Judith G. Coffin, winner of the 2022 Eugen Weber Book Prize in French History, will speak about her beautifully written book, Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir, which explores the neglected archive of letters written to Simone de Beauvoir by ordinary women and men. This innovative cultural history examines the twentieth century as an embodied […]
May 16 Ylva Soederfeldt (Uppsala/ UCLA) “Acting out Disease: Patient Organizations in Twentieth-Century Medicine” Zoom RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMod-qhqz0oE9RdqRTVRaedLGCFEIrVhUfd In Person RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1b1K-Jc87ZdjECauHsSaH4JWGu4G-t30dAoQfsk3SHbQ
“Data Deluges: Histories Past and Present” a conference organized by Ted Porter September 14 and 15 Royce 306 RSVP: cbellwilson@g.ucla.edu For more details, click here
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.
The Indians Say: Storytelling, Settler Colonialism and American Natural History, 1722 to 1846 This talk discusses the use of information attributed to Indigenous sources within eighteenth and nineteenth century Anglophone natural history. Early modern naturalists studying North American flora and fauna frequently sought out the expertise of Indigenous people, who they simultaneously regarded as authoritative […]