Robin Scheffler - “A Contagious Cause: The Search for Cancer Viruses and the Growth of American Biomedicine”
2018-05-07 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 5288 Bunche Hall
The speaker for this colloquium is Robin Scheffler from MIT.

Past to Page: A Panel Discussion with Comic Book Artists and Creators
2018-05-07 18:30 - 20:00 | UCLA Royce Hall – Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Medieval and Renaissance themes continue to have a profound influence on contemporary comic books and graphic novels. Join Dr. Kristina Markman (History, UCLA) for a panel discussion featuring comic creators Conor McCreery (Kill Shakespeare, IDW Publishers), GMB Chomichuk (Midnight City, Infinitum, Rust and Water, Raygun Gothic) and industry veteran Howard Chaykin (The Divided States of Hysteria, Image, Marvel, and DC Comics). Hosted by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Please RSVP.

Dora Vargha - "Hungary, the Cold War and the making of socialist international health”
2018-05-14 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
The speaker for this colloquium is Dora Vargha from Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter.

Historical Epistemology: Four Generations of Graduate Students Reflect on their Craft (May 17-19)
2018-05-17 09:00 - 2018-05-19 18:15 | UCLA Royce Hall – Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Historical Epistemology:
Four Generations of Graduate Students Reflect on Their Craft
May 17 – May 19, 2018
Conference Schedule

Thursday
May 17, 2018
Royce 314

9.00-9.20 Welcome Address: David Sabean, UCLA
9.20-9.40 Introductory Remarks: Simon Teuscher, University of Zurich
9.40-11.10 Panel 1: Trust, Emotion, and Creativity
Chair and Commentator: Jan Reiff, UCLA
Jesse Sadler (Independent), Trust as a Category of Analysis in Early Modern Economic Exchange
Britta McEwen (Creighton University), Emotion in Movement: Shame, Sympathy, and Single Motherhood in Vienna, 1880-1930
Ann Goldberg (University of California, Riverside), The Assembly Line and the Psychoanalyst’s Couch: Epistemology and the History of Creativity
11.10-11.40 Coffee Break
11.40-13.10 Panel 2: Experience and the Body
Chair and Commentator: Russell Jacoby, UCLA
Dana M. Polanichka (Wheaton College), “Because of my Continual Illnesses and Other Circumstances”: Sin and Illness in a Mid-Ninth-Century Carolingian Text
Robert Brain (University of British Columbia), Dominating the Body, Mastering the Past: Rudolf zur Lippe and the Epistemology of Modern History
Ritika Prasad (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Missing Bodies? Questions about Quantification and “Experience”
13:10-14:10 Lunch Break (Royce 306 Patio)
14.10-15.40 Panel 3: Understanding Belief
Chair and Commentator: Scott Waugh, UCLA
Matthew Vester (West Virginia University), Knowing/Believing, Microanalysis, and Spatiality
Samuel Keeley (UCLA), Knowing Beliefs: Measuring the “Epistemic Concept” of Piety in Spaces of Communication
Emily Anderson (Independent Scholar), Evangelizing Socialism in Rural Japan: Imagining Utopia during the Russo-Japanese War
15.40-16.10 Coffee Break
16.10-18.00 Panel 4: Strategies of Representation and Narration
Chair and Commentator: Stefania Tutino, UCLA
Jay Goodale (Bucknell University), Strategies for Making Sense of Evidentiary Fragments and Constructing Micro-Histories
Alexandra Garbarini (Williams College), “Unprecedented”: Concepts and Narratives about Mass Violence and the Holocaust
Thomas Stock (UCLA), The Problem of Historical Conditions: Challenging Epistemological Assumptions in North Korean Studies
Jason Coy (College of Charleston), Historical Epistemology and Collective Memory: The Early Modern Witch-Hunts and Strategies of Representation

Friday
May 18, 2018
Royce 314

9.00-10.30 Panel 5: Practices and Production of Knowledge
Chair and Commentator: Andrea Goldman, UCLA
John Mangum (Houston Symphony), Beethoven’s Fifth in Contrasting Programmatic Contexts
Teresa Barnett (UCLA), Dancing about Architecture: Performing the Sensorium in Postwar Design
Kierra Crago-Schneider, (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), Teaching the Holocaust in the Age of Contemporary Racial Violence
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.50 Panel 6: Libraries and Archives
Chair and Commentator: Geoffrey Symcox, UCLA
Michael J. Sauter (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas), Relocating “Global” Knowledge: Colonial Latin American Libraries and the European Spatial Imagination
Ben Marschke (Humboldt State University), Archives as “Epistemic Things.” Early Modern Religious Movements as “Model Organisms.”
Roii Ball (UCLA), Inner Colonization and Settler-Colonialism: Initial Steps in Historical Epistemology
Jason Lustig (UCLA), Epistemologies of the Archive
12.50-14.30 Lunch Break (Royce 306 Patio)
14.30-16.00 Panel 7: Historical Knowledge and the Study of People
Chair and Commentator: Kathryn Norberg, UCLA
Richard Bowler (Salisbury University), Physiocratic Science and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Baden: Reconstructing the History of a Scientific Experience
Juan Garza (UCLA), Indians and Intellectuals, An Unconventional Ethnographic Event: Methods, Discourses and the Origins of Mexican Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century
Marjan Wardaki (UCLA), Circulation and Research in Transcultural Spaces: The Scientist as a Traveler, 1919-1945
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.00 Panel 8: Interpreting Translation, Taste, and Obsession
Chair and Commentator: David Luebke, University of Oregon
Claire Gilbert (Saint Louis University), Inventing Translation and Translating History
Kevin Goldberg (Weber School), Epistemology in the Wine Trade
Lucia Staiano-Daniels (UCLA), What is Experience and why is Military History Obsessed with It?

Saturday
May 19, 2018
Royce 314

9.00-10.30 Panel 9: The Exemplary, Singular, and Exceptional
Chair and Commentator: Peter Baldwin, UCLA
Daphne Rozenblatt (Max Planck Institute for Human Development), Symptoms Between Medical and Historical Epistemologies
Eric Hounshell (UCLA), The Singular Case
Jared McBride (UCLA), The Returns of Khaim Sygal
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.30 Panel 10: Historical Epistemic Things
Chair and Commentator: Theodore Porter, UCLA
Robert Batchelor (Georgia Southern University), Ghost Shells or Sound Suits: The Tahitian Mourner and the Tungus Shaman Costumes as Epistemic Things
Amy Woodson-Boulton (Loyola Marymount University), The Idea of the Totem in the History of British Anthropology: Or, Disciplinary Development in the Age of Empire
Matt Matsuda (Rutgers University), Deep Blue Sea: Genomes and Genealogies in Oceania
12.30-13.30 Lunch Break (Royce 306 Patio)
13.30-15.20 Panel 11: Implications of the Tellings of History
Chair and Commentator: Muriel McClendon, UCLA
Adam Lawrence (Southern California Institute of Architecture), Geschichte in der Endzeit
Matthew Lauer (UCLA), The Indoctrinated, the Resigned, and the Restive: Three Archetypes of Microhistorical Narration Reflected in Korean Sources
Daniel Hurewitz (Hunter College), Visiting the Sins of the Fathers: The Ethical Implications of Historical Revelation
Claudia Verhoeven (Cornell University), The Terrible, Wonderful Roots of History 15.20-
15.50 Coffee Break
15.50-17.20 Panel 12: Histories and Critiques of Historical Epistemology
Chair and Commentator: Ivan Berend, UCLA
R. Joseph Holt (UCLA), Enlightenment Epistemology and/or Historical Epistemology: On Human Cognition in Adam Smith and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Jared Poley (Georgia State University), The History of Probability and the Probability of History
Lindsay Alissa King (UCLA), Fake News, Media Bias, and the Problem with Facts in the Rise of the Commercial Press
17.20-18.00 Concluding Remarks: Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University

Peter Loewenberg - "Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Charismatic Power, and Political Leadership"
2018-05-17 20:00 - 22:00 | New Center for Psychoanalysis – 2014 Sawtelle Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States
NOTE: This event is free for students and UCLA faculty. For UCLA faculty, please identify yourself as UCLA faculty (a UCLA ID will help) at the door.
Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Charismatic Power, and Political Leadership
May 17, 2018, 8:00 – 10:00 PM

2018 FRANZ ALEXANDER LECTURE
Presented by Peter Loewenberg, PhD
Psychoanalysis is a social science as well as a humanistic hermeneutic and a psychological science. Dr. Loewenberg compares the lives and thought of two great Central European shapers of modern culture, Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939), creator of psychoanalysis, and Max Weber (1864-1920), founder of modern interpretive comparative sociology. Weber was a contemporary of Freud who was the shaper of social science method. He explores their lives and insights on leadership, political power and domination and applies their insights to empirical leadership functions in the current world.
Learning Objectives
As a result of attending this session, participants should be able to:
• Describe the theoretical contributions of Weber and Freud as they apply to leadership, political power, and domination.
• Examine the nature of charismatic leadership in the political process and accepted empirical leadership functions in the current world
• Explain how Weber’s analysis of the Protestant ethic interface with Freudian psychodynamics
Peter Loewenberg, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of History and Political Psychology at UCLA. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst and former Dean of the New Center for Psychoanalysis. He was elected North American Representative on the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) Board. He Chaired the IPA China Committee, 2007-2013. He is the author of many publications, including Decoding the Past: the Psychohistorical Approach (1996) and Fantasy and Reality in History (1995). He is Editor (with Nellie Thompson) of 100 Years of the IPA (1910-2010) (2011). He was elected an Honorary Member of the German Psychoanalytic Association (DPV), was the Sir Peter Ustinov Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, and received the Nevitt Sanford Award for his professional contributions to the field of Political Psychology. He served as Chair of the Committee on Research and Special Training of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Winner of the first Edith Sabshin Award “for excellence in teaching psychoanalytic concepts” in 1999, he is also the recipient of Fulbright, Social Science Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Austrian Ministry of Education, Pro Helvetia, and Max Planck Institute für Geschichte fellowships and many other honors.

Antoine Lentacker - "Ontology of the Side Effect: Anecdote and Evidence in the Digital Age”
2018-05-21 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
The speaker for this colloquium is Antoine Lentacker from the History Department at UC Riverside.

Symposium on Richard von Glahn's "The Economic History of China from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century"
2018-05-25 13:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
A symposium on Richard von Glahn’s book, The Economic History of China from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
May 25, 2018
1pm-5pm
6275 Bunche
Features speakers will include: Larry Neal (Economics), University of Illinois; Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (Economics), Caltech; William Rowe (Chinese History), Johns Hopkins University; and Meng Zhang (Chinese History), Loyola Marymount University.

The African Activist Student Association Presents: The Africa & Capitalism Colloquium
2018-06-01 11:45 - 18:00 | Bunche 10383
The African Activist Student Association Presents:
The Africa & Capitalism Colloquium
Location: Bunche 10383
Date: Friday, June 1, 2018
Time: 11:45a – 6p (all times are U.S. Pacific)
Reception Food Provided by Sumptuous African Restaurant
1170 S La Brea Ave., Inglewood, CA 90301
Lunch (11:45a)
Introductory Remarks (12:05p):
Nana Osei-Opare (History, UCLA)
Panel 1 (12:15p)
Ghislaine Lydon (History, UCLA), Paper Instruments in Early African Economies: The Debated Role of the Suftaja or
International Check.
Andrew Apter (History, UCLA), History in the Dungeon: Atlantic Slavery and the Spirits of Capitalism
Stephan F. Miescher (History, UCSB), “VALCO, the pace-setter”: Ghana, U.S. Capitalism, and the Contentious Story of an
Aluminum Smelter
R. Lane Clark (Independent Filmmaker), documentary film, Ghana’s Electric Dreams: An American Island in Ghana
William Worger (History, UCLA), Discussant
Panel 2 (3:15p)
Percy Ngonyama (Researcher, Mzala Nxumalo Centre), Comrade Mzala – A Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Perspective of the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa
Comfort Azubuko-Udah (English, UCLA), African Literature in the Capitalocene
Hannah Appel (Anthropology, UCLA), Futures: Oil and the Licit Life of Capitalism in Equatorial Guinea
Edmond Keller (Political Science, UCLA), Discussant
Reception (5p)
Music Performance by Alby Ungashe ’18
Sponsor(s): UCLA African Studies Center, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, UCLA Department of History, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, UCLA Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, the East African Students Association, and History at Work-UCLA Department of History Graduate Center Development.
Cost: Free and open to the public; pay-by-space and all-day ($12) parking available in lot 3.
UCLA African Studies Center 310-825-3686
africa@international.ucla.edu
http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa

Jemma Lorenat - "Certain Modern Ideas: the History, Mathematics, and Philosophy of Charlotte Angas Scott (1858-1931)"
2018-06-04 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
The speaker for this colloquium is Jemma Lorenat from the Mathematics Department at Pitzer College.

UCLA History Open House Fall 2018
2018-09-26 14:30 - 16:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Wednesday, September 26
2:30-4:30pm | Bunche 6275
Hosted by the History Undergraduate Counseling Unit
Meet old friends, make new friends, and learn about resources available to you!
Learn about…
♦ Academic/Career Counseling
♦ HistoryCorps Internships
♦ Faculty-Student Engagement
♦ Writing Center and One-on-One Tutoring
♦ Phi Alpha Theta Honors Society
♦ History Undergraduate Advisory Board (HUAB)
♦ Library Services
♦ Study/Travel Abroad
♦ Academic Research Centers, Fellowships, and Programs
Refreshments will be served

Martina Kessel, "Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany"
2018-10-02 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Tuesday, October 2, 2018 4PM
Bunche 6275
European Colloquium Speaker Series
Martina Kessel, “Performing Germanness: Laughter and Violence in Nazi Germany”
Martina Kessel looks at the meaning and role of humor as an identity practice in Germany during the time of Nation- al Socialism in Germany. One theory that she will explore in her lecture is that non-Jewish Germans disguised vio- lence as ‘art’ to justify their failure to comply with interna- tional or humanitarian beliefs.
Martina Kessel is a Historian of Modern Germany at Biele- feld University, Germany, with particular interest in inclu- sion and exclusion, the history of violence, international relations, gender and cultural history. She has written on British and French policy towards Germany after 1945;
a History of Boredom in the 19th century, and on ques- tions of theory and historiography. Her forthcoming book is titled Gewalt und Gelächter. ‚Deutschsein‘ 1914-1945 (Laughter and Violence. ‘Being German’ 1914 – 1945).
This lecture is part of the Gerda Henkel Lecture Series, organized by GHI West, the Pacific Regional Office of the Germany Historical Institute, Washington DC, in coopera- tion with the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the UCLA Department of History.

Catherine Hall - "Common Practices: Edward Long and Race-Making Across the Black/White Atlantic"
2018-10-04 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Common Practices: Edward Long and Race-Making Across the Black/White Atlantic
Catherine Hall, UCL
4 October, 12 to 1:30 (Bunche 6275—Conference Room)

Kirsten Moore-Sheeley - “From Kenyan Particulars to Global Universals: Making Insecticide-Treated Bed Nets into a Biomedical Technology”
2018-10-08 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Monday Colloquium
October 8
4 pm, Bunche 5288
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley will give the first talk in the colloquium series this year. Kirsten has a postdoctoral position in the new Cedars-Sinai Program in the History of Medicine, and she will be teaching a course on the history of global health (Hist 179A) in Winter 2019. The colloquium will be followed by a reception.
Title:
“From Kenyan Particulars to Global Universals: Making Insecticide-Treated Bed Nets into a Biomedical Technology”
Abstract:
Today, insecticide-treated bed nets are a primary malaria control intervention, understood to save lives anywhere malaria poses a risk. However, scientists and health officials did not always understand this mundane object as a universally-applicable, biomedical technology. This talk takes an in-depth look at the process by which insecticide-treated nets were consolidated as a biomedical technology through an historical ethnography of the last and largest bed net experiment ever conducted: a community randomized controlled trial in the Siaya district of western Kenya. In the mid-1990s, scientists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Kenya Medical Research Institute sought to demonstrate insecticide-treated nets could reduce child mortality even in the most extreme conditions of malaria transmission. Rather than implement experimental protocols in a straightforward manner, scientists had to continually tailor their research practices to circumstances and populations in Siaya. While local health workers and residents from Siaya played a significant role in producing biomedical knowledge about insecticide-treated nets, recognition of their influence got lost as researchers generalized experimental findings into global health knowledge. Consequently, public health policy makers and programmers overlooked the work necessary to make bed nets function as biomedical tools, much to the detriment of early bed net distribution and malaria control efforts in Africa.

Conference Featuring Teo Ruiz
2018-10-11 15:00 - 2018-10-13 18:00 | UCLA Royce Hall – Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
This conference centers on different historical themes (culture, religiosity, languages, politics, encounters) and addresses the “connectivity” between Iberia, North Africa and other Mediterranean lands and the nature of the global Mediterranean.
“Iberia, the Mediterranean, and the World in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods” is organized by Thomas Barton (USD), Marie Kelleher (CSULB), Antonio Zaldivar (CSUSM), and Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA).
No fee. Limited seating. Advance registration requested – click here to complete the brief registration form.
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of History, the Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History, the UCLA Dean of Humanities, the UCLA Dean of Social Sciences and the UCLA Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor.

3:00 PM Welcoming Remarks
Scott L. Waugh, Executive Vice-Chancellor and Provost (UCLA)
Massimo Ciavolella, CMRS Director (UCLA)
Zrinka Stahuljak, Professor of Comparative Literature and French & Francophone Studies (UCLA)
Stephen Aron, Professor of History (UCLA)

3:30 Iberia, A Land of Three Religions, Part 1 | Chair: Marie Kelleher (CSULB)
“Moros y Cristianos: Rulers and Rituals in Medieval Iberia”
Hussein Fancy (University of Michigan)
“Sonic Dimensions of the Christian Entry into Granada, 1492”
Jarbel Rodriguez (San Francisco State University)
“Visualizing Muslims in Christian Europe, 16th-18th c.”
Lucette Valensi (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales)
“‘Tramet me tots los comptes que tens ordenadament’ Enslaved Women as Commercial Agents in the Late Medieval Mediterranean World”
Debra Blumenthal (UC Santa Barbara)
5:00 Break
5:15 Plenary Lecture: “The Hybrid History of Conversion and Race in Christianity and Islam”
David Nirenberg (University of Chicago)

9:00 AM Religion in Medieval and Early Modern Spain | Chair: Richard Ibarra (UCLA)
“Men of Trent: Early Jesuits on the Sacrifice of the Mass”
Sam Zeno Conedera, S.J. (Independent Scholar)
“Intertwining Granada and North Africa: Mobility and Family Ties in the Late Medieval Western Islamic Mediterranean”
Roser Salicrú i Lluch (Institució Milà i Fontanals – CSIC, Barcelona)
“Blood in the Streets: The Conflict Over Black Confraternities in Early Modern Andalucía”
Erin Rowe (Johns Hopkins University)
“El mundo en España. Peregrinos y Cruzados”
Adeline Rucquoi (French National Center for Scientific Research)
10:30 Break
10:45 The Politics of Language | Chair: John Dagenais (UCLA) and Iván Cabeza Fernández (Independent Scholar)
“Language Expertise and Mediterranean Experience: The Case of Don Jorge Henin, Flemish Alfaqueque and Hombre de Estado for Hire”
Claire Gilbert (Saint Louis University)
“Fernando’s Castilian: From Latin to Romance in the Thirteenth-Century Royal Chancery”
Antonio Zaldívar (California State University San Marcos)
“Anti-Aljamiado: Inverted Alphabets and Subverted Languages in the Antialcoranes”
Ryan Szpiech (University of Michigan)
12:00 Lunch Break
1:30 Culture and Politics in Iberia and Beyond | Chair: Alexandre Roberts (USC)
“Imperial Sovereignty in the Mediterranean: The Papacy, Portuguese Kings, and Morrocan Sheriffs”
Céline Dauverd (University of Colorado, Boulder)
“The Declinación of the Hidden One: Encubertismo During the Reigns of the Later Spanish Habsburgs”
Bryan Givens (Pepperdine University)
“Scholars of Fortune: Iberian Bibliopolitics Across European Late Renaissance Conflicts”
Fabien Montcher (Saint Louis University)
“Cultural Capitals: Patronage and Politics in the Crown of Aragon and the Western Mediterranean”
Núria Silleras-Fernández (University of Colorado, Boulder)
3:00 Break
3:15 Historiography and the Writing of History | Chair: Maya Maskarinec (USC)
“Bringing the Public Sphere into Play: The Spanish Case”
James Amelang (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
“The Study of the Middle Ages in Eighteenth-Century Catalonia”
Paul Freedman (Yale University)
“History writing in Early Modern Spain: Feats, Records, Memory”
Xavier Gil (University of Barcelona)
“‘To thy own self be true’: Self-Censorship, Pedro de Valencia, and His History (Never-Written) of Chile”
Richard Kagan (Johns Hopkins University)
4:45 Break
5:00 Plenary Lecture: “The Barchester Effect: Remembering, Forgetting and the Shape of History”
R. I. Moore (Newcastle University)

