Can children be historical actors? The proposition that children have historical agency has been a rallying cry for many historians of childhood who seek to recover the voices and actions of young people in the past, arguing that their history is analogous to that of other disenfranchised and marginalized groups and must be recovered in […]
A Concrete History of Abstraction: Explaining the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France William Sewell Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History The University of Chicago Thursday, October 10, 2019 4-6pm Bunche 6275 One of the most important changes introduced by the French Revolution was the codification of civic equality as a fundamental right. […]
"Imagining Utopia: The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins" a Talk by Dr. Maria Todorova Gutgsell Professor of History and Center for Advanced Study Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Presented by the UCLA Department of History's European Colloquium Thursday, January 30, 2020, 4-6PM UCLA Faculty Center, Sierra Room
"Knowledge-Migrants at Empire's Dusk: Education, Technology, and Scientific Knowledge between Berlin, Bombay, and Kabul, 1921-1960" Marjan Wardaki March 10, 2020, 2:00pm - 4:00p.m. | Bunche Hall 6275
Susan Grayzel's talk on April 11th, from 4:00-6:00pm.More information will be provided in the future.
The European Colloquium will host a discussion of Glenn Penny's new book, "German History Unbound" on Monday October 17, at 4 PM in 6275 Bunche Hall. The discussant is Professor Carina Johnson of Pitzer College.
More info to come.
In 1750, when the Brazilian border expanded by several orders of magnitude, Portuguese Crown officials, administrators, and men of science received the news with hope and apprehension. While the growth of frontiers of Portugal’s possession in the Americas was celebrated, it also presented formidable challenges for settlement. How could a diminutive metropole whose empire stretched […]
