UCLA Department of History

Alden-Berg Lecture ft. Stephen Aron
2023-05-03 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Kerckhoff Grand Salon
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Kevin Dawson, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Merced “Surfing, Surf-Canoeing, and the Atlantic Slave Trade”
2023-05-04 00:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Atlantic Africa—the region extending from Senegal to Angola—has few natural harbors, compelling Africans to cross through surf to reach fisheries and coastal shipping lanes. Sources suggest that one thousand years ago Africans independently developed surfing to understand how to design and surf waves ashore in surf-canoes loaded with fish cargo. Today, Atlantic Africans remain the only people to harness wave energy as part of their daily labor practices. Even as Europeans crossed oceans, their rowboats were too slow to navigate African surf-zones, and routinely capsized. Hence, surf-canoemen transported most of the goods imported into and exported out of Africa between ship-and-shore, including the majority of the twelve million captives shipped into Atlantic slavery. This talk considers how African maritime wisdom and expertise informed the cultural and economic development of the Atlantic world.
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Dr. Kate McDonald, History of Science, "The Rickshaw Everyman: Transport and Memory in Postwar Japan"
2023-05-08 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
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The History of Gender & Sexuality Group Graduate Student Workshop
2023-05-11 09:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Sakhia's Gift: Intimate Economies in Transition in Twentieth-Century Zanzibar
2023-05-11 12:30 - 13:50 | 6275 Bunche Hall

History Undergraduate Conference
2023-05-17 09:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Clark Library Conference "From Bodies to Things: The Commodification of Human Life in the Early Modern Atlantic" organized by Tawny Paul and Andrew Apter (UCLA)
2023-05-19 09:00 - 17:00 | William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles, CA 90018, United States
https://www.1718.ucla.edu/events/bodies-to-things-1/

Jane Moon, M.D., History of Science, "Pushing the Borders of Consciousness: A History of Ketamine and Dissociative Anesthesia"
2023-05-22 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall

Waterfront Film Screening by Professor Milos Jovanovic
2023-05-25 17:00 - 18:30 | Kaplan A65

Michael Miller, "A French History of Rivers"
2023-05-31 16:00 - 17:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Mélanie Cournil, Senior Lecturer in British History at the Sorbonne University "Transatlantic Circulation of Botanical Knowledge : The Glasgow Years of William Jackson Hooker (1820-1841)"
2023-06-01 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
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Zev Yaroslavsky Reception
2023-06-06 16:00 - 19:00 | 306 Royce Hall
Join us to celebrate the release of a new memoir by a long-time member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and member of the Luskin Center of History and Policy Board of Advisors, Zev Yaroslavsky.
Space is limited for this event. Please RSVP before May 15 to: luskincenter@history.ucla.edu.

History Department Open House for Undergraduate Students
2023-09-27 14:30 - 16:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Patricia M. Marcos, “‘True Sex’: Adjudicating Gender and the Sciences of Racial Improvement in the Portuguese Atlantic (1740-1790)”
2023-10-09 16:00 - 17:30 | 5288 Bunche Hall

Tanya Bride (UCLA History) - Trails of Hoof and Pawprints
2023-10-19 12:00 | Zoom
Please join us for our first lecture series of the 23-24 academic year featuring Tanya Bride who will speak on “Trails of Hoof and Pawprints: Tracing human-animal relations in colonial Mexico through the religious courts and Relaciones Geográficas”.
Please note: This event will only be held via Zoom. It will not be in person.
This event is part of the UCLA History Department Atlantic History lecture series.

Michael McGovern, “Quantifying Injustice: Law, Science, and History”
2023-10-23 16:00 - 17:30 | 5288 Bunche Hall
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Andrew Denning, "Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa"
2023-10-26 16:00

Isabela Dornelas, “From Pelvic to Abdominal: The Development of Cesarean Section in Brazil, Mid-XIX Century.”
2023-10-30 16:00 - 17:30 | 5288 Bunche Hall

America on Strike: Labor Takes Center Stage
2023-11-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Founders Room, UCLA James West Alumni Center
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Thomas Barton (Univ. of San Diego) “Forbidden Love in the Archives: Exploring the Possibilities of Medieval Municipal Sources”
2023-11-08 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Mike Jarvis (Rochester) - Castle Cormantine and Early English Africa, 1632-1672
2023-11-09 12:00 - 13:30 | Bunche 6275 & Zoom
The Atlantic History Colloquium generates innovative scholarship on the relations linking Africa, Europe and the Americas by investigating the expansion of markets during the slave trade; the production of literary texts and forms of historical memory; the politics of religious dissent and conversion; the growth of colonial science and cartography; Native American ethnogenesis; the rise of abolitionist and Pan-African ideologies; and the dynamics of race, gender and creolization throughout the Atlantic world.
Please visit UCLA Atlantic History for more information and a complete schedule of events in 2023.

Stefan Rinke, "Doing Latin American History From a European Perspective During the Boom Times of the Global"
2023-11-09 16:00 - 17:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall

Sara McDougall (City University of New York) “Sex on Trial: a Tale of Survival from Late Medieval France”
2023-11-13 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Jamie Kreiner (University of Georgia), "Vistas of the Mind: Cognitive Ethics and Practice in Late Antique and Early Medieval Monasticism"
2023-11-15 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Rewriting Comparative History: Engagement with the Work of R. Bin Wong
2023-11-16 09:00 - 16:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
A symposium in honor of Professor R. Bin Wong on the occasion of his retirement from the UCLA history department. Distinguished scholars, including former students of Professor Wong, will lead conversations about major aspects of his far-ranging contributions to scholarship on Chinese history, comparative history, and social theory.
Schedule:

9:00-9:15 am
Welcome

9:15-10:05:
first session
“Collaboration Across the State/Society Divide”: Maura Dykstra (Yale University)

10:05-10:55:
second session
“Storage and Stability”: Isabella Weber (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

10:55-11:10:
Coffee Break

11:10-12:00:
third session
“The Fiscal State and Public Goods”: Richard von Glahn (UCLA)

12:00-1:30 pm:
Lunch Break

1:30-2:20:
fourth session
“The State in Comparative Perspective”: Timothy Brook (University of British Columbia)

2:20-3:10:
fifth session
“Symmetry in Comparative Analysis”: Zhang Meng (Vanderbilt University)

3:10-3:25:
Coffee Break

3:25-4:15:
sixth session
“Theory and Contingency”: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (California Institute of Technology)

Danielle Carr, "SPACE/EARTH/BRAIN: The International Brain Research Organization and the Disciplinary Formation of Neuroscience."
2023-11-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Bunche 5288 & Zoom
This event will be held in person and via Zoom.

Understanding The Israel-Gaza Conflict: Causes, Conduct, Consequences
2023-11-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Zoom

Justin Dunnavant (UCLA Anthropology) - Denmark Vesey: A Caribbean Revolution in South Carolina
2023-11-30 12:00 - 13:30 | Bunche 6275 & Zoom

Celebration of the publication of Surgery and Salvation (UNC Press Nov 2023) by Elizabeth O’Brien
2023-12-04 16:00 - 17:30 | Bunche 6275 & Zoom
Celebration of the publication of Surgery and Salvation (UNC Press Nov 2023) by Elizabeth O’Brien (UCLA History Department). Co-Sponsored by the History of Gender and Sexuality Working Group. Details to follow.
This event will be held in-person and via Zoom.

Margot Canaday, "Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America"
2023-12-07 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
