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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20110313T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20111106T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100111T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100111T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T125029 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001760-1263168000-1263168000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Letters\, Bodies\, and Crimes: Love Letters and the Anatomy of Sentiment in Northern Mexico\, 1876-1929 DESCRIPTION:As perhaps no other field of inquiry\, the history of emotion\, especially romantic love\, seems dominated\, almost premised upon\, a search for attributes experiencing some sort of prolonged “rise” (and never “fall”). Romantic love has been the scale used to chart\, variously\, the rise of the civilizing process (as in the work of Norbert Elias); the rise of emotional self-control (as in the work of Peter and Carol Stearns); the rise of sentimentality; the rise of “American individualism” (as in Karen Lystra’s book\, Searching the Heart); and the rise and/or spread of intimacy (as in Stephanie Coontz’s work\, Marriage\, A History). Yet another rise\, this time of introspection and the quest for self\, is the dominant concern of Volume IV of A History of Private Life\, where Alain Corbin’s emphasis on the increasing need for self-scrutiny and for the development of techniques of self-comprehension\, leads him to stress the importance of writing (as in private diaries and letters\, a point to which I want to return).\nInstead of contributing to such teleologies (or adding another of my own)\, I’d like to begin with a different premise\, one that stresses the historicity of romantic love (and emotion more generally). Many of the contributors to Cuidado con el corazón: Los usos amorosos en el México moderno (INAH\, 1995)\, published more than ten years ago\, for example\, insist on the importance of studying what they refer to as the norms of romantic morality in specific regional and temporal contexts. In common with more recent anthropological work concerned with the relationship between love and social and cultural change in places like Nepal and rural China\, the goal becomes understanding how emotions accrue meanings only through specific interactions\, in particular places\, and at given moments of time\, creating dominant (and not so dominant) “structures of feeling”that come to characterize any given era (making periodization of such eras a problem for investigation rather than assumed to follow divisions based on traditional political criteria). What I’d like to do in my talk is to look briefly at love letters\, one of the means by which a history of emotion\, especially romantic love\, might be undertaken. \nWilliam E. French is associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia. He is the past director of the Latin American Studies Programme at that institution. He is the author of A Peaceful and Working People: Manners\, Morals\, and Class Formation in Northern Mexico (1996) and coeditor of Rituals of Rule\, Rituals of Resistance: Public Celebrations and Popular Culture in Mexico (1994) and Gender\, Sexuality\, and Power in Latin America since Independence (2007). He has published articles in the Hispanic American Historical Review and the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and contributed to the Oxford History of Mexico. He is currently completing a book on love letters\, diaries\, and courtship in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico. \nhm 1/4/10; 1/5 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/letters-bodies-and-crimes-love-letters-and-the-anatomy-of-sentiment-in-northern-mexico-1876-1929/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100111T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100111T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T125029 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001770-1263168000-1263168000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:On the Look and Logos of Zen Art DESCRIPTION:“Everyone’s looking for something.” Some of us have found it\, or part of it\, in Zen Art\, though the types of things we look at\, the way we talk about them\, and the sorts of Zen we draw from them may be dramatically different. Indeed\, the easily joined words “Zen” and “Art” exist in dynamic tension\, grammatically as well as conceptually\, and bring to mind other intersections: “East” and “West\,” practitioner and scholar\, past and present. This paper explores some of the tensions\, or perhaps currents and cross-currents\, that accompany modern looking at and explaining Zen Art. It offers an episodic history of the formation and reception of Zen Art in modern era and reconsiders\, somewhat insistently\, figures such as Arthur Waley\, Hisamatsu Shin’ichi\, and\, even\, Murakami Takashi. \nCosponsored by he East Asian RFG \, Art History (as part of its “Thinking Through Media” series)\, History\, and the East Asia Center \nhm 1/5/10 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/on-the-look-and-logos-of-zen-art/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100111T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100111T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T125029 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001759-1263168000-1263168000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Discussion of the Publishing Process DESCRIPTION:Susan Ferber\, the executive editor of Oxford University Press\, will talk on the nuts and bolts of the publishing process\, with plenty of time for questions. Light refreshments will be served.\nPlease note that the time was changed (originally 12 noon). \nhm 1/3/10; 1/4 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/discussion-of-the-publishing-process/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100112T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100112T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T125029 CREATED:20150928T112813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112813Z UID:10001775-1263254400-1263254400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Up the Yangtze DESCRIPTION:A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze\, navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as “The River.” The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. At the river’s edge\, a young woman says goodbye to her family as the floodwaters rise towards their small homestead. The Three Gorges Dam — contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle — provides the epic backdrop for Up the Yangtze\, a dramatic feature documentary on life inside modern China.\nSponsored by the IHC?s Oil + Water Series and the Community Environmental Council. \nhm 1/8/09/ 1/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/up-the-yangtze/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20100115T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20100115T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T125029 CREATED:20150928T112812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112812Z UID:10001755-1263513600-1263513600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age DESCRIPTION:Bartels is the author of Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice (1988) and Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (2008). He will also deliver a public lecture Thursday\, January 14 at 4 PM in Lane Room\, 3824 Ellison Hall.\nSponsored by the Center for the Study of Work\, Labor\, and Democracy. Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science. \njwil 28.xii.2009 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/unequal-democracy-the-political-economy-of-the-new-gilded-age/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR