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Recent History Forums
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"'Jewish Music' in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League"
Speaker: Dr. Lily E. Hirsch
Date: Friday, 27 January 2012, 3:30 pm
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The Jewish Culture League was created in Berlin in June 1933, the only organization in Nazi Germany in which Jews were not only allowed but encouraged to participate in music, both as performers and as audience members. Lily E. Hirsch's A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League is the first book to seriously investigate and parse the complicated questions that the existence of this Jewish organization raised, such as why the Nazis would promote Jewish music, when, in the rest of Germany, it was banned? But what was Jewish music in Nazi Germany? In this talk, Hirsch focused on the Jewish Culture League’s debate about Jewish music, which offers a glimpse into the inner workings of this unique organization -- a product of collaboration between Jews and Nazis, and, for many, a place of both salvation and damnation.
Friday, January 27, 3:30 p.m., Albertson Room.
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"No Exceptions: The Other Wes Moore's Challenge to Exceptionalism"
Speaker: Dr. Shiela Lloyd, Assistant Professor of English, University of Redlands
Date: Friday, October 14, 2011 , starting at 4:30 p.m
Location: Dore Theater, CSU Bakersfield
Contact number: 661-654-2166
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Brief Program Description:
Why is it important that, according to its author, The Other Wes Moore "questions why we even have exceptions in our society in the first place?" By examining what constitutes right conduct (morals) and what makes for a good life (ethics), Moore's book asks us to think about why certain social ideals have persisted over time. Professor Lloyd will explore how it is that we find ourselves attracted to the notion of “exceptional people” that despite low expectations for most individuals, we highly esteem those few we perceive as having special gifts. This notion, as Moore's book makes clear, has serious social implications and consequences, which Lloyd will address as she considers the book in its historical backdrop from 1982 through 2000.
This event is co-sponored by the CSUB History Department and CSUB's First-Year Experience Program.
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The History Forum Presents:
"Blowout! Sal Castro & the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice"
30 September 2011, 4:00 pm, Dore Theater
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On 30 September 2011, the History Forum welcomed Dr. Mario T. Garcia, Professor of History and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Mr. Sal Castro, American educator and activist. Their talk, "Blowout! Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice," was based on their recently published book of the same title.
The talk explored the March 1968 event, when thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high schools and middle schools to protest decades of inferior and discriminatory education in the so-called "Mexican Schools." During these historic walkouts, or "blowouts," the students were led by Sal Castro, a courageous and charismatic Mexican American teacher, who encouraged the students to make their grievances public after school administrators and school board members failed to listen to them. The resulting blowouts sparked the beginning of the urban Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the largest and most widespread civil rights protests by Mexican Americans in U.S. history.
For more information about the book, click here.
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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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