The Kids Aren’t All Right: Historians and the Problem of Childhood

6275 Bunche Hall

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 […]

From Guangzhou and Antananarivo to Dien Bien Phu: Asian and African Coordinates of the Vietnamese Revolution

6275 Bunche Hall

  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 […]

Fourth Annual Undergraduate History Conference – “From the Global to the Local: Connected Histories”

6275 Bunche Hall

From the Global to the Local: Connected Histories Fourth Annual Undergraduate History Conference FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2019 │8:00AM - 5:00PM │BUNCHE HALL 6275   8:00am – 8:15am Welcoming Remarks (Check-In and Continental Breakfast)   8:15am – 9:50am Panel 1: Formations of National Identity in an International Context Chair: Jade Quintero Gordon Nenadovic, “Philip II and Athenian […]

Nwando Achebe – “The Politics of Knowledge Production—A Reflective Journey and Dance about the Epistemology and Practice of African Gender History”

11360 Charles E. Young Research Library

Professor Nwando Achebe will be giving the James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture (through the African Studies Center) on Monday, April 29th, from 4:30 – 6:30 in 11360 YRL.  Here is the link: https://www.international.ucla.edu/asc/event/13743   The History Department is co-sponsoring the talk, and Nwando (daughter of famed Chinua Achebe) received her Ph.D from our department in […]

Memorial for Professor Stanley Wolpert

UCLA Faculty Center Dining Room

The Memorial for Professor Stanley Wolpert will be held on May 26 from 1-4 in the UCLA Faculty Center dining room. Please plan to join in this celebration of his life, and do convey this information to any others you know who would like to attend.

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