UCLA Department of History

'Refuse' Bodies, Disposable Lives: The Bio-politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade
2017-01-24 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Amir Alexander - “A Space for Free Men: The Cartesian Landscape of America.”
2017-01-23 16:00 - 18:00

John Tutino - "The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History"
2017-01-23 11:00 - 13:00

Carla Pestana - “Quaker Mobility and the threat to English America”
2017-01-19 12:00 - 13:30
This talk considers the force and voluntary circulation of Quakers through the mid-17th century Atlantic.
–Part of the CRS Faculty Lecture Series–

European History Colloquium - Karen Harvey, "Rabbits, Whigs, and Hunters: Cultural History and Protest in Mary Toft’s Monstrous Births of 1726"
2017-01-12 16:00 - 18:00
Karen Havey is a Professor of Cultural History at the University of Sheffield. Her focus as a cultural historian is of the British long eighteenth century, with a special interest in gender.

Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi & Brenda Stevenson
2016-12-04 13:30
Despite myths of a postracial world, racism is alive and well. In his “engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America” (Washington Post), the historian and 2016 National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi traces the arc of antiblack racist ideas from 15th-century Portugal to the founding of the United States, arguing that we must confront the history of racist ideas in order to grapple with racism’s insidious hold on America. UCLA Professor of History Brenda Stevenson joins Kendi in conversation.
A book signing with Professor Kendi follows the conversation.

Hippolyte Goux- “Class and Calculation: Liberalism and Market Technologies in 19th century France”
2016-11-28 16:00 - 18:00

Andrew Mendelsohn-“Criticism and the Growth of Method: Autopsy, 1650-1850"
2016-11-21 16:00 - 18:00

Histories of Data and the Database
2016-11-18 08:30 - 2016-11-19 17:00

How to use LinkedIn to get a job
2016-11-17 17:00 - 18:00

Benjamin Straumann - "Jean Bodin on the late Roman Republic and Constitutional Government"
2016-11-03 16:00 - 18:00
Refreshments will be served.

Ted Porter -“Turning the Tables on Degeneration”
2016-10-31 16:00 - 18:00

Installation celebration of Professor Brenda Stevenson as the Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History
2016-10-24 18:00

B. Harun Küçük -“The Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Prayer Compass”
2016-10-24 16:00 - 18:00

Dr. Nicholas Al-Jeelo, "Assyrian Continuity Post-Empire: The Relevance of Preserving Assyrian History and Heritage"
2016-10-21 19:00
Nearest Parking: UCLA parking structure P5

Nile Green - "When Hajji Baba Met Frankenstein: The Middle Eastern Encounter with the Scientific Revolution"
2016-10-20 16:00 - 18:00
Nile Green to present on “When Hajji Baba Met Frankenstein: The Middle Eastern Encounter with the Scientific Revolution.”
Sponsored/Co-sponsored by the Center for European and Russian Studies, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Program on Central Asia, Dept. of History, and the Center for the Study of Religion.
For more information, please contact UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies:
Tel: (310) 825- 1181
cnes@international.ucla.edu
http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/

History Alumni Career Panel
2016-10-18 16:00 - 18:00

Miriam Posner-“Making Sense of the Digital Humanities for Historians of Medicine & Science”
2016-10-17 16:00 - 18:00

Nancy Toff On History Publishing
2016-10-17 12:00 - 14:00
Nancy Toff, Vice President and Executive Editor (History) of Oxford University Press, will talk with graduate students and faculty about academic and general history publishing. Toff, who oversees the popular “What Everyone Wants to Know” and “A Short History” series as well as academic history, will discuss strategies and tips for publishing with an academic press, moving your manuscript from a dissertation to a book, as well as writing for a broader audience.
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP to Jim Gelvin, gelvin@history.ucla.edu by Friday, October 14.

Historians and Others (Try To) Make Sense of the 2016 Election
2016-10-13 19:00
Parking available for $12 in Structure 2
Inquiries: CollegeEvents@support.ucla.edu or (310) 825-4038

Karl Jacoby - "The Color Line and the Borderline: Locating William Ellis, the Texas Slave who Became a Mexican Millionaire, in the Archives and in Family History"
2016-10-12 16:00 - 18:00
To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican banker and broker, with an apartment on Central Park West and an office on Wall Street. He began life, however, as William Ellis, an enslaved African American in south Texas. Columbia University historian Karl Jacoby and members of Ellis’s family from Mexico and the U.S. discuss the meanings of Ellis’s strange career and the complicated path he charted through the archives and through family memories on both sides of the border.

