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/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201004 DTSTAMP:20260601T152403 CREATED:20200926T025942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200926T025942Z UID:10002836-1601510400-1601769599@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Conference: Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts DESCRIPTION:Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts proposes new considerations of realism on stage. Since its association with 19th-century innovations in European and American drama\, theatrical realism has largely remained limited to Euro-American definitions. We explore conventions of realism in culturally-specific locations and times across East Asia\, articulating alternative histories of realism that extend from the premodern into the present. Through our individual inquiries\, we aim to broaden the term’s analytic power and shed collective light on the diversity and versatility of this important representational mode. The conference will end with a play reading performed by LAUNCH PAD\, UCSB. \nView the complete schedule and conference information at www.realismseastasia.com. You can download the informational flyer here: Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/conference-realisms-in-east-asian-performing-arts/ LOCATION:University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Realisms-in-East-Asian-Performing-Arts-page-001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T160000 DTSTAMP:20260601T152403 CREATED:20210306T200534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T154851Z UID:10002864-1615046400-1615046400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History Associates: Luke Roberts\, "A Samurai Wife Divorces her Lout of a Husband" DESCRIPTION:Join the History Associates for an engaging presentation from UCSB History Professor Luke Roberts on a specific case that influenced gender roles in 19th-century Japan. \nZoom link: ucsb.zoom.us/j/6855143149 \nMori Nao\, a young samurai wife in Japan\, desired a divorce from her abusive husband in 1824. Legally a man could divorce his wife but a wife could not divorce her husband. Nevertheless\, she persisted in the face of his adamant refusal to divorce her. Soon her relatives mobilized their social networks to convince his relatives to pressure him to give her a divorce\, but he still refused. Eventually most samurai in her lord’s domain in southwestern Japan were working to get her a divorce and even the lord became involved in supporting what she had no legal right to demand\, and threatened the well-being of the husband’s kin group. \nFinally\, the husband divorced her. His angry kin put him in a cage in his backyard where he was forced to live for some months. No formal record survives\, but a detailed diary of the process made by one relative of his house who played an important role in the negotiations reveals much about gender roles\, family networks and common disjunctures between law-as-written and law-as-it-operated. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-luke-roberts-a-samurai-wife-divorces-her-lout-of-a-husband/ LOCATION:Zoom\, CA CATEGORIES:History Associates ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Roberts-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210519T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210519T173000 DTSTAMP:20260601T152403 CREATED:20210513T035226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230203T154640Z UID:10002354-1621440000-1621445400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Lily Anne Welty Tamai\, "Mixed-Race Black Identities in Postwar Japan and Okinawa" DESCRIPTION:The East Asia Center welcomes UCSB History alumna Dr. Lily Anne Welty Tamai (Asian American Studies\, UCLA) for a talk on “Mixed-Race Black Identities in Postwar Japan and Okinawa.” \nMixed-race people born at the end of World War II made history quietly with their families and their communities. Wars and the military occupations that followed\, coupled with increased migration across the Pacific\, created a surge of interracial relationships\, resulting in a mid-century multiracial baby boom. Easily identifiable by their mixed-race features\, they were the children of the enemy: in Japan they symbolized defeat and racial impurity. In the U.S.\, they represented an extension of America’s democratic intervention abroad and for mixed-race adoptees in particular\, they embodied the salvation that the U.S. offered Japan during the postwar occupation. Interracial\ncommunities\, families\, and mixed-race individuals challenged the default narrative of White normativity in the U.S. military and in the post-war period\, while also expanding our understanding of the transnational Black Pacific\, or the diaspora of Blacks in the Pacific Rim. While Black soldiers migrated west across the Pacific\, some of their mixed-race children migrated east to the U.S. in the\ndecades following World War II. This presentation with center the voices of mixed-race Black Japanese in post-war Japan and within the militarized borderland of Okinawa to examine the tropes of hybrid degeneracy and hybrid vigor as these individuals navigated their lives between\ninvisibility and hyper-recognition.