BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200424 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200425 DTSTAMP:20260513T100339 CREATED:20200220T210449Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200312T211713Z UID:10005703-1587686400-1587772799@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED - The Challenge of Diversity: A Conference on Global Minorities DESCRIPTION:The 3rd Annual Center for World History Grad Student Conference. \nPlease stay tuned for more information. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/3rd-annual-grad-student-conference-the-challenge-of-diversity-a-conference-on-global-minorities/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T163000 DTSTAMP:20260513T100339 CREATED:20191114T021536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191114T021549Z UID:10005663-1573743600-1573749000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Extreme Weather and the Mexican Revolution: Historical Reality and Perception DESCRIPTION:This talk will present recently published research that combines environmental history and historical climatology to examine the relationship between extreme weather events\, especially drought and frost\, and the origins of the Mexican Revolution. Wolfe’s findings suggest that inaccurate and misleading weather reporting—what he calls “politico-environmental” coverage—by a variety of newspapers throughout the country was as important as actual climatic variability in exacerbating the economic and political crises that culminated in the 1910-11 armed insurrection. Wolfe’s research not only changes our understanding of the Mexican Revolution; it also helps to historicize the current study of climate change and conflict\, such as in the Syrian civil war\, which has a number of striking parallels to Mexico’s civil war exactly one century before. \nMikael Wolfe is an environmental historian of water and climate issues in modern Latin America and author of Watering the Revolution: An Environmental and Technological History of Agrarian Reform in Mexico (Duke University Press\, 2017). \nPresented by the Center for World History\, cwh@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/extreme-weather-and-the-mexican-revolution-historical-reality-and-perception/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T100339 CREATED:20190821T170316Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191216T200700Z UID:10006762-1570114800-1570122000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Paul Gootenberg: From Teonanácatl to Miami Vice - Latin America’s Contribution to World Drug Culture DESCRIPTION:Long before today’s entanglements with coke\, meth\, and weed\, the Americas were a proving ground of global drug cultures. This millennium of shamanistic and Aztec psychedelics\, colonial and Atlantic stimulants such as coffee and tobacco\, national drug goods like tequila and coca\, preceded the menacing 20th-century explosion of illicit drug trafficking\, and shed light on our changing relationships to mind drugs and their commerce. \n\n  \n \nPaul Gootenberg\, SUNY Distinguished Professor of History & Sociology at Stony Brook University\, and Chair of History\, is a Latin Americanist and commodity studies specialist and leader in the field of global drug history. He trained at the University of Chicago and Oxford. His books include Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug (UNC\, 2008) and with Liliana M. Dávalos\, The Origins of Cocaine: Peasant Colonization and Failed Development in the Amazon Andes (Routledge\, 2018). He is General Editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History and President-elect of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (ADHS). \n  \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Center for World History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paul-gootenberg-the-history-of-cocaine-in-latin-america/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190509T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190509T173000 DTSTAMP:20260513T100340 CREATED:20190213T205535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T175344Z UID:10006710-1557417600-1557423000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Deirdre de la Cruz: "Psychic Surgery and Other Philippine Phenomena of the Global Occult" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nIn the variegated landscape of the Filipino paranormal\, one phenomenon garnered worldwide attention in the last quarter of the twentieth century: psychic surgery. A form of spiritual healing in which the practitioner\, or espiritista\, usually male\, operates on the body of the patient without anaesthesia and using only his hands\, psychic surgery achieved particular renown in the United States in the 1980s when celebrity practitioners of New Age spirituality like Shirley MacLaine spoke publicly about their experience with Filipino psychic surgeons. This talk first provides a broad historical outline of the esoteric movements in the twentieth-century Philippines that culminated in the convergence of New Age spirituality and Filipino Spiritism seen in psychic surgery\, paying particular attention to the axial shift from Espiritismo (the science of communication with the dead codified by French educator Allan Kardec and introduced to the Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century)\, to transpacific New Age movements. It then digs deep into the spectacle of healing that drew thousands of patients from around the world at a time when the Philippines was in the sway of the greatest cheat of all\, Ferdinand Marcos. