Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. Dr. Claire Bubb, Visiting Associate Professor of Classics at USC, will be joining us. She is a will be presenting “Vulnerable Bodies: Roman Medical Research and the Enslaved.” Roman doctors periodically required bodies, both living and dead, for […]
Everyone is welcome to the first installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. Professor Sharrona Pearl of Texas Christian University will be presenting “From Face Blindness to Superrecognition: The Discovery of a Spectrum.” Super recognition was clinically identified in 2009. That’s yesterday in scientific terms. In this talk, Sharrona Pearl discusses […]
teaching talk 2 TEACHING TALKS — a new series dedicated to the craft of teaching history Teaching Talk #2: TEACHING WITH AI Featuring Chris Johanson, Jamie Kreiner, Elizabeth Landers, Zrinka Stahuljak, and Stefania Tutino Wednesday 25 February, 12:00 pm, 6275 Bunche Lunch provided by DataX; RSVP here
José Ortega, Associate Professor, Department of History, Whittier College Presentation: “Coachmen and Abakuá in Nineteenth-Century Cuba: Subjects and Agents of Surveillance.”
Viviana Quintero-Marquez, UC President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Departments of History, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UC Merced. Presentation: “Mapping Seafarers and Black Women’s Networks in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Cartagena.” Discussant: Nohora Arrieta Fernández, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA Also on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98793935555
Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Isidro Gonzalez Granados, will be presenting “Eugenic Spectrums: Social Science, Genetic Data, and Disabling in the U.S. West, 1900-1940.” González Granados's fundamental historical question is: how were disabled people made? His book project, Eugenic […]
Professor Derby will launch her new book: Bêtes Noires Further information and eBook: https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3601/Betes-NoiresSorcery-as-History-in-the-Haitian Please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1I48dLzOKSnJIBwXWCIXZ3vI7FbrqmkGfIFLxqEojPdo/edit
Monday, March 16th at 12:30 pm Erin Budrow, Graduate Student, Department of History, UCLA Presentation: “Martinique in the Time of Yellow Fever: Colonial Public Health during the 1908 Yellow Fever Outbreak.” Discussant: Soraya de Chadarevian, Distinguished Professor, Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA
This workshop is designed for students embarking on their honors theses to meet fellow researchers, hear from students who recently finished their theses successfully, and learn how to kick off their project successfully. Lunch provided.
Thursday, April 30th at 12:30 pm Mandie Nuanes, Graduate Student, Department of History, UCLA Presentation: “Visualizing Place: Constructing the Caribbean through Postcards, 1900-1930s” Discussant: José Luis Passos, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA.
Join us for a talk of the 2026 Weber Book Price awardee Catherine Tatiana Dunlop about her winning book The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France (University of Chicago Press, 2024).
