UCLA Department of History

Third Annual Undergraduate History Conference - "Culture & Power: New Directions"
2018-04-27 08:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 6275 Bunche Hall
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Fernando Pérez-Montesinos - “The Atlantic Origins of Mexican Early Radical Liberalism”
2018-04-26 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Geoffrey Robinson - "The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66"
2018-04-25 14:00 - 16:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall
Geoffrey Robinson will be having a book talk for his new book, The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 on Wednesday, April 25 from 2-4pm in 10383 Bunche Hall, co-sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
You can find more information on the book here:
https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11135.html

Andrés Reséndez - "The Other Slavery"
2018-04-24 16:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Stefano Gattei - "Kepler's Rudolphine Tables: The Hidden Message of the Engraved Frontispiece"
2018-04-23 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
The speaker for this colloquium is Stefano Gattei from the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at CalTech University.

Daniel Richter - “Four Fixers: The North American Misadventures of England’s Royal Commissioners, 1664—1665”
2018-04-19 12:00 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Daniel Richter, Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as the Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington this year, will speak to Atlantic history at noon to 2 on Thursday April 19. More info about this event will be released in the future.

Carol Anderson - “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy”
2018-04-17 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Mobility and Early Modernity: Religion, Science, and Commerce in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Day 2)
2018-04-14 10:00 - 13:00 | William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2520 Cimarron Street
Date/Time
Saturday, April 14, 2018
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Location
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street
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—a conference organized by Sebouh D. Aslanian, University of California, Los Angeles; Matthew Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; and Naomi Taback, Temple University

In Honor of Margaret Jacob
co-sponsored by UCLA Department of History

Mobility and all that it entailed does not figure as an analytical category in the prodigious body of scholarship created by Margaret Jacob, though it is certainly implied in much of her work from her earliest explorations of the unexpected connections between Newtonianism and Protestant theology, to her pioneering work in the transnational history of science, radical Enlightenment, freemasonry, and industry, much of it based on British, French, Belgian and Dutch sources, and finally in her more recent study of cosmopolitanism, Strangers Nowhere in the World.
The conference brings together scholars working on novel forms of knowledge and identity forged during the early modern age at the confluence of increasing mobility both in Europe and the larger world beyond. The speakers have worked with some of these insights presaged in Jacob’s scholarship but developed them in their own distinctive fashion to help shape religious, cultural, commercial, and transnational history in the twenty-first century. Rather than looking to celebrate past accomplishments, the conference aims to take stock of present trends in scholarship and suggest new paths for the future.
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Job Adriaensz. Berckheijde
The Old Exchange of Amsterdam
Haarlem, circa 1670
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Speakers
Sebouh D. Aslanian, University of California, Los Angeles
Guillaume Calafat, Institute for Advanced Study
Vincenzo Ferrone, University of Turin
Margaret Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles
Matthew Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Jesse Sadler, Independent Scholar
Catherine Secretan, Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Jacob Soll, University of Southern California
Naomi Taback, Temple University
Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
9:30 a.m.
Morning Coffee and Registration
10:00 a.m.
Political Economies and Worlds of Sociability
Moderator: Lynn Hunt, University of California, Los Angeles
Vincenzo Ferrone, University of Turin
“The Epistemological Roots of the New Political Economy: Modern Science and Economy in the First Half of European Eighteenth Century”
10:45 a.m.
Jacob Soll, University of Southern California
“Aristocratic Utopianism meets Colbertist Reform in the French Enlightenment: Fénélon, Boulainvilliers and the Circle of the Duc de Bourgogne”
11:30 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:45 a.m.
Naomi Taback, Temple University
“‘It is upon all accounts calculated for our benefit’: Anglican Conceptions of Sociability in the Early Eighteenth Century”
12:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Margaret Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles
1:00 p.m.
Program concludes

Mobility and Early Modernity: Religion, Science, and Commerce in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Day 1)
2018-04-13 10:00 - 16:45 | William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2520 Cimarron Street
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After booking Day 1 below please remember to also book your spot for Day 2.

Date/Time
Friday, April 13, 2018
10:00 am – 4:45 pm
Location
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street
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—a conference organized by Sebouh D. Aslanian, University of California, Los Angeles; Matthew Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; and Naomi Taback, Temple University

In Honor of Margaret Jacob
co-sponsored by UCLA Department of History

Mobility and all that it entailed does not figure as an analytical category in the prodigious body of scholarship created by Margaret Jacob, though it is certainly implied in much of her work from her earliest explorations of the unexpected connections between Newtonianism and Protestant theology, to her pioneering work in the transnational history of science, radical Enlightenment, freemasonry, and industry, much of it based on British, French, Belgian and Dutch sources, and finally in her more recent study of cosmopolitanism, Strangers Nowhere in the World.
The conference brings together scholars working on novel forms of knowledge and identity forged during the early modern age at the confluence of increasing mobility both in Europe and the larger world beyond. The speakers have worked with some of these insights presaged in Jacob’s scholarship but developed them in their own distinctive fashion to help shape religious, cultural, commercial, and transnational history in the twenty-first century. Rather than looking to celebrate past accomplishments, the conference aims to take stock of present trends in scholarship and suggest new paths for the future.

