UCLA Department of History

Inspirational Illuminations: Reacting to Medieval Manuscripts - Opening Reception
2018-04-05 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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Why History Matters: Choosing the Next Chief of the LA Police Department
2018-04-04 19:00
Stephen Aron Professor and Robert N. Burr Department Chair UCLA Department of History invites you to attend
WHY HISTORY MATTERS
The Next Chief and the Future of the LAPD
featuring
Manuel Criollo
Organizer, Strategist, Political and Popular Educator
Cindy Miscikowski ’70​
Former Los Angeles City Council Member, 11th District (1997-2005)
Connie Rice
Civil rights attorney Founding co-director, Advancement Project
Steve Soboroff
President, Los Angeles Police Commission
moderated by
Jim Newton Journalist, author and former editor at large of the Los Angeles Times Lecturer, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018 7:00 p.m. California NanoSystems Institute UCLA
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Self-pay parking available in Structure 9
About the Why History Matters series: The UCLA Department of History is proud to present the series “Why History Matters.” The series is dedicated to the belief that historical knowledge is an indispensable, and often missing, ingredient in public debate. Over the course of the year, “Why History Matters” events will bring historians into conversation with prominent public officials and personalities on issues of contemporary relevance.

Amanda Vickery - "The Political Day in Georgian England"
2018-04-04 16:00
The European History Colloquium & the Center for 17th and 18th Century present Amanda Vickery, Professor of History, Queen Mary, University of London and author of The Gentleman’s Daughter and Behind Closed Doors At Home in Georgian England who will talk about “The Political Day in Georgian England.”

Simone Polillo - "How Markets Became Unpredictable"
2018-04-02 16:00
The speaker for this colloquium is Simone Polillo from the Sociology Department at the University of Virginia.

David Phillips - "Adultery, Seduction, and the Unity of Ancient Greek Law"
2018-03-21 19:00

Sanjay Subrahmanyam - "India through a European Lens: Seventeenth Century Images and Words"
2018-03-14 19:00
Sanjay Subrahmanyam will talk at the Getty Center in the Museum Lecture Hall on Wed. March 14 at 7PM, in connection with their Rembrandt Exhibition. The talk is entitled “India through a European Lens: Seventeenth-Century Images and Words,” and the link to the event can be found here:http://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_2066.html

Annual Alden-Berg Lecture featuring Richard White
2018-03-14 19:00
Stephen Aron
Professor and Robert N. Burr Department Chair
UCLA Department of History
invites you to attend the annual

ALDEN-BERG LECTUREfeaturingRichard White
Professor of American History
Margaret Byrne Professor of American History
Stanford University
speaking on his book
The Republic for Which It Stands –
The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
7:00 p.m.
Korn Convocation Hall, Lenart Auditorium

Self-pay parking available in Structure 4

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About the Speaker
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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 6th year, the lecture draws on the excellence of the History Department faculty to address important issues of the past and present. Click here to learn more about Dr. Geraldine Alden and Barbara Berg.

"Plants, Insects, and the Biological Management of Empire: Tropical Agriculture in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai'i."
2018-03-13 12:30 - 14:00
The speaker for this colloquium is Jessica Wang from the University of British Columbia.

Richard G. Hovannisian Armenian Genocide Oral History Collection @ USC
2018-03-09 15:00 - 17:00

Max Bergholz - "Telling Histories of Violence"
2018-03-08 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Katherine Smith - “Haitian Vodou and the Masonic Imaginary"
2018-03-08 12:00 - 13:30
“Haitian Vodou and the Masonic Imaginary”Katherine Smith, World Arts and Cultures8 March, 12 to 1:30 (Bunche 6275 Conference Room)

Celebration for Professor Valerie Matsumoto
2018-03-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Fowler Museum

