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, […]
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 […]