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deirdre-de-la-cruz-psychic-surgery-philippine-phenomena-global-occult/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Micah-Perks-true-love.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190425T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190425T160000 DTSTAMP:20260513T100340 CREATED:20190125T211443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T182851Z UID:10005571-1556208000-1556208000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Susanah Shaw Romney\, "Unfree Intimacies: Gender and the Taking of Terraqueous Space at Batavia in the Seventeenth Century" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nColonization is not a one-time land grab\, but rather an ongoing process of claiming space. Batavia\, as the Dutch urban port city on Java in the seventeenth century was known\, provides an opportunity to explore the role of gender in this unfolding process. There\, the appropriation of local and regional terraqueous space relied on a simultaneous colonization of intimate space. Women of Batavia\, as wives\, concubines\, and slaves\, played an often unwilling role in the construction of empire at the intimate\, local\, and transoceanic scales. \nSusanah Shaw Romney\, Assistant Professor\, earned her Ph.D. from Cornell University\, where she worked with Prof. Mary Beth Norton. Her book\, New Netherland Connections\, is the winner of the 2014 Book Prize from the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians\, given annually to a first book published by a woman pertaining substantially to the subject of women and gender; the 2013 Jamestown Prize\, given every two years by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; and the 2013 Hendricks Prize\, given annually by the New Netherland Institute. She is now at work on a new project looking at gender\, settlement\, and land claims in the seventeenth-century Dutch empire in North America\, Guyana\, South Africa\, and Java. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/unfree-intimacies-gender-taking-terraqueous-space-batavia-seventeenth-century-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Untitled-design-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T180000 DTSTAMP:20260513T100340 CREATED:20190313T211052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T192402Z UID:10005590-1555057800-1555092000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2nd Annual Grad Student Conference: “Citizenship in Flux: Migration and Exclusion in World History\, 1750-2019” DESCRIPTION:The rise of nativist or nationalist movements in many countries and the closing of borders to migrants seeking refuge from persecution\, war\, and violence calls into question the world historical context of migration\, borders\, and political belonging. This conference queries citizenship and borders across time and region to make sense of their implications for citizens\, non-citizens \, subjects\, refugees\, and exiles in world history. We welcome broad definitions of “border\,” “citizenship\,” and “migration”to include boundaries that migrate even when people themselves do not\, citizenships that are defined by entities other than the state\, and migrations that don’t require physical movement (eg. movement among identities that can affect citizenship\, like race or religion). \nGraduate Student Conference hosted by: The UCSC Center for World History Program \nCommittee: Daniel Joesten\, Muiris MacGiollabhui\, Jackie Schultz\, Crystal Smith \n8:30–9:00 Opening Remarks\, Coffee\, and Pastries \n9:00-10:30 Panel One: “Religion\, Migration\, and the Politics of Citizenship” \nChair: Crystal E. Smith \n\nJeffrey Turner (University of Utah) – “Polygamy\, Race\, and Religion in the 1891 Immigration Act”\nRobin Keller (University of California\, Santa Cruz) – “‘The Only Foreigners We Felt Sorry For:’ Holocaust Refugees and Border Control in World War II Shanghai”\nShimul Chowdhury (University of California\, Santa Cruz) – “Stitching Solidarity: Collaborative Craft and the Muslim Identity”\n\n10:45-12:15 Panel Two: “Identity\, Family\, and the State” \nChair: Jaclyn N. Schultz \n\nSelena Moon (Independent Scholar) – “ Sexism and Racism in U.S. and Japanese Citizenship Laws ”\nEmma Bellino (University of Wollongong) – “From Citizen to Alien to Citizen Again: Married Women’s Dependent Nationality in Australia\, 1920-1948 ”\nKarina Ruiz (University of California\, Santa Cruz) – “Cleavages of the State: Legal geographies in the U.S.”\n\n12:15-1:15 Lunch \n1:15- 2:45 Panel Three: “Exile and Banishment across Borders” \nChair: Muiris MacGiollabhuí \n\nDaisy Munoz (San Francisco State University) – “Viva Reagan: Cuban Republican Partisanship in 1980 & 1984”\nKevan Aguilar (University of California\, San Diego) – “‘Cárdenas was Calling Us:’ Race\, Class\, and Settlement in Mexican & Spanish Exile Imaginaries”\nLily Hindy (University of California\, Los Angeles) – “Reconsidering Home: Syrian Refugees\, Emigrés\, and Exiles Confront a New National Identity”\n\n3:00-4:15 Panel Four: “Culture\, Ethnicity\, and Nationalism” \nChair: Daniel Joesten \n\nHardeep Dhillon (Harvard University) – “‘Popularly Understood ’ : U.S. Naturalization in the Early Twentieth Century ”\nAmelia Flood (St. Louis University) – “Marooned on American Shores: Migrating Between Citizen and Subject in the U.S. Virgin Islands.”\nAlberto Ganis (University of California\, Santa Cruz) – “Sub-State Nationalisms and the Other(s) : The Mediated Identities of Friuli”\n\n4:30-6 Keynote \nHarry Nii Koney Odamtten (Santa Clara University Associate Professor of Africa and Atlantic History) – “Edward W. Blyden: The Afropolitan Dreams of an Atlantic Denizen” \nCo-sponsored by: Center for Jewish Studies\, Cowell College\, UCSC History Department\, and our generous donors from UCSC Giving Day! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2nd-annual-grad-student-conference-citizenship-flux-migration-exclusion-world-history-1750-2019/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T173000 DTSTAMP:20260513T100340 CREATED:20190213T203202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190315T195451Z UID:10006709-1552492800-1552498200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Kevin McDonald\, “Babbo and the Breadfruit: Plants\, Oceans\, and Empires in the Age of Enlightenment” DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAt the end of the eighteenth century\, a fantastic global plot was conjured up by a network of invested individuals that eventually reached the highest levels of the British state and the Admiralty. The plan: to transplant South Pacific breadfruit to the Caribbean Islands to feed the slaves of empire. Slaves grew sugar that fueled the proto-industrial workforce of England\, and sugar produced rum\, that powered the imperial navy. This research talk will explore the trans-oceanic exchanges not just of breadfruit\, but of Atlantic and Pacific maritime cultures from ca. 1767-1798. Tracing the story of Babbo and the breadfruit allows us to intersect the surprisingly entangled histories of the South Pacific\, Europe\, Africa\, and the Caribbean\, in a global history connected by plants\, oceans\, and empires; and the fusion of not two but three tropical farming systems (Africa\, the West Indies\, and the South Pacific). \nKevin McDonald is an Associate Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles\, who received his Ph.D. from UCSC in 2008. His first book\, Pirates\, Merchants\, Settlers\, and Slaves: Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic World examined the important role played by pirates in the informal trade networks that integrated economies throughout the Indian and Atlantic Ocean trading worlds. His new project focuses on the transfer of breadfruit from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean as a potential crop to feed the Caribbean’s massive plantations. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kevin-mcdonald-babbo-breadfruit-plants-oceans-empires-age-enlightenment/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/kevin-mcdonald.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T100340 CREATED:20180824T205600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181119T202737Z UID:10005513-1542209400-1542214800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Isa Blumi - "The Ottoman Refugee and Euro-American Colonial Terror: A Global Story" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“The Ottoman Refugee and Euro-American Colonial Terror: A Global Story”\n\n\nAlthough the majority of Ottoman refugees in the 1878-1912 period remained internally displaced\, significant numbers found their way to new continents\, themselves in the throes of colonialist expansion. These pioneers’ stories require looking into the larger context of modern exploitation economies under which these Ottomans also suffered (and subsequently resisted in various ways). From recent studies we learn that the demand for cheap labor that absorbed such waves of Ottomans came from expanding labor-intensive plantation and mining operations as well as infrastructure development\, long the investment of choice for private capital. As much as we must tell the violent resistance to the exploitative demands of capital\, however\, Isa Blumi identifies thousands of Ottoman refugees whose violent experiences with Euro-American imperialism intersected in Southeast Asia\, Eastern Africa\, and the Americas. In several cases\, he will chart how colonialist-projects harnessed the capacity of Ottoman refugees (victims of expansionist European violence in their homelands) to subjugate indigenous peoples of what is today known as Southern Philippines\, the Swahili hinterland\, and the borderlands of an expanding US and Mexico/Comanche. In other words\, Euro-American imperialism took its ‘destined’ genocidal turn by often calling on various Ottoman subjects to make themselves useful in ways contradictory to their normative place in world history. \nIsa Blumi is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian\, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies at Stockholm University. \nThis event is sponsored by the newly revitalized Center for World History\, which fosters a rich set of lectures\, conferences\, pedagogical workshops\, and scholarly conversations. This programming enhances the intellectual life of faculty and students at UCSC across numerous disciplines interested in the human past. All Center for World History events are open to all members of the UCSC community and to the general public. More at: https://cwh.ucsc.edu/ URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/isa-blumi-ottoman-refugee-euro-american-colonial-terror-global-story/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Ottoman.