Sanjay Subrahmanyam will deliver the Eugène Fleischmann lecture at the Musée de Quai Branly in Paris on 8th April 2025. The title of the lecture is: “The Eclipse of the Ottoman Moon: Islam in the Western Imagination at the End of the 17th Century.” More information about the lecture can be found here.
Congratulations to Yiming Ha, who has been appointed Assistant Professor of Chinese History at Hong Kong Baptist University. Yiming is currently a Rand Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies at Pomona College and earned his PhD from UCLA in 2024.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam will deliver the 2025 Priestley Memorial Lectures, “Philology, Botany and Religion: Euro-Asian Intellectual Encounters in the Seventeenth Century,” in Toronto from March 18th-March 20th. More information about the lectures and series can be found here.
Congratulations to You Wang, who has been appointment Assistant Professor in Chinese History at Georgetown University. You earned her PhD from UCLA in 2022.
Doctoral candidate, Annie Powers, has co-curated, “Tents and Tenants: After Echo Park Lake,” a public exhibition at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive organized by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. As part of the museum’s current public programming, Annie will be speaking at the Tenants in the Streets, Panel Discussion, this Friday, February […]
Carla Pestana will give the 2025 William & Lois Matthews Samual Pepys Lecture on “Striving for Expertise.” The lecture will take place on Tuesday, April 1st from 6-7 PM at the Luskin Conference Center. More information about the event and the lecture series can be found here.
Congratulations to Amanda Martinez, who has been appointed Assistant Professor of American Studies at UNC Chapell Hill. Amanda earned her PhD from UCLA in 2022.
Mindi Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate in the UCLA Department of History, published an article titled Organizing the New World of Print: Library Management and Cultural Business at the Commercial Press, ca. 1900 to ca. 1940 in the January 2025 issue of Twentieth-Century China. The article explores how library classification and indexing systems were integrated into the […]
We are sad to announce that Tom Lifka, retired UCLA Associate Vice Chancellor for Students Affairs and adjunct professor, philanthropist and friend to the UCLA Department of History, passed away January 28, 2025. His generosity to the department included endowing the Thomas E. Lifka Chair in History (currently held by inaugural chair holder Kelly Lytle-Hernandez); […]
Congratulations to Yiming Ha (right), who has been awarded the 2024 Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in the Department of History for ” Taming the Army: Military Mobilization, Empire-building, and the Mongol Transformation of China, 1264-1644 CE,” and to Andrew Klein (left), whose dissertation “The Water’s Edge: Empire, Race, and the Global […]
