UCLA European History Colloquium Presents: The Jet Age in Eight Passengers
2026-04-22 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 10383 Bunche Hall & Zoom
We are pleased to announce that the next UCLA European History Colloquium will be held on Wednesday, April 22, at 5pm in Bunche 10383 and on Zoom. Please note the new location!
Lauren Stokes, Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University, will be joining us to speak on “The Jet Age in Eight Passengers.”

The History of Gender and Sexuality Working Group Presents: The-Graduate Student Conference 2026
2026-04-24 09:00 - 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series: "Tīrs, the Moroccan chernozem: soils, epistemologies and empires (1900-1930)"
2026-04-27 16:00 - 17:30 | Bunche 5288 & Zoom
Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. UCLA’s Ethan Mefford, will be presenting “Tīrs, the Moroccan chernozem: soils, epistemologies and empires (1900-1930)”
In 1900, as European empires eyed Morocco, a dark soil known locally as tīrs created a sensation among European observers, sparking commentaries on its great fertility and theories as to its genesis. As an object of local experience and thought and of fast-cohering colonial knowledge, tīrs traces contrasts and convergences between two epistemologies each oriented to its own conceptions of climate and agriculture. In 1908, the geologist Louis Gentil (1868-1925) applied the factorial model of soil genesis developed by the Russian soil scientist V.V. Dokuchaev (1846-1903) and declared tīrs to be akin to the famed chernozem or “black earth” of southern Russia and Ukraine. Gentil’s theory, though mistaken, prevailed and became part of an authoritative discourse that supported French agricultural and political goals. This talk explores the relationship between science and empire, and how the salient “fact” that tīrs was another chernozem reverberated through cohering French and Spanish conceptions of Morocco’s physical and human geography.
See you in the History of Science Room or via Zoom https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/7eHDPkZiQlCkoT-U3x9BiQ.

The UCLA History Atlantic Colloquium presents: Visualizing Place: Constructing the Caribbean through Postcards, 1900-1930s
2026-04-30 12:30 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Thursday, April 30th at 12:30 pm
Mandie Nuanes, Graduate Student, Department of History, UCLA
Presentation: “Visualizing Place: Constructing the Caribbean through Postcards, 1900-1930s”
Discussant: José Luis Passos, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA.
Join us for this talk in person (6265 Bunche Hall) or via Zoom.

Weber Book Prize Talk
2026-04-30 16:00 - 17:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Join us for a talk of the 2026 Weber Book Prize awardee Catherine Tatiana Dunlop about her winning book The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France (University of Chicago Press, 2024).

10th Annual Undergraduate History Research Conference
2026-05-13 10:00 - 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
The History Undergraduate Advisory Board cordially invites you to our 10th Annual Undergraduate History Research Conference on Wednesday, May 13th from 10am to 4pm. Support UCLA undergraduates as they present their research in front of various faculty and graduate students from the department. This event will be hosted in 6275 Bunche Hall (History Conference Room) and will be available via Zoom as well (Please RSVP for link below).
Please register for the event here!: https://forms.gle/V4y8bukVTgLvWhyh7.

The UCLA History Atlantic Colloquium presents: Martinique in the Time of Yellow Fever: Colonial Public Health during the 1908 Yellow Fever Outbreak.
2026-05-14 12:30 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Thursday, May 14th at 12:30 pm
Erin Budrow, Graduate Student, Department of History, UCLA
Presentation: “Martinique in the Time of Yellow Fever: Colonial Public Health during the 1908 Yellow Fever Outbreak.”
Discussant: Soraya de Chadarevian, Distinguished Professor, Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA

TEACHING TALK: The Professional Payoffs of Historical Thinking, and why and how to think about this in our classes
2026-05-27 12:00 - 13:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
TEACHING TALK: The Professional Payoffs of Historical Thinking, and why and how to think about this in our classes
Featuring Tawny Paul, Kevin Kim, Bill Marotti, Jared McBride, and Glenn Penny
Wednesday 27 May 2026
12:00 pm, 6275 Bunche
Lunch courtesy of the Public History Initiative

Why History Matters - U.S. Immigration Policy: Where do we go from here?
2026-05-27 18:00 - 20:00 | UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) – Auditorium, 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
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The UCLA History Atlantic Colloquium presents: Cudjoe's (Dis)Ability and Maroon (De)Formation
2026-05-28 12:30 - 14:00 | 6265 Bunche Hall
Aaron Moulton, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Science, Hunter College CUNY
Presentation: “Cudjoe’s (Dis)Ability and Maroon (De)Formation”
In this talk, Prof. Moulton presents a draft chapter that is part of his book project The Black Grounds: Marronage, Black Placemaking, and the Exercise of Freedom. The chapter focuses on Captain Cudjoe considering what else we might be able to apprehend about marronage, the social life of fugitivity, and the relations of disability in early colonial Jamaica. Captain Cudjoe of the Leeward Maroons is perhaps the most frequently invoked figure in discourses about marronage that following the hero-traitor narrational trajectories. The dichotomized reading of marronage gives us an iconography of Cudjoe as either an exemplifying Black liberatory impulse and placemaking vision, or Black sycophantism and selfishness. The hero-traitor framework demands that we choose which Cudjoe is authentic, a false dilemma fallacy based on a reductive narrative of Black sociality. Against the dilemma, I read Cudjoe as evincing the contingent nature of social coalitions. Rather than one or the other kind of Black leader figure, Cudjoe is a migrator figure. His shifts through character roles on relation to Black community and freedom show the varying relationship between resistance, integration, and recognition to racial formation and racial projects. I read a depiction of Cudjoe as having a sever spinal curvature as a metaphor for the disabling and deforming outcomes of efforts at Black placemaking and freedom in an antiblack world. I consider how the fact of Cudjoe’s ascent to the leadership of his community invites celebration of Black communal practices of care that refuse hierarchies of worthiness.
