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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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”

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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”

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

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”

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”

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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”

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.
