From Guangzhou and Antananarivo to Dien Bien Phu: Asian and African Coordinates of the Vietnamese Revolution

6275 Bunche Hall

  Why, of all the countries in Southeast Asia, was it only in Vietnam that the struggle for national independence led to a Communist Party-led revolution? Drawing on a rich and growing body of revisionist scholarship, this lecture suggests that the answer lies beyond the borders of Vietnam and the boundaries of Vietnamese nationalism. Viewed in regional […]

Nwando Achebe – “The Politics of Knowledge Production—A Reflective Journey and Dance about the Epistemology and Practice of African Gender History”

11360 Charles E. Young Research Library

Professor Nwando Achebe will be giving the James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture (through the African Studies Center) on Monday, April 29th, from 4:30 – 6:30 in 11360 YRL.  Here is the link: https://www.international.ucla.edu/asc/event/13743   The History Department is co-sponsoring the talk, and Nwando (daughter of famed Chinua Achebe) received her Ph.D from our department in […]

127th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture – Brenda Stevenson, “Gifts of the Storyteller”

Schoenberg Hall, UCLA Schoenberg Music Building

The Los Angeles Division of the Academic Senate of the University of California cordially invites you to attend the 127th UCLA FACULTY RESEARCH LECTURE “Gifts of the Storyteller” to be given by Brenda E. Stevenson Nickoll Family Endowed Chair Professor, Departments of History and African American Studies Wednesday, October 30, 2019 Lecture at 3:00 p.m. […]

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