History Forum Speakers, 2000-present | California State University, Bakersfield (2024)

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 21st 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."
History Forum Speakers, 2000-present | California State University, Bakersfield (2024)

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