This conference centers on different historical themes (culture, religiosity, languages, politics, encounters) and addresses the “connectivity” between Iberia, North Africa and other Mediterranean lands and the nature of the global Mediterranean. “Iberia, the Mediterranean, and the World in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods” is organized by Thomas Barton (USD), Marie Kelleher (CSULB), Antonio Zaldivar […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]