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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20130310T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20131103T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120430T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120430T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151242 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002074-1335744000-1335744000@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Dams\, Displacement and the Delusion of Development: The Case of Cahora Bassa DESCRIPTION:The history of Cahora Bassa reveals the persistence of “colonialism’s afterlife.” Under the 1974 Lusaka Peace Accord\, which set the stage for Mozambique’s independence\, in return for assuming the US$550 million debt incurred in building Cahora Bassa\, Hidroeléctrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB)\, a Portuguese para-statal\, received 82% of the shares\, with the remainder going to the Mozambican government. The Constitution of the Cahora Bassa Dam\, signed between Portugal and Frelimo on June 23\, 1975\, which memorialized this agreement\, granted HCB the right to manage the dam until Mozambique repaid the construction debt. Because it was unable to do so until 2007\, for 32 years after independence a Portuguese company retained effective control of the hydroelectric project operating the dam\, determining the outflows of water\, and negotiating the sale of virtually all of its electricity to South Africa.\nOver the past three and one-half decades\, Cahora Bassa has caused very real ecological\, economic\, and social trauma for Zambezi Valley residents. All of this is conspicuously absent from the widely publicized developmentalist narratives of Mozambique’s colonial and post-colonial states\, which have been a critical feature of state efforts to dam the Zambezi River in Mozambique. Elderly African peasants\, who had a long and intimate relationship with the Zambezi River\, graphically describe how the dam devastatingly affected their physical and social world and recount their resiliency in coping and adjusting. These memories\, which speak so powerfully about the daily lives and lived experiences of the rural poor\, are either discounted or ignored in dominant discourses touting Cahora Bassa’s centrality to national development. This silencing is indicative of the unequal field of power in which the histories of the rural poor are typically embedded. \nAllen Isaacman is Professor of African History at the University of Minnesota. \nSponsored by the Department of Sociology\, the Department of History\, and the African Studies Research Focus Group \njwil 26.iv.2012 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/dams-displacement-and-the-delusion-of-development-the-case-of-cahora-bassa/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120503T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120503T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151242 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002073-1336003200-1336003200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Digitize\, Democratize: Libraries and the Future of Books DESCRIPTION:Openness may seem self-evident as a principle of library policy\, but libraries have often been closed and the world of knowledge in general has been fenced off by commercial interests intent on making profit at the expense of the public good. Commercialization and democratization run through the history of copyright right up to the present\, when Google Book Search dramatized the need to strike a proper balance between private profit and the public good. The Digital Public Library of America will redress that balance by making the cultural heritage of America available\, free of charge\, to all Americans and in fact to everyone in the world.\nSponsored by the IHC’s Public Goods series. \nhm 4/19/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/digitize-democratize-libraries-and-the-future-of-books/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120503T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120503T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151242 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002075-1336003200-1336003200@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Muslims in Georgia and Morocco DESCRIPTION:NOTE THE ROOM CHANGE!\nIn this Public History First Thursday meeting Julia will discuss her\ncurrent work on an international public history project: an online exhibit\nbased on the lives and experiences of Muslims in the exchange communities\nof Kennesaw\, Georgia\, and Casablanca\, Morocco. She would love questions and\ncomments from us! \nPlease join us! \nhm 4/29/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/muslims-in-georgia-and-morocco/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20120504T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20120504T000000 DTSTAMP:20260418T151242 CREATED:20150928T112840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112840Z UID:10002077-1336089600-1336089600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:American Democracy in an Era of Rising Inequality DESCRIPTION:Pearson is the author\, with Jacob Hacker\, of both Off-Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy (2005) and Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned its Back on the Middle Class (2010). He is also the author of numerous other books and essays including Politics in Time: History\, Institutions and Social Analysis (2004) This Friday he speaks on “American Democracy in an Era of Rising Inequality.” \nHosted by the Colloquium on Work\, Labor\, and Political Economy \nhm 4/30/12 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/american-democracy-in-an-era-of-rising-inequality/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR