Democratizing Research Access: Overcoming Exclusion from Well-Resourced University Research Libraries
2017-10-11 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 2125 Rolfe Hall
CSW RESEARCH AFFILIATE BROWN BAG
Open to all members of the UCLA community

DATE: Wednesday, October 11
TIME: 2:00 – 3:PM
LOCATION: 2125 Rolfe Hall

For a growing number of scholars, gaining access to adequate library resources–both books and digital– has become increasingly challenging. The problem of unequal research access is exacerbating larger problems of inequity across academia, by creating barriers for those working outside of large, well-resourced universities. This group includes independent scholars, faculty at under-resourced institutions, and others occupying positions of “career diversity,” a contingent likely to expand in the coming years. At this brown bag, Becky Nicolaides will lead a discussion that explores the nature of the problem and possible pathways toward solutions, based on her advocacy on this issue as an elected member of the American Historical Association – Research Division.
Becky Nicolaides is a historian who works as an independent scholar and consultant in Los Angeles. She specializes in U.S. urban and suburban history, and the history of Los Angeles. She serves as co-editor of the “Historical Studies of Urban America” series published by University of Chicago Press and is co-coordinator of the L.A History and Metro Studies group at the Huntington Library. She is a Research Affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and an Affiliated Research Scholar at the Huntington-USC Institute on California & the West. She is currently serving a three-year term in the AHA Research Division. http://tinyurl.com/NicolaidesUCLA
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Opening Reception for Luskin Center for History and Policy
2017-10-11 16:00 - 17:30 | 6339 Bunche

Why History Matters: "Do Statues Matter?"
2017-10-11 19:00 | California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
Event Video
Event Speakers

Wombs of Liberation: Freedom Petitions, the Black Woman's Body and Trans-Atlantic Law, 1780-1860
2017-10-12 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

The King and the Forty Orphans: The Invention of an Armenian Homeland in Ethiopia
2017-10-12 18:30 - 20:00 | UCLA School of Law, Room 1420

Kathleen Sheldon - "African Women: Early History to the 21st Century"
2017-10-19 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
African Women: Early History to the 21st Century
Kathleen Sheldon
UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Thursday, October 19, 2017
4:00 – 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Free and open to the public
Copies of Dr. Sheldon’s book will be available for purchase immediately following her talk.
Kathleen Sheldon is an independent historian who is a Research Affiliate with the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Dr. Sheldon received her Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 1988 and her M.A. in African Area Studies in 1977. She is a historian who has primarily written about African women and Mozambique. Her most recent book is African Women: Early History to the 21st Century. She also wrote Pounders of Grain: A History of Women, Work, and Politics in Mozambique and edited Courtyards, Markets, City Streets: Urban Women in Africa.
Other publications include the second revised edition of the Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016; first edition, 2005) and a special two-part forum on Women and Gender in Africa for the African Studies Review, co-edited with Judith Van Allen, that appeared in December 2015 and April 2016.
Dr. Sheldon was the editor for women’s entries for the Dictionary of African Biography (2011). She wrote the articles on Women and African History and Women and Colonialism for Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies, and is also a senior editor for the online resource, Oxford Research Encyclopedia in African History.
Other publications include “From Frenzied Mobs to Savvy Businesswomen: Researching the History of Market Women in Africa,” in Changing Horizons of African History (2017); and “Creating an Archive of Working Women’s Oral Histories in Beira, Mozambique” in Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources (2010).
She is an editor on the H-Luso-Africa network, https://networks.h-net.org/h-luso-africa, which focuses on the Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa.
In addition to her work on African women she published “‘No more cookies or cake now, “C’est la guerre”’: An American Nurse in Turkey, 1919 to 1920,” Social Sciences and Missions 23, 1 (2010), based on a diary kept by her great-aunt, Sylvia Thankful Eddy.
PUBLICATIONS
African Women: Early History to the 21st Century (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017).
Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2nd ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016).
Pounders of Grain: A History of Women, Work, and Politics in Mozambique (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002).
Editor, Courtyards, Markets, City Streets: Urban Women in Africa (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996).

This lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA African Studies Center, the UCLA Department of History,
the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies.
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Pay-by-space and all-day ($12) parking available in lot 3
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We hope to see you at this event!
For questions/more information, contact:
UCLA African Studies Center | 10244 Bunche Hall | Los Angeles, CA 90095-1310 | Telephone: 310-825-3686
Website: http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa | email: africa@international.ucla.ed

Vinay Lal - "Politics and the Global South in the Life of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay"
2017-10-23 12:00 - 13:30 | 10383 Bunche Hall

City of Inmates Book Talk and Signing with Kelly Lytle Hernandez
2017-10-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Bruin Viewpoint Room, UCLA Ackerman Student Union, 380 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

"Tuning the world. A global history of acoustics at the crossroads of aesthetics, politics, science and industry (1834-1939)"
2017-10-30 16:00
The speaker for this colloquium is Fanny Gribenski, a Huntington Library Fellow from the Université d’Évry Val d’Essonne.

“Gentrification and its Discontents: Boyle Heights and Beyond” – Luskin Center Panel Discussion
2017-11-01 16:00 | UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room

The Kola Nut: A West African Commodity in the Atlantic World
2017-11-02 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Historians @ Work Workshop
2017-11-09 12:00 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
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James L. Gelvin - "The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know"
2017-11-09 15:30 | Room 1314, UCLA School of Law

"Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origin of the British Museum"
2017-11-13 16:00
The speaker for this colloquium is James Delbourgo from Rutgers University.

Beyond Boko Haram: Writing the History of Borno, Nigeria
2017-11-14 12:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall

Screening, Discussion and Q&A with the Director of "41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers"
2017-11-14 18:30 | Public Affairs Building, Room 1246

Luskin Workshop: "LA's Million Dollar Hoods: Past, Present, and Policy" featuring Kelly Lytle-Hernández
2017-11-15 12:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Are You Curious About Grad School?
2017-11-15 14:00 - 16:00 | 6265 Bunche Hall

Eugen and Jacqueline Weber Tribute Lecture featuring Philip Nord (Princeton University)
2017-11-15 16:00 | UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
EVENT VIDEO

Yuri Slezkine - "The House of Government: A Sage of the Russian Revolution"
2017-11-17 14:00 - 15:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

“Filming and Writing Science”
2017-11-20 16:00 | Royce Hall Member Lounge
The speaker for this colloquium is Peter Galison from Harvard University.
Please note that this event will be held in the Royce Hall Member Lounge. Access is at the back, north side of Royce Hall on the upper loading dock, facing parking structure 5 and Rolfe Hall. Enter through the door with the awning that says Artist Entrance.

Heather Thompson - "Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy"
2017-11-30 16:00 - 18:00 | UCLA Faculty Center Dining Room

Luskin Workshop: "The Policy and Politics of Refugee Selection" featuring Molly Fee
2017-12-06 12:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

The Rise and Fall of Africa’s Last Liberation Hero: The Story of Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe
2017-12-07 12:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall

"Care in the Impossible Science of Gene x Environment Interactions: Penrose to Postgenomics"
2018-01-08 16:00
The speaker for this colloquium is Michael Fortun from the University of California, Irvine.

The Rise and Fall of Africa’s Last Liberation Hero: The Story of Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe
2018-01-17 12:00

Kristina Markman - "Between Admiration and Defamation: Reimaging the Knightly Ideal in the Wars Against Lithuanians"
2018-01-22 12:00 - 13:00 | 306 Royce Hall
CMRS Roundtable
Completed in 1326, Peter of Dusburg’s Chronicon terrae Prussiae is the earliest known history of the Teutonic Order, its military victories against the Baltic pagans, and its wars against the Lithuanians. As many scholars have demonstrated, Dusburg’s chronicle was intended to provide legal and theological justification for the continuation of the Order’s wars at a time when its military practices had come under widespread criticism. In this Roundtable talk, Dr. Kristina Markman (History, UCLA) shows that Dusburg’s chronicle is much more than just a bold attempt to justify the Order’s activities; it skillfully reimagines the knightly ideal drawing on a combination of theology, history, and chivalric values. The chronicler’s polemic against the Lithuanians and his careful choice of qualities to praise and condemn set in juxtaposition to the knights promotes the Baltic campaigns as one of the last theaters of just war, where righteous knights, free from the pageantry and formalistic concerns developing elsewhere in Europe, can follow in the footsteps of their forefathers and fight for God and honor.
Advance registration is requested. Please click here to complete the short registration form.

No fee. Limited seating. Self-pay parking in lots 2, 3, and 4. Parking information at https://main.transportation.ucla.edu/campus-parking/visitors
Funding for CMRS Roundtables is provided by the Armand Hammer Endowment for the UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies.

From "Missing" to "Kidnapped:" The Framing of the Yemenite Children Affair
2018-01-23 13:00 - 14:15 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Non-Traditional Jobs for History Majors: Digital Media & Technology
2018-01-25 10:30 - 12:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
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Luis Fernando Granados - "From St Domingue to Vermont: Looking for the South in the North"
2018-01-25 12:00 - 13:30 | 6265 Bunche Hall
“From St Domingue to Vermont: Looking for the South in the North”
Luis Fernando Granados, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico
25 January, 12 to 1:30 (Bunche 6265—Reading Room)
Cosponsors: Latin American Institute and the Center for Mexican Studies
