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SUMMARY:Zachary Lockman: "Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the United States”
DESCRIPTION:Area studies is often simplistically depicted as little more than a Cold War form of knowledge\, but its emergence as a component of the postwar American academic scene was in fact propelled and shaped by visions\, exigencies and contingencies that were not initially or exclusively about the needs of the national security state. Zachary Lockman’s 2016 book Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States draws on extensive archival research to offer a different perspective on the origins and trajectory of area studies in the United States and to explore how the field of Middle East studies in the United States was actually built. The book’s focus is not on intellectual paradigms or scholarly output but rather on funding decisions and their rationales\, efforts to elaborate a distinctive theory and method for area studies\, the anxieties these efforts generated for Middle East studies\, and the unanticipated consequences of building these new academic fields. \nZachary Lockman has taught modern Middle Eastern history at New York University since 1995. His most recent book is Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States (2016). His other books include Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (2004/2010); Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine\, 1906-1948 (1996); and (with Joel Beinin) Workers on the Nile: Nationalism\, Communism\, Islam\, and the Egyptian Working Class\, 1882-1954 (1987). He is a former president of the Middle East Studies Association\, chairs the wing of MESA’s Committee on Academic Freedom that deals with North America\, and is a contributing editor of Middle East Report.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zachary-lockman-adventures-in-field-building-on-the-history-of-area-studiesmiddle-east-studies-in-the-united-states-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Why I'm reading Joseph Conrad these days
DESCRIPTION:Familiarity with Heart of Darkness helpful\, but not essential. Introduction: Prof. David Marriott\, Chair\, History of Consciousness \n\n\n\n\n\nDiscussant: Isaac Blacksin\, Ph.D. candidate\, History of Consciousness \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nJames Clifford is an interdisciplinary scholar who was a Professor in UCSC’s History of Consciousness department for 33 years until his retirement in 2011. He was elected to the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences in 2011. The History of Consciousness department at UCSC continues to be an intellectual center for innovative critical scholarship in the U.S. and abroad. Since 2000\, Clifford’s writing has focused on processes of globalization and decolonization as they influence contemporary “indigenous” lives\, including Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty First Century (2013).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/why-im-reading-joseph-conrad-these-days-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161129T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161129T131500
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SUMMARY:The Devil's Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
DESCRIPTION:“The Devil’s Wheels Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic” by Sasha Disko \nDuring the high days of modernization fever\, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly\, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s burgeoning motorcycle culture. With automobiles largely a luxury of the upper classes\, motorcycles complexly symbolized masculinity and freedom\, embodying a widespread desire to embrace progress as well as profound anxieties over the course of social transformation. Through its richly textured account of the motorcycle as both icon and commodity\, The Devil’s Wheels teases out the intricacies of gender and class in the Weimar years. \n\nSasha Disko is a historian and independent scholar. She is an alumnus of UCSC (BA in History and German Studies\, 1997) and received her PhD in History from New York University. She has been living and working in Germany since 2008. Her research interests include the history of motorization\, industrialization\, business administration\, and leisure. She currently lives in Hamburg\, Germany.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-devils-wheels-men-and-motorcycling-in-the-weimar-republic-2/
LOCATION:Rachel Carson College\, Room 301\, Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED Covell Meyskens: "Visualizing the Past: The Making of the Website 'Everyday Life in Mao's China'"
DESCRIPTION:Covell Meyskens\, Assistant Professor of History at the Naval Postgraduate School\, will talk about his website Everyday Life in Mao’s China which currently houses over 5\,000 images China. Meyskens will discuss the website’s origins\, its intended and unintended contributions to the expanding field of PRC history\, and suggestions for offer suggestions on how to conduct comparable digital projects on other research topics. \nCovell Meyskens is a historian of twentieth century China with a particular interest in industrialization\, revolution\, and everyday life. His current book project is tentatively titled “Securing Maoist China: The Cold War\, Late Development\, and Everyday Life in the Third Front\, 1964-1980.” It is the first history of China’s largest ever industrial defense project – the Third Front. The book analyzes how the Chinese Communist Party industrialized hinterland regions in order to protect China from American and Soviet threats. Meyskens is also engaged in ongoing research on the history of China’s Railroad Corps\, hydropower in Hubei province\, and automobiles in China. \n  \nThis event is sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program\, History Department\, and IHR Digital Humanities Research Cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/visualizing-the-past-the-making-of-the-website-everyday-life-in-maos-china-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Camille Fauroux:  "Framing Gender across Boundaries:  French Women at Work in Berlin’s War Industry (1940-1945)"
DESCRIPTION:During the Second World War\, 50\,000 to 100\,000 French women chose to leave France to work for the war industry in Germany. Their transnational experience points to the racial and gendered division of labor that deployed itself throughout Nazi occupied Europe. In an attempt to sustain the war effort while limiting German’s women’s draft and preserve their status as mothers and housewives\, the National-socialist state chose to rely on the forced labor of millions of foreign men and women from occupied territories who where brought to the Reich. Drawing from a case study on the high-tech electronic industry in Berlin between 1940 and 1945\, I reveal how French women’s “voluntary work” became more and more coerced as the war went on. Segregated housing in camps ensured a tight control of these workers as well as it prevented them from founding families on the German soil\, but it also provided unexpected space for solidarity and resistance to forced labor. \nCamille Fauroux is a doctoral candidate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. This year\, she is a visiting  research associate at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation\, under the supervision of Prof. Laura Lee Downs\, examines French women’s labor in National-socialist Germany between 1940 and 1945. Her research interests include forced labor\, migration\, sexuality\, and the transnational construction of gender. \nLight refreshments will be provided.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/camille-fauroux-framing-gender-across-boundaries-french-women-at-work-in-berlins-war-industry-1940-1945-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sugar Beets\, Biocolonialism\, and Memory in the American West
DESCRIPTION:The History Department Presents the Thom Gentle Lecture on Environmental History \nBernadette Jeanne Pérez\nPh.D. Candidate\nUniversity of Minnesota\, Twin Cities \nWhat can the sugar beet industry tell us about the relationship between agricultural science\, capitalism\, and American settler colonialism? In this talk\, Pérez draws upon turn of the twentieth century beet sugar manuals\, which drew upon ideas of heredity and evolution\, and mid-twentieth century industry histories\, which narrated industry founders as heroic pioneers\, to reveal that efforts to breed stronger and healthier sugar beets were part of a broader vision to erase the history of Indigenous peoples\, subjugate non-white workers\, and construct white American exceptionalism. Between 1870 and 1945\, over 160 beet sugar factories opened in rural American towns from Michigan to the Pacific Coast. Hoping to cash in on a crop then touted as “white gold\,” landowners allocated millions of acres to beets to feed their local factories. Efforts to dominate and domesticate nature were inseparable from global histories of colonialism\, race\, and Manifest Destiny. \nBernadette Pérez is a PhD Candidate in US history at the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation\, ““Before the Sun Rises: Contesting Power and Cultivating Nations in Colorado Beet Fields\, 1900-1945\,” is a social\, cultural\, environmental\, and labor history of diverse migrant workers in the sugar beet industry. Her research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation\, the University of Minnesota’s Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change\, the Organization of American Historian’s Huggins Quarles Award\, and the Western History Association’s Sara Jackson Award.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sugar-beets-biocolonialism-and-memory-in-the-american-west-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151203T163000
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SUMMARY:Screening of “Okinawa: The Afterburn” with Director John Junkerman
DESCRIPTION: Q&A with Director John Junkerman to follow the film\n\nIntroduction by Professor Alan Christy\, Department of History\n\nDirected by John Junkerman\, long-term resident of Japan and Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker\, the brand-new “Okinawa: The Afterburn” is a sweeping\, in-depth look at the wartime and postwar history of Okinawa and the massive American military presence on the island. Consisting of interviews and rare archival footage on the 1945 Battle of Okinawa\, the 27-year American occupation and the ongoing struggles of the local people up until the present\, the film is a powerful statement on the historical background and complex reality of US bases on Okinawa\, an issue that remains highly controversial on both the island itself and in mainland Japan.\n\nCo-sponsors:\n\nCenter for Documentary Arts and Research\nDepartment of History\nInstitute for East Asian Studies\nFilm and Digital Media\nThe Gail Project
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/screening-of-okinawa-the-afterburn-with-director-john-junkerman-3/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150519T140000
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SUMMARY:David Brundage: "Remembering 1916 in America: The Easter Rising’s Many Faces\, 1919-1962"
DESCRIPTION:David Brundage is Professor of history and the History Graduate Program Director. \nThe talk will draw on an essay-in-progress for a collection entitled Remembering 1916: The Easter Rising\, the Somme and the Politics of Memory\, ed. Richard S. Grayson and Fearghal McGarry. Brundage focuses his attention on a period that has been relatively neglected in the history of the Irish in America\, the 1920s through the early 1960s. How (and by whom) was the 1916 Rising remembered in this period? Providing some answers to this question can tell us a great deal about the striking diversity of memory practices\, while also shedding light on important aspects of Irish American (and American) life in these decades. \nA once powerful Irish American nationalist movement shrank dramatically in this period. Nonetheless\, the Rising continued to be remembered (differently) by Catholic churchmen\, Irish American labor leaders\, African American nationalists\, and Hollywood. The telling of the Easter Rising story\, Brundage argues\, had a kind of modular character. That is\, narratives of 1916\, frequently marked by stirring examples of idealism\, courage\, and sacrifice\, could be lifted out of their specifically Irish context and used to legitimize or inspire other sorts of movements and agendas—or simply to entertain. Remembering 1916 in America involved a diverse array of people\, practices\, and motives\, and its analysis has the potential to shed light on important mid-twentieth century topics ranging from African American nationalism to representations of Ireland and the Irish in American popular culture. \nLight refreshments will be provided.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/david-brundage-remembering-1916-in-america-the-easter-risings-many-faces-1919-1962-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150507T140000
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SUMMARY:History Department Undergraduate Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The History Department Undergraduate Research Symposium is an annual event held each spring that recognizes the exceptional research being conducted by UC Santa Cruz history undergraduates. The symposium provides undergraduate students with a unique opportunity to share their research with a larger audience\, as well as provides a forum for students\, faculty\, and the university community to engage in scholarly discussion. In addition\, a UCSC history alumnus is invited each year to deliver a keynote address aimed at undergraduate research. \nThe 8th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium will be held on Thursday\, May 7th\, 2015\, 2-5 pm\, in the Wagstaff Fireside Lounge at Stevenson College. The event is free and open to the public. \n2015 Keynote Speaker – Eryn Brennan\, Urban Planner/Architectural Historian at AKRF\, Inc. Class of 2000.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/history-department-undergraduate-research-symposium-2-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150425T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150425T153000
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SUMMARY:Tales as Tall as the Redwoods: Reflections on UCSC's Founding Years
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] \nTo commemorate UC Santa Cruz’s 50th Anniversary\, the Department of History has invited a few distinguished faculty emeriti and alumni to share stories about their experiences at UC Santa Cruz during its early years. This is a rare opportunity to hear the oral histories of the individuals who helped shape the future of our beloved campus. Our engaging list of panelists includes: \n  \nPeter Kenez (Professor Emeritus)\nMultiple generations of UC Santa Cruz students recognize the name Peter Kenez. A Ph.D. graduate from Harvard University and celebrating 50 years on campus in 2016\, it is not uncommon for students ask\, “Does Peter Kenez still teach history here? My dad was a student of his!” A wonderful opportunity to hear the wisdom of a much beloved pioneer. \nDavid Thomas (Professor Emeritus)\nDavid Thomas was a professor of politics at UCSC from 1966 to 1999. From 1980\, he taught a course\, whose final title was “Sexual Politics: Queer Politics.” The course was a major contribution to queer life at UCSC and was one of the first of its kind in the United States. A true trailblazer in his field and one we welcome home for Alumni Weekend. \nGregg Herken (Stevenson ’69)\nGregg Herken is a distinguished UC Santa Cruz alumnus and Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California. He taught at Oberlin College and Yale before becoming a Founding Faculty member at UC Merced. He is the author of five books and was a finalist for the 2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History. \nLinda Peterson (Stevenson ’70)\nLinda Peterson currently serves as a UC Santa Cruz Foundation Trustee and Associate General Counsel at Occidental Petroleum. Her distinguished career includes tenures as Director of the The Mary Magdalene Project\, President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals\, and founding member of the Board of Directors of Theater By The Blind (now theater Breaking Through Barriers)\, a New York City-based theater company that works with the disabled. \nGail Hershatter – Moderator\nGail Hershatter is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she has taught since 1991. Her books include The Workers of Tianjin\, 1900-1949 (1986)\, Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980s (with Emily Honig\, 1988)\, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (1997)\, Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century (2007)\, and The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past (2011). She chaired the History Department from 2010-2013 and is a former President of the Association for Asian Studies (2011-2012). \nAdmission details: Registration Required![/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tales-as-tall-as-the-redwoods-reflections-on-ucscs-founding-years-2/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150421T140000
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SUMMARY:Ernesto Chávez: "My Dear Noël": Ramón Novarro\, Noël Sullivan\, and the Negotiation of a Catholic/Mexican/Queer Identity
