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SUMMARY:Talk by Joshua Conrad Jackson: The History of Our Minds: Evidence for Co-Evolution of Cultural and Psychological Processes
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Joshua Conrad Jackson\, a DRRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Northwestern University and an incoming professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago\, is going to deliver a talk titled “The History of Our Minds: Evidence for Co-Evolution of Cultural and Psychological Processes\,” on Thursday\, March 16\, 2023 at 4-5:30PM (PST). Please click this link to attend. Everyone is welcome!  \nBiologically modern humans are more than 200\,000 years old. Many scientists have devoted their lives to understanding how architecture\, social structure\, and language have changed over this history. Yet we know almost nothing about the history of human minds. Behavioral science research has instead focused nearly exclusively on contemporary people\, and psychological theories often draw from taxonomies that assume a culturally and historically stable structure to emotion\, personality\, morality\, and other psychological processes. In this talk\, Joshua Conrad Jackson surveys new insights into how psychological processes may have changed over human history in ways that challenge these taxonomical models. \nThis talk is part of a long-term initiative\, a Research Focus Group called “Emotions in History” organized by Professors Ya Zuo (History) and Hongbo Yu (Psychological and Brain Sciences). Led by a historian and a psychologist\, our group aims to promote interdisciplinary dialogue between psychologists and humanists and to foster genuine collaboration among scholars who study emotions from different traditions of inquiry.  \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/talk-by-joshua-conrad-jackson-the-history-of-our-minds-evidence-for-co-evolution-of-cultural-and-psychological-processes/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
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SUMMARY:Public History Colloquium Event–"Telling Diverse Stories: The National Park Service Women's History Initiative and Collaboration in Historic Preservation"
DESCRIPTION:Join the History Department’s Colloquium in Public History on Friday\, June 4 at noon for a Zoom talk by Christopher E. Johnson (National Park Service)\, Anne Lindsay (Public History\, CSU Sacramento)\, and Jenni Sorkin (History of Art and Architecture\, UCSB). \nThis presentation describes collaborative work completed under the Women’s History Initiative\, one of three national initiatives authorized by the Secretary of the Interior in 2011 to foster greater representation in NPS programs. \nJohnson will discuss the NPS initiatives\, while Profs. Sorkin and Lindsay share their experiences as scholars with a recent NPS collaborative project at Pond Farm Pottery\, the home and studio of Bauhaus ceramicist Marguerite Wildenhain. In addition to recognizing a nationally significant site associated with women’s contributions to American arts\, the project also provided valuable hands-on experience to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing careers in public history. \nRegister for this event at https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QWJsZ22GQtiyk3Lgqn7-pw \nRecommended web links: \nHeritage and History Initiatives – National Historic Landmarks (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov) \nWomen’s History (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov) \ncrm-v20n3.pdf (npshistory.com) \nExplore Suffragist Stories and Connections (arcgis.com) \nhttps://stewardscr.org/pond-farm-pottery/
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/public-history-colloquium-event-telling-diverse-stories-the-national-park-service-womens-history-initiative-and-collaboration-in-historic-preservation/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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SUMMARY:UCSB Africa Center Inaugural Lecture: Dr. Zoé Samudzi's "Rewriting the Concentration Camp"
DESCRIPTION:The UCSB Africa Center cordially invites you to a special guest lecture on June 4 by Dr. Zoé Samudzi on indigenous demands for restitution\, long-contested histories of colonial dispossession and property ownership in the aftermath of the German genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples in Namibia. Her talk will interrogate the trajectories of colonial ideology and practice from the scientific racism-inflected racial geographies and regimes of property ownership during German colonization and the still shrouded story of post-colonial western institutions’ imperial skull-collecting and refusal to adequately acknowledge the genocide.\n \nFor a copy of Dr. Samudzi’s paper\, please email Claudia Ankrah (c_ankrah@ucsb.edu) or Dr. Mhoze Chikowero (chikowero@history.ucsb.edu). \n \nDr. Samudzi  is a highly accomplished author and scholar. Her research interests include German colonialism\, the Herero and Nama genocide and its afterlife\, and the role of colonnial science in the production of indigenous/Black/African identity. She has published for a variety of critical publications\, including Africa is Not a Country\, New Life Quarterly and a monograph As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation. She earned her Ph.D. from UC San Francisco. \n \nZoom URL: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84107544681
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/ucsb-africa-center-inaugural-lecture-dr-zoe-samudzis-rewriting-the-concentration-camp/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210528T120000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation on Early Modern Print Culture: Hilary Bernstein and Patricia Fumerton Present Their New Books
DESCRIPTION:Hilary Bernstein and Patricia Fumerton will each provide short introductions to their new books\, followed by a conversation between the authors and then with the audience. \nHilary Bernstein\, Associate Professor of History\, specializes in early modern France\, with a particular focus on the history\, culture\, and politics of provincial towns in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her new book is entitled Historical Communities: Cities\, Erudition\, and National Identity in Early Modern France. Professor Bernstein will be introduced by Professor Erika Rappaport. Patricia Fumerton is Distinguished Professor of English\, specializing in popular\, multimedia print culture\, with a focus on broadside ballads\, 1550-1750; she is also Director of the NEH-funded English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA)\, ebba.english.ucsb.edu. Her new book is entitled The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England: Moving Media\, Tactical Publics. Professor Fumerton will be introduced by Professor Andrew Griffin.  \nRegistration Link \nA Conversation on EM Print Final Flyer \n 
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/a-conversation-on-early-modern-print-culture-hilary-bernstein-and-patricia-fumerton-present-their-new-books/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210528T090000
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SUMMARY:Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:The participants of the 2020-2021 Senior Honors Thesis Seminar will be holding a Zoom colloquium to showcase their research on Friday\, May 28th. We encourage you to attend and show support for your fellow undergraduate history majors. This is also a great opportunity to get a feel for what the colloquium is like if you plan to participate in the honors thesis seminar in the future! The schedule of presentations and zoom link are attached. \nprogram.seniorhonorseminarcolloquium.2021
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/senior-honors-thesis-colloquium-3/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Undergraduate Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T130000
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SUMMARY:FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Keynote Lecture with Prof. Herman Bennett: "Body\, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic"
