Nile Green – “When Hajji Baba Met Frankenstein: The Middle Eastern Encounter with the Scientific Revolution”
Nile Green to present on "When Hajji Baba Met Frankenstein: The Middle Eastern Encounter with the Scientific Revolution." Sponsored/Co-sponsored by the Center for European and Russian Studies, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Program on Central Asia, Dept. of History, and the Center for the Study of Religion. For more information, please contact UCLA Center for […]
Dr. Nicholas Al-Jeelo, “Assyrian Continuity Post-Empire: The Relevance of Preserving Assyrian History and Heritage”
Nearest Parking: UCLA parking structure P5
Benjamin Straumann – “Jean Bodin on the late Roman Republic and Constitutional Government”
Refreshments will be served.
Conversation with Ibram X. Kendi & Brenda Stevenson
Despite myths of a postracial world, racism is alive and well. In his “engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America” (Washington Post), the historian and 2016 National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi traces the arc of antiblack racist ideas from 15th-century Portugal to the founding of the United States, arguing that we must confront the […]
