UCLA Department of History

“On Call: Towards a Media History of Medicine”
2015-10-19 16:00 - 18:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | 5288 Bunche Hall
Jeremy Greene (Department of History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University) (Cosponsored by the History and Social Studies of Medicine Program.)

119th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture
2015-10-19 15:00 - 17:00 | Schoenberg Hall
Arch Getty, “Dead Man Talking: Lenin’s Body and Russian Politics”

Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria
2015-10-19 12:00 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
A Book Talk by Professor Sarah Stein

Knowledge, Technologies, and Mediation: A Workshop in Honor of Norton Wise
2015-10-17 09:30 - 17:00
Sponsored by: UCLA History of Science Colloquium, Institute for Society and Genetics, Department of History, with additional support from Dean of Social Sciences and Executive Vice-Chancellor
PLEASE NOTE: All are welcome to the workshop. If you want lunch though, you must sign up! To do so, simply send an email to: nortonwisefest@gmail.com

Coffee: 9:30 am
Morning Session (10 am to 12 pm)
Mary Terrall: UCLA
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Kevin Lambert: CSU, Fullerton
“William Thomson’s Notebooks: How to do things with notebooks in Victorian Britain.”
Theodore Arabatzis: University of Athens
“A philosophical history of the discovery of argon”
David Aubin: (UPMC, Paris)
“Around the blocks: pathways to a history of flowcharts”

Lunch (306 Royce)

Afternoon Session (1:30 pm to 5 pm)
Suman Seth: (Cornell University)
“Polygenism in Print: John Atkins and Naval Medicine in the 1730s and 1740s”
Mi Gyung Kim: (North Carolina State University )
“A People-Machine: Balloons and the Republican Imaginary”
Tiago Saraiva: (Drexel University)
“Heidegger’s Pigs and Dewey’s Oranges: technoscientific organisms and the writing of history of science”
Alix Hui: (Mississippi State University) and Lino Camprubi: (MPIWG, Berlin)
“Testing the Underwater Ear: Hearing, Standardizing, and Classifying Marine Sounds during the Cold War”
Norton Wise: (UCLA)
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— Organized by Mary Terrall, Suman Seth, and Kevin Lambert —

"War Against All Puerto Ricans"
2015-10-16 15:00 - 17:00 | 10383 Bunche Hall
Nelson Denis, the author of the new book War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony, will be discussing his book, The History of Colonialism in Puerto Rico, and The Plight of Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar López Rivera. The talk will also feature an introduction by Peter James Hudson of the Departments of History and African American Studies.
The event is sponsored by the Latin American Institute, the Department of History, and the Department of African American Studies. It will take place on Friday, October 16 from 3-5 PM in Bunche 10383.

Building Social Spaces: Empire and Everyday Life in Late 20th
2015-10-14 12:00 - 14:00 | 6275 Bunche Hall
Building Social Spaces: Empire and Everyday Life in Late 20th Century Marseille – visiting Professor Minayo Nasiali

“Clues Beneath the Lamp: on Copernicus’s Magical Other”
2015-10-12 16:00 - 18:45 | 5288 Bunche Hall
Avner ben-Zaken (Liberal Arts Department, Ono College (Israel))
Contact: Mary Terrall
