History Forum Speakers, 2000-present

Speakers
Date	Name	Title
3/10/00	Douglas Dodd, CSUB	"National Forests vs. National Parks: Bureaucratic Rivalry and the Preservation of Public Lands"
3/31/00	James Sefton and Frederick Kuretski, CSU Northridge	"History and Photography: A Journey Along California Highway 166"
5/12/00	Fredrik Logevall, UCSB	"Vietnam Reconsidered: Origins and Legacies of War"
10/6/00	John Maynard, CSUB	Book Launch of California: Golden Past, Shining Future
1/12/01	Miriam Vivian, CSUB	"The Christianization of Rome: Myths, Monuments and Martyrs in the Transformation of the City"
2/9/01	Charlotte Furth, USC	"Doing Research on the History of the Body: Representation and Experience"
4/27/01	Gonzalo Santos, CSUB	"Winning the War Against Oblivion: An Eye-Witness Account of the Historic Zapatista March to Mexico City"
6/1/01	Gordon Berger, USC	"Sumo: Mirror, Expression and Molder of Japanese Society"
11/16/01	James Meriwether, CSUB	"Zimbabwe: Todii, or What Shall We Do?"
1/11/02	Ken Manungo, U. of Zimbabwe	"Zimbabwe Today"
3/1/02	Randolph Bergstrom, UCSB	"Courting Equality: Law and the Injuries of Race in Turn-of-the-Century New York"
4/12/02	Mario T. Garcia, UCSB	"Oral History and the Ethnic Subject: Studies in the Chicano Experience"
4/26/02	John E. Wills, USC	"The Unconfinable Variety, Splendor, and Strangeness of the Human Condition"
5/17/02	Richard Orsi, CSU Hayward	"New Approaches to the History of the Southern Pacific Railroad in California and the West"
10/18/02	Alemseghed Kebede, CSUB	"The Historical Roots of Athletic Cult in Contemporary Ethiopia: The Long and Unfinished Quest for National Dignity"
2/7/03	Mark Baker, CSUB	"Rampaging Women, Cowering Police, Bazaar Riots and Moral Economy: The Social Impact of the Great War in Kharkiv Province, Ukraine"
4/18/03	Jerome Kleinsasser, CSUB	"Another Look at Lawrence Tibbett: America's First Crossover Artist"
11/7/03	Kindon Meik, CSUB	"Contested Space and Contested Voices: The Hygienist Movement in Buenos Aires, 1871-1910"
2/20/04	Jeri Echeverria, CSU Fresno	"Bakersfield's Boarding Houses: Hub of Basque Settlement"
5/21/04	Victor Geraci, UC Berkeley	"The Rise of Santa Barbara's Wine Industry"
11/5/04	Constance Orliski, CSUB	"What Revolution? A Historical Look at China in the 21^st Century"
5/13/05	Mark Baker, CSUB	"The ‘Orange Revolution' as Social History: What Happened in Late 2004 in Ukraine and Why?"
10/7/05	Daniel Lewis, Cal Poly Pomona	"Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo on Things Californian: A Chautauqua Presentation"
1/13/06	John-Paul Himka, University of Alberta	"The Titillating and Grotesque: The Demise of Last-Judgment Icons in the Carpathian Mountains"
5/12/06	Douglas Dodd, CSUB	"The Best Law You've Never Heard Of: Celebrating the Centennial of the Antiquities Act, 1906-2006"
10/13/06	Birger Pearson, UCSB	"Discoveries in Early Christianity: Gnostic Manuscripts and the Gospel of Judas"
2/09/07	Miriam Raub Vivian, CSUB	"Roman Life on the Outposts of Empire"
5/18/07	Ronald Dolkart, CSUB	"Angela Peralta: El Ruisenor Mexicano (The Mexican Nightengale)"
10/26/07	Peter La Chapelle, Nevada State College	"Fightin' Sides: The Vietnam War, the Counterculture, and Merle Haggard's 'Okie from Muskogee'"
02/29/08	Thomas Meyer, CSUB	"The Meyers: The Story of a Jewish-Christian Family and their Experiences in Nazi and Post-war Divided Germany"
05/02/08	Terry Phillips, KVPR radio	"Murder at the Altar: A Historical Novel"
09/19/08	Fr. David Orique, O.P., University of Oregon	“The Unheard Voice of Law from the Often Heard Text: A New Rendition of Bartolomé de Las Casas' Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias”
02/27/09	Oliver Rink, CSUB	“Wampum, Furs, and Guilders: Dutch Commercial Capitalism Comes to America”
04/24/09	Lia Schraeder, CSUB	"Spirits of the Times: Spiritism and the Mythology of the Mexican Revolution"
05/22/09	Becky Orfila, Elise Palos, Marie Poland, Peter Parra (CSUB M.A. students)	CSUB M.A. Student History Forum on Local History
10/02/09	James Meriwether, CSU Channel Islands	"'It's Not a War': Three Elections, Two Obamas, One Fulbright"
01/29/10	Bettine Birge, USC	"Marriage and the law in China during the age of Khubilai Khan"
04/30/10	Jerome Kleinsasser, CSUB	"Lawrence Tibbett: America's First Labor Leader for the Performing Arts"
10/14/10	Gabriel Gutierrez, CSU Northridge	"'Amanzar': Historical and Cultural Readings of Victor Villasenor's Educational Journey in Burro Genius"
11/17/10	Mark Baker, CSUB	"Patron, Protege and Prophet: Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, party disloyalty, and the 1923 'affair.'"
01/28/11	Robert C. Pavlik, Caltrans	"Norman Clyde: Legendary Mountaineer of California's Sierra Nevada"
04/22/11	Erin Miller, Bakersfield College	"William Penn: 'A Faith that Overcomes the World'"
09/30/11	Mario T. Garcia, UCSB, & Sal Castro, educator and activist	"Blowout! Sal Castro & the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice"
10/14/11	Sheila Lloyd, University of Redlands	"No Exceptions: The Other Wes Moore's Challenge to Exceptionalism"
01/27/12	Lily E. Hirsch, Independent Scholar	"'Jewish Music' in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League"
04/13/12	Bradley Asher, Independent Scholar	"Cecelia and Fanny: The Remarkable Friendship between an Escaped Slave and Her Former Mistress"
02/11/12	Professor Oliver Rink (CSUB) and Nancy Rink	"The Lowell Mill Girls and America's Early Industrial Revolution"
02/01/13	William C. Tweed, Ph.D. Sequoia National Park Foundation	"The National Park Idea: An Historical Appraisal"
05/05/13	Patricia Cline Cohen, UCSB	"Rethinking Traditional Marriage in 19th-century America: The ‘Marriage Reform' Movement of the 1850s"
10/25/13	Mustafah Dhada, CSUB	“Epistemological Imperialism and Mass Violence in World History: The Wiriyamu Massacre of 1972 Examined”
2/28/14	Mark Baker, CSUB	“Was the Soviet Union a Proletarian Project?”
4/18/14	Gray Brechin, UC Berkeley	“The Grapes of Charity: California's Living New Deal”
9/25/14	Robert Cherny, SFSU	“Communism and Anti-Communism in California in the 1930s”
2/27/15	Anne Marie Plane, UCSB	“Invisible Worlds: Historical Methods and Challenges of Reading Historic Dream Reports in Colonial New England”
5/8/15	Mario Garcia, UCSB	“Latino Generation: Voices of the New America”
10/21/15	John C. Pinheiro, Aquinas College	“Religion, American Identity, and the Mexican-American War”
2/5/16	Steven W. Hackel, UC Riverside	“The Rock and the Crucifix: Two Hundred Years of Remembering Junipero Serra”
5/6/16	Mario Garcia, UCSB	“The Chicano Generation: Testimonios from the Movement”
10/15/16	Philip Garone, CSU Stanslaus	“Intersections: A History of Water, Agriculture, and Wildlife in the San Joaquin Valley”
3/3/17	Anelise Hanson Shrout, CSU Fullerton	“What do Politics Have to do With Starving Millions?: Digital Humanities Approaches to the History of Philanthropy”
5/5/17	Andres Resendez, UC Davis	"The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America"
10/6/17	Kelly Lytle Hernandez, UCLA	“City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965”
12/1/17	Robeson Taj Frazier, USC	"The East is Black: Cold War China and the Black Radical Imagination"
2/9/18	Harold Drake, UCSB	"A Century of Miracles: How Life Changed for Christians, Pagans and Jews Between 312 and 410."
4/13/18	Sandra Mendiola García, University of North Texas	"Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico."
10/13/18	Diane M.T. North, University of Maryland, University College	“California at War: The State and the People During World War I.”
11/9/18	Stephen Allen, CSUB	"A History of Boxing in Mexico: Masculinity, Modernism, and Nationalism."
2/22/19	Kevin Dawson, UC Merced	"History Below the Waterline: Enslaved Salvage Divers and the Hinter-seas Production of Colonial Capital."
5/10/19	Ronit Stahl, UC Berkeley	“The Four Chaplains Reconsidered: Race and Religion in the U.S. Military.”
9/27/19	Jessica Lynne Pearson, Macalester College	“The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa.”
11/8/19	Benjamin Madley, UCLA	"An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873"
2/21/20	Sean Wempe, CSUB	"Revenants of the German Empire: Colonial Germans, Imperialism, and the League of Nations."
5/1/20	Edward J. Watts, UC San Diego	"Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny."