US Field Symposium
A 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
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6275 Bunche Hall
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Author meets critics session on: Native to the Republic: Empire, Social Citizenship, and Everyday Life in Marseille since 1945
10383 Bunche HallThe UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration (CSIM) presents: Author meets critics session on: Native to the Republic: Empire, Social Citizenship, and Everyday Life in Marseille since 1945 Author: Minayo Nasiali, Department of History, UCLA Critics: Lia Brozgal, Department of French & Francophone Studies, UCLA and Swanie Potot, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Friday, October […]
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Kathleen Sheldon – “African Women: Early History to the 21st Century”
6275 Bunche HallAfrican Women: Early History to the 21st Century Kathleen Sheldon UCLA Center for the Study of Women Thursday, October 19, 2017 4:00 – 6:00 PM 6275 Bunche Hall Free and open to the public Copies of Dr. Sheldon’s book will be available for purchase immediately following her talk. Kathleen Sheldon is an independent historian who […]
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City of Inmates Book Talk and Signing with Kelly Lytle Hernandez
Bruin Viewpoint Room, UCLA Ackerman Student Union 380 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, United States -
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James L. Gelvin – “The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know”
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