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SUMMARY:Jenna Gibbs\, "Protesting Slavery\, Asserting Freedom\, and Defying Racism at the African Grove Theatre in New York in the early 1820s."
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/jenna-gibbs-protesting-slavery-asserting-freedom-and-defying-racism-at-the-african-grove-theatre-in-new-york-in-the-early-1820s/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Preston McBride\, "Lethal Education: Native American Boarding Schools\, 1879-1934."
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2021 Colloquium \nMarch 8 | 4PM – 5PM PST \nSpeaker Preston McBride (Dartmouth) \n“Lethal Education: Native American Boarding Schools\, 1879-1934.” \n\nZoom (RSVP Required): https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErcOmuqD8tE9MFnnblgFrfwqJstbN7N8_v
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/preston-mcbride-lethal-education-native-american-boarding-schools-1879-1934/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Professor Andrew Robichaud\, “Animal City: The Domestication of America”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Andrew Robichaud\, “Animal City: The Domestication of America” \n\n\nTuesday\, March 2 \n\n11am to 12:15pm \n\n\n  \n\n\n\nAndrew Robichaud\, Assistant Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Studies\, Boston University\, will be talking about his book Animal City: The Domestication of America (Harvard University Press\, 2019) \n\n\n  \n\n\nAmerican cities were once full of animal life: cattle driven through city streets; pigs feeding in gutters and basements; cows crammed into urban feedlots; horses by the tens of thousands; dogs pulling carts and powering small machines; and wild animals peering out at human spectators from behind bars. In his recent book\, Animal City: The Domestication of America\, Andrew Robichaud reconstructs this evolving world of nineteenth-century urban animal life—from San Francisco to Boston to New York—and reveals its importance\, both then and now. \n\n\n  \n\n\nHosted by the U.S. History Series\, the Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World\, and History 13B: History of the U.S. and its Colonial Origins: 19th Century \n\n\n  \n\n\nZoom link:  https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95986426972
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/professor-andrew-robichaud-animal-city-the-domestication-of-america/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Faculty Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210301T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T160000
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SUMMARY:From Farm Labor To Your Family Table
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URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/from-farm-labor-to-your-family-table/
LOCATION:Webinar
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T123000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Johnson\, "Between the Archive and the Speculative Turn: Notes toward a Biography of Moreau de Saint-Méry." - POSTPONED
DESCRIPTION:This talk has been POSTPONED. Future date TBD. \nThis talk considers the process of writing about the life and work of the Caribbean philosophe Moreau de Saint-Méry (1750-1819).  A lawyer\, printer\, naturalist\, and translator who was at the forefront of revolutionary politics on two continents\, Moreau was also a slaveholder who wrote about ideals of liberty even as he trafficked in human beings.  An ardent defender of slavery as an institution\, he nonetheless left some of the most detailed accounts of the social practices of enslaved women and men in the eighteenth-century Americas.  This talk explores who knew what\, and how\, using as an example entries from his manuscript Repértoire des Notions Coloniales that I have refashioned into my own Encyclopédie noire.  This work reconsiders how his production of colonial knowledge appears when assessed from alternate points of view.  In a similar vein\, I discuss the process and politics that surround a parallel project produced by Moreau’s brother-in-law\, Baudry des Lozières.  My methodology embraces the value of informed speculation—through chapters that experiment with form\, visual imagery\, and narrative voice—as a way to foreground the people of African descent who undergirded Moreau’s work on multiple levels\, from those who managed his household to those whose knowledge about language\, labor\, and community became the basis of his work.  I build upon fragmentary archival evidence to surmount the disproportionate influence of planters and administrators on Caribbean historiography.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/sarah-johnson-between-the-archive-and-the-speculative-turn-notes-toward-a-biography-of-moreau-de-saint-mery-postponed/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T160000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T234114Z
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SUMMARY:Roundtable\, Past and Futures: Current Challenges in the History of Science\, Technology\, and Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2021 Colloquium \nFeb 22 | 4PM – 5PM PST \nRoundtable Past and Futures: Current Challenges in the History of Science\, Technology\, and Medicine \nwith interventions by: \nTerence Keel (UCLA)\, “The Demographic Future of the History of Science.” \nAbstract: This talk draws from my involvement in a roundtable\ndiscussion at the 2020 History of Science Society meeting this fall\nwhere up for debate was whether or not /Isis/ and the history of science\nmore generally is up for the task of addressing the legacy of racism\nwithin science and the current barriers that limit the demographic make\nup of our discipline. \nand\nCathy Gere (UCSD)\, “The Climate Crisis and Professional Equity in History of Science.” \nZoom (RSVP Required): https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkce-rqjsrGNLcii1yjLJfbh4xKJSSTSfx
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/roundtable-past-and-futures-current-challenges-in-the-history-of-science-technology-and-medicine/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210210T113000
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CREATED:20211020T225338Z
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SUMMARY:Discussion of "The Notorious Mrs. Nobles: Jim Crow Gender and "Insanity" in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia"
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion of Rebekka Michaelsen’s article-in-progress “The Notorious Mrs. Nobles: Jim Crow Gender and “Insanity” in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia” \nThis article-in-progress recovers the case of Elizabeth Nobles\, an elderly\, poor white woman who conspired with her Black farm hand to murder her husband in rural Georgia in 1895. While other historians have demonstrated the importance of race and gender to the Jim Crow South\, this paper shows how notions of disability\, in this case “insanity\,” reinforced Jim Crow. While\, for Mrs. Nobles\, “insanity” became a reputable legal defense to save her life as well as a rhetorical apology for her transgression of Jim Crow racial and gender hierarchies\, “insanity” could simultaneously serve as way of “othering” and “defeminizing” Black women. \nDate: February 10th\, 11:30AM – 12:30PM \nThe zoom link and paper will be sent out a week in advance. Please email Rebeca Martinez at rmartnz165@g.ucla.edu to receive this information.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/discussion-of-the-notorious-mrs-nobles-jim-crow-gender-and-insanity-in-late-nineteenth-century-georgia/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:History of Women,Men and Sexuality Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Hippolyte Goux\, "Representation and Abstraction: Economic Models and the End of Man."
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2021 Colloquium \nFeb 8 | 4PM – 5PM PST \nSpeaker Hippolyte Goux (UCLA) \n“Representation and Abstraction: Economic Models and the End of Man.” \n\nZoom registration link:\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvc-urqTwuE91JLUd7x9rXNoEATlDLZV74
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/hippolyte-goux-representation-and-abstraction-economic-models-and-the-end-of-man/
LOCATION:Zoom RSVP
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210204T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210204T140000
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SUMMARY:Sasha Turner\, "Negotiating Slavery and Motherhood on the Terrain of Feelings."
DESCRIPTION:This presentation centers on the story of Abba\, an enslaved woman who was the mother of an unusually large family in eighteenth century Jamaica. Abba had been pregnant thirteen times. She had ten live births and one still birth. We come to know Abba’s story through the diaries of Thomas Thistlewood\, notorious among scholars of slavery because of his practice of diarizing how he daily tortured the enslaved. In addition to her large family\, Abba stands out in the diaries because\, despite Thistlewood’s notoriety as a sadistic enslaver\, he whips Abba only three times in almost thirty years of claiming power over her life and body. By contrast\, Thistlewood was exceptionally generous to Abba providing her with well needed material goods to support her family and permitting her to perform spiritual rituals\, outlawed a felony\, to grieve the death of her children. Reading Abba’s life against the 18th Century burgeoning culture of sensibility\, including Thistlewood’s own displays of sympathy and grief to white community members\, this discussion explores Abba’s deployment of feelings in negotiating her condition. How did Abba’s displays of feeling mirror Thistlewood’s\, and what did Abba seek to gain by consistently exhibiting feelings in Thistlewood presence? \nRSVP here
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/sasha-turner-negotiating-slavery-and-motherhood-on-the-terrain-of-feelings/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Philip Lehmann\, “Polish Steppes and German Gardens: Climate Amelioration in the Generalplan Ost.”
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2021 Colloquium \nJan 25 | 4PM – 5PM PST \nSpeaker Philip Lehmann (UCR) \n“Polish Steppes and German Gardens: Climate Amelioration in the Generalplan Ost.” \n\nZoom registration link:\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqcOuuqjMqHNzVyDsxIPiFLgGCVb0u9BS_
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/philip-lehmann-polish-steppes-and-german-gardens-climate-amelioration-in-the-generalplan-ost/
LOCATION:Zoom RSVP
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210114T160000
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CREATED:20211020T225309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230927T001204Z
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SUMMARY:Fateful Elections: Perspectives on Presidential Transitions
DESCRIPTION:Video Recording of this Event \n————————– \n \n\nCarla Pestana \nChair and Professor \nJoyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World \nUCLA Department of History \n\ninvites you to attend \n\nFateful Elections: Perspectives on Presidential Transitions\na panel discussion featuring \n\nMARGARET O’MARA\nHoward & Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History\, University of Washington\n \n\n\nJOAN WAUGH\nProfessor Emeritus\, UCLA Department of History \n\nmoderated by \nROBIN D.G. KELLEY\nDistinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History \nUCLA Department of History \n\n \n\nThursday\, January 14\, 2021\n4:00 p.m. PST \nLive streaming via Zoom \n\n \n\n\nPlease submit your questions in advance of the webinar via email to:\nhnadworny@support.ucla.edu by Wednesday\, January 13 at 12:00 p.m. \nInstructions to join the webinar will be provided once your registration has been confirmed. \n\nAbout 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. \n\n \n\n\nUCLA College\n1309 Murphy Hall\, PO Box 951413\nLos Angeles\, CA 90095-1413
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/fateful-elections-perspectives-on-presidential-transitions/
LOCATION:Live streaming via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Why History Matters Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210114T123000
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SUMMARY:Tawny Paul\, "Commodified Bodies: Debt Bondage and Maritime Labor Recruitment in the British Atlantic"
DESCRIPTION:To RSVP\, click here.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/tawny-paul-commodified-bodies-debt-bondage-and-maritime-labor-recruitment-in-the-british-atlantic/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Grace Kim\, “Preserving Art\, Producing Science: The Microbiological Lives of Cultural Heritage.”
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2021 Colloquium \nJan 11 | 4PM – 5PM PST \nSpeaker Grace Kim (Vanderbilt) \n“Preserving Art\, Producing Science: The Microbiological Lives of Cultural Heritage.” \n\nZoom registration link:\nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/j/97402888165?pwd=SWpWdGNoR2h0dDJqbjZvZG00clI4dz09
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/grace-kim-preserving-art-producing-science-the-microbiological-lives-of-cultural-heritage/
LOCATION:Zoom RSVP
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201201T130000
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SUMMARY:Brian J. Griffith\, "Contesting the National Beverage: Wine\, Beer\, and the Battle over ‘Foreign’ Tastes and Habits in Interwar Italy"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Brian J. Griffith\, Eugen and Jacqueline Weber Post-Doctoral Scholar in European History \nTitle: “Contesting the National Beverage: Wine\, Beer\, and the Battle over ‘Foreign’ Tastes and Habits in Interwar Italy” \nThe recording can now be found here: https://fb.watch/26uKXr920X/. \n\n\nBrief Abstract: “This paper analyzes the struggles between the Italian winemaking and brewing industries over the shaping of bourgeois Italian tastes and habits during the interwar decades. During the early 1920s\, Fascist Italy’s Industrial Wine Lobby began unveiling a wide range of public relations and collective marketing campaigns\, which were aimed at forging new ‘fashions’ or trendy collective practices among the country’s wayward middle- and upper-class consumers. The pro-wine lobby’s efforts\, however\, were obstructed by a variety of political and commercial challenges\, including a growing competition with various ‘foreign’ beverage industries\, such