Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria
6275 Bunche HallA Book Talk by Professor Sarah Stein
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Book Talk
6275 Bunche HallWilliam Summerhill, "Inglorious Revolution: Inglorious Revolution: Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015)" The discussants for this event are Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Chair of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, and Barry R. Weingast, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University, and Senior […]
US Field Symposium
6275 Bunche HallA symposium featuring Peter Nabokov, James Brooks and Ross Frank, which will focus on Nabokov’s recent books, How the World Moves: the Odyssey of an American Indian Family, and The Origin Myth of Acoma Pueblo
Edward D. Melillo – “Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection”
Edward D. Melillo is associate professor of history and environmental studies at Amherst College. He teaches courses on global environmental history, the history of the Pacific World, and commodities in world historical perspective. He is the author of Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection (Yale University Press, 2015), the co-editor Eco-Cultural Networks in the British Empire: New Views on Environmental […]
Benjamin Cowan – “Securing Sex: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil” Book Talk
In this history of right-wing politics in Brazil during the Cold War, Benjamin Cowan puts the spotlight on the Cold Warriors themselves. Tracking how limits to Cold War authoritarianism finally emerged, Cowan concludes that the record of autocracy and repression in Brazil is part of a larger story of reaction against perceived threats to traditional […]
Nile Green – “When Hajji Baba Met Frankenstein: The Middle Eastern Encounter with the Scientific Revolution”
Nile Green to present on "When Hajji Baba Met Frankenstein: The Middle Eastern Encounter with the Scientific Revolution." Sponsored/Co-sponsored by the Center for European and Russian Studies, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Program on Central Asia, Dept. of History, and the Center for the Study of Religion. For more information, please contact UCLA Center for […]
