UCLA Department of History

Ian Beacock “Democratic Emotions & the Unravelling of the Weimar Republic, 1918–1933”
2019-02-19 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 6275 Bunche Hall
Ian Beacock “Democratic Emotions & the Unravelling of the Weimar Republic, 1918–1933”
February 19, 2019 – 5 pm
6275 Bunche

Gabriela Cano - Feminism & the History of Delayed Women’s Suffrage in Mexico
2019-02-22 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Gabriela Cano – Feminism & the History of Delayed Women’s Suffrage in Mexico
February 22, 2019 – 12 pm – 1:30 pm
6275 Bunche

Seth LeJacq - “Venereal Disease and Sexual Forensics in Eighteenth-Century Britain”
2019-02-25 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Seth LeJacq is a historian of medicine, gender, and sexuality at the Huntington Library and Duke University.

Molly Pucci - Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Europe, 1945 – 1954
2019-02-25 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Molly Pucci – Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Europe, 1945 – 1954
February 25, 2019 – 5 pm
6275 Bunche

Miloš Jovanović, “Refractions of Empire: Urban Change in the Balkans, 1850-1939”
2019-02-28 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Miloš Jovanović, “Refractions of Empire: Urban Change in the Balkans, 1850-1939”
February 28, 2019 – 5 pm
6275 Bunche

Danielle Terrazas Williams - “Piracy, African-descended Women, and Crown Concerns in Colonial Mexico”
2019-03-01 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Danielle Terrazas Williams, Assistant Professor of History, Oberlin College, “Piracy, African-descended Women, and Crown Concerns in Colonial Mexico”

Book Event: Presentation and Celebration of Theodore Porter, Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity (Princeton Univ. Press, 2018)
2019-03-04 16:00 | 6265 Bunche Hall
Discussants: Soraya de Chadarevian (UCLA) and Chris Kelty (UCLA, ISG)
Soraya de Chadarevian is a Professor in the UCLA Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics.
Chris Kelty is an associate professor at UCLA.

Martha Jones, “Birthright Citizens: Bringing the Past to the Present in Troubled Times”
2019-03-06 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Martha Jones (Johns Hopkins), “Birthright Citizens: Bringing the Past to the Present in Troubled Times,” The Historian in Society Lecture Series
Martha Jones (Johns Hopkins History)
March 6, 2019, 4:00-6:00
History Department Conference Room (Bunche 6275)
RSVP: lindsayking@ucla.edu

Herrick Chapman - "France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic"
2019-03-07 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Thursday, March 7, 2019 4PM
Bunche 6275
European Colloquium Speaker Series
Herrick Chapman – “France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic”
Herrick Chapman – Professor, New York University
Historian Herrick Chapman explores how the French, in reconstructing their country after World War II, sought to combine a top-down modernization drive with a rejuvenation of democracy. Just what form this new France should take remained the burning question at the central of political combat until the end of the Algerian war. Chapman argues that by the 1960s France’s “long reconstruction” had institutionalized a deep tension between technocratic and democratic governance that would become an enduring feature of the new Fifth Republic. This tension also made the country vulnerable to the kind of street-level rebellion that exploded in May 1968.
Herrick Chapman is a modern European historian working mainly on the social, economic, and political history of twentieth-century France. His new book, France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic (Harvard, 2018), explores how the French rebuilt their economy and their polity after the Second World War.

Comparative Pornographies: Transnational Approaches to Writing Sex, East and West (Two-day event - March 8th-March 9)
2019-03-08 10:00 | William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2520 Cimarron Street Los Angeles, CA 90018
Friday, March 8, 2019
9:30 am – 5:45 pm
Saturday, March 9, 2019
9:30 am – 1:15 pm
Registration is required for each day of the conference. To sign up as well as find additional details for the specific day of the event, click the links below:
http://www.1718.ucla.edu/events/comparative-pornographies
http://www.1718.ucla.edu/events/comparative-pornographies-2/

At the end of the twentieth century, scholars of European pornography began to explore obscenity and its implications for our understanding of the time that produced it, the seventeenth and, especially, eighteenth centuries. A world of previously ignored texts came to light, producing new theories and interpretations, suggesting that the rise of pornography was somehow a harbinger of modernity. This activity, however, occurred within narrow geographical boundaries and was tied firmly to Western historical trajectories. Asian pornography, especially the long and particularly rich Chinese tradition, was ignored.
This conference seeks to break down the barriers that have separated scholars of Western and Asian pornography, and engender a more transnational and intercultural approach to the qualities and development of pornography in the early modern world.
Conference organized by Andrea S. Goldman and Kathryn Norberg (University of California, Los Angeles), and Paola Zamperini
(Northwestern University)
Speakers:
Katherine Carlitz, University of Pittsburgh
Keith McMahon, University of Kansas
Guido Ruggiero, University of Miami
Timon Screech, SOAS, University of London
Mark Stevenson, Chinese University of Hong Kong Giovanni Vitiello, University of Naples ”L’Orientale” Ellen Widmer, Wellesley University
Cuncun Wu, The University of Hong Kong
Paola Zamperini, Northwestern University

Inaugural Feminist Book Celebration
2019-03-08 14:00 - 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
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Inaugural Feminist Book Celebration
March 8, 2019 – 2 pm – 4 pm
6275 Bunche

James Loeffler, “Double Amnesia: Rethinking the History of Zionism and Human Rights”
2019-04-08 17:00 - 18:30 | Law School 1430
For details on this event, click the link below:
https://luskincenter.history.ucla.edu/event/james-loeffler-double-amnesia/

Timothy Doran, "Who's Afraid of Spartan Eugenics?"
2019-04-09 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire
2019-04-11 12:30 - 14:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Visions of Medieval Studies in North America: a Conference in Honor of Patrick J. Geary Day 1
2019-04-13 09:00 | UCLA Royce Hall – Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
View Flyer here.
Borrowing its title from Patrick Geary’s article “Visions of Medieval Studies in North America” published in the 1994 volume The Past and Future of Medieval Studies, this conference honors the distinguished career of Patrick J. Geary, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History at the Institute for Advanced Study (2012–2019), Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA (1993–2011), Professor of History at the University of Florida (1980–1993), and Director of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (1993–1998).
Celebrating both the anniversary of this important essay as well as the scope and impact of Professor Geary’s work and career, this conference features scholarly papers by his former students and less formal presentations commending his professional and personal impact on his students and colleagues.
This conference is organized by Kristina Markman (UCSD), Maya Maskarinec (USC), Kate Craig (Auburn University), and Warren Brown (Caltech).
Please register to attend on this event’s page on the CMRS website or write to cmrs@humnet.ucla.edu. No fee. Limited seating. Parking information is posted at main.transportaion. ucla.edu/campus-parking/visitors.

Visions of Medieval Studies in North America: a Conference in Honor of Patrick J. Geary Day 2
2019-04-14 09:00 | UCLA Royce Hall – Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Lonnie Bunch - "The Power of the Past through the Creation of the Museum"
2019-04-16 19:00 | Fowler Museum
For details on this event, click the link below:
https://luskincenter.history.ucla.edu/event/historian-in-society-lecture-series/

The Kids Aren’t All Right: Historians and the Problem of Childhood
2019-04-18 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Can children be historical actors? The proposition that children have historical agency has been a rallying cry for many historians of childhood who seek to recover the voices and actions of young people in the past, arguing that their history is analogous to that of other disenfranchised and marginalized groups and must be recovered in the same way. Sarah Maza’s talk challenges this agenda by proposing that children are in fact profoundly different from any other group of past actors. It then goes on to describe a remarkable set of recent works that suggest a renewal of the general area of “children in history” but approach the topic very differently from traditional social histories, writing history not “of childhood” but “through childhood.” This trend, she suggests, has implications for all fields of history.

From Guangzhou and Antananarivo to Dien Bien Phu: Asian and African Coordinates of the Vietnamese Revolution
2019-04-22 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Why, of all the countries in Southeast Asia, was it only in Vietnam that the struggle for national independence led to a Communist Party-led revolution? Drawing on a rich and growing body of revisionist scholarship, this lecture suggests that the answer lies beyond the borders of Vietnam and the boundaries of Vietnamese nationalism. Viewed in regional comparative perspective and through analytical lenses which keep French colonial Indochina, the Asian ‘Sinosphere’ and the African ambit of the French Empire in focus, Vietnam stands out not for the breadth and depth of nationalist consciousness but rather for the strength and significance of its transcontinental and trans-oceanic linkages in the making of “Vietnamese” society and the making of the Vietnamese revolution. In particular, the lecture shows how evolving connections to southern China and the inclusion of Vietnam both within French colonial “Indochina” and the French Empire as a whole shaped the possibilities for successful socialist revolutionary struggle in Vietnam, leading up to the defeat of of French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1953, the establishment and entrenchment of the DRV north of the 17th Parallel from 1954, and the extension of the Vietnamese revolution across the full breadth of Indochina by 1975.
John T. Sidel is the Sir Patrick Gillam Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is the author of Capital, Coercion, and Crime: Bossism in the Philippines (Stanford University Press, 1999), (with Eva-Lotta Hedman) Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century: Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Trajectories (Routledge, 2000), Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia (Cornell University Press, 2006), and The Islamist Threat in Southeast Asia: A Reassessment (East-West Center, 2007), as well as two forthcoming books: Coalitions for Change in the Philippines: Legacies, Linkages, Lessons (co-authored with Jaime Faustino), and Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia.

