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Humanities 1, Room 520
Camille Fauroux: “Framing Gender across Boundaries: French Women at Work in Berlin’s War Industry (1940-1945)”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDuring 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 […]
Sugar Beets, Biocolonialism, and Memory in the American West
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe History Department Presents the Thom Gentle Lecture on Environmental History Bernadette Jeanne Pérez Ph.D. Candidate University of Minnesota, Twin Cities What 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 […]
David Brundage: "Remembering 1916 in America: The Easter Rising’s Many Faces, 1919-1962"
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDavid Brundage is Professor of history and the History Graduate Program Director. The 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 […]
Ernesto Chávez: "My Dear Noël": Ramón Novarro, Noël Sullivan, and the Negotiation of a Catholic/Mexican/Queer Identity
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesErnesto 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, […]
Manu Bhagavan – Toward universal relief and rehabilitation: India, UNRRA, and the new internationalism
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join the History Department for this scholarly talk by Manu Bhagavan of Hunter College: Toward universal relief and rehabilitation: India, UNRRA, and the new “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 […]
“Polly Want a Caesar? Talking Birds and Prophetic Birds in Early Imperial Rome”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn 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 […]
Prasenjit Duara: "Circulatory and Competitive Histories: Temporal Foundations for Cosmopolitanism
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStories – 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 […]
Rachel Chrastil: "Inventing Humanitarianism: Gender and the Civilian Male in Besieged Strasbourg"
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn 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 […]
The Greatest Story Never Told (In the West): The Rāmāyaṇa and the Cultural Universe of South and Southeast Asia
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRobert P. Goldman is the author of several key works in the fields of Sanskrit literature and Indian thought, and has recently completed the translation of the Ramayana of Valmiki. The recipient of several honors, including election as fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Goldman currently serves as editor of “South Asia […]
Jennifer Derr, Talk title TBA
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Department of History presents: Muslim Mediterranean/Middle Eastern World Search Job Talk. Jennifer Derr has her B.S. from Stanford University; M.A., Georgetown University; Ph.D., Stanford. Areas of academic interest include modern Middle Eastern history, African history, Ottoman Empire, early Islamic history. Fellow, Society of Junior Fellows in British Studies, University of Texas at Austin (2009–10); James […]