John Laslett is an Emeritus Research Professor in the History Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on United States History: American labor and social movements; U.S., Asian, Black and Mexican immigration; and comparative Euro-American history.
Students and faculty are cordially invited to a presentation on the critically critically acclaimed TV Series JUANA INES. Juana Inés centers on the personal life of the renowned writer and poet of the Colonial times in Mexico: Sor Juana. She is considered an outstanding early feminist of the Americas. The academic literature on Sor Juana is […]
Please note: This meeting is designed especially for graduate students, and will be organized as a discussion of short essays about Kuhn and Gillispie. Essays will be circulated to history of science grad students; anyone else who would like to participate can get the papers from Iris (irisclever@ucla.edu)
Kathleen Murphy (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo) “Botany and Biopiracy along the Routes of the Asiento Trade”
This presentation invites us to imagine afrodescended Latin@s—who live, think, and feel colonial modernity between different nations, regions, and subaltern positionalities—as subjects with inherently fragmented and “entangled” ontologies. Drawing from the writings of the Martinican poet-philosopher Edouard Glissant about the protean condition of the Caribbean (post)colonial subject, we will analyze various Cuban and Puerto Rican […]
Maureen C. Miller, Professor of History, University of California Berkeley - “Feuding Popes and Emperors: Characterizing the Investiture Conflict.” This lecture will argue for an updating of the conceptualization of the ‘crisis of church and state’ in the context of recent work on violence and conflict in Medieval Europe.
Adam Mosley (Swansea University (Wales) and Dibner Fellow, Huntington Library)“Cosmographic Instruments, Sundials, and the Decline of Cosmography Revisited”
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 (UCLA)“The Territory of Fables: Ecological Productivity in Nazi Germany's Imaginary Empire”
