POSTPONED – European Colloquium: Anthony Grafton’s Talk
TBDPOSTPONED: Anthony Grafton's talk scheduled for February 9th 4-6PM has been postponed to Spring Quarter. More information will be provided in the future.
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Transatlantic Blues: A French Botanist Experiments with Indigo by Mary Terrall
ZoomThe French botanist Michel Adanson spent five years in pre-colonial Senegal in the 1750s, under the auspices of the Compagnie des Indes, collecting and cultivating African plants and mapping the landscape and natural […]
Oathbound: The Trelawny Maroons of Jamaica in the Revolutionary Atlantic World by Bradley Craig
Forcibly removed from Jamaica in 1796 after waging war against the colonial state, the Trelawny Maroons boarded a ship bound for Nova Scotia, where they struggled against the colonial government […]
“‘Chi beve birra campa cent’anni!’: Wine Beer, and the Question of Italian Identity under Fascism”
ZoomEUROPEAN COLLOQUIUM TALK BY WEBER POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR, BRIAN GRIFFITH 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 […]
History of Science Colloquium: Alexander Kertzner (UCLA)
“Polio, Adventism, and Rehabilitation Medicine in Los Angeles.” Rancho Los Amigos was founded during the late nineteenth century as a poor farm but became a rehabilitation hospital for iron lung […]
History of Science Colloquium: Devon Golaszewski (Loyola Marymount, LA)
April 4 Devon Golaszewski (Loyola Marymount, LA) “Medicalizing Childbirth in Post-Colonial Mali: Uterine Stimulant Drugs as Techno-Medical Tools and Social Cures" By the 1970s, uterine stimulant and oxytocic drugs such […]
The ABC of Russian Imperialism, Willard Sunderland (University of Cincinnati)
Royce 306A Weber Chair In Modern European History recruitment talk. RSVP: https://forms.office.com/r/JAUpUCWi8t
Magdeburg, 1554: Flacius Illyricus Applies for a Grant
Royce 314A lecture by Professor Anthony Grafton (Princeton University). Ecclesiastical history began in the 1550s, when the Lutheran Matthias Flacius Illyricus organized a collaborative century-by-century history of Christianity. This confessional project never reached […]
European History Colloquium: Susan Grayzel
Susan Grayzel's talk on April 11th, from 4:00-6:00pm.More information will be provided in the future.
The Age of the Gas Mask: Susan Grayzel
Susan Grayzel's talk on April 11th, from 4:00-6:00pm at 6275 Bunche Hall. Attendance for this event is also available via Zoom. Registration is required if attending via Zoom. "The First World War introduced […]
Pam Ballinger (University of Michigan), “Sovereign Anomalies: Postwar Trieste and the Problem of ‘Hardcore’ Refugees”
Royce 306A Weber Chair In Modern European History recruitment talk. Pamela Ballinger is Professor of History and the Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights in the Department of History […]
