Events
Humanities 1, Room 520
Benoit Challand – Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis event is sponsored by the THI Research Cluster Vernaculars of Travel in South Asia and the Middle East and Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) and co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology Providing a longue durée perspective on the Arab uprisings of 2011, Benoît Challand narrates the transformation of citizenship in […]
Roberta Wue – Inventing the Chinese Craftsman: Amoy Chinqua and the 18th Century Export Portrait
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe sudden appearance of painted and unfired clay portraits of western merchants in the burgeoning China trade of the early eighteenth century marks some of the earliest manifestations of Chinese trade portraiture or trade “art” – and Chinese artisan. Originating with the craftsman Amoy Chinqua (active 1716-20), these curious and vivid portraits function in a […]
Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz – “The Idea ‘Asia’ in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Philippine Political Thought and Action”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk will excavate the Philippine nation’s cosmopolitan and transnational Asian intellectual moorings, in order to reconnect Philippine history to that of Southeast Asia, from which it has been historiographically separated. It argues that turn-of-the-twentieth-century Philippine Asianism was crucial to the concept of the Filipino nation that the ilustrados (educated elite) constructed, to the ilustrado-led […]
Jeffrey Wasserstrom – Hong Kong on the Brink
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk will focus on patterns of protest and the tightening of political controls in Hong Kong during the last few decades, paying particular attention to the 2014 Umbrella Movement and the dramatic events of 2019. Jeff Wasserstrom, a historian of China who has been visiting Hong Kong regularly since 1987, will draw on his […]
Urmi Engineer Willoughby – Cultivating Malaria in the Gulf South, 1718-1860
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Thom Gentle Environmental History Lecture In this talk, Urmi Willoughby will present her research on agriculture, development, and the growth of endemic fevers in lower Louisiana. She will explore why fevers spread in the borderlands of the Gulf South and lower Mississippi Valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and show how economic and […]
Michael Vann: The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt – Empire, Disease, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt - Empire, Disease, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam" The History Department Presents Michael Vann Professor of History at Sacramento State University and UCSC History graduate program alum
Rachel Gross, The Jewish Deli Revival: Buying and Selling American Jewish Nostalgia
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn recent years, there has been a nostalgic resurgence of interest in the Jewish deli menu. Restaurateurs and purveyors of Jewish food are deliberately making American Jewish food fit for the twenty-first century, emphasizing sustainability, local produce, and a nostalgic longing for family and communal histories. By selling and consuming a revitalized deli cuisine, American Jews […]
Zachary Lockman: “Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the United States”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesArea 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: […]
Marc Matera: “The Global 1930s: The International Decade”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe 1930s usually conjure up images of Soviet show trials, jack-booted, brown-shirted German fascists, and breadlines and the dustbowl in the United States. The decade is also associated with the failure of internationalism in the face of economic depression and militaristic nationalisms. Certainly these form part of the picture, but a Europe- and North American-centered […]
CANCELLED Covell Meyskens: “Visualizing the Past: The Making of the Website ‘Everyday Life in Mao’s China'”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCovell 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 […]