UCLA Department of History

James Loeffler, “Double Amnesia: Rethinking the History of Zionism and Human Rights”
2019-04-08 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Law School 1430
For details on this event, click the link below:
https://luskincenter.history.ucla.edu/event/james-loeffler-double-amnesia/

Inaugural Feminist Book Celebration
2019-03-08 14:00 - 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
RSVP Here
Inaugural Feminist Book Celebration
March 8, 2019 – 2 pm – 4 pm
6275 Bunche

Comparative Pornographies: Transnational Approaches to Writing Sex, East and West (Two-day event - March 8th-March 9)
2019-03-08 10:00 | 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 twentieth century, scholars of European pornography began to explore obscenity and its implications for our understanding of the time that produced it, the seventeenth and, especially, eighteenth centuries. A world of previously ignored texts came to light, producing new theories and interpretations, suggesting that the rise of pornography was somehow a harbinger of modernity. This activity, however, occurred within narrow geographical boundaries and was tied firmly to Western historical trajectories. Asian pornography, especially the long and particularly rich Chinese tradition, was ignored.
This conference seeks to break down the barriers that have separated scholars of Western and Asian pornography, and engender a more transnational and intercultural approach to the qualities and development of pornography in the early modern world.
Conference organized by Andrea S. Goldman and Kathryn Norberg (University of California, Los Angeles), and Paola Zamperini
(Northwestern University)
Speakers:
Katherine Carlitz, University of Pittsburgh
Keith McMahon, University of Kansas
Guido Ruggiero, University of Miami
Timon Screech, SOAS, University of London
Mark Stevenson, Chinese University of Hong Kong Giovanni Vitiello, University of Naples ”L’Orientale” Ellen Widmer, Wellesley University
Cuncun Wu, The University of Hong Kong
Paola Zamperini, Northwestern University

Herrick Chapman - "France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic"
2019-03-07 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
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. Just what form this new France should take remained the burning question at the central of political combat until the end of the Algerian war. Chapman argues that by the 1960s France’s “long reconstruction” had institutionalized a deep tension between technocratic and democratic governance that would become an enduring feature of the new Fifth Republic. This tension also made the country vulnerable to the kind of street-level rebellion that exploded in May 1968.
Herrick Chapman is a modern European historian working mainly on the social, economic, and political history of twentieth-century France. His new book, France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of the Modern Republic (Harvard, 2018), explores how the French rebuilt their economy and their polity after the Second World War.

Martha Jones, “Birthright Citizens: Bringing the Past to the Present in Troubled Times”
2019-03-06 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Martha Jones (Johns Hopkins), “Birthright Citizens: Bringing the Past to the Present in Troubled Times,” The Historian in Society Lecture Series
Martha Jones (Johns Hopkins History)
March 6, 2019, 4:00-6:00
History Department Conference Room (Bunche 6275)
RSVP: lindsayking@ucla.edu

Book Event: Presentation and Celebration of Theodore Porter, Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity (Princeton Univ. Press, 2018)
2019-03-04 16:00 | 6265 Bunche Hall
Discussants: Soraya de Chadarevian (UCLA) and Chris Kelty (UCLA, ISG)
Soraya de Chadarevian is a Professor in the UCLA Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics.
Chris Kelty is an associate professor at UCLA.

Danielle Terrazas Williams - “Piracy, African-descended Women, and Crown Concerns in Colonial Mexico”
2019-03-01 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Danielle Terrazas Williams, Assistant Professor of History, Oberlin College, “Piracy, African-descended Women, and Crown Concerns in Colonial Mexico”

Miloš Jovanović, “Refractions of Empire: Urban Change in the Balkans, 1850-1939”
2019-02-28 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Miloš Jovanović, “Refractions of Empire: Urban Change in the Balkans, 1850-1939”
February 28, 2019 – 5 pm
6275 Bunche

Molly Pucci - Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Europe, 1945 – 1954
2019-02-25 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Molly Pucci – Security Empire: The Secret Police in Communist Europe, 1945 – 1954
February 25, 2019 – 5 pm
6275 Bunche

Seth LeJacq - “Venereal Disease and Sexual Forensics in Eighteenth-Century Britain”
2019-02-25 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Seth LeJacq is a historian of medicine, gender, and sexuality at the Huntington Library and Duke University.

Gabriela Cano - Feminism & the History of Delayed Women’s Suffrage in Mexico
2019-02-22 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Gabriela Cano – Feminism & the History of Delayed Women’s Suffrage in Mexico
February 22, 2019 – 12 pm – 1:30 pm
6275 Bunche

Ian Beacock “Democratic Emotions & the Unravelling of the Weimar Republic, 1918–1933”
2019-02-19 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Ian Beacock “Democratic Emotions & the Unravelling of the Weimar Republic, 1918–1933”
February 19, 2019 – 5 pm
6275 Bunche

Michael Osman - “Modernism’s Visible Hand: Architecture and Regulation in America”
2019-02-11 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Michael Osman is an Associate Professor at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design.

Kristen Block - “Holistic Medicine, Spiritual Healing, and Dis-ease in the Early Caribbean”
2019-02-08 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Kristen Block, Associate Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “Holistic Medicine, Spiritual Healing, and Dis-ease in the Early Caribbean”

Filip Erdeljac - "Indifference and Extremism in World War II Croatia"
2019-02-07 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Filip Erdeljac
“Indifference and Extremism in World War II Croatia: Non-elite Engagements with Nationalism and Mass Violence in East Central Europe and the Balkans, 1918-1948”

Why History Matters -- The Slow Food Movement: Beyond Good, Clean, and Fair Food
2019-02-04 19:00 | California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA
Carla Pestana
Professor and Chair
Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World
UCLA Department of History
invites you to attend
WHY HISTORY MATTERS
The Slow Food Movement: Beyond Good, Clean, and Fair Food
with panel discussion featuring
Richard McCarthy
Executive Director, Slow Food USA
Maricel Presilla
chef and author
David Shields
Carolina Distinguished Professor
Department of English, University of South Carolina
moderated by
Allison Carruth
Associate Professor, UCLA Department of English
Monday, February 4, 2019
7:00 p.m.
California NanoSystems Institute
UCLA
Click to RSVP
Self-pay parking available in Structure 9

Hollian Wint - "Contracts and Conjugal Capital: Tracing Intimate Economies across the Indian Ocean"
2019-01-31 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Hollian Wint
“Contracts and Conjugal Capital: Tracing Intimate economies across the Indian Ocean”

Alden-Berg Lecture
2019-01-30 19:00 | California NanoSystems Institute UCLA
Carla Pestana
Professor and Chair
Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World
UCLA Department of History
invites you to attend the annual
ALDEN-BERG LECTURE
featuring
David N. Myers
Professor and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History
Director, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy
speaking on the topic of
“Only in America? How a Group of Hasidic Jews Created
a Town of Their Own in Suburban New York”

Wednesday, January 30, 2019
7:00 p.m.
California NanoSystems Institute
UCLA

Self-pay parking available in Structure 9

About the Speaker
Click here to learn more about Professor Myers.
About the Lecture
The Alden-Berg Lecture is named for two distinguished alumnae and friends of the Department, Dr. Geraldine Alden and Barbara Berg. Devoted students of history and mainstays of the Friends of History group, Jeri and Barbara have contributed in manifold ways to the well-being of the Department. Now in its 7th year, the lecture features notable academics and scholars to address important issues of the past and present. Click here to learn more about Dr. Geraldine Alden and Barbara Berg.

Roii Ball: Indebted Settlement : Rural Credit, National Segregation, and ‘Internal Colonization’ in the German-Polish Borderlands before the First World War
2019-01-29 12:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Tuesday, January 29, 2019 12PM
Bunche 6275
European Colloquium Speaker Series
Roii Ball – “Indebted Settlement : Rural Credit, National Segregation, and ‘Internal Colonization’ in the German-Polish Borderlands before the First World War”
Roii Ball – PhD candidate, UCLA
Roii Ball is a sixth year graduate student at the UCLA History Department. He earned a BA in history from Tel-Aviv University in 2012 and advanced to PhD candidacy in 2016. He previously held research fellowships at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw and at the University of Cologne. His dissertation explores the social history of an agrarian settlement project that was undertaken by the Prussian-German imperial nation state between the years 1886-1914. This ‘internal colonization’ project sought to settle Germans in the German-Polish borderlands of the empire, replacing Poles with Germans and latifundia estates with medium-sized family farms. The dissertation revolves around different aspects of what was in fact a deep social transformation: the on-going formation of a settler society in the provinces of Poznania and West Prussia on the Russian border. In his dissertation, Ball studies the roles played by rural credit, children in poverty, planning and architecture, and migration, in this history of nationalism, empire, and settler-colonialism in the heart of Europe.

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to Ryan Hilliard (rhilliard@ucla.edu) by Tuesday, January 22, 2019 if you plan to attend and include any dietary restrictions.

Amy Woodson-Boulton - “Totemism, ‘Invertebrate Creeds,’ and History as Cultural Evolution: Anthropology and the Victorian Search for a Grand Narrative”
2019-01-28 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Amy Woodson-Boulton is an Associate Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University.

Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History
2019-01-24 16:00 - 17:30 | UCLA Royce Hall – Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Kishinev’s 1903 pogrom was the first instance in Russian Jewish life where an event received international attention. The riot, leaving 49 dead in an obscure border town, dominated headlines in the western world for weeks. It intruded on Russian-American relations and inspired endeavors as widely contradictory as the Hagannah, the precursor to the Israeli army, the NAACP, and the first version of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” How did this incident come to define so much, and for so long?

About the Speaker: Steven J. Zipperstein is Daniel E Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford and the author and editor of nine books. He is currently at work on a biographical study of Philip Roth for Yale’s Jewish Lives series.
Moderator: Sarah Abrevaya Stein (UCLA)
Sponsored by the
UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies
Cosponsored by the
UCLA Department of History
UCLA Department of Germanic Languages
UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies

Edgar Taylor: Technology and Racial Nationalism in Uganda, 1959-1972.
2019-01-24 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Edgar Taylor
Technology and Racial Nationalism in Uganda, 1959-1972.

Nick Smith, “A History of Violence in the Southern Red Sea, c. 1850 to present”
2019-01-22 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Enrique Rivera - “Resistance to Primitive Accumulation or Racial Capitalism? European Textile Production and the 1795 Anti-slavery Rebellion of Coro, Venezuela”
2019-01-18 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Enrique Rivera – “Resistance to Primitive Accumulation or Racial Capitalism? European Textile Production and the 1795 Anti-slavery Rebellion of Coro, Venezuela”

Nile Green - "A World in a Grain of Sand: The Historian's Dilemma of Scale"
2019-01-17 17:00 | California NanoSystems Institute
Darnell Hunt
Dean of Social Sciences
and
Carla Pestana
Professor and Chair
Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World
UCLA Department of History
invite you to attend the installation celebration of
Professor Nile Green
as the holder of the
Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History
speaking on the topic of
“A World in a Grain of Sand: The Historian’s Dilemma of Scale”
Thursday, January 17, 2019
5:00 p.m. Lecture
Reception to follow
California NanoSystems Institute
UCLA
RSVP by January 11 to Kelli O’Leary
koleary@support.ucla.edu or (310) 825-4038
Self-pay parking available in Structure 9

Etienne Benson - “Data-Intensive Ecology and the New Biopolitics of Animal Conservation”
2019-01-17 16:00 | 6265 Bunche Hall
Etienne Benson is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a historian of the environmental sciences, environmentalism, and human-animal relationships in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Natasha Shivji, “Bounded by Land: Histories of the Indian Ocean as told through the crisis of Waqf lands in Mombasa, Kenya”
2019-01-15 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Peter Cole, Book Discussion, “Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area
2019-01-10 12:00 - 13:30 | 6339 Bunche
Peter Cole, Book Discussion, “Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area:
January 10, 12:00-1:30
Bunche 6339
RSVP: lindsayking@ucla.edu

Martha Lampland - “ ‘From Each according to their Ability, to Each according to their Need’: Calorie Money and Technical Norms in Mid-20th-century Hungary”
2018-12-03 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Martha Lampland is a Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director of the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego.

Symposium in Honor of J. Arch Getty
2018-11-30 13:00 - 17:00
