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SUMMARY:Zev Yaroslavsky Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of a new memoir by a long-time member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and member of the Luskin Center of History and Policy Board of Advisors\, Zev Yaroslavsky. \nSpace is limited for this event. Please RSVP before May 15 to: luskincenter@history.ucla.edu. \n 
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/zev-yaroslavsky-reception/
LOCATION:306 Royce Hall
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230601T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230601T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230428T194949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230428T195022Z
UID:7187-1685620800-1685626200@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Mélanie Cournil\, Senior Lecturer in British History at the Sorbonne University "Transatlantic Circulation of Botanical Knowledge : The Glasgow Years of William Jackson Hooker (1820-1841)"
DESCRIPTION:RSVP
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/melanie-cournil-senior-lecturer-in-british-history-at-the-sorbonne-university-transatlantic-circulation-of-botanical-knowledge-the-glasgow-years-of-william-jackson-hooker-1820-1841/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230531T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230531T173000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230418T224522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230418T224522Z
UID:7092-1685548800-1685554200@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Michael Miller\, "A French History of Rivers"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/michael-miller-a-french-history-of-rivers/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:European History Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/European-Colloquium-A-French-History-of-Rivers_-scaled.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T183000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230502T183740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230523T163721Z
UID:7230-1685034000-1685039400@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Waterfront Film Screening by Professor Milos Jovanovic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/waterfront-film-screening-by-professor-milos-jovanovic/
LOCATION:Kaplan A65
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/20230525-Jovanovic-poster-scaled.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230522T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230522T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230404T214956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T214956Z
UID:6932-1684771200-1684771200@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Jane Moon\, M.D.\, History of Science\, "Pushing the Borders of Consciousness: A History of Ketamine and Dissociative Anesthesia"
DESCRIPTION:RSVP for in person attendance here.  \nRSVP for Zoom link here. 
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/jane-moon-m-d-history-of-science-pushing-the-borders-of-consciousness-a-history-of-ketamine-and-dissociative-anesthesia/
LOCATION:5288 Bunche Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230519T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230519T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230428T194535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230428T194535Z
UID:7182-1684486800-1684515600@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Clark Library Conference "From Bodies to Things: The Commodification of Human Life in the Early Modern Atlantic" organized by Tawny Paul and Andrew Apter (UCLA)
DESCRIPTION:https://www.1718.ucla.edu/events/bodies-to-things-1/
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/clark-library-conference-from-bodies-to-things-the-commodification-of-human-life-in-the-early-modern-atlantic-organized-by-tawny-paul-and-andrew-apter-ucla/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230517T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230517T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230227T185726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T214759Z
UID:6620-1684314000-1684342800@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:History Undergraduate Conference
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/history-undergraduate-conference/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://history.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/HUAB-research-conference-1-1.png
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T135000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230417T204829Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230419T183547Z
UID:7035-1683808200-1683813000@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Sakhia's Gift: Intimate Economies in Transition in Twentieth-Century Zanzibar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/sakhias-gift-conjugal-economies-in-transition-in-twentieth-century-zanzibar/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Women, Men and Sexuality Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230511T170000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230417T210038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230419T155910Z
UID:7040-1683795600-1683824400@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:The History of Gender & Sexuality Group Graduate Student Workshop
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/the-history-of-gender-sexuality-group-graduate-student-workshop/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Women, Men and Sexuality Lecture Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Poster-Workshop-May-11-2-Corrected-page-001.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230508T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230508T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230404T214702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T214702Z
UID:6928-1683561600-1683561600@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Dr. Kate McDonald\, History of Science\, "The Rickshaw Everyman: Transport and Memory in Postwar Japan"
DESCRIPTION:RSVP for in person attendance here.  \nRSVP for Zoom link here. 
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/dr-kate-mcdonald-history-of-science-the-rickshaw-everyman-transport-and-memory-in-postwar-japan/
LOCATION:5288 Bunche Hall
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230428T192143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230428T192143Z
UID:7176-1683158400-1683207000@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Kevin Dawson\, Associate Professor of History\, University of California\, Merced “Surfing\, Surf-Canoeing\, and the Atlantic Slave Trade”
DESCRIPTION:Atlantic Africa—the region extending from Senegal to Angola—has few natural harbors\, compelling Africans to cross through surf to reach fisheries and coastal shipping lanes.  Sources suggest that one thousand years ago Africans independently developed surfing to understand how to design and surf waves ashore in surf-canoes loaded with fish cargo.  Today\, Atlantic Africans remain the only people to harness wave energy as part of their daily labor practices.  Even as Europeans crossed oceans\, their rowboats were too slow to navigate African surf-zones\, and routinely capsized.  Hence\, surf-canoemen transported most of the goods imported into and exported out of Africa between ship-and-shore\, including the majority of the twelve million captives shipped into Atlantic slavery.  This talk considers how African maritime wisdom and expertise informed the cultural and economic development of the Atlantic world. \nZoom: RSVP
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/kevin-dawson-associate-professor-of-history-university-of-california-merced-surfing-surf-canoeing-and-the-atlantic-slave-trade/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230503T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230503T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230227T185918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T171854Z
UID:6623-1683136800-1683136800@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Alden-Berg Lecture ft. Stephen Aron
DESCRIPTION:  \nDownload Flyer
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/alden-berg-lecture-ft-stephen-aron/
LOCATION:Kerckhoff Grand Salon
CATEGORIES:Faculty Lecture
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Alden-Berg-Lecture-Invite-1.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230501T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230501T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230404T214544Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T214544Z
UID:6925-1682956800-1682956800@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Melissa Lo\, History of Science\, "How We Find Our Topics\, How Our Topics Find Us: A Discussion"
DESCRIPTION:RSVP for in person attendance here.  \nRSVP for Zoom link here. 
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/melissa-lo-history-of-science-how-we-find-our-topics-how-our-topics-find-us-a-discussion/
LOCATION:5288 Bunche Hall
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230426T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230426T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230410T174337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T205041Z
UID:6959-1682510400-1682517600@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Dean Alexandra Stern\, "Queer Oppression and Resistance to Eugenics in 20th Century California"
DESCRIPTION:The RSVP link is here.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/dean-alexandra-stern-queer-oppression-and-resistance-to-eugenics-in-20th-century-california/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Queer-Oppression-and-Resistance-to-Eugenics-in-20th-Century-California.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230424T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230424T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230404T214434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T214434Z
UID:6921-1682352000-1682352000@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Edward Halley Barnet\, History of Medicine\, "Music and the Mind. Vibratory Mental Mechanics in the 18th Century"
DESCRIPTION:RSVP for in person attendance here.  \nRSVP for Zoom link here. 
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/edward-halley-barnet-history-of-medicine-music-and-the-mind-vibratory-mental-mechanics-in-the-18th-century/
LOCATION:5288 Bunche Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230119T211310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230420T173135Z
UID:6485-1681992000-1681997400@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Mika Lior\, Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at the University of Malta\, "Circling With/In: Choreographies of Gendered & Regendered Agency in Bahian Candomblé"
DESCRIPTION:Mika Lior\, Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at the University of Malta\n“Circling With/In: Choreographies of Gendered & Regendered Agency in Bahian Candomblé” \nBased on history\, dance studies methodologies and critical ethnography\, this paper addresses choreographies of invocation and incorporation in the Afro-Brazilian ritual practice of Candomblé through the lens of indigenous feminisms and choreographic analysis. Looking closely at practitioners’ use of circular and cyclical movements and spatial pathways at a range of ceremonial sites in Salvador\, the capital of Bahia in Northeastern Brazil\, I show how Candomblé’s aesthetic principles and matri-focal social structures are similarly informed by what I call a feminist poiesis\, evidenced in ceremonial performance histories that privilege women’s bodies for mediumship. Intervening in the dominant representation of Candomblé’s spirit embodiments as acts of “possession\,” I attend to practitioners’ idioms of incorporation\, including circling with and in the saint –“rodar com o santo” and “rodar no santo\,” – to illustrate how ritual processes are actively constructed around intersubjective\, movement oriented ontologies as well as cycles of women’s reproductivity and Yoruba-Atlantic understandings of gendered agency. At the same time\, processes of incorporation instantiate a non-binary ontology of ritual gender fluidity through which male mediums take on structurally feminized roles. \nThis presentation concludes by considering how performance studies approaches such as choreographic analysis and dance practice under the tutelage of ritual experts can contribute to processes of intercultural knowledge production. I share my ethnographic dance film\, Ogum’s Story\, co-created with Candomblé elder Dona Cici\, as a model for thinking through circling with/in not only as an ontology of spirit embodiment but also a collaborative\, mutually reciprocal research method. \nZoom RSVP Here