DESCRIPTION:The History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the keynote lecture of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series. The lecture\, “Body\, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic\,” will be delivered by Prof. Herman L. Bennett. \nHerman L. Bennett is Professor at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. A scholar of Latin American history and the African Diaspora\, Prof. Bennett’s previous books include Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism\, Christianity\, and Afro-Creole Consciousness (2003)\, Colonial Blackness: A History of Afro-Mexico (2009)\, and the forthcoming The African Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction. His notable essays include “The Subject in the Plot: National Boundaries and the ‘History’ of the Black Atlantic\,” in African Studies Review (2000) and “Writing into a Void: Slavery\, History\, and Representing Blackness in Latin America” in Social Text (2007). He has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for Humanities\, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University\, and the American Council of Learned Societies. The American Historical Association recognized his mentorship of racially and ethnically underrepresented students in the historical discipline through the AHA Equity Award in 2012. Prof. Bennett has served on the editorial boards of the Hispanic American Historical Review\, Social Text\, The Americas\, the Blacks in the Diaspora series at Indiana University Press\, and the American Historical Review. \nProf. Bennett’s most recent book\, African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic (2018) invites our attention to politics of sovereignty\, enslavement\, and power in the earliest Iberian and African interactions as a point of inquiry to critically rethink the ways in which liberalism has subsequently shaped analyses of culture\, economy\, and history. \nThe inaugural FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series is inspired by the UCSB History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary history within it. Following three webinars led by History Department faculty and graduate students on topics like sovereignty\, the political\, liberation\, racial capitalism\, liberalism\, and empire\, from their own scholarly angles of vision\, the keynote lecture brings the series to a close and invites more conversations to be continued in the future. \nThe keynote lecture will use the Zoom webinar format. Prior registration is required. \nDate: Friday 21 May\, 2021 \nTime: 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nKeynote Lecture: “Body\, Soul & Subject: A History of Difference in the Early-Modern African Atlantic” \nZoom registration: Please register in advance for this webinar using the link below: \nhttps://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RbHCtjyoS8S-l6vbTiFEzw
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-in-history-keynote-lecture-with-prof-herman-bennett-body-soul-subject-a-history-of-difference-in-the-early-modern-african-atlantic/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210524
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SUMMARY:Conference on "Imperial Foodways: Culinary Economies and Provisioning Politics"
DESCRIPTION:Registration is now open for the virtual conference “Imperial Foodways: Culinary Economies and Provisioning Politics.”  \nThe full program\, with panel and paper titles\, can be viewed here. To Register\, please click here. \nBecause papers are pre-circulated\, organizers Elizabeth Schmidt and Erika Rappaport ask attendees to indicate which panels they plan to attend on the registration form. Once you complete the registration\, a conference organizer will be in touch with links to the relevant papers. \nPlease be advised that the format of this conference is workshop-style: because the papers are pre-circulated\, authors will not be giving a formal presentation\, and attendees are expected to have read papers beforehand to participate in the discussion. \nIf you have any questions\, please do not hesitate to contact organizers at foodandempireworkshop@gmail.com.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/conference-on-imperial-foodways-culinary-economies-and-provisioning-politics/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210520T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210520T121500
DTSTAMP:20260419T032112
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SUMMARY:Center for Cold War Studies Talk: Nancy Mitchell\, "Andrew Young: Challenging Anglo-Saxon Foreign Policy?"
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Young\, one of Martin Luther King’s top aides and a former member of Congress\, served as Jimmy Carter’s ambassador to the United Nations. Outspoken and controversial\, Young questioned prevailing Cold War assumptions. “Communism has never been a threat to me\,” he said. “Racism has always been a threat—and that has been the enemy of all of my life.” \nNancy Mitchell is Professor of History at North Carolina State University. She is the author of Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War (2016)\, which received the Douglas Dillon Award from the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Robert Ferrell Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Professor Mitchell’s first book was The Danger of Dreams: German and American Imperialism in Latin America\, 1895-1914 (1999). She contributed the chapter on “The Cold War and Jimmy Carter” to The Cambridge History of the Cold War (2010)\, and her articles have appeared in Cold War History\, International History Review\, Diplomatic History\, American Historical Review\, Journal of American History\, Prologue\, H-Diplo\, and H-Pol. \nClick here to join the Zoom for this event.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/center-for-cold-war-studies-talk-nancy-mitchell-andrew-young-challenging-anglo-saxon-foreign-policy/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210519T173000
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SUMMARY:Lily Anne Welty Tamai\, "Mixed-Race Black Identities in Postwar Japan and Okinawa"
DESCRIPTION:The East Asia Center welcomes UCSB History alumna Dr. Lily Anne Welty Tamai (Asian American Studies\, UCLA) for a talk on “Mixed-Race Black Identities in Postwar Japan and Okinawa.” \nMixed-race people born at the end of World War II made history quietly with their families and their communities. Wars and the military occupations that followed\, coupled with increased migration across the Pacific\, created a surge of interracial relationships\, resulting in a mid-century multiracial baby boom. Easily identifiable by their mixed-race features\, they were the children of the enemy: in Japan they symbolized defeat and racial impurity. In the U.S.\, they represented an extension of America’s democratic intervention abroad and for mixed-race adoptees in particular\, they embodied the salvation that the U.S. offered Japan during the postwar occupation. Interracial\ncommunities\, families\, and mixed-race individuals challenged the default narrative of White normativity in the U.S. military and in the post-war period\, while also expanding our understanding of the transnational Black Pacific\, or the diaspora of Blacks in the Pacific Rim. While Black soldiers migrated west across the Pacific\, some of their mixed-race children migrated east to the U.S. in the\ndecades following World War II. This presentation with center the voices of mixed-race Black Japanese in post-war Japan and within the militarized borderland of Okinawa to examine the tropes of hybrid degeneracy and hybrid vigor as these individuals navigated their lives between\ninvisibility and hyper-recognition.\n \nLily Anne Welty Tamai earned her doctorate in History from UCSB. She conducted research in Japan and in Okinawa as a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow and was also a Ford\nFoundation Fellow. Her forthcoming book\, titled Military Industrial Intimacy: Mixed-Race American Japanese\, Eugenics and Transnational Identities\, documents the history of mixed-race American Japanese and American Okinawans born after World War II and raised during the post-war period. Dr. Tamai was formerly the Curator of History at the Japanese American National Museum and served on the U.S. Census Bureau National Advisory Committee on Racial\, Ethnic\, and Other\nPopulations. She is currently a lecturer in Asian American Studies at UCLA.\n \nTo join the Zoom meeting\, use Zoom ID 925 5728 2471.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/lily-anne-welty-tamai-mixed-race-black-identities-in-postwar-japan-and-okinawa/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:Public History Colloquium Event–"The Queerness of Home: Public History and the Domestic Archive"
DESCRIPTION:Join the History Department’s Colloquium in Public History on Friday\, May 7 at noon for a Zoom talk by Stephen Vider (History\, Cornell University). \nHistories of queer and trans politics and culture have centered almost exclusively on public activism and spaces. Stephen Vider will discuss how his forthcoming book\, The Queerness of Home: Gender\, Sexuality\, and the Politics of Domesticity After World War II (University of Chicago Press\, October 2021) retells LGBT history from the inside out\, revealing how LGBT people mobilized home spaces as crucial sites of intimate connection\, care\, and cultural inclusion. He’ll focus particularly on the challenges and possibilities of uncovering queer domestic life both in The Queerness of Home and in his 2017 exhibition\, AIDS at Home: Art and Everyday Activism (Museum of the City of New York)—and how a focus on the domestic archive can reshape methods in public history. \nRegister for this event at http://bit.ly/queerness-home \nRecommended links: \nA Place in the City: Three Stories about AIDS at Home\, dir. Nate Lavey and Stephen Vider (2017)\, documentary film which originally appeared in AIDS at Home: Art and Everyday Activism https://vimeo.com/303736782 \nStephen Vider\, “”Oh Hell\, May\, Why Don’t You People Have a Cookbook?”: Camp Humor and Gay Domesticity\,” American Quarterly 65\, no. 4 (2013): 877-904. [Open-access through JSTOR Daily: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43822994?mag=in-the-gay-cookbook-domestic-bliss-was-queer]
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/public-history-colloquium-event-the-queerness-of-home-public-history-and-the-domestic-archive/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210506T160000
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SUMMARY:Nicole Archambeau\, "War\, Plague & Confession: Stories of Survival from Fourteenth-Century Provence"
DESCRIPTION:The History Department is proud to welcome back alumna Dr. Nicole Archambeau (History\, Colorado State University) for a virtual talk based on her new book Souls under Siege: Stories of War\, Plague\, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence. You can read a glowing review of Souls under Siege in the Los Angeles Review of Books. \nDr. Archambeau’s book and talk draw on a rich evidentiary base of 68 narrative testimonials from the canonization inquest for Countess Delphine de Puimichel\, which was held in the market town of Apt in 1363. Each witness in the inquest had lived through outbreaks of plague in 1348 and 1361\, as well as violence inflicted by mercenaries unemployed during truces in the Hundred Years’ War. Faced with an unprecedented cascade of crises\, the inhabitants of Provence relied on saints and healers\, their worldview connecting earthly disease and disaster to the struggle for their eternal souls. Their testimonies unexpectedly reveal the importance of faith and the role of affect in the healing of both body and soul. \nAdvance registration is required for this event. You can sign up here. \nClick here to download the flyer for Dr. Archambeau’s talk.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/nicole-archambeau-war-plague-confession-stories-of-survival-from-fourteenth-century-provence/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Book Talk
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SUMMARY:ISRRAR Event–Dr. Sylvester Ogbechie\, “Godbearer: Yoruba Orisa\, Black Atlantic Modernisms and Afrofuturist Imaginaries”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sylvester Ogbechie‘s work evaluates the resurgence of African gods in Black Atlantic modernisms\, contemporary media and Afrofuturist visualities. African deities are everywhere in contemporary culture from the Akan trickster god Anansi and numerous Yoruba Orisa in the American Gods TV series\, through images of the Kh’Met (Egyptian) goddess Bast in the Afrofuturist blockbuster movie Black Panther\, to the cyberspace narratives of William Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy that centered the Loa (gods) of the Haitian Vodun pantheon as primary characters. This resurgence corresponds to a return of discourses of spirituality in narratives of modernity and contemporary art practice. What is the meaning of this contemporary focus on African deities and how does it allow us to engage anew or reinterpret Black Atlantic arts that foreground African spiritual and cultural registers? \nJoin this Zoom event at tinyurl.com/isrrarTalk \nThis event is part of the ISRRAR Spring Quarter series.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/isrrar-event-dr-sylvester-ogbechie-godbearer-yoruba-orisa-black-atlantic-modernisms-and-afrofuturist-imaginaries/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210501
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SUMMARY:Interdisciplinary Conference on "Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster"
DESCRIPTION:The interdisciplinary virtual conference Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster will take place on Friday\, April 30\, 2021 at 9:00am-4:00pm (Pacific Time\, US & Canada)\, when an international slate of speakers representing a variety of disciplines will share their insights on the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. \n \nThe day before\, an associated Carsey-Wolf Center virtual discussion of the award-winning documentary “The Babushkas of Chernobyl\,” with Director Holly Morris\, will take place on Thursday\, April 29\, 2021 at 4:00pm (Pacific Time\, US & Canada)\, before which registered participants can pre-screen the film. Information on registering for both events and the conference website are below:\n \nConference Website\n \nRegister for the Virtual Conference at 9am-4pm Pacific Time (US & Canada) on Friday\, April 30\, 2021\n \nRegister for the Carsey-Wolf Center Virtual Discussion at 4pm Pacific Time (US & Canada) on Thursday\, April\, 29\, 2021\n \nThirty-five years after the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl\, the interdisciplinary virtual conference Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster considers its afterlife and reverberations in various disciplines\, including culture and the arts. Situated at a watershed moment during the Cold War\, Chernobyl has spawned an unprecedented quantity of global responses from scientists\, writers\, filmmakers\, and artists\, and it has become a key moment for the global environmental movement. This conference views the accident and its aftermath in the context of broader global ecologies of disaster and considers how catastrophe is coded and understood — or fails to be understood — through the prism of science\, art\, literature\, and film. How do all these disciplines and discourses confront the disaster\, and where do they converge to produce the fiction\, or the truth\, of what we call “Chernobyl”? The conference brings together scholars and experts in Comparative Literature\, History\, Anthropology\, Environmental Studies\, Nuclear Engineering\, Medicine\, Art\, Film\, and Germanic and Slavic Studies.\n \nSponsored by the Division of Arts and Letters and the T. A. Barron Environmental Fund. Event partners include the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, the\, and the Carsey-Wolf Center. Other sponsors include the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Global Studies\, Comparative Literature Program\, Environmental Studies\, Cold War Studies\, College of Creative Studies\, and History Department. (Rescheduled from April 2020 when it was postponed due to COVID-19.) 
