Viviana Quintero-Marquez, UC President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Departments of History, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UC Merced. Presentation: “Mapping Seafarers and Black Women’s Networks in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Cartagena.” Discussant: Nohora Arrieta Fernández, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA Also on Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98793935555
Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Isidro Gonzalez Granados, will be presenting “Eugenic Spectrums: Social Science, Genetic Data, and Disabling in the U.S. West, 1900-1940.” González Granados's fundamental historical question is: how were disabled people made? His book project, Eugenic […]
Professor Derby will launch her new book: Bêtes Noires Further information and eBook: https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3601/Betes-NoiresSorcery-as-History-in-the-Haitian Please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1I48dLzOKSnJIBwXWCIXZ3vI7FbrqmkGfIFLxqEojPdo/edit
Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. Moorpark College Professor, Joshua McGuffie, will be presenting “Mountains of Capital: Private Power Production in the Sierra Nevada.” Over the course of 1905, the Nevada Power, Mining and Milling Company constructed a hydroelectric power system on Bishop […]
This workshop is designed for students embarking on their honors theses to meet fellow researchers, hear from students who recently finished their theses successfully, and learn how to kick off their project successfully. Lunch provided.
We are pleased to announce that the next UCLA European History Colloquium will be held on Wednesday, April 22, at 5pm in Bunche 10383 and on Zoom. Please note the new location! Lauren Stokes, Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University, will be joining us to speak on “The Jet Age in Eight Passengers.”
Everyone is welcome to the next installment of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Series. UCLA’s Ethan Mefford, will be presenting “Tīrs, the Moroccan chernozem: soils, epistemologies and empires (1900-1930)” In 1900, as European empires eyed Morocco, a dark soil known locally as tīrs created a sensation among European observers, sparking commentaries on […]
Join us for a talk of the 2026 Weber Book Prize awardee Catherine Tatiana Dunlop about her winning book The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France (University of Chicago Press, 2024). A recording of the lecture can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNsnuPMydIk.
Paula Findlen, Professor of History at Stanford University, will be joining us to speak on “A Paper World: Urbano Monte’s Global Renaissance.” More information, including the abstract, can be found on the attached flyer and below. Event Details: Title: A Paper World: Urbano Monte’s Global Renaissance Date: Wednesday, May 6th Time: 5:00PM (PDT) Location: […]
