This paper examines 19th-20th century European missionary cultural attitudes\, discourses and practices and their impact on African consciousness and socio-cultural security\, read primarily through the prism of performative cultures (primarily song) in colonial Zimbabwe (1890s-1970s). For decades since their advent on the African continent\, European missionaries rabidly assaulted African cultures\, regarding them as special manifestations of what they called African “savagery.” This assault persisted throughout the colonial period\, though it somewhat became tampered by a reforming Catholic cultural policy which\, from the 1950s\, allowed for selective appropriation of aspects of African cultures in the latter church’s battle to save itself from the winds of political change that were blowing across the continent. I argue that while many Africans held onto their indigenous musical and other cultural practices\, the missionary assault significantly undermined the fountains of African being. As such\, I posit that missionization should be read as an insidious attempt at cultural disarmament that greatly facilitated African subjection to colonialism and neo-colonialism.\nSponsored by the IHC’s African Studies RFG\, the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music\, the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies and the IHC’s Public Goods Series. \nProf. Chikowero’s paper is available at the link below \nhm 5/24/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/missionary-witchcrafting-african-being-cultural-disarmament/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR