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SUMMARY:Atlantic Colloquium Presents: Visualizing Place: Constructing the Caribbean through Postcards\, 1900-1930s
DESCRIPTION:This event has been rescheduled! \nMandie Nuanes\, Graduate Student\, Department of History\, UCLA \nPresentation: “Visualizing Place: Constructing the Caribbean through Postcards\, 1900-1930s” \nDiscussant: José Luis Passos\, Professor\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, UCLA. \n  \nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/FDD95llSRtyFJv849F1gIg\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/the-ucla-history-atlantic-colloquium-presents-visualizing-place-constructing-the-caribbean-through-postcards-1900-1930s/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:HGSA Spring Colloquium Series: Nepal and the Asian Information Order
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URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/hgsa-spring-colloquium-series-nepal-and-the-asian-information-order/
LOCATION:Bunche 5288 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260923T143000
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SUMMARY:History Undergraduate Open House
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/history-undergraduate-open-house/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261005T160000
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SUMMARY:History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology Colloquium Series: "Experimental Hunger in Early Modern Europe"
DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to the first installment of the History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology Colloquium Series. UCLA’s own Assistant Professor Spencer Weinreich will be presenting Experimental Hunger in Early Modern Europe. \nThis paper examines fasting as an experimental practice in early modern Europe\, in which hunger was both an object of knowledge and an instrument of knowledge-making. With claims of miraculous fasting well-nigh ubiquitous\, theologians\, magistrates\, and scholars devised a range of tests to identify imposters\, but equally to verify the existence of bona fide miracles. For others\, fasting could itself be the experiment\, as in the case of William Stark\, an eighteenth-century physician who may have accidentally starved himself to death while investigating the science of nutrition. By juxtaposing these cases\, the paper identifies the hungering body as a key site for the making of knowledge in early modern Europe\, one that problematizes any clear boundaries between medical\, religious\, and folk knowledge. \nSee you in the History of Science Room or join us over Zoom:\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/95456995787
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/history-of-science-medicine-and-technology-colloquium-series-experimental-hunger-in-early-modern-europe/
LOCATION:Bunche 5288 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events,History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261009T090000
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SUMMARY:The Rise and Demise of Paper Money in Imperial China
DESCRIPTION:Click the poster for the symposium’s program.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/the-rise-and-demise-of-paper-money-in-imperial-china/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261015T120000
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SUMMARY:Atlantic History Colloquium: "Fetishisized Fertility and Maternity Wear: Race\, Class\, and Portrayals of Pregnancy in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire"
DESCRIPTION:Atlantic History Colloquium\, Fall 2026 Events\nThe Atlantic History Group generates innovative scholarship on the relations linking Africa\, Europe and the Americas by investigating the expansion of markets during the slave trade; the production of literary texts and forms of literary theory; the politics of religious dissent and conversion; the growth of colonial science and cartography; Native American ethnogenesis; the rise of abolitionist and Pan-African ideologies; and the dynamics of race\, gender and creolization throughout the Atlantic world. \n  \nZoom links will be provided before each talk. \n  \nOctober 15: Mackenzie Elmore\, Graduate Student\, Department of History\, UCLA \n\n\n\nPresentation: “Fetishized Fertility and Maternity Wear: Race\, Class\, and Portrayals of Pregnancy in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire”\n\n\n\n  \nOctober 29: Matt Childs\, Professor\, Department of History\, University of South Carolina \n\n\n\nPresentation: “Carabalies in Colonial Cuba: From the Bight of Biafra to the Bay of Havana”\n\n\n\n  \nNovember 19: Lisa Paravisini\, Sarah Tod Fitz Randolph Distinguished Professor and Chair of Hispanic Studies at Vassar College \n\n\n\nPresentation: “Oviedo’s Historia Natural: A Collaborative Translation to Reassess the Environmental History of 16th-Century Amazonia”
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/atlantic-history-colloquium-fetishisized-fertility-and-maternity-wear-race-class-and-portrayals-of-pregnancy-in-the-eighteenth-century-british-empire/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261028T130000
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SUMMARY:The State of Lebanon: Popular Politics and Institution Building in the Wake of Independence
DESCRIPTION:A book talk by History alumni Ziad Abu-Rish. Organized by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of History. \nPlease see the following link for more details and event registration: https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/17744 \nAbout the Book \nLebanon gained its formal political independence in 1943. During the dozen years that followed\, women and men across class\, sectarian\, geographic\, and ideological divides built\, challenged\, and reformed the institutional arrangements that would shape the country. With this book\, Ziad Abu-Rish traces shifting patterns of alliances and conflict that shaped the material and representational production of the Lebanese nation-state. Exploring labor regimes\, women’s suffrage\, the provision of electricity in Beirut\, public education\, and the armed forces—and the meetings\, lectures\, pamphlets\, delegations\, and protests they produced—Abu-Rish demonstrates how elite and popular groups mobilized normative ideas about independence and state power. \nThe State of Lebanon offers a new social and institutional history of post-colonial Lebanon. Abu-Rish challenges common narratives of an absent\, weak\, or failed state. Instead\, state institutional arrangements emerge as objects and subjects of political mobilization by politicians\, bureaucrats\, party activists\, students\, and workers. Rather than read history backward from the present\, he approaches the past on its own terms. In so doing\, Abu-Rish offers significant insights into politics\, social life\, and the state in Lebanon—grounded in the early post-independence period yet critical to how we understand Lebanon today. \nAbout the Speaker \n Ziad Abu-Rish is a scholar of the modern Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. His research centers around state formation\, economic development\, and popular mobilizations\, particularly in Lebanon and Jordan. His teaching experience includes undergraduate and graduate courses in human rights; comparative state formation; various themes in Middle East studies; and research methodologies. Abu-Rish is the author of The State of Lebanon: Popular Politics and Institution Building in the Wake of Independence (Stanford University Press\, 2026). He co-created (with artist Tania El Khoury) The Search for Power\, a touring lecture performance and sound installation exploring the history of electricity in Beirut. Abu-Rish is also coeditor of The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of an Old Order? (2012) and Critical Voices: A Collection of Interviews from and on the Middle East (2015). Abu-Rish has also authored several articles appearing in Middle East Report and Review of Middle East Studies and chapters in edited volumes on the political economy of the Middle East\, the Arab uprisings\, and teaching Middle East history. Abu-Rish also serves as coeditor of Arab Studies Journal and Jadaliyya e-zine\, and codirector of the Lebanese Dissertation Summer Institute.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/the-state-of-lebanon-popular-politics-and-institution-building-in-the-wake-of-independence/
LOCATION:10383 Bunche Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261029T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261029T133000
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SUMMARY:Atlantic History Colloquium Presentation: "Carabalies in Colonial Cuba: From the Bight of Biafra to the Bay of Havana"
DESCRIPTION:Atlantic History Colloquium\, Fall 2026 Events\nThe Atlantic History Group generates innovative scholarship on the relations linking Africa\, Europe and the Americas by investigating the expansion of markets during the slave trade; the production of literary texts and forms of literary theory; the politics of religious dissent and conversion; the growth of colonial science and cartography; Native American ethnogenesis; the rise of abolitionist and Pan-African ideologies; and the dynamics of race\, gender and creolization throughout the Atlantic world. \n  \nZoom links will be provided before each talk. \n  \nOctober 15: Mackenzie Elmore\, Graduate Student\, Department of History\, UCLA \n\n\n\nPresentation: “Fetishized Fertility and Maternity Wear: Race\, Class\, and Portrayals of Pregnancy in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire”\n\n\n\n  \nOctober 29: Matt Childs\, Professor\, Department of History\, University of South Carolina \n\n\n\nPresentation: “Carabalies in Colonial Cuba: From the Bight of Biafra to the Bay of Havana”\n\n\n\n  \nNovember 19: Lisa Paravisini\, Sarah Tod Fitz Randolph Distinguished Professor and Chair of Hispanic Studies at Vassar College \n\n\n\nPresentation: “Oviedo’s Historia Natural: A Collaborative Translation to Reassess the Environmental History of 16th-Century Amazonia”
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/atlantic-history-colloquium-presentation-matt-childs-carabalies-in-colonial-cuba-from-the-bight-of-biafra-to-the-bay-of-havana/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series,Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261110T160000
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SUMMARY:Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Race\, Labor\, and Jewish Radicalism in Los Angeles – Caroline Luce
DESCRIPTION:Yiddish in the Land of Sunshine examines how a cohort of young Jewish radicals from Eastern Europe helped reshape multiracial left-wing activism in Southern California. It traces their migration from the Russian Empire to Los Angeles and their involvement in labor and left-wing movements. Focusing especially on Boyle Heights\, the book explores how the neighborhood’s diverse communities shaped Yiddish public culture and Jewish political organizing. It highlights the relationships\, collaborations\, and tensions that emerged as Jewish radicals built multiracial coalitions with Mexican\, Asian\, and African American neighbors. Drawing on previously untranslated Yiddish sources\, the book challenges traditional Jewish immigration narratives centered on the Northeast and places Jewish workers in the American West at the center of Jewish and American history. Ultimately\, it demonstrates how Eastern European Jewish radicals and trade unionists contributed to Los Angeles through innovative organizing and helped shape the city’s evolving racial and political landscape. \nCaroline Luce is Project Director with the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and formerly Chief Curator of Mapping Jewish Los Angeles\, a project of the UCLA Leve Center for Jewish Studies. \nTuesday\, November 10\, 2026 • 306 Royce Hall • 4 PM\nYiddish in the Land of Sunshine: Jewish Radicalism\, Labor\, and Culture in Los Angeles \nCaroline Luce (UCLA)\nModerator: Todd Presner (UCLA) \nCosponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor & Employment \nMichael and Irene Ross Program in Yiddish Studies \nCosponsored by The\nUCLA Institute for Research on Labor & Employment\nUCLA Department of History \nRSVP
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/yiddish-in-the-land-of-sunshine-race-labor-and-jewish-radicalism-in-los-angeles-caroline-luce/
LOCATION:306 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Court\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Talk,Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:levecenter@humnet.ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261119T120000
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SUMMARY:Atlantic History Colloquium Presentation: "Oviedo's Historia Natural: A Collaborative Translation to Reassess the Environmental History of 16th-Century Amazonia"
DESCRIPTION:Atlantic History Colloquium\, Fall 2026 Events\nThe Atlantic History Group generates innovative scholarship on the relations linking Africa\, Europe and the Americas by investigating the expansion of markets during the slave trade; the production of literary texts and forms of literary theory; the politics of religious dissent and conversion; the growth of colonial science and cartography; Native American ethnogenesis; the rise of abolitionist and Pan-African ideologies; and the dynamics of race\, gender and creolization throughout the Atlantic world. \n  \nZoom links will be provided before each talk. \n  \nOctober 15: Mackenzie Elmore\, Graduate Student\, Department of History\, UCLA \n\n\n\nPresentation: “Fetishized Fertility and Maternity Wear: Race\, Class\, and Portrayals of Pregnancy in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire”\n\n\n\n  \nOctober 29: Matt Childs\, Professor\, Department of History\, University of South Carolina \n\n\n\nPresentation: “Carabalies in Colonial Cuba: From the Bight of Biafra to the Bay of Havana”\n\n\n\n  \nNovember 19: Lisa Paravisini\, Sarah Tod Fitz Randolph Distinguished Professor and Chair of Hispanic Studies at Vassar College \n\n\n\nPresentation: “Oviedo’s Historia Natural: A Collaborative Translation to Reassess the Environmental History of 16th-Century Amazonia”
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/atlantic-history-colloquium-presentation-oviedos-historia-natural-a-collaborative-translation-to-reassess-the-environmental-history-of-16th-century-amazonia/
LOCATION:Bunche 6275 & Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series,Events
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