Manuel Covo, "The Entrepôt of Atlantic Revolutions. The French Colony of Saint-Domingue and Commercial Republicanism"
2019-11-14 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Choon Hwee Koh: “The Sublime Post: A History of Empire and Power through the Ottoman Postal System”
2020-02-12 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Candidate lecture (Early Modern Ottoman History) by Choon Hwee Koh
“The Sublime Post: A History of Empire and Power through the Ottoman Postal System”
February 12, 2020 at 4 pm, 6275 Bunche Hall

Thabisile Griffin, "Ann Barramont's Petition to Sell: Property Struggles and Colonial Insecurity in 18th Century St. Vincent"
2020-02-13 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Atlantic History Speaker Series Presents
Thabisile Griffin
UCLA History
Ann Barramont’s Petition to Sell: Property Struggles and Colonial Insecurity in 18th Century St. Vincent
Thursday, February 13
12:00PM – 1:30PM
6275 Bunche Hall

“Japanese American Reparations: History And Community in Addressing Past and Present Injustices” Panel
2020-02-13 17:00 - 19:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Panel with Valerie Matsumoto (UCLA), Richard Katsuda (NCRR), Kathy Nishimoto Masaoka (NCRR), Traci Kato-Kiriyama (Tuesday Night Project), Glen Kuo Kitayama (Teacher at LAUSD)

"Women's Vote: Past, Present and Future"
2020-02-18 12:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
History of Women, Men & Sexuality Group presents
Ellen Carol Dubois, ” Women’s Vote: Past, Present and Future”
A book talk to commemorate 100 years of the 19th Amendment

Glenn Penny, “Unbinding German History”
2020-02-24 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“Unbinding German History”
Glenn Penny
February 24, 2020, 4:00pm | Bunche Hall 6275

Stephen G. Gross, “Germany in the Age of Oil and Atoms: Price Wars and the Politics of Energy, 1950-1980”
2020-02-27 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“Germany in the Age of Oil and Atoms: Capital, Price Wars, and the Politics of Energy, 1950-1980”
Stephen G. Gross
February 27, 2020, 4:00pm | Bunche Hall 6275

Aro Velmet, “Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World”
2020-03-02 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Aro Velmet, University of Southern California
“Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World”
March 2, 2020, 4:00pm | Bunche Hall 5288

Marques Vestal: "Tenant Lessons on Rent and Housing in a Time of War: WWII Rent Control in Los Angeles, 1942-1950"
2020-03-04 16:00 | 6339 Bunche
“Tenant Lessons on Rent and Housing in a Time of War: WWII Rent Control in Los Angeles, 1942-1950”
Marques Vestal (UCLA)
March 4, 2020, 4:00pm | Bunche Hall 6339

"The Right to Vote Then and Now: A Symposium on the 100th Anniversary of the Ratification of the Woman Suffrage Amendment"
2020-03-08 13:00 - 16:00 | UCLA Royce Hall – Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
“The Right to Vote Then and Now: A Symposium on the 100th Anniversary of the Ratification of the Woman Suffrage Amendment”
March 8, 2020, 1:00pm-4:00pm | Royce Hall 314

Otniel Dror, “Supra-Maximal Super-Pleasure”
2020-03-09 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Otniel Dror, Hebrew University and UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics
“Supra-Maximal Super-Pleasure”
This talk presents the discovery of a new post-World War II “supramaximal” “super-pleasure” region in the brain (of laboratory rats). This discovery of an instantaneously-produced insatiable self-perpetuating super-pleasure captured the imagination of contemporaries and of generations to come. It inaugurated a major transformation whose repercussions and off-shoots are very much still with us today, including the development of a neurophysiology of decision making, risk taking, addiction, affective neuroscience, and more. I argue that the excessiveness of the newly-discovered supramaximal super-pleasure challenged existing models of organisms, of the self, and of nature and society. It challenged basic conceptions of the self and of organisms by presenting a pleasure that disrupted the fundamental and necessary balance between pleasure and pain. I reconstruct the laboratory enactments and models that constituted this new pleasure as “supramaximal,” instant, and insatiable, suggest several postwar contexts that situate the new pleasure, and examine expert and vernacular reactions to the new super-pleasure.
March 9, 2020, 4:00PM | Bunche 6275

Marjan Wardaki, "Knowledge-Migrants at Empire's Dusk: Education, Technology, and Scientific Knowledge between Berlin, Bombay, and Kabul, 1921-1960"
2020-03-10 14:00 - 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“Knowledge-Migrants at Empire’s Dusk: Education, Technology, and Scientific Knowledge between Berlin, Bombay, and Kabul, 1921-1960”
Marjan Wardaki
March 10, 2020, 2:00pm – 4:00p.m. | Bunche Hall 6275

Event Cancelled - "Kings and Slaves: Diplomacy, Sovereignty, and Black Subjectivity in the Early Modern World"
2020-03-12 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Please note that this event has been cancelled.
Atlantic History Speaker Series Presents
Herman Bennett
“Kings and Slaves: Diplomacy, Sovereignty, and Black Subjectivity in the Early Modern World”
Thursday, March 12
12:00PM – 1:30PM
History Conference Room, 6275 Bunche

Deborah Coen, “Climate Change and the Enigma of Usable Knowledge”
2020-03-16 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Deborah Coen, Yale University
“Climate Change and the Enigma of Usable Knowledge”
One of the most pressing challenges for historians of science today is to explain the failure of scientific knowledge of anthropogenic climate change to motivate timely action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To date explanations have focused on such factors as the role of industry-funded disinformation campaigns, the disconnect between scientific research and the information needs of policy-makers, the reluctance of scientists to engage in advocacy, and the inexperience of US geoscientists with public engagement due to the secrecy imposed on their research during the Cold War. This presentation will lay out an alternative (yet complementary) framework for answering this question, drawing on research in progress. I will argue, first, that the image of climate scientists as disengaged from the public derives from a focus on theorists and global modelers at the expense of those working at the regional scale (many of whom identified as geographers or ecologists rather than physicists or chemists). Indeed, from the early days of research on the “Carbon Dioxide Problem” in the 1970s, there was no lack of effort to make the science of anthropogenic climate change actionable and accessible—or, in the parlance of the day, “usable.” Indeed, “usable knowledge” was a buzzword of the 1970s and ‘80s that significantly shaped climate research at multiple major international institutions. These projects evolved quite independently of each other (and were, in some cases, even marked by mutual hostility), yet all took usability as their goal. However, what usability meant to this population of researchers was far from uniform. My aim, then, is to study how ideals of usable knowledge formed, circulated, and confronted each other in the community of climate researchers from the 1970s to today, at times in dialogue with practitioners of Science & Technology Studies. My hypothesis is that the past four decades have seen an overall trend towards an increasingly narrow definition of usability, reflecting the growing dominance of a top-down model of risk management. Yet the climate field has also generated creative resistance to this trend, which requires a historical perspective to appreciate properly.

March 16, 2020, 4:00pm | Bunche Hall 5288

Corinna Treitel, "Alternative Modernities in the German Past: Occultism, Natural Diets, and the Urge to Health" - POSTPONED/CANCELLED
2020-04-06 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Corinna Treitel
“Alternative Modernities in the German Past: Occultism, Natural Diets, and the Urge to Health”
Postponed/Cancelled

Frank Biess, “German Angst: Fear and Democracy in Postwar Germany” - POSTPONED/CANCELLED
2020-04-09 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Frank Biess
“German Angst: Fear and Democracy in Postwar Germany”
Postponed/Cancelled
