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:20080309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20081102T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20090308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20091101T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20100314T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20101107T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090427T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090427T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T191645 CREATED:20150928T112803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112803Z UID:10001539-1240790400-1240790400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Ancient Fiction and the Politics of Genre DESCRIPTION:This talk is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group.\nFor more information contact Christine Thomas. \njwil 03.iv.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/ancient-fiction-and-the-politics-of-genre/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090429T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090429T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T191645 CREATED:20150928T112804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112804Z UID:10001666-1240963200-1240963200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Economic Crises and Lessons from the New Deal DESCRIPTION:Presented by the UCSB Affiliates and the UCSB History Associates.\nThe First Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall is located at 21 E. Constance Ave. (at State Street). \nSee:\nDetailed description of talk\, and\nProf. Brownlee’s faculty homepage with list of publications. \n$8 for UCSB Affiliates\, History Associates or Chancellor’s Council members\n$10 for non-members \nE-MAIL Katie Houseknecht: katie.houseknecht@ia.ucsb.edu\nOR PHONE 893-4388\nTO MAKE YOUR RESERVATION \nhm 4/17/09\, 4/24/09 \n: URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/economic-crises-and-lessons-from-the-new-deal/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090429T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090429T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T191645 CREATED:20150928T112804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112804Z UID:10001673-1240963200-1240963200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Drug Violence\, Public Security\, and the Rule of Law in Mexico DESCRIPTION:David Shirk is Director of the Trans-Border Institute and Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California\, San Diego\, and was a fellow at the Center for U.S.- Mexican Studies from 1998-99 and 2001-2003. He conducts research on Mexican politics\, U.S.-Mexican relations\, and a variety of policy issues along the U.S.-Mexican border. He is the author of Mexico’s New Politics: The PAN and Democratic Change and co-editor of Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico.\nThis event is sponsored by the History Department and the Latin American and Iberian Studies program. \nFor more information contact Gabriela Soto Laveaga. \njwil 22.iv.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/drug-violence-public-security-and-the-rule-of-law-in-mexico/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090430T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090430T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T191645 CREATED:20150928T112802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112802Z UID:10001655-1241049600-1241049600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker DESCRIPTION:Steven Greenhouse of The New York Times is the nation’s most authoritative reporter on labor and employment issues. For 15 years his investigative exposes have probed the way some of the nation’s largest corporations treat and mistreat their workers\, from the Brooklyn waterfront to the Piedmont South\, and from Toyota assembly lines to Wal-Mart check-out counters. His first book\, The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker\, is an eye-opening account of how the corporate clamp-down on wages\, benefits\, and job security has made efforts to climb out of the current economic crisis all the more difficult.\nGreenhouse comes to UCSB as the Regents’ Lecturer in History. \nSponsored by the Department of History\, the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy\, and UCSB Arts & Lectures. \njwil 07.iv.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-big-squeeze-tough-times-for-the-american-worker/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090430T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090430T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T191645 CREATED:20150928T112804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112804Z UID:10001675-1241049600-1241049600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Jetsons Fallacy: Science Fiction\, Biotechnology\, and the Future of the Human Species DESCRIPTION:Abstract:Science fiction films and novels often present us with remarkably imaginative visions of the future. In this talk I argue that all the most popular and influential versions of such sci-fi visions – movies like Star Wars\, Star Trek\, Blade Runner\, AI\, Spiderman\, and Iron Man – systematically mislead us in one important respect: they depict a future in which technology becomes very sophisticated\, but most humans remain basically the same as they are today. This is unrealistic\, I argue\, because today’s major trends in biotechnology suggest that a very different kind of world actually awaits our children and grandchildren. Over the next half century\, entire populations of humans will increasingly use pharmaceuticals\, bioelectronics\, and genetic interventions to enhance their physical and mental capabilities. We are on the cusp of an era in which human beings will apply science and technology to the redesign of their own bodies and minds. In this sense\, therefore\, the actual creations of technoscience today are already exceeding the imaginative reach of the “futuristic” stories we tell ourselves. It is time for mainstream science fiction to take its head out of the sand and face up to the transmogrified future that probably awaits humankind.\n——\nMichael Bess\, Chancellor’s Professor of History\, is a specialist in twentieth-century Europe\, with a particular interest in the social and cultural impacts of technological change. Bess has received fellowships or grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, the National Institutes of Health / National Human Genome Research Institute\, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation\, the Fulbright research grants program\, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation\, and the University of California’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-jetsons-fallacy-science-fiction-biotechnology-and-the-future-of-the-human-species/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090430T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090430T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T191645 CREATED:20150928T112805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112805Z UID:10001684-1241049600-1241049600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Future of Planetary Governance and the Emergence of Global Action Networks DESCRIPTION:THE GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PROGRAM\,in conjunction with the search for a chaired professorship in GLOBAL\nAUTHORITY AND GOVERNANCE sponsored by the DUNCAN AND SUZANNE MELLICHAMP INITIATIVE\, is pleased to invite you to a lecture by \nSANJEEV KHAGRAM\nWyss Visiting Scholar\, Harvard Business School \nThursday\, April 30\, 2009\n12 p.m.\nOrfalea Center Seminar Room\n1005 Rob Gym \nOver the past two decades\, multi-stakeholder and cross-sectoral global action networks (GANs: a critical subset of cross-sectoral action networks more generally or CANs) emerged as arguably the most innovative global governance arrangements with transcontinental and multi-scalar agendas and reach. GANs can now be found in virtually every field from well known initiatives like the Global Compact\, Global Fund\, Marine Stewardship Council and Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative\, to less well known ones like the Global Water Partnership\, Youth Employment Systems\, the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict\, and the Sustainable Biofuels Partnership. This seminar will explicate the theory and empirics of GANs. It will systemically analyze the emergence\, dynamics\, as well as current and potential role of GANs in global governance. \nProfessor Khagram is known worldwide for his interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral scholarship\, teaching\, and leadership in the areas of globalization and transnationalism\, global governance and international institutions\, nongovernmental organizations and civil society\, corporate citizenship and emerging regulatory forms\, sustainable development and human security. He was honored as a 2009 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. \nhm 4/28/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-future-of-planetary-governance-and-the-emergence-of-global-action-networks/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090501T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090501T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T191645 CREATED:20150928T112804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112804Z UID:10001660-1241136000-1241136000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:From Main Street to Wall Street: What News Gets Reported and What Does Not DESCRIPTION:Joining Steven Greenhouse on this timely panel are award-winning investigative reporter Ann Louise Bardach and Peter Dreier\, director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Program at Occidental College.\nSponsored by the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy and the Policy History Program\, and co-sponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film\, Television and New Media at UCSB. For more information contact Leah Fernandez \njwil 07.iv.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/from-main-street-to-wall-street-what-news-gets-reported-and-what-does-not/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090501T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090501T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T191645 CREATED:20150928T112805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112805Z UID:10001680-1241136000-1241136000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Rasta" Sufis and Muslim Youth Culture in Mali DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Benjamin Soares is concerned with understanding changing modalities of religious expression and modes of belonging among Muslim youth in contemporary Mali. While much recent scholarship about Muslim youth privileges Islamism\, trajectories of political radicalization\, as well as ethical modes of self-fashioning associated with so-called piety movements\, the case of young self-styled Sufis — sometimes dubbed “Rasta” Sufis — in urban Mali helps to illustrate other ways certain youth have been refashioning how to be young and Muslim. By focusing on these young Muslims’ activities\, including their religious practices\, sophisticated engagement with the media\, and religious marketing\, Soares explores the cultural politics of Muslim youth who are involved in building new communities and dreaming of a world different from the one in which they find themselves.\nSponsored by the IHC’s African Studies FRG\, the Center for Middle East Studies\, the Dept. of History\, and the Dept. of Religious Studies \nFor additional information please call 893-3907\, or see www.ihc.ucsb.edu \nhm 4/27/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/rasta-sufis-and-muslim-youth-culture-in-mali/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090502T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090502T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T191645 CREATED:20150928T112805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112805Z UID:10001685-1241222400-1241222400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Exchange and Identity DESCRIPTION:See the flyer for more information. \nhm 4/28/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/exchange-and-identity/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR