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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]