UCLA Department of History

Ian Beacock “Democratic Emotions & the Unravelling of the Weimar Republic, 1918–1933”
2019-02-19 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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

Peter James Hudson - "Black History in Dark Times: Reflections of an Historian"
2018-11-15 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Marjoleine Kars - “Slaves Remastered: An Untold Story of Rebellion, Revolution, and Restoration in the Atlantic World.”
2018-11-15 12:00 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Marjoleine Kars is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Sabine Arnaud - “The Specter of Abnormality: Deaf Education and the Poetics of Contestation at the Turn of the Twentieth-Century”
2018-11-13 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
History of Science and Medicine Colloquium
November 13, 2018
12 – 1:30
6275 Bunche (History Department Conference Room)
Sabine Arnaud, CNRS and Centre Koyré, Paris
“The Specter of Abnormality: Deaf Education and the Poetics of Contestation at
the Turn of the Twentieth-Century”

Abstract:
While tracing the scope of the French Republican project promoting speech in Deaf education,
this paper will analyze how the spread of oralism coincided with the development of new
categories to classify children, especially as “backward” and “abnormal.” It will examine the
responses by Deaf people, who, far from being mere spectators of the change, developed a radical
critique of the repercussions of the new pedagogical methods, employing irony, sarcasm, and
critical analysis. This paper will show how these years of struggle were also years of
emancipation, in which the acquisition of language became a poetical and political act.

Madeline Woker - "Empire, Taxes, and Loopholes: Taxation and Colonial Capitalism in the French Empire, 1920s-1950s"
2018-11-06 12:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 12PM
Bunche 6275
European Colloquium Speaker Series
Madeline Woker – “Empire, Taxes, and Loopholes: Taxation and Colonial Capitalism in the French Empire, 1920s-1950s”

Madeline Woker explores a major tax dispute between colonial firms and the metropolitan state which occurred between the early 1920s and the 1950s. Her talk introduces this episode by making a broader claim about European fiscal privilege in the empire and goes on to reveal that metropolitan administrations feared the existence of an imperial conduit and fought against colonial states in order to assert their ownership of a particular tax base (capitalists who invested in the empire). It argues that individuals and firms operating in the empire actively sought to take advantage of low and uneven tax rates in order evade taxes. However, metropolitan administrations responded firmly. This talk brings new insights into the discussion on the so-called “colonial origins” of tax havens and formulates colonial taxation as a historical problem. It also furthers the study of the history of international business taxation, a topic highly relevant to today’s globalized economy.
Madeline Woker is a PhD candidate in history at Columbia University, New York. Her dissertation, “Empire of inequality: the politics of taxation in the French empire, 1918-1939,” examines the fiscal architecture of the French colonial empire and the politics of colonial tax reform during the interwar period. Madeline has degrees from Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics. In 2014, she received her MPhil in Modern European History from the University of Cambridge (with distinction). Her article “Edwin Seligman, initiator of global progressive public finance” is forthcoming in the Journal of Global History.
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to Ryan Hilliard (rhilliard@ucla.edu) by Monday, October 29, 2018 if you plan to attend and include any dietary restrictions.

Special Reception and Presentation of Biomedical Rare Book Collections by Russell Johnson
2018-11-05 16:00
PLEASE NOTE LOCATION: Biomedical Library, Rare Book Room

Claire Edington - “How to Write a Social History of Psychiatry: Lessons from the Archives of Colonial Vietnam”
2018-10-29 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Claire Edington is an Assistant Professor of History at UC San Diego.

India and the Early Modern World - Symposium on Sanjay Subrahmanyam's latest books: Europe's India and Empires Between Islam and Christianity
2018-10-29 14:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Panel 1
2:00-2:05 Introduction
2:05-2:25 Navina Haidar
2:25-2:45 Philip Stern
2:45-3:05 Kaya Sahin
3:05-3:30 Coffee break
Panel 2
3:30-3:50 Kathryn Babayan
3:50-4:10 Rajeev Kinra
4:10-4:30 Sanjay Subrahmanyam
4:30-5:15 Q&A
5:15-6:00 Reception
Kathryn Babayan– University of Michigan- (PhD Princeton University, 1993) studies the medieval and early-modern Persianate world and focuses on the cultural, social and political histories of Iran, Iraq, Anatolia, and parts of Central Asia. Her scholarly career began with a study of religious and political authority in Safavi Iran (1501-1722), and then advanced to a close examination of the ways in which textures of time and being influenced the pre-modern writing of Persianate history and the ritualistic performances of Persianate “memory.”
Navina Najat Haidar has been a curator in the Met’s department of Islamic art since 1999. She helped lead the planning of the Museum’s Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, which have welcomed more than 1.5 million visitors since they opened in November 2011. Haidar is co-author of Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Sultans of the South: Arts of India’s Deccan Courts, 1323–1687 (both 2011). She is currently working on an exhibition about the art of India’s Deccan sultans.
Rajeev Kinra– Northwestern University- (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2008) is a cultural historian of early modern South Asia, with a special emphasis on the literary, intellectual, religious, and political cultures of the Mughal and early British Empires in India (16th-19th centuries). His research draws on several linguistic traditions (especially Persian, but also Hindi-Urdu and Sanskrit), to examine diverse modes of civility, tolerance, cosmopolitanism, and cultural modernity across the Indo-Persian and Indian Ocean worlds.
Kaya Sahin– Indiana University Bloomington- (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2007) is a historian of the early modern Ottoman Empire, with a particular interest in history writing, governance, religious/confessional identity, and the construction of discourses/fictions around the question of what it meant to be an Ottoman.
Philip Stern– Duke University- (Ph.D. Columbia University, 2004) focuses on the history of Britain and the British Empire, particularly in the early modern period (loosely defined). His first book, The Company-State, is a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He is currently working on or planning projects related to the history of the corporation in the British Empire, eighteenth-century British overseas exploration and cartography, the historiography of British India, early modern economic thought, the history of companies and colonization, and digital and data visualization approaches to the problem of colonial sovereignty.

