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 […]
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
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
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
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
"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
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 […]
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 […]
"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
