"Comparing the Histories of China and India: A Round Table" Participants: Richard von Glahn (UCLA), Arash Khazeni (Pomona College), Sanjay Subrahmanyam (UCLA) and R. Bin Wong (UCLA). Open to the public
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Fall 2019 Colloquium All talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted. November 25: Vivien Hamilton, UCLA “Competing Virtues of Measurement: Physics, Medicine and Quantification in Early X-ray Therapy” Abstract Very soon after the discovery of x-rays in 1895, enthusiastic doctors began to use the new radiation […]
Lisa Mignone New York University Candidate for Ronald J. Mellor Chair of Ancient History “Rome's War Goddess: religious imperialism and self-preservation” January 9, 2020, 4pm 6275 Bunche
US ColloquiumChristopher Clark, University of Connecticut" The Age of Freehold: Land, Farming, and American Empire" January 15, 4 pm, 6275 Bunche
Atlantic History Speaker Series Presents Kittiya Lee CSULA, History "Dressed to Impress: The Boundaries of Friendship and the Tupi Sovereign Body in Pero Vaz de Caminha’s 1500 Letter from Brazil" Thursday, January 23 12:00PM - 1:30PM History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche Hall
Open House at Luskin Center for History and Policy to explore research project on American soft power in the Middle East January 24, 1-3 pm | Bunche 6339
"The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America" Margaret O'Mara (University of Washington) January 30, 2020, 2:00pm-4:00pm | Bunche Hall 6275
Candidate lecture (Early Modern Ottoman History) by Tyler Kynn “The Seasonality of Ottoman Power: Pilgrims and Imperial Patronage Networks in Early Modern Mecca and Medina” January 30, 2020 at 4 pm, 6275 Bunche Hall
"Imagining Utopia: The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins" a Talk by Dr. Maria Todorova Gutgsell Professor of History and Center for Advanced Study Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Presented by the UCLA Department of History's European Colloquium Thursday, January 30, 2020, 4-6PM UCLA Faculty Center, Sierra Room
Day 1: Thursday, January 30 begins 4:30 PM at Ackerman Union, Viewpoint Room Day 2: Friday, January 31 begins 9:30 AM at YRL Main Conference Room Day 3: Saturday, February 1 begins 9:30 at YRL Main Conference Room Day 4: Sunday, February 2 begins 9:30 at Royce 314 For more information and details, please refer […]
Lukas Rieppel, Brown University “Assembling the Dinosaur” Dinosaur fossils were first found in England, but a series of late-nineteenth-century discoveries in the American West turned the United States into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. Around the same time, the United States also emerged as an economic powerhouse of global proportions, and large, fierce, and […]
"How the U.S Killed Iranian Democracy – and Dealing with the Consequences" Governor Michael Dukakis (Northeastern) February 4, 2020, 12:00pm-2:00pm | Bunche 6275
