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SUMMARY:After the Grizzly: A Century of Endangered Species in California and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:In 1911 Monarch\, “the last of the California grizzlies\,” died in San Francisco after 22 years of captivity in Golden Gate Park. Within a year\, conservationists launched the first campaign to protect California’s native wildlife. California has since become the site of some of the country’s most infamous battles over the protection of endangered species and their habitats. This talk will trace the turbulent political history of endangered species in California from the Progressive Era to the present. As we will see\, debates about endangered species are also debates about who should have access to and control over lands and natural resources.\nPeter Alagona is an environmental historian and historian of science with a joint appointment in the Department of History and Environmental Studies Program. His research focuses on the histories of land use\, natural resource management\, environmental politics\, and ecological science in the North American West and beyond. Peter received his doctorate from UCLA in 2006 and worked as an Environmental Fellow at Harvard University from 2006 to 2008\, and as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University from 2008 to 2009. Peter arrived at UCSB in September\, and will be teaching his first courses in the winter of 2010. \nThe cost of the buffet luncheon is $20 (members) and $23 (non-members). \nAttendees must make reservations by Nov. 30 by returning the bottom part of the flyer or phoning Sheila Lodge at the UCSB History Associates message center. The number is (805) 617-0998. \nhm 11/1/09; 11/2
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SUMMARY:From Space Colonies to Nanobots to Xanadu: California's Technological Enthusiasts\, 1970-1990.
DESCRIPTION:The idea that America and other industrialized societies faced limits to their power and future economic growth helped define the 1970s. While scientists and free-market economists criticized this perspective\, these Malthusian views stimulated fierce debate about the need to adopt a steady-state lifestyle. “Limits” – to resources\, energy\, wealth\, even life itself – became a staple theme for movies\, television shows and fiction. This motif of impending doomsday\, however\, was only one possible vision of the future that emerged in the late 1970s. McCray’s talk explores alternative and competing visions of the technological future – much of it originating from California – that was just as widely debated in the 1970s and 1980s. During this time\, futuristic technologies such as space colonization\, nanotechnology\, and early internet-based commerce captured the public’s imagination. These California-based\, pro-technology movements also stimulated the creation of privately funded research institutes and investment from high-tech entrepreneurs. Whereas utopian crusaders of the nineteenth century were inspired by a broad wish to perfect society\, the technological visionaries his talk examines were also motivated by a desire to make a fortune and overcome inherent biological limits. By examining the political and social context of several exploratory technologies and the communities of the scientists\, technologists\, and futurists who advocated them\, a clearer understanding of how we view modern technological utopias emerges.\njwil 01.xii.2009
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