First Annual Undergraduate History Conference – “Power & Politics”
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12 events found.
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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 […]
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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”
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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.
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2016 Alden-Berg Lecture
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Lenart AuditoriumEvent Video Stephen Aron Professor and Robert N. Burr Department Chair UCLA Department of History Invites you to attend the annual Alden-Berg Lecture "Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles" Featuring John Mack Faragher Howard R. Lamar Prof of History & American Studies and Director Howard R. Lamar Center, Yale University With responses on the […]
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William Deringer – “Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age, 1688-1776″
William Deringer (MIT) “Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age, 1688-1776"
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Bunche Social Sciences Book Fair
Free Books for Students! Stop by to browse an interdepartmental book collection, and go home with new reading material! Books from Chicano/a Studies, Economics, Geography, History, and Political Science departments will be available.
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History Writing Center Workshop
Join professor Benjamin Madley for helpful tips and feedback in this History Writing Center workshop.
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León García Garagarza – “The Aztec Healer, the Puppet King and the Mexican Inquisition: Noble Ailments and Colonial Imposition in Early New Spain”
In 1539 the Apostolic Inquisition of Mexico accused Martin Ocelotl of idolatry, blasphemy, and other crimes against the Church. Martin Ocelotl was a traditional ritual specialist from the area of Tetzcoco who actively opposed the imposition of colonialism and called for the restoration of the traditional way of life. The files of his trial register […]
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A Conversation with Rev. James Lawson: Nonviolence and Social Movements
Rev. James Lawson is a leading theorist and practitioner of nonviolent social action. During the 1960s he advised Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and lead civil rights campaigns in Nashville and Memphis. Since the 1970s, his teaching on nonviolence has shaped the practice of social movements in southern California an across the country. Vinay Lal […]
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Courtenay Raia-“William in Wonderland: Crookes’s Scientific Spiritualism and the Physics of the Impossible”
Courtenay Raia (Colson School of Music) “William in Wonderland: Crookes’s Scientific Spiritualism and the Physics of the Impossible”
