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SUMMARY:Gender\, Creative Dissidence\, and the Discourses of African Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:The History Department is co-sponsoring the upcoming conference “Gender\, Creative Dissidence\, and the Discourses of African Diaspora: A Colloquium in Honor of Ama Ata Aidoo\,” to be held at the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, May 24-26\, 2012.\nAma Ata Aidoo\, an eminent Ghanaian playwright and author\, will deliver the keynote address (UC Regent’s Lecture and UCSB Michael Douglas Lecture):\nThursday\, May 24\, 4 PM / Hatlen Theatre \nAma Ata Aidoo’s well known play\, ANOWA\, will be staged by the Theater & Dance Department\, opening night:\nFriday\, May 25\, 8 pm / Hatlen Theater \nThe African Studies Research Focus Group at UCSB proudly presents Gender\, Creative Dissidence\, and the Discourses of African Diaspora\, a three-day conference at that will explore the work of eminent Ghanaian author Ama Ata Aidoo and the broader questions of Diaspora and gender it raises. Due to her illustrious literary repute\, contributions to Ghanaian national culture\, and global commitment to women’s liberation and anti-imperialism\, Ms. Aidoo is the ideal pivot for this colloquium. Along with her keynote address\, the conference will feature speakers who will engender novel feminist approaches to Diaspora that elucidate its potential as a site of solidarity\, new cultural formations\, and political possibilities\, paying particular attention to relationships between gender constructs and cultural specificities. Invited speakers include scholars and grad students from the UC system and various U.S. universities. \nBio \nAma Ata Aidoo’s literary career dates from when\, as an undergraduate\, she wrote her first play\, The Dilemma Of A Ghost (1964)\, which was subsequently produced and published. She followed that up with Anowa (drama 1970). Since then\, she has published novels\, including Changes (1991)\, volumes of poetry and short stories including An Angry Letter In January & Other Poems (1992) and The Girl Who Can & Other Stories (1997). Her third collection of short stories Diplomatic Pounds & Other Stories was published on 1st March 2012 by Ayebia Clarke Publishing Limited\, UK. She also edited the widely-acclaimed African Love Stories Anthology\, published by Ayebia Clarke Publishing Limited (Oxford\, UK\, 2006). Her books for children include Birds & Other Poems (2002). Aidoo has taught at colleges and universities in Ghana and the United States including the University of Cape Coast and Brown University. She currently lives in Ghana and is the Executive Director of Mbaasem\, a foundation to promote the work of Ghanaian and African women writers. \nSee the conference website for more information. \nhm 5/11/12
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SUMMARY:Elephants in Late Antique Iran: Symbols of Kingship and Warfare
DESCRIPTION:The Persians used elephants in their military from the Achaemenid to the Safavid period. The talk discusses the importance of elephants forSasanian royal ideology as a symbol of kingship\, and their use against the Romans in Late Antiquity. \nTouraj Daryaee is Howard C. Baskerville Professor in the History of Iran and the Persianate World at the University of California\, Irvine. \nThis event is sponsored by the the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program and the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. \njwil 28.iii.2012
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SUMMARY:Senior Honors Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Honors Colloquium to Show Disease\, Witchcraft\, Murder\nby Dyne Suh and Nate Gelman\, excerpted from Historia\, May 2012 \nFrom televangelists to venereal disease\, dictators to witchs’ teats\, 15 seminarians tested the full powers of their creativity and skill to compose theses examining a wide array of edgy paper topics stretching from antiquity to the Middle\nAges\, and on through the 19th century to the present. \nThe students will present their research in the annual Department Honors Colloquium\,\non Friday\, May 25\, in the History Conference Room\, HSSB 4020\, beginning at 9 a.m.\nThe public\, including especially all alumni and friends\, is welcome! \nStruggling to compose original pieces of scholarship ranging from 35 to over a hundred\npages\, this cadre of seminarians provided invaluable advice to one another as they\ngrappled with alchemies to turn primary and secondary sources into scholastic gold. The\ntopics were wildly diverse\, but a mutual love of history\, a fascination with controversial\naspects of human experiences and narratives of redemption and the triumph of justice\,\nalong with the help of delicious seminar snacks forged strong friendships and a sense of\ncommunity amongst all the people involved in this seminar. \nThe papers accomplished over the past two quarters\, with the generous support of\nadvising professors and Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) grants\nare as follows:\nLauren Carpenter (Humphreys)\, “Hidden in Plain Sight: A Decade of Non-Traditional Activism by Egyptian Youth Before the Arab Spring.”\nMolly E. Contreras (Jacobson)\, “Reclaiming Eros: Gender Transgression\, Obscenity\, and One Woman’s Quest for Sexual Liberation.”\nJim Davies (Lansing)\, “Vengeance and Remembrance: The Role of Florentine Family Memoirs in Vendetta Culture.”\nNate Gelman (Lichtenstein)\, “Of Gods and Gold: “Televangelism and the Rise of Supply Side Economics During the Reagan Era.”\nDana Hughes (Lansing). “Personal Purification and Group Identity in Late Medieval Italian Confraternities.”\nElizabeth G. Jimenez (Soto Laveaga)\, “Making Marital Equality and Freedom in the United States.”\nKevin King (Dutra)\, “Eis a democracia podre: the Charles Elbrick Kidnapping Revisited.”\nMichael Masket (Majewski)\, “Government’s Role in the Transportation Revolution: A Case Study of the Pennsylvania Canal.”\nKevin McGill (Digeser)\, “A Romance of Three Kingdoms: Carthage\, Numidia\, Rome and the Causes of the Third Punic War.”\nChelsea McTigue (Digeser)\, “Republic to Republic: The Influence of the Roman Republic on the Founding of the U.S. Constitution.”\nRoss Melczer (Chikowero)\, “The Revolution that Incited Chimurenga (The Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe\, 1997-2000).”\nLia Schallert (Soto Laveaga)\, “Venereal Disease and the Evolution of Public Health Care in San Francisco\, 1850- 1930.”\nDyne Suh (Spickard)\, “Between Traitors and Survivors: Pro-Japanese Collaborators\, Comfort Women and Gender- Restricted Assimilation Opportunities in Colonial Korea During WWII.”\nPaul Thies (Plane)\, “To Inspect the Unexpected: The Social Emasculation of the Colonial Male Witch with Animal Familiars.”\nHarrison E. Weber (Lichtenstein)\, “A Covenant Undone: Understanding the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California in Light of 1993 Realities.”  \nhm 5/21/12
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