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-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:20091123T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091123T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T110756 CREATED:20150928T112811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112811Z UID:10001608-1258934400-1258934400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Mawangdui as a Pictorial Site of Transition DESCRIPTION:No archaeological discoveries have provided more striking examples that demonstrate the excellence of early Chinese pictorial art than those at Mawangdui\, dated to the second century B.C.E. However\, scholars have exclusively focused on the famous T-banner from Tomb No. 1\, ignoring the pictorial context in which it was situated. To amend the imbalanced scholarship\, Professor Tseng will consider precisely the pictorial context for the deceased at Mawangdui in her talk\, including the T-banner and three decorated coffins. Based on the analysis of overlapping motifs\, Professor Tseng will discuss how the presence of images turned the containers of the corpse into a site of transition\,                                                                                                           facilitating the celestial ascent of the deceased.\nProfessor Lillian Lan-ying Tseng is Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art\, Yale University. \nThis lecture is part of the “Thinking through Media” lecture series organized by the Department of the History of Art and Architecture\, UCSB\, and is co-sponsored by the Departments of History\, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies\, the East Asian Center\, the IHC\, and the WTF fund. \njwil 09.xi.09 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/mawangdui-as-a-pictorial-site-of-transition/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20091123T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20091123T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T110756 CREATED:20150928T112811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112811Z UID:10001610-1258934400-1258934400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:"Kill Happy"?: Understanding Military Amphetamine Use by the Allies in the Second World War DESCRIPTION:That amphetamine was used on all sides in the Second World War is widely acknowledged but little discussed by historians. Drawing on a range of primary sources Professor Rasmussen describes the ways British and American authorities evaluated amphetamine\, and ultimately approved and issued the drug for use in combat despite a failure to obtain the scientific justification that had originally been sought. He argues that it is necessary to consider this adoption of amphetamine in the context of wartime psychiatric thinking about ‘combat fatigue’ and morale\, and that viewed in this broader context\, the drug was approved and tacitly employed by the Allies mainly because of its mood-altering rather than its waking effects. Much more work on the common soldier’s experience of the drug needs to be done through the study of wartime diaries and letters.\nNicolas Rasmussen is Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of New South Wales (Sydney\, Australia). \njwil 11.xi.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/kill-happy-understanding-military-amphetamine-use-by-the-allies-in-the-second-world-war/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR