Historians @ Work Workshop
2017-11-09 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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
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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

Celebrating the Career and Legacy of Juan Gómez-Quin᷉ones: Historian, Poet and Activist
2018-01-26 10:00 - 18:00 | California NanoSystems Institute
Eric Avila
Professor and Chair
UCLA César Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
and
Stephen Aron
Professor and Robert N. Burr Department Chair
UCLA Department of History
invite you to distinguished panel conversations
Celebrating the Career and Legacy of
Juan Gómez-Quin᷉ones: Historian, Poet and Activist
Friday, January 26, 2018
10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
California NanoSystems Institute
UCLA
10:00 a.m. Coffee and tea reception
10:30 a.m. Welcome
10:45 a.m. 50 Years of Impact: Juan Gómez-Quin᷉ones as
Teacher and Role Model
12:00 p.m. Lunch break (on your own)
1:30 p.m. Juan Gómez-Quin᷉ones and the Formation of the Fields of
Chicano History and Chicano Studies
3:15 p.m. Juan Gómez-Quin᷉ones’s Legacy & the Power of Ideas to
Change the World
4:45 p.m. Reception with performance by the Steve Loza Band
Click here to RSVP
Join us for a day of moderated panel conversations to celebrate the
career and legacy of Professor Gómez-Quin᷉ones.
Click here for the full program schedule.
Self-pay parking available in Structure 9

"Blood Purity and Scientific Independence in South Korea, 1926-1975"
2018-01-29 16:00
The speaker for this colloquium is Jaehwan Hyun from the University of California, Los Angeles and Seoul National University.

Bankers, Empire, and Black Study
2018-02-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference Room
The Department of African American Studies
at the University of California presents

Bankers, Empire, and Black Study

A roundtable on Peter James Hudson’s
Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

Glen Ford
Black Agenda Report

Peter James Hudson
UCLA

Walter Johnson
Harvard

Deborah A. Thomas
University of Pennsylvania

Moderated by
Marcus Hunter
UCLA

Thursday, February 1st, 2018
2pm to 4pm

Reception to follow.

Main Conference Room
Charles E. Young Research Library
University of California, Los Angeles
280 Charles E. Young Drive North
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Using Peter James Hudson’s recently published monograph Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (Chicago, 2017) as a touchstone, this roundtable discussion will focus on a number of urgent questions concerning the current intellectual and political project of Black Studies: How do we understand the relationship of finance capital to racial capitalism? What role does research on the history and political economy of imperialism and the institutions of globalization have within Black Studies? Do questions of Caribbean sovereignty – and, more broadly, of internationalism – still have a place within the discipline? And how can Black Studies scholarship and scholars be mobilized in the service of anti-capitalist and anti-imperial critique? Participants will offer brief statements before the workshop is opened up to general conversation.

Cosponsored by the Department of History and the James S. Coleman African Studies Center.

Participant bios:
Glen Ford is the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report: News, Commentary, and Analysis from the Black Left. A long-standing and distinguished radio-show host and commentator, in 1977 Ford co-launched, produced and hosted America’s Black Forum, the first nationally syndicated Black news interview program on commercial television. In 1987, Ford launched Rap It Up, the first nationally syndicated Hip Hop music show, broadcast on 65 radio stations. Ford co-founded the Black Commentator in 2002 and in 2006 he launched the Black Agenda Report. A former White House and State Department correspondent, Ford is also the author of The Big Lie: An Analysis of U.S. Media Coverage of the Grenada Invasion.

Peter James Hudson is an historian who obtained his Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University and currently teaches in the departments of history and African American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Hudson’s essays and reviews have appeared in the Black Agenda Report, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Radical History Review, Race & Class: A Journal on Racism, Globalisation, and Empire, Haitï Liberté, the CLR James Journal, Chimurenga, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Boston Review of Books, Transition: An International Review, and elsewhere. Hudson edits the digital history resource The Public Archive: Black History in Dark Times and he is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (2017).

Walter Johnson received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is Professor of History and African American Studies and Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. Johnson’s books, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (1999) and River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (2013), are the recipients of numerous awards, including the Francis B. Simkins Award from the Southern Historical Association, the John Hope Franklin Prize from the American Studies Association, the SHEAR Book Prize from the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic, and the Frederick Jackson Turner and the Avery O. Craven Prizes from the Organization of American Historians. He is currently writing a book about the central role of St. Louis in the imperialist and racial capitalist history of the United States, from Lewis and Clark to Michael Brown.

Deborah A. Thomas received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from New York University and is Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Thomas is the author of Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica (2011) and Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and The Politics of Culture in Jamaica (2004). She is co-editor of Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness (2006) and she co-edited special issues of the journals Identities and Feminist Review. Thomas is co-director and co-producer of the documentary Bad Friday: Rastafari After Coral Gardens, a chronicle of the history of violence and resistance in Jamaica. She was editor of the journal Transforming Anthropology from 2007-2010, and is currently editor-in-chief of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association.

Chair of the Department of African American Studies at UCLA, Marcus Anthony Hunter is the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences, and Associate Professor of African American Studies and Sociology. He is the author of Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia NegroChanged Urban America (2013) and (with Zandria Robinson), Chocolate Cities The Black Map of American Life (2018).

Nancy MacLean - "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America"
2018-02-01 16:00 - 17:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Peter Dear - "Who Cares about the Scientific Revolution?"
2018-02-05 14:30
The speaker for this colloquium is Peter Dear from Cornell University.

Howard Chiang - "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China"
2018-02-05 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Max Boot - "The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam"
2018-02-08 12:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Why History Matters: "Why Black Women's Lives and Histories Matter"
2018-02-08 19:00 | Fowler Museum
Marcus Anthony Hunter
Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences
Associate Professor and Chair
UCLA Department of African American Studies
and
Stephen Aron
Professor and Robert N. Burr Department Chair
UCLA Department of History
invite you to attend
WHY HISTORY MATTERS
Why Black Women’s Lives and Histories Matter
featuring
Funmilola Fagbamila
Adjunct Professor, Department of Pan-African Studies
California State University, Los Angeles
Dion Fountaine Raymond, J.D.
Discrimination Prevention Officer and Coordinator
UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Brenda Stevenson
Professor and Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History
UCLA Department of History
moderated by
Marcus Anthony Hunter
Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences
Associate Professor and Chair
UCLA Department of African American Studies
Thursday, February 8, 2018
7:00 p.m.
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Lenart Auditorium
Self-pay parking available in Structure 4
Click here to RSVP
This year the UCLA Department of African American Studies will be celebrating Black History Month with a series of events. Click here for a calendar of scheduled events.
About the Why History Matters series: The UCLA Department of History is proud to present the series “Why History Matters.” The series is dedicated to the belief that historical knowledge is an indispensable, and often missing, ingredient in public debate. Over the course of the year, “Why History Matters” events will bring historians into conversation with prominent public officials and personalities on issues of contemporary relevance.

Talk on Environmental Politics
2018-02-12 16:00
The speaker for this colloquium is Stefan Bargheer from the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

David Myers - Why Study Jewish History?
2018-02-13 12:00 | UCLA Royce Hall – Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Manisha Sinha - "The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition"
2018-02-13 12:30 - 13:30 | Black Forum – Haines 153
