UCLA Department of History

Are You Curious About Grad School?
2017-11-15 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 6265 Bunche Hall

Luskin Workshop: "LA's Million Dollar Hoods: Past, Present, and Policy" featuring Kelly Lytle-Hernández
2017-11-15 12:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Screening, Discussion and Q&A with the Director of "41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers"
2017-11-14 18:30 | Public Affairs Building, Room 1246

Beyond Boko Haram: Writing the History of Borno, Nigeria
2017-11-14 12:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall

"Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origin of the British Museum"
2017-11-13 16:00
The speaker for this colloquium is James Delbourgo from Rutgers University.

James L. Gelvin - "The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know"
2017-11-09 15:30 | Room 1314, UCLA School of Law

Historians @ Work Workshop
2017-11-09 12:00 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
RSVP link: https://goo.gl/forms/g2RzW1vkTh2Q0fFo2

The Kola Nut: A West African Commodity in the Atlantic World
2017-11-02 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

“Gentrification and its Discontents: Boyle Heights and Beyond” – Luskin Center Panel Discussion
2017-11-01 16:00 | UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room

"Tuning the world. A global history of acoustics at the crossroads of aesthetics, politics, science and industry (1834-1939)"
2017-10-30 16:00
The speaker for this colloquium is Fanny Gribenski, a Huntington Library Fellow from the Université d’Évry Val d’Essonne.

City of Inmates Book Talk and Signing with Kelly Lytle Hernandez
2017-10-24 16:00 - 18:00 | Bruin Viewpoint Room, UCLA Ackerman Student Union, 380 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States

Vinay Lal - "Politics and the Global South in the Life of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay"
2017-10-23 12:00 - 13:30 | 10383 Bunche Hall

Kathleen Sheldon - "African Women: Early History to the 21st Century"
2017-10-19 16:00 - 18:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
African Women: Early History to the 21st Century
Kathleen Sheldon
UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Thursday, October 19, 2017
4:00 – 6:00 PM
6275 Bunche Hall
Free and open to the public
Copies of Dr. Sheldon’s book will be available for purchase immediately following her talk.
Kathleen Sheldon is an independent historian who is a Research Affiliate with the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Dr. Sheldon received her Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 1988 and her M.A. in African Area Studies in 1977. She is a historian who has primarily written about African women and Mozambique. Her most recent book is African Women: Early History to the 21st Century. She also wrote Pounders of Grain: A History of Women, Work, and Politics in Mozambique and edited Courtyards, Markets, City Streets: Urban Women in Africa.
Other publications include the second revised edition of the Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016; first edition, 2005) and a special two-part forum on Women and Gender in Africa for the African Studies Review, co-edited with Judith Van Allen, that appeared in December 2015 and April 2016.
Dr. Sheldon was the editor for women’s entries for the Dictionary of African Biography (2011). She wrote the articles on Women and African History and Women and Colonialism for Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies, and is also a senior editor for the online resource, Oxford Research Encyclopedia in African History.
Other publications include “From Frenzied Mobs to Savvy Businesswomen: Researching the History of Market Women in Africa,” in Changing Horizons of African History (2017); and “Creating an Archive of Working Women’s Oral Histories in Beira, Mozambique” in Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources (2010).
She is an editor on the H-Luso-Africa network, https://networks.h-net.org/h-luso-africa, which focuses on the Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa.
In addition to her work on African women she published “‘No more cookies or cake now, “C’est la guerre”’: An American Nurse in Turkey, 1919 to 1920,” Social Sciences and Missions 23, 1 (2010), based on a diary kept by her great-aunt, Sylvia Thankful Eddy.
PUBLICATIONS
African Women: Early History to the 21st Century (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017).
Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2nd ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016).
Pounders of Grain: A History of Women, Work, and Politics in Mozambique (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002).
Editor, Courtyards, Markets, City Streets: Urban Women in Africa (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996).

This lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA African Studies Center, the UCLA Department of History,
the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies.
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Pay-by-space and all-day ($12) parking available in lot 3
Campus map, directions, transportation options to UCLA at www.ucla.edu/map
We hope to see you at this event!
For questions/more information, contact:
UCLA African Studies Center | 10244 Bunche Hall | Los Angeles, CA 90095-1310 | Telephone: 310-825-3686
Website: http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa | email: africa@international.ucla.ed

The King and the Forty Orphans: The Invention of an Armenian Homeland in Ethiopia
2017-10-12 18:30 - 20:00 | UCLA School of Law, Room 1420

Wombs of Liberation: Freedom Petitions, the Black Woman's Body and Trans-Atlantic Law, 1780-1860
2017-10-12 12:00 - 13:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Why History Matters: "Do Statues Matter?"
2017-10-11 19:00 | California Room, UCLA Faculty Center
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Opening Reception for Luskin Center for History and Policy
2017-10-11 16:00 - 17:30 | 6339 Bunche

Democratizing Research Access: Overcoming Exclusion from Well-Resourced University Research Libraries
2017-10-11 14:00 - 15:00 | 2125 Rolfe Hall
CSW RESEARCH AFFILIATE BROWN BAG
Open to all members of the UCLA community

DATE: Wednesday, October 11
TIME: 2:00 – 3:PM
LOCATION: 2125 Rolfe Hall

For a growing number of scholars, gaining access to adequate library resources–both books and digital– has become increasingly challenging. The problem of unequal research access is exacerbating larger problems of inequity across academia, by creating barriers for those working outside of large, well-resourced universities. This group includes independent scholars, faculty at under-resourced institutions, and others occupying positions of “career diversity,” a contingent likely to expand in the coming years. At this brown bag, Becky Nicolaides will lead a discussion that explores the nature of the problem and possible pathways toward solutions, based on her advocacy on this issue as an elected member of the American Historical Association – Research Division.
Becky Nicolaides is a historian who works as an independent scholar and consultant in Los Angeles. She specializes in U.S. urban and suburban history, and the history of Los Angeles. She serves as co-editor of the “Historical Studies of Urban America” series published by University of Chicago Press and is co-coordinator of the L.A History and Metro Studies group at the Huntington Library. She is a Research Affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women and an Affiliated Research Scholar at the Huntington-USC Institute on California & the West. She is currently serving a three-year term in the AHA Research Division. http://tinyurl.com/NicolaidesUCLA
RSVP ONLINE: HTTPS://UCLACSW.SUBMITTABLE.COM/SUBMIT/93276/FREE-REGISTRATION-DEMOCRATIZING-RESEARCH-ACCESS

Luskin Workshop: "History and Policy: The Russian Case" featuring Arch Getty and Tom Lifka
2017-10-11 12:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall

Dissent in an Age of Populism: Sustaining Political Opposition after Turkey’s 2017 Referendum
2017-10-09 17:30 - 19:00 | Room 1314, UCLA School of Law

"Teaching the Teacher about Science: The California State Normal School"
2017-10-09 16:00
Speaker for this colloquium is Michael Weismeyer, a graduate student in the UCLA Department of History.

Author meets critics session on: Native to the Republic: Empire, Social Citizenship, and Everyday Life in Marseille since 1945
2017-10-06 12:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall
The UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration (CSIM) presents:
Author meets critics session on: Native to the Republic: Empire, Social Citizenship,
and Everyday Life in Marseille since 1945

Author: Minayo Nasiali, Department of History, UCLA
Critics: Lia Brozgal, Department of French & Francophone Studies, UCLA and
Swanie Potot, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Friday, October 6, 12-1:30 PM, Bunche 10383
Co-sponsored with the Department of History, the Center for European and Russian Studies,
and the Department of French and Francophone Studies

Lunch will be served at 11:30am and a reception will follow
*Please RSVP to Molly Fee (mfee@ucla.edu)

Workshop: Bureaucratic Data: Knowledge Production across Science, Commerce, and the State.
2017-10-06 10:30 - 16:00
Speakers for this History of Science Workshop include:
Maura Dykstra (Caltech), “The legal, the illegal, and the un-legal archive in late imperial China.”
Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard), “The Creation of the Qing ‘Open Archive.”
Renee Raphael (UC Irvine), “Purposeful bureaucratic disorder in Philip II’s Empire?: Why Juan de Hinestrosa thought his Relation of the discovery of New Potosi would be read.”
Chelsea Zi Wang (Claremont McKenna), “Synchronizing Information in Premodern Bureaucracies: The Case of Imperial China.”

Cultural activities and resistance art as tools of the liberation struggle in the Free State, South Africa, 1970s – 1990s
2017-10-05 13:00 | Room 23167, West Classroom, YRL

Open House
2017-10-04 14:30 - 16:30 | 6275 Bunche Hall

"Baking Powder Ward: The Cutthroat Fight that Revolutionized Cooking"
2017-10-02 16:00
The speaker for this colloquium is Linda Civitello, a recent PhD candidate in the UCLA Department of History.

Divisional Event
2017-07-15 12:15 - 13:15
This is a history event that will be cross published on the divisional events calendar.

Colección de Lenguas Indígenas (Collection of Indigenous Languages)
2017-06-16 12:00
Our recent PhD Ricardo Garcia worked on a publication of a couple of Nahuatl grammar books by the Friar Juan Guerra and the Indigenous grammarian Jose Cortes y Zedeño. The work is being presented on June 16 at Guadalajara.
LA LXI LEGISLATURA DEL
H. CONGRESO DEL ESTADO DE JALISCO
EN COORDINACIÓN CON LA BIBLIOTECA PÚBLICA
DEL ESTADO DE JALISCO “JUAN JOSÉ ARREOLA”
(THE LXI LEGISLATURE OF CONGRESS FROM STATE OF JALISCO IN COLLABORATION WITH JUAN JOSÉ ARREOLA, PUBLIC LIBRARY OF THE STATE OF JALISCO)
Featuring Dip. Ismael del Toro Castro, Presidente de la Mesa Directiva

Eric Scerri - “A Tale of Seven Scientists”
2017-06-05 16:00 - 18:00 | 5288 Bunche Hall

Installation of Teo F. Ruiz as Wellman Chair Holder
2017-06-01 18:00
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Self-pay parking available in Structure 4
