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:20090518T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090518T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T055928 CREATED:20150928T112806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112806Z UID:10001694-1242604800-1242604800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Bankers Strike Back: The Anglo-American and Anglo-Canadian Financial Agreements of 1945-1946 DESCRIPTION:The commodities and markets research group will meet again on Monday\, May 18\, from 11-noon in HSSB 4020 to discuss George Fujii’s paper “The\nBankers Strike Back: The Anglo-American and Anglo-Canadian Financial\nAgreements of 1945-1946.” George will provide a brief introduction to\nhis work\, which is part of his dissertation\, but we will devote most\nof our time to discussion of his paper. The paper will be circulated by\nemail; contact Lisa Jacobson jacobson@history.ucsb.edu.\nA description follows below: \n“Justice\,” “Temptation\,” or “Austerity.” In the words of John Maynard\nKeynes\, these were Britain’s choices in 1945 as it sought large-scale\nU.S. aid in order to stabilize its financial position and rebuild its\nwar-torn economy. Keynes\, dispatched by the British government to\nWashington as its lead negotiator\, thought he could obtain “justice\,”\nor a U.S. grant of about $5 billion to Britain plus favorable\nconsideration of wartime debt. He appealed to the sense of justice of\nhis American counterparts\, arguing that Britain’s earlier wartime\nsacrifices entitled it to favorable consideration. \nNations rarely show gratitude\, though\, and Britain instead obtained\nthe option that Keynes had feared most–“temptation.” This was a U.S.\nloan of $3.75 billion at an attractively low interest rate (2%) but\nwith two key conditions–an early deadline for sterling convertibility\nand ratification of the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement. Not only was\nthe loan balance lower than expected\, but an early date for\nconvertibility might well strain Britain’s financial resources and\nlead to a run on sterling. For U.S. policymakers and leading\ninternationalist bankers\, though\, early sterling convertibility would\nbe an important first step in pushing their global freer trade agenda\nand opening up Britain’s protected domestic\, colonial\, and\ncommonwealth markets. \nMaking up the missing $1.25 billion was Canada\, whose government\nsought to ensure that its access to British markets would remain\nunimpeded and that it could retain its traditional trading pattern of\nrunning surpluses to Britain and deficits with the United States. In\nCanada\, the loan negotiations became wrapped up in nationalist\nrhetoric\, while in the United States\, other domestic concerns would\nintrude onto an ordinarily somewhat dry\, economic policy matter. This\nis then the story of a path to temptation and its consequences. \nhm 5/11/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-bankers-strike-back-the-anglo-american-and-anglo-canadian-financial-agreements-of-1945-1946/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090519T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090519T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T055928 CREATED:20150928T112806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112806Z UID:10001702-1242691200-1242691200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Declarations of Dependence: Labor\, Personhood\, and Welfare in South Africa and Beyond DESCRIPTION:JAMES FERGUSON is Chair of the Department of Anthropology\, Stanford University\nSouth Africa has in recent decades gone through a wrenching transformation from a labor-scarce society to a labor-surplus one. Labor scarcity through most of the 19th and 20th centuries led to forms of social solidarity and social personhood that had significant continuities with the pre-colonial past (continuities that are obscured by conventional narratives that emphasize the rise of capitalism as a complete and comprehensive break with the past). It is suggested that the South African experience reveals\, in an extreme and clarifying form\, a set of processes that are occurring in many other parts of the world. Better understanding such processes may help us to find our way past some of the current impasses in progressive politics. James Ferguson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. Ferguson’s most recent book\, Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order\, was published by Duke University Press in 2006. He is now beginning a new research project in South Africa\, exploring the emergence of new problematics of poverty and social policy under conditions of neoliberalism. \nSponsored by the IHC’s African Studies RFG\, the Department of History\, and the Department of Anthropology. \nhm 5/15/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/declarations-of-dependence-labor-personhood-and-welfare-in-south-africa-and-beyond/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090520T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090520T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T055928 CREATED:20150928T112805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112805Z UID:10001692-1242777600-1242777600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Edward Teller the Communist? American Scientists and the National Security State during the Cold War (4PM in McCune Room; 6th Floor HSSB) DESCRIPTION:The recent release of the FBI files on Edward Teller has revealed the bureau’s suspicion and investigation of the “father” of the American hydrogen bomb as a possible communist. Almost certainly the result of a mistaken identity\, the FBI’s case on Teller\, one of the most outspoken anti-communist Hungarian-American scientists\, nevertheless sheds lights on the complex relationships between American scientists and the national security state during the Cold War\, especially when compared with the experiences of his political rivals J. Robert Oppenheimer and members of the President’s Science Advisory Committee. This paper is co-authored by Lawrence Badash who will be present at the talk and lead the question period. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/edward-teller-the-communist-american-scientists-and-the-national-security-state-during-the-cold-war-4pm-in-mccune-room-6th-floor-hssb/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090521T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090521T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T055928 CREATED:20150928T112806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112806Z UID:10001700-1242864000-1242864000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Stones of Famagusta: The Story of a Forgotten City DESCRIPTION:The Mediterranean Research Focus Group of the IHC and the Medieval Studies Program present “The Stones of Famagusta: The Story of a Forgotten City” followed by a discussion with the director\, writer\, and presenter Allan Langdale of UC Santa Cruz. The film and discussion will be from 4-6pm in HSSB 6020.\nIn the film art historian and filmmaker Dr. Allan Langdale takes you on a bicycle tour of the once famous medieval city of Famagusta\, Cyprus. Once considered the world’s richest city\, Famagusta is now largely forgotten by the West. Explore the wonders of the gothic churches and monasteries\, the ruins of Venetian palaces\, the fabulous two-mile long walls and moat\, Byzantine churches\, Ottoman baths\, and some of Famagusta’s unique and mysterious underground churches. \nFor more information contact Ed English. \njwil 13.v.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-stones-of-famagusta-the-story-of-a-forgotten-city/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20090521T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20090521T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T055928 CREATED:20150928T112806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112806Z UID:10001563-1242864000-1242864000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Alone\, Unattended and Unexplained: American Lenses and Mexican Subjects in the Borderlands\, 1930-1945 DESCRIPTION:This presentation discusses the ambivalent attitudes of U.S. photographers regarding Mexican/Chicano subjects in the 1930-40s Borderlands. It analyzes the ways in which meaning was constructed in the visual representations of Mexican Nationals and Mexican American subjects in the United States\, while incorporating the historical context of public policies regarding the presence of worker of Mexican origin/descent in the national agricultural landscape. Focusing on photographic materials by Ansel Adams\, Dorothea Lange\, and others\, most of them unpublished\, the presentation unveils the complex thread of photographing Mexicans while abiding by the long standing tradition of placing them against pre-conceived backgrounds and complying with the emerging rules of modern photography documentary practices.\nJuan Javier Pescador (historian & photographer) teaches Chicano History and Mexican Cultures in the United States at Michigan State University. His recent publications include “Los Heroes del Domingo: Soccer Associations and Border Spaces in the Great Lakes Mexican/Chicano Barrios” in Jorge Iber and Samuel O. Regalado (eds.)\, Mexican Americans and Sports (College Station: Texas A&M\, 2007) and Crossing Borders with the Santo Nino de Atocha: A History of the Holy Child of Plateros (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press\, forthcoming). His current research project analyzes the history of photography in Mexico and the United States and the process of racialization of Mexicans in the United States\, in photography and the visual arts\, from the Mexican-American War to the NAFTA-era. \njwil 18.v.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/alone-unattended-and-unexplained-american-lenses-and-mexican-subjects-in-the-borderlands-1930-1945/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR