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 […]
EUROPEAN 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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
A 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 […]
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 […]
A 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 […]
April 18 Peiting C. Li (Cedars-Sinai) "When Herbs Become Drugs: Late Natural History and Early Clinical Trials in China" Zoom RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrce2vrDwuHtTE7HtTqJTG7iCo7vS39XWO In Person RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ILInDOwf0IzCN9TMRv9cMWhPxtUCe8PIFSgGKZaoi2w This talk discusses investigations of a […]