Job Adriaensz. Berckheijde
The Old Exchange of Amsterdam
Haarlem, circa 1670
Wikimedia.org
Speakers
Sebouh D. Aslanian, University of California, Los Angeles
Guillaume Calafat, Institute for Advanced Study
Vincenzo Ferrone, University of Turin
Margaret Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles
Matthew Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Jesse Sadler, Independent Scholar
Catherine Secretan, Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Jacob Soll, University of Southern California
Naomi Taback, Temple University
Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
9:30 a.m.
Morning Coffee and Registration
10:00 a.m.
Helen Deutsch, University of California, Los Angeles
Welcome
Matthew Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Opening Remarks
10:30 a.m.
Mobilities and Across Water and Land
Moderator: Deborah Elizabeth Harkness, University of Southern California
Sebouh D. Aslanian, University of California, Los Angeles
“Reverendissimi in Christo Patris: Letters of Recommendation, Networks, and Mobility in the Life of Thomas Vanandets‘i, an Armenian Printer in Amsterdam, 1677–1707″
11:15 a.m.
Matthew Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
“Mobility and the Path to the Enlightenment”
12:00 p.m.
Coffee Break
12:15 p.m.
Guillaume Calafat, Institute for Advanced Study
“A Mediterranean Radical Experience? Henry Robinson (1604–1664) and Early Modern Mediterranean Toleration”
1:00 p.m.
Lunch
2:15 p.m.
Cosmopolitans and Urban Spaces
Moderator: David Brafman, Getty Research Institute
Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
“‘The Cosmopolitan as a Lived Category’: Reading Margaret Jacob as an Economic Historian”
3:00 p.m.
Jesse Sadler, Independent Scholar
“The Economics and Emotions of Mobility among Early Modern Netherlandish Merchants”
3:45 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:00 p.m.
Catherine Secretan, Centre national de la recherche scientifique
“Utrecht as a 17th-Century European Intellectual Carrefour: Back and Forth Exchanges between Arminianism and Puritanism”
4:45 p.m.
Reception
After booking Day 1 below please remember to also book your spot for Day 2.

Stephen Hilgartner - "Reordering Life: Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution"
2018-04-09 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
The speaker for this colloquium is Stephen Hilgartner from Cornell University.

Secular Enlightenment: Balancing Faith and Masonic Virtues
2018-04-07 08:30 - 17:30 | Covell Commons, Grand Horizon Ballroom
Secular Enlightenment: Balancing Faith and Masonic Virtues
Join us for the UCLA International Conference on Freemasonry, free for UCLA students and faculty.
The conference will take place on Saturday, April 7, 2018, at Covell Commons, in the Grand Horizon Ballroom, from 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Scholars from around the world will participate in a deep discussion of the nuanced relationship between Freemasonry, religion, and the development of secular democratic societies around the world. Learn how Freemasonry incorporated a diverse spectrum of religious views, as well as how religious and nonreligious Masons became proponents of a secular fraternity and secular governments.
Hear from distinguished professor of history Margaret Jacob in her last year at UCLA prior to retirement. Speakers from around the world will travel to Los Angeles to honor Professor Jacob’s remarkable career and share global perspectives of Freemasonry in a historical context.

Natalie Bayer, Ph.D., Drake University, Iowa – 18th-Century Russian Freemasonry: Learn how Freemasonry and Masonic lodges played a vital role in the transmission of ideas within 18th century Russian society.
Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Ph.D., University of Nice, France – Lodges as Sanctuaries or Workshops for the World: In the 18th century, Masonic lodges found themselves at a crossroads when some members wanted to limit philanthropy to the intimate setting of the lodge and others wanted to promote Masonic values within the public sphere.
José Antonio Ferrer Benimeli, Ph.D., University of Zaragoza, Spain – The French Revolution: Did existing Masonic values of fraternity and equality fuel the French Revolution, or was it the French Revolution that enshrined these values in Freemasonry?
Jessica Harland-Jacobs, Ph.D., University of Florida – Early Secular Freemasonry: Although early Freemasonry claimed to accept men of all faiths, in the 19th century, this aim was oftentimes limited by imperialist forces.
Reinhard Markner, M.A., University of Innsbruck, Austria – Revisiting the Illuminati: Although the Illuminati Order was dismissed as a school for radicalism in the 1700s, contemporary research suggests that Illuminati degrees may in fact align with the central ideas of radical, secular Enlightenment thought.
Remzi Sanver, Ph.D., Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey – Secular Spirituality: From the unique vantage point of 20th century Turkey, discover how Freemasonry offers men an avenue for exploring secular spirituality through universal esotericism.
María Eugenia Vázquez Semadeni, Ph.D., Mexico – Unveiling Masonic History: Learn more about Margaret Jacob’s influential role in the field of Masonic historical research.

Join us!
Conference attendance is free for UCLA students and faculty. Please use code 2018UCLA when registering. To learn more or register, visit: freemason.org/ucla

Inspirational Illuminations: Reacting to Medieval Manuscripts - Opening Reception
2018-04-05 15:00 - 17:00
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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

Inquiries: CollegeEvents@support.ucla.edu or (310) 825-4038
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
