European History Colloquium

Tuesday, October 2, 2018 4PM Bunche 6275 European Colloquium Speaker Series Martina Kessel, "Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany" Martina Kessel looks at the meaning and role of humor as an identity practice in Germany during the time of Nation- al Socialism in Germany. One theory that she will explore in her lecture […]

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 12PM Bunche 6275 European Colloquium Speaker Series Madeline Woker - "Empire, Taxes, and Loopholes: Taxation and Colonial Capitalism in the  French Empire, 1920s-1950s"   Madeline Woker explores a major tax dispute between colonial firms and the metropolitan state which occurred between the early 1920s and the 1950s. Her talk introduces this […]

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 12PM Bunche 6275 European Colloquium Speaker Series Roii Ball - "Indebted Settlement : Rural Credit, National Segregation, and ‘Internal Colonization’ in the German-Polish Borderlands before the First World War" Roii Ball - PhD candidate, UCLA Roii Ball is a sixth year graduate student at the UCLA History Department. He earned a […]

Thursday, March 7, 2019 4PM Bunche 6275 European Colloquium Speaker Series Herrick Chapman - "France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic" Herrick Chapman - Professor, New York University Historian Herrick Chapman explores how the French, in reconstructing their country after World War II, sought to combine a top-down modernization drive with a rejuvenation of democracy. […]

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

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.