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History Forum to explore marriage and the law in China
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Bettine Birge, Professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Southern California, will be the keynote speaker for the California State University, Bakersfield History Forum on Friday, 29 January 2010 at 3:30 p.m. in the CSUB music building, room 112.
Her presentation, titled “Marriage and the law in China during the age of Khubilai Khan,” will examine contentions and instabilities in marriage law during the 13th and 14th centuries in China.
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During this time the Mongols, under the leadership of Khubilai Khan, invaded and occupied the country, founding the Yuan dynasty.
Birge will explore how contention over marriage law reveals competing visions of gender relations and the role of law during the Mongol-Yuan dynasty. Faced with conflicting values and customs among a multi-ethnic populace, the Mongol regime at times backed away from imposing unified family laws and allowed local practices to prevail. At other times, under the influence of Neo-Confucian officials, China attempted to enforce universal ideals through marriage law at the local level.
Birge asserts that a clash of cultures and values during this period of contention over marriage law led to a rethinking of fundamental social values that resulted in major changes in Chinese marriage law lasting into the 20th century.
The forum is free and open to the public. Parking fees will be suspended during the event in lots B and C. For more information, contact the history department at (661) 654-3079.
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Fall 2009 History Forum
Friday, October 2, 3:30 p.m., Albertson Room
“It’s Not a War”: Three Elections, Two Obamas, One Fulbright
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At the fall 2009 History Forum, Professor Jim Meriwether (CSUCI) discussed his research in Kenya, his recent article in the Journal of American History on the “African Airlifts” and the 1960 presidential election between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon, and his own experiences with the 2007 Kenyan presidential elections, while he was lecturing and researching as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Nairobi.
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Upcoming History Forum
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Spring 2010 History Forum
Jerome Kleinsasser, Professor of Music, CSUB,
Kleinsasser will discuss opera great Lawrence Tibbett's union activities.
Friday, April 30, 2010, 3:30 p.m., MUS-112
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Recent Student History Forum
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On May 22, 2009 CSUB graduate students Becky Orfila, Elise Palos, Peter Parra, and Marie Poland, participated in a Student History Forum featuring their research in regional history, including the history of Bakersfield’s Tenderloin district from 1870-1920, African-American airmen at Minter Field, the evolution of a Mexican-American club at East Bakersfield High School as reflected in a series of murals painted at the school, and the Sherman Institute, a Riverside-area boarding school for native americans established in the early 1900s. For more, click here.
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Recent History Forum
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 In the spring quarter 2009 the History Forum hosted Dr. Lia Schraeder (right), our new lecturer in Latin American history at CSUB, who spoke on April 24 at 3:30 in the Albertson Room. Her presentation, "Spirits of the Times: Spiritism and the Mythology of the Mexican Revolution," was based on a portion of her dissertation and manuscript on the religious movement of spiritism in Mexico. Scholars of Mexican history generally represent spiritism as a "dissident" social movement and associate it with the first president of the Mexican Revolution, Francisco Madero. Dr. Schraeder’s presentation re-examined such scholarship, while exploring the latent radicalism within spiritist rituals and on the margins of the movement. Her fascinating presentation provoked many questions from the audience leading to a lively discussion.
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What is the History Forum?
The History Forum started in 1999 and presents one speaker per academic quarter. Past topics have included the history of the Basque settlement in Bakersfield presented by Jeri Echeverria, Fresno State University provost and historian; the history of the California wine industry by historian Victor Geraci, oral history and the Chicano experience given by Mario Garcia, from the University of California, Santa Barbara; an analysis on pre-national, pre-modern Ukrainian culture and icons of the Last Judgment, John-Paul Himka, history professor at the University of Alberta (Canada). For a complete list, click here.
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