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/mika-lior-assistant-professor-of-performing-arts-at-the-university-of-malta-circling-with-in-choreographies-of-gendered-regendered-agency-in-bahian-candomble/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230406T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230406T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230403T203048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230403T203048Z
UID:6907-1680782400-1680787800@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Patrícia Martins Marcos\, UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow Rising to the Challenge "The Empire of White Patriarchs: Population\, Race-Making\, and the Sciences of Human Improvement in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic (1730-1800)"
DESCRIPTION: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 across the four corners of the globe\, secure its new territorial gains? Drawing on Newtonian physics\, novel anthropological thinking about the human as a species\, and the accounting technology of “Political Arithmetic\,” Portuguese imperial administrators launched a policy known as the “political mechanism.” Recognizing how “population is everything\,” this talk historicizes the emergence of racial whitening (branqueamento) as a project of human improvement and “population multiplication.” Arguing that producing bigger and better population futures became the chief scientific project of eighteenth-century Portuguese imperialism\, I demonstrate how reform was undergirded by the forging of a new ideal of subjecthood: the salaried laborer. The salaried laborer became\, I argue\, the embodiment of a new ideal of whiteness (or white subjecthood). The end-goal of a new imperial science of human improvement was premised on the remolding of “rustics” into workers. In the Amazon\, the key site where I will focus on in this talk\, a new Crown policy promised to assimilate Amerindians and Roma people into whiteness through productive and reproducible labor. This talk excavates the racialized and gendered conditions of possibility for whitening through pronatalism\, human speciation\, and patriarchal rule. \nPatrícia Martins Marcos (Ph.D History and Science Studies) is a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow Rising to the Challenge at UCLA’s History Department of History and the Bunche Center for African American Studies. Her book manuscript\, Imperial Whiteness\, historicizes genealogies of racial improvement through whitening in the 18th Century Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic by linking histories of the life sciences\, to medicine\, gender and sexuality\, and race. She is currently Associate Editor with the History of Anthropology Review and elected Early Career Representative for the History of Science Society—where she is also co-chair of the Early Sciences Forum. Her work has been supported by the Huntington Library\, the American Philosophical Society\, the Center for Black\, Brown\, and Queer Studies\, and the John Carter Brown Library. She is currently a fellow with the Folger Shakespeare Library and next Fall she will be a visiting fellow at the Department of History of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG–Brazil) . Her most recent “Blackness out of Place\,” was published with the Radical History Review and focuses on the epistemology of Black visual resistance in Portugal and its former imperial spaces. \nZoom Registration Here
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/patricia-martins-marcos-uc-chancellors-postdoctoral-fellow-rising-to-the-challenge-the-empire-of-white-patriarchs-population-race-making-and-the-sciences-of-human-improvement-in-the-afr/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:European History Colloquium,Events,History of Science Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230405T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230405T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230404T214220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T214220Z
UID:6915-1680705000-1680710400@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Dr. Ashley Sanders and Dr. David Sebastiani\, DH^2: Digital Humanities x Digital History
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/dr-ashley-sanders-and-dr-david-sebastiani-dh2-digital-humanities-x-digital-history/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/dh2_event_flyer_april_5_20231024_1.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230404T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230404T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230306T232610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230307T210822Z
UID:6645-1680624000-1680631200@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Peasants\, Perpetrators\, and Violence in Nazi-Occupied Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/peasants-perpetrators-and-violence-in-nazi-occupied-ukraine/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://history.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Jared-McBride-Candidate-Lecture-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230403T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230403T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230328T162401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230328T162401Z
UID:6882-1680537600-1680544800@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Axel Jansen\, History of Medicine\, "An Unlikely Partnership? The Vatican Endorses Stem Cell Research\, 2000-2015"
DESCRIPTION:RSVP for in person attendance here.  \nRSVP for Zoom link here. 
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/axel-jansen-history-of-medicine-an-unlikely-partnership-the-vatican-endorses-stem-cell-research-2000-2015/
LOCATION:Bunche 5288 & Zoom
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230119T211031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230119T211031Z
UID:6482-1678363200-1678368600@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Marc Hertzman\, Associate Professor\, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign "Flying Home? Palmares and the Afterlife" 
DESCRIPTION:Marc Hertzman\, Associate Professor\, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign\nFlying Home? Palmares and the Afterlife  \nMost histories of Palmares\, the sprawling collection of settlements in Brazil that became perhaps history’s largest fugitive slave society\, end in 1695\, when colonial forces assassinated the famous rebel leader Zumbi. My book project plays the story forward into the eighteenth century to propose a new way to think about maroon communities across the Americas. Palmares and other such settlements have rightfully been understood as spaces of diasporic refuge and resistance; but unless descendants can trace their lineage directly back to them\, through land possession or genealogy\, scholars implicitly define them as endpoints: formerly enslaved people either lived out their days there or were recaptured or killed. I advance a new framework that treats maroon communities as points of origin\, capable of generating their own unique diasporas. Along with Palmares’s previously overlooked human diaspora—members who were captured in or fled Palmares—I examine the pathways along which inheritances and memories of Zumbi and Palmares survived after 1695: canonical historical texts; the lives and travels of soldiers who fought against Palmares; soldiers’ claims (most embellished) to killing Zumbi\, which they turned into heritable wealth; previously ignored place names that made elements of the natural landscape memorials to Palmares and Zumbi; and spiritual traditions\, which remain an important locus of history and memory. \nZoom RSVP Here
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/marc-hertzman-associate-professor-university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign-flying-home-palmares-and-the-afterlife/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230309T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20221102T184219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221102T184219Z
UID:6255-1678363200-1678368600@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Flying Home? Palmares and the Afterlife
DESCRIPTION:Marc Hertzman\, Associate Professor\, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign\nFlying Home? Palmares and the Afterlife  \nMost histories of Palmares\, the sprawling collection of settlements in Brazil that became perhaps history’s largest fugitive slave society\, end in 1695\, when colonial forces assassinated the famous rebel leader Zumbi. My book project plays the story forward into the eighteenth century to propose a new way to think about maroon communities across the Americas. Palmares and other such settlements have rightfully been understood as spaces of diasporic refuge and resistance; but unless descendants can trace their lineage directly back to them\, through land possession or genealogy\, scholars implicitly define them as endpoints: formerly enslaved people either lived out their days there or were recaptured or killed. I advance a new framework that treats maroon communities as points of origin\, capable of generating their own unique diasporas. Along with Palmares’s previously overlooked human diaspora—members who were captured in or fled Palmares—I examine the pathways along which inheritances and memories of Zumbi and Palmares survived after 1695: canonical historical texts; the lives and travels of soldiers who fought against Palmares; soldiers’ claims (most embellished) to killing Zumbi\, which they turned into heritable wealth; previously ignored place names that made elements of the natural landscape memorials to Palmares and Zumbi; and spiritual traditions\, which remain an important locus of history and memory.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/flying-home-palmares-and-the-afterlife/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230306T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230306T173000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230214T202821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230214T202821Z
UID:6604-1678118400-1678123800@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Outrageous Comparisons in Modern History and Contemporary Politics
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/outrageous-comparisons-in-modern-history-and-contemporary-politics/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:European History Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230117T195302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230201T181135Z
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SUMMARY:Dr. Elizabeth O’Brien\, History of Medicine\, "Surgical Salvation: Mexico and the History of Reproductive Medicine\, from Enlightenment to Eugenics"
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URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/dr-elizabeth-obrien/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230216T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230216T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230119T202845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230119T202934Z
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SUMMARY:Madina Thiam\, Assistant Professor of History\, NYU "Absolutely and Utterly Free: An Atlantic-Saharan Journey through Slavery and Race-Making\, 1834-1836"
DESCRIPTION:This talk follows Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Watara\, a Timbuktu-born teenager who was enslaved in Jamaica from 1805 to 1834. Upon securing his manumission\, Watara undertook a trans-Atlantic and trans-Saharan journey\, in a bid to return home. A close examination of Watara’s words and writings about him\, and a reconstruction of his trajectory\, provides insight into the social and political forces that ushered in deep changes in the worlds of the British Atlantic and Muslim Sahel and Sahara\, in the first half of the nineteenth century. As Watara sought to secure freedom while journeying across the Atlantic and Sahara\, which strategies did he leverage? How did larger political changes in 1820s-1830s Sahel\, Sahara\, and Atlantic render his aspirations to freedom possible\, and how did they restrict them? Scholars have previously written about Watara’s journey and writings by situating his autobiography within the broader genre of transatlantic slave narratives\, and analyzing his trajectory as evidence of the retention of African cultural expressions among enslaved Black Muslims in the Americas. \nThis talk offers a new interpretation of Watara’s articulation and praxis of freedom\, framing them in the broader contexts of the end of chattel slavery in the British Atlantic\, booming trans-Saharan slave trade\, and changing notions of race and enslaveability in the West African Sahel in the era of Islamic revolutions and state-building. \nZoom RSVP \n 
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/madina-thiam-assistant-professor-of-history-nyu-absolutely-and-utterly-free-an-atlantic-saharan-journey-through-slavery-and-race-making-1834-1836/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T153000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230119T192653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230119T192653Z
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SUMMARY:Erin Rowe\, Professor of History\, Johns Hopkins University "The Black Saints of the Carmelite Order: Ancient Ethiopia in the Early Modern European Imagination”
DESCRIPTION:Beginning in the seventeenth-century\, members of the Carmelite order adopted two ancient Ethiopian saints\, Efigenia and Elesban. While their interest in ancient saints was tied to the order’s longstanding efforts to prove the antiquity of their order dating back to the Prophet Elijah\, the inclusion of Ancient Ethiopia in these efforts tell a more complex story about how early modern Spaniards thought with and about Ancient Ethiopia. The inclusion of Ethiopia in early modern ideas about the Biblical Near East clashed with the treatment of enslaved people from West and Central Africa being brought to the peninsula in vast numbers\, while devotion to Ethiopian saints by White and Black Spaniards transformed the spiritual and historical landscape. \n*Co-sponsored by Department of History\, CMRS-CEGS\, The Atlantic History Colloquium\, Peter H. Reill Chair in European Studies\, and The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/erin-rowe-professor-of-history-johns-hopkins-university-the-black-saints-of-the-carmelite-order-ancient-ethiopia-in-the-early-modern-european-imagination/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230213T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230213T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230117T195226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230201T180542Z
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SUMMARY:Dr. Tara Suri\, History of Medicine\, "Modeling 'The Human' Over the End of Empire"
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URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/dr-tara-suri/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230206T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230206T163000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20221109T191639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230117T193859Z
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SUMMARY:Noelle Turtur (Weber Postdoctoral Fellow\, UCLA): “Challenging Fascist Corporatism in the Colonies: Truckers and the Italian Company for East African Transports (CITAO)\, 1937-40”
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/noelle-turtur-weber-postdoctoral-fellow-ucla-challenging-fascist-corporatism-in-the-colonies-truckers-and-the-italian-company-for-east-african-transports-citao-1937-40/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230202T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230119T191630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230125T174332Z
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SUMMARY:Brett Rushforth\, Associate Professor\, University of Oregon “Consuming Colonialism: The Atlantic World in Sixteenth-Century France”
DESCRIPTION:Brett Rushforth\, Associate Professor\, University of Oregon\n“Consuming Colonialism: The Atlantic World in Sixteenth-Century France” \nZoom RSVP Here
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/brett-rushforth-associate-professor-university-of-oregon-consuming-colonialism-the-atlantic-world-in-sixteenth-century-france/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230201T160000
DTSTAMP:20260418T062333
CREATED:20230117T195116Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230130T172519Z
UID:6443-1675267200-1675267200@history.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Dr. Devon Golaszewski\, History of Medicine\, "'Traditional Birth Attendants' and the Maternity Ward in Post-Colonial Mali"
DESCRIPTION:RSVP Here
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/dr-devon-golaszewski-traditional-birth-attendants-and-the-maternity-ward-in-post-colonial-mali/
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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