Courtenay Raia-“William in Wonderland: Crookes’s Scientific Spiritualism and the Physics of the Impossible”
2016-10-10 16:00 - 18:00
Courtenay Raia (Colson School of Music)
“William in Wonderland: Crookes’s Scientific Spiritualism and the Physics of the Impossible”

Undergraduate Open House
2016-09-28 11:00 - 13:00

A Conversation with Rev. James Lawson: Nonviolence and Social Movements
2016-06-02 15:30 - 18:00
Rev. James Lawson is a leading theorist and practitioner of nonviolent social action. During the 1960s he advised Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and lead civil rights campaigns in Nashville and Memphis. Since the 1970s, his teaching on nonviolence has shaped the practice of social movements in southern California an across the country.
Vinay Lal is Professor of History at UCLA where he teaches courses on Indian history, postcolonial societies, and the contemporary world history. He writes about the politics of history for academic and popular audiences.

León García Garagarza - "The Aztec Healer, the Puppet King and the Mexican Inquisition: Noble Ailments and Colonial Imposition in Early New Spain"
2016-06-02 12:00 - 14:00
In 1539 the Apostolic Inquisition of Mexico accused Martin Ocelotl of idolatry, blasphemy, and other crimes against the Church. Martin Ocelotl was a traditional ritual specialist from the area of Tetzcoco who actively opposed the imposition of colonialism and called for the restoration of the traditional way of life. The files of his trial register that Ocelotl had clandestinely performed a traditional ritual healing on behalf of Don Pablo Xochiquen, a puppet ruler (cuauhtlahtoani) of Mexico Tenochtitlan during the early colonial era. While the folios of the Inquisitorial trial provide only incidental data about the nature of the therapy that Don Pablo undertook, an examination of other early colonial sources strongly suggests that it was the treatment “for the fatigue that afflicts those who administer the Republic and hold Public Office”, a culturally recognized disease in the traditional Materia Medica of Mesoamerica. The treatment of Don Pablo Xochiquen at the hands of Martin Ocelotl during the first decades of Spanish rule not only illuminates indigenous notions of the Nahua etiology of disease, it also reveals important clues about the clash between Aztec and Spanish medicine, and about the more general political and cultural dynamics of early colonial Mexico.

History Writing Center Workshop
2016-05-25 17:00 - 18:00
Join professor Benjamin Madley for helpful tips and feedback in this History Writing Center workshop.

Bunche Social Sciences Book Fair
2016-05-25 10:00 - 15:00
Free Books for Students! Stop by to browse an interdepartmental book collection, and go home with new reading material!
Books from Chicano/a Studies, Economics, Geography, History, and Political Science departments will be available.

William Deringer - “Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age, 1688-1776"
2016-05-23 16:00 - 18:00
William Deringer (MIT)
“Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age, 1688-1776″

2016 Alden-Berg Lecture
2016-05-18 19:00 | Fowler Museum at UCLA, Lenart Auditorium
Event Video

Stephen Aron
Professor and Robert N. Burr Department Chair
UCLA Department of History
Invites you to attend the annual
Alden-Berg Lecture
“Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles”
Featuring
John Mack Faragher
Howard R. Lamar Prof of History & American Studies and Director Howard R. Lamar Center, Yale University
With responses on the contemporary implications of Faragher’s research in his recent book Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles (2016, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.) by
Zev Yaroslavsky
Former Los Angeles County Supervisor
&
Jim Newton
Former Editor of Los Angeles Times

Wednesday, May 18, 2016
7:00 p.m.
Reception to follow
Fowler Museum, Lenart Auditorium
UCLA Campus

Self-pay parking available in Structure 4
Inquiries: CollegeEvents@support.ucla.edu or (310) 825-4038
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About the Speakers
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 5th year, the lecture draws on the excellence of the History Department faculty to address important issues of the past and present.

Cuban Environmental History: From Imperial Exploits to Socialist Cows
2016-05-18 14:30 - 16:30
This event presents the work of two prominent environmental historians of Cuba with a comment by Sandro Dutra e Silva, visiting researcher, Department of Geography, UCLA.
