UCLA Department of History

Nancy O. Gallman - “American Constitutions: Life, Liberty and Property in Colonial East Florida"
2016-03-31 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 6275 Bunche Hall
Nancy O. Gallman is a Ph.D. candidate in Early American History at the University of California, Davis. Her dissertation, “American Constitutions: Life, Liberty, and Property in Colonial East Florida,” is a comparative legal history of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Spanish–Native East Florida. It examines the interactions between Spanish colonial law and the customary law of the Lower Creeks and Seminoles to show how a broadly defined, pluralistic system of law shaped the development of East Florida, where neither the Spanish nor Native peoples could dominate but where both had to adapt to the other. She argues that, on the basis of mutual tolerance and restraint, this mixed legal culture reinforced Native sovereignty, promoted multiple conceptions of justice, race, gender, labor, and property, and, as a result, made East Florida a greater target of U.S. aggression in the early years of the new republic. This study of legal pluralism in East Florida refines our understanding of the role of Native law in the constitution of power in colonial North America.

Michael Rothberg - “Inheritance Trouble: Transmitting Holocaust Memory in a Society of Immigration”
2016-03-09 16:00 - 18:00
Michael Rothberg is Professor of English and Head of the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also Director of the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies. His latest book is Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (2009), published by Stanford University Press in their “Cultural Memory in the Present” series. He is also the author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (2000), and has co-edited The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (2003) and special issues of the journals Criticism, Interventions, Occasion, and Yale French Studies.

Jean-Marc Dreyfus - “Comprehensive or focused? Which teaching of the Holocaust in the 21st Century?”
2016-03-08 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Jean-Marc Dreyfus is Reader in History and in Holocaust Studies at the University of Manchester (History Division), United Kingdom. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for European Studies, Harvard and the Centre Marc-Bloch in Berlin. He is the author of six monographs, including L’impossible réparation. Déportés, biens spoliés, or nazi, comptes bloqués, criminels de guerre [The impossible réparation. Deportees, looted properties, Nazi gold, war criminals] (Paris, 2015). He has recently edited a special issue of the European Review of History, on ‘Traces, memory and the Holocaust in the writings of W.G. Sebald’. He is the co-organizer (with Elisabeth Anstett) of the ERC research programme “Corpses of mass violence and genocide” (www.corpsesofmassviolence.eu).

Mary Terrall - “Michel Adanson’s Imagined Plantations: Secrecy, Botanical Knowledge, and French Colonial Policy after the Seven Years’ War”
2016-03-07 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Mary Terrall is a History Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Fifth International Conference on Freemasonry at UCLA. "Brothers across the Sea: Freemasonry's Spread to Africa and the Middle East"
2016-03-05 20:45
This is an all day event, scheduled to begin at 8:45 and go until 4:00pm.
You can view information and biographies about the speakers, the event program, and registration at this url.

The Clandestine and Heterodox Underground of Early Modern European Philosophy, 17th–18th Centuries
2016-03-04 09:00 - 2016-03-05 17:00 | UCLA Royce Hall – Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
A conference organized by Margaret Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles; Gianni Paganini, Università del Piemonte Orientale; and John Christian Laursen, University of California, Riverside.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of History; Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli; and Centro di Ricerca della Accademia dei Lincei, Rome.
This conference explores philosophical writings that circulated clandestinely in the early modern era—a corpus of some 250 texts in some 2,000 manuscript copies. At its most radical, the clandestine philosophical tract remained rigorously anonymous. These tracts offered a rationalist criticism of philosophy and religion, drawing on classical and Renaissance alternative traditions while providing critical readings of mainstream texts to bring out their errors and ideological sleight of hand. Many of the ideas expressed in the manuscripts emerged in print in the works of Voltaire, Hume, d’Holbach, and Diderot. The conference examines how these manuscripts enable a reading of European intellectual history beyond the official professions of faith promoted by the schools and established authors.
RSVP at http://www.1718.ucla.edu/events/heterodox-underground/
Speakers
Jeffrey D. Burson, Georgia Southern University
Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, Københavns Universitet
Karen Hollewand, University of Oxford
Jonathan Israel, Institute for Advanced Study
John Christian Laursen, University of California, Riverside
Inger Leemans, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Whitney Mannies, University of California, Riverside
John Marshall, Johns Hopkins University
Gianni Paganini, Università del Piemonte Orientale
Winfried Schröder, Philipps-Universität Marburg Maria
Susana Seguin, Université Paul-Valery Montpelier III
Rienk Vermij, University of Oklahoma

Alon Confino - “A World With and Without Jews: Some Thoughts on Holocaust History and Memory”
2016-03-03 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Alon Confino is a professor of history at the University of Virginia and at Ben-Gurion University. At the heart of his work are the imagination, sensibilities, and emotions that make the stories people tell themselves about their past to give meaning to their world. He has published extensively on modern German and European history, on nationhood, memory, and historical method. In the last few years he worked on the Holocaust and the result is Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust As Historical Understanding (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2012) and A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide (Yale University Press, 2014), which won a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship. He is now at work on a book project on 1948 in Palestine, at the center of which is the impact of Holocaust memories.

Vinay Lal - "The Politics of Internet Hinduism"
2016-03-03 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Hinduism’s adherents, particularly in the United States, have displayed in recent years a marked tendency to turn towards various forms of digital media, and in particular the internet, to forge new forms of Hindu identity, furnish Hinduism with a purportedly more coherent and monotheistic form, engage in debates on American multiculturalism, and partake of the protocols of citizenship in the digital age. The aspiration to create linkages across Hindu groups worldwide, embrace Hindus in remoter diasporic settings who are viewed as having been ‘left behind’, and create something of global Hindu consciousness, has a fundamental relationship to India’s ascendancy as an ‘emerging economy’ and the confidence with which its Hindu elites increasingly view the world and their prospects for prosperity and political gain. In this lecture, I shall focus on some contemporary phenomena, among them the deployment of the internet in battles over the content of history textbooks in California and attempts to secure ‘the dignity of Hinduism’ by groups such as American Hindus Against Defamation (AHAD). As I shall argue, a revolutionary internet Hinduism is being forged which transforms an old faith into a worldwide religion, and brings pliant Hindus, both in India and in the older Indian diasporas of the nineteenth century, to an awareness of the global strengths of a ‘modern’ Hindu community.

Caroline Ford - “Natural Interests: The Contest over Environment in Modern France”
2016-02-29 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Caroline Ford is a History Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include modern France, environmental history, and urban and architectural history.
This event is co-sponsored by the History Department.

#StandWithJNU: A Forum on Nationalism and Dissent
2016-02-26 13:00 - 15:00 | 11372 Bunche Hall
CISA and the South Asia Graduate Association Present: #StandWithJNU: A Forum on Nationalism and Dissent. Featuring talks by: Sanjay Subrahmanyam (History) , Vinay Lal (History), and Aparna Sharma (World Arts and Cultures). Light refreshments.

Futures of History Conference
2016-02-25 08:00 - 2016-02-26 17:00 | Palisades Room, Carnesale Commons
This is a conference aimed at empowering the next generation of historians.
Futures of History will be held on February 25–26, 2015 in the Palisades room on the third floor of Carnesale Commons. Breakout sessions will take place in Malibu, Venice, and Hermosa rooms on the second floor.
More information about this event…

Fernando Peréz-Montesinos - “The Liberal State and Purépecha Communities: Remaking Life on the Land”
2016-02-24 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Fernando Peréz-Montesinos received his M.A. in 2009 and his Ph.D. in 2015 at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Fernando writes, “My heart… remained with the history of indigenous people in modern Latin America. I thus embarked on a study of the Purépecha people of Michoacán (central-west Mexico) and examined how they coped with and contributed to shape a century-long process (1800-1914) of major land and social transformations. This has been an exciting and rewarding project that I plan to turn into a book in the near future. Teaching has been an equally rewarding part of my professional life. I have taught in private and public universities in Mexico and United States, mostly courses on Mexican and Latin American history. My latest experience at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City (2014 to present) involves offering students guidance on how to develop research projects. Ironically, many of these projects are studies on mass and social media. This has proved to be a happy and reassuring coincidence. From 2013 to the present, I have collaborated andco-edited a history blog, an stimulating project that continuously reminds me about the importance of bringing together history and the new technologies of the 21st century.”

James Secord - “Global Geology and the Tectonics of Empire”
2016-02-22 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
James Secord is a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. His research interests include social history of science since 1750, life and earth sciences, and the history of science communication.

María Eugenia Vázquez Semadeni - “Concepts in Action: Sovereignty and Republican Political Culture in Post-Independent Mexico, 1821-1828”
2016-02-18 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
María Eugenia Vázquez Semadeni served as Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University in 2014. She received a PhD (2008) and an MA (2005) in History from El Colegio de Michoacán and a BA in Culture Science from the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City (2002). Her research focuses on the political culture, republican languages, freemasonry, the formation of secular civil society, and political parties of nineteenth and twentieth-century Mexico.
She is the author of the book La formación de una cultura política republicana. El debate público sobre la masonería, México 1821-1830 (UNAM/El Colegio de Michoacan 2010) [The Formation of a Republican Political Culture. Public Debate about Freemasonry, Mexico 1821-1830], as well as co-editor and co-author of 200 Emprendedores Mexicanos. La formación de una nación (LID 2010) [200 Mexican Entrepreneurs. The Formation of a Nation]. In addition, she has published several articles and book chapters on Mexican freemasonry, the origins of the political parties system in Mexico, the formation of public opinion, and Hispanic American parliamentarianism. She is currently working on a new book manuscript in English that examines the process of state formation in Mexico from independence in 1821 to the post-revolutionary 1930’s through the lens of freemasonry.

Casey Lurtz - “From the Grounds Up: Community, Exchange, and the Building of a Coffee Economy in Southern Mexico, 1867-1920”
2016-02-17 14:00 - 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Casey Marina Lurtz is an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. She was previously the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and spent a year as a predoctoral fellow at the UC San Diego Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. She has articles forthcoming in the Hispanic American Historical Review and the Business History Review, as well as the Mexican journal ISTOR. She is currently writing a history of the coffee economy of the Soconusco, Chiapas that examines how peripheral places grappled with and took advantage of globalization during Latin America’s export boom.

Winston James - "The Bolshevization of Claude McKay: The Radicalization of His British Sojourn, 1919-1921."
2016-02-10 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Winston James is a Professor in the Department of History at University of California, Irvine. His research interests include Caribbean, African-American, Black Britain, and the African Diaspora.

Pamela Fuentes - "Madams, Pimps, and the End of Regulated Prostitution in Mexico City, 1940-1952"
2016-02-08 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Pamela J. Fuentes is a postdoctoral fellow at El Colegio de Mexico. She received a PhD from York University (Toronto, Canada) in 2015, an MA in Mexican History from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2008) and BA from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa in Mexico City (2002). Her research focuses on modern Mexican history, with special attention to women, gender, and sexualities, as well as politics and popular culture. She is currently working on a book manuscript that will explore the results of debates on prostitution and sex trafficking against the backdrop of revolutionary politics and the consolidation of state authority in Mexico from the 1920s to the 1940s. She is the co-author of a chapter on prostitution in Mexico City from 1521 to 2013, in Selling Sex in the Cities: Prostitution in World Cities: 1600 to the Present (Brill, 2016) and co-authored the introduction to a recent facsimile edition of the 1927 League of Nations report on Mexico City’s sex trade (Library and Archives, United Nations, 2016).

History of Science Colloquium
2016-02-08 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Jean Pierre Beaud (CIRST, Université de Québec à Montréal)
“What is a population? Reflections on two Statistical Descriptions of Canada”

Michele Wallace- “The Myth of the Superwoman Revisited”
2016-01-28 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Michele Wallace and Ellen Dubois

Talk by Professor José Curto
2016-01-25 15:30 - 17:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“Population movements in the South Atlantic – the case of Benguela and Rio de Janeiro, c. 1700-1850”
José Curto is a Professor in the Department of History at York University. His research Interests include Modern Africa, Social and Economic History.
This events is co-sponsored by the Brazilian history seminar and the Atlantic history cluster.

US Field Symposium
2016-01-21 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
A symposium featuring Peter Nabokov, James Brooks and Ross Frank, which will focus on Nabokov’s recent books, How the World Moves: the Odyssey of an American Indian Family, and The Origin Myth of Acoma Pueblo

Frontiers of Persian Learning: Dr. Ron Sela
2016-01-21 14:00 - 15:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“The Turkic Challenge to Persian Supremacy in Premodern Central Asia”

Atlantic History Speaker Series
2016-01-20 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“The Lives (and Deaths) of Caged Birds: Wild Animals and their Transatlantic Circulation from the Americas to Spain During the Eighteenth Century.” Martha Few, Dept. of History, University of Arizona

Elizabeth Hinton lecture
2016-01-19 14:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“Urban Removal: Police, Prisons, and Domestic Policy After Civil Rights”

Minayo Nasiali Lecture
2016-01-14 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

History of Science Colloquium
2016-01-11 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Matthew Sargent, Digital Humanities, University of Southern California: “Marriage institutions and the formation of cross-cultural knowledge networks in early modern Southeast Asia”

Discussion
2015-12-03 12:00 - 14:00 | UCLA School of Law Room 1347
On the Terrorist Attacks in Paris- Panel Discussion with Caroline Ford, James Gelvin, Asli Bali and Dominic Thomas
For more information and to RSVP, please visithttp://www.isop.ucla.edu/euro/event/11614.

Lecture
2015-12-02 16:30 - 18:30 | 10383 Bunche Hall
Sheila Fitzpatrick “Stalin and Postwar Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union”

Jan Event
2015-12-02 10:30 - 11:30

Jan Event 2
2015-12-02 10:30 - 11:30
