Zrinka Stahuljak - “Medieval Fixers and the Libraries of Burgundy”
2017-05-09 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 6275 Bunche Hall

Learning About the Other's Past: History, Education, and Curricula in Israel/ Palestine
2017-05-18 09:30 - 2017-05-19 16:00 | UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, 425 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
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This event is co-sponsored by:
UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA Department of History, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, University of Haifa, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History, Sady and Ludwig Kahn Estate, Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME), Office of the UCLA Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost.

Sardar Patel Award/ Professor Damodar SarDesai Memorial Lecture
2017-05-20 14:00 - 18:00
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Said Chaaya - "The First Power Sharing in the Middle East: Lebanon in 1845"
2017-05-24 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Colección de Lenguas Indígenas (Collection of Indigenous Languages)
2017-06-16 12:00
Our recent PhD Ricardo Garcia worked on a publication of a couple of Nahuatl grammar books by the Friar Juan Guerra and the Indigenous grammarian Jose Cortes y Zedeño. The work is being presented on June 16 at Guadalajara.
LA LXI LEGISLATURA DEL
H. CONGRESO DEL ESTADO DE JALISCO
EN COORDINACIÓN CON LA BIBLIOTECA PÚBLICA
DEL ESTADO DE JALISCO “JUAN JOSÉ ARREOLA”
(THE LXI LEGISLATURE OF CONGRESS FROM STATE OF JALISCO IN COLLABORATION WITH JUAN JOSÉ ARREOLA, PUBLIC LIBRARY OF THE STATE OF JALISCO)
Featuring Dip. Ismael del Toro Castro, Presidente de la Mesa Directiva

Dissent in an Age of Populism: Sustaining Political Opposition after Turkey’s 2017 Referendum
2017-10-09 17:30 - 19:00 | Room 1314, UCLA School of Law

Wombs of Liberation: Freedom Petitions, the Black Woman's Body and Trans-Atlantic Law, 1780-1860
2017-10-12 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

The King and the Forty Orphans: The Invention of an Armenian Homeland in Ethiopia
2017-10-12 18:30 - 20:00 | UCLA School of Law, Room 1420

The Kola Nut: A West African Commodity in the Atlantic World
2017-11-02 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Eugen and Jacqueline Weber Tribute Lecture featuring Philip Nord (Princeton University)
2017-11-15 16:00 | UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
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The Origins and Significance of Enlightenment Anti-Colonialism
2018-02-15 18:00 | UCLA Faculty Center
2018 Van Tilburg Lecture by Siep Stuurman, Utrecht University, History and Art History. Organized by the UCLA Dutch Studies Program. Cosponsored by CERS.

Thursday, February 15, 2018
6:00 PM
California Room
UCLA Faculty Center
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Siep Stuurman is Professor Emeritus of the History of Ideas at Utrecht University. For his Francois Poulain de la Barre and the Invention of Modern Equality (2004) he was awarded the George Mosse Prize by the American Historical Association. His earlier books include State Formation and Political Theory. Three Essays on Europe (1995) and The Tragic Fate of the Countess of Isenburg (1999). His most recent monograph is The Invention of Humanity(2017), in which he traces evolving ideas of human equality and difference across continents and civilizations from ancient times to the present.
The Van Tilburg Lectures
In 2005, Johannes Van Tilburg and his wife, Jo Anne, gave the Dutch Studies Program at UCLA a remarkably generous gift to establish in perpetuity the Johannes Van Tilburg Lecture in Dutch Studies.
Mr. Van Tilburg came to the USA from The Netherlands in 1965. In 1971, he became the founding principal of Van Tilburg, Banvard & Soderbergh, AIA and has led this 100 person firm to the forefront of planning and design. His work as a designer is widely recognized throughout the state and indeed the entire country. In 1992, he was honored by his peers and elevated to the level of Fellow of the American Institution of Architects. In 2007, Johannes Van Tilburg was honored by the Netherlands America Foundation of Southern California. Mr. Van Tilburg is deeply committed to education and continues to work as an adjunct Professor in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at USC. In 2010, Mr. Van Tilburg was appointed Honorary Consul of The Netherlands in Los Angeles.
Reception to follow the lecture.

Cost : Free and open to the public. RSVP is required for admission to this event.
Sponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies, Dutch

Stephen Vider - "Queer Belongings: Gender, Sexuality, and the American Home After World War II"
2018-02-20 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Annual Alden-Berg Lecture featuring Richard White
2018-03-14 19:00
Stephen Aron
Professor and Robert N. Burr Department Chair
UCLA Department of History
invites you to attend the annual

ALDEN-BERG LECTUREfeaturingRichard White
Professor of American History
Margaret Byrne Professor of American History
Stanford University
speaking on his book
The Republic for Which It Stands –
The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
7:00 p.m.
Korn Convocation Hall, Lenart Auditorium

Self-pay parking available in Structure 4

Inquiries: CollegeEvents@support.ucla.edu or (310) 825-4038
About the Speaker
Click here to learn more about the guest speaker.
About the Lecture
The Alden-Berg Lecture is named for two distinguished alumnae and friends of the Department, Dr. Geraldine Alden and Barbara Berg. Devoted students of history and mainstays of the Friends of History group, Jeri and Barbara have contributed in manifold ways to the well-being of the Department. Now in its 6th year, the lecture draws on the excellence of the History Department faculty to address important issues of the past and present. Click here to learn more about Dr. Geraldine Alden and Barbara Berg.

David Phillips - "Adultery, Seduction, and the Unity of Ancient Greek Law"
2018-03-21 19:00

Peter Loewenberg - "Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Charismatic Power, and Political Leadership"
2018-05-17 20:00 - 22:00 | New Center for Psychoanalysis – 2014 Sawtelle Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States
NOTE: This event is free for students and UCLA faculty. For UCLA faculty, please identify yourself as UCLA faculty (a UCLA ID will help) at the door.
Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Charismatic Power, and Political Leadership
May 17, 2018, 8:00 – 10:00 PM

2018 FRANZ ALEXANDER LECTURE
Presented by Peter Loewenberg, PhD
Psychoanalysis is a social science as well as a humanistic hermeneutic and a psychological science. Dr. Loewenberg compares the lives and thought of two great Central European shapers of modern culture, Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939), creator of psychoanalysis, and Max Weber (1864-1920), founder of modern interpretive comparative sociology. Weber was a contemporary of Freud who was the shaper of social science method. He explores their lives and insights on leadership, political power and domination and applies their insights to empirical leadership functions in the current world.
Learning Objectives
As a result of attending this session, participants should be able to:
• Describe the theoretical contributions of Weber and Freud as they apply to leadership, political power, and domination.
• Examine the nature of charismatic leadership in the political process and accepted empirical leadership functions in the current world
• Explain how Weber’s analysis of the Protestant ethic interface with Freudian psychodynamics
Peter Loewenberg, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of History and Political Psychology at UCLA. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst and former Dean of the New Center for Psychoanalysis. He was elected North American Representative on the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) Board. He Chaired the IPA China Committee, 2007-2013. He is the author of many publications, including Decoding the Past: the Psychohistorical Approach (1996) and Fantasy and Reality in History (1995). He is Editor (with Nellie Thompson) of 100 Years of the IPA (1910-2010) (2011). He was elected an Honorary Member of the German Psychoanalytic Association (DPV), was the Sir Peter Ustinov Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, and received the Nevitt Sanford Award for his professional contributions to the field of Political Psychology. He served as Chair of the Committee on Research and Special Training of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Winner of the first Edith Sabshin Award “for excellence in teaching psychoanalytic concepts” in 1999, he is also the recipient of Fulbright, Social Science Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Austrian Ministry of Education, Pro Helvetia, and Max Planck Institute für Geschichte fellowships and many other honors.

Natasha Shivji, “Bounded by Land: Histories of the Indian Ocean as told through the crisis of Waqf lands in Mombasa, Kenya”
2019-01-15 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Nile Green - "A World in a Grain of Sand: The Historian's Dilemma of Scale"
2019-01-17 17:00 | California NanoSystems Institute
Darnell Hunt
Dean of Social Sciences
and
Carla Pestana
Professor and Chair
Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World
UCLA Department of History
invite you to attend the installation celebration of
Professor Nile Green
as the holder of the
Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History
speaking on the topic of
“A World in a Grain of Sand: The Historian’s Dilemma of Scale”
Thursday, January 17, 2019
5:00 p.m. Lecture
Reception to follow
California NanoSystems Institute
UCLA
RSVP by January 11 to Kelli O’Leary
koleary@support.ucla.edu or (310) 825-4038
Self-pay parking available in Structure 9

Nick Smith, “A History of Violence in the Southern Red Sea, c. 1850 to present”
2019-01-22 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Edgar Taylor: Technology and Racial Nationalism in Uganda, 1959-1972.
2019-01-24 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Edgar Taylor
Technology and Racial Nationalism in Uganda, 1959-1972.

Alden-Berg Lecture
2019-01-30 19:00 | California NanoSystems Institute UCLA
Carla Pestana
Professor and Chair
Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World
UCLA Department of History
invites you to attend the annual
ALDEN-BERG LECTURE
featuring
David N. Myers
Professor and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History
Director, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy
speaking on the topic of
“Only in America? How a Group of Hasidic Jews Created
a Town of Their Own in Suburban New York”

Wednesday, January 30, 2019
7:00 p.m.
California NanoSystems Institute
UCLA

Self-pay parking available in Structure 9

About the Speaker
Click here to learn more about Professor Myers.
About the Lecture
The Alden-Berg Lecture is named for two distinguished alumnae and friends of the Department, Dr. Geraldine Alden and Barbara Berg. Devoted students of history and mainstays of the Friends of History group, Jeri and Barbara have contributed in manifold ways to the well-being of the Department. Now in its 7th year, the lecture features notable academics and scholars to address important issues of the past and present. Click here to learn more about Dr. Geraldine Alden and Barbara Berg.

Ian Beacock “Democratic Emotions & the Unravelling of the Weimar Republic, 1918–1933”
2019-02-19 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Ian Beacock “Democratic Emotions & the Unravelling of the Weimar Republic, 1918–1933”
February 19, 2019 – 5 pm
6275 Bunche

Gabriela Cano - Feminism & the History of Delayed Women’s Suffrage in Mexico
2019-02-22 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Gabriela Cano – Feminism & the History of Delayed Women’s Suffrage in Mexico
February 22, 2019 – 12 pm – 1:30 pm
6275 Bunche

Molly Pucci - Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Europe, 1945 – 1954
2019-02-25 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Molly Pucci – Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Europe, 1945 – 1954
February 25, 2019 – 5 pm
6275 Bunche

Miloš Jovanović, “Refractions of Empire: Urban Change in the Balkans, 1850-1939”
2019-02-28 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Miloš Jovanović, “Refractions of Empire: Urban Change in the Balkans, 1850-1939”
February 28, 2019 – 5 pm
6275 Bunche

Martha Jones, “Birthright Citizens: Bringing the Past to the Present in Troubled Times”
2019-03-06 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Martha Jones (Johns Hopkins), “Birthright Citizens: Bringing the Past to the Present in Troubled Times,” The Historian in Society Lecture Series
Martha Jones (Johns Hopkins History)
March 6, 2019, 4:00-6:00
History Department Conference Room (Bunche 6275)
RSVP: lindsayking@ucla.edu

Inaugural Feminist Book Celebration
2019-03-08 14:00 - 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
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Inaugural Feminist Book Celebration
March 8, 2019 – 2 pm – 4 pm
6275 Bunche

James Loeffler, “Double Amnesia: Rethinking the History of Zionism and Human Rights”
2019-04-08 17:00 - 18:30 | Law School 1430
For details on this event, click the link below:
https://luskincenter.history.ucla.edu/event/james-loeffler-double-amnesia/

Lonnie Bunch - "The Power of the Past through the Creation of the Museum"
2019-04-16 19:00 | Fowler Museum
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https://luskincenter.history.ucla.edu/event/historian-in-society-lecture-series/

From Guangzhou and Antananarivo to Dien Bien Phu: Asian and African Coordinates of the Vietnamese Revolution
2019-04-22 12:00 - 13:30 | 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 comparative perspective and through analytical lenses which keep French colonial Indochina, the Asian ‘Sinosphere’ and the African ambit of the French Empire in focus, Vietnam stands out not for the breadth and depth of nationalist consciousness but rather for the strength and significance of its transcontinental and trans-oceanic linkages in the making of “Vietnamese” society and the making of the Vietnamese revolution. In particular, the lecture shows how evolving connections to southern China and the inclusion of Vietnam both within French colonial “Indochina” and the French Empire as a whole shaped the possibilities for successful socialist revolutionary struggle in Vietnam, leading up to the defeat of of French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1953, the establishment and entrenchment of the DRV north of the 17th Parallel from 1954, and the extension of the Vietnamese revolution across the full breadth of Indochina by 1975.
John T. Sidel is the Sir Patrick Gillam Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is the author of Capital, Coercion, and Crime: Bossism in the Philippines (Stanford University Press, 1999), (with Eva-Lotta Hedman) Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century: Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Trajectories (Routledge, 2000), Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia (Cornell University Press, 2006), and The Islamist Threat in Southeast Asia: A Reassessment (East-West Center, 2007), as well as two forthcoming books: Coalitions for Change in the Philippines: Legacies, Linkages, Lessons (co-authored with Jaime Faustino), and Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia.

Jacob Soll, “The Reckoning: Intellectual History and an Unexpected Journey into Contemporary Politics”
2019-04-22 17:00 - 19:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
For details on this event, click the link below:
https://luskincenter.history.ucla.edu/event/historian-in-society-lecture-series-soll/
