UCLA Department of History

Dora Vargha - "Hungary, the Cold War and the making of socialist international health”
2018-05-14 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 5288 Bunche Hall
The speaker for this colloquium is Dora Vargha from Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter.

Past to Page: A Panel Discussion with Comic Book Artists and Creators
2018-05-07 18:30 - 20:00 | UCLA Royce Hall – Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Medieval and Renaissance themes continue to have a profound influence on contemporary comic books and graphic novels. Join Dr. Kristina Markman (History, UCLA) for a panel discussion featuring comic creators Conor McCreery (Kill Shakespeare, IDW Publishers), GMB Chomichuk (Midnight City, Infinitum, Rust and Water, Raygun Gothic) and industry veteran Howard Chaykin (The Divided States of Hysteria, Image, Marvel, and DC Comics). Hosted by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Please RSVP.

Robin Scheffler - “A Contagious Cause: The Search for Cancer Viruses and the Growth of American Biomedicine”
2018-05-07 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
The speaker for this colloquium is Robin Scheffler from MIT.

Nahuatl Conference
2018-05-04 08:30 - 17:00 | Charles E. Young Grand Salon, Kerckhoff Hall, UCLA
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Lisl Schoepflin - "Murúa and his Andean Collaborators: A Chronicle in Colonial Context"
2018-05-03 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Murúa and his Andean Collaborators: A Chronicle in Colonial Context
Lisl Schoepflin
3 May, 12 to 1:30 (Bunche 6275—Conference Room)

Anna More, "Necro-Economics and The Early Iberian Slave Trade"
2018-04-30 17:00 | Lydeen Library, 4302 Rolfe Hall

Timothy Snyder - "The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America"
2018-04-30 12:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Third Annual Undergraduate History Conference - "Culture & Power: New Directions"
2018-04-27 08:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
RSVP Link: https://goo.gl/forms/WnQp8Mp6zcCbqX3I2

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
– – – – – – – – – –
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
