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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20150308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20151101T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140203T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140203T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T032005 CREATED:20150928T112854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112854Z UID:10002221-1391385600-1391385600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Following the Data: Environmental Archives between Geophysics and Biology DESCRIPTION:AbstractIn this talk I will present my current project\, which explores the practices and politics of large-scale data collection in the environmental sciences during the Cold War. One of the purposes of this project is to broaden the historical inquiry into how knowledge about the environment was produced\, by exploring the practices of data collection in both physical and biological environmental sciences. I will illustrate my project by presenting two case-studies\, one from the physical environmental sciences and another from biological environmental sciences. The first example draws on the history of the World Data Centers\, organized to serve the International Geophysical Year (1957-8). I will take us through several moments that will serve as snapshots of the ways in which the practices of global data collection and data exchange in physical environmental sciences shaped and were shaped by the Cold War political economy in the 1950s and early 1960s. After establishing this background I will then turn to my second example and will trace the ways these practices were emulated in the biological environmental sciences\, but also altered at the critical nexus of ecological science and environmental politics in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Taken together\, these examples reveal a less familiar kind of narrative in the environmental history\, illustrating how the focus on data practices\, and “following the data” around\, allows to re-think the history of environmental sciences and to broaden the inquiry into how the knowledge about the environment is produced within but also beyond its traditional relationship with ecology. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/following-the-data-environmental-archives-between-geophysics-and-biology/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140210T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140210T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T032005 CREATED:20150928T112855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112855Z UID:10001931-1391990400-1391990400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Battles of Cradles: Abandoned Babies in the Late Ottoman Empire DESCRIPTION:AbstractThe nineteenth century developments on the issue of child abandonment and provisions for them reveal significant traits of the political\nagenda\, specifically regarding national identity\, citizenship\, and demographic politics. In the late Ottoman Empire\, multi-lingual and multi-religious urban centers shared certain aspects of a cosmopolitan lifestyle. In addition\, there was a rather politicized and sensitive concern for strengthening the solidarity and integrity of communities\, which felt themselves under the threat of losing their members’ identity\, language and religion. The sentiment of dissolution was triggered by reforms for the modernization and centralization of the state. These gave way to many tendencies of a nation-state and threatened the relative autonomy of the communities. Under these circumstances\, religion\, nationality\, and citizenship of abandoned children became a contested terrain\, over which arduous efforts were spent by local authorities\, missionaries\, non-Muslim communities\, and the central state. In an unexpected manner\, these infants occupied a major role in politics of demography\, conversion and national rivalry. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/battles-of-cradles-abandoned-babies-in-the-late-ottoman-empire/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140212T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140212T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T032005 CREATED:20150928T112855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112855Z UID:10001938-1392163200-1392163200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Faculty Panel on the Big Burn DESCRIPTION: A panel of UCSB faculty from multiple disciplines will discuss the UCSB Reads selection\, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America. Panelists are Peter S. Alagona (History) Karen Lunsford (Writing Program); and Dar Roberts (Geography). URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/faculty-panel-on-the-big-burn/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140214T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140214T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T032005 CREATED:20150928T112855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112855Z UID:10001933-1392336000-1392336000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Bare Needs: Palestinian Capitalists and British Colonial Rule DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nIn British-ruled Palestine\, Palestinian elites and British colonial officials attempted to define and regulate basic needs with varying consequences for economic thought and practices. In the 1930s\, against the backdrop of armed rebellion and the Great Depression\, Palestinian capitalists distinguished between needs and luxuries in order to shape a pan-Arab utopia as well as emerging forms of gendered subjectivities. As the decade wore on and World War II came to Palestine\, these capitalists\, with their emphasis on growth and capital accumulation\, confronted a landscape of commercial paralysis and a crisis of supply. The scarcity of basic goods such as wheat\, rice\, and flour and the specter of political disorder also inspired the British colonial government to innovate new modes of economic management. Through institutions such as the Middle East Supply Center\, British colonial rule shaped ideal territories. In Palestine\, an ambitious rationing regime relied on new indices such as the “calorie” and the “cost of living” to determine each person’s “bare minimum\,” assure “food for all\,” and assess colonial rule. By tracing these instances of defining and regulating individual needs\, this paper explores the commonalities and differences in Palestinian and British visions of progress\, territory\, and economic development. It reveals divergent but overlapping attempts to shape and develop the economy as an object of knowledge and a site of social management. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/bare-needs-palestinian-capitalists-and-british-colonial-rule/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140219T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140219T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T032005 CREATED:20150928T112855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112855Z UID:10001935-1392768000-1392768000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Life\, Sovereignty\, and the Political: Towards a Middle Eastern Global History DESCRIPTION:AbstractWith one of the latest turns in historiography\, it seems that documents as quintessentially national as the American Declaration of Independence can have a global history. This is indeed an exciting prospect\, and the distinguished historian David Armitage encourages us all to become global historians if we are to remain relevant. In my first book\, Working Out Egypt\, I tried to do something to that effect before having\nread Armitage\, situating what I called effendi masculinity within a set of emerging global practices and discourses around gender\, sexuality\, the body\, desire\, and national identity. It seems to me that scholars of gender and sexuality were at the forefront of claiming a global canvas for their work. Of course one could also make a good case for scholars of Islam such as Marshall Hodgson and Richard Eaton. What animates my current project\, of which I give an overview in this talk\, is a certain anxiety about the kinds of themes deemed globally significant in the recent scholarship. Thus\, I consider how some of the basic building blocks of our modern world—life\, sovereignty\, and the political—appeared through the lens of a nineteenth-century Sufi\, Sayyid Fadl b. Alawi\, as a step towards imagining a Middle Eastern global history. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/life-sovereignty-and-the-political-towards-a-middle-eastern-global-history/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140220T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140220T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T032005 CREATED:20150928T112854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112854Z UID:10002213-1392854400-1392854400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:“The Recovery of Nazi-Looted Art: The Bloch-Bauer Klimt Paintings” DESCRIPTION:Los Angeles attorney specializing in recovery of property stolen by the Nazis responsible for the landmark Supreme Court case returning Gustav Klimt paintings–valued at $325 million–to their rightful heir. \nThe Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, a program\nof the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, is cosponsored by UCSB Arts and Lectures\, Department of Religious Studies\,\nCongregation B’nai B’rith\, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\, and Santa Barbara Hillel. \nhm 1/6/14 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-recovery-of-nazi-looted-art-the-bloch-bauer-klimt-paintings/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR