UCLA Department of History

UCLA History Open House Fall 2018
2018-09-26 14:30 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | 6275 Bunche Hall
Wednesday, September 26
2:30-4:30pm | Bunche 6275
Hosted by the History Undergraduate Counseling Unit
Meet old friends, make new friends, and learn about resources available to you!
Learn about…
♦ Academic/Career Counseling
♦ HistoryCorps Internships
♦ Faculty-Student Engagement
♦ Writing Center and One-on-One Tutoring
♦ Phi Alpha Theta Honors Society
♦ History Undergraduate Advisory Board (HUAB)
♦ Library Services
♦ Study/Travel Abroad
♦ Academic Research Centers, Fellowships, and Programs
Refreshments will be served

Jemma Lorenat - "Certain Modern Ideas: the History, Mathematics, and Philosophy of Charlotte Angas Scott (1858-1931)"
2018-06-04 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
The speaker for this colloquium is Jemma Lorenat from the Mathematics Department at Pitzer College.

The African Activist Student Association Presents: The Africa & Capitalism Colloquium
2018-06-01 11:45 - 18:00 | Bunche 10383
The African Activist Student Association Presents:
The Africa & Capitalism Colloquium
Location: Bunche 10383
Date: Friday, June 1, 2018
Time: 11:45a – 6p (all times are U.S. Pacific)
Reception Food Provided by Sumptuous African Restaurant
1170 S La Brea Ave., Inglewood, CA 90301
Lunch (11:45a)
Introductory Remarks (12:05p):
Nana Osei-Opare (History, UCLA)
Panel 1 (12:15p)
Ghislaine Lydon (History, UCLA), Paper Instruments in Early African Economies: The Debated Role of the Suftaja or
International Check.
Andrew Apter (History, UCLA), History in the Dungeon: Atlantic Slavery and the Spirits of Capitalism
Stephan F. Miescher (History, UCSB), “VALCO, the pace-setter”: Ghana, U.S. Capitalism, and the Contentious Story of an
Aluminum Smelter
R. Lane Clark (Independent Filmmaker), documentary film, Ghana’s Electric Dreams: An American Island in Ghana
William Worger (History, UCLA), Discussant
Panel 2 (3:15p)
Percy Ngonyama (Researcher, Mzala Nxumalo Centre), Comrade Mzala – A Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Perspective of the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa
Comfort Azubuko-Udah (English, UCLA), African Literature in the Capitalocene
Hannah Appel (Anthropology, UCLA), Futures: Oil and the Licit Life of Capitalism in Equatorial Guinea
Edmond Keller (Political Science, UCLA), Discussant
Reception (5p)
Music Performance by Alby Ungashe ’18
Sponsor(s): UCLA African Studies Center, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, UCLA Department of History, Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, UCLA Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, the East African Students Association, and History at Work-UCLA Department of History Graduate Center Development.
Cost: Free and open to the public; pay-by-space and all-day ($12) parking available in lot 3.
UCLA African Studies Center 310-825-3686
africa@international.ucla.edu
http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa

Symposium on Richard von Glahn's "The Economic History of China from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century"
2018-05-25 13:00 - 17:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
A symposium on Richard von Glahn’s book, The Economic History of China from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
May 25, 2018
1pm-5pm
6275 Bunche
Features speakers will include: Larry Neal (Economics), University of Illinois; Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (Economics), Caltech; William Rowe (Chinese History), Johns Hopkins University; and Meng Zhang (Chinese History), Loyola Marymount University.

Antoine Lentacker - "Ontology of the Side Effect: Anecdote and Evidence in the Digital Age”
2018-05-21 16:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall
The speaker for this colloquium is Antoine Lentacker from the History Department at UC Riverside.

Peter Loewenberg - "Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Charismatic Power, and Political Leadership"
2018-05-17 20:00 - 22:00 | New Center for Psychoanalysis – 2014 Sawtelle Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States
NOTE: This event is free for students and UCLA faculty. For UCLA faculty, please identify yourself as UCLA faculty (a UCLA ID will help) at the door.
Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Charismatic Power, and Political Leadership
May 17, 2018, 8:00 – 10:00 PM

2018 FRANZ ALEXANDER LECTURE
Presented by Peter Loewenberg, PhD
Psychoanalysis is a social science as well as a humanistic hermeneutic and a psychological science. Dr. Loewenberg compares the lives and thought of two great Central European shapers of modern culture, Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939), creator of psychoanalysis, and Max Weber (1864-1920), founder of modern interpretive comparative sociology. Weber was a contemporary of Freud who was the shaper of social science method. He explores their lives and insights on leadership, political power and domination and applies their insights to empirical leadership functions in the current world.
Learning Objectives
As a result of attending this session, participants should be able to:
• Describe the theoretical contributions of Weber and Freud as they apply to leadership, political power, and domination.
• Examine the nature of charismatic leadership in the political process and accepted empirical leadership functions in the current world
• Explain how Weber’s analysis of the Protestant ethic interface with Freudian psychodynamics
Peter Loewenberg, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of History and Political Psychology at UCLA. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst and former Dean of the New Center for Psychoanalysis. He was elected North American Representative on the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) Board. He Chaired the IPA China Committee, 2007-2013. He is the author of many publications, including Decoding the Past: the Psychohistorical Approach (1996) and Fantasy and Reality in History (1995). He is Editor (with Nellie Thompson) of 100 Years of the IPA (1910-2010) (2011). He was elected an Honorary Member of the German Psychoanalytic Association (DPV), was the Sir Peter Ustinov Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, and received the Nevitt Sanford Award for his professional contributions to the field of Political Psychology. He served as Chair of the Committee on Research and Special Training of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Winner of the first Edith Sabshin Award “for excellence in teaching psychoanalytic concepts” in 1999, he is also the recipient of Fulbright, Social Science Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Austrian Ministry of Education, Pro Helvetia, and Max Planck Institute für Geschichte fellowships and many other honors.

Historical Epistemology: Four Generations of Graduate Students Reflect on their Craft (May 17-19)
2018-05-17 09:00 - 2018-05-19 18:15 | UCLA Royce Hall – Room 314, 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Historical Epistemology:
Four Generations of Graduate Students Reflect on Their Craft
May 17 – May 19, 2018
Conference Schedule

Thursday
May 17, 2018
Royce 314

9.00-9.20 Welcome Address: David Sabean, UCLA
9.20-9.40 Introductory Remarks: Simon Teuscher, University of Zurich
9.40-11.10 Panel 1: Trust, Emotion, and Creativity
Chair and Commentator: Jan Reiff, UCLA
Jesse Sadler (Independent), Trust as a Category of Analysis in Early Modern Economic Exchange
Britta McEwen (Creighton University), Emotion in Movement: Shame, Sympathy, and Single Motherhood in Vienna, 1880-1930
Ann Goldberg (University of California, Riverside), The Assembly Line and the Psychoanalyst’s Couch: Epistemology and the History of Creativity
11.10-11.40 Coffee Break
11.40-13.10 Panel 2: Experience and the Body
Chair and Commentator: Russell Jacoby, UCLA
Dana M. Polanichka (Wheaton College), “Because of my Continual Illnesses and Other Circumstances”: Sin and Illness in a Mid-Ninth-Century Carolingian Text
Robert Brain (University of British Columbia), Dominating the Body, Mastering the Past: Rudolf zur Lippe and the Epistemology of Modern History
Ritika Prasad (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), Missing Bodies? Questions about Quantification and “Experience”
13:10-14:10 Lunch Break (Royce 306 Patio)
14.10-15.40 Panel 3: Understanding Belief
Chair and Commentator: Scott Waugh, UCLA
Matthew Vester (West Virginia University), Knowing/Believing, Microanalysis, and Spatiality
Samuel Keeley (UCLA), Knowing Beliefs: Measuring the “Epistemic Concept” of Piety in Spaces of Communication
Emily Anderson (Independent Scholar), Evangelizing Socialism in Rural Japan: Imagining Utopia during the Russo-Japanese War
15.40-16.10 Coffee Break
16.10-18.00 Panel 4: Strategies of Representation and Narration
Chair and Commentator: Stefania Tutino, UCLA
Jay Goodale (Bucknell University), Strategies for Making Sense of Evidentiary Fragments and Constructing Micro-Histories
Alexandra Garbarini (Williams College), “Unprecedented”: Concepts and Narratives about Mass Violence and the Holocaust
Thomas Stock (UCLA), The Problem of Historical Conditions: Challenging Epistemological Assumptions in North Korean Studies
Jason Coy (College of Charleston), Historical Epistemology and Collective Memory: The Early Modern Witch-Hunts and Strategies of Representation

Friday
May 18, 2018
Royce 314

9.00-10.30 Panel 5: Practices and Production of Knowledge
Chair and Commentator: Andrea Goldman, UCLA
John Mangum (Houston Symphony), Beethoven’s Fifth in Contrasting Programmatic Contexts
Teresa Barnett (UCLA), Dancing about Architecture: Performing the Sensorium in Postwar Design
Kierra Crago-Schneider, (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), Teaching the Holocaust in the Age of Contemporary Racial Violence
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.50 Panel 6: Libraries and Archives
Chair and Commentator: Geoffrey Symcox, UCLA
Michael J. Sauter (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas), Relocating “Global” Knowledge: Colonial Latin American Libraries and the European Spatial Imagination
Ben Marschke (Humboldt State University), Archives as “Epistemic Things.” Early Modern Religious Movements as “Model Organisms.”
Roii Ball (UCLA), Inner Colonization and Settler-Colonialism: Initial Steps in Historical Epistemology
Jason Lustig (UCLA), Epistemologies of the Archive
12.50-14.30 Lunch Break (Royce 306 Patio)
14.30-16.00 Panel 7: Historical Knowledge and the Study of People
Chair and Commentator: Kathryn Norberg, UCLA
Richard Bowler (Salisbury University), Physiocratic Science and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Baden: Reconstructing the History of a Scientific Experience
Juan Garza (UCLA), Indians and Intellectuals, An Unconventional Ethnographic Event: Methods, Discourses and the Origins of Mexican Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century
Marjan Wardaki (UCLA), Circulation and Research in Transcultural Spaces: The Scientist as a Traveler, 1919-1945
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-18.00 Panel 8: Interpreting Translation, Taste, and Obsession
Chair and Commentator: David Luebke, University of Oregon
Claire Gilbert (Saint Louis University), Inventing Translation and Translating History
Kevin Goldberg (Weber School), Epistemology in the Wine Trade
Lucia Staiano-Daniels (UCLA), What is Experience and why is Military History Obsessed with It?

Saturday
May 19, 2018
Royce 314

9.00-10.30 Panel 9: The Exemplary, Singular, and Exceptional
Chair and Commentator: Peter Baldwin, UCLA
Daphne Rozenblatt (Max Planck Institute for Human Development), Symptoms Between Medical and Historical Epistemologies
Eric Hounshell (UCLA), The Singular Case
Jared McBride (UCLA), The Returns of Khaim Sygal
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.30 Panel 10: Historical Epistemic Things
Chair and Commentator: Theodore Porter, UCLA
Robert Batchelor (Georgia Southern University), Ghost Shells or Sound Suits: The Tahitian Mourner and the Tungus Shaman Costumes as Epistemic Things
Amy Woodson-Boulton (Loyola Marymount University), The Idea of the Totem in the History of British Anthropology: Or, Disciplinary Development in the Age of Empire
Matt Matsuda (Rutgers University), Deep Blue Sea: Genomes and Genealogies in Oceania
12.30-13.30 Lunch Break (Royce 306 Patio)
13.30-15.20 Panel 11: Implications of the Tellings of History
Chair and Commentator: Muriel McClendon, UCLA
Adam Lawrence (Southern California Institute of Architecture), Geschichte in der Endzeit
Matthew Lauer (UCLA), The Indoctrinated, the Resigned, and the Restive: Three Archetypes of Microhistorical Narration Reflected in Korean Sources
Daniel Hurewitz (Hunter College), Visiting the Sins of the Fathers: The Ethical Implications of Historical Revelation
Claudia Verhoeven (Cornell University), The Terrible, Wonderful Roots of History 15.20-
15.50 Coffee Break
15.50-17.20 Panel 12: Histories and Critiques of Historical Epistemology
Chair and Commentator: Ivan Berend, UCLA
R. Joseph Holt (UCLA), Enlightenment Epistemology and/or Historical Epistemology: On Human Cognition in Adam Smith and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Jared Poley (Georgia State University), The History of Probability and the Probability of History
Lindsay Alissa King (UCLA), Fake News, Media Bias, and the Problem with Facts in the Rise of the Commercial Press
17.20-18.00 Concluding Remarks: Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University

Dora Vargha - "Hungary, the Cold War and the making of socialist international health”
2018-05-14 16:00 | 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
Register Here

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
Click Here to RSVP for Day 1
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
RSVP Link

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
RSVP Link
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
