Name: Why Fire History Matters, LA Fires Past and Present
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January 2025

January 29 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Oliver Cussen (UC Berkeley): “Colonial Enlightenment and Capitalism’s Ecological Repressed”

6275 Bunche Hall

January 30 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Joan Flores-Villalobos (University of Southern California), “The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal”

6275 Bunche Hall

February 2025

February 5 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Ana Struillou (University of London Institute of Historical Research): “Across the Material Sea: Travellers and Their Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean”

6275 Bunche Hall

February 10 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Cassia Roth (University of California, Riverside): “Beyond the Chart: From Individual Stories to Epidemiological Insights in Clinical Records”

5288 Bunche Hall

February 11 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Spencer Weinreich (Harvard University): “‘If his keeper look well unto him’: Solitary Confinement in Early Modern Europe”

6275 Bunche Hall

February 24 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Jennifer Kosmin (Auburn University): “When the Fetus Becomes a Child: Historicizing Fetal Viability in the early 19th Century”

5288 Bunche Hall

March 2025

March 3 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Sabrina González (Washington State University): “Schools as Laboratories: Pedagogy and Eugenics in Argentina”

5288 Bunche Hall

April 2025

April 7 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Book Celebration: Landscaping Indigenous Mexico by Fernando Pérez Montesinos

6275 Bunche Hall

April 7 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Natasha Wheatley: The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty

Bunche 5288 & Zoom

April 17 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Daniel P. Gamez, “Imperial Urbanism: Environmental violence and Nahua autonomy in the Anahuac-Mexico City”

6275 Bunche Hall

April 22 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Suzy Kim, Rutgers University, “Among Women Across Worlds: North Korea in Global Cold War”

Bunche 10383

April 30 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

January 2025

Oliver Cussen (UC Berkeley): “Colonial Enlightenment and Capitalism’s Ecological Repressed”

Joan Flores-Villalobos (University of Southern California), “The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal”

February 2025

Ana Struillou (University of London Institute of Historical Research): “Across the Material Sea: Travellers and Their Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean”

Cassia Roth (University of California, Riverside): “Beyond the Chart: From Individual Stories to Epidemiological Insights in Clinical Records”

Spencer Weinreich (Harvard University): “‘If his keeper look well unto him’: Solitary Confinement in Early Modern Europe”

Jennifer Kosmin (Auburn University): “When the Fetus Becomes a Child: Historicizing Fetal Viability in the early 19th Century”

March 2025

Sabrina González (Washington State University): “Schools as Laboratories: Pedagogy and Eugenics in Argentina”

April 2025

Book Celebration: Landscaping Indigenous Mexico by Fernando Pérez Montesinos

Natasha Wheatley: The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty

Daniel P. Gamez, “Imperial Urbanism: Environmental violence and Nahua autonomy in the Anahuac-Mexico City”

Suzy Kim, Rutgers University, “Among Women Across Worlds: North Korea in Global Cold War”

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