DESCRIPTION:Ernesto Chávez\, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas\, El Paso\, and Visiting Researcher at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center\, reads expressions of devout Catholicism and queer codes in the early- and mid-twentieth-century letters of silent screen actor\, Ramón Novarro\, and arts philanthropist Noël Sullivan. This free\, public lecture takes place Tuesday\, April 21\, 2015\, at 2:00pm in Humanities 1\, Room 520. \nIn this presentation\, Ernesto Chávez offers preliminary thoughts on materials pertaining to Ramón Novarro\, the Mexican-born\, gay\, silent screen actor and devout Roman Catholic. Novarro\, the subject of Professor Chávez’s current book project\, was perhaps best known for playing the title role in the 1925 version of Ben-Hur\, which propelled him to stardom. The bulk of his career occurred at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and after his stardom waned\, he continued to act in movies and television until his violent murder at the hands of a hustler in 1968. The manner of his death ensured that he was outed posthumously. Yet\, if one reads interviews with him and letters that he wrote to friends\, queer codes that deflected his homosexuality emerge. Such is the case with the 102 letters that he wrote to Bay Area arts philanthropist Noël Sullivan. The letters\, which are housed at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library\, are the basis of this talk. In these missives\, Novarro expressed his devout Catholicism to Sullivan\, who was both gay and Catholic. The letters provide insight into a platonic relationship between two gay men in the early to mid-twentieth century and allow us to glimpse an intimacy that was mitigated by religiosity\, but that nonetheless had at its core a common homosexuality. \nErnesto Chávez HeadshotErnesto Chávez\, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas\, El Paso\, is currently a Visiting Researcher at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and Institute of American Cultures. His work intersects Chicano/a\, Latino/a\, and Borderlands History and examines the history of the American Southwest\, focusing on the matrix of race\, class\, and sexuality throughout the ethnic Mexican and Latino American past. In 2014\, he received the American Historical Association’s Equity Award. \nClick here for more info \nThe Chicano Latino Research Center is proud to cosponsor this free\, public lecture with the Departments of History and Latin American and Latino Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ernesto-chavez-my-dear-noel-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150218T140000
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SUMMARY:Manu Bhagavan - Toward universal relief and rehabilitation: India\, UNRRA\, and the new internationalism
DESCRIPTION:Please join the History Department for this scholarly talk by Manu Bhagavan of Hunter College: \nToward universal relief and rehabilitation: India\, UNRRA\, and the new \n“India” had been involved in the United Nations even in its wartime incarnation\, inasmuch as the Crown Government of the colonized region brought the territory into the Second World War and\, in turn\, voted to support various institutions created to deal with the challenges wrought by the conflict. Among the most prominent of these was the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA)\, the mission of which was to aid countries negatively impacted by the military campaigns. The British Government of India strongly signaled its support even as the subcontinent weathered the effects of one the worst famines ever encountered in the region. UNRRA was based in the United States and led by several men who considered themselves friends of India\, most notably famed New Yorkers Herbert Lehman and Fiorello LaGuardia. Over the next several years\, UNRRA pushed to create an Indian office and to incorporate Indians into administration based in the US\, in a good faith effort to circumvent charges of imperial complicity. So the agency leadership was especially surprised when they ran into resistance from India’s anti-colonial icons. UNRRA was too blind to the pernicious stranglehold of imperialism the Indians believed\, and so had to be challenged\, even as it was admired. The encounter thus exemplifies colonial India’s efforts to challenge and undo Great Power/Global North/Western control of UN bureaucracies from the outset\, and to reset both the tone and the substance of international relations by insisting on shared responsibilities and mutual respect. \nManu Bhagavan is the Chair of the Human Rights Program at the Roosevelt House Public Policy institute and a Professor of History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. He is a specialist on modern India\, focusing on the twentieth-century late-colonial and post-colonial periods\, with particular interests in human rights\, (inter)nationalism\, and questions of sovereignty. His most recent publication is The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World (Haper Collins\, 2012).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/manu-bhagavan-toward-universal-relief-and-rehabilitation-india-unrra-and-the-new-internationalism-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150213T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150213T173000
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SUMMARY:“Polly Want a Caesar? Talking Birds and Prophetic Birds in Early Imperial Rome”
DESCRIPTION:In Republican Rome\, birds had served as the messengers of the gods\, communicating in ways that only a few religious specialists could fully understand and interpret. At the turn of the first century CE\, these same birds began to speak plain Latin\, apparently endorsing the new regime of the Caesars in language that anyone could understand. On closer examination\, however\, these talking birds turn out to be transmitting a much more troubling message about the constitution of the Roman body politic at a moment of uncertainty and rapid change. \nMartin Devecka is a post-doctoral fellow at Yale University who will join the Classical Studies faculty at UC Santa Cruz in 2015-16. He is a cultural historian with a special interest in applying the methods of sociology to the ancient world. Current projects include a comparative history of ruins\, a historical zoology of the Roman Empire\, and an investigation of peripatetic attitudes toward technology.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/polly-want-a-caesar-talking-birds-and-prophetic-birds-in-early-imperial-rome-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Prasenjit Duara: "Circulatory and Competitive Histories: Temporal Foundations for Cosmopolitanism
DESCRIPTION:Stories – narratives of the past – are necessary in all collectivities that seek to constitute and maintain themselves.  In modern times\, competitive states have sought to mobilize all resources and bio-power in their territory by adopting singular\, linear histories of the state\, nation and civilization.  But\, ironically\, just as these singular stories were becoming dominant\, the world was globalizing more actively than ever.  The stories themselves have come to be shaped by global forces. \nWhile the historical enterprise of collective formation – in which distinctive stories are developed within the framework of single states – remains important for the building of local\, national or regional communities\, these enterprises can no longer deny the cosmopolitan circulations that condition them.  This is especially so now that planetary sustainability is at stake.  And indeed\, the most significant Eurasian historical developments have tended to be circulatory and shared.  The early modern era is a particularly fruitful period to consider\, because the distinction between the local and the universal was less pronounced; state territoriality and culture were not conflated.  Can we recapture those kinds of stories?  How might social and political theory look if our histories were not linear\, exclusive accounts of nations and civilizations\, but rather dispersed\, cross-referenced\, mutually shaping and shared histories? \nPrasenjit Duara is Raffles Professor of Humanities and Director of Asia Research Institute and of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore\, where he has taught since 2008.  Prior to that\, he was professor and chairman of the History Department at the University of Chicago. Among his books are Rescuing History from the Nation (1995)\, Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (2003)\, and Culture\, Power and the State: Rural North China\, 1900-1942 (1988)\, which won the Fairbank Prize of the AHA and the Levenson Prize of the AAS. His most recent work is The Global and the Regional in China’s Nation-Formation (Routledge\, 2009). His work has been widely translated into Chinese\, Japanese and Korean. He will speak from forthcoming book The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Cambridge\, 2014). \nSponsored by the Department of History and the East Asian Studies Program.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/circulatory-and-competitive-histories-temporal-foundations-for-cosmopolitanism-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chair Lisbeth Haas - Saints & Citizens: Book Reading & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries\, showing how the missions became sites of their authority\, memory\, and identity. Shining a forensic eye on colonial encounters in Chumash\, Luiseño\, and Yokuts territories\, Lisbeth Haas depicts how native painters incorporated their cultural iconography in mission painting and how leaders harnessed new knowledge for control in other ways. Through her portrayal of highly varied societies\, she explores the politics of Indigenous citizenship in the independent Mexican nation through events such as the Chumash War of 1824\, native emancipation after 1826\, and the political pursuit of Indigenous rights and land through 1848. \nLisbeth Haas is Professor of History and Chair of Feminist Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and author of Pablo Tac\, Indigenous Scholar: Writing on Luiseño Language and Colonial History\, c. 1840 (UC Press\, 2011) and Conquests and Historical Identities in California\, 1769–1936 (UC Press\, 1995). Professor Haas’s research interests include local histories of globalization\, indigenous histories of California\, subaltern scholars and their writing and painting\, Spanish colonial and Mexican California\, the Borderlands – especially the U.S. and Mexico\, the Colonial Americas\, California Studies\, Global Histories of Race\, Ethnicity\, and Diaspora\, Gendered Stories. \nThere will be a small reception following the reading.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chair-lisbeth-haas-saints-citizens-book-reading-discussion-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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SUMMARY:Rachel Chrastil: "Inventing Humanitarianism: Gender and the Civilian Male in Besieged Strasbourg"
DESCRIPTION:In August 1870 the Prussians and their German allies laid siege to the French city of Strasbourg and bombed the city center\, killing and wounding civilian men\, women and children. The siege gave rise to the first instance of wartime international humanitarian aid to civilians. This talk examines the experience of that aid from the perspective of the recipients as well as the ethical debates over the city’s continued resistance in the face of overwhelming force.\n\nRachel Chrastil joined the faculty at Xavier University in 2005\, after receiving her Ph.D. in History at Yale University.  Since then\, she has written two books on the civilian experience of war\, including The Siege of Strasbourg (forthcoming\, Harvard University Press).  She has been a Fulbright U.S. Scholar and an invited speaker on humanitarianism\, human rights and historical memory.  She currently holds a Xavier University Faculty Fellowship to promote quantitative literacy across the curriculum.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rachel-chrastil-inventing-humanitarianism-gender-and-the-civilian-male-in-besiege-strasbourg-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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