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/interdisciplinary-conference-on-fallout-chernobyl-and-the-ecology-of-disaster/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210425T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210425T160000
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SUMMARY:History Associates: Patrick McCray\, "Making Art Work: Artists and Engineers in the Age of Apollo"
DESCRIPTION:Join the History Associates this Sunday for an engaging presentation from UCSB History Professor Patrick McCray. \nArtwork as opposed to experiment? Engineer versus artist? We often see two different cultural realms separated by impervious walls. But some fifty years ago\, the borders between technology and art began to be breached. In this talk UCSB history professor (and former engineer) W. Patrick McCray shows how in this era\, artists eagerly collaborated with engineers and scientists to explore new technologies and create visually and sonically compelling multimedia works. Today\, we are in the midst of a new surge of corporate and academic promotion of projects and programs combining art\, technology\, and science. Making Art Work reveals how artists and technologists have continually constructed new communities in which they exercise imagination\, display creative expertise\, and pursue commercial innovation. \nZoom link: ucsb.zoom.us/j/6855143149
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-patrick-mccray-making-art-work-artists-and-engineers-in-the-age-of-apollo/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:History Associates
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T160000
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SUMMARY:History Beyond the Academy: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Come and join us for a panel discussion with recent graduates from UCSB’s Department of\nHistory (Mariel Aquino\, Doug Genens\, Caitlin Rathe\, and Stephanie Seketa) to learn about their experiences working as historians beyond the Academy. Learn about work in academic administration\, the non-profit sector and how to research and produce podcasts. The discussion will be moderated by current graduate students Addie Jensen and Mattie Webb. All are welcome! \nJoin this event on Zoom at https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/6855143149. \nClick here to download the event flyer.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/history-beyond-the-academy-a-conversation/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Graduate Program,Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T160000
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SUMMARY:CWWG Workshop–Mattie Webb\, "Beyond Desegregation: Waging a Battle Against Apartheid in the South African Workplace"
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, April 24\, from 2 to 4 pm\, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will host a workshop. They will read and discuss a dissertation chapter\, “Beyond Desegregation: Waging a Battle Against Apartheid in the South African Workplace\,” by Mattie Webb\, a doctoral candidate in the UCSB history department. \nThis workshop is part of a new CCWS initiative\, the Cold War Working Group (CWWG)\, a collaborative\, graduate student-led group designed to provide a supportive\, welcoming environment for graduate students working on or around the Cold War and international history. The workshops provide an occasion for graduate students\, faculty\, and others to join together as peers to read\, and provide feedback on\, scholarly work in progress (dissertation chapters\, journal articles\, etc.) by members of our community. \nIf you wish to participate in the April 24 workshop\, please email Addie (who is also serving this year as the CCWS Graduate Fellow) at addisonmjensen@ucsb.edu\, and she will provide you with a copy of Mattie’s dissertation chapter\, along with a Zoom address. \nPlease join us for this exciting event!
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/cwwg-workshop-mattie-webb-beyond-desegregation-waging-a-battle-against-apartheid-in-the-south-african-workplace/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:workshop/brown bag/practicum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210420T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210420T160000
DTSTAMP:20260419T032112
CREATED:20210418T044525Z
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SUMMARY:ISRRAR Event–Dr. Vincent Brown\, "Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War"
DESCRIPTION:Warfare migrates. This has never been more apparent than in the era when the violence of imperial expansion and enslavement transformed Europe\, Africa\, and the Americas\, as they interacted across the Atlantic Ocean. European imperial conflicts extended the dominion of capitalist agriculture. African battles fed captives to the transatlantic trade in slaves. Masters and their human property struggled with one another continuously. These clashes amounted to a borderless slave war: war to enslave\, war to expand slavery\, and war against slaves\, precipitating wars waged by the enslaved against slaveholders. In this sense\, Dr. Vincent Brown argues\, Tacky’s revolt was but a war within other wars\, which had diverging and overlapping provocations\, combat zones\, political alliances\, and enemy combatants. \nJoin this Zoom event at tinyurl.com/isrrarTalk \nThis event is part of the ISRRAR Spring Quarter series.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/isrrar-event-dr-vincent-brown-tackys-revolt-the-story-of-an-atlantic-slave-war/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T130000
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SUMMARY:FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar III: Racial Capitalism and Liberalism
DESCRIPTION:Building on the collective knowledge shared in the two previous webinars\, the History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the third and final session of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series.  Inspired by the History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary history within it\, the series brings together UCSB History faculty and graduate students who have volunteered to lead a dialogue on Black life\, race\, and antiblackness in history. The final webinar will engage Herman Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves\, as a focal point to discuss themes like racial capitalism and liberalism from different historical angles of vision. \nOur final webinar will transition into a Zoom meeting room format. Registration for the Zoom meeting is required. Please click on the link below to register\, after which you will receive a passcode and meeting link. You will need the passcode to enter the meeting. \nDate: April 16\, 2021 \nTime: 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nWebinar III: Racial Capitalism and Liberalism \nZoom registration: Please register in advance for this webinar using the link below. \nhttps://ucsb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcud-yvrj4iE9O-rnuoC1Vo4oW2d61R6HzW \nFeaturing presentations by Alice O’Connor\, Manuel Covo\, Mattie Webb\, and Sherene Seikaly \nComment by Mhoze Chikowero \n\nAlice O’Connor is a historian of poverty\, capitalism\, inequality\, social science\, and public policy in the U.S. and the author of Poverty Knowledge (2001) and Social Science for What? (2007). \nManuel Covo is a historian of French imperialism\, the Atlantic World\, and the Haitian Revolution and the author of the forthcoming The Entrepot of Atlantic Revolutions. \nMattie Webb is a historian of U.S. foreign policy\, African History\, and comparative race and ethnicity. Mattie’s archival and oral-historical research combines social and diplomatic history to study the impact and awareness of the Sullivan Principles in South Africa during the apartheid era.  \nSherene Seikaly is a historian of political economy\, capitalism\, development\, race\, and dispossession in the modern Middle East and the author of Men of Capital (2016) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa (2021). \nMhoze Chikowero is a historian of music\, colonialism\, technology\, and urban space in Zimbabwe and southern Africa and the author of African Music\, Power\, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe (2015).
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-in-history-webinar-iii-racial-capitalism-and-liberalism/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210409T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210409T133000
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SUMMARY:Public History Colloquium Event--"Presenting the Medieval Mediterranean: Museums and Archaeology in National Discourse"
DESCRIPTION:Join the History Department’s Colloquium in Public History on Friday\, April 9 at noon for a Zoom talk by William Tronzo (History of Art\, UC San Diego). \nFrom time immemorial\, material artifacts have played an important role in political discourse: think simply of the use of the crown (in the United Kingdom) or the throne (for example\, the throne of St. Peter in the Roman Catholic Church) in the process of national or institutional self-identification. Over the course of several years\, Tronzo co-directed a collaborative project with Kimberly Bowes (University of Pennsylvania) and an international group of scholars funded by the Getty Foundation and housed at the American Academy in Rome. In this colloquium session\, Tronzo describes the project and goes deeper\, considering some of the ways in which this relationship between the realms of materiality and discourse ramified with regard to the modern period in the nations that form the Mediterranean world. Looking at objects\, texts\, and whole sites\, Tronzo offers a number of case studies of such national self-fashioning\, negotiated and managed through archeology\, collecting\, display and translation\, and set to work within discourses that embrace narrative and ritual. \nRegister for this event at http://bit.ly/medieval-mediterranean \nRecommended Readings:\nAll from Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome\, vol. 62 (2017) (Available on JSTOR)\n \nTHE ROLE AND PERCEPTION OF ISLAMIC ART AND HISTORY IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A\nSHARED IDENTITY IN SICILY (ca. 1780–1900)\, pp. 5-40\nSilvia Armando\nhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/26787018\n \n \nVISIGOTHS\, CROWNS\, CROSSES\, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF SPAIN\, pp. 41-64\nFrancisco J. Moreno Martín\nhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/26787019\n \n \nZIONISM\, MEDIEVAL CULTURE\, AND NATIONAL DISCOURSE\, pp. 119-134\nJudith Bronstein\nhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/26787022\n \n \nPRE-ISLAMIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN TUNISIA: THE STAKES OF A COLONIAL SCIENCE\, pp. 193-208\nMoheddine Chaouali\nhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/26787025
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/public-history-colloquium-event-presenting-the-medieval-mediterranean-museums-and-archaeology-in-national-discourse/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210406T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210406T160000
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SUMMARY:ISRRAR Event--Dr. Maytha Alhassen\, "The Ummic Imperative: A Decolonial Approach to Malcolm X's Islam"
DESCRIPTION:Through an assemblage of multiple archives\, Dr. Maytha Alhassen tracks the Malcolm X’s political and spiritual project the last year of his life as he travels across decolonizing geographies. Alhassen contends that undergirding Malcolm X’s Black liberation framework is a praxical commitment to an “ummic imperative.” Engaging Malcolm’s spiritual political philosophies will also serve to interrogate and complicate Third World movement politics. \nJoin this Zoom event at tinyurl.com/isrrarTalk \nThis event is part of the ISRRAR Spring Quarter series.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/isrrar-event-dr-maytha-alhassen-the-ummic-imperative-a-decolonial-approach-to-malcolm-xs-islam/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210314T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210314T160000
DTSTAMP:20260419T032113
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SUMMARY:8th Annual Van Gelderen Lecture: Sasha Coles\, “The Great Silk Experiment: Silkworms\, Mulberry Trees\, and Women Workers in Mormon Country\, 1850s-1910s”
DESCRIPTION:UCSB History Associates presents the eighth annual Van Gelderen Graduate Student Lecture\, this year given by Dr. Sasha Coles. \nFrom the 1850s to the early 1900s\, Latter-Day Saint (or Mormon) women in both rural and urban Great Basin settlements planted mulberry trees\, raised silkworms\, and attempted to produce silk cocoons\, thread\, and cloth of a high-enough quality to use and sell. By most measurements\, they failed. Homegrown silk was time-consuming\, onerous\, and practically impossible to profit from\, primarily due to superior imported goods from Europe and Asia. Even so\, this talk will show how the homegrown silk industry provided Mormon women with a venue to make their own money\, shape transnational labor and commodity markets\, and understand ever-changing environmental conditions. In these and other ways\, Mormon women used silk production and consumption to resolve tensions between economic cooperation and competition\, market isolation and integration\, and religious exceptionalism and American citizenship. \nOur speaker\, Sasha Coles\, defended her UCSB Ph.D. dissertation successfully in February 2021. She received her M.A. from UCSB in 2015 and her B.A. from Arizona State University in 2013. Her publications include two articles in historical journals\, and she has developed a website on the Walt Disney theme parks. \nThe Zoom link for this year’s Van Gelderen Lecture is https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/6855143149.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/8th-annual-van-gelderen-lecture-sasha-coles-the-great-silk-experiment-silkworms-mulberry-trees-and-women-workers-in-mormon-country-1850s-1910s/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:History Associates
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210312T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210312T130000
DTSTAMP:20260419T032113
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SUMMARY:FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History Webinar II: Empire and Liberation
DESCRIPTION:Building on the collective knowledge shared in our first webinar\, the History Department’s Colloquium Committee warmly invites you to attend the second session of our FOCAL POINT Dialogues in History series.  Inspired by the History Department’s Statement on the George Floyd Uprising and its invocation to understand and interrogate our racialized past and the investments of disciplinary history within it\, the series brings together UCSB History faculty and graduate students who have volunteered to lead a dialogue on Black life\, race\, and antiblackness in history. The conversations will engage Herman Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves\, as a focal point to discuss themes like sovereignty\, empire\, and racial capitalism from different historical angles of vision. \nOur second webinar will engage Prof. Herman Bennett’s emphasis on empire and colonialism in understanding Atlantic history and the politics of liberation from a wide diversity of scholarly standpoints. Registration for the webinar is required. Please click on the link below to register. \nDate: Mar 12\, 2021 \nTime: 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nWebinar II: Empire and Liberation \nZoom registration: Please register in advance for this webinar using the link below. \nhttps://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kI2R6miRRO2blZUh_62shQ \nFeaturing presentations by Anthony Greco\, Katie Moore\, Stephan Miescher\, and Ya Zuo \nComment by Evelyne Laurent-Perrault \n\nAnthony Greco is a historian of engineering and technology\, colonialism\, and science in the modern Middle East. His dissertation research examines Egypt’s long tradition of scientific knowledge and pedagogy. Before this\, he worked as a diesel mechanic\, plumber\, and carpenter which inspired his interest in builders and maintainers of public works. \nKatie Moore is a historian of early American political economy\, money\, debt\, and the Atlantic World\, and the author of the forthcoming A Revolutionary Currency. \nStephan Miescher is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth century Ghana\, masculinities\, and environmental history\, and the author of Making Men in Ghana (2005) and coeditor of Gender\, Imperialism\, and Global Exchanges (2015). \nYa Zuo is a historian of middle and late imperial China\, epistemology\, political philosophy\, ethics\, and emotions\, and the author of Shen Gua’s Empiricism (2018). \nEvelyne Laurent-Perrault is a historian of the African diaspora in colonial Latin America and the Caribbean\, the political imagination of enslaved women\, and the author of the forthcoming Claims of Dignity. 
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/focal-point-dialogues-in-history-webinar-ii-empire-and-liberation/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T180000
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SUMMARY:IHC Talk: Utathya Chattopadhyaya\, "Cannabis and South Asia"
DESCRIPTION:The IHC‘s Asian/American Studies Collective welcomes UCSB History professor Utathya Chattopadhyaya for a talk on the role of cannabis in South Asian experiences of empire. \nHistorical scholarship now conceives empire as a webbed uneven field of power relations and a multispecies enterprise. In other words\, the anxious and breathless struggle of European imperialism to sustain itself subjected human\, plant\, animal\, and insect bodies to its ambition to govern through logics of colonial difference. This paper argues that the cannabis plant in South Asia\, in the nineteenth century\, while being a subject of British revenue systems transformed into a race-d and gendered mode of explaining anticolonial insurgency by South Asian rebels. The intoxicating substance of the plant\, in the discursive logic of empire\, was seen to vitiate Asian bodies against European power. Cannabis also animated other imperial operations like the delegitimization of Indian sovereignty. Using the expansive reach of imperial periodical culture in the nineteenth century\, this paper highlights the Asian and global contexts within which cannabis became an alibi for rebellion or violence against empire. \nUtathya Chattopadhyaya is Assistant Professor of History at the UC Santa Barbara. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and studies the history of modern South Asia\, British imperialism\, and agrarian commodities. His work has appeared in the South African Historical Journal\, Historical Reflections\, and Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for our Times. He is currently writing a monograph on cannabis and empire in British India. \nThis event will be held on Zoom at https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81976204749?pwd=ekZ2UUtFd0U0Znh6bFpIcXFXWUs5QT09.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/ihc-talk-utathya-chattopadhyaya-cannabis-and-south-asia/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T180000
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SUMMARY:ISRRAR Event–Dr. Samiha Rahman\, "Redefining Black Excellence: Ihsan\, Islamic Education\, and the Tijani Sufi Order"
DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, hundreds of predominantly working-class African American Muslim youth have migrated to the West African Tijani Sufi town of Medina Baye\, Senegal. They hope to circumvent the antiblackness\, Islamophobia\, and economic inequality they face in the U.S. in search of a transformative educational encounter in a society where Blackness and Islam constitute the dominant norms. This talk chronicles these young people’s everyday experiences pursuing Islamic education in Medina Baye. Complicating popular notions that link Black excellence to individualistic material gain and Black capitalism\, Dr. Samiha Rahman (CSU Long Beach) argues that Black Muslim excellence (ihsan) provides an alternative paradigm rooted in the pursuit of human excellence through spiritual and social practice. Grounded in a transatlantic Black Muslim tradition\, Black Muslim ihsan offers African American Muslims pathways to individual and collective liberation. \nJoin this Zoom event here: bit.ly/3hVdvP4  \n\nThis event is part of the ISRRAR Winter Quarter series. \nProfessor Butch Ware and the ISRRAR announce the Winter Quarter schedule for HIST 210RA: Race\, Faith\, Revolution. Graduate students are invited to register for this 2-unit seminar and to sign up for the listserv at http://tinyurl.com/ISRRARListServ. \nHow have Black metaphysics articulated with racial politics in order to advance efforts of justice\, liberation\, and self-actualization? In this very special year of 2021\, our seminar will take on manifestations of anti-black racism and imperialism\, as well as African and African Diasporic efforts to mediate between the seen and unseen worlds in struggles for justice. \nThis graduate seminar is part of a broader collaborative process meant to engage graduate students and faculty alike. The Initiative for the Study of Race\, Religion\, and Revolution (ISRRAR) seeks to foster a conversation on intersections of spirituality and social change wherein works on (and by) formerly colonized peoples are central\, rather than peripheral. \nThis approach is driven by an axial critique of the ways in which modernity’s core contradictions shape our shared pasts and presents. An era of revolutionary enlightenment\, we are told\, brought humanity out of the ‘dark ages.’ Freedom dawned. But this ‘age of lights’ brought the darkest of racial taxonomies\, and scales of slavery and human suffering unknown to ancient and medieval worlds. Reason proclaimed its mission: liberate humanity from the bondage of irrational religion. Yet rational political economies brought global empires\, world wars\, and ethnic genocides. Moreover\, new nationalisms have drawn on older religious repertories to define citizens and subject them to moral authority. Self-congratulatory Western tropes\, however\, tend to overlook the ubiquity of race and the persistence of faith\, portraying them as incidental rather than fundamental. \nColonized peoples in Africa and the Americas\, tell different tales. A generation of emergent scholarship has brought these forward. Scholars (many trained in interdisciplinary fields) have recovered ‘native’ narratives and ontologies of the oppressed\, often dislodging dominant meta-narratives in the study of the global West. In History 210 we engage live presentations of the works of scholars\, activists\, and artists whose conceptualization and execution of their research breaks new ground in these domains.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/the-initiative-for-the-study-of-race-religion-and-revolutions-winter-2021-schedule-2021-03-09/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event,Graduate Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T160000
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SUMMARY:History Associates: Luke Roberts\, "A Samurai Wife Divorces her Lout of a Husband"
DESCRIPTION:Join the History Associates for an engaging presentation from UCSB History Professor Luke Roberts on a specific case that influenced gender roles in 19th-century Japan. \nZoom link: ucsb.zoom.us/j/6855143149 \nMori Nao\, a young samurai wife in Japan\, desired a divorce from her abusive husband in 1824. Legally a man could divorce his wife but a wife could not divorce her husband. Nevertheless\, she persisted in the face of his adamant refusal to divorce her. Soon her relatives mobilized their social networks to convince his relatives to pressure him to give her a divorce\, but he still refused. Eventually most samurai in her lord’s domain in southwestern Japan were working to get her a divorce and even the lord became involved in supporting what she had no legal right to demand\, and threatened the well-being of the husband’s kin group. \nFinally\, the husband divorced her. His angry kin put him in a cage in his backyard where he was forced to live for some months. No formal record survives\, but a detailed diary of the process made by one relative of his house who played an important role in the negotiations reveals much about gender roles\, family networks and common disjunctures between law-as-written and law-as-it-operated.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/history-associates-luke-roberts-a-samurai-wife-divorces-her-lout-of-a-husband/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:History Associates
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SUMMARY:Public History Colloquium Event–”Abina and the Important Men: Graphic History as Public History”
DESCRIPTION:Join the History Department’s Colloquium in Public History on Friday\, March 5 at noon for a Zoom talk by Trevor R. Getz (San Francisco State University). \nAbina and the Important Men began as an attempt to address a classroom problem: how to teach students about the dual responsibilities of the historian to historical subjects and contemporary audiences.  These goals both drove its development as a graphic history.  Fortuitously\, its publication caught the leading edge of the rehabilitation of that medium as a serious scholarly mode of communication. This great graphic shift is part of a wider realignment of both the history discipline and popular culture\, and it provides both opportunities and pitfalls for the scholar who wishes to share their work with a broader public while retaining its authenticity and maintaining its accuracy.  This is a discussion by the author of Abina and the Important Men about what he has learned since its publication in first edition in 2012\, with some arguments about the future of the graphic history genre. The graphic novel can be obtained through the Oxford University Press website\, or the community-built 2-D animated video version can be watched here (Password: Independence). \nRegister for this Zoom event at http://bit.ly/abina-webinar. \nRecommended video/reading/short links: \n• “How to Design a Comix Page” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dQEfL2BfUM \n• Julia Alekseyeva\, “Form\, Function\, and Style in the Graphic Essay\,” Sequentials Journal\, 1.4 (May 2020).\nhttps://www.sequentialsjournal.net/issues/issue1.4/alekseyeva.html?fbclid=IwAR0_bxgktwVoNr6TEcWjSeVogcZjM_U36FhvB6GpHXs8mhSfMKSc9PgTz0k  \nRocky Cotard and Laurent Dubois\, “The Slave Revolution That Gave Birth to Haiti\,” The Nib (Feb. 5\, 2018).\nhttps://thenib.com/haitian-revolution/ \n• Nick Sousanis\, “No Sides\,” Spin\, Weave & Cut (blog)\, http://spinweaveandcut.com/no-sides/ \n• Charis Loke & Max Loh\, “The Word for World is Image\,” Singpowrimo\, 20.2:\nhttps://www.singpowrimo.com/features/wordimage?fbclid=IwAR2WSiuLQKWT3EkbJvtBPdC7UmLWquXuduKUGLibIi9sA5jby-sCf1cLqLg \nOther recommended readings:\n• Trevor R. Getz\, “Getting Serious about Comic Histories”\, American Historical Review\, 2018\, 123\, 1596-1597. \n• Barbara Tversky\, “Visualizing Thought”\, Topics in Cognitive Science\, 3 (2011)\, 499-535. \n• Neil Cohn\, “In defense of a ‘grammar’ in the visual language of comics”\, Journal of Pragmatics\, 127 (2018)\, 1-19.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/public-history-colloquium-event-abina-and-the-important-men-graphic-history-as-public-history/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Colloquium Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T160000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted--W. Patrick McCray\, "Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture"
DESCRIPTION:The IHC‘s Humanities Decanted series invites all to a dialogue between Patrick McCray (History) and Alan Liu (English) about McCray’s new book\, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture (MIT Press\, 2020). Audience Q&A will follow. \nDespite C. P. Snow’s warning\, in 1959\, of an unbridgeable chasm between the humanities and the sciences\, engineers and scientists of that era enthusiastically collaborated with artists to create visually and sonically interesting multimedia works. This new artwork emerged from corporate laboratories\, artists’ studios\, publishing houses\, art galleries\, and university campuses and it involved some of the biggest stars of the art world. Less famous and often overlooked were the engineers and scientists who contributed time\, technical expertise\, and aesthetic input to these projects. These figures included the rocket engineer-turned-artist Frank J. Malina\, MIT’s Gyorgy Kepes\, and Billy Klüver\, a Swedish-born engineer at Bell Labs who helped establish the New York–based group Experiments in Art and Technology. This book restores the role of technologists to the foreground\, explores the era’s hybrid creative culture\, and recounts the many ways that artists\, engineers\, and curators have collaborated over the past fifty years. Making Art Work shows that the borders of art and technology over the past half century are anything but fixed. Just as striking is that the original ideals and ambitions that animated the 1960s-era art-and-technology movement have not faded. Today\, creativity\, collaborations\, and interdisciplinary research are promoted by academic and corporate leaders alike. What emerges is a long history of artists and technologists who have repeatedly built new creative communities in which they can exercise imagination\, invention\, and expertise. \nW. Patrick McCray is a professor in the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara where his research\, writing\, and teaching focus on the histories of technology and science. Originally trained as a scientist\, he is the author or editor of six books. McCray’s 2013 book\, The Visioneers: How an Elite Group of Scientists Pursued Space Colonies\, Nanotechnologies\, and a Limitless Future\, won the Watson Davis Prize in 2014 from the History of Science Society as the “best book written for a general audience.” \nRegistration is required in advance. Register at https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YAKxHjklSWqDzHO5Vs8Ngg. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/humanities-decanted-w-patrick-mccray-making-art-work-how-cold-war-engineers-and-artists-forged-a-new-creative-culture/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Public Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210302T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210302T160000
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SUMMARY:Launch Party for the UCSB Undergraduate Journal of History
DESCRIPTION:The UCSB Undergraduate Journal of History is about to release its first issue\, and its editors and contributors cordially invite the public to its Zoom launch party on March 2. The event will feature a short Q&A featuring four of the ten undergraduate authors and moderated by members of the editorial team. \n \nTo celebrate the Journal‘s launch\, use this Zoom link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/86005899456
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/launch-party-for-the-ucsb-undergraduate-journal-of-history/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Undergraduate Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210227T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210227T160000
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SUMMARY:CWWG Workshop--Addison Jensen\, "WITCHIEs\, Chickies\, and Donut Dollies: The Women’s Rights Movement and American GIs"
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, February 27\, from 2 to 4 pm\, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History (CCWS) will host a workshop. They will read and discuss a dissertation chapter\, “WITCHIEs\, Chickies\, and Donut Dollies: The Women’s Rights Movement and American GIs\,” by Addie Jensen\, a doctoral candidate in the UCSB history department. \nThis workshop is part of a new CCWS initiative\, the Cold War Working Group (CWWG)\, a collaborative\, graduate student-led group designed to provide a supportive\, welcoming environment for graduate students working on or around the Cold War and international history. The workshops provide an occasion for graduate students\, faculty\, and others to join together as peers to read\, and provide feedback on\, scholarly work in progress (dissertation chapters\, journal articles\, etc.) by members of our community. We strongly encourage other UCSB graduate students and faculty members to consider submitting their own work for discussion in future workshops. \nIf you wish to participate in the February 27 workshop\, please email Addie (who is also serving this year as the CCWS Graduate Fellow) at addisonmjensen@ucsb.edu\, and she will provide you with the password to access her dissertation chapter\, along with a Zoom address. \nPlease join us for this exciting event!
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/cwwg-workshop-addison-jensen-witchies-chickies-and-donut-dollies-the-womens-rights-movement-and-american-gis/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:workshop/brown bag/practicum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210226T160000
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SUMMARY:Mónica Michelena: "We Are Charrúa Women: From Negation to Re-Existence in Our Body-Territory"
DESCRIPTION:UCSB and UCSD have joined together to welcome Mónica Michelena\, Secretary of the Charrúa Nation’s Council and former Advisor on Indigenous Affairs for Uruguay’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2014-18). \nCharrúa women have gone through dispossession\, exclusion\, and negation that left marks on their collective memory and body-territory. This genocidal process did not end in 19th-century Uruguay\, but continues today and manifests itself every time that institutions or civil society denies their existence as an indigenous people. For fifteen years\, together with Charrúa sisters from Argentina\, Charrúa women from Uruguay have been working to demolish hegemonic narratives of the market and state. As subjects of legal right\, they are reconfiguring their existence and re-existence in their great ancestral-territory-body. This collective search has led Michelena to academic spaces. \nIn 2011\, Michelena began an investigation with rural Charrúa women in Uruguay’s interior to question the nation-state’s devices of invisibility and to expose counter-memories as part of an attempt to disarm the social and symbolic representation of their extinction. Through a methodological approach based on collaborative ethnography\, Michelena’s research aims to rearm the great quillapí of memory. The metaphor of quillapí – a leather cape made from patchwork – implies that each woman is the bearer of a small piece of memory and\, among all\, they are sewing together its scraps. Down this path\, Charrúa women began to slowly gain recognition from the Uruguayan feminist movement\, in a slow process of internal decolonization. \nZoom link: https://ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcscu2urjkpEtMCu4cVNRoiyQe_J-RtAr1Y \nPassword: uruguay \n\nThis event is part of the Feminismos desde abajo\, y hacia el sur/ Feminisms from Below\, and Toward the South series. This speaker series welcomes feminist militants from Latin America to share their perspectives and experiences on building popular power towards a mass feminist movement. Over the past decade\, Latin American feminists have identified manifestations of gender-based oppression under capitalism in everyday women’s conditions in order to successfully mobilize them as part of a political movement. Feminists produce analyses and subsequent strategies around reproductive rights\, resource extractivism\, housing\, debt\, and more. This mass feminism has grown to be arguably the most insurgent political force across the continent.
URL:https://www.history.ucsb.edu/events/monica-michelena-we-are-charrua-women-from-negation-to-re-existence-in-our-body-territory/
LOCATION:Zoom\, CA
CATEGORIES:Public Lecture
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