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:20091019T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091019T000000 DTSTAMP:20260420T025057 CREATED:20150928T112810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112810Z UID:10001740-1255910400-1255910400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Medicalization of the Maya: Ethnicity\, Culture and Morality in Postrevolutionary Yucatan DESCRIPTION:This presentation will examine how the medical establishment in Mérida and medical student brigades from the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán interpreted the health conditions of rural Maya communities and prescribed solutions to the “Indian problem” in the 1930s and 1940s. In general\, physicians identified Maya customs as the primary cause for the high incidence of endemic disease in rural Yucatán and suggested the modernization of Maya households through scientific domesticity and the moral reformation of the Maya family unit as the way to achieve rural development in the region. However\, medical students trained in the postrevolutionary era simultaneously introduced social explanations for Maya degeneration that challenged the dominant cultural and ethnic frameworks of medical thought about indigenous health. Consequently\, as Maya customs and mores became relevant subjects of medical inquiry among “revolutionary” doctors\, medical students paved the way towards the rise of a social medicine that more directly heeded the call by President Lazáro Cardenas for the social uplift of campesinos. \nThis talk is co-sponsored by the Badash Speakers’ Series Fund \nhm 10/4/09\, 10/15 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-medicalization-of-the-maya-ethnicity-culture-and-morality-in-postrevolutionary-yucatan/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091019T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091019T000000 DTSTAMP:20260420T025057 CREATED:20150928T112810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112810Z UID:10001742-1255910400-1255910400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Too Many Temples: Interpreting the Evidence at Omrit in Northern Israel DESCRIPTION:Daniel Showalter is co-director of the Omrit Excavations project.\nThis event is sponsored by the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 04.x.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/too-many-temples-interpreting-the-evidence-at-omrit-in-northern-israel/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091022T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091022T000000 DTSTAMP:20260420T025057 CREATED:20150928T112809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112809Z UID:10001726-1256169600-1256169600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Signals Astray: Radio\, Radioactivity\, and Cold War Culture DESCRIPTION:The Federal Communications Act\, as amended by Congress in 1951\, grants the President of the United States the authority\, during times of “public peril or disaster or other national emergency\,” to “suspend or amend . . . the rules and regulations applicable to any or all stations or devices capable of emitting electromagnetic radiations.” In December 1951\, President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order that ceded this authority to the Federal Communications Commission. Charged with developing a plan that would\, first\, prevent enemy aircraft from homing in on U.S. radio broadcast signals (as the Japanese had done during the attack on Pearl Harbor) and\, second\, ensure that the nation’s airwaves would be available for the circulation of civil-defense warnings and instructions\, the FCC created a public emergency broadcasting system called CONELRAD (“CONtrol of ELectromagnetic RADiation”).\nMy talk will explore the cultural discourses surrounding the emergence and institutionalization of CONELRAD in the 1950s. Those discourses recycled\, within the context of Cold War militarism and nationalism\, longstanding hopes and fears concerning the disseminative powers of broadcast media. On the one hand\, the radio signal’s reckless promiscuity threatened the safety of the citizenry and security of the nation by turning every high-powered transmission tower into a readymade bull’s-eye for enemy missiles. On the other hand\, that same signal’s ethereal instantaneity promised civil survival and national salvation by alerting a culturally diverse\, geographically dispersed population to the existence of an impending catastrophe\, and by soothing the nerves and directing the behaviors of the populace in the event of catastrophe’s realization. \nhm 9/28/09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/signals-astray-radio-radioactivity-and-cold-war-culture/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091023T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091023T000000 DTSTAMP:20260420T025057 CREATED:20150928T112809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112809Z UID:10001727-1256256000-1256256000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The "Myth" of the Weak American State DESCRIPTION:Professor Novak\, who is also a research professor at the American Bar Foundation\, works in the fields of U.S. legal\, political\, and intellectual history. His first book first book\, The People’s Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America\, used nineteenth-century state court records to document the long history of governmental activism in the United States. His next book is The Creation of the Modern American State.\nA copy of his presentation can be downloaded from the Center for the Study of Work\,\nLabor\, and Democracy’s web site at:\nhttp://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/labor/speakers. \nProfessor Novak will speak on Friday\, October 23 at 1 p.m. in Humanities and Social Science Building\, Room 4041. Sandwiches will be served. \nFuture talks in the series: \nChristopher McAuley\, UCSB\, November 6\, “Shaping Max Weber and W.E.B.\nDuBois: Scholarship\, Politics\, and Protection.” \nMark Hendrickson\, UCSD\, November 20\, “‘New Capitalism:’ Rights\,\nExpectations\, and Fairness in the New Era Economy.” \nThis talk is sponsored by the Center for Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. For more information contact Leah Fernandez. \njwil 01.x.2009\, hm 10/19 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-myth-of-the-weak-american-state/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR