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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20120311T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20121104T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110405T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110405T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T205556 CREATED:20150928T112828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112828Z UID:10001734-1301961600-1301961600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Teach-In against Corporate Greed DESCRIPTION:Faculty are invited to bring their classes.\nFrom 1100AM to 1230PM the national teach-in will be streaming live on the\nbig screen. From 1230 to 200PM we will have local speakers and discussion\nabout the current assault on unions\, students\, the poor and elderly\, women\,\npeople of color\, and gays. There will be a lot to talk about\, but at this\npoint some of the key issues are these: \nCorporate and particularly Wall St fraud and looting of the public via\nregressive redistribution of taxation and social provision of all types: in\neducation\, health care\, public transport etc. \nEfforts to rescind hard-won rights: workers’ rights to organize and bargain\ncollectives\, women’s rights to abortion\, contraception\, and a variety of\nhealth services\, students’\, poor people’s\, and people of color’s right to\nvote\, gay people’s rights to marry and domestic partnership\, a variety of\ncivil rights and liberties\, and others…. \nIn respect to these rollback efforts it is most notable that few of them\nhave any relationship to the US fiscal crisis\, which was the supposed big\nissue in the 2010 elections; where there is a significant relationship\, it\nusually involves worsening and deepening that crisis\, for example by\ncutting corporate taxes and further reducing the already limited tax burden\nof the wealthy. \nAlthough there was no advance indication that newly elected leaders were\nplanning this on either the federal\, state\, or local levels\, a coordinated\nnational initiative is underway to undermine the Democratic Party in\nadvance of the 2012 elections\, both by restricting its access to funds and\nby curtailing the voting rights of its main constituency bases: unionized\nworkers\, people of color\, young voters\, and women. None of these groups\nhave any significant relationship to the fiscal crisis of the state at any\nlevel\, although propaganda efforts are underway to suggest that public\nsector workers\, abortion rights\, and such programs as HeadStart are the\nsources of the problem. We are talking largely about Republican strategy\nhere\, but it is notable that at thus far there has been little Democratic\neffort to counter these assaults. \nThe purpose of this Teach-in is to raise consciousness on campuses across\nthe country about the present political crisis\, and to help mobilize\nstudents in their own (and the public) interest. \nhm 3/24/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/teach-in-against-corporate-greed/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110405T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110405T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T205556 CREATED:20150928T112828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112828Z UID:10001743-1301961600-1301961600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Whiskey Goes to War: American Distillers and the Politics of Food and Alcohol during WWII DESCRIPTION:The invasion of Normandy\, the creation of an industrial war machine\, and the falling reputation of rum—how does whiskey tie them all together? Lisa Jacobson answers this question by exploring the political and cultural ramifications of domestic whiskey shortages during World War II. Contrary to the common assumption that the federal government steered clear of alcohol questions after Prohibition’s repeal\, her paper shows how large distillers emerged from the war both more powerful and more distrusted thanks to delayed federal intervention on their behalf. Distillers might have scored a much-needed public relations victory when they converted their entire production to industrial alcohol to aid in the manufacture of smokeless gun powder and synthetic rubber. Their substantial reserves of aging whiskey\, however\, could not keep pace with rising wartime demand and the resulting liquor shortages gave way to price gouging and black markets. The distillers campaigned for (and eventually won) “liquor holidays” from war production to replenish dwindling whiskey inventories\, but the state’s ambivalent response to liquor shortages and the liquor trade’s own eagerness to profit from them damaged whiskey makers’ reputation.\nThis paper workshop is designed to provide the author with feedback on work-in-progress. Please contact Ali Hendley at ahendley@umail.ucsb.edu to obtain a copy of the paper to read beforehand. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Food Studies RFG and the Dept. of History. \nhm 3/30/11 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/whiskey-goes-to-war-american-distillers-and-the-politics-of-food-and-alcohol-during-wwii/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110406T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110406T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T205556 CREATED:20150928T112826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112826Z UID:10001932-1302048000-1302048000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Anatolian Past and the Roman Beholder DESCRIPTION:In Roman antiquity as much as now\, the landscapes of Asia Minor were strewn with the traces of prior human habitation\, from Hittite rock-cut reliefs to abandoned Urartian fortifications. Anatolian authors writing under Roman rule—notably during the second and third centuries CE—had a keen interest in exploring mythological and pseudo-historical narratives about the local past; echoing these literary concerns\, the sculptural and numismatic production of cities throughout Roman Asia Minor celebrated remote foundation myths and kinship ties. But was anyone interested in manipulating material remains to imagine the Anatolian past? And were the traces of prior human habitation used to substantiate a preferred one version of local history over others? Who cared about Anatolian realia and why? \nFelipe Rojas received his Ph.D. in Classics from UC Berkeley. He is a 2010-2011 postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Villa. \nThis event is sponsored by the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 09.iii.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-anatolian-past-and-the-roman-beholder/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20110407T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20110407T000000 DTSTAMP:20260430T205556 CREATED:20150928T112828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112828Z UID:10001741-1302134400-1302134400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Racial Politics of Bernstein's On the Town (1944) DESCRIPTION:Lecture I: An Integrated Cast in a Segregated AmericaThursday\, April 7\, 4 p.m.\, Karl Geiringer Hall (Music 1250)\nOn the Town (1944) was the first Broadway show of Leonard Bernstein (music)\, Betty Comden and Adolph Green (book and lyrics)\, and Jerome Robbins (choreography). It featured three sailors enjoying a one-day leave in New York City\, and it did so in the midst of WWII\, when the U.S. military remained firmly but contentiously segregated. A number of African Americans performed in the show’s otherwise all-white cast. Black male dancers donned sailor uniforms\, and black women danced hand-in-hand with white men. This lecture explores the transgressive message and silent-but-powerful political back-story of this now-forgotten racial landmark. \nLecture II: A Japanese-American Star on Broadway during WWII\nFriday\, April 8\, 4 p.m.\, Karl Geiringer Hall (Music 1250)\nAt the same time as On the Town contributed a chapter to the Long Civil Rights movement\, it also challenged the virtual exclusion of Asians from Broadway by hiring the dancer Sono Osato as the show’s star. On the day after Pearl Harbor\, Osato’s father had been arrested as an “alien enemy” and he remained on parole in Chicago when the show opened. This lecture explores the cultural complexities of Osato’s presence in On the Town . \nCarol J. Oja is William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard and on the faculty of its Program in the History of American Civilization. Her Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Other titles include Copland and his World (co-edited with Judith Tick) and Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds . She is past-president of the Society for American Music\, and she is completing a book tentatively titled Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War . \nThese lectures are sponsored by the UCSB Department of Music. \njwil 28.iii.2011 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-racial-politics-of-bernsteins-on-the-town-1944/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR