UCLA Department of History

Akif Yerlioglu, "New Remedies in Early Modern Ottoman Medicine: Some from the New World, Some from Tombs"
2020-02-05 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 6275 Bunche Hall
Candidate lecture (Early Modern Ottoman History) by Akif Yerlioglu
February 5, 2020 at 4 pm, 6275 Bunche Hall

Governor Michael Dukakis (Northeastern): "How the U.S Killed Iranian Democracy – and Dealing with the Consequences"
2020-02-04 12:00 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“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

Lukas Rieppel, “Assembling the Dinosaur”
2020-02-03 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
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 spectacular creatures like Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus, and Triceratops became powerful emblems of American capitalism. Tracing the links among dinosaurs, capitalism, and culture during this era, Lukas Rieppel reveals how these giant reptiles became intertwined with commercial culture, philanthropic interests, and the popular imagination during America’s long Gilded Age.

February 3, 2020, 4:00pm | 5288 Bunche Hall

Truth and Nonviolence in Post-Truth Times: An International Conference on Mohandas Gandhi
2020-01-30 16:30
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 to the attached flyer.

Dr. Maria Todorova, "Imagining Utopia: The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins"
2020-01-30 16:00 - 18:00
“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

Tyler Kynn, “The Seasonality of Ottoman Power: Pilgrims and Imperial Patronage Networks in Early Modern Mecca and Medina”
2020-01-30 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
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

Margaret O'Mara (University of Washington): "The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America"
2020-01-30 14:00 - 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“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

Open House at Luskin Center for History and Policy
2020-01-24 13:00 - 15:00 | 6339 Bunche
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

Kittiya Lee, "Dressed to Impress: the Tupi sovereign body in Pero Vaz de Caminha's 1500 Letter from Brazil"
2020-01-23 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
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

Christopher Clark, "The Age of Freehold: Land, Farming, and American Empire"
2020-01-15 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
US ColloquiumChristopher Clark, University of Connecticut”
The Age of Freehold: Land, Farming, and American Empire”
January 15, 4 pm, 6275 Bunche

Lisa Mignone, “Rome's War Goddess: religious imperialism and self-preservation”
2020-01-09 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
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

Vivien Hamilton “Competing Virtues of Measurement: Physics, Medicine and Quantification in Early X-ray Therapy”
2019-11-25 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
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 to treat cancer and various skin diseases. This early period of x-ray therapy has often been portrayed as chaotic and exploratory, largely because there were so many different methods for measuring a dose of x-rays. In the usual story, the chaos was contained and progress was made possible when the international radiological community settled on a standard unit of measurement, the röntgen, in 1928. This unit was strongly preferred by the physicists working in the x-ray community, who dismissed the methods preferred by their medical colleagues as rough and inadequate. Rather than accepting this judgment, this talk will ask us to look more closely at the ways in which x-rays were being measured in clinical spaces prior to 1928, arguing that physicists and doctors evaluated the same measuring practices so differently because each group desired something quite different from the act of measurement. For physicists, the key virtues of quantitative measurement were precision and standardization, while doctors desired accuracy and repeatability within their own practice. The physicists’ vision ultimately won, demonstrating that close collaboration between experts from different disciplines does not always result in compromise or mutual transformation. In this case, the physicists’ values played an increasingly large role in shaping the emerging culture of radiology

Comparing the Histories of China and India: A Round Table
2019-11-19 14:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“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

Scottie Buehler, “Religion and Ecclesiastical Practices of Midwifery Education in Eighteenth-century France”
2019-11-18 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Fall 2019 Colloquium
All talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted.
November 18: Scottie Buehler, UCLA
“Religion and Ecclesiastical Practices of Midwifery Education in Eighteenth-century France”
For more information about the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology graduate field, click here.

Manuel Covo, "The Entrepôt of Atlantic Revolutions. The French Colony of Saint-Domingue and Commercial Republicanism"
2019-11-14 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Atlantic History Speaker Series Presents
Manuel Covo
UCSB, History
“The Entrepôt of Atlantic Revolutions. The French Colony of Saint-Domingue and Commercial Republicanism”.
Thursday, November 14
12:00PM – 1:30PM
History Reading Room, 6265 Bunche Hall

2019 UC SoCal History of Science Graduate Seminar
2019-11-09 10:30 - 15:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Graduate students from the southern UC campuses in the history of science and allied fields will present papers over the course of the day. Anyone interested is welcome to attend. If you would like lunch, kindly RSVP to ucsocalhistsci@gmail.com.

Why History Matters - Perspectives on Academic Freedom: Then and Now
2019-11-04 19:00 | Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference Room
Carla Pestana
Chair and Professor
Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World
UCLA Department of History
invites you to attend
WHY HISTORY MATTERS
Perspectives on Academic Freedom: Then and Now
a panel discussion featuring
Toby Higbie
Professor
UCLA Department of History
Constance Penley
Professor
UCSB Film and Media Studies
moderated by
Michael Meranze
Professor
UCLA Department of History
Monday, November 4, 2019
7:00 p.m.
Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference room
Click here to RSVP
Self-pay parking available in Structure 3

About 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.

Additional Links:
Campus in Crisis: The Cold War Conflict Over Academic Freedom at UCLA – A Digital Exhibit from Prof. Meranze’s Spring 2019 97D course.

John Krige, “Some Challenges of Writing Transnational History of Science and Technology”
2019-11-04 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Fall 2019 Colloquium
All talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted.
John Krige, Georgia Institute of Technology and Caltech
“Some Challenges of Writing Transnational History of Science and Technology”
For more information about the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology graduate field, click here.

Asli Bali and James Gelvin, "Turkey's War Against Syria's Kurds: A Regional and International Crisis"
2019-10-31 12:00 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“Turkey’s War against Syria’s Kurds: A Regional and International Crisis”
Panel Discussion by Professor Asli Bali (UCLA Law) and Professor James Gelvin (UCLA History)
Thursday, October 31, 2019
12:00pm-2:00pm
Bunche Hall 6275
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s order withdrawing American troops from northern Syria, where they had been stationed in the war against ISIS, Turkey invaded, ostensibly to clear Syrian Kurds from the Syrian/Turkish border. The panel will discuss the origins of the crisis and its ramifications.
RSVP here

127th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture - Brenda Stevenson, "Gifts of the Storyteller"
2019-10-30 15:00 | Schoenberg Hall, UCLA Schoenberg Music Building
The Los Angeles Division of the
Academic Senate of the University of California
cordially invites you to attend the
127th UCLA FACULTY RESEARCH LECTURE
“Gifts of the Storyteller”
to be given by
Brenda E. Stevenson
Nickoll Family Endowed Chair
Professor, Departments of History and African American Studies
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Lecture at 3:00 p.m.
Schoenberg Hall, UCLA Schoenberg Music Building
Reception immediately following
RSVP for the reception by Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Click here to RSVP
Inquiries: (310) 794-3272
uclarsvp@specialevents.ucla.edu
Additional Information:

Faculty Research Lecturer Recipients
News Release: https://history.ucla.edu/news/brenda-stevenson-named-university%E2%80%99s-127th-faculty-research-lecturer

Vivien Hamilton, “Competing Virtues of Measurement: Physics, Medicine and Quantification in Early X-ray Therapy”
2019-10-28 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Fall 2019 Colloquium
All talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted.
October 28: Vivien Hamilton, Harvey Mudd College
“Competing Virtues of Measurement: Physics, Medicine and Quantification in Early X-ray Therapy”
For more information about the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology graduate field, click here.

Sari Siegel, “The Recruitment and Activities of Jewish Prisoner-Physicians During the Holocaust”
2019-10-21 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Fall 2019 Colloquium
All talks are held in Bunche 5288 at 4pm unless otherwise noted.
October 21: Sari Siegel, Cedars Sinai Program in History of Medicine and UCLA
“The Recruitment and Activities of Jewish Prisoner-Physicians During the Holocaust”

Jaimie D. Crumley - "Freedom Feelings: Womanism, Black Feminism, and The Politics of Black Women’s Liberation"
2019-10-18 12:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Jaimie Crumley’s research explores black freedom in antebellum America as seen through the lives and writings of black Christian women. She focuses on women who taught and lectured in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Washington, D.C. and England. These women provide insight into the role of Christian spirituality in shaping freedom for black women. Their histories underscore the complexities of race, gender, sexuality, and religiosity in antebellum United States. Her paper will be emailed a week in advance to members of the History of Women, Men, and Sexuality working group.
To RSVP or be added to the listserv, please email Rebeca Martinez: rmartnz165@g.ucla.edu.

Greg Woolf, "Alien Metropolis: Migration, Cosmopolitanism and the City of Rome"
2019-10-15 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Greg Woolf
Candidate for Mellor Chair
“Alien Metropolis: Migration, Cosmopolitanism and the City of Rome”
October 15, 4pm
Bunche 6275
Greg Woolf taught at Oxford and at the University of St Andrews. In 2015, he become Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. Woolf is a cultural historian with broad interests in the Roman Empire and Classical Antiquity in general. He has published on imperialism, on the ancient economy, on ethnographic writing and on European prehistory, and has edited volumes on ancient libraries, on literary, on women’s history in antiquity, and on the city of Rome. Most recently he has been writing on long term questions about evolution, urbanism and ecology.

William Sewell, "A Concrete History of Abstraction: Explaining the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France"
2019-10-10 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
A Concrete History of Abstraction: Explaining the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France
William Sewell
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History The University of Chicago
Thursday, October 10, 2019
4-6pm Bunche 6275
One of the most important changes introduced by the French Revolution was the codification of civic equality as a fundamental right. In the profoundly hierarchical society that was eighteenth-century France, establishing a norm of abstract equality among citizens was an extremely radical act, one that undermined existing assumptions about how politics and everyday social relations should be structured. Yet the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was passed virtually without dissent by a National Assembly that included many aristocrats and clerics, whose privileges it abolished. Dr. Sewell argues that the widespread acceptance in 1789 of this abstract civic equality had experiential roots in the transformations introduced by early capitalism’s growing commodification of social relations. In this talk, and in the forthcoming book on which it is based, Dr. Sewell traces out such tendential abstraction in three distinct spheres of eighteenth-century French social experience: the burgeoning commercial relations in French cities, the social world of the philosophes, and the royal administration’s widespread adoption of political-economic reasoning. It was, Dr. Sewell argues, the concrete experience of increasingly abstract social relations in the decades before the Revolution that made civic equality thinkable and so widely acceptable in 1789.
William H. Sewell Jr.is the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago and a resident fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. His research focuses on the intersections between history and social theory and he is currently working on a project on the social and cultural history of capitalism in eighteenth-century France.

Vikram Tamboli, “Ethnobotanical and Landscape Archives in the Guyanese-Venezuelan Borderlands: Rethinking Atlantic Histories from the Eighteenth Century to the Present”
2019-10-10 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Atlantic History Speaker Series Presents
Vikram Tamboli
“Ethnobotanical and Landscape Archives in the Guyanese-Venezuelan Borderlands: Rethinking Atlantic Histories from the Eighteenth Century to the Present”
Thursday, October 10
12:00PM – 1:30PM
History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche Hall

UCLA History Department Open House
2019-09-24 14:30 - 16:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
UCLA History Department Open House
Day: Tuesday, September 24
Time: 2:30pm-4:30pm
Location: History Conference Room – Bunche 6275

Make the most out of your UCLA experience and learn about:
• Academic/Career Counseling
• HistoryCorps Internships
• Faculty-Student Engagement
• Writing Center and One-on-One Tutoring
• Phi Alpha Theta Honors Society
• History Undergraduate Advisory Board (HUAB)
• Library Services
• Study/Travel Abroad
• Academic Research Centers, Fellowships, and Programs
Refreshments will be served.

Why History Matters: Past and Future of Water in Los Angeles
2019-06-06 19:00 | Fowler Museum at UCLA, Lenart Auditorium
Carla Pestana
Chair and Professor
Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World
UCLA Department of History
invites you to attend
WHY HISTORY MATTERS
Past and Future of Water in Los Angeles
a panel discussion featuring
Eric Avila
Chair and Professor
UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
Jon Christensen
Adjunct Assistant Professor
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA Department of History, and
UCLA Center for Digital Humanities
Lauren Ahkiam
Director
Our Water LA
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
moderated by
Stephen Aron
Professor
UCLA Department of History
Thursday, June 6, 2019
7:00 p.m.
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Lenart Auditorium
Click to RSVP
Self-pay parking available in Structure 4

About 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.

"Million Dollar Hoods: Mapping the Fiscal and Human Costs of Mass Incarceration"
2019-06-04 15:00 | California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
Join us Tuesday, June 4
Darnell Hunt
Dean of Social Sciences
and
Carla Pestana
Chair and Professor
Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World
UCLA Department of History
invite you to attend the installation celebration of
Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández
as the holder of the
Thomas E. Lifka Chair in History
speaking on the topic of
“Million Dollar Hoods: Mapping the Fiscal and Human Costs of Mass Incarceration”
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
3:00 p.m. Lecture
Reception to follow
UCLA Faculty Center
California Room
RSVP by Friday, May 31, to Hillary Nadworny
hnadworny@support.ucla.edu or (310) 206-6503
Self-pay parking available in Structure 2

Ryan Hilliard - "Sexual Honor, Social Capital, and the Single Woman in Eighteenth-Century Paris"
2019-06-04 12:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
In this talk, Ryan Hilliard explores how single women in eighteenth-century Paris acknowledged, negotiated with, and responded to prescriptive sexual norms in their daily lives and in moments of crisis. Unmarried women utilized legal action to protect their reputations against accusations of sexual impropriety. In the complaints they filed with Parisian police commissioners, single women linked public perceptions of sexual honor with community membership, financial stability, and social status. In doing so, they represented sexual honor as an important facet of their social capital. Ryan explicates how single women attempted to defend themselves against injurious claims and interrogates why their enemies employed this specific type of attack during interpersonal conflicts. Moving from pervasive discourse to individual disputes, Ryan positions unmarried women as proactive participants in the eighteenth-century realm of public opinion.
Ryan Hilliard is a doctoral candidate in the UCLA Department of History whose research focuses on the history of women, gender, and sexuality in early modern France. Her dissertation, entitled “By Choice or By Circumstance: Single Women in Early Modern France,” explores the social and cultural history of unmarried women living in Paris during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to Ryan Hilliard (rhilliard@ucla.edu) by Tuesday, May 28, 2019 if you plan to attend and include any dietary restrictions.
