New Book Event: Presentation and Celebration of Norton Wise, Aesthetics, Industry, and Science: Hermann von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society
6275 Bunche HallDiscussants for this event will be Kevin Lambert (Cal State Fullerton) and David Sabean (UCLA).
Atlantic Series Conference – “New Directions in the Study of Black Atlantic Religions”
10383 Bunche HallThis 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 […]
India and the Early Modern World – Symposium on Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s latest books: Europe’s India and Empires Between Islam and Christianity
6275 Bunche HallPanel 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 […]
Claire Edington – “How to Write a Social History of Psychiatry: Lessons from the Archives of Colonial Vietnam”
5288 Bunche HallClaire Edington is an Assistant Professor of History at UC San Diego.
Special Reception and Presentation of Biomedical Rare Book Collections by Russell Johnson
PLEASE NOTE LOCATION: Biomedical Library, Rare Book Room
Madeline Woker – “Empire, Taxes, and Loopholes: Taxation and Colonial Capitalism in the French Empire, 1920s-1950s”
6275 Bunche HallTuesday, 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 […]
Sabine Arnaud – “The Specter of Abnormality: Deaf Education and the Poetics of Contestation at the Turn of the Twentieth-Century”
6275 Bunche HallHistory 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 […]
Marjoleine Kars – “Slaves Remastered: An Untold Story of Rebellion, Revolution, and Restoration in the Atlantic World.”
6275 Bunche HallMarjoleine Kars is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Martha Lampland – “ ‘From Each according to their Ability, to Each according to their Need’: Calorie Money and Technical Norms in Mid-20th-century Hungary”
5288 Bunche HallMartha Lampland is a Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director of the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego.