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. 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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, 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, […]
