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”
Karl Jacoby – “The Color Line and the Borderline: Locating William Ellis, the Texas Slave who Became a Mexican Millionaire, in the Archives and in Family History”
To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican banker and broker, with an apartment on Central Park West and an office on Wall Street. He began life, however, as William Ellis, an enslaved African American in south Texas. Columbia University historian Karl Jacoby and members of Ellis’s family from Mexico and the U.S. […]
Historians and Others (Try To) Make Sense of the 2016 Election
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Nancy Toff On History Publishing
Nancy Toff, Vice President and Executive Editor (History) of Oxford University Press, will talk with graduate students and faculty about academic and general history publishing. Toff, who oversees the popular "What Everyone Wants to Know" and "A Short History" series as well as academic history, will discuss strategies and tips for publishing with an academic […]
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”
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