UCLA Department of History

María Eugenia Vázquez Semadeni - “Concepts in Action: Sovereignty and Republican Political Culture in Post-Independent Mexico, 1821-1828”
2016-02-18 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 6275 Bunche Hall
María Eugenia Vázquez Semadeni served as Tinker Visiting Professor at Stanford University in 2014. She received a PhD (2008) and an MA (2005) in History from El Colegio de Michoacán and a BA in Culture Science from the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City (2002). Her research focuses on the political culture, republican languages, freemasonry, the formation of secular civil society, and political parties of nineteenth and twentieth-century Mexico.
She is the author of the book La formación de una cultura política republicana. El debate público sobre la masonería, México 1821-1830 (UNAM/El Colegio de Michoacan 2010) [The Formation of a Republican Political Culture. Public Debate about Freemasonry, Mexico 1821-1830], as well as co-editor and co-author of 200 Emprendedores Mexicanos. La formación de una nación (LID 2010) [200 Mexican Entrepreneurs. The Formation of a Nation]. In addition, she has published several articles and book chapters on Mexican freemasonry, the origins of the political parties system in Mexico, the formation of public opinion, and Hispanic American parliamentarianism. She is currently working on a new book manuscript in English that examines the process of state formation in Mexico from independence in 1821 to the post-revolutionary 1930’s through the lens of freemasonry.

Casey Lurtz - “From the Grounds Up: Community, Exchange, and the Building of a Coffee Economy in Southern Mexico, 1867-1920”
2016-02-17 14:00 - 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Casey Marina Lurtz is an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. She was previously the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and spent a year as a predoctoral fellow at the UC San Diego Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. She has articles forthcoming in the Hispanic American Historical Review and the Business History Review, as well as the Mexican journal ISTOR. She is currently writing a history of the coffee economy of the Soconusco, Chiapas that examines how peripheral places grappled with and took advantage of globalization during Latin America’s export boom.

Winston James - "The Bolshevization of Claude McKay: The Radicalization of His British Sojourn, 1919-1921."
2016-02-10 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Winston James is a Professor in the Department of History at University of California, Irvine. His research interests include Caribbean, African-American, Black Britain, and the African Diaspora.

Pamela Fuentes - "Madams, Pimps, and the End of Regulated Prostitution in Mexico City, 1940-1952"
2016-02-08 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Pamela J. Fuentes is a postdoctoral fellow at El Colegio de Mexico. She received a PhD from York University (Toronto, Canada) in 2015, an MA in Mexican History from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2008) and BA from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa in Mexico City (2002). Her research focuses on modern Mexican history, with special attention to women, gender, and sexualities, as well as politics and popular culture. She is currently working on a book manuscript that will explore the results of debates on prostitution and sex trafficking against the backdrop of revolutionary politics and the consolidation of state authority in Mexico from the 1920s to the 1940s. She is the co-author of a chapter on prostitution in Mexico City from 1521 to 2013, in Selling Sex in the Cities: Prostitution in World Cities: 1600 to the Present (Brill, 2016) and co-authored the introduction to a recent facsimile edition of the 1927 League of Nations report on Mexico City’s sex trade (Library and Archives, United Nations, 2016).

History of Science Colloquium
2016-02-08 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Jean Pierre Beaud (CIRST, Université de Québec à Montréal)
“What is a population? Reflections on two Statistical Descriptions of Canada”

Michele Wallace- “The Myth of the Superwoman Revisited”
2016-01-28 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Michele Wallace and Ellen Dubois

Talk by Professor José Curto
2016-01-25 15:30 - 17:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“Population movements in the South Atlantic – the case of Benguela and Rio de Janeiro, c. 1700-1850”
José Curto is a Professor in the Department of History at York University. His research Interests include Modern Africa, Social and Economic History.
This events is co-sponsored by the Brazilian history seminar and the Atlantic history cluster.

