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:20130310T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20131103T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20140309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20141102T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20150308T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20151101T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140303T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140303T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T230844 CREATED:20150928T112855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112855Z UID:10001937-1393804800-1393804800@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Urbanizing Masculinity: Workers\, Weavers and Futuwat in Violent Alliances and Fluid Identities DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, I employ urban violence to examine how men constructed\, performed\, and struggled for their masculine identity. I argue that gender identity\, performing masculinity\, and the construction of manhood were important sites of the adaptation to industrial urban life in crucial years of interwar Egypt. On the backdrop of rapid urbanization and industrialization\, the town of al-Mahalla al-Kubra attracted thousands of poor peasants to become factory workers and urban dwellers. Violence broke out between townspeople\, who called themselves Mahallawiyya\, and the newly arrived peasant-workers whom people of al-Mahalla called Shirkawiyya\, or people of the company. The competition among tough men (futuwwat) from both sides fed into that violence and communal division. Inflation\, the high prices of food and housing\, professional competition and cultural differences\, anxiety over living with strangers and adapting to an alien place fueled and fed violence among workers and between newcomers and urbanites. In their competing and fluid communal loyalties\, working class Mahallawiyya and Shirkawiyya developed their notion of the ideal masculine and created social locations for peer bonding and friendship. URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/urbanizing-masculinity-workers-weavers-and-futuwat-in-violent-alliances-and-fluid-identities/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140305T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140305T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T230844 CREATED:20150928T112854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112854Z UID:10002212-1393977600-1393977600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:“The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks in Historical Perspective” DESCRIPTION:U.S. Ambassador Dennis Ross serves as Counselor\, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Ghaith al-Omari is Executive Director\, American Task Force on Palestine.\nThe event is free and open to the public. \nAmbassador Ross\, the Washington Institute’s Ziegler Distinguished fellow and counselor from 2001-2009\, returned as its Counselor in December 2011 after serving two years as special assistant to President Obama as well as National Security Council senior director for the Central Region\, and a year as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton\, focusing on Iran. \nFor more than twelve years\, Ambassador Ross played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and dealing directly with the parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat\, Ambassador Ross was U.S. point man on the peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. He was instrumental in assisting Israelis and Palestinians to reach the 1995 Interim Agreement; he also successfully brokered the 1997 Hebron Accord\, facilitated the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty\, and intensively worked to bring Israel and Syria together. \nA scholar and diplomat with more than two decades of experience in Soviet and Middle East policy\, Ambassador Ross worked closely with Secretaries of State James Baker\, Warren Christopher\, and Madeleine Albright. Prior to his service as special Middle East coordinator under President Clinton\, Ambassador Ross served as director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in the first Bush administration. In that capacity\, he played a prominent role in U.S. policy toward the former Soviet Union\, the unification of Germany and its integration into NATO\, arms control negotiations\, and the 1991 Gulf War coalition. \nDuring the Reagan administration\, he served as director of Near East and South Asian affairs on the National Security Council staff and deputy director of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment. Ambassador Ross was awarded the Presidential Medal for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service by President Clinton\, and Secretaries Baker and Albright presented him with the State Department’s highest award. \nThe Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, a program\nof the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, is cosponsored by UCSB Arts and Lectures\, Department of Religious Studies\,\nCongregation B’nai B’rith\, Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\, and Santa Barbara Hillel. \nhm 1/6/14 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-israeli-palestinian-peace-talks-in-historical-perspective/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140305T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140305T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T230844 CREATED:20150928T112855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112855Z UID:10001942-1393977600-1393977600@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The Russians are Coming (1966) DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will be showing the classic 1966 film\, “The Russians Are Coming\, The Russians Are Coming.” Directed by Norman Jewison and starring Car Reiner\, Eva Marie Saint\, Jonathan Winters\, and Alan Arkin\, the film is a hilarious spoof on the U.S.-Soviet confrontation. It stands as a relatively early (and still gentle) challenge to the Cold War consensus in U.S. popular culture.\nThe film is free and open to the public. Delicious refreshments\, also free of charge\, will be served. Don’t miss this exciting event! \nhm 3/1/14 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-russians-are-coming-1966/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20140307T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20140307T000000 DTSTAMP:20260417T230844 CREATED:20150928T112853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150928T112853Z UID:10002208-1394150400-1394150400@www.history.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Marxism and Classics DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Department of Classics. \nmoved from News by hm 12/1/13 URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/marxism-and-classics/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR