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, […]
Spring 2021 Colloquium April 5 | 4PM - 5PM PST Speaker Megan Rosenbloom (UCLA) “Anatomized Bodies at Work: The Human Skin Book and its Implications for the Histories of Medicine and the Book” Please click here to access an abstract from Megan Rosenbloom’s new book, Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of […]
The theme of "Ottoman Legacies, Émigre Culture, and Linguistic Crossroads" will lay emphasis on heritage, culture, and communication related to Sephardic Jews. The music-filled program--all organized by graduate students--features panels on Ladino Linguistics, History and Memory, and Networks, a keynote address by Dr. Olga Borovaya (Stanford), as well as two concerts. Please click here to register: https://bit.ly/ucladino
The theme of "Ottoman Legacies, Émigre Culture, and Linguistic Crossroads" will lay emphasis on heritage, culture, and communication related to Sephardic Jews. The music-filled program--all organized by graduate students--features panels on Ladino Linguistics, History and Memory, and Networks, a keynote address by Dr. Olga Borovaya (Stanford), as well as two concerts. Please click here to register: https://bit.ly/ucladino
Jiacheng Liu, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado, will be giving a talk based on her article "The Game of Love and the Performance of Masculinity: Courting Actresses in Republican China.” Date & Time: April 12, 7:00 pm PST, in conjunction with Andrea S. Goldman’s History 282B seminar, Gender and Sexuality in Late […]
Barbara Krauthamer, Professor of History, UMass Amherst "Liberty’s Diaspora: Black Women in the Age of the American Revolution" This presentation examines the lives of three Black women who had been enslaved in the British North American colonies at the time of the American Revolution. The presentation reflects on their lives by considering the ways historians have […]
From the UCLA International Institute: Black Lives Matter in Belgium: Reckoning with Legacies of Colonialism, Violence, and Contemporary Racism Debora Silverman, Professor of History and Art History at UCLA, will be on the panel of speakers. Download the flyer for Zoom registration details.
Spring 2021 Colloquium April 19 | 4PM - 5PM PST Gideon Manning (Cedars-Sinai) “False Images Do Not Lie: Medicine, Editors’ Decisions, and the Case of René Descartes’s Treatise on Man” How to discuss the role of illustrations in the early modern period in a way that is responsive to the concepts and vocabulary of the time […]
This is the first of a series of book talks hosted by Brian Griffith that, in one way or another, impinge upon the history of Europe's interwar crisis. These book talks will be open to members both of UCLA's campus community and the general public, and pre-registration is required. Dominique Kircher Reill, Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake […]
Y. Yvon Wang, Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, will be giving a talk entitled “Sexology Sells: Licentiousness & Sexual Science on fin-de-siècle Beijing Markets.” Date & Time: April 26, 6:00 pm PST, in conjunction with Andrea S. Goldman’s History 282B seminar, Gender and Sexuality in Late Imperial and Modern China. Participants are encouraged but not required to […]