Jacob Soll, “The Reckoning: Intellectual History and an Unexpected Journey into Contemporary Politics”
2019-04-22 17:00 - 19:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
For details on this event, click the link below:
https://luskincenter.history.ucla.edu/event/historian-in-society-lecture-series-soll/

Rome in the Andes - and the Andes in Rome
2019-04-25 12:00 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Fourth Annual Undergraduate History Conference - "From the Global to the Local: Connected Histories"
2019-04-26 08:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
From the Global to the Local: Connected Histories
Fourth Annual Undergraduate History Conference
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2019 │8:00AM – 5:00PM │BUNCHE HALL 6275

8:00am – 8:15am
Welcoming Remarks (Check-In and Continental Breakfast)

8:15am – 9:50am
Panel 1: Formations of National Identity in an International Context
Chair: Jade Quintero
Gordon Nenadovic, “Philip II and Athenian Rhetoric”
Sareen Ishanyan, “German Romantic Conceptions of Human-Nature Relations: Avant La Lettre Ecological Thinking and the Dangers of Anthropogenic Activity”
James Nee, “State Narratives of Kazakh/stani Identity, 1925-2019”
Amber Thompson, “After Incarceration: Little Tokyo and Life for Japanese Americans”
Alfred Scott, “From the Local to the Global: FESMAN ’66 and the Birth of Modern African Identity”
Discussants: Erdem Ilter & Michael Matthews

9:55am – 11:15am
Panel 2: Politics, Activism, and Race
Chair: Delanie Moreland
Kaelyn Apple, “Fleeing to the ‘Enemy’: A Revisionist Study of the Book of Negroes, The British Offer of Freedom, and Virginia’s Runaway Slaves”
Celia Janes, “From Anarchy to Assimilation: The Fragmentation of Italian American Radicalism in the 1920s”
Rachel Sass, “UCLA Jewish Activism: A Case Study on the American Jewish Community and Progressive Politics from the Six Day War to the Formation of the BDS Movement”
Sophia Yang, “The Korean American Experience During the Los Angeles Riots: A Community Reborn Through the Fire”
Discussant: Peter Chesney

11:20am – 12:10pm
Panel 3: Feminist Voices
Chair: Emily Luong
Delanie Moreland, “A Lover of Her Sex: Mary Astell and Feminist Thinking in Early Modern England”
Nyala Tringali-Carbado, “Women in the Black Panther Party: An Intersectional Analysis”
Discussant: Marissa Jenrich

12:15pm – 1:00pm
Lunch (Lunch will be provided to presenters & discussants. Other guests should bring brown bag lunch)

1:10pm – 2:00pm
Keynote: Katherine Marino, “Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement”

2:05pm – 3:20pm
Panel 4: Obstacles and Challenges to National Growth
Chair: Victoria Sheber
Erik Salazar, “Healers of a Changing World: Rural Medical Response in Central Mexico Amidst the 1850 Cholera Epidemic”
Christian Choe, “Growing Pains: Corporate Rivalry as the Catalyst for Innovation in Business History”
Therese Boles, “Nigerian and Biafran Perspectives on Humanitarian Aid During the 1967-1970 War”
James Marshall, “A Failure to Adapt”
Discussant: Rebeca Martinez

3:20pm – 3:35pm
Break (Light refreshments will be provided)

3:40pm – 4:45pm
Panel 5: Specters and Legacies of Socialism
Chair: Christian Choe
Hongyi Yu, “Doomed Alliance: The Party-state and Chinese Intellectuals from the Perspective of Everyday Life, 1949-1951”
Jade Quintero, “American Print Perspectives of Soviet Youth Counterculture”
Kyle Glick, “The Smoke and the Stone: History, Politics and Memory in Post-Soviet Memorial Space”
Discussant: Roii Ball

4:50pm – 5:00pm
Closing Remarks

Organized by the History Undergraduate Advisory Board, sponsored by the Department of History, and with the support of the History Graduate Student Association
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Nwando Achebe - “The Politics of Knowledge Production—A Reflective Journey and Dance about the Epistemology and Practice of African Gender History"
2019-04-29 16:30 - 18:30 | 11360 Charles E. Young Research Library
Professor Nwando Achebe will be giving the James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture (through the African Studies Center) on Monday, April 29th, from 4:30 – 6:30 in 11360 YRL. Here is the link:
https://www.international.ucla.edu/asc/event/13743

The History Department is co-sponsoring the talk, and Nwando (daughter of famed Chinua Achebe) received her Ph.D from our department in 1999 or 2000, under Ned Alpers.

A Book Talk With Max Felker-Kanto
2019-05-02 13:00 - 14:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Kevin Y. Kim - "America’s ‘Third Worlding’ in Korea"
2019-05-15 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Certificates of Freedom': Afro-Brazilian Strategies of Liberty in Lagos and the Atlantic World, 1850–1900
2019-05-16 12:00 - 14:00 | 6265 Bunche Hall

Teo Ruiz - "Becoming Human"
2019-05-21 12:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Memorial for Professor Stanley Wolpert
2019-05-26 13:00 - 16:00 | UCLA Faculty Center Dining Room
The Memorial for Professor Stanley Wolpert will be held on May 26 from 1-4 in the UCLA Faculty Center dining room. Please plan to join in this celebration of his life, and do convey this information to any others you know who would like to attend.

Mangroves as Habitat for African Survival in the Atlantic World
2019-05-30 12:00 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

History and the Contest over Memory Today, a Discussion with Jim Grossman, Wendy Lower, and Robin Kelly
2019-05-30 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
May 30, 4:00-6:00 pm, Bunche 6275
For more information about this event, click here.
RSVP: rsvpluskin@history.ucla.edu.