\n \nLily Anne Welty Tamai earned her doctorate in History from UCSB. She conducted research in Japan and in Okinawa as a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow and was also a Ford\nFoundation Fellow. Her forthcoming book\, titled Military Industrial Intimacy: Mixed-Race American Japanese\, Eugenics and Transnational Identities\, documents the history of mixed-race American Japanese and American Okinawans born after World War II and raised during the post-war period. Dr. Tamai was formerly the Curator of History at the Japanese American National Museum and served on the U.S. Census Bureau National Advisory Committee on Racial\, Ethnic\, and Other\nPopulations. She is currently a lecturer in Asian American Studies at UCLA.\n \nTo join the Zoom meeting\, use Zoom ID 925 5728 2471. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/lily-anne-welty-tamai-mixed-race-black-identities-in-postwar-japan-and-okinawa/ LOCATION:Zoom\, CA CATEGORIES:Public Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/EAC-Welty-Tamai-5.19.2021-page-001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250507T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250507T190000 DTSTAMP:20260601T152403 CREATED:20250429T174734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250429T174734Z UID:10003024-1746637200-1746644400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Talk: Erin Trumble\, "Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan" DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Graduate Student Erin Trumble\n \n\n \n\nTitle: “Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan”\n \nDescription: The talk will focus on retirement as a life stage and examine how it represented a time when women had both more freedom after being liberated from daily tasks and more authority due to their age. I will examine prescriptive literature and its silences around responsibilities for retired women\, as well as use examples from the lives of Nakako\, Ieko\, Shigako\, and Aijo to show how women engaged with travel\, literature\, and religion in new ways as a result of this freedom and authority. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/talk-erin-trumble-rebirth-after-retirement-how-elderly-women-reinvented-femininity-in-edo-japan/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)\, Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Academic Calendar,All Events,Public Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025-Van-Gelderen-e1745948692359.png GEO:34.4139682;-119.8503034 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg:geo:-119.8503034,34.4139682 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260222T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260222T160000 DTSTAMP:20260601T152403 CREATED:20251212T015252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T071949Z UID:10003040-1771768800-1771776000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History Associates Talk by Professor Anthony Barbieri on "Beyond the Mountains and Seas: Eurasian History through Travelers’ Eyes (400 BCE-1936 CE)" DESCRIPTION:The History associates brings to you a talk by Professor Anthony Barbieri off the department of history on his latest book. The talk narrates the integrated history of Eurasia over the last two millennia through the travel of two dozen remarkable men and women who voyaged across this vast continent and reported on their encounters with a foreign culture.  It argues that\, despite increasing empirical knowledge gathered about   the “other\,” mental projections of the “monsters at the edge of the world\,” still colored peoples’ perception of the foreign “other” well into the modern era. \n  URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-talk-by-professor-anthony-barbieri-on-beyond-the-mountains-and-seas-eurasian-history-through-travelers-eyes-400-bce-1936-ce/ LOCATION:Night Lizard Brewing Company\, 607 State Street\, Santa Barbara CATEGORIES:Book Talk,History Associates,Public Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/ouya-hufang-2-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260412T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260412T160000 DTSTAMP:20260601T152403 CREATED:20260312T215633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T021650Z UID:10003053-1776002400-1776009600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:History Associates presents Profs at the Pub | The Rickshaw’s Journey Through 20th Century Japan | Talk by Prof Kate McDonald DESCRIPTION:The History Associates in partnership with the UCSB Affiliates are excited to present April’s Profs at the Pub! History Professor Kate McDonald shares her favorite rickshaw stories from twentieth-century Japan. Invented in 1869\, the rickshaw quickly came to define Japan’s urban modernity. Though it declined in popularity in the 1930s and 1940s\, the rickshaw was quickly reinvented as a popular – and flexible – cultural symbol. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-talk-the-rickshaws-journey-through-20th-century-japan-kate-mcdonald/ LOCATION:Draughtsmen Aleworks\, 53 Santa Felicia Drive\, Goleta\, United States CATEGORIES:History Associates ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Profs-@-the-Pub_Kate-McDonald-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR