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SUMMARY:Azaria Mbughuni\, "Tanzania and the Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa"
DESCRIPTION:All are cordially invited to a special guest lecture by Dr. Azaria Mbughuni on the role of Tanzania in Southern Africa’s liberation struggles. Dr. Mbughuni’s guest lecture will build onto Professor Mhoze Chikowero‘s ongoing graduate seminar on African Self-Liberation. \nDr. Mbughuni is Assistant Professor of History at Lane College\, where he is also the Chair of the Division of Business\, Social and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Mbughuni was born in Dar es Salaam\, Tanzania. He earned his Ph.D. from Howard University. His research interests include the role of Tanzania and the Pan-African Diasporas in the struggles for African independence.  \nFor more information and to obtain relevant readings\, contact Professor Chikowero at chikowero@history.ucsb.edu. To download the flyer for this event\, click here. To attend Dr. Mbughuni’s lecture on Zoom\, use this link.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/azaria-mbughuni-tanzania-and-the-liberation-struggles-in-southern-africa/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Nyasha Mboti\, "Closing the Loophole: Apartheid Studies"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Mhoze Chikowero invites all to attend a special guest lecture by Dr. Nyashi Mboti as part of UCSB’s African Studies Series. Dr. Mboti will discuss the new field he founded: Apartheid Studies. He will introduce his forthcoming 4-volume treatise on the subject\, Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto\, which will change how we think about enslavement\, colonialism\, neocolonialism\, impoverishment\, and the exploitation and carnage of humans that has defined global history for at least half a millennium.\n \nDr. Mboti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Science at the University of the Free State in South Africa. His keen interest in academia is to ask questions that people do not normally intend or think to ask. He has\, to date\, successfully supervised ten doctoral students\,\ndelivered seminal keynotes at international conferences\, and published over two dozen peer reviewed research articles.\n \nTo read an early copy of Volume 1 of Apartheid Studies: A Manifesto\, contact Professor Chikowero at chikowero@history.ucsb.edu or Claudia Ankrah at c_ankrah@ucsb.edu. To download the flyer for the lecture\, click here. To attend Dr. Mbughuni’s lecture on Zoom\, use this link.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/nyasha-mboti-closing-the-loophole-apartheid-studies/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210112T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210112T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T110253
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SUMMARY:The Initiative for the Study of Race\, Religion\, and Revolution's Winter 2021 Schedule
DESCRIPTION:Professor Butch Ware and the ISRRAR announce the Winter Quarter schedule for HIST 210RA: Race\, Faith\, Revolution. Graduate students are invited to register for this 2-unit seminar and to sign up for the listserv at http://tinyurl.com/ISRRARListServ. \nHow have Black metaphysics articulated with racial politics in order to advance efforts of justice\, liberation\, and self-actualization? In this very special year of 2021\, our seminar will take on manifestations of anti-black racism and imperialism\, as well as African and African Diasporic efforts to mediate between the seen and unseen worlds in struggles for justice. \nThis graduate seminar is part of a broader collaborative process meant to engage graduate students and faculty alike. The Initiative for the Study of Race\, Religion\, and Revolution (ISRRAR) seeks to foster a conversation on intersections of spirituality and social change wherein works on (and by) formerly colonized peoples are central\, rather than peripheral. \nThis approach is driven by an axial critique of the ways in which modernity’s core contradictions shape our shared pasts and presents. An era of revolutionary enlightenment\, we are told\, brought humanity out of the ‘dark ages.’ Freedom dawned. But this ‘age of lights’ brought the darkest of racial taxonomies\, and scales of slavery and human suffering unknown to ancient and medieval worlds. Reason proclaimed its mission: liberate humanity from the bondage of irrational religion. Yet rational political economies brought global empires\, world wars\, and ethnic genocides. Moreover\, new nationalisms have drawn on older religious repertories to define citizens and subject them to moral authority. Self-congratulatory Western tropes\, however\, tend to overlook the ubiquity of race and the persistence of faith\, portraying them as incidental rather than fundamental. \nColonized peoples in Africa and the Americas\, tell different tales. A generation of emergent scholarship has brought these forward. Scholars (many trained in interdisciplinary fields) have recovered ‘native’ narratives and ontologies of the oppressed\, often dislodging dominant meta-narratives in the study of the global West. In History 210 we engage live presentations of the works of scholars\, activists\, and artists whose conceptualization and execution of their research breaks new ground in these domains.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-initiative-for-the-study-of-race-religion-and-revolutions-winter-2021-schedule/2021-01-12/
LOCATION:University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210126T180000
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SUMMARY:ISRRAR Event--Dr. LaKisha Simmons\, "The Ancestors and the Womb are One: Black Motherhood and Histories of Black Infant Loss"
DESCRIPTION:Throughout the twentieth century\, Black women in the United States experienced at least double the rates of infant mortality experienced by white women. Through an analysis of oral histories collected in the US South in the 1930s\, Dr. LaKisha Simmons (University of Michigan) details what Patricia Hill Collins terms a “Black women’s standpoint on mothering.” From interviewees’ discussions of infant and child loss emerge twin concepts of generation and Black relationality\, which enable a theory of Black motherhood as connected to survival and remembrance. The concept of generation reveals how Black women in the 1930s defined themselves as mothering their children after Emancipation and yet as inheriting the ever-present enslaved past through their own mothers and grandmothers. Black women articulated a sense of self and well-being that was in conversation with the ancestors and unborn. \nJoin this Zoom event here: https://bit.ly/3hVdvP4. \n\nThis event is part of the ISRRAR Winter Quarter series. \nProfessor Butch Ware and the ISRRAR announce the Winter Quarter schedule for HIST 210RA: Race\, Faith\, Revolution. Graduate students are invited to register for this 2-unit seminar and to sign up for the listserv at http://tinyurl.com/ISRRARListServ. \nHow have Black metaphysics articulated with racial politics in order to advance efforts of justice\, liberation\, and self-actualization? In this very special year of 2021\, our seminar will take on manifestations of anti-black racism and imperialism\, as well as African and African Diasporic efforts to mediate between the seen and unseen worlds in struggles for justice. \nThis graduate seminar is part of a broader collaborative process meant to engage graduate students and faculty alike. The Initiative for the Study of Race\, Religion\, and Revolution (ISRRAR) seeks to foster a conversation on intersections of spirituality and social change wherein works on (and by) formerly colonized peoples are central\, rather than peripheral. \nThis approach is driven by an axial critique of the ways in which modernity’s core contradictions shape our shared pasts and presents. An era of revolutionary enlightenment\, we are told\, brought humanity out of the ‘dark ages.’ Freedom dawned. But this ‘age of lights’ brought the darkest of racial taxonomies\, and scales of slavery and human suffering unknown to ancient and medieval worlds. Reason proclaimed its mission: liberate humanity from the bondage of irrational religion. Yet rational political economies brought global empires\, world wars\, and ethnic genocides. Moreover\, new nationalisms have drawn on older religious repertories to define citizens and subject them to moral authority. Self-congratulatory Western tropes\, however\, tend to overlook the ubiquity of race and the persistence of faith\, portraying them as incidental rather than fundamental. \nColonized peoples in Africa and the Americas\, tell different tales. A generation of emergent scholarship has brought these forward. Scholars (many trained in interdisciplinary fields) have recovered ‘native’ narratives and ontologies of the oppressed\, often dislodging dominant meta-narratives in the study of the global West. In History 210 we engage live presentations of the works of scholars\, activists\, and artists whose conceptualization and execution of their research breaks new ground in these domains.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-initiative-for-the-study-of-race-religion-and-revolutions-winter-2021-schedule-2021-01-26/
LOCATION:University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T180000
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SUMMARY:ISRRAR Event--Dr. Jason Young\, "Look for Me in the Whirlwind: Toward an Ecology of Afro-Futurism"
DESCRIPTION:Speaking before a rapt audience\, famed black nationalist leader\, Marcus Garvey\, vowed to support the cause of African liberation not only in life\, but also in death\, insisting that he would return as an “earthquake\, or a cyclone\, or plague\, or pestilence” to aid in the fight for freedom. He implored his followers: “Look for me in the whirlwind.” Using Garvey’s promise as a starting point\, Dr. Jason Young (University of Michigan) reconsiders the history of slavery with an eye trained on the transformative role that torrential rains\, gale force winds and raging fires played in both opening and closing paths to freedom and resistance. And in view of the current climate crisis\, COVID-19\, and yet another national reckoning on racial injustice\, Young imagines the role that rising sea levels\, receding coastlines\, and global fugitivity might play in the Afro-futures to come. \nJoin this Zoom event here: bit.ly/3hVdvP4  \n\nThis event is part of the ISRRAR Winter Quarter series. \nProfessor Butch Ware and the ISRRAR announce the Winter Quarter schedule for HIST 210RA: Race\, Faith\, Revolution. Graduate students are invited to register for this 2-unit seminar and to sign up for the listserv at http://tinyurl.com/ISRRARListServ. \nHow have Black metaphysics articulated with racial politics in order to advance efforts of justice\, liberation\, and self-actualization? In this very special year of 2021\, our seminar will take on manifestations of anti-black racism and imperialism\, as well as African and African Diasporic efforts to mediate between the seen and unseen worlds in struggles for justice. \nThis graduate seminar is part of a broader collaborative process meant to engage graduate students and faculty alike. The Initiative for the Study of Race\, Religion\, and Revolution (ISRRAR) seeks to foster a conversation on intersections of spirituality and social change wherein works on (and by) formerly colonized peoples are central\, rather than peripheral. \nThis approach is driven by an axial critique of the ways in which modernity’s core contradictions shape our shared pasts and presents. An era of revolutionary enlightenment\, we are told\, brought humanity out of the ‘dark ages.’ Freedom dawned. But this ‘age of lights’ brought the darkest of racial taxonomies\, and scales of slavery and human suffering unknown to ancient and medieval worlds. Reason proclaimed its mission: liberate humanity from the bondage of irrational religion. Yet rational political economies brought global empires\, world wars\, and ethnic genocides. Moreover\, new nationalisms have drawn on older religious repertories to define citizens and subject them to moral authority. Self-congratulatory Western tropes\, however\, tend to overlook the ubiquity of race and the persistence of faith\, portraying them as incidental rather than fundamental. \nColonized peoples in Africa and the Americas\, tell different tales. A generation of emergent scholarship has brought these forward. Scholars (many trained in interdisciplinary fields) have recovered ‘native’ narratives and ontologies of the oppressed\, often dislodging dominant meta-narratives in the study of the global West. In History 210 we engage live presentations of the works of scholars\, activists\, and artists whose conceptualization and execution of their research breaks new ground in these domains.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-initiative-for-the-study-of-race-religion-and-revolutions-winter-2021-schedule-2021-02-09/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210223T180000
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SUMMARY:ISRRAR Event–Dr. Rasul Miller\, "Black Internationalism and Black Sunni Muslims in America"
DESCRIPTION:During the interwar period\, the historic neighborhood of Harlem was home to a thriving Black political scene that included Garveyites\, Communists\, labor organizers\, anticolonial activists\, and politicized adherents of various new Black religious congregations. Shaykh Daoud Faisal and Mother Khadijah Faisal\, the architects of New York City’s first lasting Black Sunni Muslim community worked as artists\, organizers\, and propagators of Islam for over a decade in 1920s and 1930s Harlem\, and were deeply impacted by its Black internationalist political and cultural character. Upon moving to Brooklyn Heights in 1930 they built one of the twentieth century’s most influential Muslim religious communities in the US. In this talk\, Dr. Rasul Miller (History\, UC Irvine) explores the impact of Black internationalism on this formative Black Sunni religious institution\, and the broader Black Sunni religious and cultural orientations it helped to foster. \nJoin this Zoom event here: https://bit.ly/3hVdvP4  \n\nThis event is part of the ISRRAR Winter Quarter series. \nProfessor Butch Ware and the ISRRAR announce the Winter Quarter schedule for HIST 210RA: Race\, Faith\, Revolution. Graduate students are invited to register for this 2-unit seminar and to sign up for the listserv at http://tinyurl.com/ISRRARListServ. \nHow have Black metaphysics articulated with racial politics in order to advance efforts of justice\, liberation\, and self-actualization? In this very special year of 2021\, our seminar will take on manifestations of anti-black racism and imperialism\, as well as African and African Diasporic efforts to mediate between the seen and unseen worlds in struggles for justice. \nThis graduate seminar is part of a broader collaborative process meant to engage graduate students and faculty alike. The Initiative for the Study of Race\, Religion\, and Revolution (ISRRAR) seeks to foster a conversation on intersections of spirituality and social change wherein works on (and by) formerly colonized peoples are central\, rather than peripheral. \nThis approach is driven by an axial critique of the ways in which modernity’s core contradictions shape our shared pasts and presents. An era of revolutionary enlightenment\, we are told\, brought humanity out of the ‘dark ages.’ Freedom dawned. But this ‘age of lights’ brought the darkest of racial taxonomies\, and scales of slavery and human suffering unknown to ancient and medieval worlds. Reason proclaimed its mission: liberate humanity from the bondage of irrational religion. Yet rational political economies brought global empires\, world wars\, and ethnic genocides. Moreover\, new nationalisms have drawn on older religious repertories to define citizens and subject them to moral authority. Self-congratulatory Western tropes\, however\, tend to overlook the ubiquity of race and the persistence of faith\, portraying them as incidental rather than fundamental. \nColonized peoples in Africa and the Americas\, tell different tales. A generation of emergent scholarship has brought these forward. Scholars (many trained in interdisciplinary fields) have recovered ‘native’ narratives and ontologies of the oppressed\, often dislodging dominant meta-narratives in the study of the global West. In History 210 we engage live presentations of the works of scholars\, activists\, and artists whose conceptualization and execution of their research breaks new ground in these domains.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-initiative-for-the-study-of-race-religion-and-revolutions-winter-2021-schedule-2021-02-23/
LOCATION:University of California Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T180000
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SUMMARY:ISRRAR Event–Dr. Samiha Rahman\, "Redefining Black Excellence: Ihsan\, Islamic Education\, and the Tijani Sufi Order"
DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, hundreds of predominantly working-class African American Muslim youth have migrated to the West African Tijani Sufi town of Medina Baye\, Senegal. They hope to circumvent the antiblackness\, Islamophobia\, and economic inequality they face in the U.S. in search of a transformative educational encounter in a society where Blackness and Islam constitute the dominant norms. This talk chronicles these young people’s everyday experiences pursuing Islamic education in Medina Baye. Complicating popular notions that link Black excellence to individualistic material gain and Black capitalism\, Dr. Samiha Rahman (CSU Long Beach) argues that Black Muslim excellence (ihsan) provides an alternative paradigm rooted in the pursuit of human excellence through spiritual and social practice. Grounded in a transatlantic Black Muslim tradition\, Black Muslim ihsan offers African American Muslims pathways to individual and collective liberation. \nJoin this Zoom event here: bit.ly/3hVdvP4  \n\nThis event is part of the ISRRAR Winter Quarter series. \nProfessor Butch Ware and the ISRRAR announce the Winter Quarter schedule for HIST 210RA: Race\, Faith\, Revolution. Graduate students are invited to register for this 2-unit seminar and to sign up for the listserv at http://tinyurl.com/ISRRARListServ. \nHow have Black metaphysics articulated with racial politics in order to advance efforts of justice\, liberation\, and self-actualization? In this very special year of 2021\, our seminar will take on manifestations of anti-black racism and imperialism\, as well as African and African Diasporic efforts to mediate between the seen and unseen worlds in struggles for justice. \nThis graduate seminar is part of a broader collaborative process meant to engage graduate students and faculty alike. The Initiative for the Study of Race\, Religion\, and Revolution (ISRRAR) seeks to foster a conversation on intersections of spirituality and social change wherein works on (and by) formerly colonized peoples are central\, rather than peripheral. \nThis approach is driven by an axial critique of the ways in which modernity’s core contradictions shape our shared pasts and presents. An era of revolutionary enlightenment\, we are told\, brought humanity out of the ‘dark ages.’ Freedom dawned. But this ‘age of lights’ brought the darkest of racial taxonomies\, and scales of slavery and human suffering unknown to ancient and medieval worlds. Reason proclaimed its mission: liberate humanity from the bondage of irrational religion. Yet rational political economies brought global empires\, world wars\, and ethnic genocides. Moreover\, new nationalisms have drawn on older religious repertories to define citizens and subject them to moral authority. Self-congratulatory Western tropes\, however\, tend to overlook the ubiquity of race and the persistence of faith\, portraying them as incidental rather than fundamental. \nColonized peoples in Africa and the Americas\, tell different tales. A generation of emergent scholarship has brought these forward. Scholars (many trained in interdisciplinary fields) have recovered ‘native’ narratives and ontologies of the oppressed\, often dislodging dominant meta-narratives in the study of the global West. In History 210 we engage live presentations of the works of scholars\, activists\, and artists whose conceptualization and execution of their research breaks new ground in these domains.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-initiative-for-the-study-of-race-religion-and-revolutions-winter-2021-schedule-2021-03-09/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210312T130000
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SUMMARY:FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar II: Empire and Liberation
DESCRIPTION:Building on the collective knowledge shared in our first webinar\, the History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the second session of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series.  Inspired by the History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary history within it\, the series brings together UCSB History faculty and graduate students who have volunteered to lead a dialogue on Black life\, race\, and antiblackness in history. The conversations will engage Herman Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves\, as a focal point to discuss themes like sovereignty\, empire\, and racial capitalism from different historical angles of vision. \nOur second webinar will engage Prof. Herman Bennett’s emphasis on empire and colonialism in understanding Atlantic history and the politics of liberation from a wide diversity of scholarly standpoints. Registration for the webinar is required. Please click on the link below to register. \nDate: Mar 12\, 2021 \nTime: 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nWebinar II: Empire and Liberation \nZoom registration: Please register in advance for this webinar using the link below. \nhttps://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kI2R6miRRO2blZUh_62shQ \nFeaturing presentations by Anthony Greco\, Katie Moore\, Stephan Miescher\, and Ya Zuo \nComment by Evelyne Laurent-Perrault \n\nAnthony Greco is a historian of engineering and technology\, colonialism\, and science in the modern Middle East. His dissertation research examines Egypt’s long tradition of scientific knowledge and pedagogy. Before this\, he worked as a diesel mechanic\, plumber\, and carpenter which inspired his interest in builders and maintainers of public works. \nKatie Moore is a historian of early American political economy\, money\, debt\, and the Atlantic World\, and the author of the forthcoming A Revolutionary Currency. \nStephan Miescher is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth century Ghana\, masculinities\, and environmental history\, and the author of Making Men in Ghana (2005) and coeditor of Gender\, Imperialism\, and Global Exchanges (2015). \nYa Zuo is a historian of middle and late imperial China\, epistemology\, political philosophy\, ethics\, and emotions\, and the author of Shen Gua’s Empiricism (2018). \nEvelyne Laurent-Perrault is a historian of the African diaspora in colonial Latin America and the Caribbean\, the political imagination of enslaved women\, and the author of the forthcoming Claims of Dignity. 
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-in-history-webinar-ii-empire-and-liberation/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210406T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210406T160000
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SUMMARY:ISRRAR Event--Dr. Maytha Alhassen\, "The Ummic Imperative: A Decolonial Approach to Malcolm X's Islam"
DESCRIPTION:Through an assemblage of multiple archives\, Dr. Maytha Alhassen tracks the Malcolm X’s political and spiritual project the last year of his life as he travels across decolonizing geographies. Alhassen contends that undergirding Malcolm X’s Black liberation framework is a praxical commitment to an “ummic imperative.” Engaging Malcolm’s spiritual political philosophies will also serve to interrogate and complicate Third World movement politics. \nJoin this Zoom event at tinyurl.com/isrrarTalk \nThis event is part of the ISRRAR Spring Quarter series.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/isrrar-event-dr-maytha-alhassen-the-ummic-imperative-a-decolonial-approach-to-malcolm-xs-islam/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T130000
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SUMMARY:FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar III: Racial Capitalism and Liberalism
DESCRIPTION:Building on the collective knowledge shared in the two previous webinars\, the History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the third and final session of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series.  Inspired by the History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary history within it\, the series brings together UCSB History faculty and graduate students who have volunteered to lead a dialogue on Black life\, race\, and antiblackness in history. The final webinar will engage Herman Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves\, as a focal point to discuss themes like racial capitalism and liberalism from different historical angles of vision. \nOur final webinar will transition into a Zoom meeting room format. Registration for the Zoom meeting is required. Please click on the link below to register\, after which you will receive a passcode and meeting link. You will need the passcode to enter the meeting. \nDate: April 16\, 2021 \nTime: 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nWebinar III: Racial Capitalism and Liberalism \nZoom registration: Please register in advance for this webinar using the link below. \nhttps://ucsb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcud-yvrj4iE9O-rnuoC1Vo4oW2d61R6HzW \nFeaturing presentations by Alice O’Connor\, Manuel Covo\, Mattie Webb\, and Sherene Seikaly \nComment by Mhoze Chikowero \n\nAlice O’Connor is a historian of poverty\, capitalism\, inequality\, social science\, and public policy in the U.S. and the author of Poverty Knowledge (2001) and Social Science for What? (2007). \nManuel Covo is a historian of French imperialism\, the Atlantic World\, and the Haitian Revolution and the author of the forthcoming The Entrepot of Atlantic Revolutions. \nMattie Webb is a historian of U.S. foreign policy\, African History\, and comparative race and ethnicity. Mattie’s archival and oral-historical research combines social and diplomatic history to study the impact and awareness of the Sullivan Principles in South Africa during the apartheid era.  \nSherene Seikaly is a historian of political economy\, capitalism\, development\, race\, and dispossession in the modern Middle East and the author of Men of Capital (2016) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa (2021). \nMhoze Chikowero is a historian of music\, colonialism\, technology\, and urban space in Zimbabwe and southern Africa and the author of African Music\, Power\, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe (2015).
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-in-history-webinar-iii-racial-capitalism-and-liberalism/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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SUMMARY:FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Keynote Lecture with Prof. Herman Bennett: "Body\, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic"
DESCRIPTION:The History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the keynote lecture of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series. The lecture\, “Body\, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic\,” will be delivered by Prof. Herman L. Bennett. \nHerman L. Bennett is Professor at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. A scholar of Latin American history and the African Diaspora\, Prof. Bennett’s previous books include Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism\, Christianity\, and Afro-Creole Consciousness (2003)\, Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico (2009)\, and the forthcoming The African Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction. His notable essays include “The Subject in the Plot: National Boundaries and the ‘History’ of the Black Atlantic\,” in African Studies Review (2000) and “Writing into a Void: Slavery\, History\, and Representing Blackness in Latin America” in Social Text (2007). He has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for Humanities\, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University\, and the American Council of Learned Societies. The American Historical Association recognized his mentorship of racially and ethnically underrepresented students in the historical discipline through the AHA Equity Award in 2012. Prof. Bennett has served on the editorial boards of the Hispanic American Historical Review\, Social Text\, The Americas\, the Blacks in the Diaspora series at Indiana University Press\, and the American Historical Review. \nProf. Bennett’s most recent book\, African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (2018) invites our attention to politics of sovereignty\, enslavement\, and power in the earliest Iberian and African interactions as a point of inquiry to critically rethink the ways in which liberalism has subsequently shaped analyses of culture\, economy\, and history. \nThe inaugural FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series is inspired by the UCSB History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary history within it. Following three webinars led by History Department faculty and graduate students on topics like sovereignty\, the political\, liberation\, racial capitalism\, liberalism\, and empire\, from their own scholarly angles of vision\, the keynote lecture brings the series to a close and invites more conversations to be continued in the future. \nThe keynote lecture will use the Zoom webinar format. Prior registration is required. \nDate: Friday 21 May\, 2021 \nTime: 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nKeynote Lecture: “Body\, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic” \nZoom registration: Please register in advance for this webinar using the link below: \nhttps://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RbHCtjyoS8S-l6vbTiFEzw
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-in-history-keynote-lecture-with-prof-herman-bennett-body-soul-subject-a-history-of-difference-in-the-early-modern-african-atlantic/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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