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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20140309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20141102T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130402T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130402T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T114040 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10001872-1364860800-1364860800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Making of Global Capitalism DESCRIPTION:The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today\, with global markets roiling and increasingly reliant on state intervention to stay afloat\, it has become clear that markets and states aren’t straightforwardly opposing forces.\nIn this groundbreaking work\, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin demonstrate the intimate relationship between modern capitalism and the American state\, including its role as an “informal empire” promoting free trade and capital movements. Through a powerful historical survey\, they show how the US has superintended the restructuring of other states in favor of competitive markets and coordinated the management of increasingly frequent financial crises. \nThe Making of Global Capitalism\, through its highly original analysis of the first great economic crisis of the twenty-first century\, identifies the centrality of the social conflicts that occur within states rather than between them. These emerging fault lines hold out the possibility of new political movements transforming nation states and transcending global markets. \nLeo Panitch\, Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science\, York University\, has edited The Socialist Register since 1985. Sam Gindin\, was for many years Research Director of the Canadian Auto Workers. \nSponsored by the The Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-making-of-global-capitalism/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130405T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130405T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T114040 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10001874-1365120000-1365120000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Of Time and Space DESCRIPTION:At 4PM on April 5\, Prof. Zorina Kahn (Bowdoin College) will discuss a paper entitled “Of Time and Space: Technological Spillovers among Patents and Unpatented Innovation in early U.S. Industrialization.”\nKahn is chair of Bowdoin’s economics department and the author of the award-winning The Democratization of Innovation . Her talk assesses the role of institutional mechanisms in generating technological knowledge spillovers. The estimation is over panel datasets of federal patent grants\, and innovations that were granted prizes at annual industrial fairs of the American Institute of New York\, between 1835 and 1870. One part of the talk tests the hypothesis of spatial autocorrelation in patenting and in the exhibited innovations. In keeping with the contract theory of patents\, the procedure identifies high and statistically significant spatial autocorrelation\, indicating the prevalence of geographical spillovers in the sample of inventions that were patented. The second part of the talk investigates whether per capita innovations/prizes in a county were affected by patenting in contiguous or adjacent counties. These results are consistent with the argument that patents enhance the diffusion of information for both patented and unpatented innovations\, whereas inventions that garner prizes are less effective in generating external benefits from knowledge spillovers. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/of-time-and-space/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130405T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130405T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T114040 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10001878-1365120000-1365120000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Of Human and Divine Bondage: Slavery and Freedom in Augustine DESCRIPTION:A specialist on the later Roman Empire and its transformation into a Christian state\,Professor Elm’s research bridges intellectual and social history and focuses on interactions\nbetween Christians and “pagans” in late antiquity. In this talk\, she asks how ideas of\nbondage and practices of unfree labor influenced the formation of theological maxims in\nthe writings of Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE). By analyzing the complex language in\nslavery in Augustine’s letters\, Professor Elm situates his writings in the context of the major\nsocial and economic changes that reshaped the Roman world in the fifth century and\nexplores how closely the metaphors of slavery that Augustine and his peers employed in\ntheir writings related to social realities they encountered on a daily basis. \nA reception with refreshments will immediately follow. \nSponsored by the California\nConsortium for the Study of Late Antiquity. \nhm 4/2/13 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/of-human-and-divine-bondage-slavery-and-freedom-in-augustine/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130407T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130407T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T114040 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10002135-1365292800-1365292800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Orchestra of Exiles\, A Documentary In Commemoration of Yom HaShoah DESCRIPTION:Holocaust Remembrance Week Inaugural Event\, admission free\nOrchestra of Exiles recounts the dramatic story of Bronislaw Huberman\, the\ncelebrated Polish violinist who rescued some of the world’s greatest\nmusicians from Nazi Germany and then created one of the world’s greatest\norchestras\, the Palestine Philharmonic (which would become the Israeli\nPhilharmonic). This feature-length documentary mixes period photographs\,\nnewsreels\, and interviews with Zubin Mehta\, Itzhak Perlman\, Joshua Bell and\nPinchas Zukerman to recreate a too-little-known and highly significant\npiece of history. With courage\, resourcefulness and an entourage of allies\nincluding Arturo Toscanini and Albert Einstein\, Huberman saved close to\n1000 Jews – along with the musical heritage of Europe. “A nearly forgotten\nfigure has been resurrected\, his humanitarian and professional achievements\ngiven proper due. I defy you to leave with a dry eye.” — Allen Ellenzweig\,\nThe Forward. The Santa Barbara premiere of Orchestra of Exiles will include\na personal appearance by its writer/director/producer\, Josh Aronson\, whose\nfilm\, Sound and Fury\, was nominated for an Academy Award. \nhm 4/4/13 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/orchestra-of-exiles-a-documentary-in-commemoration-of-yom-hashoah/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130409T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130409T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T114040 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10001876-1365465600-1365465600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:“Technology\, Gender\, and History: The Case of Late Imperial China” DESCRIPTION:Technologies played a dramatic role in birthing the modern industrial world\, so it is hardly surprising that classic and widely familiar histories of technology trace narratives of triumphant Western progress\, contrasted to backwardness or stagnation in other societies around the world. But in recent years historians of Western technology have become less interested in technology as a catalyst of human progress\, and more interested in how technical practices shape social identities\, symbolic systems and power relations. In the case of China\, historians of technology likewise spend less time now struggling to explain why China “failed to progress” after 1400\, asking instead what they can learn by mapping the technological landscapes of imperial China\, and by considering what social and symbolic as well as material work technologies performed in imperial society.\nDr. Francesca Bray is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh and President-elect of The Society for the History of Technology. Her research includes the history of science\, technology and medicine in China\, and the anthropology of technology in the contemporary world\, including the politics of everyday domestic technologies in California. Her most recent publication is The Warp and the Weft: Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China (Brill\, 2007) and has 2 forthcoming works\, Rice: New Networks and Global Histories (Cambridge) and .Technology\, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered (Routledge\, expected May 2013). \nupdated hm 4/3/13 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/technology-gender-and-history-the-case-of-late-imperial-china/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130410T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130410T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T114040 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10002136-1365552000-1365552000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Fredrik Logevall discusses his highly acclaimed new book\, EMBERS OF WAR: THE FALL OF AN EMPIRE AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA’S VIETNAM. Drawing on newly available documents from several nations\, and making full use of the vast published literature\, Prof. Logevall surveys the broad sweep of the Vietnam War. He begins with the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference\, where a young Ho Chi Minh attempted to petition President Woodrow Wilson for Vietnamese independence\, and ends with a 1959 Viet Cong ambush\, resulting in the first U.S. combat deaths of the war. Along the way\, Prof. Logevall helps us unravel the mystery of how two great powers\, France and the United States\, could have been drawn into such disastrous ventures.\nFredrik Logevall is John S. Knight Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of numerous books on the Vietnam War and international relations\, including CHOOSING WAR: THE LOST CHANCE FOR PEACE AND THE ESCALATION OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1999)\, THE ORIGINS OF THE VIETNAM WAR (2001)\, EMBERS OF WAR: THE FALL OF AN EMPIRE AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA’S VIETNAM (2012)\, and\, with Campbell Craig\, AMERICA’S COLD WAR: THE POLITICS OF INSECURITY (2009). \nhm 4/5/13 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/embers-of-war-the-fall-of-an-empire-and-the-making-of-americas-vietnam/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130412T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130412T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T114040 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10002140-1365724800-1365724800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Universal Polytheism: Interpretatio Graeco-Romana DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk by Robert C.T. Parker (Wykeham Professor of Ancient History and Fellow of New College\, Oxford University) on Friday\, April 12th at 2:00 pm in HSSB 4080. Dr. Parker is Visiting Sather Professor of Classical Literature for Spring 2013.\nSponsored by the departments of Classics\, History\, Religious Studies\, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-universal-polytheism-interpretatio-graeco-romana/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130418T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130418T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T114040 CREATED:20150928T112847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112847Z UID:10002143-1366243200-1366243200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:American Coasts: Past and Future DESCRIPTION:Before there were coasts there were shores. In this talk\, John Gillis explores the emergence of modern coasts\, which\, beginning in the eighteenth century\, displaced older notions of shore. The creation of coasts has been a global phenomenon\, but in this talk Prof. Gillis focuses on the American experience. He examines the effects of coasts on America’s natural environment and on the human populations whose first home was the shore\, revealing the predicaments we face today. \nJohn Gillis is Professor Emeritus of History at Rutgers University. He received his PhD from Stanford University and has taught at Stanford\, Princeton\, and the University of California\, Berkeley. He has written numerous books\, including YOUTH AND HISTORY: TRADITION AND CHANGE IN EUROPEAN AGE RELATIONS\, 1750-PRESENT (1974)\, A WORLD OF THEIR OWN MAKING: MYTH\, RITUAL\, AND THE QUEST FOR FAMILY VALUES (1996)\, ISLANDS OF THE MIND: HOW THE HUMAN IMAGINATION CREATED THE ATLANTIC WORLD (2004)\, and THE HUMAN SHORE: SEACOASTS IN HISTORY (2012) \nThe event is jointly sponsored by the UCSB Department of History and the Center for Cold War Studies and International History. \nhm 4/10/13\, 4/16 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/american-coasts-past-and-future/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130419T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130419T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T114040 CREATED:20150928T112847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112847Z UID:10002146-1366329600-1366329600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth Century America DESCRIPTION:Michael Zakim offers a paper entitled “Paperwork\,” a social and cultural exploration of antebellum clerkship and the relationship of that species of “nonproductive labor” to the emergence of modern American capitalism. His paper can be found here.\nAbout our speaker: \nMichael Zakim is Professor of History at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men’s Dress in the American Republic (2003); and editor of Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America (2012). URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/capitalism-takes-command-the-social-transformation-of-nineteenth-century-america/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130424T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130424T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T114040 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10002139-1366761600-1366761600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Dakota 38 DESCRIPTION:Native spiritual leader Jim Miller and a group of riders retraced the 330-mile route on horseback from Lower Brule\, South Dakota to Mankato\, Minnesota to arrive at the hanging site of 38 Dakota ancestors on the anniversary of their execution ordered by President Lincoln. This is the story of their journey- the blizzards they endure\, the Native and Non-Native communities that house and feed them along the way as well as the dark history they wipe away. Smooth Feather Productions\, 78 min.\, English\, 2012\, USA. \nhm 4/6/13 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/dakota-38/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130425T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130425T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T114040 CREATED:20150928T112847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112847Z UID:10002148-1366848000-1366848000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Paradise Lost? Zahra's Paradise and the Future of Politics in Modern Iran DESCRIPTION:Click the link below for full information on this talk.\njwil 22.iv.2013 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/paradise-lost-zahras-paradise-and-the-future-of-politics-in-modern-iran/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130425T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130425T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T114040 CREATED:20150928T112847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112847Z UID:10002144-1366848000-1366848000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Desert Stones Speak: Women\, Men\, and Cycles of Evangelism in the SW Borderlands DESCRIPTION:This event is co-sponsored by the History Associates and the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation\, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2013. The cost is $8 for HA members\, $10 for non-members.\nFour “big ideas” swept across the Southwest borderlands of North\nAmerican in the thousand years preceding the consolidation of the\nSpanish colony of New Mexico. The Chaco Phenomenon\, the Katsina\nReligion\, Franciscan Catholicism and Po’Pay’s Peublo Revolt used\nevangelical methods to effect a dynamic reorganization of popular\nreligious\, cultural\, and political beliefs. In this illustrated lecture\, Dr.\nJames Brooks explores how these “big ideas” continue to resonate in\nregional memories and life ways. \nAbout our speaker \nDr. James Brooks is president of the School for\nAdvanced Research in Santa Fe. A gifted scholar\nand lecturer\, Dr. Brooks is the recipient of more\nthan a dozen national awards. His 2002 book\,\nCaptives & Cousins: Slavery\, Kinship and\nCommunity in the Southwest Borderlands\nfocused on the traffic in women and children\nacross the region as expressions of intercultural\nviolence and accomodation. Dr. Brooks served on\nthe UCSB History faculty from 2000 to 2003\nand currently is teaching a graduate seminar here. \nMuseum of Natural History\n2559 Puesta del Sol\nThe Museum is located off Mission St.\, just beyond\nthe Old Mission. We will meet in Farrand\nHall. There is ample free parking.\nCoffee and cookies will be provided. \nhm 4/10/13 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-desert-stones-speak-women-men-and-cycles-of-evangelism-in-the-sw-borderlands/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130426T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130426T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T114040 CREATED:20150928T112847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112847Z UID:10002150-1366934400-1366934400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Intellectual as Agent: Politics and Independence in the Lives of Ignazio Silone DESCRIPTION:Professor Saccarelli offers insights on Silone’s role as a secret collaborator with the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. His paper can be found here.\nAbout our speaker: \nEmmanuel Saccarelli an Associate Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University\, and is the author of Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism (2008). \nSponsored by the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-intellectual-as-agent-politics-and-independence-in-the-lives-of-ignazio-silone/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130426T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130426T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T114040 CREATED:20150928T112847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112847Z UID:10002142-1366934400-1366934400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts DESCRIPTION:Dr. Daly Thompson will talk about her new book.\nFor fuller details\, including abstract\, please visit the URL below. \nChapter One of the book is available from Prof. Chikowero for reading before the talk. \nhm 4/10/13 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/zimbabwes-cinematic-arts/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130426T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130426T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T114040 CREATED:20150928T112847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112847Z UID:10002147-1366934400-1366934400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Modern Life of Roman Republicanism DESCRIPTION:Joy Connolly works mainly on Roman ideas about communication\, education\, and governance\, and their ongoing relevance for the modern world. Her first book\, The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome\, was published by Princeton in 2007; her second\, a book about republicanism called Talk about Virtue\, is under contract with Duckworth Press. She has written articles on Roman political theory\, elegiac and pastoral poetry\, rhetorical education\, and the seventeenth century reception of classical literature and political thought\, and her book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review\, the Women’s Review of Books\, Bookforum\, and TLS. Her forthcoming work includes essays on the exemplarity of Rome in eighteenth century American education\, the framing of ethical choice in Vergil’s Aeneid\, and the relation of torture and justice in early imperial Roman rhetoric.\nFriday\, April 26\, 2013\n2:00 PM\nHSSB 4080 \nA public reception will immediately follow in the Classics Reading Room (HSSB 4075) \nSponsored by the Department of Classics URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-modern-life-of-roman-republicanism/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20130430T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20130430T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T114040 CREATED:20150928T112846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112846Z UID:10002132-1367280000-1367280000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Beyond Race\, Gender\, and Class: Understanding the Roots of Privilege DESCRIPTION:Using the concept of privilege in race\, gender\, and class\, this discussion will raise questions about systems and structures of power that can allow us to go beyond polite “diversity talk” to discuss what would be needed to transform our society and promote justice and sustainability. Any serious effort toward those goals must confront the structures of power in the contemporary United States that produce such profound inequality. Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the Universityof Texas at Austin and author of Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialogue (City Lights\, 2013) and The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race\, Racism and White Privilege (City Lights\, 2005).\nhm 4/3/13 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/beyond-race-gender-and-class-understanding-the-roots-of-privilege/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR