Tawny Paul was awarded the Ben Snow Prize by the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) for her recent book The Poverty of Disaster: Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain. This prize is given for the best book by a North American scholar in any field of British Studies dealing with the period from the […]
Susan Rosenfeld’s dissertation, “Apparitions of the Atlantic: Mobility, Kinship and Freedom among Afro-Brazilian Emigrants from Bahia to Lagos, 1850-1900,” received the Norris Hundley Prize for the best dissertation in the history of the U.S. West, Latin America, and the Pacific World in the Department of History.
Sohaib Baig’s dissertation, “Indian Hanafis in an Ocean of Hadith: Islamic Legal Authority between South Asia and the Arabian Peninsula, 16th – 20th Centuries,” won the Thomas E. Lifka Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in the Department of History.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam will be discussing Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer and the first European to travel to India by sea on Monday 11/16, at 10 AM PST, at the “Digital Museum”.Registration Link
Juan Gómez-Quiñones, Research Professor Emeritus, passed away on November 11, 2020. A noted scholar of Chicano/a history, Juan earned his PhD in history at UCLA and taught in the department from 1969 until his recent retirement. He served as the Director of the Chicano Studies Research Center for several years, and was active in community […]
Brian J Griffith (the Eugen and Jacqueline Weber Post-Doctoral Scholar in European History) has published an article “Bacchus among the Blackshirts: Wine Making, Consumerism and Identity in Fascist Italy, 1919-1937” in Contemporary European History. The article is Open Access, so it can be downloaded and read by anyone. Here is the DOI link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0960777319000377
Madina Thiam (PhD candidate, African history) has two articles out in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History: “Women in Mali” “The History of Mali: Connectivity and State Formation since the 18th Century,” co-authored with Gregory Mann
Thursday, November 12 | 12:00 pm PT | Via Zoom For more information about this event, click here. To register, visit https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IM-O0FQoQXS0Iy4F2xh0Vw From Professor Osei-Opare: I will highlight the value and importance of postcolonial African archives in the construction of postcolonial African histories. Thus, I reject what I call ‘postcolonial African archival pessimism,’ the argument that postcolonial African archives […]
Sanjay Subrahmanyam will be giving a virtual talk, “After Vienna, 1683: A Portuguese Prophet of Ottoman Doom” at the Courtauld Institute on November 4: https://courtauld.ac.uk/event/online-after-vienna-1683-a-portuguese-prophet-of-ottoman-doomThe failed Ottoman siege of Vienna between July and September 1683 was an important military and cultural event, that left a mark on many contemporaries. This lecture focuses on a little-known aspect […]
Amir Alexander gave a public lecture in the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s “Distinctive Voices” series, entitled “How Mathematics Shapes our World, and our Values”: http://www.nasonline.org/programs/distinctive-voices/VIDEO: How Mathematics Shapes Our World, and Our ValuesAmir Alexander, University of California, Los Angeles, will discuss how mathematics has been imprinted on the landscapes of the modern world. […]