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180524T150000 DTSTAMP:20260513T100340 CREATED:20180427T191320Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180430T194953Z UID:10005498-1527168600-1527174000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Mitch Aso: "Rubber and the Making of Vietnam" DESCRIPTION:  \nRubber has been a key commodity for industrial societies since the nineteenth century. Yet\, studies of the impact of the production of this good on various regions around the world have mostly been narrowly focused on the industry and its workers. My forthcoming book\, Rubber and the Making of Vietnam\, adopts a broader lens\, what I call an ecological history\, to examine the role of rubber in shaping Vietnamese society in the twentieth century. Through this lens\, I examine how the evolving relationships between humans and non-humans contributed to both the projects of empire and nation building. I argue that rubber\, and rubber plantations\, structured the material and symbolic bodies and landscapes of the postcolonial nation of Vietnam. In my talk\, I will touch on the promises and the perils of such ecological histories and the new perspectives on the past that they offer. \nMore info on The Center for World History URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mitch-aso-rubber-making-vietnam/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Aso-talk-image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180407T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180407T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T100340 CREATED:20180220T224957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180322T223445Z UID:10006596-1523091600-1523120400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Intimate States: Family\, Domestic Space\, and the State DESCRIPTION:Center for World History presents: Intimate States: Family\, Domestic Space\, and the State\nFull Conference Agenda here: 4-7-18 Intimate States Conference Agenda \nConference Key Note: “The Household\, the State\, and ‘Economic Development Strategies’ in Europe and China Around 1800.” \nMary Jo Maynes \nThis talk will explore the comparative logics of statebuilding in China and Europe in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries\, focusing in particular the ways in which state policies had implications for the household-economy nexus. Mary Jo will discuss several dimensions of state policy having implications for household structure\, and for gender and generational relations including: fiscal policy (taxation\, subsidy\, etc.); state-run industries; state-produced information and education (technology manuals\, encyclopedias\, schools\, etc.); laws and regulations; and state relations with relevant social groups such as producers and merchants. She hopes to rise comparative questions for discussion about long-term historical developments that connect statebuilding processes with the economic viability of household economies. \nMary Jo Maynes is a Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is a historian of Modern Europe with interests in comparative and world history. Her work explores the social and cultural history of the family\, gender and generational relations\, class dynamics\, and personal narratives. Her books include The Family: A World History (Oxford\, 2012)\, co-authored with Ann Waltner; Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History (Cornell\, 2008)\, co-authored with Jennifer Pierce and Barbara Laslett and Secret Gardens\, Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History (Indiana\, 2004)\, co-edited with Birgitte Søland and Christina Benninghaus. She is currently a co-editor of Gender & History and co-organizer of two U of MN research collaboratives: “Narrative/Medicine” at the Institute for Advanced Study and “Subjects\, Objects\, Agents: Young People’s Lives and Livelihoods in the Global South” at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Social Change. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-world-history-workshop-intimate-states-family-domestic-space-state/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/mj2-rework.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T150000 DTSTAMP:20260513T100340 CREATED:20171129T211008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T230849Z UID:10005438-1519306200-1519311600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Titas Chakraborty: Controlling "Quarrelsome Workers": Boatmen of Bengal\, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition\, 1701-1806 DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe Center for World History presents: \nControlling “Quarrelsome Workers”: Boatmen of Bengal\, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition\, 1701-1806 \nTitas Chakraborty URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/controlling-quarrelsome-workers-boatmen-of-bengal-english-east-india-company-state-and-the-global-mobility-transition-1701-1806-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Titas-Chakraborty-2.22.18.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T150000 DTSTAMP:20260513T100340 CREATED:20171113T194244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180116T182140Z UID:10006565-1515677400-1515682800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ana Candela: "From Compradors to Hacendados: Cantonese Merchants in Peru and the Expanding Settler Colonial Frontiers of the Cantonese Pacific" DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nBiography: \nAna Maria Candela is a historian of Modern China and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University. Her research focuses on Chinese migrations to Latin America as a way to explore the global dimensions of Chinese history. Her work has appeared in Critical Asian Studies and the Journal of World-Systems Research. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Intimate Others: Peruvian Chinese Between Native Place\, Nation and World\, 1880s-1940s. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ana-candela-asian-migration-to-south-america/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Solstice-Music-Fest.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170508T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170508T150000 DTSTAMP:20260513T100340 CREATED:20170428T213517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170428T213517Z UID:10006510-1494250200-1494255600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Brett Rushforth: “‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic" DESCRIPTION:Center for World History Presents \nBrett Rushforth\n“‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic” \nMay 8\, 2017 @ 1:30-3pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 210\nFree and open to the public \nBrett Rushforth is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. He is a scholar of early American\nand Atlantic history who specializes in slavery\, race\, and the law in the French Atlantic world. His\nmost recent book\, “Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France”\, uncovered the\nhidden history of French colonists enslaving Native North Americans by the thousands in the 1700s\,\nsending captive Sioux\, Apache\, and other Indians to a life of slavery in Montreal\, Quebec\, and even the\nFrench Caribbean. In 2013-14\, “Bonds of Alliance” was named the best book in American social history\nby the Organization of American Historians\, the best book on the history of French colonialism by the\nFrench Colonial Historical Society\, the best book on the history of European expansion by the Forum\non European Expansion and Global Interaction\, and the best book in French Cultural Studies. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/brett-rushforth-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Brett-Rushforth-Daily-Trafficke.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170223T133000 DTSTAMP:20260513T100340 CREATED:20170217T003914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170217T003914Z UID:10006468-1487851200-1487856600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China's Northwest Frontier DESCRIPTION:Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China’s Northwest Frontier\nRuth Mostern \n  \nAbstract: Beginning in the eleventh century\, the Yellow River shifted from a long-term condition of relative stability to a later state of frequent floods and course changes. In recent years\, environmental scientists and historians have converged on a set of insights about the timing and processes that brought about these changes. All of the evidence confirms that the primary cause of upstream erosion and downstream flooding was the intensification of human activity in the grasslands of the Ordos basin\, the loess soil region contained within the great bend of the Yellow River. This paper introduces environmental science research about the long history of human impacts on the loess plateau during the entire Holocene. In addition it uses historical sources\, spatial analysis and soil science to focus particular particular attention on the northern and western Ordos region during the eleventh century\, explaining why these decades created a tipping point in social and ecological life in north China. \n  \nLunch will be provided. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/loess-is-more-a-spatial-and-ecological-history-of-erosion-on-imperial-chinas-northwest-frontier-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Loess-is-More_-A-Spatial-and-Ecological-History-of-Erosion-on-Imperial-Chinas-Northwest-Frontier..jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR