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=SWpWdGNoR2h0dDJqbjZvZG00clI4dz09
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Video Recording of this Event -------------------------- Carla Pestana Chair and Professor Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World UCLA Department of History invites you to attend Fateful Elections: […]
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_
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. […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