Sponsor(s): Center for India and South Asia, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Department of History, Dean of Social Sciences

Atlantic Series Conference - “New Directions in the Study of Black Atlantic Religions”
2018-10-27 09:00 - 17:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall
This conference is co-sponsored by the African Studies Center. It will be held in Bunche Hall 10383.

UC Multi-campus Research Group on
New Approaches to Black Atlantic Religions

University of California Office of the President
Multi-campus Research Programs & Initiative Funding (MRPI)

present a conference on

“New Directions in the Study of Black Atlantic Religions”

Saturday, October 27, 2018
9 am – 5 pm
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA

Free and open to the public
RSVP requested to sbreeding@international.ucla.edu

This multidisciplinary group composed of faculty from across UC campuses will critically assess the current state of scholarship on Black Atlantic belief systems and theorize new methodologies and analytic orientations for comparative and regional studies. Our objective is to expand UC’s historical role as a hub for the study of Black Atlantic religions by fostering dialogue and collaboration amongst a new generation of scholars. We will explore where new research is needed, ways to develop new methods, what new theoretical paradigms are available, and carefully consider how we as scholars can contribute to the anti-racist struggles of the peoples of the Black Atlantic world.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

“Dancing for the Dead and the Living:
Embodiment and Invocation in Caribbean Mortuary Praxis”

Yanique Hume
professor, professional dancer, choreographer, and writer
based at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Barbados

Participants include Jeffrey Kahn, UC Davis, Rachel O’Toole, UC Irvine, Roberto Strongman, Elizabeth Pérez and Claudine Michel from UC Santa Barbara, Jeroen Dewulf, UC Berkeley and Patrick A. Polk, Lauren Derby, Katherine Smith, Elyan Hill, and Andrew Apter, UCLA. Additionally, Brendan Jamal Thornton from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill whose book on Pentecostalism and masculinity in the Dominican Republic won the Caribbean Studies award for best book in the humanities.

Conference schedule, campus map, directions, and transportation information is available on our website:http://www.international.ucla.edu/asc/event/13430

The conference is free and open to the public; RSVP requested by emailing Sheila Breeding, African Studies Center, at sbreeding@international.ucla.edu.

This conference is sponsored by the University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative Funding and the UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). Co-sponsors of this event include Patricia Turner, Dean and Vice Provost, Division of Undergraduate Education, UCLA College of Letters and Science; UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance; UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies; UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, Robin D.G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History; Fowler Museum at UCLA; UCLA Atlantic History Cluster; UCLA African Studies Center.
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Pay-by-space and all-day ($12) parking available in lot 3
Campus map, directions, transportation options to UCLA at www.ucla.edu/map

We hope to see you at this event!

For questions/more information, contact:
UCLA African Studies Center | 10244 Bunche Hall | Los Angeles, CA 90095-1310 | Telephone: 310-825-3686
Website: http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa | email: sbreeding@international.ucla.edu

New Book Event: Presentation and Celebration of Norton Wise, Aesthetics, Industry, and Science: Hermann von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society
2018-10-22 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Discussants for this event will be Kevin Lambert (Cal State Fullerton) and David Sabean (UCLA).

Elyan Hill - "Points of Encounter: Embodied Mappings of Domestic Enslavement in Ewe Mama Tchamba Performances"
2018-10-18 12:00 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Why History Matters – Rent Control in Los Angeles: A Historical Perspective
2018-10-16 19:00 - 20:30 | UCLA Faculty Center
Why History Matters – Rent Control in Los Angeles: A Historical Perspective
Panelists: Richard Bloom, Elena Popp, Marques Vestal, Bill Witte
Moderator: Gustavo Arellano
October 16, 7:00-8:30 pm
Faculty Center
RSVP Here