US Field Symposium
2016-01-21 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
A symposium featuring Peter Nabokov, James Brooks and Ross Frank, which will focus on Nabokov’s recent books, How the World Moves: the Odyssey of an American Indian Family, and The Origin Myth of Acoma Pueblo

Frontiers of Persian Learning: Dr. Ron Sela
2016-01-21 14:00 - 15:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“The Turkic Challenge to Persian Supremacy in Premodern Central Asia”

Atlantic History Speaker Series
2016-01-20 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“The Lives (and Deaths) of Caged Birds: Wild Animals and their Transatlantic Circulation from the Americas to Spain During the Eighteenth Century.” Martha Few, Dept. of History, University of Arizona

Elizabeth Hinton lecture
2016-01-19 14:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“Urban Removal: Police, Prisons, and Domestic Policy After Civil Rights”

Minayo Nasiali Lecture
2016-01-14 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

History of Science Colloquium
2016-01-11 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Matthew Sargent, Digital Humanities, University of Southern California: “Marriage institutions and the formation of cross-cultural knowledge networks in early modern Southeast Asia”

Discussion
2015-12-03 12:00 - 14:00 | UCLA School of Law Room 1347
On the Terrorist Attacks in Paris- Panel Discussion with Caroline Ford, James Gelvin, Asli Bali and Dominic Thomas
For more information and to RSVP, please visithttp://www.isop.ucla.edu/euro/event/11614.

Lecture
2015-12-02 16:30 - 18:30 | 10383 Bunche Hall
Sheila Fitzpatrick “Stalin and Postwar Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union”

Jan Event
2015-12-02 10:30 - 11:30

Jan Event 2
2015-12-02 10:30 - 11:30

“A Laboratory for Latin Eugenics: Corrado Gini and the Italian Investigation of Mexican Indians”
2015-11-30 16:00 - 18:45 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Luc Berlivet (INSERM, Paris), Co-sponsored by EpiDaPo UCLA

“Negotiating Political Challenges to the Integrity of Research: Islamic Studies and Stem Cell Science”
2015-11-23 16:00 - 18:30 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Axel Jansen and Andreas Franzmann (University of Tübingen)

Book Talk
2015-11-18 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
William Summerhill, “Inglorious Revolution: Inglorious Revolution: Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015)”
The discussants for this event are Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Chair of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, and Barry R. Weingast, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University, and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution.

Why History Matters
2015-11-17 18:00 - 20:00 | CNSI

“The Immortal Archives: Nineteenth-Century Science Imagines the Future”
2015-11-17 16:00 - 18:00
Lorraine Daston (MPI-WG, Berlin). European History Colloquium, cosponsored by History of Science.

“Thinking in Cases: Paper Technologies in Early-Modern Medicine”
2015-11-16 16:00 - 18:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Volker Hess (Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin)

Lecture
2015-11-12 16:00 - 18:00 | UCLA Royce Hall – Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Dr. James Baida, Head of the Moroccan National Archives: “Academic Research on Moroccan Judaism: Historiography, Sources and Archives”

History Writing Center Workshop
2015-11-10 15:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“How to Write a Thesis”
Join us for our 4th workshop and learn how to master the elusive thesis statement, one of the most important elements of academic writing. “How to Write a Thesis” workshop will guide you through the process of constructing a thesis statement for history essays and will also provide guides on how to structure your supporting paragraphs. If you have an essay that you are currently working on, you are encouraged to bring that to the workshop so you can apply the tools that your learn directly to your work.
Please RSVP to uclahistorywritingcenter@gmail.com.
We look forward to seeing you there.

“Madness and Politics in Nineteenth-Century France”
2015-11-09 16:00 - 18:30 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Laure Murat (Department of French and Francophone Studies, UCLA)

Atlantic History Speaker Series
2015-11-06 12:00 - 14:00
Tomas Robaina, National Library Of Cuba, “The Black Press of Cuba: Nineteenth Century Sources”

“Pestifera bella civilia: The Roman Invention of Civil War”
2015-11-05 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Professor David Armitage (Harvard)

History Writing Center Workshop
2015-11-03 15:00 - 16:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
“How to Write a History Paper”
This workshop will focus on introductions and conclusions, as well as different types of History papers. Please RSVP to uclahistorywritingcenter@gmail.com by Monday, November 2nd.

Colloquium
2015-10-26 10:00 - 12:30 | UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
Region, Nation, Fiction
A Colloquium on Brazil-US Literary Relations

with writers
Karen Tei Yamashita, Daniel Galera, and John Freeman
