CMRS Conference: Varallo and the Sacri Monti of Northwestern Italy
2020-10-29 09:00 - 2020-10-30 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
CMRS Conference
Varallo and the Sacri Monti of Northwestern Italy
Thursday-Friday, October 29-30, 2020
9 am–12 pm Pacific Time

This conference, organized by Geoffrey Symcox (History, UCLA), explores the history and extraordinary art of the Sacri Monti and highlights the contributions of young scholars to this new field of research.
The cluster of pilgrimage centers known as the Sacri Monti, or Holy Mountains, in the western Italian Alps, is attracting increasing scholarly attention. In part this is because in 2003 they were named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, in recognition of their unique artistic character. The first Sacro Monte, at Varallo in the alpine foothills north of Turin, was founded in the late fifteenth century by a Franciscan friar, as a substitute version of Jerusalem for pilgrims who could not make the journey in person. He designed it as a topographical replica of the Holy Places, centering on the Holy Sepulcher. Subsequently, the artists working at Varallo in the sixteenth century, who were mainly local men, reconfigured this original topomimetic concept into a sequence of dramatic tableaux recounting the life and Passion of Christ. These were housed in individual chapels, and were composed of large numbers of realistic, life-size painted terracotta figures, backed by frescoes. In this form, Varallo became the prototype for a “second generation” of Sacri Monti founded at different places across the western Italian Alps in the seventeenth century under the impulse of the Counter-Reformation. Together, as UNESCO’s recognition attests, they constitute a cultural artifact unparalleled elsewhere in Italy or in the rest of Europe.
The conference will be held as two meetings on Thursday and Friday, October 29and 30, for about 3 hours each day. Speakers will make the full version of their papers available to all participants online at least a week before the conference, with ancillary materials as necessary. In their session they will give a brief summary of their paper, to be followed by remarks from a commentator, and discussion.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2020
9:00 – 9:10 am Pacific Time
Welcoming remarks by UCLA-CMRS Director Zrinka Stahaljuk
9:10 – 9:30 Geoffrey Symcox (History, UCLA)
“Changing Historical Perspectives on Varallo and the Sacri Monti”
9:30 – 9:50 Edoardo Tortarolo (University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli)
“Belated Religiosity: the Valsesia as a Terra Separata and the Ambiguity of Padre Giacobini”
9:50 – 10:20 Comment: Geoffrey Symcox (History, UCLA)
General Discussion
10:20 – 10:40 Break
10:40 – 11:00 Matthew Vester (History, West Virginia University)
“The Social and Economic Context of the Western Alps: Some Examples from the Val d’Aosta”
11:00 – 11:20 Marianne Ritsema van Eck (History, Leiden University)
“The Observant Franciscans, the Bedrock of the Sacri Monti”
11:20 – 11:50 Comment: Nicholas Terpstra (History, University of Toronto)
General Discussion

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2020
9:00 – 9:10 am Pacific Time
Announcements, etc
9:10 – 9:30 Grace Harpster (Art History, Georgia State University)
“Grates, Graffiti, and Sacred Sculpture: Reforming the Sacro Monte of Varallo under Carlo Borromeo”
9:30 – 9:50 Rebecca Gill (National Gallery, London)
“Mystery and the Multisensory at Galeazzo Alessi’s Sacro Monte di Varallo”
9:50 – 10:20 Comment: George Gorse (Art History, Pomona College)
General Discussion
10:20 – 10:40 Break
10:40 – 11:00 Kennis Forte (Art History PhD Candidate, Queens University, Ontario)
“Symptom and Symbol: Goiters as a Link between Art, Landscape and Local Devotion at the Italian Sacri Monti”
11:00 – 11:20 Carla Benzan (The Open University, London)
“Embodied Vision and the Sculptural Summit: Varallo/Novi Ligure/Milan”
11:20 – 11:50 Comment: Claire Farago (Art & Art History, University of Colorado, Boulder)
Concluding Discussion led by Nicholas Terpstra (History, University of Toronto) and Geoffrey Symcox (History, UCLA)

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of History and the UCLA Division of the Humanities.
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Organized by Geoffrey Symcox (UCLA)
“Varallo and the Sacri Monti of Northwestern Italy”
Time: October 29th & 30th, 9:00am-12:00pm
Zoom registration links for Day 1 and Day 2

Alejandra Dubcovsky, "Iquenibilahacu, iquibitila, Killed but not Extinguished, Centering Native Women in the Early South"
2020-10-29 12:30 - 14:00 | Zoom
Alejandra Dubcovsky, Associate Professor of History, UC Riverside
“Iquenibilahacu, iquibitila, Killed but not Extinguished, Centering Native Women in the Early South”
Time: October 29, 2020 12:30-2:00pm
You can register for this event here.

History of Science Colloquium: Theodore Porter (UCLA) "Democracy Counts: On Sacred and Debased Numbers”
2020-11-02 16:00 - 17:00
Nov. 2, 2020, 4:00pm, PST
Theodore Porter (UCLA), “Democracy Counts: Sacred and Debased numbers”
Commentary by Amir Alexander (UCLA)

The Trump Administration’s systematic rejection of accurate numbers in such domains as public health and the census is of a piece with Trump’s denial of the possibility of fair elections. Taken seriously, it comes down to a rejection of democratic government. This colloquium is oriented around Porter’s blog, “Democracy Counts,” which has been made available with this announcement, and which you are encouraged to read. Amir Alexander will provide a commentary, to be followed by a wide-ranging discussion on numbers and politics.

This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy
Please register here to receive the zoom link.
https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/democracy-counts-on-sacred-and-debased-numbers

Protesters shout outside the Miami-Dade County election office Nov. 22, 2000. (Colin Braley/Reuters)

Nana Osei-Opare, “The African Archive Exists: Calls Against Postcolonial African Archival Pessimism.”
2020-11-12 12:00 - 13:30 | Zoom
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12
12pm to 1:30pm
African Studies Center: Nana Osei-Opare (Fordham University), “The African Archive Exists: Calls Against Postcolonial African Archival Pessimism.”
Read more about the event here.
Please RSVP here.

Marissa Jenrich, "'Like a Crow on Carrion': Black Women's Resistance to Police Power in New York City, 1861-1880"
2020-11-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Marissa’s article highlights the complex relationship between black women and New York City police in the years between the founding of the municipal force in 1845 and the officer-driven race riot that punctuated the turn of the twentieth century. It considers how shifts in police power, departmental structure, and jurisdiction altered the lives of women of color at a time when the city itself was undergoing tremendous change. In particular, this article examines the diverse ways women resisted the incursions of law enforcement by engaging in strategies of denial, registration, and direct protest. By doing so, this article hopes to not only shed light on the period in question, but also to deepen our understanding of the Progressive-Era brand of policing that, for many New Yorkers, resulted in a ”condemnation of blackness,” itself.
— Please note that there is a pre-circulated paper that will be sent out a week before this event. Please contact Rebeca Martinez at rmartnz165@g.ucla.edu for further information on the zoom link and paper. —

History of Science Colloquium: Celebration of Soraya de Chadarevian
2020-11-16 16:00 - 17:00
Fall 2020 Colloquium Schedule
November 16, 2020 | 4:00pm
Book Event: Presentation and celebration of Soraya de Chadarevian, Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome (University of Chicago Press, 2020)
Discussants: Ted Porter (UCLA) and Iris Clever (University of Chicago)
A copy of the introduction and epilogue of Heredity under the Microscope will be circulated to those registered on the day before the event.
This event is co-sponsored by The Institute for Society and Genetics.
To register for this event to receive the Zoom link for the discussion, click here.

Thabisile Griffin, "Black Militias in the Era of Revolutions: Politics, Race and Labor"
2020-11-19 12:30 - 14:00 | Zoom
November 19, 2020
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Thabisile Griffin, PhD Candidate, UCLA
“Black Militias in the Era of Revolutions: Politics, Race and Labor”
From 1781 to 1790, the British Caribbean military and colonial administrators struggled with renegotiating their racial truth systems – through a recalibration of defense. The last two decades of the century were ripe with not only the insurrections of enslaved Africans, but also threats from competing European powers and indigenous populations. In order to survive, there were constant re-adjustments made to garrison structure and fortifications, that ultimately disrupted racial sensibilities to security. A contentious reinforcement would develop in the 1780s, incentivized by previous strategies used during the American Revolution. Military officials and colonial administrators in the Caribbean were now reckoning with the possibility of employing and arming entire battalions of Black men for the British Army. The creation of this unit in the Caribbean, the Black Corps, was only possible through the evolving myths and villainization of St. Vincent’s Black indigenous population—the Black Caribs. Only through the narrative of the Black Caribs could the fantasy of the Black Corps be actualized.
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History of Science Colloquium: Taylor Moore (UCSB): “Tracing the Magical Rhinoceros Horn in Egypt: A Decolonial Materialist History”
2020-11-23 16:00 - 17:00
Fall 2020 Colloquium Schedule
We will meet on zoom from 4-5 pm. RSVP links will be circulated with the announcements for the individual talks.
Nov 23
Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsdeGurzIqGtxldiJYGsO0ROwIFjd72WeD
Taylor Moore (UCSB): “Tracing the Magical Rhinoceros Horn in Egypt: A Decolonial Materialist History”
Co-sponsored by the European History Colloquium
Can emancipatory, decolonial histories be extracted from objects collected from—or made visible to history by—the archives of colonialism? This talk explores this question through the case study of the rhinoceros horn amulet (/qarn el-khartit/), an ethnographic object collected by British anthropologist Winifred Blackman during her fieldwork in Egypt in the 1920s. Markedly decentering the traditional colonial history of how the rhinoceros horn was collected and displayed as an object in European museums, I follow the trail of the rhinoceros horn back to the site of its collection in Egypt to reveal a strikingly different story: one of magic/medicine, gender, race, and enslavement—setagainst the backdrop of Egypt’s imperial pursuits in East Africa. As such, I demonstrate how to “read” the rhinoceros horn as an object-archive that illuminates the networks, actors, and economies whose bodies and labor are generally rendered invisible in Eurocentric histories of global science and medicine.
Taylor M. Moore is a University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at UC Santa Barbara. Her research lies at the intersections of critical race studies,decolonial/postcolonial histories of science, and decolonial materiality studies. Her book manuscript, /Superstitious Women: Race, Magic, and Medicine in Egypt/, uses modern Egyptian amulets as an archive to reconstruct the magical and vernacular medical life-worlds of peasant women healers, and their critical role developing medico-anthropological expertise in Egypt from 1880-1950.

History of Science Colloquium: Claire Gherini (Cedars-Sinai Postdoctoral Fellow)
2020-11-30 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Fall 2020 Colloquium Schedule
We will meet on zoom from 4-5 pm. RSVP links will be circulated with the announcements for the individual talks.
Nov 30
Registration: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMldumtpz0sEtPww5ISb-MGdBajvEwO8SZP
Claire Gherini (Cedars-Sinai Postdoctoral Fellow), “Slavery’s Medicine: Making Medical Knowledge from the Garrison to the Plantation in the British Caribbean, 1763-1807”

Brian J. Griffith, "Contesting the National Beverage: Wine, Beer, and the Battle over ‘Foreign’ Tastes and Habits in Interwar Italy"
2020-12-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Speaker: Brian J. Griffith, Eugen and Jacqueline Weber Post-Doctoral Scholar in European History
Title: “Contesting the National Beverage: Wine, Beer, and the Battle over ‘Foreign’ Tastes and Habits in Interwar Italy”
The recording can now be found here: https://fb.watch/26uKXr920X/.

Brief Abstract: “This paper analyzes the struggles between the Italian winemaking and brewing industries over the shaping of bourgeois Italian tastes and habits during the interwar decades. During the early 1920s, Fascist Italy’s Industrial Wine Lobby began unveiling a wide range of public relations and collective marketing campaigns, which were aimed at forging new ‘fashions’ or trendy collective practices among the country’s wayward middle- and upper-class consumers. The pro-wine lobby’s efforts, however, were obstructed by a variety of political and commercial challenges, including a growing competition with various ‘foreign’ beverage industries, such as coffee, cocktails, and, above all, beer. Between 1929 and 1931, Italian brewers’ commercial lobbying organization, the National Beer Propaganda Consortium, launched two ambitious collective marketing campaigns of their own, which were centered on discursively intertwining the beverage’s consumption with bourgeois sociability, domesticity, and ‘Italian’ identity. Unwilling to yield any commercial ground to domestic brewers, Italy’s Industrial Wine Lobby launched a follow-up, and wide-ranging collective marketing campaign in order to both defend ‘the world’s vineyard’ from the ‘invasion’ of ‘semi-barbarian’ preferences, as one wine lobbyist colorfully phrased it in 1935, and, equally as important, reposition Italian wine as a wholesome and fashionable ‘national beverage’ within the eyes of the peninsula’s middle- and upper-classes. By exploring these industries’ conflicts over the definition and articulation of ‘Italian’ taste and style during Fascism’s twenty years in power in Italy, this study aims to shed further light on the myriad, and oftentimes complex, relationships between popular consumption, industrial ‘fashion’ dynamics, and national identity.”
Event Host: UCLA’s Center for European and Russian Studies
Date/Time: Tuesday, December 1st from 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Zoom Registration Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4lFpMlUcRIiKcxvBkf4V3Q
Additional Information: See https://www.international.ucla.edu/euro/event/14684

Grace Kim, “Preserving Art, Producing Science: The Microbiological Lives of Cultural Heritage.”
2021-01-11 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom RSVP
Winter 2021 Colloquium
Jan 11 | 4PM – 5PM PST
Speaker Grace Kim (Vanderbilt)
“Preserving Art, Producing Science: The Microbiological Lives of Cultural Heritage.”

Zoom registration link:
https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97402888165?pwd=[REDACTED]

Tawny Paul, "Commodified Bodies: Debt Bondage and Maritime Labor Recruitment in the British Atlantic"
2021-01-14 12:30 - 14:00 | Zoom
To RSVP, click here.

Fateful Elections: Perspectives on Presidential Transitions
2021-01-14 16:00 | Live streaming via Zoom
Video Recording of this Event
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Carla Pestana
Chair and Professor
Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World
UCLA Department of History

invites you to attend

Fateful Elections: Perspectives on Presidential Transitions
a panel discussion featuring

MARGARET O’MARA
Howard & Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History, University of Washington

JOAN WAUGH
Professor Emeritus, UCLA Department of History

moderated by
ROBIN D.G. KELLEY
Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History
UCLA Department of History

Thursday, January 14, 2021
4:00 p.m. PST
Live streaming via Zoom

Please submit your questions in advance of the webinar via email to:
hnadworny@support.ucla.edu by Wednesday, January 13 at 12:00 p.m.
Instructions to join the webinar will be provided once your registration has been confirmed.

About the Why History Matters series: The UCLA Department of History is proud to present the series “Why History Matters.” The series is dedicated to the belief that historical knowledge is an indispensable, and often missing, ingredient in public debate. Over the course of the year, “Why History Matters” events will bring historians into conversation with prominent public officials and personalities on issues of contemporary relevance.

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Philip Lehmann, “Polish Steppes and German Gardens: Climate Amelioration in the Generalplan Ost.”
2021-01-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom RSVP
Winter 2021 Colloquium
Jan 25 | 4PM – 5PM PST
Speaker Philip Lehmann (UCR)
“Polish Steppes and German Gardens: Climate Amelioration in the Generalplan Ost.”

Zoom registration link:
https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqcOuuqjMqHNzVyDsxIPiFLgGCVb0u9BS_

Sasha Turner, "Negotiating Slavery and Motherhood on the Terrain of Feelings."
2021-02-04 12:30 - 14:00 | Zoom
This presentation centers on the story of Abba, an enslaved woman who was the mother of an unusually large family in eighteenth century Jamaica. Abba had been pregnant thirteen times. She had ten live births and one still birth. We come to know Abba’s story through the diaries of Thomas Thistlewood, notorious among scholars of slavery because of his practice of diarizing how he daily tortured the enslaved. In addition to her large family, Abba stands out in the diaries because, despite Thistlewood’s notoriety as a sadistic enslaver, he whips Abba only three times in almost thirty years of claiming power over her life and body. By contrast, Thistlewood was exceptionally generous to Abba providing her with well needed material goods to support her family and permitting her to perform spiritual rituals, outlawed a felony, to grieve the death of her children. Reading Abba’s life against the 18th Century burgeoning culture of sensibility, including Thistlewood’s own displays of sympathy and grief to white community members, this discussion explores Abba’s deployment of feelings in negotiating her condition. How did Abba’s displays of feeling mirror Thistlewood’s, and what did Abba seek to gain by consistently exhibiting feelings in Thistlewood presence?
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Hippolyte Goux, "Representation and Abstraction: Economic Models and the End of Man."
2021-02-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom RSVP
Winter 2021 Colloquium
Feb 8 | 4PM – 5PM PST
Speaker Hippolyte Goux (UCLA)
“Representation and Abstraction: Economic Models and the End of Man.”

Zoom registration link:
https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvc-urqTwuE91JLUd7x9rXNoEATlDLZV74

Discussion of "The Notorious Mrs. Nobles: Jim Crow Gender and "Insanity" in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia"
2021-02-10 11:30 - 12:30 | Zoom
A Discussion of Rebekka Michaelsen’s article-in-progress “The Notorious Mrs. Nobles: Jim Crow Gender and “Insanity” in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia”
This article-in-progress recovers the case of Elizabeth Nobles, an elderly, poor white woman who conspired with her Black farm hand to murder her husband in rural Georgia in 1895. While other historians have demonstrated the importance of race and gender to the Jim Crow South, this paper shows how notions of disability, in this case “insanity,” reinforced Jim Crow. While, for Mrs. Nobles, “insanity” became a reputable legal defense to save her life as well as a rhetorical apology for her transgression of Jim Crow racial and gender hierarchies, “insanity” could simultaneously serve as way of “othering” and “defeminizing” Black women.
Date: February 10th, 11:30AM – 12:30PM
The zoom link and paper will be sent out a week in advance. Please email Rebeca Martinez at rmartnz165@g.ucla.edu to receive this information.

Roundtable, Past and Futures: Current Challenges in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
2021-02-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Winter 2021 Colloquium
Feb 22 | 4PM – 5PM PST
Roundtable Past and Futures: Current Challenges in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
with interventions by:
Terence Keel (UCLA), “The Demographic Future of the History of Science.”
Abstract: This talk draws from my involvement in a roundtable
discussion at the 2020 History of Science Society meeting this fall
where up for debate was whether or not /Isis/ and the history of science
more generally is up for the task of addressing the legacy of racism
within science and the current barriers that limit the demographic make
up of our discipline.
and
Cathy Gere (UCSD), “The Climate Crisis and Professional Equity in History of Science.”
Zoom (RSVP Required): https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkce-rqjsrGNLcii1yjLJfbh4xKJSSTSfx

Sarah Johnson, "Between the Archive and the Speculative Turn: Notes toward a Biography of Moreau de Saint-Méry." - POSTPONED
2021-02-25 12:30 - 14:00 | Zoom
This talk has been POSTPONED. Future date TBD.
This talk considers the process of writing about the life and work of the Caribbean philosophe Moreau de Saint-Méry (1750-1819). A lawyer, printer, naturalist, and translator who was at the forefront of revolutionary politics on two continents, Moreau was also a slaveholder who wrote about ideals of liberty even as he trafficked in human beings. An ardent defender of slavery as an institution, he nonetheless left some of the most detailed accounts of the social practices of enslaved women and men in the eighteenth-century Americas. This talk explores who knew what, and how, using as an example entries from his manuscript Repértoire des Notions Coloniales that I have refashioned into my own Encyclopédie noire. This work reconsiders how his production of colonial knowledge appears when assessed from alternate points of view. In a similar vein, I discuss the process and politics that surround a parallel project produced by Moreau’s brother-in-law, Baudry des Lozières. My methodology embraces the value of informed speculation—through chapters that experiment with form, visual imagery, and narrative voice—as a way to foreground the people of African descent who undergirded Moreau’s work on multiple levels, from those who managed his household to those whose knowledge about language, labor, and community became the basis of his work. I build upon fragmentary archival evidence to surmount the disproportionate influence of planters and administrators on Caribbean historiography.

From Farm Labor To Your Family Table
2021-03-01 15:00 - 2021-03-05 16:00 | Webinar

Professor Andrew Robichaud, “Animal City: The Domestication of America”
2021-03-02 11:00 - 12:15 | Zoom
Professor Andrew Robichaud, “Animal City: The Domestication of America”

Tuesday, March 2

11am to 12:15pm

Andrew Robichaud, Assistant Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Boston University, will be talking about his book Animal City: The Domestication of America (Harvard University Press, 2019)

American cities were once full of animal life: cattle driven through city streets; pigs feeding in gutters and basements; cows crammed into urban feedlots; horses by the tens of thousands; dogs pulling carts and powering small machines; and wild animals peering out at human spectators from behind bars. In his recent book, Animal City: The Domestication of America, Andrew Robichaud reconstructs this evolving world of nineteenth-century urban animal life—from San Francisco to Boston to New York—and reveals its importance, both then and now.

Hosted by the U.S. History Series, the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World, and History 13B: History of the U.S. and its Colonial Origins: 19th Century

Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95986426972

Preston McBride, "Lethal Education: Native American Boarding Schools, 1879-1934."
2021-03-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Winter 2021 Colloquium
March 8 | 4PM – 5PM PST
Speaker Preston McBride (Dartmouth)
“Lethal Education: Native American Boarding Schools, 1879-1934.”

Zoom (RSVP Required): https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErcOmuqD8tE9MFnnblgFrfwqJstbN7N8_v

Jenna Gibbs, "Protesting Slavery, Asserting Freedom, and Defying Racism at the African Grove Theatre in New York in the early 1820s."
2021-03-11 12:30 | Zoom
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Indian Ocean Studies: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going?
2021-03-26 06:00 - 07:30 | Zoom
Indian Ocean Studies: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going?
A Historian’s Perspective
Speaker: Edward A. Alpers
Research Professor (Emeritus)
Department of History University of California, Los Angeles
RSVP via QR code above or here.

Gabriel de Avilez Rocha, "East Atlantic Crossings in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries"
2021-04-01 12:30 - 14:00 | Zoom
Gabriel de Avilez Rocha, Vasco da Gama Assistant Professor of History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University
“East Atlantic Crossings in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries”
Atlantic historians tend to understand transoceanic crossings along an east-west axis, with people and goods seen as traversing the space between Africa and/or Europe, on the one hand, and the Americas, on the other. Yet in the early decades of the sixteenth century, even as the broader contours of Atlantic circumnavigation were becoming more evident to members of various maritime communities, impressions of transoceanic mobility did not yet assume the east-west axis as normative. Frequently traveled thoroughfares linking Seville to the Canaries, São Tomé to the Azores, and Cabo Verde to Rouen were themselves widely seen as transoceanic in scope, even if they hewed to the eastern side of the Atlantic. The weight of tradition lay behind this conventional wisdom. Maritime routes spanning the Gulf of Guinea, the Atlantic islands, and Iberia had since the mid-fifteenth century established patterns of voluntary and coerced movement that continued to be integral to an expanding Atlantic circuit even after 1492. In considering the shifting yet continually vital role of the eastern Atlantic corridor, this talk seeks to recover a largely overlooked geographic and temporal dimension of early Atlantic history. It does so by bringing together individual stories of conflict, negotiation, and struggle waged by a diverse range of individuals who interacted, in different ways, with the breadth and dynamism of the east Atlantic in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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Megan Rosenbloom, “Anatomized Bodies at Work: The Human Skin Book and its Implications for the Histories of Medicine and the Book.”
2021-04-05 16:00 - 17:00 | Zoom
Spring 2021 Colloquium
April 5 | 4PM – 5PM PST
Speaker Megan Rosenbloom (UCLA)
“Anatomized Bodies at Work: The Human Skin Book and its Implications for the Histories of Medicine and the Book”
Please click here to access an abstract from Megan Rosenbloom’s new book, Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin.
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ucLADINO Symposium, "Ottoman Legacies, Émigre Culture, and Linguistic Crossroads" - Day 1
2021-04-07 15:00 - 18:00 | Zoom
The theme of “Ottoman Legacies, Émigre Culture, and Linguistic Crossroads” will lay emphasis on heritage, culture, and communication related to Sephardic Jews. The music-filled program–all organized by graduate students–features panels on Ladino Linguistics, History and Memory, and Networks, a keynote address by Dr. Olga Borovaya (Stanford), as well as two concerts.
Please click here to register: https://bit.ly/ucladino

ucLADINO Symposium, "Ottoman Legacies, Émigre Culture, and Linguistic Crossroads" - Day 2
2021-04-08 10:00 - 15:00 | Zoom

Jiacheng Liu, "The Game of Love and the Performance of Masculinity: Courting Actresses in Republican China”
2021-04-12 19:00 | Zoom RSVP
Jiacheng Liu, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado, will be giving a talk based on her article “The Game of Love and the Performance of Masculinity: Courting Actresses in Republican China.”

Date & Time: April 12, 7:00 pm PST, in conjunction with Andrea S. Goldman’s History 282B seminar, Gender and Sexuality in Late Imperial and Modern China.

Participants are encouraged but not required to read the article in advance. The article and zoom link will be made available to participants who RSVP for the meeting. Deadline for the RSVP is on April 5th. Please send an email to rmartnz165@g.ucla.edu to RSVP.

Barbara Krauthamer, "Liberty’s Diaspora: Black Women in the Age of the American Revolution"
2021-04-15 12:30 - 14:00 | Zoom
Barbara Krauthamer, Professor of History, UMass Amherst
“Liberty’s Diaspora: Black Women in the Age of the American Revolution”
This presentation examines the lives of three Black women who had been enslaved in the British North American colonies at the time of the American Revolution. The presentation reflects on their lives by considering the ways historians have navigated the archival gaps and silences about Black women’s presence. The presentation follows the women’s voluntary and forced migrations, their Diasporic routes, within the Americas and across the Atlantic. This focus on Black women’s routes of resistance, liberation and deportation adds a new dimension to the more familiar and male dominated stories of slavery, Black Loyalists and the American Revolution.
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