HGS EVENTS FOR 2022-2023
The History of Gender & Sexuality Workshop
Thursday, May 11, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Location: 6275 Bunche Hall
A graduate student workshop sponsored by the Gender and Sexuality Group, Depatment of History, UCLA
Sakhia’s Gift: Intimate Economies in Transition in Twentieth-Century Zanzibar by Prof. Hollian Wint
Wednesday, May 25. 12:30 PM to 1:50 PM
Location: 6275 Bunche Hall
Wint’s presentation describes regional and familial credit networks that streched around the Indian Ocean.
HGS EVENTS FOR 2021-2022
The History of Gender & Sexuality Workshop
Thursday, May 5, 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM
Location: 6275 Bunche Hall
A graduate student workshop sponsored by the Gender and Sexuality Group, Depatment of History, UCLA
Graduate Student Meeting with Professor Christina Firpo (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)
Wednesday, May 25. 9:30 AM to 11 AM
Location: 5288 Bunche Hall
Join this informal chat with Professor Firpo over coffee and pastries!
HGS EVENTS FOR 2020-2021
Marissa Jenrich
“Like a Crow on Carrion”: Black Women’s Resistance to Police Power in New York City, 1861-1880.
Friday, November 13, 12:00 PM
Location: Via Zoom
Marissa’s article highlights the complex relationship between black women and New York City police in the years between the founding of the municipal force in 1845 and the officer-driven race riot that punctuated the turn of the twentieth century. It considers how shifts in police power, departmental structure, and jurisdiction altered the lives of women of color at a time when the city itself was undergoing tremendous change. In particular, this article examines the diverse ways women resisted the incursions of law enforcement by engaging in strategies of denial, registration, and direct protest. By doing so, this article hopes to not only shed light on the period in question, but also to deepen our understanding of the Progressive-Era brand of policing that, for many New Yorkers, resulted in a ”condemnation of blackness,” itself.
— Please note that there is a pre-circulated paper that will be sent out a week before this event. Please contact Rebeca Martinez at rmartnz165@g.ucla.edu for further information on the zoom link and paper. —
Rebekka Michaelsen
“The Notorious Mrs. Nobles: Jim Crow Gender and “Insanity” in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia”.
Wednesday, February 10, 11:30 AM
Location: Via Zoom
This article-in-progress recovers the case of Elizabeth Nobles, an elderly, poor white woman who conspired with her Black farm hand to murder her husband in rural Georgia in 1895. While other historians have demonstrated the importance of race and gender to the Jim Crow South, this paper shows how notions of disability, in this case “insanity,” reinforced Jim Crow. While, for Mrs. Nobles, “insanity” became a reputable legal defense to save her life as well as a rhetorical apology for her transgression of Jim Crow racial and gender hierarchies, “insanity” could simultaneously serve as way of “othering” and “defeminizing” Black women.
— Please note that there is a pre-circulated paper that will be sent out a week before this event. Please contact Rebeca Martinez at rmartnz165@g.ucla.edu for further information on the zoom link and paper. —
Jiacheng Liu
“The Game of Love and the Performance of Masculinity: Courting Actresses in Republican China”
Monday, April 12, 7:00 PM
Location: Via Zoom
Jiacheng Liu, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado, will be giving a talk based on her article “The Game of Love and the Performance of Masculinity: Courting Actresses in Republican China.”
— Please note that participants are encouraged but not required to read the article in advance. Please contact Rebeca Martinez at rmartnz165@g.ucla.edu by April 5th for further information on the zoom link and article. —
Y. Yvon Wang
“Sexology Sells: Licentiousness & Sexual Science on fin-de-siècle Beijing Markets”
Monday, April 26, 6:00 PM
Location: Via Zoom
Y. Yvon Wang, Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, will be giving a talk entitled “Sexology Sells: Licentiousness & Sexual Science on fin-de-siècle Beijing Markets.”
— Please note that participants are encouraged but not required to read sections from Wang’s book Reinventing Licentiousness: Pornography and Modern China (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021) and other readings which will be made available to participants who RSVP to the meeting. Please contact Rebeca Martinez at rmartnz165@g.ucla.edu by April 19th for further information on the zoom link and readings. —
Madison Felman-Panagotacos
Wednesday, May 12, 2:00PM
Location: Via Zoom
Madison Felman-Panagotacos, PhD Candidate from the Spanish and Portuguese department, will be presenting her research on “La Difunta Correa.”
This paper traces the tumultuous popularization of the devotion to la Difunta Correa, considering reverence for her in conjunction with changing standards of what constitutes argentinidad and femininity. Examining cultural productions depicting la Difunta Correa that were created ion during moments of political upheaval – modernization, the rise of Peronism, and the military dictatorship – lends insight to the values considered as inherent to Argentine citizenship at those particular moments. Rewritings of the legend of la Difunta Correa are calculated reimaginings of what constitutes citizenship and femininity, highlighting exclusionary practices in nation building that are still present today.
— Please note that there is a pre-circulated paper that will be sent out a week before this event. Please contact Rebeca Martinez at rmartnz165@g.ucla.edu for further information on the zoom link and paper. —
Annelise Heinz
“Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture”
Thursday, May 27, 5:00PM
Location: Via Zoom
Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture illustrates how the spaces between tiles and the moments between games have fostered distinct social cultures in the United States. This mass-produced game crossed the Pacific, creating waves of popularity over the twentieth century. Annelise Heinz narrates the history of this game to show how it has created a variety of meanings, among them American modernity, Chinese American heritage, and Jewish American women’s culture.