9:00 AM Trade and Taxation | Chair: Robert Iafolla (UCLA)
“The Maritime Insurance Business in Spain in the 16th Century”
Hilario Casado Alonso (University of Valladolid)
“Mediterranean Trade in the Pyrenees: Italian Merchants in Puigcerdà 1300-1350”
Elizabeth Comuzzi (UCLA)
“The Cortes of Madrigal of 1438 and Castilian Taxation”
Denis Menjot (University of Lyons)
“From Mediterranean to the Atlantic: the Role of the Town-Ports of Northern Iberia in the First Internationalization of the European Economy in the Middle Ages”
Jesús Ángel Solórzano-Telechea (University of Cantabria)
10:30 Break
10:45 Iberia: A Land of Three Religions, Part 2 | Chairs: Abraham Udovitch (Princeton University) and Kenneth Wolf (Pomona College)
“Desecrators or True Citizens? Categorizing Ethno-Religious Interaction in the Medieval Crown of Aragon”
Thomas Barton (University of San Diego)
“Ruling Between and Across the Lines: Liminal Identities and Political Legitimacy in Al-Andalus”
Travis Bruce (McGill University)
“Beyond Nostalgia: Berber ‘Puritans’ and the End of Andalusi Convivencia?”
Brian Catlos (University of Colorado, Boulder)
“Landscapes of Salvation, Landscapes of Power: Jews, Christians, and Urban Space in Fourteenth-Century Seville”
Maya Soifer Irish (Rice University)
12:15 Lunch Break
1:30 Literature & Interchange in Iberia and the Mediterranean | Chair: Nitzaria Delgado-Garcia (UCLA)
“Between the Darkness and the Light: al-Idrisi’s Iberia”
Christine Chism (UCLA)
“Mateo Alemán’s ‘Ozmín and Daraja’ and Giovanni Boccacio’s Decameron 4.4 in the Pre- and Early Modern Mediterranean”
Sharon Kinoshita (UC Santa Cruz)
“’You Half-Crazed Visigoths!’”: Insults and Group Identity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain”
Sarah J. Pearce (UC Santa Cruz)
“Mediterranean Horse Cultures: Greek, Roman and Arabic Equine Texts in Late Medieval and Early Modern Andalusia”
Kathryn Renton (UCLA)
3:00 Break
3:15 Iberia Encounters the World | Chairs: Meredith Cohen (UCLA) and Sharon Gerstel (UCLA)
“Children of Adam: Iberians, the Tropics, and Encounters with Gentiles in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Atlantic”
Andrew Devereux (UC San Diego)
“Medieval Encounters between Iberia, the Mediterranean and Asia: Myths and Realities”
Francisco García-Serrano (Saint Louis University)
“Medieval Antecedents of Mediterranean Geography”
Judith Herrin (King’s College London)
“Subjective Geographies in Spanish Encounters with North Africa, 1492-1558”
Yuen-Gen Liang (Academia Sinica)
4:45 Break
5:00 Plenary Lecture: “The Medieval/Early Modern Divide Along the Franco-Spanish Border”
Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
5:45 Concluding Remarks by the Conference Organizers:
Thomas Barton, University of San Diego
Marie Kelleher, California State University Long Beach
Antonio Zaldívar, California State University San Marcos

Why History Matters – Rent Control in Los Angeles: A Historical Perspective
2018-10-16 19:00 - 20:30 | UCLA Faculty Center
Why History Matters – Rent Control in Los Angeles: A Historical Perspective
Panelists: Richard Bloom, Elena Popp, Marques Vestal, Bill Witte
Moderator: Gustavo Arellano
October 16, 7:00-8:30 pm
Faculty Center
RSVP Here

Elyan Hill - "Points of Encounter: Embodied Mappings of Domestic Enslavement in Ewe Mama Tchamba Performances"
2018-10-18 12:00 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

New Book Event: Presentation and Celebration of Norton Wise, Aesthetics, Industry, and Science: Hermann von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society
2018-10-22 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Discussants for this event will be Kevin Lambert (Cal State Fullerton) and David Sabean (UCLA).

Atlantic Series Conference - “New Directions in the Study of Black Atlantic Religions”
2018-10-27 09:00 - 17:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall
This conference is co-sponsored by the African Studies Center. It will be held in Bunche Hall 10383.

