Adam Mosley & Dibner Fellow – “Cosmographic Instruments, Sundials, and the Decline of Cosmography Revisited”
Adam Mosley (Swansea University (Wales) and Dibner Fellow, Huntington Library)“Cosmographic Instruments, Sundials, and the Decline of Cosmography Revisited”
Mario Biogioli – “Beyond Publish or Perish: Metrics and the New Ecologies of Academic Misconduct”
Mario Biagioli - School of Law, Science & Technology Studies Program, Department of History, UC Davis. Academic misconduct has traditionally been tied to the stress generated by the “publish or perish” culture and, more recently, to the new opportunities offered by electronic publishing. I argue, instead, that misconduct is undergoing a radical qualitative transformation, adapting itself to […]
Adam Lawrence – “The Territory of Fables: Ecological Productivity in Nazi Germany’s Imaginary Empire”
Adam Lawrence (UCLA)“The Territory of Fables: Ecological Productivity in Nazi Germany's Imaginary Empire”
Edward D. Melillo – “Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection”
Edward D. Melillo is associate professor of history and environmental studies at Amherst College. He teaches courses on global environmental history, the history of the Pacific World, and commodities in world historical perspective. He is the author of Strangers on Familiar Soil: Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection (Yale University Press, 2015), the co-editor Eco-Cultural Networks in the British Empire: New Views on Environmental […]
Benjamin Cowan – “Securing Sex: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil” Book Talk
In this history of right-wing politics in Brazil during the Cold War, Benjamin Cowan puts the spotlight on the Cold Warriors themselves. Tracking how limits to Cold War authoritarianism finally emerged, Cowan concludes that the record of autocracy and repression in Brazil is part of a larger story of reaction against perceived threats to traditional […]
Aisha Finch – “Of Time and Sugar: Making and Unmaking Cuban Plantation Temporalities”
This presentation explores the relationship between time – as it was regulated and embodied in the Cuban sugar plantation world – and the lived experiences of the people enslaved on these plantations. It juxtaposes the function of time as an ever-evolving technology of the plantation world, and its possibilities as a site of black fugitivity […]
First Annual Undergraduate History Conference – “Power & Politics”
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John T. Sidel – “From Baku to Bandung: Republicanism, Communism, and Islam in the Making of the Indonesian Revolution”
John T. Sidel, London School of Economics and Political Science. This lecture shows how Communism and Islam played a crucial, constitutive role in the making of the Indonesian "Revolusi," suggesting the essentially cosmopolitan nature of its origins and its emancipatory energies. John T. Sidel is the Sir Patrick Gillam Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London […]
Rob Schraff – “Making and Unmaking Madness with LSD: From Psychotomimetic to Psychedelic and Back Again”
Rob Schraff (UCLA) “Making and Unmaking Madness with LSD: From Psychotomimetic to Psychedelic and Back Again”
Cuban Environmental History: From Imperial Exploits to Socialist Cows
This event presents the work of two prominent environmental historians of Cuba with a comment by Sandro Dutra e Silva, visiting researcher, Department of Geography, UCLA.