as coffee\, cocktails\, and\, above all\, beer. Between 1929 and 1931\, Italian brewers’ commercial lobbying organization\, the National Beer Propaganda Consortium\, launched two ambitious collective marketing campaigns of their own\, which were centered on discursively intertwining the beverage’s consumption with bourgeois sociability\, domesticity\, and ‘Italian’ identity. Unwilling to yield any commercial ground to domestic brewers\, Italy’s Industrial Wine Lobby launched a follow-up\, and wide-ranging collective marketing campaign in order to both defend ‘the world’s vineyard’ from the ‘invasion’ of ‘semi-barbarian’ preferences\, as one wine lobbyist colorfully phrased it in 1935\, and\, equally as important\, reposition Italian wine as a wholesome and fashionable ‘national beverage’ within the eyes of the peninsula’s middle- and upper-classes. By exploring these industries’ conflicts over the definition and articulation of ‘Italian’ taste and style during Fascism’s twenty years in power in Italy\, this study aims to shed further light on the myriad\, and oftentimes complex\, relationships between popular consumption\, industrial ‘fashion’ dynamics\, and national identity.” \nEvent Host: UCLA’s Center for European and Russian Studies \nDate/Time: Tuesday\, December 1st from 12:00pm to 1:00pm \n\nZoom Registration Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4lFpMlUcRIiKcxvBkf4V3Q \nAdditional Information: See https://www.international.ucla.edu/euro/event/14684
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/brian-j-griffith-contesting-the-national-beverage-wine-beer-and-the-battle-over-foreign-tastes-and-habits-in-interwar-italy/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T170000
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CREATED:20211020T225308Z
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SUMMARY:History of Science Colloquium: Claire Gherini (Cedars-Sinai Postdoctoral Fellow)
DESCRIPTION:Fall 2020 Colloquium Schedule \nWe will meet on zoom from 4-5 pm. RSVP links will be circulated with the announcements for the individual talks. \nNov 30 \nRegistration: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMldumtpz0sEtPww5ISb-MGdBajvEwO8SZP \nClaire Gherini (Cedars-Sinai Postdoctoral Fellow)\, “Slavery’s Medicine: Making Medical Knowledge from the Garrison to the Plantation in the British Caribbean\, 1763-1807”
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/history-of-science-colloquium-claire-gherini-cedars-sinai-postdoctoral-fellow/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201123T160000
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SUMMARY:History of Science Colloquium: Taylor Moore (UCSB): “Tracing the Magical Rhinoceros Horn in Egypt: A Decolonial Materialist History”
DESCRIPTION:Fall 2020 Colloquium Schedule \nWe will meet on zoom from 4-5 pm. RSVP links will be circulated with the announcements for the individual talks. \nNov 23 \nRegistration: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsdeGurzIqGtxldiJYGsO0ROwIFjd72WeD  \nTaylor Moore (UCSB): “Tracing the Magical Rhinoceros Horn in Egypt: A Decolonial Materialist History” \nCo-sponsored by the European History Colloquium \nCan emancipatory\, decolonial histories be extracted from objects collected from—or made visible to history by—the archives of colonialism?  This talk explores this question through the case study of the rhinoceros horn amulet (/qarn el-khartit/)\, an ethnographic object collected by British anthropologist Winifred Blackman during her fieldwork in Egypt in the 1920s. Markedly decentering the traditional colonial history of how the rhinoceros horn was collected and displayed as an object in European museums\,  I follow the trail of the rhinoceros horn back to the site of its collection in Egypt to reveal a strikingly different story: one of magic/medicine\, gender\, race\, and enslavement—setagainst the backdrop of Egypt’s imperial pursuits in East Africa. As such\, I demonstrate how to “read” the rhinoceros horn as an object-archive that illuminates the networks\, actors\, and economies whose bodies and labor are generally rendered invisible in Eurocentric histories of global science and medicine. \nTaylor M. Moore is a University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at UC Santa Barbara. Her research lies at the intersections of critical race studies\,decolonial/postcolonial histories of science\, and decolonial materiality studies. Her book manuscript\, /Superstitious Women: Race\, Magic\, and Medicine in Egypt/\, uses modern Egyptian amulets as an archive to reconstruct the magical and vernacular medical life-worlds of peasant women healers\, and their critical role developing medico-anthropological expertise in Egypt from 1880-1950.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/history-of-science-colloquium-taylor-moore-ucsb-tracing-the-magical-rhinoceros-horn-in-egypt-a-decolonial-materialist-history/
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Thabisile Griffin\, "Black Militias in the Era of Revolutions: Politics\, Race and Labor"
DESCRIPTION:November 19\, 2020\n12:30 – 2:00 pm \nThabisile Griffin\, PhD Candidate\, UCLA\n“Black Militias in the Era of Revolutions: Politics\, Race and Labor” \nFrom 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 ripe with not only the insurrections of enslaved Africans\, but also threats from competing European powers and indigenous populations. In order to survive\, there were constant re-adjustments made to garrison structure and fortifications\, that ultimately disrupted racial sensibilities to security. A contentious reinforcement would develop in the 1780s\, incentivized by previous strategies used during the American Revolution. Military officials and colonial administrators in the Caribbean were now reckoning with the possibility of employing and arming entire battalions of Black men for the British Army. The creation of this unit in the Caribbean\, the Black Corps\, was only possible through the evolving myths and villainization of St. Vincent’s Black indigenous population—the Black Caribs. Only through the narrative of the Black Caribs could the fantasy of the Black Corps be actualized. \nRegister
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/thabisile-griffin-black-militias-in-the-era-of-revolutions-politics-race-and-labor/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201116T170000
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CREATED:20211020T225254Z
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SUMMARY:History of Science Colloquium: Celebration of Soraya de Chadarevian
DESCRIPTION:Fall 2020 Colloquium Schedule \nNovember 16\, 2020 | 4:00pm \nBook 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)\nDiscussants: Ted Porter (UCLA) and Iris Clever (University of Chicago) \nA copy of the introduction and epilogue of Heredity under the Microscope will be circulated to those registered on the day before the event. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Institute for Society and Genetics. \nTo register for this event to receive the Zoom link for the discussion\, click here.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/history-of-science-colloquium-celebration-of-soraya-de-chadarevian/
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T130000
DTSTAMP:20260419T044635
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T201956Z
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SUMMARY:Marissa Jenrich\, "'Like a Crow on Carrion': Black Women's Resistance to Police Power in New York City\, 1861-1880"
DESCRIPTION: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 at a time when the city itself was undergoing tremendous change. In particular\, this article examines the diverse ways women resisted the incursions of law enforcement by engaging in strategies of denial\, registration\, and direct protest. By doing so\, this article hopes to not only shed light on the period in question\, but also to deepen our understanding of the Progressive-Era brand of policing that\, for many New Yorkers\, resulted in a ”condemnation of blackness\,” itself. \n—   Please note that there is a pre-circulated paper that will be sent out a week before this event.  Please contact Rebeca Martinez at rmartnz165@g.ucla.edu for further information on the zoom link and paper.   —
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/marissa-jenrich-like-a-crow-on-carrion-black-womens-resistance-to-police-power-in-new-york-city-1861-1880/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:History of Women,Men and Sexuality Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T133000
DTSTAMP:20260419T044635
CREATED:20211021T033526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T202612Z
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SUMMARY:Nana Osei-Opare\, “The African Archive Exists: Calls Against Postcolonial African Archival Pessimism.”
