CANCELLED – Nydia Pineda de Ávila (University of California, San Diego): “The Art and Politics of Early Modern Lunar Maps”
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History of Science Colloquium
Book Celebration: Landscaping Indigenous Mexico by Fernando Pérez Montesinos
6275 Bunche HallJoin us for a book celebration and panel discussion in honor of Landscaping Indigenous Mexico: The Liberal State and Capitalism in the Purépecha Highlands (2025) by Fernando Pérez Montesinos, Associate Professor of History. 🍽 Refreshments provided. Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91757589490 "Landscaping Indigenous Mexico is a moving tribute to the resilience and adaptability of the agrarian landscapes that Mexico's […]
Jonah Walters: “The Capsicum Cure: Slavery, medicine, and the (pre)histories of pepper spray”
Bunche 5288 & Zoom"The Capsicum Cure: Slavery, medicine, and the (pre)histories of pepper spray" a talk by Jonah Walters, a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics. Join via Zoom here.
Dana Simmons: “On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic”
Bunche 5288 & ZoomJoin via Zoom here.
Marcel Boumans: “The History of the Mathematization of Economics”
Bunche 5288 & Zoom
How to Build a History of Science Course from the Ground Up
5288 Bunche HallEveryone is welcome to the first installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. UCLA’s own Jamie Kreiner will be presenting “How to Build a History of Science Course from the Ground Up.” Creating a course from scratch takes a lot of work — but it doesn't have to be a mystery or […]
“Wasteland to Date Garden”: Eugenics and Agriculture in the California Desert; Between Radicalism and Technocracy: The Council for Science and Society and the Politics of Risk and Expertise, 1973-1990
5288 Bunche HallEveryone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. UCLA’s own Margaret Spaulding and Claire Votava will be presenting. Meg’s talk is titled “Wasteland to Date Garden”: Eugenics and Agriculture in the California Desert. Previous historians have shown how the conservation movement inspired eugenicists, who anthropomorphized trees […]
“Engineering the Engineer at the Medici Court in the Age of Galileo”
5288 Bunche HallEveryone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. Cristiano Zanetti will be joining us- he is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Caltech and a long-term Research Fellow at the Huntington Library. Cristiano will be presenting “Engineering the Engineer at the Medici Court in the Age of […]