UC Multi-campus Research Group on
New Approaches to Black Atlantic Religions

University of California Office of the President
Multi-campus Research Programs & Initiative Funding (MRPI)

present a conference on

“New Directions in the Study of Black Atlantic Religions”

Saturday, October 27, 2018
9 am – 5 pm
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Free and open to the public
RSVP requested to sbreeding@international.ucla.edu

This multidisciplinary group composed of faculty from across UC campuses will critically assess the current state of scholarship on Black Atlantic belief systems and theorize new methodologies and analytic orientations for comparative and regional studies. Our objective is to expand UC’s historical role as a hub for the study of Black Atlantic religions by fostering dialogue and collaboration amongst a new generation of scholars. We will explore where new research is needed, ways to develop new methods, what new theoretical paradigms are available, and carefully consider how we as scholars can contribute to the anti-racist struggles of the peoples of the Black Atlantic world.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

“Dancing for the Dead and the Living:
Embodiment and Invocation in Caribbean Mortuary Praxis”

Yanique Hume
professor, professional dancer, choreographer, and writer
based at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Barbados

Participants include Jeffrey Kahn, UC Davis, Rachel O’Toole, UC Irvine, Roberto Strongman, Elizabeth Pérez and Claudine Michel from UC Santa Barbara, Jeroen Dewulf, UC Berkeley and Patrick A. Polk, Lauren Derby, Katherine Smith, Elyan Hill, and Andrew Apter, UCLA. Additionally, Brendan Jamal Thornton from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill whose book on Pentecostalism and masculinity in the Dominican Republic won the Caribbean Studies award for best book in the humanities.

Conference schedule, campus map, directions, and transportation information is available on our website:http://www.international.ucla.edu/asc/event/13430

The conference is free and open to the public; RSVP requested by emailing Sheila Breeding, African Studies Center, at sbreeding@international.ucla.edu.

This conference is sponsored by the University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative Funding and the UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). Co-sponsors of this event include Patricia Turner, Dean and Vice Provost, Division of Undergraduate Education, UCLA College of Letters and Science; UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance; UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies; UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, Robin D.G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History; Fowler Museum at UCLA; UCLA Atlantic History Cluster; UCLA African Studies Center.
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Pay-by-space and all-day ($12) parking available in lot 3
Campus map, directions, transportation options to UCLA at www.ucla.edu/map

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: sbreeding@international.ucla.edu

India and the Early Modern World - Symposium on Sanjay Subrahmanyam's latest books: Europe's India and Empires Between Islam and Christianity
2018-10-29 14:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Panel 1
2:00-2:05 Introduction
2:05-2:25 Navina Haidar
2:25-2:45 Philip Stern
2:45-3:05 Kaya Sahin
3:05-3:30 Coffee break
Panel 2
3:30-3:50 Kathryn Babayan
3:50-4:10 Rajeev Kinra
4:10-4:30 Sanjay Subrahmanyam
4:30-5:15 Q&A
5:15-6:00 Reception
Kathryn Babayan– University of Michigan- (PhD Princeton University, 1993) studies the medieval and early-modern Persianate world and focuses on the cultural, social and political histories of Iran, Iraq, Anatolia, and parts of Central Asia. Her scholarly career began with a study of religious and political authority in Safavi Iran (1501-1722), and then advanced to a close examination of the ways in which textures of time and being influenced the pre-modern writing of Persianate history and the ritualistic performances of Persianate “memory.”
Navina Najat Haidar has been a curator in the Met’s department of Islamic art since 1999. She helped lead the planning of the Museum’s Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, which have welcomed more than 1.5 million visitors since they opened in November 2011. Haidar is co-author of Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Sultans of the South: Arts of India’s Deccan Courts, 1323–1687 (both 2011). She is currently working on an exhibition about the art of India’s Deccan sultans.
Rajeev Kinra– Northwestern University- (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2008) is a cultural historian of early modern South Asia, with a special emphasis on the literary, intellectual, religious, and political cultures of the Mughal and early British Empires in India (16th-19th centuries). His research draws on several linguistic traditions (especially Persian, but also Hindi-Urdu and Sanskrit), to examine diverse modes of civility, tolerance, cosmopolitanism, and cultural modernity across the Indo-Persian and Indian Ocean worlds.
Kaya Sahin– Indiana University Bloomington- (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2007) is a historian of the early modern Ottoman Empire, with a particular interest in history writing, governance, religious/confessional identity, and the construction of discourses/fictions around the question of what it meant to be an Ottoman.
Philip Stern– Duke University- (Ph.D. Columbia University, 2004) focuses on the history of Britain and the British Empire, particularly in the early modern period (loosely defined). His first book, The Company-State, is a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is currently working on or planning projects related to the history of the corporation in the British Empire, eighteenth-century British overseas exploration and cartography, the historiography of British India, early modern economic thought, the history of companies and colonization, and digital and data visualization approaches to the problem of colonial sovereignty.