DESCRIPTION:THURSDAY\, NOVEMBER 12 \n12pm to 1:30pm \nAfrican Studies Center: Nana Osei-Opare (Fordham University)\, “The African Archive Exists: Calls Against Postcolonial African Archival Pessimism.” \nRead more about the event here. \nPlease RSVP here.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/nana-osei-opare-the-african-archive-exists-calls-against-postcolonial-african-archival-pessimism/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201102T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201102T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T044635
CREATED:20211021T033526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T202758Z
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SUMMARY:History of Science Colloquium: Theodore Porter (UCLA) "Democracy Counts: On Sacred and Debased Numbers”
DESCRIPTION:Nov. 2\, 2020\, 4:00pm\, PST \nTheodore Porter (UCLA)\, “Democracy Counts: Sacred and Debased numbers” \nCommentary by Amir Alexander (UCLA) \n\nThe 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 a rejection of democratic government. This colloquium is oriented around Porter’s blog\, “Democracy Counts\,” which has been made available with this announcement\, and which you are encouraged to read. Amir Alexander will provide a commentary\, to be followed by a wide-ranging discussion on numbers and politics. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy \nPlease register here to receive the zoom link. \nhttps://press.princeton.edu/ideas/democracy-counts-on-sacred-and-debased-numbers \n\nProtesters shout outside the Miami-Dade County election office Nov. 22\, 2000. (Colin Braley/Reuters)
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/history-of-science-colloquium-theodore-porter-ucla-democracy-counts-on-sacred-and-debased-numbers/
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T140000
DTSTAMP:20260419T044635
CREATED:20211020T225239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T203542Z
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SUMMARY:Alejandra Dubcovsky\, "Iquenibilahacu\, iquibitila\, Killed but not Extinguished\, Centering Native Women in the Early South"
DESCRIPTION:Alejandra Dubcovsky\, Associate Professor of History\, UC Riverside \n“Iquenibilahacu\, iquibitila\, Killed but not Extinguished\, Centering Native Women in the Early South” \nTime: October 29\, 2020 12:30-2:00pm \nYou can register for this event here.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/alejandra-dubcovsky-iquenibilahacu-iquibitila-killed-but-not-extinguished-centering-native-women-in-the-early-south/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201030T120000
DTSTAMP:20260419T044635
CREATED:20211020T225239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T203311Z
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SUMMARY:CMRS Conference: Varallo and the Sacri Monti of Northwestern Italy
DESCRIPTION:CMRS Conference \nVarallo and the Sacri Monti of Northwestern Italy \nThursday-Friday\, October 29-30\, 2020\n9 am–12 pm Pacific Time \n  \nThis 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. \nThe cluster of pilgrimage centers known as the Sacri Monti\, or Holy Mountains\, in the western Italian Alps\, is attracting increasing scholarly attention. In part this is because in 2003 they were named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO\, in recognition of their unique artistic character. The first Sacro Monte\, at Varallo in the alpine foothills north of Turin\, was founded in the late fifteenth century by a Franciscan friar\, as a substitute version of Jerusalem for pilgrims who could not make the journey in person. He designed it as a topographical replica of the Holy Places\, centering on the Holy Sepulcher. Subsequently\, the artists working at Varallo in the sixteenth century\, who were mainly local men\, reconfigured this original topomimetic concept into a sequence of dramatic tableaux recounting the life and Passion of Christ. These were housed in individual chapels\, and were composed of large numbers of realistic\, life-size painted terracotta figures\, backed by frescoes. In this form\, Varallo became the prototype for a “second generation” of Sacri Monti founded at different places across the western Italian Alps in the seventeenth century under the impulse of the Counter-Reformation. Together\, as UNESCO’s recognition attests\, they constitute a cultural artifact unparalleled elsewhere in Italy or in the rest of Europe. \nThe conference will be held as two meetings on Thursday and Friday\, October 29and 30\, for about 3 hours each day. Speakers will make the full version of their papers available to all participants online at least a week before the conference\, with ancillary materials as necessary. In their session they will give a brief summary of their paper\, to be followed by remarks from a commentator\, and discussion. \nPlease click here to register for the conference on Zoom. \n  \n  \nTHURSDAY\, OCTOBER 29\, 2020 \n9:00 – 9:10 am Pacific Time\nWelcoming remarks by UCLA-CMRS Director Zrinka Stahaljuk \n9:10 – 9:30        Geoffrey Symcox (History\, UCLA)\n“Changing Historical Perspectives on Varallo and the Sacri Monti” \n9:30 – 9:50        Edoardo Tortarolo (University of Eastern Piedmont\, Vercelli)\n“Belated Religiosity: the Valsesia as a Terra Separata and the Ambiguity of Padre Giacobini” \n9:50 – 10:20      Comment: Geoffrey Symcox (History\, UCLA)\nGeneral Discussion \n10:20 – 10:40   Break \n10:40 – 11:00   Matthew Vester (History\, West Virginia University)\n“The Social and Economic Context of the Western Alps: Some Examples from the Val d’Aosta” \n11:00 – 11:20   Marianne Ritsema van Eck (History\, Leiden University)\n“The Observant Franciscans\, the Bedrock of the Sacri Monti” \n11:20 – 11:50   Comment: Nicholas Terpstra (History\, University of Toronto)\nGeneral Discussion \n  \nFRIDAY\, OCTOBER 30\, 2020 \n9:00 – 9:10 am Pacific Time\nAnnouncements\, etc \n9:10 – 9:30        Grace Harpster (Art History\, Georgia State University)\n“Grates\, Graffiti\, and Sacred Sculpture: Reforming the Sacro Monte of Varallo under Carlo Borromeo” \n9:30 – 9:50        Rebecca Gill (National Gallery\, London)\n“Mystery and the Multisensory at Galeazzo Alessi’s Sacro Monte di Varallo” \n9:50 – 10:20      Comment: George Gorse (Art History\, Pomona College)\nGeneral Discussion \n10:20 – 10:40   Break \n10:40 – 11:00   Kennis Forte (Art History PhD Candidate\, Queens University\, Ontario)\n“Symptom and Symbol: Goiters as a Link between Art\, Landscape and Local Devotion at the Italian Sacri Monti” \n11:00 – 11:20   Carla Benzan (The Open University\, London)\n“Embodied Vision and the Sculptural Summit: Varallo/Novi Ligure/Milan” \n11:20 – 11:50   Comment: Claire Farago (Art  & Art History\, University of Colorado\, Boulder)\nConcluding Discussion led by Nicholas Terpstra (History\, University of Toronto) and Geoffrey Symcox (History\, UCLA) \n  \nCo-sponsored by the UCLA Department of History and the UCLA Division of the Humanities. \nPlease click here to register for the conference on Zoom. \n  \nCMRS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU   |  CMRS.UCLA.EDU   |   FACEBOOK \nOrganized by Geoffrey Symcox (UCLA) \n“Varallo and the Sacri Monti of Northwestern Italy” \nTime: October 29th & 30th\, 9:00am-12:00pm \nZoom registration links for Day 1 and Day 2
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/cmrs-conference-varallo-and-the-sacri-monti-of-northwestern-italy/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Why History Matters - Reckoning With Our Rights: The Legacy of Voter Access in California
DESCRIPTION:The event recording is now available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WQ8KoVdi3No \n \nCarla Pestana\nChair and Professor\nJoyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World\nUCLA Department of History\n& \nThe UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy\ninvite you to attend \nWhy History Matters\nReckoning With Our Rights:\nThe Legacy of Voter Access in California\n\na panel discussion featuring \n Alex Padilla\nCalifornia Secretary of State \nAlisa Belinkoff Katz\nAssociate Director\, LA Initiative – UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs \nLorrie Frasure\nInterim Director\, Bunche Center for African American Studies\nAssociate Professor\, UCLA Department of Political Science \nDean Logan\nRecorder/County Clerk\, Los Angeles County Registrar \nmoderated by \nZev Yaroslavsky\nExecutive Director\, LA Initiative \n \nThursday\, October 1\, 2020\n5:00 p.m. PDT \nLive streaming via Zoom \n \nPlease submit your questions in advance of the webinar via email to:\nhnadworny@support.ucla.edu (by Wednesday\, September 30 at 12:00 p.m.) \nInstructions to join the webinar will be provided once your registration has been confirmed. \n \nAbout 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. \nIn collaboration with \n \n\nUCLA College\n1309 Murphy Hall\, PO Box 951413\nLos Angeles\, CA 90095-1413
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/why-history-matters-reckoning-with-our-rights-the-legacy-of-voter-access-in-california/
LOCATION:Live streaming via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Why History Matters Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200918T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200918T090000
DTSTAMP:20260419T044635
CREATED:20211020T225224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T204230Z
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SUMMARY:The Early Modern Global Caribbean
DESCRIPTION:Atlantic History Presents \nThe Early Modern Global Caribbean \nA Virtual Conference at The Huntington Library \nSeptember 18\, 2020 9:00AM \nFor the conference schedule\, please click here.
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/the-early-modern-global-caribbean/
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200423T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200423T163000
DTSTAMP:20260419T044635
CREATED:20211020T225109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T205330Z
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SUMMARY:Animals\, Agency\, and Slaving in the Atlantic World
DESCRIPTION:Atlantic History Presents \nAnimal Slavery Conference \nApril 23\, 2020 10:00AM – 4:30PM \nZoom Link – https://ucla.zoom.us/j/856588866
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/animals-agency-and-slaving-in-the-atlantic-world/
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200409T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200409T160000
DTSTAMP:20260419T044635
CREATED:20211021T033441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T210401Z
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SUMMARY:Frank Biess\, “German Angst: Fear and Democracy in Postwar Germany” - POSTPONED/CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:Frank Biess \n“German Angst: Fear and Democracy in Postwar Germany” \nPostponed/Cancelled
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/frank-biess-german-angst-fear-and-democracy-in-postwar-germany-postponed-cancelled/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200406T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200406T160000
DTSTAMP:20260419T044635
CREATED:20211020T225223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T210441Z
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SUMMARY:Corinna Treitel\, "Alternative Modernities in the German Past: Occultism\, Natural Diets\, and the Urge to Health" - POSTPONED/CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:Corinna Treitel \n“Alternative Modernities in the German Past: Occultism\, Natural Diets\, and the Urge to Health” \nPostponed/Cancelled
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/corinna-treitel-alternative-modernities-in-the-german-past-occultism-natural-diets-and-the-urge-to-health-postponed-cancelled/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200316T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200316T160000
DTSTAMP:20260419T044635
CREATED:20211021T033246Z
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SUMMARY:Deborah Coen\, “Climate Change and the Enigma of Usable Knowledge”
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Coen\, Yale University \n“Climate Change and the Enigma of Usable Knowledge” \nOne 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 of industry-funded disinformation campaigns\, the disconnect between scientific research and the information needs of policy-makers\, the reluctance of scientists to engage in advocacy\, and the inexperience of US geoscientists with public engagement due to the secrecy imposed on their research during the Cold War. This presentation will lay out an alternative (yet complementary) framework for answering this question\, drawing on research in progress. I will argue\, first\, that the image of climate scientists as disengaged from the public derives from a focus on theorists and global modelers at the expense of those working at the regional scale (many of whom identified as geographers or ecologists rather than physicists or chemists). Indeed\, from the early days of research on the “Carbon Dioxide Problem” in the 1970s\, there was no lack of effort to make the science of anthropogenic climate change actionable and accessible—or\, in the parlance of the day\, “usable.” Indeed\, “usable knowledge” was a buzzword of the 1970s and ‘80s that significantly shaped climate research at multiple major international institutions. These projects evolved quite independently of each other (and were\, in some cases\, even marked by mutual hostility)\, yet all took usability as their goal. However\, what usability meant to this population of researchers was far from uniform. My aim\, then\, is to study how ideals of usable knowledge formed\, circulated\, and confronted each other in the community of climate researchers from the 1970s to today\, at times in dialogue with practitioners of Science & Technology Studies. My hypothesis is that the past four decades have seen an overall trend towards an increasingly narrow definition of usability\, reflecting the growing dominance of a top-down model of risk management. Yet the climate field has also generated creative resistance to this trend\, which requires a historical perspective to appreciate properly. \n\nMarch 16\, 2020\, 4:00pm | Bunche Hall 5288
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/deborah-coen-climate-change-and-the-enigma-of-usable-knowledge/
LOCATION:5288 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:History of Science Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200312T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200312T133000
DTSTAMP:20260419T044635
CREATED:20211020T225037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T210726Z
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SUMMARY:Event Cancelled - "Kings and Slaves: Diplomacy\, Sovereignty\, and Black Subjectivity in the Early Modern World"
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this event has been cancelled. \nAtlantic History Speaker Series Presents \nHerman Bennett \n“Kings and Slaves: Diplomacy\, Sovereignty\, and Black Subjectivity in the Early Modern World” \nThursday\, March 12 \n12:00PM – 1:30PM \nHistory Conference Room\, 6275 Bunche
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/event-cancelled-kings-and-slaves-diplomacy-sovereignty-and-black-subjectivity-in-the-early-modern-world/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
CATEGORIES:Atlantic History Lecture Series
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