Weber Book Prize Talk
2026-04-30 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 6275 Bunche Hall
Join us for a talk of the 2026 Weber Book Prize awardee Catherine Tatiana Dunlop about her winning book The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France (University of Chicago Press, 2024).

A Paper World: Urbano Monte’s Global Renaissance
2026-05-06 17:00 | Bunche 6275 & Zoom
Paula Findlen, Professor of History at Stanford University, will be joining us to speak on “A Paper World: Urbano Monte’s Global Renaissance.”
More information, including the abstract, can be found on the attached flyer and below.
Event Details:
Title: A Paper World: Urbano Monte’s Global Renaissance
Date: Wednesday, May 6th
Time: 5:00PM (PDT)
Location: Bunche 6275
Zoom Link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91410387993
Meeting ID: 914 1038 7993

Screening: The Cry of Jazz with Guest Speaker Dr. Masayoshi Yamada
2026-05-07 15:00 - 16:30 | 193 Kaplan Hall, 415 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series: "Curatorial Life and the Lives of Objects: Early Science and Medicine at The Huntington Library"
2026-05-11 16:00 - 17:30 | Bunche 5288 & Zoom
Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. Huntington Library’s Molina Curator for the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Joel Klein, will be presenting “Curatorial Life and the Lives of Objects: Early Science and Medicine at The Huntington Library.”

This talk explores the range of work that defines curatorial life in a special collections library and how it shapes the “lives” of objects. Curating is not a single task but a set of activities—acquisitions, exhibitions, teaching, research, donor engagement, etc.—that determine how materials are preserved, described, interpreted, and used. Focusing on early science and medicine collections at The Huntington Library, I illustrate how my responsibilities intersect in practice. After briefly tracing my path from getting a PhD and moving into curatorial work, I present several case studies: securing and reuniting a first edition of Andreas Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica with a historic Los Angeles collection; working with technical services in the Library to describe ethically complex materials; yearly engagement with medical students through object-based teaching and narrative medicine exercises; and an NEH-funded project on Isaac Newton’s watermarks. These examples show how curatorial work actively shapes the meaning and use of historical materials.

See you in the History of Science Room or via Zoom
https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/bYObH7HJRpSdIUK3JY_91w

10th Annual Undergraduate History Research Conference
2026-05-13 10:00 - 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Now available: Conference Agenda
The History Undergraduate Advisory Board cordially invites you to our 10th Annual Undergraduate History Research Conference on Wednesday, May 13th from 10am to 4pm. Support UCLA undergraduates as they present their research in front of various faculty and graduate students from the department. This event will be hosted in 6275 Bunche Hall (History Conference Room) and will be available via Zoom as well (Please RSVP for link below).
Please register for the event here!: https://forms.gle/V4y8bukVTgLvWhyh7.

The UCLA History Atlantic Colloquium presents: Martinique in the Time of Yellow Fever: Colonial Public Health during the 1908 Yellow Fever Outbreak.
2026-05-14 12:30 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Thursday, May 14th at 12:30 pm
Erin Budrow, Graduate Student, Department of History, UCLA
Presentation: “Martinique in the Time of Yellow Fever: Colonial Public Health during the 1908 Yellow Fever Outbreak.”
Discussant: Soraya de Chadarevian, Distinguished Professor, Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/R4Npg_oaTWiTlHI48-6KXw
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Decoding Deschenes: New Insights into the Canadian Governments Troubled War Crimes Investigation
2026-05-18 12:00 - 13:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Imagining the Tropics: Women, Romance, and the Making of Modern Tourism
2026-05-20 14:30 - 15:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

TEACHING TALK: The Professional Payoffs of Historical Thinking, and why and how to think about this in our classes
2026-05-27 12:00 - 13:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
TEACHING TALK: The Professional Payoffs of Historical Thinking, and why and how to think about this in our classes
Featuring Tawny Paul, Kevin Kim, Bill Marotti, Jared McBride, and Glenn Penny
Wednesday 27 May 2026
12:00 pm, 6275 Bunche
Lunch courtesy of the Public History Initiative

Why History Matters - U.S. Immigration Policy: Where do we go from here?
2026-05-27 18:00 - 20:00 | UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) – Auditorium, 570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Please RSVP at one of the links below:
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The UCLA History Atlantic Colloquium presents: Cudjoe's (Dis)Ability and Maroon (De)Formation
2026-05-28 12:30 - 14:00 | 6265 Bunche Hall
Aaron Moulton, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Science, Hunter College CUNY
Presentation: “Cudjoe’s (Dis)Ability and Maroon (De)Formation”
In this talk, Prof. Moulton presents a draft chapter that is part of his book project The Black Grounds: Marronage, Black Placemaking, and the Exercise of Freedom. The chapter focuses on Captain Cudjoe considering what else we might be able to apprehend about marronage, the social life of fugitivity, and the relations of disability in early colonial Jamaica. Captain Cudjoe of the Leeward Maroons is perhaps the most frequently invoked figure in discourses about marronage that following the hero-traitor narrational trajectories. The dichotomized reading of marronage gives us an iconography of Cudjoe as either an exemplifying Black liberatory impulse and placemaking vision, or Black sycophantism and selfishness. The hero-traitor framework demands that we choose which Cudjoe is authentic, a false dilemma fallacy based on a reductive narrative of Black sociality. Against the dilemma, I read Cudjoe as evincing the contingent nature of social coalitions. Rather than one or the other kind of Black leader figure, Cudjoe is a migrator figure. His shifts through character roles on relation to Black community and freedom show the varying relationship between resistance, integration, and recognition to racial formation and racial projects. I read a depiction of Cudjoe as having a sever spinal curvature as a metaphor for the disabling and deforming outcomes of efforts at Black placemaking and freedom in an antiblack world. I consider how the fact of Cudjoe’s ascent to the leadership of his community invites celebration of Black communal practices of care that refuse hierarchies of worthiness.
