First Day of Spring 2016 Quarter
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American History & Institutions Exam
American History & Institutions Exam
Alternative way of satisfying UCSB AH & I GE requirement. Those students interested in taking the exam must contact the HIST undergraduate advisor, Monica I. Garcia, to obtain the reading list for the exam a minimum of two weeks prior to the exam date. migarcia@hfa.ucsb.edu HSSB 4036
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“Crafting Gendered Notions of Intimacy: Indian ‘Coolie’ Households in British Malaya and the Colonial Construction of ‘Everyday Violence’
“Crafting Gendered Notions of Intimacy: Indian ‘Coolie’ Households in British Malaya and the Colonial Construction of ‘Everyday Violence’
Lecture by Dr. Arunima Datta Dr. Arunima Datta received her PhD in 2015 in Southeast Asian history from the National University of Singapore. She is currently a post-doctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Malayan Branch of the Asiatic Society. She has published several […]
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Robin and Robert Jones present “Refugees on the Greek Island of Lesbos”
Robin and Robert Jones present “Refugees on the Greek Island of Lesbos”
On Thursday, April 14th at 2pm in HSSB 6020, Robin and Robert Jones will speak about their experiences working with refugees landing on the Greek island of Lesbos. Their presentation is co-sponsored by the History Department, the Center for Middle East Studies, and the Argyropoulos Hellenic Studies Endowment. Robin and Robert Jones live part of their year […]
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“The Journey: Domestic Violence Legislation in Ghana” by Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo
“The Journey: Domestic Violence Legislation in Ghana” by Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Daily, all over the world, women and children (especially) are abused by intimate partners and family members, friends and colleagues. While a legal infrastructure and legal responses will not end gender-based violence (GBV) and domestic violence (DV), they can provide reliefs for survivors of violence. They can serve as spaces from which GBV and DV […]
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The Just Prince and the Nation: Muslim Patriotism and the Politics of Notables in late Ottoman Egypt, 1860s – Adam Mestyan (Harvard University)
The Just Prince and the Nation: Muslim Patriotism and the Politics of Notables in late Ottoman Egypt, 1860s – Adam Mestyan (Harvard University)
Speaker: Adam Mestyan (Harvard University) About the Talk: In this presentation Mestyan will argue that in nineteenth-century Ottoman Egypt the symbolic unification between the Ottoman governor (khedive) and the homeland was based on vocabularies of kingship in the Koran and in Arab-Persian-Ottoman traditions. During this process of constructing patriotism by rural men of distinction, the perceived […]
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“Survivors into Minorities: Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey” with Lerna Ekmekcioglu (MIT)
“Survivors into Minorities: Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey” with Lerna Ekmekcioglu (MIT)
Speaker: Lerna Ekmekcioglu is McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she is also affiliated with Women and Gender Studies Program. She specializes on Turkish and Armenian lands in the beginning of the 20th century and the history of Armenian feminism. In 2006 she co-edited a volume in Turkish about the […]
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Farina Mir: “Reconsidering Modernity in an Indian Vernacular: Punjabi Literature and the Writing of Colonial History”
Farina Mir: “Reconsidering Modernity in an Indian Vernacular: Punjabi Literature and the Writing of Colonial History”
FARINA MIR University of Michigan, Associate Professor of History KAPANY ENDOWMENT VISITING LECTURE SERIES About the Talk This talk considers the literary history of one Indian vernacular tradition, Punjabi, to interrogate assumptions about the temporality of literary history embedded in today's normative mode of writing the history of literature, assumptions critically linked to notions of […]
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“The Visual Archive: Ho-Chunk Cultural Performance, Modern Labor, and Survivance in Wisconsin, 1879-1960.”
“The Visual Archive: Ho-Chunk Cultural Performance, Modern Labor, and Survivance in Wisconsin, 1879-1960.”
This presentation explores the intersections of photographic images, family history, tourism, and Ho-Chunk survivance through an examination of two photographic collections housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society: the Charles Van Schaick Collection and the H.H. Bennett Collection. The Van Schaick collection includes nearly taken between 1879-1936, and the H.H. Bennett Collection is comprised of hundreds […]