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 […]
CMRS Conference Varallo and the Sacri Monti of Northwestern Italy Thursday-Friday, October 29-30, 2020 9 am–12 pm Pacific Time This conference, organized by Geoffrey Symcox (History, UCLA), explores the history and extraordinary art of the Sacri Monti and highlights the contributions of young scholars to this new field of research. The cluster of pilgrimage […]
Alejandra Dubcovsky, Associate Professor of History, UC Riverside "Iquenibilahacu, iquibitila, Killed but not Extinguished, Centering Native Women in the Early South" Time: October 29, 2020 12:30-2:00pm You can register for this event here.
Nov. 2, 2020, 4:00pm, PST Theodore Porter (UCLA), "Democracy Counts: Sacred and Debased numbers" Commentary by Amir Alexander (UCLA) The Trump Administration's systematic rejection of accurate numbers in such domains as public health and the census is of a piece with Trump's denial of the possibility of fair elections. Taken seriously, it comes down to […]
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12 12pm to 1:30pm African Studies Center: Nana Osei-Opare (Fordham University), “The African Archive Exists: Calls Against Postcolonial African Archival Pessimism." Read more about the event here. Please RSVP here.
Marissa's article highlights the complex relationship between black women and New York City police in the years between the founding of the municipal force in 1845 and the officer-driven race riot that punctuated the turn of the twentieth century. It considers how shifts in police power, departmental structure, and jurisdiction altered the lives of women of color […]
Fall 2020 Colloquium Schedule November 16, 2020 | 4:00pm Book Event: Presentation and celebration of Soraya de Chadarevian, Heredity under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome (University of Chicago Press, 2020) Discussants: Ted Porter (UCLA) and Iris Clever (University of Chicago) A copy of the introduction and epilogue of Heredity under the Microscope will be […]
November 19, 2020 12:30 - 2:00 pm Thabisile Griffin, PhD Candidate, UCLA "Black Militias in the Era of Revolutions: Politics, Race and Labor" From 1781 to 1790, the British Caribbean military and colonial administrators struggled with renegotiating their racial truth systems - through a recalibration of defense. The last two decades of the century were […]
