Aro Velmet, University of Southern California “Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World” March 2, 2020, 4:00pm | Bunche Hall 5288
"Tenant Lessons on Rent and Housing in a Time of War: WWII Rent Control in Los Angeles, 1942-1950" Marques Vestal (UCLA) March 4, 2020, 4:00pm | Bunche Hall 6339
"The Right to Vote Then and Now: A Symposium on the 100th Anniversary of the Ratification of the Woman Suffrage Amendment" March 8, 2020, 1:00pm-4:00pm | Royce Hall 314
Otniel Dror, Hebrew University and UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics “Supra-Maximal Super-Pleasure” This talk presents the discovery of a new post-World War II “supramaximal” “super-pleasure” region in the brain (of laboratory rats). This discovery of an instantaneously-produced insatiable self-perpetuating super-pleasure captured the imagination of contemporaries and of generations to come. It inaugurated a major transformation […]
"Knowledge-Migrants at Empire's Dusk: Education, Technology, and Scientific Knowledge between Berlin, Bombay, and Kabul, 1921-1960" Marjan Wardaki March 10, 2020, 2:00pm - 4:00p.m. | Bunche Hall 6275
Please note that this event has been cancelled. Atlantic History Speaker Series Presents Herman Bennett "Kings and Slaves: Diplomacy, Sovereignty, and Black Subjectivity in the Early Modern World" Thursday, March 12 12:00PM - 1:30PM History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche
Deborah Coen, Yale University “Climate Change and the Enigma of Usable Knowledge” One of the most pressing challenges for historians of science today is to explain the failure of scientific knowledge of anthropogenic climate change to motivate timely action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To date explanations have focused on such factors as the role […]
Corinna Treitel "Alternative Modernities in the German Past: Occultism, Natural Diets, and the Urge to Health" Postponed/Cancelled
Frank Biess “German Angst: Fear and Democracy in Postwar Germany” Postponed/Cancelled
Atlantic History Presents Animal Slavery Conference April 23, 2020 10:00AM - 4:30PM Zoom Link - https://ucla.zoom.us/j/856588866
Atlantic History Presents The Early Modern Global Caribbean A Virtual Conference at The Huntington Library September 18, 2020 9:00AM For the conference schedule, please click here.
The event recording is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WQ8KoVdi3No Carla Pestana Chair and Professor Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World UCLA Department of History & The UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy invite you to attend Why History Matters Reckoning With Our Rights: The Legacy of Voter Access in California a panel discussion […]