Katherine Marino - “Feminism for the Americas: The Making of a Hemispheric Movement”
2018-02-27 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Fatemeh Hosseini - "Sex, Drugs, and Contained Vice: The Regulation of Masculinity in Tehran, 1941-1979"
2018-02-26 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Unveiling Judeo-Spanish Texts: A Hebrew Aljamiado Workshop
2018-02-22 13:00 - 18:00 | 306 Royce Hall

Historians @ Work Workshop
2018-02-22 12:00 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Stephen Vider - "Queer Belongings: Gender, Sexuality, and the American Home After World War II"
2018-02-20 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

William Marotti - "Engaged Critic, Radical Art"
2018-02-20 10:00 - 18:00
Link to Facebook eventEngaged Critic, Radical Art: Yoshida Yoshie in Art and Performance.UCLA symposium in honor of the opening of the Yoshida Yoshie CollectionIn commemoration of the donation of the Yoshida Yoshie Collection to UCLA, this symposium will discuss the life and work of critic, organizer, artist, and poet Yoshida Yoshie (1929-2016). The daylong symposium will introduce the manifold activities of Yoshida while locating his activities within the broader art and performance world in which he worked. Over some six decades of work, Yoshida was instrumental in engaging, participating, and promoting radical art and performance. Yoshida introduced Maruki Iri and Maruki Toshi’s Hiroshima Panels in the early 1950s, travelingto over 300 locations throughout Japan. As a critic in the 1960s and beyond, Yoshida championed avant-gardes in art, dance, cinema, music and performance–including Hi Red Center, Neo-Dada, butoh practicioners, and the artists of the Yomiuri Indépendant exhibitions. Yoshida supported artists prosecuted for protest, including Akasegawa Genpei and anti-Expo performers. Yoshida took the lead in supporting conceptual, environmental, and commune-oriented art endeavors, including organizing the first free festival in Japan in 1971. From 1973, he traveled to South America, to São Paolo and Buenos Aires organizing exhibitions. Returning to Japan, he participated in the Artist Union and its artist-led symposia and exhibitions, and from 1977, the Japan Asia Africa Latin America Artist Association, JAALA, with a focus on solidarity with “third world” artists and activists.The event will accompany an exhibition of works and ephemera from the Yoshida Yoshie Collection, preserving significant portions of Yoshida’s library and archival materials.The Yoshida Yoshie Collection and this event are thanks to the kind support of Kakuya and Atsushi Yoshida and the Yoshida family, the Charles E. Young Research Library and staff, the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, the Japanese Arts and Globalizations Research Group (directed by William Marotti, History), and artist and researcher Yoshiko Shimada.10:00am Welcome and Introduction. William Marotti, UCLA Department of History.10:15 The Library and the Collection. Sharon Farb, Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and International Collaborations.10:30 Biographical and analytical sketch of Yoshida Yoshie. Yoshiko Shimada, Ph.D, artist and researcher.11:15 Tour of exhibits12:00 breakAfternoon: extensions/networks1:00 A photographic introduction to art and performance of the 1960s. Hanaga Mitsutoshi photo presentation by Hanaga Taro.1:45 The Kodomo no Kuni controversy. Kenji Kajiya, University of Tokyo.2:30 Yoshida Yoshie and Art and Project. Peter van der Meijden, University of Copenhagen.3:00 “Living Differently Now– the utopian exhibition in Sweden that Matsuzawa had to join.” Tania Ørum, University of Copenhagen.3:45 Roundtable: art and performance in the 1960s/early 1970s: experiments, collectives, solidarities.5:00 Reception

The Red Dragon Logbook Conference
2018-02-16 09:00 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
A one-day symposium follows the 1586 voyage of the ship Red Dragon. The ship’s little-known logbook, documenting its journey from England, to Sierra Leone, Rio de la Plata and Salvador da Bahia, illuminates the early interconnected histories of Europe, Africa, and Latin America.
Speakers:
Vanessa Wilkie, Huntington Library
Eleanor Hubbard, Princeton University
David Wheat, Michigan State University
Kara Schultz, Vanderbilt University
Gabriel Rocha, Drexel University
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, New York University
This conference is made possible by the generosity of our sponsors at UCLA: Department of History Atlantic History Fund and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair fund; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library; Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS); and the Department of Geography

The Origins and Significance of Enlightenment Anti-Colonialism
2018-02-15 18:00 | UCLA Faculty Center
2018 Van Tilburg Lecture by Siep Stuurman, Utrecht University, History and Art History. Organized by the UCLA Dutch Studies Program. Cosponsored by CERS.

Thursday, February 15, 2018
6:00 PM
California Room
UCLA Faculty Center
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Siep Stuurman is Professor Emeritus of the History of Ideas at Utrecht University. For his Francois Poulain de la Barre and the Invention of Modern Equality (2004) he was awarded the George Mosse Prize by the American Historical Association. His earlier books include State Formation and Political Theory. Three Essays on Europe (1995) and The Tragic Fate of the Countess of Isenburg (1999). His most recent monograph is The Invention of Humanity(2017), in which he traces evolving ideas of human equality and difference across continents and civilizations from ancient times to the present.
The Van Tilburg Lectures
In 2005, Johannes Van Tilburg and his wife, Jo Anne, gave the Dutch Studies Program at UCLA a remarkably generous gift to establish in perpetuity the Johannes Van Tilburg Lecture in Dutch Studies.
Mr. Van Tilburg came to the USA from The Netherlands in 1965. In 1971, he became the founding principal of Van Tilburg, Banvard & Soderbergh, AIA and has led this 100 person firm to the forefront of planning and design. His work as a designer is widely recognized throughout the state and indeed the entire country. In 1992, he was honored by his peers and elevated to the level of Fellow of the American Institution of Architects. In 2007, Johannes Van Tilburg was honored by the Netherlands America Foundation of Southern California. Mr. Van Tilburg is deeply committed to education and continues to work as an adjunct Professor in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at USC. In 2010, Mr. Van Tilburg was appointed Honorary Consul of The Netherlands in Los Angeles.
Reception to follow the lecture.

Cost : Free and open to the public. RSVP is required for admission to this event.
Sponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies, Dutch

Ellen DuBois - UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
2018-02-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Schoenberg Auditorium

Manisha Sinha - "The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition"
2018-02-13 12:30 - 13:30 | Black Forum – Haines 153

David Myers - Why Study Jewish History?
2018-02-13 12:00 | UCLA Royce Hall – Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Talk on Environmental Politics
2018-02-12 16:00
The speaker for this colloquium is Stefan Bargheer from the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Why History Matters: "Why Black Women's Lives and Histories Matter"
2018-02-08 19:00 | Fowler Museum
Marcus Anthony Hunter
Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences
Associate Professor and Chair
UCLA Department of African American Studies
and
Stephen Aron
Professor and Robert N. Burr Department Chair
UCLA Department of History
invite you to attend
WHY HISTORY MATTERS
Why Black Women’s Lives and Histories Matter
featuring
Funmilola Fagbamila
Adjunct Professor, Department of Pan-African Studies
California State University, Los Angeles
Dion Fountaine Raymond, J.D.
Discrimination Prevention Officer and Coordinator
UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Brenda Stevenson
Professor and Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History
UCLA Department of History
moderated by
Marcus Anthony Hunter
Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences
Associate Professor and Chair
UCLA Department of African American Studies
Thursday, February 8, 2018
7:00 p.m.
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Lenart Auditorium
Self-pay parking available in Structure 4
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This year the UCLA Department of African American Studies will be celebrating Black History Month with a series of events. Click here for a calendar of scheduled events.
About the Why History Matters series: The UCLA Department of History is proud to present the series “Why History Matters.” The series is dedicated to the belief that historical knowledge is an indispensable, and often missing, ingredient in public debate. Over the course of the year, “Why History Matters” events will bring historians into conversation with prominent public officials and personalities on issues of contemporary relevance.

Max Boot - "The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam"
2018-02-08 12:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Howard Chiang - "After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China"
2018-02-05 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Peter Dear - "Who Cares about the Scientific Revolution?"
2018-02-05 14:30
The speaker for this colloquium is Peter Dear from Cornell University.

Nancy MacLean - "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America"
2018-02-01 16:00 - 17:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Bankers, Empire, and Black Study
2018-02-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Charles E. Young Research Library, Main Conference Room
The Department of African American Studies
at the University of California presents

Bankers, Empire, and Black Study

A roundtable on Peter James Hudson’s
Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

Glen Ford
Black Agenda Report

Peter James Hudson
UCLA

Walter Johnson
Harvard

Deborah A. Thomas
University of Pennsylvania

Moderated by
Marcus Hunter
UCLA

Thursday, February 1st, 2018
2pm to 4pm

Reception to follow.

Main Conference Room
Charles E. Young Research Library
University of California, Los Angeles
280 Charles E. Young Drive North
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Using Peter James Hudson’s recently published monograph Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (Chicago, 2017) as a touchstone, this roundtable discussion will focus on a number of urgent questions concerning the current intellectual and political project of Black Studies: How do we understand the relationship of finance capital to racial capitalism? What role does research on the history and political economy of imperialism and the institutions of globalization have within Black Studies? Do questions of Caribbean sovereignty – and, more broadly, of internationalism – still have a place within the discipline? And how can Black Studies scholarship and scholars be mobilized in the service of anti-capitalist and anti-imperial critique? Participants will offer brief statements before the workshop is opened up to general conversation.

Cosponsored by the Department of History and the James S. Coleman African Studies Center.

Participant bios:
Glen Ford is the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report: News, Commentary, and Analysis from the Black Left. A long-standing and distinguished radio-show host and commentator, in 1977 Ford co-launched, produced and hosted America’s Black Forum, the first nationally syndicated Black news interview program on commercial television. In 1987, Ford launched Rap It Up, the first nationally syndicated Hip Hop music show, broadcast on 65 radio stations. Ford co-founded the Black Commentator in 2002 and in 2006 he launched the Black Agenda Report. A former White House and State Department correspondent, Ford is also the author of The Big Lie: An Analysis of U.S. Media Coverage of the Grenada Invasion.

Peter James Hudson is an historian who obtained his Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University and currently teaches in the departments of history and African American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Hudson’s essays and reviews have appeared in the Black Agenda Report, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Radical History Review, Race & Class: A Journal on Racism, Globalisation, and Empire, Haitï Liberté, the CLR James Journal, Chimurenga, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Boston Review of Books, Transition: An International Review, and elsewhere. Hudson edits the digital history resource The Public Archive: Black History in Dark Times and he is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (2017).

Walter Johnson received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is Professor of History and African American Studies and Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. Johnson’s books, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (1999) and River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (2013), are the recipients of numerous awards, including the Francis B. Simkins Award from the Southern Historical Association, the John Hope Franklin Prize from the American Studies Association, the SHEAR Book Prize from the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic, and the Frederick Jackson Turner and the Avery O. Craven Prizes from the Organization of American Historians. He is currently writing a book about the central role of St. Louis in the imperialist and racial capitalist history of the United States, from Lewis and Clark to Michael Brown.

Deborah A. Thomas received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from New York University and is Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Thomas is the author of Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica (2011) and Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and The Politics of Culture in Jamaica (2004). She is co-editor of Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness (2006) and she co-edited special issues of the journals Identities and Feminist Review. Thomas is co-director and co-producer of the documentary Bad Friday: Rastafari After Coral Gardens, a chronicle of the history of violence and resistance in Jamaica. She was editor of the journal Transforming Anthropology from 2007-2010, and is currently editor-in-chief of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association.

Chair of the Department of African American Studies at UCLA, Marcus Anthony Hunter is the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Division of the Social Sciences, and Associate Professor of African American Studies and Sociology. He is the author of Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia NegroChanged Urban America (2013) and (with Zandria Robinson), Chocolate Cities The Black Map of American Life (2018).