Sponsor(s): Center for India and South Asia, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Department of History, Dean of Social Sciences

Claire Edington - “How to Write a Social History of Psychiatry: Lessons from the Archives of Colonial Vietnam”
2018-10-29 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Claire Edington is an Assistant Professor of History at UC San Diego.

Special Reception and Presentation of Biomedical Rare Book Collections by Russell Johnson
2018-11-05 16:00
PLEASE NOTE LOCATION: Biomedical Library, Rare Book Room

Madeline Woker - "Empire, Taxes, and Loopholes: Taxation and Colonial Capitalism in the French Empire, 1920s-1950s"
2018-11-06 12:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 12PM
Bunche 6275
European Colloquium Speaker Series
Madeline Woker – “Empire, Taxes, and Loopholes: Taxation and Colonial Capitalism in the French Empire, 1920s-1950s”

Madeline Woker explores a major tax dispute between colonial firms and the metropolitan state which occurred between the early 1920s and the 1950s. Her talk introduces this episode by making a broader claim about European fiscal privilege in the empire and goes on to reveal that metropolitan administrations feared the existence of an imperial conduit and fought against colonial states in order to assert their ownership of a particular tax base (capitalists who invested in the empire). It argues that individuals and firms operating in the empire actively sought to take advantage of low and uneven tax rates in order evade taxes. However, metropolitan administrations responded firmly. This talk brings new insights into the discussion on the so-called “colonial origins” of tax havens and formulates colonial taxation as a historical problem. It also furthers the study of the history of international business taxation, a topic highly relevant to today’s globalized economy.
Madeline Woker is a PhD candidate in history at Columbia University, New York. Her dissertation, “Empire of inequality: the politics of taxation in the French empire, 1918-1939,” examines the fiscal architecture of the French colonial empire and the politics of colonial tax reform during the interwar period. Madeline has degrees from Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics. In 2014, she received her MPhil in Modern European History from the University of Cambridge (with distinction). Her article “Edwin Seligman, initiator of global progressive public finance” is forthcoming in the Journal of Global History.
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to Ryan Hilliard (rhilliard@ucla.edu) by Monday, October 29, 2018 if you plan to attend and include any dietary restrictions.

Sabine Arnaud - “The Specter of Abnormality: Deaf Education and the Poetics of Contestation at the Turn of the Twentieth-Century”
2018-11-13 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
History of Science and Medicine Colloquium
November 13, 2018
12 – 1:30
6275 Bunche (History Department Conference Room)
Sabine Arnaud, CNRS and Centre Koyré, Paris
“The Specter of Abnormality: Deaf Education and the Poetics of Contestation at
the Turn of the Twentieth-Century”

Abstract:
While tracing the scope of the French Republican project promoting speech in Deaf education,
this paper will analyze how the spread of oralism coincided with the development of new
categories to classify children, especially as “backward” and “abnormal.” It will examine the
responses by Deaf people, who, far from being mere spectators of the change, developed a radical
critique of the repercussions of the new pedagogical methods, employing irony, sarcasm, and
critical analysis. This paper will show how these years of struggle were also years of
emancipation, in which the acquisition of language became a poetical and political act.

Marjoleine Kars - “Slaves Remastered: An Untold Story of Rebellion, Revolution, and Restoration in the Atlantic World.”
2018-11-15 12:00 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Marjoleine Kars is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Peter James Hudson - "Black History in Dark Times: Reflections of an Historian"
2018-11-15 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Symposium in Honor of J. Arch Getty
2018-11-30 13:00 - 17:00

Martha Lampland - “ ‘From Each according to their Ability, to Each according to their Need’: Calorie Money and Technical Norms in Mid-20th-century Hungary”
2018-12-03 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Martha Lampland is a Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director of the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego.

Peter Cole, Book Discussion, “Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area
2019-01-10 12:00 - 13:30 | 6339 Bunche
Peter Cole, Book Discussion, “Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area:
January 10, 12:00-1:30
Bunche 6339
RSVP: lindsayking@ucla.edu

Natasha Shivji, “Bounded by Land: Histories of the Indian Ocean as told through the crisis of Waqf lands in Mombasa, Kenya”
2019-01-15 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Etienne Benson - “Data-Intensive Ecology and the New Biopolitics of Animal Conservation”
2019-01-17 16:00 | 6265 Bunche Hall
Etienne Benson is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a historian of the environmental sciences, environmentalism, and human-animal relationships in the 19th and 20th centuries.
